Darkness Within
The side beams are welded to the tank – and still no leaks, or for that matter explosions – and the chunks of hull plating bonded to the beams. For once, that went smoothly. I’ve even cut four extra short chunks of beam and welded them onto what will be the
law
So, it is suggested that I do not understand the fighting words doctrine. To which I must respond that the problem is that you are thinking of the fighting words doctrine, not the fighting words doctrine. 🙂 Or, to clarify: Under American law, the fighting words doctrine is a highly circumscribed,
trope-a-day
Strawman Political: Well, of course – but in-world, inasmuch as most of the protagonists come from a culture which believes that politics are what happens to you after your brains fall out, and would largely agree with that. And who tend to think the worst of the assortment of Evil Stereotypes
Imperial Starport Authority
Internal Security Records: Vizjen Down Passenger Terminal, Section C (Concessions) hinMeira Mercantile 7126/8/8 (starting 8+36:00) MÉLIS TARQUELIOS (PORT DIRECTOR): — seems to be the trouble, here? RYSEK hinMEIRA (CONCESSIONAIRE): I want her out of here! Your security guards refused to — MÉLIS TARQUELIOS: In good time, Sv. hinMeira.
trope-a-day
What Do You Mean, It’s Not Political?: It is, I suppose, only in the generic sense of fiction featuring utopias or near-utopias, which is to say, only insofar as it’s therefore automatically a Take That to all those other, lesser, civilizations. As for more strictly political issues: well,
Places To Go
Kuramesu Drift: A modestly-sized modular drift-habitat located in the Omane (First Expanses) System, at the Solar-Diageri (Omane IV) trailing libration point. Kuramesu Drift is an independent drift, unaffiliated with any of the polities or law providers of Omane Actual, the freesoil world with which it shares a system. Rather, Kuramesu
trope-a-day
The Strategist: Much like the long lifespans and engineered genius tends to turn those with a socially focused qalasír into The Chessmaster, they tend to turn those with a military/strategic focus into The Strategist. (Dúréníän would approve. So would Grand Admiral Thrawn.) Can, on occasion, verge on Mary Tzu
Darkness Within
The remass tank is out. With the LOX tank pulled and the rest of the life-support machinery junked, pulling a few bulkhead panels let me into the for’ard maintenance compartment, and thanks to a bit of forethought on the parts of the designers, the fill, drain, and press connectors
trope-a-day
Strange Syntax Speaker: Mostly averted by well-programmed translators; of course, this is not the case for relatively recently contacted species (whose linguistic corpuses may not be complete and conclusive, and who may well therefore play this absolutely straight, along with some vocabulary peculiarities) or, of course, cheap knock-off translators. Also
trope-a-day
This is answering a metaquestion, hence the odd prefix: More of a “how the sausage is made” question than anything relevant in-universe, but what’s your procedure for arranging the Trope-of-the-Day order? I’ve been thinking of using the idea for a world-building / possible writing project of my own that
trope-a-day
Stop Worshipping Me: Played straight by a large number of seed AI “gods” who by and large find the tendency of lesser orders of intelligence to worship them embarrassing and really quite annoying, not to mention inappropriate. Really. Just because something can fit whatever notions of divinity you just made
paragravity
Okay, let’s talk about paragravity. First up, a note on nomenclature. Paragravity is one of the two things that an Imperial habtech might be referring to when they talk about artificial gravity, the other being spin gravity. Unlike spin gravity, which is “powered” by good old centrifugal force, paragravity