Unobtainium: Of many kinds. Sophisticated materials science is one of the major areas of advancement in this particular universe. Of particular note: deuterium slush, metastable metallic hydrogen, helium-3 and antimatter (more specifically, antideuterium slush) for power, room-temperature superconductors, sapphiroids (the trade name for the high-grade kind is Adamant™ – not adamantium,
Mirror Chemistry: Played straight but in a much more complicated fashion. After all, on Earth, life – for the most part – uses levoproteins and dextrosugars. So there’s (trivially) four possible combinations right there, leaving aside more complex or dual arrangements, and that’s not even taking into account biochemistries that
For your envisioning pleasure – and also because I secretly hope someone will send me fan art along the lines of a classic Old West painting set on said Mars-type world (beautiful for spacious pink skies and vermilion mountains’ majesty above its fruited plain of mottled green and blue grass, although
It was understood relatively early in Project Redblossom that Talentar would become a major food-exporting planet as the ecopoesis continued. As the major geophysical stages were completed, the planet warmed, water was introduced, and the microbiome became established, it became time to introduce macroscopic flora, among the earliest of which
Mini Mecha: Arguably, mostly larger sizes of combat exoskeleton and civilian exosuit (used mainly for heavy construction, and such) fall under this trope, despite mostly not being humanoid, since none of them rise to the size usually described as “mecha”.
(This is the corrected version, with fixed astronomy…) The Eye of Night (Last Darkness) System has the distinction of being the only black hole accessible to the Associated Worlds, and indeed, the primary reason for the existence of the Last Darkness constellation. The black hole itself, Eye of Night, is
It’s new Patreon milestone goal time here at the Eldraeverse, and those of y’all who would like to see some visuals from time to time might be particularly interested in this one… https://www.patreon.com/eldraeverse
Mindlink Mates: Played straight as an available option for couples, using much the same cybernetic techlepathy that everyone else uses. Such links also generally are filtered – no-one really wants to be fed the entirety of someone else’s sense/physical-status data and narrative thread of consciousness, however close they are.
So, bit of a wee problem back in Epistolary Experiment (24/30). It appears that I do not know what I thought I knew about black hole accretion disks. Or rather, I did know it, with the minor issue that what I knew turned out to be, well, bollocks. The
From: Adm. [blank], Imperial Naval Intelligence To: Imogen Andracanth, VP Research, Ring Dynamics Cc: CINCCORE; Grand Admiral Inesmir Muetry-ith-Muetry Subject: Unknown object Security: EYES ONLY UNSEEN KEY/FERVENT SPAN The enclosed is an excerpt from sensor logs of the Battle of Viridit. Our analysts are having difficulty identifying the large
Mind Over Matter: The eldrae, and various other transsophonts, play this absolutely straight, with the usual laundry list of clever applications for psychokinesis. Of course, being a “firm SF” universe, it’s not any kind of Psychic Power – it’s implanted nanosome vector-control effectors. On the one hand, this does
“A consortium of trailing star nations, most significantly including the United Viridian States, the Wylene Republics, and the World Assembly of Sarine, today issued a condemnation of several of the free educational mnemonetic downloads and simulation spaces produced by the Agalmic Education Foundation for the pre-adult market. Those modules condemned