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A Random Thought on the Fermi Paradox
Perhaps, if it turns out transhumanism (or, rather, its polyspecific analog, transsophontism) is the development path all species end up taking once they have the ability to do so, the problem is that...
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Trope-a-Day: Inhumanly Beautiful Race
Inhumanly Beautiful Race: Quite possibly, since the eldrae started out a very pretty people and have been engineering further in this direction for a long damn time; of course, it’s not like they...
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Trope-a-Day: The Dandy / The Fashionista
The Dandy / The Fashionista: Common among younger Imperials, who are pursuing the cultural ideals of beauty and excellence just as hard as they can, the more so to give them weight. (Looking awesome...
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Trope-a-Day: Sharp Dressed Soph
Sharp Dressed Man Soph: Given just how obsessive the Imperials are about their ideals of beauty and excellence, the Empire has a heck of a lot of these (although not so limited to business-suit...
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Trope-a-Day: The Beautiful People
The Beautiful People: I refer you to the comments about “impossibly beautiful sexy immortal billionaire genius demigods” made under Can’t Argue With Elves. The engineering works, people. However...
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Trope-a-Day: Beauty Equals Goodness
Beauty Equals Goodness: Very much averted in one sense, even by local standards (see: Blue and Orange Morality) of goodness. It is perfectly true that the eldrae and the other Imperials are an...
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Trope-a-Day: Bling of War
Bling of War: Except for the brief chunk of time that matched our Industrial Age, played mostly straight by the Imperial Legions. Beforehand, for much the same regions as Napoleonic (and previous)...
View ArticleHeaven Upbears
The skimmer sang with many voices. The high stress tremolo of the variform hull, shifting through a thousand combinations a second to stabilize the skimmer’s flight path as it spiked the atmosphere;...
View ArticleThe Naming of Everything
If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant;if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be thought remains unthought;if what must be thought is not thought, then what...
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