uplift
In this course, we cover one of the most interesting branches of exosophontology, the exosophontology of uplifted species. While we will touch upon the minority uplift cultural movements (the integrationists, who attempt to become indistinguishable from their creators; the separatists, who would divorce themselves from civilization to find their own
Starflight Shipyards
BEING A SUMMARY OF PRODUCTION AT STARFLIGHT SHIPYARDS, SELÉNE, CAGEWORKS TWO FOR FIRST QUARTER, 7399 IS Lunar Loom Custom design (orbital elevator constructor). Worlds’ Rim Development, ICC; paid in full. IS Alkahest of Conflict Harbinger-class diplomatic cruiser Galactic Arbitrations, ICC; paid in full. IS The Sun’s Brilliance Scatters All
wrenchhammer
wrenchhammer:Â the largest size of wrench, suitable for leaning on, requiring a backsling to carry, and used for such tasks as unbolting the lids of reactor cores, dogging down the doors of pressure chambers, or tightening the bolts securing the drive chain of an elevator that runs all the way
Gardens of Rechesh
Atrocity (Falish Traverse): A former garden world orbiting a yellow-orange sun, Atrocity – or as it was formerly known, Telchese (Falish Traverse) was a colony world of the link!n-Rechesh. It had the unfortunate distinction of being located along the primary route into the Gardens of Rechesh volume when the Theomachy
economics
Credit ratings are best thought of as a measure of risk: if I lend money to, or invest money in, this person, or this corporation, or this security, how likely am I to get my money back? This is essentially the same as the trivial assessments we make every day:
meta
Well, our server just died today. This is a mite awkward for us here, gentle readers, since if it doesn’t work, our network doesn’t work, and if our network doesn’t work, neither of us – writing, software developing, any kind of freelancing – can do any of our work
heavy cavalry
“Drive me closer! I want to hit them with my sword!” no-one with a tank, ever This is a recreation/reformulation/retcon of the original description of the Empire’s heavy cavalry legions, in light of both criticism received – and assistance to resolve it – and rethinking of my own. It
starship
AscĂĂ«l coupler: the standard design, in modular habitat and starship architecture, for the coupler that binds adjacent modules into a single unit. For such semi-permanent connections on a large scale, simple docking adapters are obviously unsuitable; tidal forces and other stresses common in large structures may cause a simple docking
wet navy
Taking a brief moment to hand out a random factlet, let us turn from space navy to wet navy. Old school wet navy. Did you know that the most widely used rig back in the days of sail, especially by the Alatian fleet, the largest both mercantile and military and
Cultural Crossovers
Yay, it’s these guys again! * Quill’s parents, we presume. Along with a very large violation of ecological safety practices. * Well, that’s a weird way of assembling planets into a megastructure. Wonder what the point is, apart from saying “we can make gravity our bitch?” Although that kind
TAR BABY
SECRET YELLOW / EYES ONLY OMRD PROJECT TAR BABY PROPOSAL A prohibitive constraint on the use of conventional weapons in the anti-satellite (ASAT) role is their tendency to create debris through a variety of paths: direct ablation, spallation or fragmentation debris, warhead shrapnel, non-intercepting ordnance, and so forth. The accumulation of
eldraeic language
maland: ash; from mal “past tense” + andra “fire”. malandazik: cinder, clinker; from maland “ash” + azik “stone”. syln i-malandazik: cinderpearl; an organic gemstone produced by the fungimals of Resplendent Exponential Vector, primarily from metallic and semiconductive elements in its extensive volcanic ash fields.