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Trope-a-Day: Standard Sci-Fi Army
…I wrote an entire post. Then I posted it. Then it vanished into thin bytes. Bugger. Apologies, but it’s late, so I’ll be rewriting this tomorrow. Dammit.
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Glossary of Otherwise Known Terms
Reminded of this by a comment on G+, I thought I’d put together a list for y’all of the various terms used here and there in the Eldraeverse for concepts (mostly, but not universally, sciency) that match up to concepts we have here on Earth, but which for
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Trope-a-Day: Stable Time Loop
Stable Time Loop: The Chronological Consistency Protection Theorem (see: You Already Changed The Past) does appear to permit these kinds of predestination paradoxes (at least, the informational kind; the object paradox may also be possible, but testing it is dependent on finding an object that won’t age during the
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Trope-a-Day: You Already Changed The Past
You Already Changed The Past: While extraordinarily limited, time travel does exist in the Eldraeverse – as it must, because so does FTL travel. This is all you can do with it, however, because the Chronological Consistency Protection Theorem is very firm about that, and the universe is even firmer. (And
Places To Go
Things to See, Places to Go (4)
Teralu Startown: The single-system Teralu polity, in the Magen Exodus, once signed a contract with the Empire to maintain a starport on the populated world of their system, Teralu Actual, making the usual concessions with regard to starport extrality and to freedom of passage. Later, after the coup of 5942,
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Trope-a-Day: The Spymaster
The Spymaster: In the Imperial governance, the people who sit on the Imperial Security Executive, the council that runs Imperial State Security, which is composed of the heads of the five directorates, the admirals in charge of the Shadow Fleet, its military intelligence counterpart, and certain others, whose identity is
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Trope-a-Day: Split Personality Merge
Split Personality Merge: Averted. You don’t try and merge two minds (an operation routinely carried out to remerge forks) while they’re running, seriously. This is a very complex operation carried out on static mind-states, and while there may be some conflicts in the resultant merged personality, there’s
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Trope-a-Day: Spare Body Parts
Spare Body Parts: The poster-people for this are the kaeth, who come from the kind of… robust ecology (see: Had to be Sharp) that makes a selection of extra backup organs very useful indeed. And a special shout-out goes to the myneni, who have a kind of this by default
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Trope-a-Day: Space Western
Space Western: While, not being historically connected to Earth culture, many of the traditional trappings of the Western are absent, the attitude persists throughout much of the Expansion Regions, where central authorities are distant and frontier colonies fairly rugged by necessity, and even in the outback regions of colony worlds
Darkness Within
Darkness Within (9): Miscalculation
MET 186-23+4 So I’ve been running some numbers. At a best guess from the nav data available, Gutpunch had 18.5 hours1 to run at standard cruising acceleration, 9.6 standard gravities effective2. That in turn implies that I need something approaching six million m/s of delta
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Trope-a-Day: Space Police
Space Police: There isn’t any overall police service for the Associated Worlds – the closest thing is probably Conclave Security, which does answer directly to the Conclave of Galactic Polities, but whose jurisdiction is limited to just the Conclave Drift itself and its containing star system, and possibly the Operatives
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Darkness Within (8): Overdue
FROM: CS UNDERBELT (FIELD FLEET RIMWARD) TO: FIELD FLEET RIMWARD COMMAND (CS ARMIGEROUS PROPERTARIAN) *** ROUTINE *** FLEET CONFIDENTIAL E256 *** OVERDUE 1. CS GUTPUNCH ATTACHED TO TASK GROUP R-4-118 HAS MISSED THREE (3) ROUTINE STATUS UPLOADS AND IS NOW CONSIDERED OVERDUE. 2. CS UNDERBELT AND COHORT PROCEEDING FROM CURRENT LOCATION (PARDERIC SYSTEM)