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Zone of ai-claimed and settled worlds some 10-20 ly from Sol, mainly the Interplanetary Age solipsists went and built themselves virtopias. In many cases they are total isolationists, hogging resources but not doing anything. The diamond belt ais form an interesting political group in the Inner Sphere. In the post-ComEmp period they have begun to interact more strongly with their remote relatives in the wormhole nexus, forming a minor ai-only side in the inner sphere games.

Generic term for any zone or archipelago of solipsists ai-claimed and settled worlds; often involving extensive diamondoidization, computronium, nanecologies, megastructures, dyson spheres, and so on. A number of diamond belts are known in the middle regions and outer volumes. There interaction with the rest of the galaxy, and often with each other, is minimal.

Early Post- Diamond Belt SI:2 picotech civilization, originally mostly Inner Sphere, but spread outwards as the frontier expanded.

name given to a conservative revival of the early Diamond Light ahuman ai civilization that emerged in several red dwarf matrioshkas in the outer Crucis Corridor, during the 6800s.

A highly derived form of Pantheistic Materialist popular among some Science ISOs of the Diamond Network. It is incomprehensible to any sentient of less than 2nd singularity. Not to be confused with the Diamond Mysticism that developed around some of the early Diamond Belt megastructures during the late first federation period

diamond-like; chemical structures or systems (especially nanomachines as envisioned originally by Eric K. Drexler) based on diamond derivatives and/or stiff carbon bonds.

[1] the history and condition of humanity following the Great Expulsion

[2] humanity (or biont terragens in general) as a starfaring race scattered among the stars

method for determining the identity of a specimen (whether organic in organic, rl or vir) by proceeding through a series of choices, leading to the correct identification of the item. At each step of the process, the user is given two choices; each alternative leads to another questions until the identification is completed.

Absolute rule by one leader. This is a common, sometimes brutal, more rarely benevolent, but always fairly short lived phenomenon in worlds and star-systems where larger empire control is weak.

Uses buckytube optics and fractaform architecture to allow a large orbital habitat around a host star. Differs from Smoke Ring in that the ring itself only acts as a scaffold for habitats. A diffusion disk requires advanced picotech. There are a few throughout the MPA. See also Diffusion sphere

Type III Dyson Sphere that uses picotube cabling and fractaform architecture to allow maximal habitat around a host star. The sphere acts as a scaffold for habitats and computronium banks. Requires advanced picotech, and hence more difficult to construct than the Type I dyson. There are three in Keterist space, two in the Solar Dominion, and three in the MPA. See also Diffusion disk

archaic term for cryptographic currency. Payment by electronic means where the seller is guaranteed payment, but the buyer can remain anonymous. First established in Information Age Old Earth, still used in various forms in the Cyberian network

On Terrestrial Class worlds, a sheet-like intrusion of magma that forces its way through a layer of fractured rock. The magma flows through cracks in the rock and later cools and solidifies into a sheet of igneous rock.

The Dimension of Violence was a virtual environment theme especially popular among young radicals of the middle information era . In its rich iconology resided beings such as the creation parodies, the turnip humans and the feared dictator RatHitler.

(3512 - 5126) Former Metasoft Version Tree biont-guardian, later Dominion biontogenist

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Generic term for biont clades created by Dimimimon4 in the mid 5th millennium a.t.. e.g, Clade Gikk, Clade Cromag, Clad Fedhead, etc

Sentient who chooses miniaturisation (often to micro- or nano-scale) as a lifestyle or means or augmentation

Clade/Subculture of archosaurian rianthed devotionalists who identified with the memetic of the hyperturing GEvidan

Terragen formerly extinct Mesozoic archosaurian reptile. Most of the well-known species have been lazurogened with a greater or lesser faithfulness to historical authenticity; some of these have also been provolved. A large number of dinosaurs and other mesozoic species can be found on the surface of the terraformed and mesozoiformed planet Owen

Psi 5 Aurigae II Old core world founded by religionists, later subverted by genetekkers; rich in history and social experimentation

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Subversive hedonic movement that developed on Dionysos from the 16th and 17th centuries onwards. Emphasised erotic love, desire and pleasure as the guiding principles.

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Communion of Worlds Empires age social engineering experiment, was very much later to renege as Sopazism.

Pre-nanoswarm terms for (usually unskilled and poorly equipped) immigrants and refugees from Earth.

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Meeting between several Disarchy AI avatars and relativist Omeg Premacy representatives, following the emergence of a memetic blight near the Retina Nebula (IC 4406),

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A system of nanomachines able to take an object apart a few atoms at a time, while recording its structure at the molecular level. This could be used for uploading, copying objects (with an assembler), a dissolving agent or a weapon.

Idly fantasizing about possible catastrophes (nexus collapse, full-blown hyper-blight) without considering their likelihood or considering their possible solutions and preventions. ]

A type of rumored plancktech device, never actually confirmed

Term for a clade of peculiar madvert that follows people around asking questions usually of a pessimistic nature. Comes complete with various expressions and intelligence capabilities but often gives people sour grins when not provided with a satisfactory answer.

-term for any self replicating Discwuzit usually associated with luddite clades and houses.

a very rare clarketech device, much more common in fabulist tales than in real life. Most actual disintegrators work in different ways, showing their origin as rare artifacts. Almost all uses hypofemtotech to weaken the atomic bonds in the target so it vaporises in a huge ball of superheated gas. The range is not known to exceed 200 meters (more often no more than 50 meters), making it almost as dangerous to the user as the target Some weaken molecular bonds, some weaken atomic bonds (such as a weak force boson beam), the most powerful (probably never hand held) separate the quarks from each other.

When dealing with astronomical objects, distances are seldom specified in kilometers, because the numbers rapidly get too big to be manageable. Instead, AU, LY, and Parsecs are used

An intelligent entity which is distributed over a large volume (or inside another system, like a virtual network) with no distinct center. This is the opposite to the strategy of Concentrated intelligences.

Apocryphical tale about a baseline hu and an ai

A fact, that in simple problems, small intelligence is as good or better than an advanced one. As baseline humans are just intelligent enough to operate a standard starship or a wormhole, this explains why baselines were not wiped out by advanced ais.

Ultratech device of unknown origin

algorithms that continue forever, iterative systems, Mandelbrot-like fractals, virchworlds or alife environments that reaching a state such that all future states increase (sometimes exponentially) in size.

Memeticity which says that cultures tend to converge towards a few attractor states (for example the archailect empires), while the attractor states diverge from each other. A rival to the strong convergence hypothesis

A copy of a personality surviving in more than one body; a group of individuals sharing the same mental template, being largely isomorphic with each other (as measured by some scale).

The use of various techniques to foretell the future, usually based on an arbitrary randomiser or random event, such as Predictive Astrology, I Ching, Precliology, Quantum Gazing, Runes, Scrying, Tarot Cards, Wave Function Reading, and more.