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Trope-a-Day: Do-Anything Robot
Do-Anything Robot: High-end utility spiders are like this – albeit not all the way there – thanks to effectors, self-reshaping “smart tool” nanotechnology, and modular parts.
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Torren Moon Incident
A Conversation, Recorded Eight Minutes Before The Torren Moon Bloom
“Yes,” said the forensic eschatologist. “Your crippling techniques all appear fully operational. Your screening talkers have detected no basilisks or dangerous memetic payloads, and neither have the people screening them. Your emergency-wipe protocols show no sign of tampering, your network links show no anomalous traffic, and there is no present
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Trope-a-Day: Distress Call
Distress Call: <breedlewheep>. Vessel in distress, vessel in distress. Cycle 214. Free trader More Money, More Propellant under attack by forces unknown. Reaction drive disabled. Point-defense laser not responding. Atmosphere venting from multiple compartments. Message repeats. <breedlewheep>. Vessel in distress, vessel in distress. Cycle 215. Free
CASE DYSPEPTIC FLARE
Ultima Ratio Imperii Stellae
(Because a comment thread back a ways suggested a mention of the big dakka that hopefully no-one will ever have to use might be in order…) CASE DYSPEPTIC FLARE MOST SECRET (ULTRAVIOLET) / EYES ONLY DYSPEPTIC FLARE NEED-TO-KNOW ABSOLUTE HARD COPY ONLY/NO TRANSMISSION ORIGINATOR-CONTROLLED DISSEMINATION TRACKED-COPY DOCUMENT NOCONTRACT NOFORN SPECIAL
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Trope-a-Day: Digitized Hacker
Digitized Hacker: Most of ’em. When it comes to wrestling for control of systems in cycle-time – especially where security AI are concerned – speed is a definite advantage. As such, digital crackers and their counterparts, digital sysadmins, are both very common; even if they habitually inhabit bioshells and just run a
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Trope-a-Day: Detachment Combat
Detachment Combat: A staple of modular technology – certainly any morphmech or modubot that is equipped for combat may well be equipped for this technique, as are legionaries with their carried drones and swarms. In starships, some models of AKV and other small starships (multivector attacks being handy in the furball)
Places Not To Go
Things to See, Places (Not) to Go (8)
Spandore (Diaspora Margin): The formerly inhabitable planet of its system, Spandore was once home to a worldbound species that achieved a high-technology civilization with particular advancement in the fields of biochemistry and genetic engineering. Unfortunately, several centuries to a millennium before contact (approximately), the planetary civilization wiped itself out in
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Trope-a-Day: Designer Babies
Designer Babies: Of course. That’s called responsible parenting. What sort of parent leaves the health and future of their children up to the random genetic lottery? One might say that’s akin to child abuse! (And the chief reason one wouldn’t say that is because legally, it is.
eldraeic language
"Everyone" is a Dangerous Word
Be informed that the firm of Kanzian, Servessil, and Vagaster is currently seeking applicants for inclusion in the proposed coadunate action elen daryteir v. Tobry Horanuk. Horanuk, a citizen of the Shirethi Guilds currently domiciled in Mer Dinévál, Seranth, in an interview broadcast on the Living Seranth channel’s Hammer
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Trope-a-Day: Descriptively-Named Species
Descriptively-Named Species: Not commonly found among sophont species, who rarely feel the name to describe themselves and the convention being to transliterate their name as literally as possible, even if that occasionally leaves other species struggling to pronounce the correct vowel distinctions in sssc!haaaouú. More common in other lifeforms,
worldbuilding
Questions: Sleep, Implied Contracts, Twinning, Pandeism, Cascading Default, The Drowning, Deals with the Devil, White Elephants, and Stargates
Random thought: Do eldrae sleep? Yes, except for a few unconventionally modified clades. Specifically, it’s necessary in order to dream – because bio-brains get very unhappy when they don’t get their maintenance downtime. The nowline doesn’t need as much as the baseline (being quite happy to sustain three
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Trope-a-Day: Deep-Immersion Gaming
Deep-Immersion Gaming: Sort of an inevitable consequence when the standard gaming rig involves full-sensory virtual reality of such quality as to be indistinguishable from reality, except for necessary departures of awesome. Although most people put together more imaginative avatars than looks-just-like-themselves. (Now, the real deep-immersion gaming comes when you add