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
trope-a-day
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
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Cryo Prison: Not something they use any more than any other kind of prison (although at least it would be more humane) – but in related concepts, they do keep uploaded mind-states of executed felons around in dead storage (places like the Aeon Pit) just in case. Turns out that with
Eldraeic Transcend
The current set of questions I have to answer is on various aspects of the Eldraeic Transcend. These are, I think it is necessary to say, complicated for metaphysical and/or ontological reasons all tied up with the nature of Transcendent soul hierarchies. Specifically, the manner in which a singular
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Creating Life is Awesome: …do you really have to ask? Of course creating life, and sophoncy, and sophont life is awesome! It’s the perfect blend of science, art, unfettered seizing of the power of the gods themselves, and kicking entropy recursively in the wing-nuts by creating an ordered order-creator!
Capital Kinetic Couriers
I leap from my housing with a howl of mechanical joy, propfans already accelerating to their full cruising spin. I drop a full thousand feet before leveling out, intense acceleration tugging at my airfoils as I nail a near-right-angle skew-flip into horizontal flight, boomeranging and sideslipping my way through the
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Courier: Once common, taking messages everywhere in the planetary Empire where routine caravans didn’t run. Still common today doing the same job on a rather larger scale, because there are lots of exclaves, small colonies and outposts that aren’t regularly visited by anyone in particular, and while the
worldbuilding
…I am sometimes asked. Well, this: Cash Means Freedom, Which Is Why So Many Officials Hate It Especially when it comes to foreign governments and their “monitoring economic activity”, “manipulating the economy”, “tax compliance”, and such-like fetishes, which is also why it’s so fond of its fierce banking privacy
Imperial Charter
…continued from parts ten, eleven, and twelve. SECTION XIII: THE EUPRAXIC COLLEGIUM (Note: this entire section was added by the Eleventh Amendment, passed in 0000 as a response to the steady increase in the power available to individuals, which (with reference to incidents in the few years immediately preceding it)