blogging from a to z
Hey, readers! This challenge that I did last year? It’s starting REAL SOON NOW. As in LESS THAN A WEEK. So if you didn’t take the opportunity to nominate a word to prompt me with last time, you’d better hurry. Just for your reference, the letters we
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Alien Sea: Obviously – not all oceans are water, y’know. Just look at Ă“lish, or GalinĂ©, with their golden-black hydrocarbon seas. Or the molten metal lakes on Eurymir’s day face, or the reddish salty brine of terraformed ElĂ©mĂre, or the literally wine-dark seas of rusty Talentar, or the colloidal
religion
The book of Balances is one of the most significant segments of the Word of the Flame as it addresses the eldraeic character. To be specific, it takes the form of a lengthy debate between Kanáralath, Bringer of Clarity, the eikone whose concern is reason, logic, and truth unalloyed, and
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Akashic Records: The Transcend remembers everything any of its constitutionals know, or ever knew. (And, quite possibly, anything that can be deduced or induced from that.) That may not be all knowledge, but it’s close enough for Deus Est Machina work.
eldrae
Something that came up over on G+ – in the course of discussing how many pre-spaceflight eldrae are still around (answer: lots, even if you discount the deep-submergence infomorphs and Transcendent afterlife, and even if some of them spent a while as frozen heads) – which I repeat here for general edification:
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The Ageless: Mature eldrae, galari, and anyone else who possesses the Lesser Immortality, such as everyone the aforementioned has sold immortagens to recently. See Immortality.
ReClamation
SLABTON, KALACHA ETH (BANNERS) – An attempt by a local consortium, ReClamation, ICC, to set up a recycling and resource extraction outpost upon the Magen “garbage world” of Brak TĂfel ended today with the full shutdown and withdrawal of corporate assets and personnel. In a statement to the financial press, the
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Affably Evil: While there are those former Imperials and other eldrae that would qualify as evil – the Renegades – and more non-former ones that some other people would think of as evil (see: Blue and Orange Morality), there are very close to none of them who are prepared to be uncivilized
Places Not To Go
Brak TĂfel: A gas giant moon in the Rilni (Magen Exodus) system, Brak TĂfel was once a promising terrestrial world in development, until errors in its late-stage ecopoesis led to it becoming a world which was entirely livable, but not particularly desirable: an erratic diurnal temperature cycle that gave it
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Adam and Eve Plot: The colonization of Valiár (Thirteen Colonies), in which the catastrophic failure that destroyed the majority of the colonists in cryostasis aboard the Swiftrunner left a first-in team half-a-dozen strong as the only people around – and it’s not like in subluminal colonization you get to turn
worldbuilding
A thought or two inspired by part of this comment seen via /r/bestof, said part being: Where it gets extremely tricky and sensitive is how non-fundamentalist Muslims fit into the picture. The same for non-fundamentalist Christians, or Jews. Because the fundamentalists would argue, and in a way I agree
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Ace Custom: Happens a lot, aided and abetted by the highly modular and modifiable nature of Imperial technology. (Indeed, both the Navy and the Legions positively encourage the practice – as long as you stick to the standard interfaces and thus do not muck up the supply chain, or drop below