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Trope-a-Day: Society of Immortals
Society of Immortals: Indeed, the eldrae and the galari (among others) being natural immortals, and desiring very much to extend the privilege to everyone else, too.
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contact canon
Talkin' About Me
contact canon (n.): (also contact ‘chive) The collection of documents and multimedia resources, stored uncompressed and in simplest-possible encoding, kept for transmission in first contact situations – once basic-level communications have been established – to enable one’s interlocutors to derive a comprehensive linguistic and cultural corpus for their translation software. To
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Trope-a-Day: Snowy Screen of Death
Snowy Screen of Death: Imperial camera systems, like just about everything else, are digital mesh-networked systems these days. When something gets disabled or shredded, you get a blank screen and a “Connection lost; connection timed out.” message, not static.
Places To Go
Things to See, Places to Go (3)
Kodelyk (Crescent Nebula): The second planet of its system, Kodelyk is one of the two best known exemplars of the adage that while modern technology permits us to colonize virtually any asteroid, moon, or hostile-environment world we please, and even construct habitats in the deep black or upper atmospheres of
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Trope-a-Day: Slow Doors
Slow Doors: Even in the future, blast doors are less than sprightly. Except when being closed in an emergency. Which is to say, by explosives. (Don’t stand on the red-and-yellow chevrons.)
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Ongoing Rumbles
“…encode status report for immediate transmission to Vonis Prime…from VNS Moderation, Kadash IV…riot control action…fighting broken out in several major cities…operational dues, bank transfer payments and…seized…forces imprisoned planetside…self fired upon by local system defense forces…forced to withdraw…unrest elsewhere in the Shell…
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Trope-a-Day: Slippy Slidey Ice World
Slippy Slidey Ice World: Welcome to any number of outer-system moons and planets. If you’re lucky, they’re cold enough that your waste heat won’t be enough to produce a water (or whatever the liquid form of the frozen stuff is, ’cause there’s no guarantee that it’
Building the Imperial Navy
Building the Imperial Navy: Strategic Goals
But that ain’t all! This is the second part of our six-part series on Building the Imperial Navy (first part here), in which we extend the strategic assumptions – regarding the security environment and the resources available to meet them – we made in that part into the actual outcomes the
galactography
Imperial Fringe, or, Map Time
Today’s gift for y’all is… a new map! A bigger map! A better map! This map: Which basically quintuples the amount of the Worlds that has been mapped on a system-by-system basis by extending that from the Imperial Core to the entire Imperial Fringe. Enjoy! (Although it’s
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Trope-a-Day: Slipping a Mickey
Slipping a Mickey: The reason why v-tag poison detectors are built into bar glasses, finger-rings, and suchlike all over the place. Of course, given the social conditions of the happy utopian Empire, not more than one in a billion of these things ever triggers, and most of those are false
Darkness Within
Darkness Within (6): Memories
MET 185-18-6 In the ongoing list of people to whom I owe profound thanks – Everyone back at BuShips and the people who write the ISDPs, such that the pipes are color- and texture-coded, the fittings are standardized and snap-together, and all the other features that make it possible for an
cryostasis
Defrosting
A question I did not answer at the time, regarding this: One wonders, when she was revived, did she reinherit back any of her titles or property? Well, now. Titles are the easiest one to answer, *there*, and the short answer is “some of them, according to their nature”. To