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Trope-a-Day: The Ageless
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.
Alistair Young
ReClamation
Landempty
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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Trope-a-Day: Affably Evil
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
Things to See, Places to [Not] Go (6)
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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Trope-a-Day: Adam and Eve Plot
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
Worldbuilding: Immigration and Religiosity
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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Trope-a-Day: Ace Custom
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
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Trope-a-Day: Ab Urbe Condita
Ab Urbe Condita: The definition of the Empire’s Harmonious Calendar is this, counting from the founding – or, rather, counting from the winter solstice [1] that immediately preceded the founding (which was in the mid-to-late spring) in order that the start of the calendar year should be in a sensible
Darkness Within
Darkness Within (24): Cutter
I frown at the vibration – almost a mechanical scream – of the reaction gyros against my back, then dismiss the thought. For certain, they are out of balance: holding this much mass on true means overdriving them, even if they haven’t been damaged by the collision. Nothing can be done;
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Trope-a-(Yester)Day: Absurdly Sharp Claws
Absurdly Sharp Claws: …yes, of course someone applied mollyblade technology to a set of dar-bandal fighting claws. Notwithstanding that under most circumstances having claws that can slice happily through armor-plate is the very definition of Awesome But Impractical.
League of Meridian
Snippet: Compromise
(As usual, a snippet that doesn’t have anywhere to fit.) “The League’s democracy is an excellent and reliable example of its class; indeed, it is as close to the theoretic optimal case for a generative engine of political compromise as anything I’ve seen.” “So the problem is…
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Trope-a-Day: Absurdly Sharp Blade/Sharpened to a Single Atom
Absurdly Sharp Blade/Sharpened to a Single Atom: Mollyblades. With a single-layer graphene sub-nanometer edge with a perpetual resharpening system (proprietary – and very necessary, since an edge that fine will be blunted by damn near anything, including gases), if it is made of baryonic matter, it will be cut. Slash