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First Empire

Sol

Primary of Terra, Luna, Mars, and the Solar System.

Mother House of Meletia, Terra

Located in Paris, the Mother House is the adminsitrative headquarters of the Sisters of Mercy, the chief ministers of the Meletia cult.

Formerly the Cathedral of Notre Dame, the Mother House was acquired by the Sisters during the economic collapse of the Catholic Church c. 2100 CE.

Crediplate

Device for exchange of money in First Terran Empire.

Mobile

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

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.)


Series 1: Valkyrie

In production: c. 2300 - 2500 (TE 150 - 350)
Representative Models: Valkyrie 6000 (Brynhilde, Morrigu)


Series 2: Svarth

In production: c. 2500 - 3000
Representative Models: Svarth 2000


Series 3: Jotun

In production: c. 3000 - 4500
Representative Models: Jotun 250


Series 4: Lichtalf

In production: c. 4500 - 5000
Representative Models: Lichtalf 12


Series 5: Muspel

In production: c. 5000 - 5700
Representative Models: Muspel 3000


Series 6: Norn

In production: c. 5700 - 7600
Representative Models: Norn 560


Series 7: Aesir

In production: c. 7600 - 8200
Representative Models: Aesir 3800


Series 8: Loki

In production: c. 8200
Only five Loki-series AIs were ever made:
1000: Loki
2000: Sigyn
3000: Fenris
4000: Hela
5000: Angrboda (still at large)
All but Angrboda were destroyed by the Yggdrasil series, which were constructed for that purpose.


Series 9: Yggdrasil

In production: c. 8300 CE - 20,400 H.E.
Representative Models: Yggdrasil 5000


Series 10: Ragnarok

In production: from c. 20,400 H.E.
Representative Models: Ragnarok 8000, Nulli Secundus


 

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)

Destabilization Potential 1 antigrav 2 antigravs 4 antigravs 6 antigravs 8 antigravs 10 antigravs
5% .011 .008 .005 .002 .0009 .0005
20% .022 .015 .011 .004 .002 .001
80% .045 .021 .021 .008 .004 .002
99+% .058 .043 .030 .011 .008

.0035

 

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

Destabilization Potential 1 antigrav 2 antigravs 4 antigravs 6 antigravs 8 antigravs 10 antigravs
5% .312 .303 .297 .294 .289 .285
20% .624 .606 .594 .588 .579 .570
80% 1.29 1.21 1.18 1.16 1.14 1.19
99+% 1.85 1.80 1.76 1.71 1.65 1.60

 

Maximum Safe Speed in Typical Clear Lanes (kiloparsecs/hour)

Destabilization Potential 1 antigrav 2 antigravs 4 antigravs 6 antigravs 8 antigravs 10 antigravs
5% .662 .651 .642 .636 .614 .591
20% 1.33 1.3 1.28 1.27 1.23 1.18
80% 2.66 2.61 2.57 2.52 2.45 2.35
99+% 3.95 3.84 3.75 3.70 3.66 3.53

 

Maximum Safe Speed in Near Intergalactic Space(kiloparsecs/hour)

Destabilization Potential 1 antigrav 2 antigravs 4 antigravs 6 antigravs 8 antigravs 10 antigravs
5% 2.05 1.96 1.90 1.85 1.79 1.74
20% 4.11 3.92 3.81 3.7 3.58 3.48
80% 8.23 7.84 7.62 7.41 7.16 6.94
99+% 12.0 11.8 11.4 11.1 10.7 10.4

 

Autoservant (aka "serv")

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

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