ââWhat is reality?â, you ask. Beneath all the photons and leptons and baryons and gluons, underlying space-time and quantum fields, out there in the realm of fundamentals where the natural ontologists and the ontotech engineers play, what actually is the world made from? What is underneath it all, what can
Sorry for the lack of fic-a-day in recent days. Unfortunately, Iâve been sleeping really badly and possibly have some sort of low-level plague, either or both of which have done quite a number on my creative faculties. Normal service (and catch-up) will be resumed as soon as possible.
The Chains of Commanding: The reason, especially given the circumscriptions around your power to actually effect change for the better, why it sucks to be a rĂșner.
Casual Interstellar Travel / Casual Interplanetary Travel: Itâs a little complicated. Technically, yes, you can travel interstellarly fairly casually, since while you have to drag one end of your wormhole at subluminal speed to wherever you want it, interstellar travel to places where you have one already is pretty damn
Cargo Cult: This happens ALL THE TIME. It is very much against IES First Contact rules, and EMBARRASSING.
âNo-no-no-no-no,â ArĂșaz VĂĄriz Xinak LanĂc KĂșran viKoriaz said, hsis heads moving in some agitation. âAbsolutely not, never. We and our crew cannot be paid enough to take you to Vonis Prime, no.  The kalatri do not like visitors of our kind, no-no-no. Cause us/us/ours too much trouble, risk,
Car Fu: If Tank Fu counts, and theyâre vehicles, so it ought to, most of them are designed for this. (Although usually intended for use against fixed obstacles and, well, buildings, it still works.)
âWhat do you people want from me?â âJust the usual. That you should continue to be exceptional, live forever, join a transcendent hyperconsciousness, and evolve into a demigod â or at least the closest thing the physical universe has to offer â sometime in the next few millennia. You can make up
Capital City: Of the Associated Worlds as a whole, that would be the Conclave Drift, the giant habitat in which the Conclave of Galactic Polities is situated. Itâs also a major commercial and cultural hub, it being â due to the room it sets aside for every polity in the
To my successor in office: Iâm leaving you this unofficial note to welcome you to the unique position of being an ambassador to the Empire, to pass on a few hopefully useful pieces of advice, and frankly, to wish you more joy of the position than I had, even
Can You Hear Me Now?: Averted even when there is a major disaster, because Empire-standard communication devices are designed to use mesh networking, and fall back on peer-to-peer routing between themselves if they canât reach a hub, either to get the packets through directly, or to bounce off each
Can Breathe In Space: Technically, you can do this by using a vector-control âenvelopeâ to hold air in around you (although you will still need some means of replenishing it if you plan to do this for long, special provisions like oxygen-carrying hemocules aside). While useful to avoid ebullism and