Mind Over Manners: This is not usually much of an issue with standard-issue Psychic Powers, which in the Eldraeverse are essentially organic neural WiFi, designed for communication and not permitting arbitrary mindreading (you need a SQUID and some rather complex software for that), but the Common Social Protocol does include
Mind Manipulation: The entire science of sophotechnology, which is to say, the science of mind, both natural and artificial – and the laundry list of technologies derived therefrom: artificial intelligence, Brain Uploading, memetics, psychedesign, noetic backup and analysis…
“Captain har-Rant Sathan.” “Before you begin what I am told is an entire litany of complaints, let me make the current state of affairs clear to you. We have recovered Hand of Ilth‘s flag bridge log. We know, therefore, that not only was your fleet armed with abomination weapons,
Mind Hive: Several – arguably, most people qualify as at least a mild form of this, since the habit of running a muse, a personal assistant AI, on your implanted headware is close to ubiquitous. Of course, actions aren’t by consensus in that case, but the habit of turning your
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 designated as the system primary. It boasts a
To whet appetites while I feverishly write this day, here’s a comment I left elsewhere a while ago on the general topics of planetary invasions, and the ongoing argument of the “just slag the planet, no need for troops” vs. “massive world-spanning groundpounder warfare” schools of thought. My conclusion,
Military Mashup Machine: Oh, several. Examining them by the categories of the original trope, we have: Land Battleship: This one, actually, they don’t have. Essentially, by the time it was practical to build this sort of thing, firstly, people who needed a heavy weight of fire on the ground
The Milky Way Is The Only Way: Played straight, given the general uselessness of other experimental fittlers, and since the only reliable form of FTL the universe evidently permits is stargate pairs, the far end of which has to be dragged out to its destination at subluminal speed. Thus, only
“I could almost kiss Kadrish har-Lan Sarkdor this morning.” “You want to get smoochy with the Iltine Minister of Pacification? The Worlds’ leader in using children as missile components?” “Well, I’d kill him afterwards.” “Athenril, you’re perverted. Be sure and record that.” “But seriously. Between him pushing the
Mile-Long Starship: Some bigger classes easily fall into this category or above: dreadnoughts and superdreadnoughts, grapeship megafreighters, the top end of highliners, colony seedships, mobile factories, that sort of thing, and – of course – city-ships. Special note here to most lighthuggers, which have to accommodate vast quantities of deuterium and antideuterium
Got some more questions! Jamie asks: It strikes me as odd that at the technological level the Eldrae work at that they appear to be working under an ideal capitalist system in an era of post scarcity technology. How is wealth determined? What is the currency based on? What kinda
Microts: Ah, the wonders of time measurement. The Eldrae have a number of time measurement systems (well, when you’re an interstellar polity, you more or less have to, since local days and years vary all over the place and it’s handy if your time units bear some resemblance