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Religion of Evil: Mostly averted. While there has certainly been historical evil, there have been very few actual entropy-cults. For the most part, the evil have been more interested in the personal benefits than philosophical commitment to the Death of Everything, even if their actions are entropic as a side-effect.
Places To Go
Hyníne: One of the inner moonlets orbiting the ice giant Raziké, the 10th and outermost planet in Lumenna orbit, Hyníne is a largely undistinguished chunk of water ice some 400 miles in radius. While a few private getaway habitats are recorded as existing here, there are no major domes or
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Red Alert: In the Imperial Navy, played with realism (also with the Most Annoying Sound, inasmuch as the alert klaxon is custom-designed to irritate the nerves of every possible sophont listening, simultaneously): “General quarters! General quarters! Set condition one throughout the ship! This Is Not A Drill!” The Admiralty, Core
dueling
A duel begins and ends with one stroke. So it is said. With tactical prolepsis, this is even more true than it once was. I stared at my opponent without seeing him; in the view of proleptics, there are no objects, only clouds of probability and possibility. The quantum computer
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Recursive Ammo: Plenty of it, both in the obvious territory of multi-impact missiles and cluster bombs, but regular sluggun Abnormal Ammo can be found, especially those gyroc micromissiles, with submunitions. Even regular old canister shot might count, although of course it doesn’t have smart submunitions.
Associated Worlds
It’s question-answering time again: Would you mind if I request a list of “great powers” and their overall internal/external policies? I am very curious about major powers other than the Empire and the Republic. Well… maybe not all of ‘em. There are some whose revelations I would prefer
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Recruiting the Criminal: There are those who wonder about the existence of crime (actual crime, not merely the assortment of smugglers and people like the Eldinimieuthunimis who no-one locally would consider to be engaged in real crime) in Imperial and near-Imperial space. Surely the Transcend should be able to stamp
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Realpolitik: The Ministry of State and Outlands would love to be able to pursue such interests as the Empire has (which generally excludes its private interests, who tend to pursue their own foreign policies) with this much ideology-free pragmatism, but since the Empire is a strongly ideological libertist-technepraxic state, they
bombardment of Firital
HADRAL DINÍTAL, FIRITAL (TIFRELLE RING) – Civil war looms today in the nation of Dinítal, the current “senior power” in the Firital System. The governance of Dinítal has suffered from a degree of instability over the past four months, since the popular King Terris IV slipped into a coma following a
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Reading Your Rights: Played straight… but not with the same rights. The Empire never got around to finding a reason to prohibit self-incrimination, and while you do have the right to an attorney, you’re supposed to know that (and also, you are obliged to answer questions before he gets
Readings Are Off The Scale: “Off the scale? What sort of second-rate scale are we using around here? Get me a new scale!” Admittedly, it’s not just as simple as “recalibrating”, since devices do have physical limits, but the first reaction of anyone running into this will be to
Ring Dynamics
(Follows on from this.) Vontok System Former Republic Stargate, Maintenance Access Four Probable Technologies Forensic Eschatology Team (subcontracted by Ring Dynamics) “Kanaze, we’ve got a subsumptor amok in fifthspace.” “Shut it down and blacklist that port sequence. We’ll spin up a new sim with the next test set.