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Trope-a-Day: Telepathy
Telepathy: Telepathy (or rather, techlepathy) is a somewhat limited faculty, as described under Psychic Powers. Being essentially a way to transmit neural gestalt information over WiFi, it is an excellent messaging system, complete with the ability to transmit images, emotions, information constructs, and other non-verbal information, and communicate broadcast/narrowcast,
Darkness Within
Darkness Within (17): Twins
Noetic reinstantiation is in progress. Secondary noumenal systems and incrementing memory string load incomplete. Please wait, avoiding intensive cogitative activity. Please hold all queries until incrementing memory string load is complete. New associations may interfere with engram binding. Primary incrementing memory string load complete. Cross-loading and merging memory updates from
culture
Mutual Annihilation
antiriot (n.): A social version of pair production. To fully explain the antiriot, it is first necessary to explain the riot. This is a socially-accepted form of low-level terrorism found on some barbarian outworlds, in which a mob engages in violence and property destruction as a means to coerce – through
trope-a-day
Trope-a-Day: Techno Wizard
Techno Wizard: In any society as technological as the Worlds in general and the Empire in particular, being one of these is the basic job skill; after all, all the usual unskilled and semi-skilled tasks are now being done by robots, and the baseline, bottom-of-the-market job is “supervisor of those
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Trope-a-Day: Technology Porn
Technology Porn: I’m sorry. I really can’t help myself. (Of course, it’s massively in character in-universe, too, and that’s the excuse I’m sticking too.)
Thirteen Colonies
Old Friends
Memeweave: News/Stargate Project/Recontact/Broadcast (Read Only) Source: CS Prince of Octania Classification: WHITE (General Access) Encryption: None Distribution: Everywhere (News/Live) As received at: Relay Station (Eliéra-Seléne L3) Language: Eldraeic I Time of transcript: 3953:10:04:9-01:30.2 (Imperial Standard Time); time set by relay Light
recommendations
The Expanse: A Remarkably Brief Review
This, gentlesophs, is how you fiction some goddamned science! (Of course, if you’re a regular reader here and weren’t already planning to watch it, I don’t understand you at all. Are you a chthonic impossibility, by any chance?)
trope-a-day
Trope-a-Day: Tank Goodness
Tank Goodness: Oh, definitely, including all of Spider Tank, Hover Tank, and Drill Tank. (Not Land Battleships, though – too easy for ortillery to target.) But also, of course, the good old-fashioned ground tanks, like the HV-10 Basher or the HV-12 Stormfall and their variants (p.s. click that link for
quotation
Snippet: A Pulp Moment
(Here, have a Robert E. Howard pastiche.) “Know, O prince, that between the years when your ancestors brought the last of Eliéra’s shining cities beneath their aegis, and the years of the rise of the Thirteen Worlds beyond the Gates, there was an Age undreamed of, when gleaming habitats
trope-a-day
Trope-a-Day: Talking Lightbulb
Talking Lightbulb: While it’s not always one of these, most people wearing all-concealing environment suits, etc., or using off-the-rack bodies with non-unique synthesized voices generally do have some sort of “I’m speaking now” indicator on the outside, if only so that people can tell who’s talking when
Darkness Within
Darkness Within (16): Oops
Oh, this is very bad, Isif, very bad indeed. I have made one hell of a mess of the design of the thrust frame end. These beam stubs aren’t going to hold under the drive thrust. Static load, maybe. Dynamic load, not a chance. It’ll warp all to