The recruits shivered in the cold wind and ankle-deep slush, a ragged sextet of double lines stretching across the Agoge landing field, gazing around them in puzzlement at the empty, frozen wastes stretching to the moon’s horizon in every direction in the dim and ruddy light of distant Arvael
Space Fighter: Averted. Due to fairly inexorable laws of physics, ships that don’t have to contain meat and meat-support systems always outperform ships that do – which means the classic notion of a space fighter inevitably loses to the autonomous kill vehicle (AKV), which combines a cross between a missile
CORVETTES We were interested to see that a number of “corvette” – i.e. sub-frigate – classes of warship have emerged since our last edition, especially since the role of the frigate is already extremely limited, due to the limitations of its available mass and volume on its capacities, to wolf-pack deployments
Battle Butler: A lot of high-ranking individuals’ body servants play this trope dead(ly) straight; in the old pre-Imperial days, the Houses, cities, etc., used to play rough from time to time, and since there are still plenty of places that still do in the Associated Worlds, the tradition is
The Eldraeverse has bought its own domain and is now simply at eldraeverse.com, for simplicity’s sake.
Welcome to Palaxias System, home port for the Capital Fleet and the Home Fleet, and indeed for the Imperial Navy in general. Astrographically, Palaxias is not a significant system; its sun, Arvael – named after Eliéra’s largest raptor – is a minor red dwarf star, its sole asset is its proximity
VivĂrĂ© Calaris-ith-Calcithien, Breysvard Young Ladies’ Academy, to Jynel Cerron-ith-Cerron, greetings. Citizen-Intendant Cerron-ith-Cerron, Thank you for your enquiry, received this Calenmot 11 instant. I am delighted that you are considering the Breysvard Young Ladies’ Academy for your further education, and am confident, based on the information included with your enquiry, that
Battle Aura: Not really a battle aura – since it’s hardly restricted to military situations (see: Mundane Utility), but those implanted effectors used for mechanical psychokinesis do, under the right circumstances, bleed off excess energy in the form of photons, in turn in the form of nice light shows. Which
Mundane Utility: Is everywhere in the Empire. They have pretty much no qualms whatsoever about using ultratech devices for pretty much any purpose. As if using nanotech “living metal” tools to save the trouble of having to, say, carry screwdrivers of different types around wasn’t enough, a generation or
I must apologize once again that the fic-a-day posting will be delayed by a gap of one, two, or a couple of days, as as is an unfortunate springtime tradition, I appear to have contracted some variety of Death Plague, which has a regrettable disabling effect on my creative faculties.
Power Perversion Potential: Well, we’ve already mentioned the potential of forking, haven’t we? (Rhymes with gleesome, but requires fewer people.) And the applications of techlepathy and psychokinesis are also fairly obvious and well-explored territory. And then there’s microgravity and body-swapping (and its subset, gender-swapping) and desire control
Batman Gambit: …the resort of the Empire’s and the Worlds’ ample supply of the The Chessmaster – at least when the Chessmaster in question isn’t one of the weakly godlike superintelligences. They prefer Xanatos Gambits.