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Trope-a-Day: Black Box
Black Box: Quite a few of them lying around in the form of leftover elder race artifacts and other archaeological recoveries. Sensible civilizations and corporations (like Probable Technologies, ICC)...
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Linelayer
All is prepared. The alignment is ready. My bow spindle is perfectly aligned with the empty central apertures of the paired stargates, themselves aligned in matching orbits; in time, they will drift...
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Trope-a-Day: Casual Interstellar Travel / Casual Interplanetary Travel
Casual Interstellar Travel / Casual Interplanetary Travel: It’s a little complicated. Technically, yes, you can travel interstellarly fairly casually, since while you have to drag one end of your...
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Trope-a-Day: Cool Gate
Cool Gate: The stargates, giant miles-wide holes in space through which can be seen the distorted stars at the other end of the wormhole, embedded in a pair of arms wrapped around it containing a whole...
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Trope-a-Day: Faster Than Light Travel
Faster Than Light Travel: Means wormholes, which you have to drag to where you want them STL first. (Or, for transmission only, tangle channels – which, for the physicists reading this, do not work by...
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Trope-a-Day: Portal Network
Portal Network: The stargate plexus, which is the collection of all the stargate pairs in the Associated Worlds. Pretty much every civilized system, except for really newly discovered ones, which may...
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What is Ontotechnology?
…a reader asks. Well, let me say right up front that ontotechnology as I describe it is pure-quill handwavium. Its connection to contemporary, real-world physics is that I endeavor to avoid coming...
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Not Yo’ Mama’s Wormholes
Or, the Difficult Worldbuilding Compromises that Result when You Didn’t Design Everything at the Same Time. It has been (entirely correctly) pointed out over on Google+ that this is not how wormholes,...
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(An in-universe explanation as to why the Empire, et. al., prefer to use their special – i.e., yes, per here, space-magic enhanced – wormhole technology.) A common question among newcomers to the field...
View ArticleNihilism Engineering
unspace interrupter: a type of switch used in extremely-high-power electrical systems, the unspace interrupter is designed to overcome the ultimate limit in switching: namely, the dielectric strength...
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