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Thinking briefly of things other than today’s challenge, I’d like to draw the attention of interested readers to the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fanfic Friendship is Optimal. (Trope page here; story here.) Specifically, with relevance to the Eldraeverse where seed AIs are concerned. Namely, inasmuch as
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Holy Is Not Safe: Anything made, shaped, or Vorlon-touched by a weakly godlike superintelligence may be holy, but is also very likely to be powerful enough to be catastrophically dangerous if misused, mishandled, or otherwise generally mucked about with. (Especially things like, say, the Eye of Elmiríën, which is to
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(Alternate words: hammer, hardware, hatred.) It was in the fourteenth year of the reign of the Third Citrine Triarchs that the new star appeared, a blue pinpoint in the Fourth House, above the beak of the Ram. No ancient writings spoke of this. None predicted its appearance. As is customary,
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Gaia’s Lament: Rather strongly averted on Imperial worlds, and always has been even back in the Era of Steel and Steam – it turns out that one of the things that comes along with immortality is the observation that all those problems you expect to crop up in the distant
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(Alternate words: googolplex, goods, grill.) The two free traders at the back table in Katry’s Bubble considered each other over untouched drinks. A 70/30 shot slowly warmed to room temperature; a glass of finelle kept its chill, as its fumes ran across the tabletop in a thin haze.
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Sorry, no G on schedule today, due to great, squandrin’, orgulous, hours-long headache. Will do tomorrow at best speed.
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Fan of the Past: Very often completely justified in the Eldraeverse, where the odds are pretty decent that the chap saying “Man, this is just like crossing the Alps Makerforges with a thousand elephants” was there. With a shovel.
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(Alternate words: Firefly, Fan, Fanboy, Fantasy, and Failure. Added to the list.) “3. Information must be preserved.” – the Five Noble Precepts, modern formulation Deep Repository Site Mocál spun on through the darkness between star systems. Mocál was a sub-Murian wanderer moonlet, a stony body falling free in the endless dark
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Eating Optional: To an extent. Early modifications, like the chloromorph/dryad clade, merely need to eat less due to their ability to gain energy through photosynthesis, but something close to the complete trope is possible. Just not terribly convenient, as by the time you’ve crammed an entire closed-ecology life-support
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(Alternate words: Espresso, Effect, Ecumenopolis, Eldritch, Evidence, and Ending. Added to the list.) The shuttle hangs barely a hundred yards away to my retrograde, cargo airlock still agape; the pilot’s nerves must surely be worn to shreds with the delay in this atmosphere-scraping orbit, even more than mine. Time
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Drink Order: It’s always hard to give solid answers when it comes to these things, but maybe we can have some generalities. The most common (non-alcoholic) drink on Eliéra is esklav, from the bean of Esklavea sendaren, a shrub with no exact Terran analog. It’s close to coffee
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(Alternate words: Devil, Delta, Defiled, and Dalliance, all of which have been placed on the later-consideration list. Also “Drink Order”, which will be today’s trope-a-day.) Calencail 14th Summer breakfast parlor With all respect to my illustrious cousin, the most frustrating aspect of the translocation problem is having an answer