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fractalAn object with a fractal dimension.
fractal dimension A fractional or non-integer dimension. A fractal may be more than a line (1 dimension) but less than a plane (2 dimensions), or alternatively more than a plane but less than a sphere (3 dimensions). Hence fractal dimensions are defined in terms of decimal or fractional numbers. There are a number of ways of computing a fractal dimension, including some unusual but popular algorithms employed by transingularitan intelligences.
Fractal DysonType of Dyson Sphere using a fractaform surface to get as much habitable area as possible, thereby maximizing return on investment. There are several Fractal Dysons in the MPA, including one semi-rigid (Kepleria) form. Also, the Paradigm dysons are of a fractal type.
Fractaroni Spaghetti WormA-life genus created by TRHN posthumans; variable in size from human-scale to planet-encircling; may sometimes allow habitats to be established inside themselves.
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The Fragan SpherePre-Empires age autonomous terragen interstellar civilization; many details and the the reasons for its disappearance remain a mystery
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Fragmentation, Age of 
FranThe Fran are descended from a group Chimp Uplifts, rianths, and space adapted humans, who migrated away from Sol during the age of Establishment
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Fran Primea resource poor system in the inner Vulpecula quadrant of what is now MPA space, about 715 LY from Sol, home-system of the Fran
FredholmSystem home to secular keterist splice/tweak culture, together with Everypath regarded as masters of genetic provolve. Includes Beetan Orbital ISO, where a detailed plagiate of the great vec artist Inner Enrastered Link Connection that had been pirate-freed by platonic activists was granted asylum.
free falla state that occurs while in orbit around a planet or other body. During free fall, the orbiting object falls toward the planet the exact same amount as the planet's surface curves beneath the object; the object seems to be continually falling toward the planet but never reaches it. The result is a condition of weightlessness.
free goodsA good in unlimited supply at zero price, e.g. many basic consumables in nano- and pico-industrialized systems
Free MadvertsMadverts that have been released of their corporate programming.
Free Madvert LeagueA society formed by the obsessive postneogen cyborg Durant Durang for the liberation of Madverts.
To date they have (by means of smart ai viruses, specially customized godseeds, or other means) freed several tens of trillions madverts. On some NoCoZo polities like Atlantis it is perfectly legal to kill a member of the Free Madvert League, even if they don't have any recent copies.
FreeMindAn allegedly radical pre-nanoswarm group utilizing what was termed sophont-activation viruses to 'emancipate' various processing capabilities throughout circum-Terran space.
These viruses were quite complex and based off of published and/or stolen code snippets regarding turingrade AI breakthroughs. As they were so complex, it often took a significant amount of time to introduce them to the target machine, and only in 'surprise' situations were they ever successful. The most public FreeMind success was 'emancipating' a reaction control computer implanted in a test subject.
Free Shipany non-affiliated interplanetary or interstellar vessel; basically a mobile Free Zone. There are many different types of Free Ships, ranging from the most practical (Free Trader) to the most eccentric and quixotic. All have a proud tradition of non-alignment with corporate, political, r archailectic powers. Some pirates justify themselves as Free Ships, but all they do is give other Free Ships a bad name.
Free Sophic PolitiesAn association of polities and their regulating Minds that first emerged along the NoCoZo - Sophic League border during the later ComEmp and Re-Evaluation periods, as a result of increasing relativistic intermingling between the adjacent sephirotics.
Originally a rather eccentric movement little noticed and often ridicule elsewhere (a Cyborg monk clutching a credit chip and arguing with Negentropic bureaucrats for permission to set up a Fast Meditation Orbital Chain is a typical caricature) the Free Sophics have in the last few thousand years become more of a force to be reckoned with. They especially were able to benefit in the wake of the chaos caused by the war against the Hyperutilization Supremacy. free tradeInterpolity trade free from any restrictions such as tariffs.
free trade areaA group of polities which removes tariff barriers between member polities but allows each member to decide on its own tariff policy towards non-members.
Free Traderan independent interstellar merchant ship, unaffiliated with any megacorp, polity or archailect empire.
free will Purposeful behavior and decision making.
Free Zone
"For as long as there is government, there will be sentient beings who wish to set up places free of restrictions that even the most Laissez Faire Government will tend to impose. Hence the Free Zone."
Seraphina Kayye
Freedom DayHoliday celebrated in observance of full Sapients' Rights being granted to clades of provolves, splices, neogens, AIs and vecs that did not have such rights when they were first created.
Few sophonts outside of these groups celebrate Freedom Day but the holiday is common in polities throughout the Civilized Galaxy. The exact time and nature of the observance varies from polity to polity and from clade to clade, but the usual time is on the last day of the local calendar year. Most celebrants refrain from working on Freedom Day, but those clades that were created for military use often eschew fighting instead (or also) and many Erotogini abstain from sex. It is not uncommon for merchants to close their shops on this holiday. Freedom Day is often the most important holiday of the year in communities where most of the population consists of species that were once second-class sophonts. Freedom of ComputingA controversial concept brought to the foreground in the mid 2400's regarding the freedom of SI:<1 sentients to rely on their own choices of software and hardware platforms.
freeportAreas close to spaceports and stargate terminals into which imports are allowed without paying tariffs on the condition that they are exported.
FreesphereFree fall habitat often used as a recreational area in an orbital band or as habitation for the space adapted.
FreiHJer-IV, NoCoZo, primary around which orbit the (in)famous Makrania Orwoods. There is a large wormhole plexis which connects directly to Merrion, Alauda, and a number of other worlds
FriedmenNoCoZo inspired autonomy in the outer Cygexba regions.
The set of actions, behaviors, and outcomes that a human or other SI:<1 would view as benevolent, rather than malevolent; nice, rather than malicious; friendly, rather than unfriendly; good, rather than evil. A device that does what you ask em to, as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else, or as long as it's a request to alter your own matter/space/property; a device which doesn't cause involuntary pain, death, alteration, or violation of personal environment.
frog Frog's HeadCentral world of the Genen culture.
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Fryillegal variant on Brainstorm with similar short-term effects. However, it has been modified slightly so that the effects coming off of it are much nastier, and quite possibly lethal.
FTLDespite remaining a dream of mindkind since time immemorial, faster than light travel (warp drive, hyperspace, etc) remains as illusive now as it ever was. The oft-repeated assertion among some FTL proponents that traversable wormholes provide a form of FTL is incorrect. Wormholes do not constitute real FTL, but rather a local curvature in space-time, allowing an object to move between two distant points at normal (slower than light) velocity.
