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PostHeaderIconSecond Empire

PostHeaderIcon Phuctra

One of eight Provincial Capitals of the First Terran Empire.

PostHeaderIcon Sigma Corsicus

Specrtral Class: G

Mass: 1.19 Sol

Luminosity: 0.87 Sol

Planetary System

PostHeaderIcon Mobile

Personal communications/organization unit, in use from c. 2010 CE.

PostHeaderIcon Borshallan Artificial Intelligences

From c. TE 75, manufacturers of sapient computers which closely mimicked Human thought processes. During the First Terran Empire and Interregnum, Borshallan Artificial Intelligences produced a series of increasingly-sophisticated sapient computers.

Sapient Computer Series

(N.B. Each series represents an improvement by a factor of about 1,000 over the previous series.)

PostHeaderIcon Basse's Law

Mathematical relationship that governs operation of tachyon vesicles in a stardrive unit.

Basse's Law gives destabilization potential in terms of vessel speed (kpsc/hr), number of tuned antigrav units, and density of interstellar medium.

(N.B. All values are highly approximate. 99+% shatter potential indicates virtual certainty of crystal shatter within first hour of flight; the speed value represents a calculated minimum.)

 

Maximum Safe Speeds in Typical Galactic Core (kiloparsecs/hour)

PostHeaderIcon Autoservant (aka "serv")

Non-human robot servant, in use from c. 2100 CE.

PostHeaderIcon Autodoctor

Robot doctor. Primitive autodoctors were in use from c. 2050 CE, but sophisticated autonomous models did not become common until the 2130s.

PostHeaderIcon Neordan

One of eight Provincial Capitals of the First Terran Empire.

PostHeaderIcon The Kala Phenkae

The Hoister Family Genetic Program was not the only project undertaken by the Genetic Board. There was another, begun and maintained in near-total secrecy.

The Genetic Board searched among individuals in the Empire, searching for unique gene configurations. As their records were kept locked in secure memory in Brynhilde and later successors, we have no idea what they were searching for, other than clues that we gather from their results.

PostHeaderIcon Virgo Mariner

The Virgo Mariner was a Second Terran Empire vessel, carrying a Scattered Worlds crew under the command of Mal Arin, sent on a voyage of exploration to the Virgo Cluster in 23,524 HE

PostHeaderIcon Triskan, Geled

City on Geled.

PostHeaderIcon Martogg, Geled

City on Geled.

PostHeaderIcon Spake, Geled

City on Geled.

PostHeaderIcon Linso, Geled

Island city on Geled.

PostHeaderIcon Centelo, Geled

City on Geled.

PostHeaderIcon Rorvad, Geled

City on Geled.

PostHeaderIcon Tarish, Geled

City on Geled.

PostHeaderIcon Lidic, Geled

City on Geled.

PostHeaderIcon Partik, Geled

City on Geled.

PostHeaderIcon Aspicorna, Geled

Continent on Geled.

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