culture
âLook, if your reaction to a sophont doing psychotically bad things is focused on the instrumentality they used, rather than why on you have a culture prone to psychopathogeny, you are wrong on a level that⌠well, starshit, you donât need me to explain it; you need a metaphysicist.
education
âGood morning, ye earnest seekers of wisdom. I am Reader OlĂäth Rian, and I am your primary instructor for this class. Welcome to EX0487, Introduction to the Exosophontology of Mass Coercion. For our foreign students who are now looking confused, you may have seen this class listed under âpolitical scienceâ
bioshell
âYou donât need a license for patent S/03218B915. If youâd looked it up, youâd have seen that â it was granted to Cognitech and Biogenesis back in the 2300s. Five-thousand years in the public domain, more or less.â âSo what is it, and why are you killing
Cultural Crossovers
In which TF is thoroughly Wâd. * This piece of history is really sucking for the Asgardians. Culled twice? (Or three times, by the end.) * EBONY MAW, YOU POMPOUS ASS! * Oh, Loki. Donât ever change. * Well, thatâs a new experience for the Hulk, and I donât think
Bring Me The Head Of
ALL SECURITY SITES // ORANGE SENSITIVE NOCONTRACT // NOFORN ROUTINE RED LIST // SPECIAL // UPDATE 7129/06/01 WANTED: Istar Oricalcios Veneri a.k.a. âthe Mechanicâ REQED BY THIRD DIRECTORATE (INTELLIGENCE SECURITY) FOR: activities in support of asymmetrism, details redacted; activities in support of insurrection, details redacted; activities in support of assassination,
Places Not To Go
Hotephny (Flaming Skies Complex): The throneworld and crown jewel of the Simple-Safe Regression, Hotephny is a world which no other polity would ever want, nor indeed be able to take, for Hotephny is a world uniquely hostile to any advanced technology â or, indeed, any post-lithic technology. How is it hostile?
meta
So, there was some conversation on the Discord which led to this shameless riff/parody/etc. of the Warhammer 40K intro quote to produce one for this setting: It is the dawn of the Ninth Millennium. For nearly a hundred centuries the unbroken line of the Imperial Couple have sat
culture
âEvery year, since I was old enough to read them, more books have been published than I can read in a year. My reading speed has increased many orders of magnitude in the millennia since then â I have a submind which does nothing but read, continuously â and yet the authors
demographics
So, I hear you like demographics. Or, at least, the comments on the last post tell me you like demographics. Describing the constituent species of the Empire can be a mite tricky, depending on exactly how you define things â leaving aside any nasty outworlder prejudices about the status of neogens
Cultural Crossovers
Okay. A quick preamble. This is going to be a really hard one for the Imperial audience to understand. Not because itâs not an awesome movie, or anything, but simply because they have absolutely no cultural context for the background â and thereâs only so much gnostic overlays can
military
Anywhere Killer (n.): hypothetical weapons system using an arbitrarily-targetable wormhole generator to deliver ordnance â or convenient non-ordnance, such as stellar cores â to any target location in the galaxy whose coordinates are known or can be inferred, bypassing all defense systems in the intervening space-time. Naturally, as a strategic first-strike weapon
drug
âUnlike chemodrugs, the problem with cutting nanodrugs is that everyone knows what a nanite suspension is supposed to look like. Itâs quite distinctive. So unless youâre willing to go the costly route of cutting your nanodrugs with other, slightly less expensive nanodrugs carefully tested for interactions, people cutting