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
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