Ass In Ambassador: Sometimes – rarely – but usually intentionally. Which is to say, usually when dealing with those states who keep insisting that the Empire should, y’know, punish people for exercising their freedom of speech, or extradite people for committing something that no-one there would recognize as a crime, or
Ascetic Aesthetic: Used in a few types of places: Unprogrammed virtual reality, as a baseline to build on. Areas principally given over to industry or other automation, where simple, polished geometric shapes, curves, and suchlike (see: Alien Geometries) work well for the local AI; they don’t care about the
Public Exclusions Citizen Oversight Group to Melqar Riffym, greetings. Citizen-Shareholder Riffym, We at the Public Exclusions COG have been monitoring your reputation and meta-reputation scores (underlying data provided by the Exuberance Monitor COG [link]) for some time now. Are you aware, citizen-shareholder, that your amalgamated meta-reputation score is one of
A is for Antimatter, the Sun in a Jar. It powers the ships that carry us far. B is for Bactry where little makers live. All the world’s built on the feedstock they give. C is for Cornucopia the Creation Machine. Assembling atoms to plan making real every dream…
Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Not generally considered to be a result of uploading, even though by many standards becoming an infomorph might qualify. On the other hand, it arguably is what happens slowly over many people’s lifespans as they adopt more and more cognitive enhancements, take
SO-0004: Imperial Admission Procedures SO-0004 Rev. 4611.2.5 — UNCLASSIFIED [ This is an official document produced by the Logarchy of Engraving, Printing and Stationery on behalf of the Office of Foreign Wanderers and the Ministry of State and Outlands. It is considered public information under the Transparency Act (Revised) (4106)
Artificial Intelligence: Well, while the term in-universe is rather more all-encompassing, the fictional trope is defined as meaning those systems which are sentient (gah, damn you badly written science fiction!), self-aware, and capable of independent thought and reason. Those ones, they call digisapiences. And there are a heck of a
Artificial Human: Lots of them (well, not humans), historically – for a while in the historical period in which biotech was moving faster than digital sophotech, there was quite the fad for constructing “bioroids” – vat-grown (not generally being equipped to be self-replicating) “meat robots”, without volition/threshold autosentience and therefore without
Nobody overslept this morning. That’s because my bed didn’t wake me up. Of course, then the lights were painfully bright when I did wake up, my kitchen served my morning esklav weak as dishwater, and the morning newspaper, when I picked it up, was showing nothing but a
Only Three Months Away! THE ALL GOOD THINGS, ICC SKYMALL IS Exponential Profit Is Coming to the Starfoam Threshold With over 3,000 on-board stores, fourteen hotels, eight exotic-climate resorts and parkland, museums, restaurants, theaters, and other entertainment venues, this is your opportunity to sample all the wonders of the
Artificial Gravity: The piece of Applied Phlebotinium they call vector control does provide something which is functionally equivalent to artificial gravity, yes. On the other hand, (a) a good plurality of cylinder habitats still prefer to use spin gravity, because it’s much easier on the energy budget; and (b)
“Honor to Véválíäh, Hearthtender, Provider, Lady of Earthly Blessings…” A little water for cleansing the hands, emptied into the gutter. “…who keeps us, warms us, and blesses us with this miracle.” Uncovering the bowl, inhaling the clean-sour-beer scent of the élirvével. “Honor to you, child of Véválíäh…” Passing the water