morphology
I can sit up and use a keyboard perfectly well without having my limbs twisted around into an imitation hominid, thank you most kindly. (You anthropocentric jackass.) Rhif OĂŒĂ€rwaff, second-iteration dar-bandal, quoted in Morphology Is Not Cosmetology
uplift
In this course, we cover one of the most interesting branches of exosophontology, the exosophontology of uplifted species. While we will touch upon the minority uplift cultural movements (the integrationists, who attempt to become indistinguishable from their creators; the separatists, who would divorce themselves from civilization to find their own
trope-a-day
Uplifted Animal: Quite a few, in the interests of adding people with different points of view and abilities to the population (see: Intelligent Gerbil). Of the greenlife â and therefore recognizable to Terrans â animals, most prominent are the dogs (dar-bandal), cetaceans (dar-ĂĂche), octopi (dar-cĂșlnĂł), rat kings (dar-celmek), and ravens (dar-vorac). Averted
worldbuilding
âCause I have a backlog left over from 2015, that I havenât found time to answer yet, and it would be nice to go into 2016 all fresh and pine-smelling. So, without further ado: âŠokay, one other thing that isnât a question. Itâs an art suggestion, for
uplift
âAÂ little commented-upon feature of all the uplifted species is their racial pride. After all, while many species believe that they are, in some sense, the Chosen Ones, only this small subset have documented evidence to that effect.â â from a lecture on comparative sophontology
trope-a-day
Scale of Scientific Sins: All of them. Absolutely all of them. Automation: Of just about everything, as exemplified by the sheer number of cornucopia machines, AI managers and scurrying utility spiders. Unlike most of the people who got this one very badly wrong, however, in this Galaxy, almost no-one is
picture dictionary
(A belated continuation of the Picture Dictionary series.) S is for Starport Where great ships take flight. They climb to the stars, On pillars of light. T is for Transcend The home of the Powers. No gods in the heavens, And so we made ours. U is for Uplifts Potential