non-canon
Not at all inspired by current events, either… “Last year we took down one network overnight. Now we’ve got smart replicators. This time, we’re downing every major gaming network in the constellation, and they won’t be back up for weeks. It’ll be huge!” * * * Three seconds later,
trope-a-day
That Makes Me Feel Angry: As mentioned under I Do Not Speak Nonverbal, due to the difficulty in handling cross-species expressions and body language, many people with translators end up talking this way. “Polite clarification: This way, actually.” Alternatives do exist, including attitudinal v-tags, rebus emoticons, simulated expression-translators, and so
meta
So, we have entered the unofficial Christmas Quiet Period here at the Eldraeverse, in which I am running around doing not-working things for Christmas, leading to a shortage of peaceful writing time, and in which so is everyone else, leading to a noticeable drop-off in reading, by the statistics. So,
ecopoesis
Terraform: Played mostly straight, but note that the general term is “ecopoesis” – after all, different species have different ideas as to how the ideal planet looks, most of which are not at all “terra”-like. Also, only mostly, because both the constraints of physical reality (you only have so much
meta
So, if you’re one of the nine people subscribed to /r/eldraeverse, there’s a chance you clicked through from a link post there and came here. Uh, hi. Well, that works then. (If you didn’t come from there, I am delighted to be able to inform you
trope-a-day
Terminally Dependent Society: Consciously averted, because even the people who run big, centralizable systems in the Empire are Genre Savvy about this one, and engage in distribution, variation, and redundancy whenever they can, in things as disparate as power grids, air recyclers, parcel delivery, and executive authority. There’re still
education
1. Referring specifically to The Laws and Customs of War: What exactly is the difference between persistent and non-persistent memetic / infoweapons? It’s obvious that the big distinction is inherent in the name, but, to be more specific, how to the people in charge of using such weapons ensure that
trope-a-day
Temporal Paradox: It’s a block universe; the short form would be to say that predestination paradoxes are permitted (although the non-informational kind are tricky) and grandfather paradoxes are not, since even though you can violate local causality, global causality is always preserved. And if you find yourself caught up
Darkness Within
Z minus 3.2 hours: We have a thrust frame! A proper cylinder truss, even, because at this point, trying to take clever short-cuts would be very much a false economy, of the type that leads to embarrassingly anticipatable anoxia. And even so, I’m still running a full fourteen
meta
In a moment of lunatic whim I seem to have made this – – so, y’know, if you want to talk about this over on Reddit, it’s there.
farspeech
Telepathy: Telepathy (or rather, techlepathy) is a somewhat limited faculty, as described under Psychic Powers. Being essentially a way to transmit neural gestalt information over WiFi, it is an excellent messaging system, complete with the ability to transmit images, emotions, information constructs, and other non-verbal information, and communicate broadcast/narrowcast,
Darkness Within
Noetic reinstantiation is in progress. Secondary noumenal systems and incrementing memory string load incomplete. Please wait, avoiding intensive cogitative activity. Please hold all queries until incrementing memory string load is complete. New associations may interfere with engram binding. Primary incrementing memory string load complete.  Cross-loading and merging memory updates from