Hornéd Moon-class starfighter
(Note: for the avoidance of confusion, this is not the same starfighter class as Raymond McVay has been posting over on the G+ fan community; so donât be confused by the differencesâŠ) âIt looks like a blueberry croissant.â âBlueberry croissant⊠of DEATH!â â overheard at Golden Groves (Principalities) starport HORNĂD
trope-a-day
Before we begin, some EXCITING NEWS. Maybe, actually, not that exciting, but this is the very last trope-a-day in the initial set! Woo! Weâre done! Well, okay. Weâre not done. We now go back to A and start a second pass through to capture a whole passel that
trope-a-day
You Rebel Scum!: Absolutely, if youâre caught in the act of doing something rebel-y or scummy, or somewhat more accurately for the setting, Default-y, slaverish or slavish, parasitic, dullist, base, or entropic. You donât have to be an authoritarian regime to enjoy a nice self-righteous epithet, after all.
worldbuilding
Eric Manwill asks: Iâve really enjoyed reading (and re-reading) both Vignettes of the Star Empire and The Core War. I did end up wondering about something, though. In most cases, when the Empire and/or its citizen-shareholders faced down an enemy, they did so from a position of obvious
meta
So anyway. This is from the being-even-weirder-than-usual department â at least for those of you outside the group of my readers who are also My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fans, a group which to my awareness numbers one. Maybe two. Because, see, if you follow me on Goodreads, or at
trope-a-day
You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Not all the uses of genetic engineering â or other technologies, including that shampoo that turns regular hair into a fully-functional LCD display surface for a week or two â are for even vaguely utilitarian purposes. Enough said. (As a side note, the silvertouched â see Our Dwarves
OPERATION DREAMING MALIGNITY
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trope-a-day
You Canât Go Home Again:Â A consequence of lighthugger travel and the ensuing time dilation for ephemerals; or people from ephemeral societies, rather, since itâs the high cultural delta of the society you left that causes the problem. Also, more rarely, what happens to people left off-world at
Imperial Service
Why are the analyst/supervisory grades in the agency referred to as the âproxy adhocâ? âAdhocâ should be clear enough: due to their adhocratic structure, as is common in all areas of the Imperial Service. As for the former, individual title applied to its members: it is by ancient custom,
trope-a-day
You Cannot Grasp The True Form: Averted in the general case, mostly because the things of which You Cannot Grasp The True Form are also things of which you cannot sense the true form either. The process of grafting the senses you need into your brain obviously includes the grafting
worldbuilding
Another little note on identity, following on from here: On the whole, do eldraeic mainstream views on free will, determinism, and the possible interactions between the two run more towards compatibilism or incompatibilism? While ideas vary as ideas always do in the absence of proof one way or another, the
blogging from a to z
So, this challenge that I did last year? That was fun. So Iâm doing it again this year! This time, though, Iâm going to offer you, gentle readers, a chance to help me out a little with the conceptualizing of things and possibly see things you want to