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The White Prince/Sheltered Aristocrat: See also Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense for the purely financial aspects of this (post-scarcity vs. poverty), but this also applies across the Associated Worlds and their Decade Dissonance, and in general… well, let’s just say that the most developed civilizations are more
eldraeic language
First in this initial set, a terribly useful phrase in first contact situations or when wandering around an unfamiliar starport, Floating Market, or lost sophont office, lest you commit a dreadful solecism and confuse a robot, a piece of luggage, a pet, vehicle, furniture, or potted plant for a fellow
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Which Me?: Averted. Since forking is common, Eldraeic has long since adopted proper naming and pronoun conventions to distinguish I-prime from me-secundus and me-tertius, and even me-tertius-beta.
Éävalle
Aurarch Larquen Archés-ith-Aic, of Éävalle and Princess-Regnant Iridal Ejava, of Cúrallémar CORDIALLY INVITE YOU to the 600th Éävalle-Cúrallémar Border War * * * Come with us as once again epic battle is joined on the Plains of Cúrallé, and the forces of Éävalle and Cúrallémar clash once more at Opaline Valley. Thrill to
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When Things Spin, Science Happens: Essentially all the Real Life examples – turbines, centrifuges, rifling, spin gravity, centrifugal governors, control moment gyroscopes, etc., etc. – but there are not a whole passel of randomly spinning sciency things, no.
worldbuilding
…for humans, anyway, is this Slate article, from which I quote: It’s all a lie. This is the thing about creativity that is rarely acknowledged: Most people don’t actually like it. Studies confirm what many creative people have suspected all along: People are biased against creative thinking, despite
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What You Are In The Dark: Teir (honor, in the Eldraeic sense) and the Code of Alphas are very, very clear on this point. Honor is not face or reputation; they are not honor. They are nice rewards for it, but you should throw them away unquestioningly if the necessity
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What Measure Is A Non Super: (now merged with Muggle Power) Technically, by the letter of the Universal Accord on Sophont Rights, every sophont from the humble baseline to the most transcendent of the Powers and Potentialities has an identical set of rights. Sure, the latter has much more scope
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What A Piece Of Junk: Subverted. While there are lots of near-obsolete or actually obsolete ships plying the spacelanes, the state of modern technology especially in the nano-self-repair field means that the Worlds’ equivalents to the Firefly-class tramp freighter, for example – which are every bit as cheap and now-antiquated
worldbuilding
Jade Nekotenshi asks: So, I was reading Meditations on Moloch, by Scott Alexander (http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/), and I couldn’t help but notice the parallels between his Elua and the Eldraeic Transcend. Is that why the Transcend came to be, to vanquish Moloch, as it were?
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We Will Spend Credits in the Future: While somewhat played straight out towards the Rim Free Zone with its ergcred, a currency whose name is never abbreviated at the front, for the most part we will spend exvals in the future. (See: Global Currency). This may have something to do
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Remember my last not-a-fic-a-day? Well, it’s happening again with the world’s latest aggravation, so here, have some less than subtle fictional commentary on that. ALEPH NULL SYSTEMS, ICC TICKET-TRACKING: CASE 411292 From: Metropolitan Security Bureau, United Viridian States Subject: Isinglass secure dataplaque Version: I.4 series B Issue: