ontotechnology
(An In-Character Meta Explanation) “This metal is unaffected by entropy over time? How does that work?” “We taught the atoms to sing time-refusal.” “Oh, come on. That’s not… what does that even mean?” “You see those thirty fat volumes of technomagical equations to make the sanest man go mad?
ontotechnology
From: Kóris Marukanin (Director of Surreal Research) To: Irreality Vault (All Staff) Subject: Inappropriate usage of cystal universes Priority: Immediate Security: IRREALITY INTERNAL SURREAL I should like to begin by once again congratulating Reizei Chíra’s team on their successful creation of a syntropic cystal universe. While further experimentation has
Covalan
Of course desire causes suffering. But only as a strict subset of the fundamental truth: desire causes everything. The corollary to this of course is not merely that greed is good, but that greed is the universe’s only true anentropic force. In other words, greed is the Good. – the
Conclave of Linguistics and Ontology
In formal Eldraeic, the modifier boz indicates that a word is being used in a vernacular (possibly referring to a local dialect or borrowing, although most commonly indicating a way the word has come to be used in Trade) fashion, rather than in accordance with its proper definition. The modifier
eldraeic language
Perhaps due to their unusually wide variability across a large number of trait-clines, the variety of ciseflish trade cants have no word cognate to race. When one is needed, they borrow the Eldraeic word kaelídárath, which is technically defined as “true-breeding phenotypically-distinct group taxonomically junior to subspecies”¹ and whose original
mentalics
Mentalics is a bastardized discipline, dating back to its origins. To be fair to the ancients, they lacked the knowledge and conceptual grounding to differentiate the farspeech family of disciplines, based around the EM-sensitivity of the liacoré complex of the brain, and the psychokinetic family, based around phased-array nanopicosomes interfaced
military
burlies: archaic military slang for troops formally designated, at the time, as grenadiers; specifically, those equipped with a BRL (“Backpack Rockets Launcher”) as their primary weapon, specializing therefore in high-angle indirect fire. While the derivation from the acronym is obvious, a secondary cause was the effect of the BRL and
espionage
From: Thane Cíëng (Fleet Attaché [Vonis Prime Mission], Diplomatic Attachment WG, Active Operations PWG, Second Directorate) To: Altaní Toréjez, Voniensa Republic Navy WG Cc: Intentions Analysis PWG Subject: Command chain reorganization Authenticity: 4E11; SENDER, RELAY (4/4), RECIPIENT Security: EYES ONLY BLUE ICE SHADOW Distribution: Executive & Analysts Date: 7167
culture
When they refer to Ochale as the Masked Empire, for those of you who don’t know, it’s not some tired cliché about inscrutability. Ochaleans quite literally wear masks from the day of their birth to that of their death. Their spouse will see their face, and their children
military
So, it has been brought to my attention that back in Chop Shop I used the term “warstrider” without having previously defined said term, on the blog at least. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa – I really thought that those later revisions to the heavy cavalry makeup had come up before,
Carp Scale Mirror
PALAXIAS, PALAXIAS (4829-03-04) – In a public release today, the Office of the Shore Lords announced the formal transfer of all projects under REFLECTION DANCE from the Bureau of Innovation to the Bureau of Ships, confirming that the deployment of the Carp Scale Mirror to all IN starships has begun. The
Emergency Management Authority
A perennial problem in extra-infrastructure medical care has been providing the necessary intermediate step between field medicine and the care provided by a hospital, where – thanks to the lack of infrastructure – patients cannot be transferred to the latter with the necessary alacrity. The most recent answer to these problems is