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Cultivation
Despite centuries of terrible research by terrible people, sophotechnology has not provided either protein or machine intelligences with any viable technique to sandbox evil. Istar Essenye, wakener
Alistair Young
SNARgocz-class applied eschatology vehicle
God-Poking Tank
SNARgocz-class applied eschatology vehicle Builders: Probable Technologies, ICC, based on an original design by the Society of Nanoscale Artisan-Researchers Length: 48' Width: 20' Height: 16' Propulsion: * Dual Treadwell tracked drivetrain, powered by * Empire Nucleonics, ICC, "Ember"-type low-power radiothermal generator Maximum speed: 15 mph (naked)
House Sargas
Unconventional Courtesy
Despite the many quirks of the House of Blood-Streaked Marble¹, the most curious features of the House Sargas estate are not to be found there, but rather fifty miles north in the small hill town of Voivars, buried in the high valleys of the Dragon's Nest Range. Voivars
Luciverine (Eponian Cluster)
Genesis Planet
(This is one of two write-ups of Luciverine (Eponian Cluster), in response to reader request. This is the purely canon version, rather than that found in the Friendship is Sufficiently Advanced shardverse.) Every colony exists for a reason. Which is to say that these are no longer the wild days
Ulculp Five-Arms
Ulculp Five-Arms
Ulculp Sky-Watcher / dreamer and gazer In shallows he / the sky counted Naming the lights / unhidden at moon-dark While sea in foam / blazed with small folk Spring gales blew / over black ocean Red light flamed / across empty sky Mountain-fall's thunder / splitting the waves Silver whale leaps / from sky to
meta
Or Not
As per edits to the previous post, it seems that for annoying reasons the new ActivityPub feature for Ghost I was planning to use can't publish posts to Mastodon in a convenient manner that doesn't involve dumping entire full-length posts where they shouldn't be.
meta
Big Hairy Socialising
And finally we are back up and running on Mastodon, for those of you who prefer to get your nanofic that way: @index@eldraeverse.com Edited: Actually, we are not. I'll be posting links over on my personal account, as mentioned below, because the new feature I hoped
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Quotables I
(Random things said with no other place to go, so I shall save them and post them in eights from time to time.) Good, in the moral sense, is difficult and may be impossible to define objectively. I prefer to concern myself with ethical correctness, which is at least calculable.
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Interruption
Those of you who have noticed the little downtime today need not be concerned: we're switching from installed-as-nodejs-packages Ghost 5.x to installed-as-containers Ghost 6.0, and that's required a little futzing.
Curial court
You Have The Right To Remain Silent
A quirk of the Imperial judicial system is that while the rule of Palaver Forbiddance is strictly applied during the trial itself (forestalling any attempts to engage in fast-talk, irrelevant digressions, questionable metaphysical debates, etc., etc., in the desperate attempt to forestall the verdict), it specifically does not apply to
Curial court
Though The Heavens Fall
EMPIRE OF THE STAR The Imperial judicial system is a variant on the inquisitorial model, in which the officers of the court work together to thoroughly investigate and uncover the truth of the matter, under the guidance of the justices¹ assigned by the court. (In the remainder of this discussion,
Eliéra
And So It Moves
One mystery that obsessed many early natural philosophers was the mystery of Eliéra's unusual spin, and its curious stability despite the dragging effect of various tidal forces in play. In the late 900s, this would give rise to the legend of the Great Movement, at first in the