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
Order Versus Chaos: Played straight, by both religion (the Church of the Flame’s Big Bad is entropy and chaos) and state (the Imperial motto is “Order, Progress, Liberty”). Subverted in both cases inasmuch as they’re very clear that it’s supposed to be emergent order (which includes several
Vontok System Former Republic Stargate, Maintenance Access Four Ring Dynamics Transition Team “I don’t like it.” “It’s going well so far. The interface layer reconfigured cleanly to accept standard blue-box protocol.” “That’s why I don’t like it.” “Because it reconfigured cleanly?” “Because it reconfigured too easily.
So, there’s some good news and some bad news: The bad news is that posting may be a wee bit irregular for the next few days. The good news is that that’s because we’ll be at ConQuesT! (Well, okay, technically I’m not there wearing my author’
Operator Incompatibility: This does happen a fair bit, given the sheer number of species and clades in the setting, but less than you might think. After all, given the potential markets, there are entire professions which exist purely in order to work out ways to overcome this sort of user
“There is something to be said for lanect governance. Not a lot, but something. “That something is that lanect polities are some of the truest meritocracies in the Worlds. Any lanect, regardless of birth, sex, race, wealth, or popularity who – by some talent of wit, gripe, cunning, or main strength
Only One Me Allowed Right Now: Averted. You can have as many of yourself as your resources can support, so far as practicality and the law are concerned; this is, indeed, the solution, thanks to easy fork/merge technology, to all kinds of problems from the fundamental to the trivial.
“How are we doing? All on schedule?” The largest monitor showed the reddish, ragged rock of a cliff face, roughly torn, a notch in its top revealing the ribbed end of a silvered balloon wedged into it, held down by a curved framework of steel plates. Above, a zeppelin hung