…just tried to hijack a starship that he has no idea how to pilot by pointing a gun at the head of the immortal guy who doesn’t need a body. This is only a very tiny step on the smart side of, say, hyperlocal nuclear brinksmanship with the antideuterium
culture
… referring to any of the Empire’s citizen-shareholders, is valmirĂän in the original Eldraeic; curiously, it is not cognate at all to that nation’s formal name. From its roots, it could have the meaning either of “ordered self” or of “self that sets in order”. When asked if one
eldraeic language
sarvanattar: I was in the middle of a Stargate SG-1 marathon when I decided I needed a particle for SĂntári that makes an imperative more urgent. It would work in the same way that English, Latin, and Greek all use go!, ite!, or ἴθι! plus another command. The particle is
eldraeic language
fyeahconlangs: Wahawafe is the name of my multilingual translation project. It was begun on 18 June 2011. The website was launched on 9 July 2011. “Wahawafe” is an acronym of “We are humans and we are from Earth.”. The aim of this project is to collect translations of this sentence
meta
Frustration is coming up with a starship crew for a piece of writing only to realize you’ve recreated half the cast of Firefly. Redo from start.
gaming
You can’t play MMOs on a lighthugger in flight even with access to copious amounts of tangle (or, for that matter, any other theoretical kind of ansible), because relativistic time dilation causes terrible, terrible lag.
meta
Sitting here at 2:30 am trying to figure out if it would even be possible to survive firing the theoretically-possible-to-make-from-off-the-shelf-parts thousands-of-rounds-per-minute multibarrel antimatter-grenade-launcher full auto. (I mean, no-one in their right mind would assemble the thing, much less fire it, even if they could afford the ammunition – but still,
mélith
Not an actual trope-a-day, but something I thought I’d write down after the latest xkcd reminded me of the existence of the book, The Giving Tree. Just in case I forgot it by the time I’m actually tackling Values Dissonance, belike. Which in our culture may well be
picture dictionary
These letters taunt me.
picture dictionary
…some part of me wants the picture for this entry to be a very bright star in the sky, as an antimatter torch deceleration burn would appear from planetary ground, with three shepherds and a camel looking up at it. And that’s why I’m going to hell this
picture dictionary
Woke up this morning with an uncontrollable urge to write an in-universe children’s picture dictionary book. So that’s what I’m doing. Damn unruly muses.
nuclear-pulse drive
wolfkazumaru replied to your quote: “Phoenix Zero, you are blue-lighted across the” Using nuclear drives in atmo? Tsk, tsk, that’s dangerous. Ah, you humans and your silly fragile immune systems… Well, considering at the time they were already using nuclear power plants, nuclear furnaces, nuclear-powered vehicles, and nuclear devices