worldbuilding
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
Cold Ones
When you think about the Cold Ones, it’s actually a remarkable blessing that the nature of the universe is quantized, because that’s what will eventually kill them. Eventually, those tiny energy states and information stores they use will fall below the threshold at which they cannot (because quantum)
Building the Imperial Navy
(First, a somewhat apologetic editorial note: I know there’s been a lot of worldbuilding and not much fiction here, relatively speaking, recently, and this will probably be the case for a little time to come. Sigh. Sorry. Things are a little difficult right here and now at Chez Moi,
worldbuilding
Asked in a G+ comment: How common is it for individuals to own full up dreadnought or super-dreadnought class warships? Am I correct in thinking that individually owned and operated cruiser and frigate class warships are commonplace? Actually… not very common at all. (Even for corporations and other coadunations, even.
Building the Imperial Navy
This is the third part of our six-part series on Building the Imperial Navy (first here; second here), in which we extend the strategic goals we made in the second part by defining the Navy’s role relative to the other parts of the Imperial Military Service, and define in
Building the Imperial Navy
But that ain’t all! This is the second part of our six-part series on Building the Imperial Navy (first part here), in which we extend the strategic assumptions – regarding the security environment and the resources available to meet them – we made in that part into the actual outcomes the
galactography
Today’s gift for y’all is… a new map! A bigger map! A better map! This map: Which basically quintuples the amount of the Worlds that has been mapped on a system-by-system basis by extending that from the Imperial Core to the entire Imperial Fringe. Enjoy! (Although it’s
cryostasis
A question I did not answer at the time, regarding this: One wonders, when she was revived, did she reinherit back any of her titles or property? Well, now. Titles are the easiest one to answer, *there*, and the short answer is “some of them, according to their nature”. To
Empress EledĂĂ«-class explorer
So, if you were following my G+, this is what I said this morning: Well, since The Martian , and seeing their gorgeous model of Hermes , I’ve had a real urge to design the Empress EledĂĂ«-class explorer, which one might be able to claim resembles its bigger, upteched, somewhat more
worldbuilding
An interesting little article here from Charlie Stross (h/t Winchell Chung), concerning China’s new “credit score” system that incorporates all sorts of other social information and which looks to be shaping up into a horrendous mechanism of total social control, the way they’re using it. This, of
worldbuilding
Specialist290 e-mails with some questions. (Also some compliments, for which thank you kindly, but what’s getting responded to here are the questions…) Here goes: 1. Are there any major subcultures / subcommunities within the Empire that deviate significantly from the “ideal norm” enough to be noteworthy without actually violating the
Building the Imperial Navy
So, up next for you, the first in our six-part series on Building the Imperial Navy, using the model outlined by David Weber and Christopher Weuve in various places, such as the afterword to House of Steel. For the details of the model, see the diagram at right. In this