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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
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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:
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We Will Not Use Photoshop in the Future: Oh, we definitely will, and we will also virtually film as-real-as-life virtual reality, too, just to make life more fun. But to nod in the direction of what nobody ever seems to not add, there’s a reason why all security cameras,
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“Your attention please, gentlesophs and adjuncts; Flight Commander Aimne speaking. In twelve minutes time, we shall commence our deceleration burn to enter Talentar orbit and make rendezvous with Avétal High Port. “As you may know, the Wanderer Station cycler intercepts Talentar orbit at high transit velocity, and as such making
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We Will Not Have Pockets in the Future: As mentioned in Waistcoat of Style, both sexes wear waistcoats simply to provide adequate pocket space for their collection of little gadgets for this and that and the other thing. So, averted to the point that there’s actually a specific garment
worldbuilding
A commenter raises an interesting point with regard to fleet communications, which as we have seen in various places, tend to look like this: FROM: CS GRITFIST (FIELD FLEET RIMWARD) TO: FIELD FLEET RIMWARD COMMAND (CS ARMIGEROUS PROPERTARIAN) *** ROUTINE *** FLEET CONFIDENTIAL E256 *** OVERDUE FOLLOWUP REF: TASK GROUP R-4-118 REF: OVERDUE
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We Will Have Perfect Health In The Future: Seeing as the top level of medical treatment in the advanced civilizations is to replace your body with a brand new one, fresh out of the tanks and still with that new flesh smell… played very straight. Somewhat subverted inasmuch as regular
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Wetware Body: Bioshells, when inhabited by digisapiences. No more difficult than the opposite, or indeed putting biosapient minds in them, or digisapiences in cybershells. Also, not known for any side effects; a digisapience in a bioshell is no more emotional than it would have been anyway, although it may take
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“You’re adorable.” Her laughter rang through the bridge like the tinkle of ice on silver bells. “You worked so hard on that speech. I can tell. And you’ve been putting so much effort into trying to get it right. You’ve been cleansing populations left and right, and
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Weird Trade Union: As is to be expected for a Privately Owned Society, the Empire has associations for everything. The Accidental Sapience League, The Belter Work and Welfare Association, the Board of Merchane Propriety, the Council of Forthright Tongues, the Edifacient Sodality of Bakers and Pastrywrights, the Fellowship of Natural