Which is to say, on this and that: On the first, just a quick linguistic note, concerning the name of the Thousand Scents Road.  Eldraeic has two words which could be glossed as “thousand”, because it has two systems of numbers.  The “traditional” system, and the “syllabic” system, in which
Make an Example of Them: An occasional aspect of Imperial foreign policy (whose most flagrant example is, of course, the Burning of Litash, in which the entire continent on which the Tortuga in question was located ended up as an extremely large caldera with volcano-studded margins and the entire atmosphere
…in addition to the common standbys found on almost every world (Blue Brew, Soléä’s, Don’t Eat Vat, and so forth), the Starfall district also includes more than a few unique, local restaurants. Here are three of our favorites: Rhúäghz Vhúeff (2A4 Star Ln., at Meryn Ave.) is a
An excerpt from today’s idea development process, as I discuss random thoughts with Amy in the middle of other things: “Hm. What should I write about today?” “– pizza.” “I can’t write anything about pizza.” “Do they even have pizza?” “Well, I don’t know the details, but there
Psychic Powers: Of course, there is absolutely no such thing as psychic powers. Don’t exist. No place in a rationally organized universe, like any relatively firm-to-hard SF universe. Can’t seriously believe otherwise. But that said… Telepathy/Empathy: Do you believe in wireless networking? Evidently the Precursors did, and
The bundle of program code identifying itself as EPS****β7 flitted silently across the extranet, transmitting itself by laser and tangle from relay node to relay node, Meridia Central to Meridia Rim, to Janiris, to Sy, to Pentameir, to Tanel, and onwards, drunkard’s-walking its way out towards the Expansion
The Imperial Infoclast Supplementing Your Memeplex Since 2042 EMPIRE Sidar Colony Celebrates Ecopoesis Bicentennial The Sidar Colony in the Principalities will celebrate the 288th anniversary of the initiation of its ecopoesis program next month, with a series of low-lying valleys being opened to habitation for the first time by unmodified
Everyone Is Armed: Due to cultural tradition and the mutual agreement in the Imperial Charter that you will defend the rights of other citizen-shareholders as if they were your own, played very straight in the Empire. (See also: Guns in Church and Apathetic Citizens.) It’s actually a not inconsiderable
[excerpts from] A Charter to Establish, Under the Fundamental Contract and the Seal of the Guild of Formal Obligation, And in Accordance with the Traditions of the Stellar Empire, A Coadunation Marital, Between and Among: Runeth Allatrian-ith-Ancalyx DiarĂ Octarthius-ith-Octantis For the Purposes of Perpetual and Mutual Love, in the Light
Guns in Church: Averted in the Empire, in the direction that there is pretty much no inappropriate place to take a pistol, reasonably compact carbine, or either or both of the two swords, except for technical reasons, specifically including banks, grocery stores, airports, starports, in transit, in school, in court,
Interesting comment in this post by Cat Valente over at antipope.org: On top of that, it’s damnably hard to fashion a sympathetic protagonist out of someone who has never struggled in the way we struggle in our own lives, to present someone who does not come off as
WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! With the voice and under the authority of the Galactic Volumetric Registry of the Conclave of Galactic Polities, this buoy issues the following warning: The designated volume, including the englobed moon and its satellites, is a SECURED AREA by order of the Presidium of the Conclave. This