Project Phoenix
âPhoenix Zero, you are blue-lighted across the board and launch commit. The clock is running. Good luck.â And then the sky was bright with nuclear fire. â excerpt from a dream I had last night, concerning the Empireâs space program, and more specifically their first orbital shots. And, yes, they
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And now number three is out â some vignettes explaining the Eldraeic not-caste-but-often-misglossed-as-caste-in-translation system, or rather, people from the various darĂ«ssef talking about what it means to be one of them. This is the first four of the eight, with the rest coming later. Original post on this here, if anyone
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So, some thoughts to answer a comment I received a while back on a Trope-a-Day: Hmm, so the Libertarian Spess Elves have a fiat currency. Thatâs interesting to learn and Iâm curious to find out some more about how that came about down the line. Well, first, itâ
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For those of you who remember this post, number two is out â a metafictional document which, in a fictional universe, someone might have just handed âyouâ a copy of when you stepped out of the starship. For those of you who donât remember that post â well, if youâre
eldraeic language
(As promised to the anonymous poster of the earlier ask, hereâs a quick worldbuilding post reprint on the nature of the Eldraeic possessive and memetic imperialism.). The Eldraeic possessive also goes into more detail than the possession functionality of many known languages. Specifically, there are three types of possession
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(Seeing as Iâve been getting a lot of enjoyment out of fyeahconlangs recently, hereâs a little piece I wrote some time ago, back in â09, about how imperatives work in Eldraeic, for the conlangophiles among my readership.) The Eldraeic language possess two forms of the imperative mood, expressing
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For those of you who remember this post, you might like to know that Iâve just sent out the first of those works of fiction to my subscribers: ElmirĂĂ«nâs Truths, a key excerpt from what is probably the most important historical religious document of Eldraeic (or Imperial) history
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The Star Trek Federation is a dissolute slaveholding state, living high on the hog while the conveniently non-human and inorganic AI slaves are cut up for scrap when their ship-bodies are obsolete, killed for amusement in holodecks, and arenât even recognized as sentient. â Peter da Silva (Seriously, as youâ
sophont rights
[Imported from a post I made to my old blog, 10/12/2007.] I tend to think âhuman rightsâ, per se, are a speciesist concept. (As a transhumanist by philosophy, I have to think about the possibility of alien species, human speciation by bioengineering, artificial intelligence, and so forth. A
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Perhaps, if it turns out transhumanism (or, rather, its polyspecific analog, transsophontism) is the development path all species end up taking once they have the ability to do so, the problem is that once theyâve spent much time and effort on engineering themselves into ever-more brilliant and beautiful forms,
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As long-time readers of my assorted blogs will be aware, Iâve been engaged in large-scale worldbuilding and committing occasional acts of fiction for many a year. Thus far, except for that one competition, itâs been just for my own personal benefit, it being a satisfying creative outlet in