Cultural Crossovers
So, remember this? Well, now that our long-delayed rewatch of the MCU is restarted, we’ll be getting the rest of them, starting with The Incredible Hulk. What do our merry protagonists think of this, the hurling of popcorn at the screen to yells of “Gamma rays do not work
Guardians of Our Harmony
So, you wanted to know about the Guardians of Our Harmony? They’re the thought police. Well, okay, not like that. That’s what paranoid outworlders would say, but really, they’re more like the thought paramedics. There’s a quotation from their ur-founder which I think appears in Vignettes,
worldbuilding
I commented on this post of Charlie Stross’s before now – about when it was first posted back in ’16 – on G+, but while I wait for compilers to compile and linkers to link, I thought I’d post a commentary on the giant list of hoary and terrible space
Senate
So, remember back last December I made this quick post, pointing out how the baroque formality of the Imperial Senate served as an effective Schelling fence against certain kinds of bullshittery? Well, given the fun that is the current 2,300 page-plus, two-hours-to-print omnibus spending bill, I feel the urge
sport
So, it occurred to me that in my comments on sports here I missed one very large elephant in the room that makes competitive sports… difficult. Namely, the number of species, and then the number of clades of those species, and that’s before we start getting into individual-level modifications,
ontotechnology
selective ontology evocation system: Known in the vulgar as the reality engine, or even as the god-machine1, and widely acknowledged as the crowning achievement of the ontotechnologist’s art, the SOES is the first general-purpose ontotech effector. The SOES came from a development and reconsideration of simpler ontotechnologies derived from
freight container
Since the contract I’m working at the moment has gone into crunch mode, in the interest of keeping up some content this month, have an extra question answer: I have a question… As you say: a Hariven’s hold is sometimes cobbled together from eight standard shipping containers. Are
worldbuilding
Yes, it’s that time again. Before I get started on the actual Qs and As, though, I said to myself that I was going to link to this: Current Affairs’ “Some Puzzles For Libertarians”, Treated As Writing Prompts For Short Stories, over on Slate Star Codex, in which Scott
metaphysics
Jinmi Quantakill (4972-5001): A massively-parallel killer native to the tholisarn homeworld, Dasarn (Secor Spire), in 5001 the sophont later known as Jinmi Quantakill took remote control of a drone ore freighter approaching Dasarn, overrode its navigational safeties, and commanded it to accelerate at full thrust into the surface of the
Teyark (Iris Drift)
TEYARK (IRIS DRIFT) – Protests continued today outside the Teyark Sector Criminal Court (League of Meridian), where the murder trial of Sang dir na Versu eht Reahn, a free trader from Oderahn (Torgu Wilds), part of the Rim Free Zone, is entering its sixth day. na Versu, master of the Cryptographic
meta
Many congratulations go out from us here at The Eldraeverse to SpaceX on yesterday’s successful and awesome launch of the Falcon Heavy: (A few raised fingers go out, too, to all the Obstructive Naysayers on Twitter – although fortunately for everyone, at least they were in the distinct minority.)
starship
Inspired by a passing comment on the Eldraeverse Discord, we now present a galari starship, the Sapphire Coloratura-class polis yacht; the favored interplanetary and interstellar transport of all sophont rocks of wealth and taste. SAPPHIRE COLORATURA-CLASS POLIS YACHT Operated by: Galari groups requiring luxurious private transit. Type: Executive polis yacht.