seed AI
āā¦and asked them their wish. So the lovers told the Unwise GenAI that they needed neither goods nor gift, and that all they wanted was to live happily ever after and love always. And the Unwise GenAI said, āBy your command,ā and bade his servants seize the lovers and place
trope-a-day
Service Sector Stereotypes: Played differently due to low-pop demographics and high-wealth culture; namely, waitstaff (for one example) are near-universally highly professional and competent in order to justify the expense of having them at all (the low end of the restaurant market automates the job away).Ā (Also, āservice with a smileā
Imperial Military Service
(Sorry, folks ā I had really meant to give you the next section of Darkness Within today. Unfortunately, Iām feeling pretty plague-ridden right now and canāt really give it the degree of attention it deserves, so instead, Iām giving you some non-fic notes on the evolution of the
trope-a-day
Semper Fi: The Imperial Legions ā while obviously there is no direct causal connection ā do have many things in common with the Marines.Ā (Apart from the obvious troperiffic ones ā yes, we all know theyāre a Proud Soldier Race all their own, commanded by Colonel Badasses, the truest devotees of The
Moments in History
The greatest period of growth of cryonics came about in 1793, with the tragic death of Empress Emeritus Octavia I Cyprium (reigned 1425-1644) in a laboratory accident. In accordance with her previously stated wishes, her body was preserved in liquid nitrogen and immured in a specially constructed capsule in the
meta
No, not that destiny. ThisĀ Destiny. Specifically, theĀ Books of Sorrow, the history of the Hive, which you can read onĀ this pageĀ here (OBVIOUS WARNING: HORRIFIC SPOILERS LIE THERE.), and in particular VI, XI, XV, XVII, XIX, XXXII, and XLVII seem highly relevant to Flamic theology. Or anti-theology, rather.
trope-a-day
Secret Police:Ā In the Imperial context ā and under the āeven free countries have these, albeit without the order of fear that the authoritarian kind cultivateā clause ā this would be theĀ Counterespionage and Counterasymmetrism DirectorateĀ (āOneā) and theĀ Internal Security and Surveillance DirectorateĀ (āFourā), which despite the sinister-sounding name is essentially
barbarian
āThe fundamental question we must answer before operating is this: are they barbarians because they want to control each other; are they barbarians because theyāve been conditioned to someoneās ownership; or are they barbarians because they have to be controlled? Different diseases have different curesā¦ā ā Cordane Viriaz, External
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Scry vs. Scry:Ā Why so many of the games (see:Ā The Chessmaster) of the temporally-transcendent weakly godlike superintelligences stay locked in a kind of stalemate, despite all theĀ Xanatos GambitsĀ and, indeed,Ā Xanatos Speed Chess.
mentalics
āLeaving aside all the sophisticated techniques that are the domain of professional assassins, there are _two_ commonly discussed ways to kill someone with your brain ā with, of course, the aid of its associated kinesis effectors: āFirst, take hold of a blood vessel, preferably an important and large one, and then
trope-a-day
Script Reading Doors:Ā Played oddly straight ā the ability of peopleās neural laces and muses to override local hardware, if they think of so doing, can create some of these effects ā the ones involving staying open for longing looks, or operating stealthily, or while people are conversing through it, or
Darkness Within
MET 184-12+34 Got out of my pod. Expenditures: one podful of soured air, and a can of Quicksilver Quaff Iād forgotten which didnāt take well to depressurization. Thatās not going to be viable in the long run, especially since itāll be fresh air unless I