Cultural Crossovers
You know the drill. * Ah, flashback. And presumably the non-flashback part is taking place pre-Thanos, or we would probably have noticed. * A quantum tunnel. Oh, god, thatâs a pun, isnât it? Aargh. * Aww. The father-daughter heist is adorable. * And doing the right thing continues to suck. * The quantum
worldbuilding
A reader pointed out on this Discord that this (go read it there) has a vaguely eldraeic flavor. Which it does. Not something a direct analog to which would exist *there* , mind you, inasmuch as defending yourself and civilization is something written right into the Imperial Charter, Section III, Article
Lumenna-SĂșnĂĄris System
(Iâd been meaning to get back to this series for quite some time, but never quite managed it. Until now, seeing as a generous reader on the Discord offered to make me a delta-v map for the System, which rather spurred me on to resume the project.) I/9.
eldraeic language
rian: sword; blade used in war. teirian: (from teir âhonorâ + rian) The âhonorable swordâ, the longer first-sword of the eldraeic Two Swords, wielded in the swordsmanâs main hand. A traditionally-made teirian is an elongated S-curve five to six feet in length, of which two feet are the hilt, enabling
fuel skimming
The skimmer sang with many voices. The high stress tremolo of the variform hull, shifting through a thousand combinations a second to stabilize the skimmerâs flight path as it spiked the atmosphere; the low bass throb of the ram drive, pulsed magnetohydrodynamic vortices that could be felt in the
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 OlĂĂ€th 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