Our Founder: Lots of them in various places, of course, but the several-hundred-foot high statues of Alphas I Amanyr and Seledië III Selequelios that flank the main building of the Imperial Palace are the ur-example of this trope. (The mountain range to the east of the capital that is slowly
So, a little while back I was having this discussion (scroll down) regarding starships, and where exactly the seat of their identity might be said to lie, with particular reference to the Ship of Theseus problem. And, as it happens, Imperial technology already has a thing or two to say
Our Dwarves Are All The Same: Mostly averted, by not actually being dwarves, of course – the azikeldrae are the same tall, beautiful, immortal, mad geniuses as the rest of their species, with the possible exception of the silvertouched, who have acquired a symbiotic contamination of Eliéran silverlife (i.e., feral
The Janiastre device is the simplest in a class of devices used to establish, in simplistic terms, whether or not “reality is real”; that is to say, whether or not one is currently located within a virtuality or other simulation space. To do this, it makes use of the implementation
Our Dragons Are Different: Inasmuch as the eldraeic mythological aman (“dragon”) was – if you believe “certain not-entirely-accepted parahistorical theories” – imagined in the image of the local Precursors, as were a number of other similar-looking mythologae of the known galaxy. What’s known about them is that they were about the
Our Doors Are Different: Well, sometimes. Automatic, yes, just about all of them as at the Imperial level of technology (or, indeed, the modal level for the Associated Worlds) throwing an actuator on there is cheap, and people are carrying things in all hands often enough that it’s handy
Our Angels Are Different: Well, ours are sub-archai emergent executive subroutines of the Transcendent collective consciousness that, on the rare occasions they need to manifest in physical form, tend to do so as brain-rippingly complex fractal nanoconstructs. Different enough for you? (They do glow with celestial light, though.)
RESPLENDENT EXPONENTIAL VECTOR PROJECT EXECUTION COMMITTEE PROJECT PROPOSAL 6200/X/113 – “PROBABILITY KILN” SUMMARY: A proposal to make use of moiric-temporal mechanics for engineering functions. It is known (p>6σ) that, per the Chronological Consistency Protection Theorem, the probability of any event-chain violating known causality will be forced to
Orion Drive: As we mentioned way back in Nuclear Weapons Taboo, Eliera was always enriched in heavy metals, including the uranium family, and low on fossil fuels; and since the first set of uses of nuclear technology were all harmless civilian applications before anyone ever thought of weaponizing it… Well,
“While throwing revenue agents out of the airlock naked is a long and honorable tradition, it wastes valuable organics and may create a hazard to navigation. “Avoid these problems easily by wrapping the revenuer in a cargo net and tethering it to a safety-line clamp before blowing the lock!” – Ballistic
Organ Theft: In almost all times and places, organlegging isn’t a reasonable proposition – usually, the window between inventing organ transplantation and organ cloning isn’t all that long, and most of the time, it takes place in the kind of scarcity economy that makes it perfectly possible to buy