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
Pardon My Klingon: Played straight in a number of cases – zakhrehs, for example, while glossable as, is not entirely cognate to, English barbarian – but played even straighter for words that aren’t expletives, but whose English gloss is too long to use in conversation, like valessëf, or valxíjir. Or it’
In the jolly question box recently, I received this: If tomorrow morning the Eldrae were to make contact with Earth, what cultural item (besides a good Popsicle) would be the most taken with aplomb and glee and why? After due consideration and extensive contemplation, I find I can only answer
Overly-Long Name: Played quite straight among the eldrae, and other people prone to use relevant bits of the same name-format. Fortunately, most of it is optional – of course, that’s optional at the discretion of the name-bearer, so those wishing to use the diplomatic stalling gambit of demanding to be
Spintronic Fictions, ICC primary virtuality node, Jandine (Imperial Core) “Escaped? What do you mean, he escaped?” “His support server was open to the wider ‘weave during patching – standard procedure, we’ve never had any problems with it before. He transferred his code out and left.” “But how did he –” “Blacknet