The Laws and Customs of War: There are several sets of these, locally; the Empire has its Imperial Rules of War, and so forth, but the ones people mean in the general case are those contained in the Ley Accords, which might be considered the Associated Worlds’ closest approach to
Combat Medic: Played straight. While in theory, under the Ley Accords and the Imperial Rules of War, medical personnel are hands-off noncombatants, in practice, the majority of warfare is against non-signatories to the Accords, or irregular forces (including pirates, terrorists, and other scum) who just don’t care about them.
“Here’s what I need redacted: I made arrangements, yesterday, to have a copy of my mind-state archived at Site Hácek. I need to not remember doing that, and I need to not remember needing to not remember doing that. My husband and I staged an argument last night; use
Final Death/Deader than Dead: Very much to be avoided. Fortunately, rather hard to inflict. Sure, you can kill the body (corpicide) readily enough, with enough bullets or other regular weapons – get both hearts, or shred the brain, or pulverize the whole thing. But then the fun begins. First you
BE IT KNOWN THAT ONE InĂön Adae-ith-Alleia, of Gles Iselyain PROPRIETOR OF The Five Fires Bakery, of Gles Iselyain HAS BEEN ADJUDGED IN VIOLATION OF THE EDICTS AND CHARTER OF the Edifacient Sodality of Bakers and Pastrywrights WHILE OPERATING UNDER ITS SEAL AND BY ITS NAME PLEDGED TO EXCELLENCE THE
Collapsible Helmet: It may – indeed, it does – qualify as Awesome But Impractical, but in situations in which you are, say, being shot at and as such may lose vehicular atmosphere Real Soon Now, it can also save your life. You do have to mind your hair, though. Or instruct your
Cold Sleep Cold Future: Averted. The thing about widespread immortality is that even the first-generation cryonauts, the people frozen en masse after fatal accidents from about, oh, a week or two after someone figured out this whole thing might be possible, walked out of the revival vat and into the
Galek – Your sept-boss says that you’re tired of fighting in other people’s companies and want to start your own, and told me to give you some advice. About damn time. Anyway, here’s what you need to know – and these aren’t rules, so don’t think they’
Cloning Gambit: As mentioned under Mundane Utility, the Imperials routinely use their cloning, body-swapping and mental-editing-forking-merging technology to resolve problems as routine as being invited to two parties on the same night. And the same technology is used to routinely reinstantiated anyone who dies, either from the record stored in
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“Excuse me? Could you tell me why this sword is so highly priced?” “Ah, that’s because this is a mollyblade. The edge is single-layer graphene, less than a nanometer thick. It’ll slice cleanly through anything but muon metals, gluon string or neutronium – or antimatter, of course – and we
Clones Are People Too: Played straight, three ways. Fork-clones (or reinstantiation/resurrection clones) are duplicates of people, therefore also people. Reproductive clones will grow up to be people. And shell-clones will have people downloaded into them. Whichever one it is… they’re people.