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Avase

Minor NoCoZo system, Centauri sector, only claim to fame was the battle of 5502, where PCO forces scored their first victory over the Paradigm and turned the tide of the war. The system is currently home to a patriotic but otherwise irrelevant culture who trade in nanocloned war memorabilia, medals and PCO fleet uniforms, and speak of the day coming soon when they will "finish the job" and "whip the Paradigm's butt".

M.Alan Kazlev

Avatar

Incarnation of God or a god in human (or other SI:<1) form

In Brahmanic-based religion, an embodiment or a bodily manifestation of the divine, from the Sanskrit Avatara which means "descent", i.e. the descent of the divine into human form. Original Hindu mythology was full of stories of the avatars (Rama and Krishna were the two most popular) and their various exploits and past-times. Interplanetary age religions like Universal Church, Wider Christianity, and New Bahaism - often based on integrating Indian insights with Semitic religions - referred to classical or industrial age prophetic founders like Christ or Baha'ullah (and later, Mohammad in some heterodox and Sufi-based forms of the Stella Umma) as "avatars of God". Many Nuage and neo-nuage sects and cults each had their own (usually baseline, more rarely su) human avatar (often shown by objective analysis to be an exploitative fraud). Also, genuine federation age religious founders like have frequently found themselves considered avatars by their followers, but they did not encourage such claims. Since the Empires age the term has been used to designate the epiphany of a high singularity transapient or transingularity archailect in anthropomorphic form - e.g. the Femtotech Avatar, Baphomet, and the Green and Blue Goddess

M.Alan Kazlev

Avatar

Any graphical, virtual representations of a sophont that interacts in virchspace - a virch body.

Avatar

A lower toposophic representation or entity through which a higher sophont can interact in a particular environment or situation of a level one or more toposophic levels below.

Avatars may be non-sentient icons or bots, sentient simulcra or remotes, fully individual beings, or anything in between. See also proxav

M.Alan Kazlev

Avensis

Capital of the Cooperative Venture - a number of Networked civilizations studying relics from lost alien civilizations. more

Avon

Small Homo Plebhus habitat cluster in Archaipelago. One of the few ultratech cultures to preserve Old Anglic and the art of calligraphy.

Darren Ryding

Aw Addia

third planet, Van de Bos' Star - regional power, important centre of trade and learning - KoHold City is home to the headquarters of the Exopaleoarcheological Institute

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axiom

A statement that is assumed to be true and can later be used along with theorems to prove other theorems. e.g. the five axioms of Negentropism

The Ayan-4 Affair

During the early re-colonization of the Serpens region a culture of cyborgs at Ayan-4 was discovered. The cyborg culture had apparently been isolated in the region during the Version War and had developed in total isolation. Anthropologists studied the culture with interest, but within two decades it was largely forgotten. Like most similar cases it was largely absorbed into interstellar culture and the members scattered widely.

In 6766 the Murmant announced that it had discovered evidence that the Ayans were in fact a forgery. During explorations of Keter databases it had uncovered evidence showing that a group of posthuman entities had constructed the entire Ayan culture a few years before contact was achieved with the rest of the wormhole nexus in order to gain an authentic stream of human experience. The Ayan cyborg brains were designed to shunt experience into the keterist nets, turning them all into independent sources of authenticity for experience.

The discovery caused protests, and the unnamed posthumans withdrew. The oldest generation of Ayans immediately died, leaving their descendants to pick up the pieces. While the majority vanished into other clades, a small group of die hard Ayans remained at Ayan-4 and elsewhere, steadfastly holding onto their culture and claiming its authenticity.

Anders Sandberg

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