Darkness Within
Transfer complete. Transfer complete. Transfer complete. Transfer complete. Transfer complete. Initiate final testing sequence. There IÂ go, then. All ready, and at least three minutes ahead of schedule. The new guidance code; the suit life-support hackage; the router rewire; a command VUI; and some scripts to hold the damned mess
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To Absent Friends: Played straight, with extra poignancy added for more cosmopolitan Imperials due to the number of people who are absent because of death from old age, which in the outworlds thereâs more of around than they might care to think of. Often turns into something of an
Voniensa Republic
Cor Trialtain Voniensa Republic (somewhere in the Shell) âIt will work!â âIt wonât,â VanĂr min Athoess replied, âand youâll probably get everyone on this planet killed trying.â The younger of the two kalatri leapt to his feet. âI thought you were here to help people like us! Now
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Time Travel: Present in very limited forms: the kind you can do with wormhole shortcuts and relativistic travel (whose primary usage is permitting physics grad students to actually observe local causality violations), and the kind that lets transcendent AIs whisper to themselves from the future via acausal logic. In both
Lumenna-SĂșnĂĄris System
I/5. Talentar Class: Eutalentic Orbit (period): 1.49 au (664.3 T-days) Orbit (ecc.): 0.03 Radius: 2,137 miles Mass: 9.4 x 1023 kg Density: 5.51 g/cm3 Surface gravity: 0.54 g Axial tilt: 26.1° Rotation period: 23.5 T-hours Black-body temperature: 216 K
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Time Abyss: The members of the assorted naturally or artificially immortal species of the modern day still havenât been around long enough for this â although the Empire contains plenty of people who are older than all Earthâs modern nations, and at least a few who are older than
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Thrown Out The Airlock: While purportedly an old space tradition to deal with pirates and mutineers, in practice, the penalties attached to littering anywhere remotely close to a trafficked orbit and the sheer waste of organic compounds are more than enough to persuade most salty spacedogs to Just Shoot âEmâŠ
worldbuilding
âCause I have a backlog left over from 2015, that I havenât found time to answer yet, and it would be nice to go into 2016 all fresh and pine-smelling. So, without further ado: âŠokay, one other thing that isnât a question. Itâs an art suggestion, for
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Second Law My Ass: I hadnât actually written anything for this one â Iâm not sure it existed when I made the relevant pass â but in the light of our last trope, I should probably address it. I should probably point out that while that last trope is averted,
Orbital Light & Power
The tread of heavy armor retreated down the corridor. The Vitrine Eye smashed the hilt of his plasma knife into the door lock, then turned his attention to the mesh cage wrapping the autodrageur machinery. The ghosts wouldnât have the data chi- [ALERT: console->request incoming] Hadal Iliastren
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Three Laws Compliant: Averted in every possible way. Firstly, for the vast majority of robots and artificial intelligences â which have no volition â theyâre essentially irrelevant; an industrial robot doesnât make the sort of ethical choices which the Three Laws are intended to constrain. You can just program it
Lumenna-SĂșnĂĄris System
I/4. EliĂ©ra Class: Sylithotectonic (simulated) Orbit (period): 0.993 au (361.1075 T-days; 333.33 local days) Orbit (ecc.): 0.023 Radius: 5,000 miles â special Mass: 5.614 x 1024 kg Density: 6.2 g/cm3 Surface gravity: 0.94 g Axial tilt: n/a Rotation period: 26