worldbuilding
Yes, itās 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:Ā Current Affairsā āSome Puzzles For Libertariansā, 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) ā 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 theĀ Cryptographic
meta
Many congratulations go out from us here atĀ The EldraeverseĀ to SpaceX on yesterdayās successful and awesome launch of the Falcon Heavy: (A few raised fingers go out, too, to all the Obstructive Naysayers on Twitter ā 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 aĀ galari starship, theĀ 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:Ā Galari groups requiring luxurious private transit. Type: Executive polis yacht.
worldbuilding
I ran across this excerpt of a post onĀ one of the Fimfiction blogs I followĀ this morning, and while Iām using it out of context and off-topic ā itās actually talking about the Lex Luthor of DCās Earth-3, the morally inverted one, in the context of their
worldbuilding
Those of you who readĀ Slate Star Codex will probably have already seen this article; and those of you who donāt probably should read it, because I think it might be helpful in explaining the differences between Imperial āpoliticsā and Earth politics as we know them, including ā to pick
mercenary
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military
So, I gather moreān a few laser fans are coming to visit these days, so just to save time, hereās the canonical reason that lasers are the āverseās secondary weapons system, not its primary one: (It turns out that this is really a recapitulation of points raised
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āThere is no engineering reason, given appropriate design safeguards against cross-contamination, why one should not simply bolt a base-model food-fabber onto the back of a portable latrine. Since most excretions make good chowfab feedstock for the excreting species, biochemistry being what it is, this is merely an efficient application of
worldbuilding
For those mildly bothered by the ambiguity in the size of the Empire heretofore present, Iām here to relieve you of that ambiguity. It isĀ precisely 243 systems in size, of which 226 can be found in the list below, the other 17 being ecumenical colonies whose name and
functional lightspeed
functional lightspeed (n.): A curious quirk of relativistics; thanks to time dilation and distance foreshortening, when a lighthugger on a sufficiently lengthy voyage achieves 0.707 lights, the wall-clock time experienced by the crew exactly matches the length of the voyage in the empire-time frame, thus creating the mathematical illusion