Mercy Kill: Members of the military/intelligence community, people whose work takes them into galactic bad neighborhoods, and hell, even overly paranoid tourists who’ve been listening too much to the It’s Barbarian Darkness Out There, Folks style of galactic reporting tend to have equipment fitted to let them
Today, we return to this series once again… Making up a further three of every sixteen legions (equal in number to the heavy infantry, and one for every three light infantry legions), and again not counting the specialists built off their platform, are the light infantry legions – swift-moving scouts, raiders,
Mercurial Base: There are actually quite a few of these, as apart from relatively easy mining (assuming you have had to solve the heat problem anyway), those innermost planets are very useful places to put the antimatter generation infrastructure powered by the solar panels even closer to the sun, where
prepare for carrier-guided transit. vector input; gate hot; skew-frame skew-frame axis lock and commit, 55-60 drift and ping. close isolate to tangle relay. all wings report in badger badger badger steam in the box is thick, foglamps out with salamanders wyvern, three groups, three count, two count, five count with
Merchant City: Mer Covales, the capital of Seranth (which is not, however, the throneworld), itself located at the junction of the Lethíäza Trade Spine and the Mercantile Corridor, the two biggest and oldest trade routes in the Associated Worlds. Imagine, if you will, New York City, Hong Kong, and Singapore
Mental World: Not really extant, but virtually simulated, “mental worlds” are sometimes used by noeticists and sophotechnicians as fancy ways to diagram, observe, and interact with the myriad agents that make up a mind of any serious level of complexity. (Something like the Country of the Mind from Greg Bear’
From: Monitor Hakal Peressin, Stratarchy of Indirection and Subtlety To: All Personnel, Vontok II Communications Central Subject: Contingency Ganth Gentlesophs, We’ve got probability ‘casts from Core Command that suggest that we may be withdrawing from this world soon, either as part of a withdrawal to something close to status
A couple of friends’o’mine, smart people and long-term fans of the Star Wars Extended Universe, are doing a blog read-through and commentary on its better parts with the benefit of long perspective, here: Force Visions If that sounds even vaguely interesting to you, go have a read. They
Mental Affair: Fairly common, or at least the “virtual reality” kind is; species generally don’t come equipped with the necessary hardware to do this sort of thing naturally. Popular for a variety of reasons, including obviating distance, permitting all kinds of things from, well, extra stamina to Power Perversion
“By his own admission and as his court-martial will undoubtedly confirm, our Lieutenant Sarathos screwed up by the numbers. We stipulate that. “Many casualties undoubtedly resulted on the Ekritat surface from his misplaced shot, and this in turn will have unknown and significant consequences for the cultural development of the
Men Are The Expendable Gender: Averted in both ways. Firstly, of course, because greater valxíjir and lesser sexual dimorphism with regards to the distribution of various things, etc., produces a very large number of “uppity” women who just plain wouldn’t stand for it. And secondly, because the demographics and
“I want you to understand this, and understand this well. This is not making a deal under duress. This is extortion.” “By which, to make our positions absolutely clear, I mean that some people would use the “you took the agreement to exchange goods for exval, even if there was