worldbuilding
It has been asked in various places what scares Imperial sophonts the most. Herewith is the answer: As a side-note, you will observed that the answers here are mostly existential, not physical. Physical fear never had much hold on the eldraeic psyche in the first place (none at all, for
Caliéne Sargas
Overheard at the Classified Item Destruction Facility, Palaxias (Imperial Core): “I’m telling you, they’re just not taking our job seriously. Look at this thing – it’s a Sera Esklav, for the love of — It makes hot drinks! How is that ‘containing information prejudicial to Imperial security, access codes
Office of Studied Archaism and Talent Preservation
The Office of Studied Archaism and Talent Preservation is a curious little department of the Ministry of Ancestral Heritage (itself part of the Ministry of Progress and Prosperity). Like their cousins at the Office of the Libraries, their job is to prevent antiprogress in the form of lost knowledge, but
Cultural Crossovers
Does whatever a spider can… * Guess we’re going to have to assume some sort of introductory foo, here. Otherwise no-one’ll know who Spider-Man is, in medias res and all. Apart from what we saw in Civil War. * Well, lady, you just lost all our sympathy. You don’t
uplift
In this course, we cover one of the most interesting branches of exosophontology, the exosophontology of uplifted species. While we will touch upon the minority uplift cultural movements (the integrationists, who attempt to become indistinguishable from their creators; the separatists, who would divorce themselves from civilization to find their own
Starflight Shipyards
BEING A SUMMARY OF PRODUCTION AT STARFLIGHT SHIPYARDS, SELÉNE, CAGEWORKS TWO FOR FIRST QUARTER, 7399 IS Lunar Loom Custom design (orbital elevator constructor). Worlds’ Rim Development, ICC; paid in full. IS Alkahest of Conflict Harbinger-class diplomatic cruiser Galactic Arbitrations, ICC; paid in full. IS The Sun’s Brilliance Scatters All
wrenchhammer
wrenchhammer: the largest size of wrench, suitable for leaning on, requiring a backsling to carry, and used for such tasks as unbolting the lids of reactor cores, dogging down the doors of pressure chambers, or tightening the bolts securing the drive chain of an elevator that runs all the way
Gardens of Rechesh
Atrocity (Falish Traverse): A former garden world orbiting a yellow-orange sun, Atrocity – or as it was formerly known, Telchese (Falish Traverse) was a colony world of the link!n-Rechesh. It had the unfortunate distinction of being located along the primary route into the Gardens of Rechesh volume when the Theomachy
economics
Credit ratings are best thought of as a measure of risk: if I lend money to, or invest money in, this person, or this corporation, or this security, how likely am I to get my money back? This is essentially the same as the trivial assessments we make every day:
meta
Well, our server just died today. This is a mite awkward for us here, gentle readers, since if it doesn’t work, our network doesn’t work, and if our network doesn’t work, neither of us – writing, software developing, any kind of freelancing – can do any of our work
heavy cavalry
“Drive me closer! I want to hit them with my sword!” no-one with a tank, ever This is a recreation/reformulation/retcon of the original description of the Empire’s heavy cavalry legions, in light of both criticism received – and assistance to resolve it – and rethinking of my own. It
starship
Ascíël coupler: the standard design, in modular habitat and starship architecture, for the coupler that binds adjacent modules into a single unit. For such semi-permanent connections on a large scale, simple docking adapters are obviously unsuitable; tidal forces and other stresses common in large structures may cause a simple docking