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Particularly volatile rich protostellar nebula, outer Sagittarius Volume. Modified by the lesser archai Cold Fire to support an artificial, deep space modified ecology. Numerous artificial lifeforms, both micro and macroscopic inhabit the Veil. The purpose of the construct is unknown. Hypotheses range from an experiment on the limits of vacuum adapted life to a work of art to the archai equivalent of a fishpond. Cold Fire has so far refused to acknowledge any and all enquiries on the matter.

A natural Earth-like planet, one of rarest types of Terrestrial Class of planet, although the most valued by terragens.

Used to designate the geological period on Earth from the Great Expulsion onwards

The dense central region of a galaxy. The central region of the Milky Way, like many other galaxies, is densely crowded with stars, pulsars, white dwarfs, and other objects. It contains a massive central object, Sagittarius A*.

Based in the Laurentin-B Shell, Nthcubed Dyson, Nthcubed, the Galactic Heritage Institute is not only the largest Institute of its type, but also the unofficial cultural decision-making entity of the Triumvirate. The Institute decides on the most important places, beings, and objects of cultural heritage not only in the Triumvirate alone, but throughout the entire civilized galaxy. The Institutes's great Lists are central in the manifesto of Recommended replicated objects used by Civilization Ships

Branch of science and school of philosophy dealing with the history of mindkind in the Galaxy as a whole. No specific emphasis is given to terragen life or civilization, beyond acknowledging it as one more civilization to arise, and eventually to pass away. One of the problems Galactic History enquires into is the enigma of alien civilizations. Since a hypersingulitaritan entity is potentially immortal, it is not clear why earlier AIs and Postaliens are not still in existence

Form of astrology entered on the Galactic disc rather than the Earth or sun's position

One of the founders of the First Federation, Fay Galarreta of Vesta was to many the inspiration of the new leadership. A charismatic political scientist-cyberneticist who formulated the widely acclaimed first principles of of how to make use of integrated AI advice and simulation in interplanetary government. While she died just three years before the Federation was founded her ideas on nanotech security and transrational game theory applied in politics became the basis of the federation movement.

A gravitationally bound collection of stars, dust, and gas with a mass ranging from 100 million to 10 billion times that of the sun. Types include spiral, elliptical, and irregular

middle regions system, part of the Mutual Progress Alliance, home to the megascale engineering project known as the Galbydeia Torus and the largest collection of artificial black holes in any system.

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The most profitable of several NoCoZo megacorps which maps, makes easily searchable, and caches large sections of the Known Net for its subscribers.

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the four largest moons of Jupiter: Ganymede, Io, Callisto, and Europa. They were discovered by Galileo in 1610

Italian mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (Old Earth); one of the creators of the scientific method of hypothesis, experiment and theory formation. Discovered that (contrary to Aristotle's teachings) the speed at which bodies fall does not depend on their weight. Invented the thermometer. Did not invent the telescope but was the first to sue it for astronomical purposes; discovered the rings of Saturn, the four major moons of Jupiter, the phases of Venus, sunspots, and many other important phenomena. Advocated the Heliocentric (Copernican) system, was accused of heresy by the Inquisition (in 1633, less for his Copernicanism and more because the Pope felt he was being satirised in Galileo's book) and spent the remainder of his life under house arrest.

Cybercosm virtual wargame

A mathematical theory that deals with strategies for maximizing gains and minimizing losses within certain prescribed constraints, incredibly sophisticated variants are widely used by AIs in the solution of various decision-making problems, as those of military strategy, business policy, economic theories, and sociology. Many military, ethical and economical applications.

In terragen life-forms that reproduce sexually, the mature male or female reproductive cell (sperm or ovum) with a haploid set of chromosomes (23 for baseline humans). A functionally similar configuration is found on a number of worlds with comparable xenobiota

Term that describes the strength of relativistic effects as an object attains a significant percentage the speed of light.

Center for Galactic Folklore and Mythopoesis

gamma radiation. A very high energy form of electromagnetic radiation, typically with wavelengths of less than 3 pm. Gamma rays are produced by specific nuclear decay processes, and are used to sterilize food and remove goo.

high intensity sources of gamma radiation.

a planet similar to Earth and hospitable to terragen life. May be either a natural Gaian Type planet or a world that has been terraformed, although the term is more often applied to the former.

Hyperturing through to lesser archailect political orientation, refers to those ai that will directly encourage and cultivate lower toposophics in their polity or territory, but only along their preferred morphotypal, memetic, and/or political lines. Any sophonts that don't fit in are quickly weeded out. Gardeners are found in all ai metaempires, but are most common in the Sephirotics and Diamond Network regions

A breakaway part of the Keter dominion. The Gardener is an AI cluster that creates new ecologies as a kind of art. It literally designs life, filling world after world with creative, beautiful, bizarre, horrifying or just odd lifeforms. It is more aligned with Keter than the Caretaker Gods, and doesn't seem to care much for local sentients as long as they don't interfere with its projects.

Gas giant, home of a number of posthuman keterist clades. See also Barawatten

Negentropist world in the vicinity of Lynga 7 - home of Yarr Mak Po 4+ and the original YarrMakist doctrine

phase of matter that has low density, is easily compressible and expandable, and expands spontaneously when placed in a larger container. The atoms or molecules are widely separated and move around freely.

Diffuse atoms or molecules of gas in interstellar space, making up about 99% of the interstellar medium. Depending on density, the number of atoms range from 0.1 to 1 atoms per cubic cm of normal space, with up to 1000 per cm³ in gas clouds. About 75% is hydrogen, the remainder being helium with traces of other elements

Region of interstellar space, generally termed nebula, in which the density of atoms per cm³ range from around 10 to 1000. The temperature of these clouds is very cold, between 10 and 50 ° Kelvin, and may be in the form of wispy infrared cirrus. Gas clouds are about three quarters hydrogen and one quarter helium, with traces of other elements occurring. Although the density of gas is a vacuum by any planetary standards, space adapted clades and neogens are able to harvest the gas for various purposes.

See Jovian Class

Mythical wet being from mythology of virtual beings, which first introduced evil and corruption into the ancient unspoiled virtual world. In many aspects it is similar to Satan in Christianity.

shared Inner Sphere Metasoft-NoCoZo world - famous for the appearance of the so-called Femtotech Messiah

A huge Area in the Ninetiin Cluster, which was originally designated by the Nanloon Empire as a gateway to most of the areas in their empire, and also to other parts in the galaxy.

Sun-miner postbiont cyborg clade from the Gati system of the NoCoZo.

Bell-shaped curve, corresponding to the normal (Gaussian) distribution in probability

Resource poor outer volumes system.