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Hibra

Crucis Corridor world, where Stig Ranes is revered as a martyr and culture hero.

Hidalgo Emergent Order

Hidalgo Emergent Order was a very expansive tweak-cyborg clade/corp that flourished during the late Federation and Expansion ages, setting up asteroid-based societies in the region between Capella and Pollux and becoming an important regional superpower. Using aggressive in vitro techniques they cloned large populations, but were unable to prevent Conver Ambi from gaining a monopoly on vital nanodesign objects, giving them an ever stronger hold on the Order. Eventually most of the Order joined the Conver Ambi, with the exception of a number of habitats that committed collective suicide.

Anders Sandberg

High density matter stabilization

creation of stable artificial neutronium at less than neutron star masses. Useful as a computational substrate, and in VERY thin sheets as a form of armour for nonmobile space installations.

Todd Drashner

High Frontier

Information Age term for space beyond Old Earth as the frontier for development. Although romanticised during the interplanetary age as a great land of opportunity, the reality was never quite as exciting as the myth.

M. Alan Kazlev

Hightower

Primary world within the Deeper Covenant Realm. Hightower is in close proximity (100 million km) to the Deep Gate Wormhole linking The Realm to Dam Tellion and the Wormhole Nexus.

Hildemar's Knots

Alien species first discovered in the neutron star KJEI-54-458945 in the Einstein's Revenge Cluster. They consist of knots of the vortex and charge tubes in the neutronium mantle of the neutron star; each individual is a few centimetres across and lives on soliton waves and neutrino flows. They are based on nuclear matter processes, acting naturally on the femtosecond timescale and have picotech manipulation abilities. The Einstein's Revenge Cluster consists of 34 neutron stars, apparently the result of timed supernovas several hundred million years ago. It is unknown if they were caused by the Knots or some species which created the Knots, but all neutron stars are inhabited by different versions of the Knots.

The Knots appear to have a largely non-material culture where the basis of interaction is trade in self, orthodoxy and authentic noise (?) according to the communication attempts that have been undertaken by various interstellar institutes. Knots appear to view the world as an eternal unchanging structure, where they just play out its logical unfolding in order to cause their existence (?). Most contact attempts have failed, as the Knots consider the world outside the neutronium a highly abstract mathematical problem rather than something to interact with.

Anders Sandberg

Himmelsschmiede

Heavy industrialized system in MPA space One of the largest Deep Well industrialized Zones in the terragen sphere

Hinduism

Old Earth to First Federation age religion practiced by people of Indian ethnic group; Henotheistic, usually panentheistic/monistic (or sometimes dualistic), believes in karma and the transmigration of souls, a cyclic universe, and the attainment of liberation (mukti or moksha) through knowledge, devotion, works, or yoga

M. Alan Kazlev

Hinton

newly rich developing outer sphere world, important regional center, linked to main wormhole nexus. Popular with a number of clades, including young House Stevens radicals disillusioned with "House Ridgewell".

Hipparkos

Important NoCoZo system

historian

One who studies any aspect of history. Historians may belong to any race, clade, phyle or toposophic. Since the field of study is as vast as the mindkind emself, most historians specialise in specific areas of history.

M. Alan Kazlev

Historians Association (ai)

biont term for an important association of Diamond Network 2nd singularity hyperturings, interested in archailectological history. Their findings are regularly posted on the Known Net, and are freely available to sophonts of any metaempire, provided they have the right translation software that is

M. Alan Kazlev

historical diaconcentrism

the tendency for the peripheral regions to be historically and technologically backward - "living fossils" - in relation to the inner sphere (owing to the amount of transit time - usually many centuries - required to get there). Moving from the core to the periphery is in a sense like moving back in time. This phenomenon breaks down as the outer volume worlds develop their own cultures and civilisations.

M. Alan Kazlev

Historico-Sociomorphotypal Criticism

Social Science that deals with the understanding and analysis of the morphotypic, social, and cultural characteristics and evolution of a clade, culture, memeplex, or polity; used to distinguish the real meaning from the apparent and usually popular literal or superficial interpretation. In important element in historical and cliological reconstructions

M Alan Kazlev

history

Study of the recorded past according to written or digital records and cliological simulation

Among the many subdivisions are ai, alternative, archailect, art, comparative, cyber, galactic, linguistic, memetic, military, political, religious, science, social, virtual, xenosophont, and consideration of specific historical periods, specific clades or cultures, specific worlds or solar systems, specific chronometrics (nanosecond-history, etc) and toposophic levels (e.g. history of 3rd singularity minds, etc).

M. Alan Kazlev

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