Matter Replicator: The cornucopia machine or autofac, which can build matter into pretty much any object that you want and have – or can write – a recipe for. Sadly, they are required to obey the laws of thermodynamics and conservation of mass-energy. They also tend to incorporate – especially in larger models
So, uh, despite what I said the other day, I went ahead and set a TV Tropes page up for the Eldraeverse. Y’see, what I figure is that the hardest part in creating such a thing is actually creating the page. That’s a fair bit of work, so
Matriarchy: There are several of these in the Associated Worlds in general (although, note, that polities ruled by the female sex in general don’t necessarily carry the implications that they do for Terrans. Some species, for example, have only one sex being sophont, rendering them all patriarchies or matriarchies
FROM: TASK FORCE C-117 (CS THANEBLADE) TO: CINCCORE; FIELD FLEET COREWARD COMMAND (CS UNCONQUERABLE SELF) *** ROUTINE *** EYES ONLY FERVENT SPAN *** SITREP INFORMATIONAL: 1. ESTABLISHED FAR PICKET AS PER ORDERS IN SPINDLE SYSTEM. 2. SITUATION NOMINAL. NO HOSTILE CONTACTS. 3. AUTHENTICATION WILDCAT PAWN INCARNADINE ASH MAGMA SLIVER / 0x11EA49BD629A1132 VADM. EXPRY VALIN-ITH-VALADINE
A commenter over on Google+ suggests that the issues mentioned in my last post could also be satisfied by an Eldraeverse TV Tropes page. And, well, I certainly can’t argue against that. But while technically creators are allowed to trope their own works, I’m not terribly comfortable with
I recently received an e-mail from a reader making the very good point that this ‘verse is getting somewhat impenetrable for the newcomer – at least, without going on an absolutely huge archive binge. (And, let’s face it, so long as I’m primarily sticking here to the nanofic format,
Master Race: While the Imperial polyspecificity (which is to say, by no means just the eldrae, so not exactly a Master Race) is by and large comfortable in its non-innate-we-worked-hard-for-this-thank-you-so-very-much superiority to damn near everyone, as per Superior Species and Can’t Argue With Elves, they really have no time
Superior Species: We pretty much covered this territory under Can’t Argue With Elves too, didn’t we? Well, to expand in general, rather than pick a specific example, especially since they started building their own future generations with transsophont technology, there are very few successful species that don’t
The sculpted hull of the starship rose impossibly skyward, looming over the queuing passengers as if it might fall upon them any minute. Gleaming chrome and gold, it shone in the sunlight against the black-painted metal of the stardock. The subdued roar of its warming engines, readying themselves to propel
Mary Sue Topia: Well, of course. If you don’t want one of these (especially with regard to, say, No Poverty), what’s wrong with you? (And, for that matter and rather more smugly to say, if you don’t have one of these, you aren’t trying hard enough.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Partial Service Restoration, Spinward Constellations; Possible Coreward Outages Expected Outer Ring Netweavers, ICC, is pleased to announce that full extranet service, including open-service relays, has been restored to the Galith Waste, Frentish Nebula, and Cordai Gap constellations. Service has also been fully restored to regions of the
No Poverty: Played straight in the Empire – and indeed the entire Core Economic Zone. Well, at least as far as absolute poverty goes. Let us consider, for example, the hypothetical lowest-income citizen-shareholder in the Empire, someone who certainly doesn’t exist, having never had a single original, marketable thought in