cryp
What is cryptid-currency? It’s the latest brainstorm to come out of the convergence of bankers, cryptographers, and genetic engineers – a blockchain-based form of cryp designed to use the photosynthetically-powered computing capacity of mesh-networked genetically enhanced trees to provide the validation and storage necessary to operate the cryp’s backing
ThalĂär
The second of the Precursor megastructures held by the Empire, ThalĂär is a peculiar world by any standards. It is a three-layered shellworld – which is to say, it has three planetary crusts, separated not by simple caverns, but by skyvaults which can exceed a mile in height. Unlike some shellworlds
eldraeic language
A couple of words that are likely to be relevant in explaining many of the complexities of explaining to the audience the background needed to understand Black Panther, when we get there: mahamonĂĂ«: Colony; literally “made-polity”. Applies specifically to polities created ex nihilo on terra nullius; there are variants of
eldraeic language
leirlaras: (lit. “mist-word(s)”). A term referring specifically to words, phrases, paragraphs, or even entire works deliberately so constructed as to be void of meaning, misleading, or obfuscatory. Depending on circumstances, it may be pejorative (when used to describe a collocutor’s evasions, for example), or complimentary (describing a skillful
habitat
blacklight (n.): an external window in a large space habitat, looking out into space (see: the black). The word was deliberately coined in opposition to skylight, since due to the operation of spin gravity, the majority of blacklights are in the floor. It is considered both polite and practical to
Cultural Crossovers
In which the insect themes begin. * Someone is very untrusting of the Starks. * You’re an ass working for SHIELD. Does the audience smell HYDRA? I think they do. * (Someone’s going to need to explain prisons, seeing as the locals only use ’em for remand. Good cultural overlay time.
espionage
The Data Acquisition Echelon aren’t the enemy. They’re the opposition. Ignorance is the enemy. Agent-Expediter Fors Raikav, Second Directorate Grand Game Accords: A rumored covert agreement between many of the Worlds’ more gentlesophly intelligence agencies and data brokers reflecting the spirits of rivalry and partnership whose balance changes
Second Directorate
(Which is to say, a bunch of miscellaneous snippety stuff that didn’t find a home anywhere else.) “Just once, it would be nice to meet someone who used their wine cellar for storing wine .” Agent-Expediter Fors Raikav, Second Directorate “Further information on the Spirinal Anomaly is classified REDSHIFT ABYSS
Places Not To Go
Ulijen (Cordai Gap): Honestly, if I have to tell you it’s a bad idea to visit a planet that looks like someone took a bite out of a giant apple, you probably aren’t able to read this book anyway. Ulijen is the infamous site of the eponymous Ulijen
Intais (Ley Nebula)
HÍÄSTRE, INTAIS (LEY NEBULA) – The small letal colony in the Chiaras (Beratnas Cluster) system broadcast an appeal today for aid, after local astronomers confirmed that the orbit of the comet IGS 31278493 would intersect with the orbit of Chiaras in three months time. While impact cannot be confirmed due to
Guntown Drift
“If you need a good cadre job done fast, the Gun Captains are who you want to hire. They have an office in Plenary, a couple of blocks north of the Battlespire, or if you’re not welcome on Vordon, you can lug it all the way out to Hantol
eldraeic language
maharargyr: maker’s merit; from mahav (make, maker) and argyr (quantized merit), the excellence which one accrues from a worthy creation. Note: refers only to the excellence itself, rather than the repute derived from it. This latter is mahadársúnar, from mahav and dársúnar (glory), which in turn is from daráv