trope-a-day
You Can’t Fight Fate: According to everything known about temporal mechanics, the universe is a block universe – which is to say, while local causality violations are possible (effects can, sometimes, precede causes), global causality violations are not (effects, nonetheless, always have causes). Or to put it another way, while
diplomacy
Gal-sabra (Falish Traverse) System Peremptory-class diplomatic cruiser, CSS Occasionally Transigent “Lei’hudal, vizjeri,” Ambassador Cíën Lochran addressed her visitors, “be welcome here. May I offer you some refreshment after your flight? Something to eat, perhaps?” “No, thank you. Time is pressing: let us get down to business. You said that
Eldraeic Transcend
Retroactive Precognition: What transcendent artificial intelligences have, due to acausal logic letting them whisper – in a very limited sense, bandwidth and local causality preservation rules-wise, so they don’t have much – in their own past ears.