Cultural Crossovers
In which there is an apocalypse. * Man, that’s a lot of chains. * Well, you’re an unlikely flaming chap. But I guess if there are ice giants, there should be fire giants. * Thor, you’ve been hanging out with Tony Snark too much. * Oh, you shouldn’t have said
Imperial Navy
“Finally, let us turn to the biggest megaships of them all, the fleet carriers. Including them in this work is a choice which I expect to be somewhat controversial – many would argue that a fleet carrier is a formation, not a vessel – but with respect to those readers who may
A Star Traveler's Dictionary
cognitive osmosis: The process, according to rumor, by which farspeech or other telepathic or techlepathic contact, especially the forms based in the exchange of neural gestalts, with the stupid causes one, oneself, to become less intelligent. (Curiously, none of these stories ever suggests that this process makes the stupid themselves
eldraeic language
This wasn’t what I intended to post next, but I’m still working on the “fleet carriers” post. In the meantime, have some more words. So, among the basic words in a language, certainly for chemists, are those for various substances, and this is as true in Eldraeic as
eldraeic language
lechné: sweat, perspiration; technically, lechné refers to any fluid intentionally used to carry heat away by evaporation, and so cooling water for planetary power reactors, liquid hydrogen coolant used for evaporative hull cooling, and so forth, can all be described as lechné, as well as the original referent, biological secretions
Project Phoenix
From: Qory Estenv, Flight Overadministrator To: All Astronauts In response to your request for clarification about the Initiative’s “souvenir policy”, we don’t particularly care if you want to shove a box of postcards, or vanity coins, or model kits of the Phoenix, or whatever else you like in
starship
Many of you, gentle readers, are also devotees of the Atomic Rockets web site. (As well you should be, if you are interested in matters rockety.) And, of course, you may have noted the Atomic Rockets Seal of Approval off in the right-hand column. But today I’m going to
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