Photographic Memory: On the list of enhancements built into people, with the note that it is originally only eidetic short-term, and requires voluntary “fixing” to persist as long-term eidetic memory; it also includes the ability to suppress and erase them on demand. (These to avoid being Cursed With Awesome.) A
First, on a personal note, an apology to regular readers that things have been a little slow and irregular around here recently; for the last week or so I’ve been fighting off a dose of some inconsiderate virus whose symptoms appear to include bitter sinus headaches and sleeping eighteen-plus
The Philosopher: The Imperial educational system is more or less designed to encourage this, on the general principle that the unexamined life leads to many things, most of which should not be encouraged.
Dirani Station 0.15 light-orbits from Anniax (Imperial Core) Beneath the heavy lead-perfused sapphiroid of the observation gallery, the opposite side of the station twisted, or rather the view of it did. The other galleries, the enormous magnetic coils that dominated the space at the station’s center, heat exchangers,
Perfect Pacifist People: Brutally, brutally averted. Any example of this that isn’t an abjectly poor tiny colony in a backwater of nowhere is already dead. The few counterexamples are only technically pacifist inasmuch as they have a client-state relationship or a contract with someone like Ultimate Argument Risk Control,
So, in response to my Cultural Transfers post, Mark Atwood commented thus: I think the Eldrae cultural anthropologist equilvantes and the xenocryptobiologists would be ones to be the most delighted. After all, here is both the origin of greenlife, and also pre-redesigned origins of the Eldrae themselves. The average Eldrae-on-the-street
People Puppets: What a motor shunt implant does, when used non-consensually (and especially when it’s the kind that’s a spike roughly shoved into your brain or spine, a favorite of bodyjackers everywhere). (Consensual uses, which don’t count for the purposes of this trope, include having your muse
Pay Evil Unto Evil: How played straight it is depends upon your taste, really. Imperial justice and generic morality will happily kill Evil (or Orange, if you prefer) of adequate magnitude and walk off feeling good about it, and finds mercy, on the whole and vis-à-vis clemency, to be one
So, seeing as we’ve recently considered human cultural artifacts that might prove popular in the Eldraeverse after a hypothetical first-contact-real-soon-now, here’s one for you. Destiny. Seriously, it fits perfectly, especially thematically. You’ve got the epicity and idealism, the mythopoetry of things (assuming you read the grimoire cards)
Four-Thoughts Free Militia Unnamed Bunker Ruins of Intyev Township Turbis (Cordai Gap) (formerly People’s State of Bantral) The fabber hummed quietly to itself, steam rising from its cooling vents and only a few sparks coming from the lashed-up power lines leading down from the solar foil on the roof.
Patchwork Map: Played straight in some habitats, where the landscape designers wanted to offer the inhabitants multiple biomes. Generally averted elsewhere, as the energy costs of brute-forcing this sort of climatic effect on an actual planet, weather control or no weather control, are ridiculously high… and besides, it’s so
Single-system polity, consisting of the star system of Kameqó (Uulder Shore) with the exception of a small number of independent drifts. Its unusual galactographic sobriquet comes from its extreme governancial instability. Over the last century, Kameqó has enjoyed the following governances: * Kingdom of Kameqó (constitutional monarchy) * Kingdom of Kameqó (absolute