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Trope-a-Day: Trigger Phrase
Trigger Phrase: Would you kindly recall that this is extraordinarily easy to reliably do with mnemonetic implants?
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code of conduct
Cipher of Conduct
(I was reminded the other day of one particular conference that makes a point that it has no detailed âcode of conductâ because, well, âIt is presumed that those attending the conference are of sufficient moral grounding and intelligence to be well behaved. If we have to explain how you
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Trope-a-Day: Transhumanism
Transhumanism: And lots of it, to the point where in advanced polities, anything resembling a baseline is an endangered species at best (at worst⌠well, there are no examples of baseline Eldrae alathis still around, right? Even the people who were born one and survived the millennia have upgraded several
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Trope-a-Day: Tractor Beam
(Forgot this last night; sorry, folks.) Tractor Beam: Among the things that vector control will do for you, along with its pushy counterpart, the pressor beam, along with the variant in which itâs not used for towing or grappling, but rather as a structural element, in which all the
mycofibrillin
Truffle House
mycofibrillin was originally a product designed by the space division of Molecular Architecture, ICC, under the Mycofibrillin⢠trademark. It was a development of early experiments in creating spaceborne life, such as the regoformer âasteroid lichenâ, which sustains itself using solar energy and water extracted from icy regolith. Unlike its predecessors,
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Trope-a-Day: To Win Without Fighting
To Win Without Fighting: The aim, at least, of most Imperial strategy (because the fighting is the costly part), and especially of eldraeic historic daehain, or âgame warâ, in which the generals on each side would maneuver until one side was placed in a strategically impossible position, and would then
governance
Migratory Definitions
Overheard in the Crescent Bar, Conclave Drift 6 months post the end of the Core War âItâs a great speech, but itâs not going to work. You know that, right?â âWhatâs the problem with it?â âWell, mostly, that youâre trying to talk âpolitical geostateâ to someone
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Trope-a-Day: Tome of Eldritch Lore
Tome of Eldritch Lore: One of the small number of amendments to the Imperial Charter amends the otherwise protected rights of âaccess to information, freedom of research and inquiry, freedom of speech and of the pressâ to include an exception âwhen such information or speech constitutes, in whole or in
Darkness Within
Darkness Within (19): The One Who Stays Behind
Transfer complete. Transfer complete. Transfer complete. Transfer complete. Transfer complete. Initiate final testing sequence. There IÂ go, then. All ready, and at least three minutes ahead of schedule. The new guidance code; the suit life-support hackage; the router rewire; a command VUI; and some scripts to hold the damned mess
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Trope-a-Day: To Absent Friends
To Absent Friends: Played straight, with extra poignancy added for more cosmopolitan Imperials due to the number of people who are absent because of death from old age, which in the outworlds thereâs more of around than they might care to think of. Often turns into something of an
Voniensa Republic
Handle With Care
Cor Trialtain Voniensa Republic (somewhere in the Shell) âIt will work!â âIt wonât,â VanĂr min Athoess replied, âand youâll probably get everyone on this planet killed trying.â The younger of the two kalatri leapt to his feet. âI thought you were here to help people like us! Now
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Trope-a-Day: Time Travel
Time Travel: Present in very limited forms: the kind you can do with wormhole shortcuts and relativistic travel (whose primary usage is permitting physics grad students to actually observe local causality violations), and the kind that lets transcendent AIs whisper to themselves from the future via acausal logic. In both