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Death, And How We Give It To You

So, in reader questions of the day: I swear I saw an entry for the levels of execution, ranging from kill current instantiation, restore, to kill them, their back ups and the servers they rode in on. Am I misremembering? And since I don't recall any such thing

May 27, 2025

black cell

A Pistol With One Shot

black cell (n.): An originally-improvised form of prison or brig cell used by various independent drifts and starships designed for long-duration flight, a black cell is adapted from an airlock, in which the outer door is not equipped with a docking collar, and the inner door is only controllable from

Mar 20, 2017

trope-a-day

Trope-a-Day: Thrown Out the Airlock

Thrown Out The Airlock: While purportedly an old space tradition to deal with pirates and mutineers, in practice, the penalties attached to littering anywhere remotely close to a trafficked orbit and the sheer waste of organic compounds are more than enough to persuade most salty spacedogs to Just Shoot ‘Em…

Jan 1, 2016
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