The Office of the President of the Senate of the Empire of the Star, great and glorious beyond all greatness and glory, to Citizen-Shareholder Horulgavis Lariantinos-ith-Larios, greetings. In the names of the Imperial Couple, the Senate, the Curia, and the Citizen-Shareholders of this Empire, in accordance with the duly executed
Color-Coded For Your Convenience: Played straight in all the usual locations: indicator lights, transit routes, components and tool-heads, plugs and sockets, signs, departments on uniforms, logos, etc., etc. Made more complicated, though, by the local spectrum including two ultraviolets (no, that plain white cloak is not plain white) and an
Colony Drop: One of the standard military tactics for softening up a planet, but also one that is horribly, horribly illegal (in the Ley Accords/Laws and Customs of War sense of Do This And We Kill You) if done with large rocks, or lots of rocks, on any world
D is for Digisapience a thinking machine. A mind forged from metal with light-woven dreams. E is for Exoself your thoughts in the air. Working your will even while you’re not there. F is for Forking making many from one. On days when we’re busy it helps get
AMERI/EÄVALLE – The sextennial auction to determine the new Aurarch of Eävalle concluded today, with the obligators of the Ministry of the Nations formally accepting the 1.33 trillion Eävalle méril (17.3 trillion esteyn) bid of Larquen Archés-ith-Aic for the position. A plutarch, former CFO of Eävalle Estate Development,
The Laws and Customs of War: There are several sets of these, locally; the Empire has its Imperial Rules of War, and so forth, but the ones people mean in the general case are those contained in the Ley Accords, which might be considered the Associated Worlds’ closest approach to
Combat Medic: Played straight. While in theory, under the Ley Accords and the Imperial Rules of War, medical personnel are hands-off noncombatants, in practice, the majority of warfare is against non-signatories to the Accords, or irregular forces (including pirates, terrorists, and other scum) who just don’t care about them.
“Here’s what I need redacted: I made arrangements, yesterday, to have a copy of my mind-state archived at Site Hácek. I need to not remember doing that, and I need to not remember needing to not remember doing that. My husband and I staged an argument last night; use
Final Death/Deader than Dead: Very much to be avoided. Fortunately, rather hard to inflict. Sure, you can kill the body (corpicide) readily enough, with enough bullets or other regular weapons – get both hearts, or shred the brain, or pulverize the whole thing. But then the fun begins. First you
BE IT KNOWN THAT ONE Iníön Adae-ith-Alleia, of Gles Iselyain PROPRIETOR OF The Five Fires Bakery, of Gles Iselyain HAS BEEN ADJUDGED IN VIOLATION OF THE EDICTS AND CHARTER OF the Edifacient Sodality of Bakers and Pastrywrights WHILE OPERATING UNDER ITS SEAL AND BY ITS NAME PLEDGED TO EXCELLENCE THE
Collapsible Helmet: It may – indeed, it does – qualify as Awesome But Impractical, but in situations in which you are, say, being shot at and as such may lose vehicular atmosphere Real Soon Now, it can also save your life. You do have to mind your hair, though. Or instruct your
Cold Sleep Cold Future: Averted. The thing about widespread immortality is that even the first-generation cryonauts, the people frozen en masse after fatal accidents from about, oh, a week or two after someone figured out this whole thing might be possible, walked out of the revival vat and into the