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 Cálíäh 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.)
Corícal Ailek. It’s not the oldest star system in the Transcend, nor the most central – two gates from Eliéra via Palaxias, one gate from Cinté, and one gate from Tessil – but it may well be the most important; the seething brain of the transcendent overmind itself. Corícal 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
WE: * ALPHAS I AMANYR, EMPEROR OF CESTIA and the UNION OF EMPIRES * SELEDIË SELEQUELIOS III, EMPRESS OF SELENARIA and the UNION OF EMPIRES * LORAN CAMRÍÄD, THÉARCH of the DEEPING * LIRÍEL LÁRATHYR, QUEEN OF VERANTHYR * VARÍÄN LEIRAVÁL, KING OF LEIRIN for the POLYARCHY of the SILVER CRESCENT BY right and authority
Bottomless Pit: They aren’t quite bottomless1, but on Eliéra, there are three shafts which have been dug all the way through the flat (well, very flattened ellipsoid) not-a-planet. Falling down one would be… inadvisable. 1. Or, as Amy just pointed out to me, technically they are – finite, yes, just