Incursion
FROM: CS MINALIROS, BORDERLINE PICKET FORCE TO: CINCSPIN (CS LIBERTY’S PRICE) ***** EXPEDIENT ***** FLEET CONFIDENTIAL E256 ***** SITREP 1. ENTERED VASARL (VANGUARD REACHES) SYSTEM EIGHT (8) HOURS PREVIOUS TO DISPATCH OF MESSAGE, PER MOST RECENT ORDERS RECEIVED. 2. HAVE MADE CONTACT WITH REPUBLIC INTRUSION FLEET AS MENTIONED IN ROUTINE STATUS UPDATE
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Depopulation Bomb: Two, in eldraeic pre-history: the asteroid impact preceding the Winter of Nightmares, which wiped out almost everyone, and the Gray Wasting, a Precursor bioweapon that got out of its bottle a couple of hundred thousand years later and only managed to kill one-half to two-thirds of everyone. There
nanotechnology
Today’s relevant shout-out goes to Destiny: Rise of Iron for its depiction of a nanotech bloom as something other than the traditional (boring) homogeneous gray goo: Meet SIVA: So many of the probable phases, all on display: the hard-shelled geoms (which I conceive of as processing nodes) and bundles
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Death of Personality: The techniques used to flush the brain of a ‘shell when its current occupant mindcasts out of it… (Be it the relatively simple job of a cerebral bridge in resetting a Universal Noetic Architecture-compliant brain, biological or digital, to the Minimal Maintenance Architecture, or the rather more
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See this? Sorry, Mark Zuckerberg. Your plan to put an end to disease is a sickeningly bad idea Well, one place where Renegades come from is when, having read too much of this kind of disgusting ephemeralist agitprop, and noting that advocating for prohibitions or even prohibitionary attitudes on life
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Death Is Cheap: Because Death Is Not Permanent, obviously. Unless you’re the one who inflicts it, in which case there are instrumentalities designed to ensure that that death was very, very expensive for you. (Permadeath, now – that’s not cheap.)
economics
“The greatest and most misleading heresy of my field is the conflation of value with exchange-value.” – Academician Teidal Ellestrion, Economist Excellence, Imperius Professor of Fiscal Econometrics (Commercial University of Seranth), Director of the High Guild of Coin and Credit, Aurarch Emeritus of Éävalle
economics
Out of curiosity, what would be the eldraeic critique of the idea of “Good Economics” as expounded on in the Book of Life, particularly as contrasted with Classical Economics? (http://www.thebookoflife.org/good-vs-classical-economics/) It’s a category error, plain and simple. Ironically, a lot of the things they complain
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Data Pad: The slate, a once ubiquitous accessory before the advent of the fob terminal, the wearable, and the neural lace, and still quite common because it’s useful to pass data around (of course, smart paper does just as well for this, but…). Also, people kind of like working
Incursion
FROM: BORDERLINE DEFENSE MATRIX (107 – CHARACH) RECEIVED AT: BORDERLINE DEFENSE MATRIX COMMAND RELAY TO: CINCSPIN (CS LIBERTY’S PRICE) ***** EXPEDIENT ***** FLEET CONFIDENTIAL E256 ***** SITREP INCURSION INCURSION TRANSIT DETECTED REPEAT TRANSIT DETECTED SIGNIFICANTLY EXCEEDING TREATY PARAMETERS AT REPUBLIC GATE, CHARACH SYSTEM. ESTIMATED TASK FORCE STRENGTH INCLUDES 8 SHIPS OF THE PLANE
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Cyborg Helmsman: Subverted inasmuch as while it is extremely common, it’s nothing at all unique to the people navigating starships. That’s just the standard laser-port that’s in the back of everyone’s neck, and which is used to do high-bandwidth interfacing with pretty much any large piece
worldbuilding
Numeric base, that is. So far, for the most part, I have been handling this via Translation Convention, since exactitude has not been of crucial importance, and expecting people who care about such things to pick up that for a people who use duodecimal (base-12) notation, a century is naturally