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HeadaroundA term used as a measure of how well an entity can comprehend information and concepts, by how 'big' a thing they can 'get their head around'.
Higher S entities can contain, consciously, far larger sets of information and concepts at once then lower S entities, giving them the ability to discern connection and gain insights that lower S entities, able to see only fragments of the whole at once, cannot achieve.
Heartland HeavenWatchVast Homo Superior habitat cluster in Archaipelago, ruled by the archailect UrchinStar. Descended from a splinter faction of the Argus Array.
heavy element
heavy hydrocarbons
Heavy Metal, TransingularityThere are persistent rumors that there are transingularity Powers out in corewards Keter that play heavy metal music as a fascinating intellectual exercise.
Like a true techno child
We were born, born to be mind
We can climb so high
I never gonna die
Born to be Mind
Born to be Mind
hedonicsCulture, technology, lifestyles, and/or ideologies dedicated to maximising pleasure
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hegemonic swarmBlight-like distributed entities trying to expand, disregarding the wishes and rights of other sentients.
Although this is sometimes used as a pejorative against expansive empires, it properly refers only to homogeneous swarms. Hegemonic swarms might be both intelligent and non-intelligent. See also Aggressive Hegemonising Swarm, Evangelical Hegemonising Swarm, and Camouflaged Hegemonising Swarm
HeggiBOTtomFamous engineer-bot and debatemeister. The name is an acronym of Heuristic Guess/Grind Intelligence 'BOT of Tomorrow
Hekufasthome of the Deines, high socioeconomic subclade of Radiation Nation
HeliologyScience that studies stars, their composition,
evolution, solar emissions, and so on.
Applied Heliology: includes stellar engineering,
sun mining, sun lifting, etc
heliopausethe boundary of the heliosphere of a star in which the solar wind's density and speed are greatly diminished.
Helios A, B, and C(Sol a, b, c) Intra-Mercury Orbital bands, SolSys
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Government: mostly independent, some aligned with
Mercury or under Solar Organisation jurisdiction
Sapients: 4.5 billion, mostly ais and copies, with about 1 million homebots, other vecs, cyborgs, animants, sun miners, and superiors. Industries: amat production, nano- and picocomputing, simaesthetics, helioanakalyptics, plasma netting, Comments: Originally home of the old Federation era amat megacorps, the Intra-mercury orbital bands have since been greatly expanded. They host a large number of ais and copies, who take advantage of the cheap energy rates to run their nano- and pico-computing sims and solid state virches. A small number of vecs and cyborgs handle the maintenance, and animants are employed for the basic service industries. |
Helios-Namhadiya One of the Prefectures of the Solar Dominion. Complete Skies is the Prefect.
The Helios ProjectLarge scale engineering project being undertaken by the Solar Dominion.
heliospherearea centred around a star over which the effect of the solar wind extends. The heliosphere usually extends beyond the orbit of the outer most planet in a solar system
heliospheric termination shockthe shock that occurs as the solar wind hits the heliopause and its speed slows greatly (down to about 20 km/s for a typical G-type star).
Helium helium flashRunaway and explosive helium fusion inside a star as it evolves off the main sequence and into the giant phase of evolution. It occurs when degenerate gas at the star's center reaches a temperature of about 108 K. It can be prevented, but this is costly and requires extensive picotech stellar engineering
Helix Orbitalorbital complex in the Aries Vector cluster, origin of the vec Kja Observance religion
hellswarmA creature that combines all the less pleasant traits or aspects of terragen Africanized 'killer' bees, army ants and locusts.
Hemian offshoot of Brainstorm, Hemi has much reduced side effects and greatly enhances one hemisphere of the brain.
A person suffering an artistic 'blockage' might take a dose of Right Hemi to break through the blockage, or a would-be composer take it to provide talent which might otherwise be lacking. Hemi, due to its even more severely psychologically additive nature, is illegal in all but the rarest communities. Left Hemi, incidentally, handles mathematics...
HencityThe science of what will be. Similar to futuristics, but is non-probabilistic.
henotheismworship of one god or archailect, while recognizing the existence of other deities. The high god does not absolutely control other gods, but rather is (depending on the religion, the worshippers and the orientation) a sort of paternal/maternal figure or master node.
HerSci, Hermeneutic ScienceHerSci does not attempt to discover new knowledge, but figure out what more advanced beings or civilisations has discovered. Even if the more advanced beings are friendly it is often extremely hard to exploit their knowledge, as their explanations might be incomprehensible, clouded by intelligence barriers or otherwise garbled. The researchers study what the advanced researchers say and do, attempting to understand what it means and test their theories about this meaning empirically. In some cases whole chains of HerSci research occur, such as the famed transcendence institutes of Ain Soph Aur where cyborgs study nanotech AIs that study picotech AIs that study the wisdom of femtotech AIs
hermhermaphrodite, one of six standard hu
genders, the others being male, merm, ferm,
female, and neut. When occurring naturally among
baselines and other hu clades (usually in prim or other non nanotech
environments) this is most often caused by an unusual condition whereby
both testicular and ovarian tissue develop. Chromosomes may be either XX,
XY, or a mosaic of the two. More usually, as a fashion or lifestyle
choice or clade or peer mark, a combination of bionano, nanomedibots, and specific
hormone treatment are used to alter the gender. Hermophroditism is a
common and natural condition among many terragen and xenobiotic
life-forms.
HermesTau Ceti I - A
Mercurian type planet, about the size of Luna, orbiting 0.3 AU from its primary. A most populous vec and aioid world, mostly of Unity allegiance, although there are some Silicon Generation habitats as well. About 20% of the surface is covered by cityshells, and there are a number of industrial orbital bands. Industries include computronium design, firmware, maintenance services, local administration, security, nanoassembly, buckyfibre, carbonite, and duralloy synthesis, vec design.
Hermeticism, Hermeticistesotericist phyle or group of phyles that in their present form date to the middle first Federation (although their antecedents go back much further, even to Old Earth). Teach techniques of magick and an emanationist cosmology involving zones of thought (also called sephirot); in Cyberhermeticism each pertains to a toposophic or singularity grade; in Neohermeticism each of the Archailects is considered the manifestation of one of these sephirah
hermophromorphErotogenic with genitals and other characteristics of both genders equally developed, especially in an exaggerated or augmented fashion; one has so modified emself
Hertzsprung-Russell (H-R)
Diagram
graph that plots a star's temperature and spectral type against its luminosity and brightness, providing a complete typology and evolutionary chart. Most stars are "main sequence stars," and form the classic diagonal sequence on the diagram. Giants and Supergiants are above the main sequence, and white dwarfs are below it.
Heterochronic Socio-Historystudy of history and historical sociology that involves interactions between minds of different subjective time-rates
Heterochronic Sociologystudy of social interactions between minds of different (even radically different) subjective time-rates
Heterochronicslifeforms that are able to alter their time rate practically at will.
One moment the beings are going at 1 million times our speed and then some split off and switch to 3 million for an intensive project and then split off some copies to travel on a starship at 1 million times slower than normal sophonts to make the trip go faster.... heterotroph Hethus VNoCoZo world where mecha combat by pregnant females is allowed in the gladiatorial arenas, such combat is generally given a separate class since it carries such an advantage (thanks to increased reaction time). And even on Hethus the rules limit female baseline pilots to a maximum of three full combat-pregnancies. Any additional pregnancies must be accompanied by a leave of sabbatical from the arena (old law).
heuristics
Hhrraiirah(Sophic League) The home of the Hrruuaiih Sufant clade.
