Voniensa Republic
Meddling In The Affairs of Wizards
1.1.1: I don’t like this. I don’t like this at all. 1.1.2: Relax, will you? It’s just a – 1.2.1: Would you both shut up? I’m trying to record. 1.1.2: Sorry, Ish. What’s your progress? 1.2.1:
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Trope-a-Day: Rainbow Pimp Gear
Rainbow Pimp Gear: What, you think every planet has its vegetation/sky/ground the same color? On some planets – say Saturn’s moon, Titan – burnt orange and fuchsia are camouflage colors.
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Trope-a-Day: Racial Remnant
Racial Remnant: Most notably, the trilateral londian, who are also an unusual case because while the modern Londian Wanderers are clearly descendants, both genetically and culturally, of the elder-race of the same name that used to dominate the Londian Traverse, they don’t know exactly how they ended up that
UNMOVED MONAD
UNMOVED MONAD
It is widely believed that time travel is useless. After all, everyone knows the Block Universe Theory and its limitations: changing the past is impossible, and as such all grandfather paradoxes are banned. Predestination paradoxes are permitted, but obviously only create the already-known current state of affairs, rather than alter
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Trope-a-Day: Putting on the Reich
Putting on the Reich: While the Imperial Military Service has been known to like peaked caps (although not in the current uniform), capes, trenchcoats, jackboots, eagles – well, the-local-animal-which-for-our-purposes-let’s-call-a-wyvern, actually, but any raptor gilded and put on top of a standard probably counts – lightning bolts, and calling rapid interface drop-troop
biology
Appearances Matter
Gabriel Fonseca asks if there’s anywhere that contains detailed physical descriptions of the various species of the Eldraeverse. Well, sadly, there isn’t right now, but for your visualizing pleasure, here’s some descriptions of most of the ones I’ve mentioned recently, anyway: Ciseflish In their home environment,
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Trope-a-Day: Puppeteer Parasite
Puppeteer Parasite: Mostly not naturally (due to the aversion of No Biochemical Barriers), but infectious neuroviruses can do a damn good impression of this – which is the sort of thing that makes defense planners twitchy, but no-one’s done it on a large scale yet (as mentioned under Alien Invasion)
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Planetary Classification
Tony Harris asks: It sounds as though you have some kind of planetary classification scheme set up. Care to share how it works? :please: Well, yes, yes I do. (Let me start out by saying that it does not, however, define what a planet is, except inasmuch as the classification
Questions
So, got a few questions backlogged up to answer, and I’m going to try and answer them today. So you can be expecting that. In the meantime, it’s rapidly approaching the end of the month, so this is just a quick note to all my Patreon patrons out
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Trope-a-Day: Punctuation Shaker
Punctuation Shaker: Averted. Those punctuation marks have meaning in the Constructed Language. Specifically, the acute indicates a long vowel, and the umlaut-that-is-really-a-dieresis indicates that a vowel is to be pronounced separately from the previous one, rather than as a diphthong. Any wandering apostrophes you may see exist because I’m
Imperial Legions
Imaginary Hazard to Navigation
“So, we were about three weeks out from Tanja – that’s in the Glimmerstars, don’ch’know – with the Blood and Gold, us in the Fifty-Eighth, just heading back from some little out-system where we’d been doing the hearts-and-minds thing. Glimmerstars was one of the Expansion Regions back then,
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Trope-a-Day: Public Execution
Public Execution: How things were done historically in the Empire – not for entertainment or bloodlust (they were generally rather solemn affairs), or for intimidation, but rather because of the transparency principles enshrined in the Imperial Charter; while the Imperial government might have lawful occasion to kill criminals, it was thought