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.
Senator Glandyth Muetry-ith-Muetry (Imperium Bellipotent – 13th): “…let the record show therefore, gentlesophs, that my honorable colleague is an immitigable ass. Furthermore –” The colleague in question, Senator Arvenix Quendocius-ith-Quendocius (Assertive Benevolence – 142nd), moved to object, but was preempted by the President of the Senate. President of the Senate: “Senator Muetry-ith-Muetry, I
Brain In A Jar: While technically possible, a good way to get on the wrong side of both the transsophontists (“enh, some people just can’t hack losing the meat”) and the biochauvinists (“vile undead machine-cultist abomination!”) at the same time. Which is in itself an achievement, but not a
“When one of the eldrae says he does a thing for you, a simple request will make him cease; for love or hatred, an emotional appeal may serve; for money, a better offer; for mélith, an alternative of equal price; for oath or contract, release by its terms; for reason
Brain Computer Interface: The most ubiquitous kind of cybernetic implant, although the modern ones are mostly grown in place. The most modern ones, the neural laces, are functionally part of your brain architecture and so behave like actual extra senses/limbs/memories and faster, more accurate thoughts once you learn
(Reposted from Diane Duane’s tumblr by way of self-inspiration.)
CorĂcal Ailek. It’s not the oldest star system in the Transcend, nor the most central – two gates from EliĂ©ra via Palaxias, one gate from CintĂ©, and one gate from Tessil – but it may well be the most important; the seething brain of the transcendent overmind itself. CorĂcal had five
Bounty Hunter: Widely used in the wilder and woolier “frontier” parts of the Worlds, mostly in the Expansion Regions and Periphery, criminals for the retrieval of. Equally widely decried by the more civilized parts of the Worlds, including most of the ones which use them in the wilder parts but