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BoBa.k.a., Board of Boards - a NoCoZo for-profit organization founded in 7003 which provides a subscription service alerting of suspicious business practices when detected amongst the various regulatory boards.
It also provides a for-profit approval/regulation service for regulatory boards, in which case the information is freely available to all comers. There has yet to be a proven case of favouritism on the part of the Board of Boards, primarily because BoB monthly publishes lists of businesses and beings who attempt to unduly influence the BoB. These lists are available free of charge to all except those 'outed' on the various lists.
Bode's Law
bodhicittaLiterally "enlightened mind". The ideal Buddha or bodhisattva state according to some Buddhist sects
Boddhichittamaittreya
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body armourBody armour developed early as protective suits made of such materials as leather, shells, wood, and basketwork, later supplemented by metal. Armour was made specifically for war, was often very costly, and could be an index of social status (e.g. Greek hoplite, Japanese samurai, European nobleman/knight). With the rise of science increased mobility and firearms made personal armour obsolete, although the atomic and information age saw its re-introduction in composite materials, such as kevlar, arachnoweave, and tetracarbon, for soldiers, police, and even civilians. The ultimate development was the powered exoskeleton, and as these exoskeletons became more intelligent their developed the combat mecha. The other extreme saw various forms of nanoskin, intelligent and reactive micro- and nano-armour, tending towards lightness and stealth rather than bulk. Body-modification and cyborgisation has also meant that armour can be made integral to the overall body, rather than something to be put on and taken off.
Bogoban I-XIContact language developed by the Institute of Interstellar Xenodiplomacy to initiate contact with aliens or far-claded terragens.
Bok globuleDark concentrated nebula cloud about 1 ly in diameter, containing some ten to a thousand Sol masses of dust and gas, and pertaining to the early stages of star formation. Bok globules are very popular with some cloud harvesting and cloud engineering clades and civilizations
bolide
BoloboSeries of murders conducted by the Bolobo System AI Vascodagama
boltzmann machinestochastic neural network systems that are capable of learning hidden structure in data.
BonoboAlong with chimpanzees, bonobos were the most closely related of the apes to Homo sapiens.
Like chimpanzees they were native to Africa, though they tended to live in the denser rainforests. Physically bonobos were distinguished from chimpanzees by their smaller size, blacker skin, longer legs, shorter arms, and more upright posture, but more significantly they differed in their behaviour. Unlike chimpanzees, females were dominant in their social groups, and also unlike chimpanzees, they tended to mediate disputes through sexual play rather than through violence. They became extinct in the wild due to poaching and habitat destruction during the early Information Age, but were maintained in breeding colonies. They were successfully provolved during the late Information Age. Despite the fact that they are much less aggressive than either humans or provolved chimpanzees, Sapientbonobos have been significant in the history of the Inner Sphere, particularly as founding members of the Institute For Primate Provolution and later of the New Beneficence, and have many descendant clades and polities elsewhere as well. As with other apes, it is thought that GAIA may have lazurogened the baseline species, even though there have been no unambiguous sightings by pilgrims to Old Earth. The largest confirmed "wild" populations of bonobos are found at Ao Lai.
BorderlinersHumans having reverted to primitivism because of abuse of cybernetics, nanoids or illicit means; most borderliners obviously have reasons to remain into hiding.
BorgGeneric term for a biont who uses radical bio-organ or cyborg augmentation to modify eir phenotype or body.
Borgismpopular homosexual Cyborg augmentation lifestyle that became a successful Lunar and Belter clade (the Borgists) during the Interplanetary Age
Borque K'tala somewhat ritualistic unarmed combat style found amongst some of the Sophic League, the Borque K'tal is noted for its extreme self-control at all levels of application, from the SI:<1 through the SI:>1s and even to a few SI:>2 physical sophonts.
It is a classic 'soft' style martial art, relying on subtlety more than physical force. It is known for being among the first martial art to include explicit training/indoctrination/inoculation of memetic conflict as well as physical conflict. A practitioner of Borque K'tal is often most noticeable through their extreme graceful movement for the form of being that they are.
Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC)state of matter in which a large number of bosons occupy the same quantum state. All are defined by a single quantum wave function. Important in picotech, has many useful properties and functions including bosers, superconductivity, micro blackholes, and exotic fluid dynamics.
bosera matter laser. The stimulated emission of BEC results in bosons marching in coherent phase. Bosers have many uses in energy storage and release, picotech engineering, as well as weapons systems
bosonOne of two quantum classes of fundamental particles. Distinguished by integer or zero spins (the statistics of their behaviour in groups governed by Bose-Einstein statistics, as first described by S. N. Bose and Albert Einstein) and hence being able to occupy the same quantum state at the same time. Include photons, gluons, and the Z and W weakons, plus particles such as mesons, atomic nuclei, and atoms, in which the half-integer spins of the components cancel or add to integer spins. Contrast fermion
BotA subsentient or sentient, semi- or fully autonomous software program or hardware device, robot, or remote; a simple (turingrade) vec, a vec body
BotanyThe study of plants and xenobiotic plant-analogues, including their biology, growth, ecology, cultivation, classification, growth, structure, physiology, and evolution
Bothyga M'Vau
BottleworldsVast simulated environments and virchworlds where the inhabitants do not know their reality is an emulation, and may be poorly treated
BotworldA mechosystem
that is independent and was not
designed to support civilization. The natural result of unsupervised
bots capable of self reproduction.
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Boundless Expansion
bounty hunterOne who tracks and retrieves other sophonts of equivalent toposophic, usually those wanted for criminal activities
bounty hunting, commercialA sport (illegal in many polities) where for a fee one is allowed to track and retrieve other sophonts
Bounty RunnersA small phyle of beings of varying toposophic levels whose single phyle-wide aspect is their enjoyment of outsmarting and disadvantaging bounty hunters.
Bourgatov 
Bourgatov collapse Bourgatov slavonic groupLanguages derived from the slavonic language spoken at Bourgatov. After its destruction many minorities fled and developed their own dialects. Spoken as majority languages in many minor outer volume colonies.
bovidDiverse family of terragen ungulate herbivores - include buffalo, cattle, antelopes, and other related forms. While some bovid species have been provolved, they are not as popular subjects of provolve as cats, dogs, parrots, octopi, etc. Most bovid provolves live in the Utopia Sphere. Bovid splices on the other hand are not uncommon across the galaxy, especially in association with lower baseline and near-baseline humans (the moldie-tweaked "Bull" for example is a popular andromorph sex toy). An interesting and characteristic bovid splice is the minotaur, specially modelled after an Old Earth myth
