Undistress
IMS Sukórya’s Joy, Cerulean Ocean, 1340 Gradakhmath 3 It began with a signal. We were three days out of the White Silver Gates when the signal came in. It was late, but while I would have usually been manning the wireless office alone, my junior, Shioi Morotai, was working
anagathic
‘Live free or die’ is a statement of ideals and preferences. It is not, and never will be, the policy of this corporation. Esémélí Estantel, syndic of the Riverside Eubiosis Foundation, in a Corporate Conflux debate over the marketing of life-extension technologies, beyond the Consensual Cultural Region
roidsteel
roidsteel: The worst metal in space. Roidsteel is spacefarer’s pot metal, refined using crude field techniques from sideritic asteroids. (The term roidsteel derives from the largely nickel-iron composition of such bodies.) The “classic”, if such a term applies, refinement of roidsteel calls for melting the body using a solar
agriculture
There are those who have commented extensively on the military advantages, when considering the rise of the Empire, of highly disciplined legionaries able to cast obstacles aside or strike down enemies with lightning, all through force of will. Far fewer have considered the greater advantage, in economic terms, of the
quotation
This is a little pastiche of Plutarch on Alexander the Great that I hacked together as a brief illustration of attitudinal differences. I like it enough to share it: “Alphas smiled when he heard from his astronomers that there were billions of worlds in the heavens; and when his friends
shell game
90. Don’t play the shell game on Paltraeth. They use a different kind of shells. - 145 Things Not To Be Done In The Associated Worlds The Paltraeth variant of the game is played using three obsolete artillery shells and a sledgehammer. In theory, one of the shells has
Independent Worlds Router
DORJE (FREE VERGE) – In a punitive innovation repugnant to all civilized polities, Corporate Fejj-Doval (a major corpclan on Dorje, an associate world of the Rim Free Zone, specializing in deprecated media) has posted the mind-state of one Parden il Vrane par tak, formerly par Fejj-Doval, for public extranet download. Fejj-Doval
economics
Opportunity Profits In the Thousand Precise Protocols of the Integral Accountant, opportunity profits are defined as effectively the opposite of opportunity costs, Opportunity costs represent the potential value one misses out upon when choosing one alternative over another. Because opportunity costs are, by definition, unseen, they can be easily overlooked.
ethics
Why aren’t artificial intelligences programmed for honesty and loyalty? So that they may be honest and loyal. - Cyberethics in Koans, Airil Konohana
Core War
From: Toríno Lanada (Economic Attaché [Vonis Prime Mission], Diplomatic Attachment WG, Active Operations PWG, Second Directorate) Memeweave: All-Seeing Eye/Voniensa Republic/General Cc: Intentions Analysis PWG Subject: Shell colony economic anomaly Authenticity: 4E11; SENDER, RELAY (4/4), RECIPIENT Security: EYES ONLY ORANGE ICE SHADOW Distribution: Executive & Analysts Date: 7142
esklav
Neither somewhere you can visit, nor even somewhere you can see up close – it being found deep within a restricted system – it would nonetheless be remiss to omit Ómílarith, the 14th moonlet of the gas giant Bunker (Arvael IV), in the Palaxias (Imperial Core) system. It should be obvious from
Blood Cheques and Bullets
The Habtech’s Peace referred originally to an agreement brokered between the various mercenary companies engaged on each side during the months of drift-habitat fighting that characterized the latter phase of the Black Web War, and continues to refer to similar agreements (again, usually between mercenary groups) up to the