military
âIf we live not another day     Say this over our pyre That we died like Legion hainadar     With our faces to the fire. âBut once we live tomorrow     In a body free of pain Then bring us ale and whiskey     Until we die again!â â regimental song of the 22nd âAlatian
Cultural Crossovers
In which there is an apocalypse. * Man, thatâs a lot of chains. * Well, youâre an unlikely flaming chap. But I guess if there are ice giants, there should be fire giants. * Thor, youâve been hanging out with Tony Snark too much. * Oh, you shouldnât have said
Imperial Navy
âFinally, let us turn to the biggest megaships of them all, the fleet carriers. Including them in this work is a choice which I expect to be somewhat controversial â many would argue that a fleet carrier is a formation, not a vessel â but with respect to those readers who may
A Star Traveler's Dictionary
cognitive osmosis: The process, according to rumor, by which farspeech or other telepathic or techlepathic contact, especially the forms based in the exchange of neural gestalts, with the stupid causes one, oneself, to become less intelligent. (Curiously, none of these stories ever suggests that this process makes the stupid themselves
eldraeic language
This wasnât what I intended to post next, but Iâm still working on the âfleet carriersâ post. In the meantime, have some more words. So, among the basic words in a language, certainly for chemists, are those for various substances, and this is as true in Eldraeic as
eldraeic language
lechné: sweat, perspiration; technically, lechné refers to any fluid intentionally used to carry heat away by evaporation, and so cooling water for planetary power reactors, liquid hydrogen coolant used for evaporative hull cooling, and so forth, can all be described as lechné, as well as the original referent, biological secretions
Project Phoenix
From: Qory Estenv, Flight Overadministrator To: All Astronauts In response to your request for clarification about the Initiativeâs âsouvenir policyâ, we donât particularly care if you want to shove a box of postcards, or vanity coins, or model kits of the Phoenix, or whatever else you like in
starship
Many of you, gentle readers, are also devotees of the Atomic Rockets web site. (As well you should be, if you are interested in matters rockety.) And, of course, you may have noted the Atomic Rockets Seal of Approval off in the right-hand column. But today Iâm going to
worldbuilding
It has been asked in various places what scares Imperial sophonts the most. Herewith is the answer: As a side-note, you will observed that the answers here are mostly existential, not physical. Physical fear never had much hold on the eldraeic psyche in the first place (none at all, for
Caliéne Sargas
Overheard at the Classified Item Destruction Facility, Palaxias (Imperial Core): âIâm telling you, theyâre just not taking our job seriously. Look at this thing â itâs a Sera Esklav, for the love of â It makes hot drinks! How is that âcontaining information prejudicial to Imperial security, access codes
Office of Studied Archaism and Talent Preservation
The Office of Studied Archaism and Talent Preservation is a curious little department of the Ministry of Ancestral Heritage (itself part of the Ministry of Progress and Prosperity). Like their cousins at the Office of the Libraries, their job is to prevent antiprogress in the form of lost knowledge, but
Cultural Crossovers
Does whatever a spider can⊠* Guess weâre going to have to assume some sort of introductory foo, here. Otherwise no-oneâll know who Spider-Man is, in medias res and all. Apart from what we saw in Civil War. * Well, lady, you just lost all our sympathy. You donât