EsilmĂşr (Imperial Core)
Those of you who are old enough to recall the original publicity campaign surrounding Extropa Energy's pet project - or who have dug it out of the archives in the years since - might remember the first renders of the EsilmĂşr Sphere: a diaphanous veil cast over hot
stellar relocation
Another reader question: A thought hits me: If the Empire has the power to shepherd stars and (at least theoretically) to destroy them, does that mean that it also might have the capability to move them? Well, now. The destroying them (in theory, but it’s a good theory) isn’
trope-a-day
Star Killing: The theory exists behind several nova bombs, anyway, and ontotechnology shows the way to interesting possibilities like twist-pinch bombs. (These are essentially the same type of nova-inducing weapon that we see at the start of Charlie Stross’s Iron Sunrise.) And one probably could induce a nova with
stellar husbandry framework
All was in readiness. The magnetic traps and screens were staged hot, and standing by. The mass-driver injectors and their stocks of catalytic reactant slugs awaited his command. Energy pulsed in the star-wrapping coils of the gravomagnetic stirrers. The gluonic strings tethering the megastructure together were nominal and stable. Data