“Your attention please, gentlesophs and adjuncts, and on behalf of Captain CorrĂ©vel and the remainder of the crew, welcome aboard the IS Elegant Locus, operating Interstar flight 963 from Mer DinĂ©vál Countermass Station, Seranth, to Star City Highport, ClajdĂä. I am Galry Inurian-ith-Inuriannon, your purser for this flight.” “At this
No Transhumanism Allowed: Averted (or rather inverted into Transsophontism Is Mandatory). Hard. (As in, anyone who doesn’t qualify as some sort of transsophont is living in Hicksville or on the moral equivalent of a nature preserve.) Also beaten, mocked, eaten by nanobots, shot at with antideuterium pellets and tossed
Brother-Sister Incest: Legal (see here; although note the constraints on reproduction since, well, genetics). Also very, very rare, because it’s not like the Westermarck effect doesn’t still exist.
Today’s question for Dr. Science is, “Why do lighthuggers have to stay so far out? Can’t they use the same highports as normal starships?” While it would certainly be more convenient to avoid the lengthy shuttle trip to meet a lighthugger, the risks attached to the amount of
Grounded at Sanctuary on Márch (Innia Rise). Just for future reference, let me quote the description of this world from the Directory: “Márch — while not the oldest or largest of the freesoil worlds, Márch is certainly the most notorious. After the Accord on Refuge-Seeking Sophonts was firmly rejected by the
The Bridge: Unusually for fiction, buried right in the middle of the ship where some smartass can’t shoot it off. Also, very distinctly not the Combat Information Center, the Flight Deck/Conning Tower, any kind of conference or communications room, Damage Control Central, Flight Operations, Astrogation, or any one
By request, since I’ve seen a couple, here’s the dictionary of all the canonical Eldraeic words so far – canonical in this case meaning they’ve appeared in a fic or trope here or have otherwise been concretized.  (Yes, I have more words written down here, but everything’s
Brainwashing For The Greater Good: The Imperial legal system’s penalties for pretty much every non-capital crime above the level of a misdemeanor (or for chronic misdemeanants) include, along with the fine/reparation, “memetic rehab and recon”, which is Exactly What It Says On The Tin, namely, having your mind
“A few special adhocs aside, the Fifth Directorate is divided into three primary working groups: Existential Threats, Inadvisably Applied Technologies, and Exceptionary Circumstances. Or, as they’re less formally known, the PWGs of Doom, Idiocy, and Weirdness.” “Existential Threats handles exactly that; the end of everything, or at least everything
Brainwashed: The jargon term is “edited into compliance”. With perverted sophotechnology – or its equivalent for pure-biologics – and the large pile of quantum supercomputers you need to defeat the many safety features which exist to stop people doing things like this, it’s really not all that hard to do some
Cogs and fire can labor; but only man may think. – Admonitions, Ianthe Claves-ith-Claves Elinaeth That which has no price has no value. – Sayings of Covalan, v. 11. A dream without action is empty; action without a dream is futile. – commentaries on CálĂäh Pride is oft expensive; but who would live
Brain Uploading: Pervasive and universal, just about. The Eldrae, after all, being naturally unaging, find the notion of accidental death rather unpleasant, and so took to this technological advancement with enthusiasm; and, as rabid technophiles, even more so once the other technologies it enables – reinstantiation, mindcasting, forking, gnostic overlays, etc.