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ALL SECURITY SITES // ORANGE SENSITIVE NOCONTRACT // NOFORN ROUTINE RED LIST // SPECIAL // UPDATE 7129/06/01 WANTED: Istar Oricalcios Veneri a.k.a. “the Mechanic” REQED BY THIRD DIRECTORATE (INTELLIGENCE SECURITY) FOR: activities in support of asymmetrism, details redacted; activities in support of insurrection, details redacted; activities in support of assassination,
Places Not To Go
Hotephny (Flaming Skies Complex): The throneworld and crown jewel of the Simple-Safe Regression, Hotephny is a world which no other polity would ever want, nor indeed be able to take, for Hotephny is a world uniquely hostile to any advanced technology – or, indeed, any post-lithic technology. How is it hostile?
meta
So, there was some conversation on the Discord which led to this shameless riff/parody/etc. of the Warhammer 40K intro quote to produce one for this setting: It is the dawn of the Ninth Millennium. For nearly a hundred centuries the unbroken line of the Imperial Couple have sat
culture
“Every year, since I was old enough to read them, more books have been published than I can read in a year. My reading speed has increased many orders of magnitude in the millennia since then – I have a submind which does nothing but read, continuously – and yet the authors
demographics
So, I hear you like demographics. Or, at least, the comments on the last post tell me you like demographics. Describing the constituent species of the Empire can be a mite tricky, depending on exactly how you define things – leaving aside any nasty outworlder prejudices about the status of neogens
Cultural Crossovers
Okay. A quick preamble. This is going to be a really hard one for the Imperial audience to understand. Not because it’s not an awesome movie, or anything, but simply because they have absolutely no cultural context for the background – and there’s only so much gnostic overlays can
military
Anywhere Killer (n.): hypothetical weapons system using an arbitrarily-targetable wormhole generator to deliver ordnance – or convenient non-ordnance, such as stellar cores – to any target location in the galaxy whose coordinates are known or can be inferred, bypassing all defense systems in the intervening space-time. Naturally, as a strategic first-strike weapon
drug
“Unlike chemodrugs, the problem with cutting nanodrugs is that everyone knows what a nanite suspension is supposed to look like. It’s quite distinctive. So unless you’re willing to go the costly route of cutting your nanodrugs with other, slightly less expensive nanodrugs carefully tested for interactions, people cutting
diplomacy
(Yes, this is so very real-life-writes-the-plot, but as with that age-old piece about transportation security, what can you do…) From: Ektalis Munisinios (Second Undersecretary, Ministry of State and Outlands) To: Cerea Oliviscios (Their Divine Majesties’ Ambassador to the Viridian States) Security: DIPLOMATIC BLUE Subject: Formal reprimand We have this day
artificial intelligence
CAPITOL, YANOK ARCHIPELAGO, TORKATAN CONGERIES – Protests were reported today outside the Imperial embassy here in Capitol Drift over the recent death of a citizen of the Congeries during a tour of the Core worlds. Ra Adom Underhull was struck and killed by an groundcraft on Ellisar (Imperial Core) late last
eldraeic language
ka idaseir qané trasunael xasessqár!: “bugger1 the seers!”; common expletive phrase, originating in Jussovy, used to respond to statements of poor odds, predictions of failure or certain death, claims that something is a doomed venture, a suicide mission, impossible, etc., indicating the speaker’s determination to go through with it
military
“If we live not another day Say this over our pyre That we died like Legion hainadar With our faces to the fire. “But once we live tomorrow In a body free of pain Then bring us ale and whiskey Until we die again!” – regimental song of the 22nd “Alatian