Big Brother Is Watching: And his name, in the Empire, is Citizen Oversight. Subverted, rather, inasmuch as it’s not principally a law enforcement instrumentality. It, and its extensive surveillance/geolocation/other-sensory grid, drones, etc. – in public spaces only, and privately-owned-but-open-to-the-public don’t count (i.e., those places where, by
“Order, Progress, Liberty” – official, Charter-enshrined motto of the Empire “Secure against Eternity.” – corporate motto, Crystal Flame, ICC “All debts must be paid.” – official motto of the Curia “Because enough… is never enough.” – corporate motto, Decadence, ICC “Through reason alone, we ascend.” – motto of the Eupraxic Collegium “Every coin Our given
Where do you get these contracts? After all, if employment as such doesn’t exist in the Empire, surely you won’t find any corporations employing hundreds, thousands, or millions of people? Quite correct. The Imperial corporation, from relatively small examples all the way up to the Big 26, is
In official Eldraeic, there is a single word – not hyphenated, even – which means ‘one who creates a forced-growth cross-gender clone of him/herself, imprints the brain of said clone with an animus/anima-inverted fork of his/her own mind-state, and then proceeds to marry his/her new duplicate’. (There is
BFG: Oh, several. Let’s start with “that created by any excuse to shove antimatter rifle-grenades in your sluggun (see: Abnormal Ammo) or battle carbine and cut loose”, shall we? There are also a variety of multibarrel miniguns, and yes, hypothetically even some that you can shove antimatter rifle-grenades into
So, you want a job in the Empire? Of course you do. At least half of the people in the Associated Worlds have at least thought about it. Pay rates are infamously high, tax rates are infamously low, and it is generally agreed that there’s no finer place for
Fire Breathing Weapon: Plenty of ’em, up to and including flame tanks. For two reasons: one, fire is scary, and since there are very few species indeed willing to charge directly into a wall, cloud, or ocean of fire, they make excellent area-denial weapons against light infantry. Without having to
Tinf? It’s a thermal hell of a planet. It’s sheathed in thick clouds of helium and methane and sulfur dioxide, scattering rain that’ll etch metal. Actinic Kortinf whips the atmosphere, thick as it is, into hurricane frenzy during the day, making ions enough to thrash the ground
Cool Plane: As a first note, I should point out that the development of aeronef aircraft was bent out of shape on Eliéra because of its lack of fossil fuels – and given the demand for them for lubrication, chemical feedstocks, and so forth, the price of large quantities of them
Structural Metallic Oxygen Do not remove from cryogenic environment. Not for use in reducing atmospheres or vacuum. Defended Privacy Boundary Do not transgress with active sensoria. Please check biochemical compatibility coding before consuming or tasting. Low Bandwidth Zone Do not enter with ‘weave-routed cloud cognition, full-spectrum telepresence, or other high-quota
Benevolent Alien Invasion: Well, sort of. It’s almost never an invasion (although there are some groups, like, say, the Sanguinary Enforcers of the Liberty Ethic, who don’t mind holding Blast The Shit Out Of The Oppressors And Bugger Off Again Day from time to time). Much more common
Some governments maintain a rigidly defined chain of command, rights and duties, from top to bottom – from a monarch, an autocrat, an elected council, or what have you, directives emerge and are complied with by the lesser strata of administration. This is at best theoretically the case in the Empire.