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Calvinball: An awful lot of games played in the Empire are like this from our perspective, by virtue of having been designed to satisfy the game-playing urges of people with, well, transhuman intelligence. For example: One of the simplest is the card game Ăłmith. Itâs like poker, except with
Call a Smeerp a âRabbitâ: Another unfortunate aspect of Translation Convention. As described under Taxonomic Term Confusion, Eldraeic has a means of classifying â and words for â species-groups classified by homology alone, so that people can talk about the winged flying creatures that exist on multiple planets easily â without having to
âGot a good one for you!â âWhy is it, Annis, that when you say âgood oneâ, I hear âutter wire-and-tape jobâ?â âCouldnât say, boss. Anyway, todayâs case here-and-now one-thirteen. An infugee from the Republic â one of their scientists who wanted to defect, looks like. He managed to piece
To all to whom this shall be presented, be it known that this warrant entitles the bearer: Rhadam Sinyéren Daemar Owner and master of the armed merchant cruiser IS Gloriously Acquisitive; To subdue and to seize goods and citizens, to destroy goods that cannot be taken, and to destroy military
The history of ThalĂĂ€r remains a mystery. On this point, I must first acknowledge the salience of my colleaguesâ reports. The various shafts, canyons, and large-scale gaps in the upper and middle planetary surfaces do not occur in any geometric, fractal, or other discernible ordered pattern, nor do the edges
Taxonomic Term Confusion: Taxonomy is even more of a mess than it used to be, having to deal with life originating separately (it is usually thought; see Panspermia) in a multitude of different ecologies, which then got intermingled by ancient and modern terraforming and accidents of star travel to produce
From the earlier â which is to say, closer to the fervor of the revolution â days of the Empireâs history: âCongratulations on your polityâs recent annexation by the Empire of the Star!â âWhether we have come as the result of a war with your previous government, or merely to
Panspermia: Not proven in the general case, any more than it is today, and probably substantially less â different evolutionary trees and biochemistries surely look as if they had different origins. Confirmed in some specific cases â Eliera, for example, derives its life from three sources: bluelife, which is very clearly descended
With the alchemical term rebis â link is to Spanish Wikipedia since the English entry appears to be broken â the primordial hermaphrodite, and the symbol of the unification of two opposing properties â it occurs to me I have the perfect ready-made term, translation-convention-wise, for a herm body operated by a two-person
Call A Rabbit A Smeerp: Almost inevitably, thanks to Translation Convention, and purging of jargon and dialog of obvious Earth-culture references, like, say, âSorcererâs Apprentice Problemâ and âNewtonian mechanicsâ. Although at least most of the time, it is trying to indicate some subtle difference: making the distinction between âagorismâ
âWelcome to Tessil System Space. You are now entering the Tessil system advisory zone. Contact Tessil SysCon on channel 43.2 and identify. Current ephemerides and system documentation updates are now being transmitted. Procedural control is now in effect.â âCurrent alerts: Undocumented debris has been spotted in AdĂrdis-CelĂ©res brachistochrone route