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
culture
antiriot (n.): A social version of pair production. To fully explain the antiriot, it is first necessary to explain the riot. This is a socially-accepted form of low-level terrorism found on some barbarian outworlds, in which a mob engages in violence and property destruction as a means to coerce – through
trope-a-day
Techno Wizard: In any society as technological as the Worlds in general and the Empire in particular, being one of these is the basic job skill; after all, all the usual unskilled and semi-skilled tasks are now being done by robots, and the baseline, bottom-of-the-market job is “supervisor of those
trope-a-day
Technology Porn: I’m sorry. I really can’t help myself. (Of course, it’s massively in character in-universe, too, and that’s the excuse I’m sticking too.)
Thirteen Colonies
Memeweave: News/Stargate Project/Recontact/Broadcast (Read Only) Source: CS Prince of Octania Classification: WHITE (General Access) Encryption: None Distribution: Everywhere (News/Live) As received at: Relay Station (Eliéra-Seléne L3) Language: Eldraeic I Time of transcript: 3953:10:04:9-01:30.2 (Imperial Standard Time); time set by relay Light
recommendations
This, gentlesophs, is how you fiction some goddamned science! (Of course, if you’re a regular reader here and weren’t already planning to watch it, I don’t understand you at all. Are you a chthonic impossibility, by any chance?)
trope-a-day
Tank Goodness: Oh, definitely, including all of Spider Tank, Hover Tank, and Drill Tank. (Not Land Battleships, though – too easy for ortillery to target.) But also, of course, the good old-fashioned ground tanks, like the HV-10 Basher or the HV-12 Stormfall and their variants (p.s. click that link for
quotation
(Here, have a Robert E. Howard pastiche.) “Know, O prince, that between the years when your ancestors brought the last of Eliéra’s shining cities beneath their aegis, and the years of the rise of the Thirteen Worlds beyond the Gates, there was an Age undreamed of, when gleaming habitats