Pose of Supplication: Wince. No, don’t. Really. Never kowtow, kneel, genuflect, otherwise grovel, or even bow deeper than, oh, 45 degrees unless you’re about to apologize in the full formal old Japanese sense of the phrase. Keep your head up and look people in the eye, even for
Opening today at the Anchalate is the final exhibition in the Empire-wide shiftsculpture competition sponsored by the Delphys Academy of the Shaping Arts and the Company of Assemblers and Free-Roaming Nanoengineers. General admissions will begin at Waterclock-18, after the special exhibition for the Imperial Couple and the attendance of the
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Cool Airship: Yes, of course. All the best universes have airships. For cargo transport that’s cheaper albeit slower than vector-control vehicles, and – for early colonies – not nearly so infrastructure-dependent, but more importantly, for passenger transport that while it may not be as fast as a sub-ballistic dart or a
Converging Stream Weapon: No cinematically literal examples, but any number of firing programs for just about any kind of weapon where the convergence point also happens to be the target. Also, phased-array lasers, and other phased arrays.
G is for Galaxy a whirlpool of stars. A trillion new worlds to shape and make ours. H is for Habitats our islands in space. Skyfarms and cities each orbits in place. I is for Immortagens life without end; captured in a bottle to give to our friends.
Conveniently Coherent Thoughts: Subverted; the reason you can get some coherent thoughts and images through the techlepathy part of the Psychic Powers is because they require you to produce specifically focused thoughts and images in order to engage the transmitter, in a similar way to a voice-activated microphone. If they
As usual, we regret our inability to provide an adequate economic profile of the Empire of the Star, due to the Exchequer’s ongoing decision to not publish detailed economic statistics suitable for external use, continuing to cite former Chancellor Valéran Quendocius-ith-Lirendocius’s comment that “Publishing such things only encourages
(See part 1 here; part 2 here.) The third triad is that which adheres; Circle, branch, and name reflect. The circle stands strong, each multiplying each. How diminished is the one which lacks Those for whom it will kill and die. The branch walks together, hands bound to telos. By
Conveniently Close Planet: Averted. This is also why Escape Pods are useless anywhere except planetary orbit and libration point habitat-clusters; even if you can leave your ship, there’s nowhere to go without another ship with about as much delta-v as your first ship. And you can’t fit that
Contagious AI: In its lesser form, this is weavelife, the mutated descendants of a million viruses and buggy software agents, that infests the less aggressively controlled parts of the dataweave (and, of course, pretty much every border zone of the extranet; lack of jurisdiction tends also to be lack of
You are immortal. Even if your flesh fails, your mind and its children can survive to see the stars burn out and the long, cold era of the universe come upon us. That mind, in turn, engineered for genius and creative brilliance. All the knowledge of the ages is available