Bullet Proof Vest: Mostly averted against bullets â most modern personal weapons put enough kick behind their projectiles that you want hardshell armor with kinetic barriers (see: Armor is Useless, Powered Armor) to save you from those, which is why even the Constabulary uses the equivalent of regular legionary armor just
âFreedom is sanity; sanity is freedom. They are natural co-dependents. One cannot exist without the other.â âConsider, first, the Precursors. The ancient lin-aman were exemplars of whim untamed by reason; self-interest without enlightenment; a void of talcorĂĂ«f. And without rationality to guide them, they were slaves to their passions, to
Armor Is Useless: Averted. Armor is essential â without it, and especially without its kinetic barriers, your survivability on the modern battlefield is essentially nil. As is the recognizability of your corpse, thereafter, because high-vee flechettes will pulp your bones.
That there is Order within the Celestial Vault, and Law that governs their Motions, cannot be denied by any Natural Philosopher. We of the Celestial Circle have long used and imitated the orderly motions of this most Perfect of Clocks in the tracking of the march of the Cycles and
Bug War: Subverted by the Ktelaki Hive-Home â Valturak War in the 6200s. The (non-hive-minded) ktelaki were the bugs in this particular war, but they were also the good guys (by virtue of being the side not starting a war of aggression), the Conclaveâs favored side, and the people who
âWhat dâyou mean, why the delay? Oh, youâve not been to PhĂlae before, I suppose.â The pilot gestured through the window at the white-blue marbled planet below them. The hypercane sprawled across the oceanâs surface for over two thousand miles, an ugly whorl of cloud mottled at
The First Distributed Exclavine Republic is seeking to open new franchise-nations in the Expansion Regions, in or adjacent to the Cordai Gap constellation, and is therefore looking for comment, business opportunities, and investment partners among all existing polities, private organizations, and consortia within this region. Consider the advantages of bringing
Brown Note: Basilisk fractals, and their audible, etc., equivalents, which is to say, various forms of sensory input that can take advantage of cognitive bugs to actually crash your mind â and, at least theoretically, can implant thought-virus programming, although that capabilityâs never yet been seen in the wild. Most
Brought Down to Normal: Hard to play straight, insofar as superpowered is the new normal (see Everyone Is A Super), and no-one takes to being crippled terribly well. Also notably subverted when someone gets a clever idea and assembles the equipment necessary to jam all communications, decohere tangle, and otherwise
âMy people take it as a point of pride that we can write a note to cover anything, anything at all, that a customer brings to us; and so far, we always have.â âWe almost failed once, being asked to handle liability for a project whose design included âa dynamically
Bonded Storage, Landfall Downport, ViĂ«lle The battered cryotube stood in the middle of the warehouse office, and steamed slowly. âSo, what do we know?â âIt came in on the IV Mekahaktakt Mktik out of the Kaylin Cache route; they offloaded a large batch here. The rest all processed successfully, so
Everyone Is A Super: Goes right along with averting No Transhumanism Allowed, in those societies that lean that way. The more inclination, the more super.