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InterPlaNet, Interplanetary Network, the extension of the Internet to CisLunar and interplanetary space. Information Age to Nanotech Interplanetary Age

metallic chemical element; symbol Fe atomic number 26; (group VIII of the periodic table). Iron is the most tightly bound atomic nucleus, and is not used for energy generation in either fusion or fission. It exists in four distinct natural crystalline forms and there are many thousands of picotech-modified artificial forms. It is a good conductor of heat and electricity. White dwarfs consist almost entirely of iron. Iron is a component of hemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying pigment of the red blood cells of terragen vertebrates

On Old Earth the use of smelted iron ornaments and ceremonial weapons in Asia, Egypt, and Europe that followed the Bronze Age; generally middle 2nd millennium b.c.e onwards. Included advances in economics, and development of feudal societies, better utilization of crops and domesticated animals (such as ox-drawn plows and wheeled vehicles, distinctive art styles in metal, pottery, and stone, warfare on horseback and in horse-drawn chariots, and in the Mediterranean area alphabetic writing based on the Phoenician script. The casting of iron did not become technically useful until the Industrial Revolution.

A meteor/meteorite composed of a nearly pure nickel-iron alloy.

A galaxy of amorphous or chaotic appearance, possessing large clouds of gas and dust, and both population I and population II stars, but no spiral arms or nucleus. They are thought to result from a collision with a larger galaxy, pulling them out of shape. Most have relatively low mass (about a hundred million to ten billion stars). About 25% of all galaxies are irregular.

small Negentropist system about 15 LY Solward of Greylag, famous for being the first port of call of the the Sentient Museum Ship Ken Ferjik

NoCoZo world, home to the famous Mayane collection, which features some important examples of Perfect Art

Old Earth monotheistic religion based on belief in one God and Muhammad (circa 570 to 632 c.e.) as the last of a series of Prophets of God. It became the largest religion on Earth by the middle Information Age, and split into a number of space-based sects during the Interplanetary Period. The post-expulsion Stellar Umma was based on a combination of Orbital Islam and reformed Earth-based Islam. A few traditional baseline practitioners can still be found throughout the old Stella Umma volume

A large construct intended for the housing of an archailect or transapient or a high singularity culture or civilization. ISOs can be mobile or stationary, with sizes ranging from a few kilometers to Dyson spheres.

Method of avoiding viral attacks by isolating one's awareness from the rest of the universe

Designer of ISOs. A notably posthuman profession which among subsingularity beings has the connotation of "something hyperturings do". A statement like "E's an isotect" implies that the referred being is doing something unknowable.

an atom that posses a different number of neutrons to others of the same element, giving it a different atomic weight. Each element may have many possible isotopic forms, but only a few are naturally stable.

The specific impulse of the motor in vacuum. The higher the number, the more efficient the motor. Isp is measured in seconds since specific impulse measures the kilograms-thrust the motor generates per kilogram of fuel per second of operation (kgf/(kg/sec)) = sec).

a repetition of a statement or statements in a program; a problem-solving or computational method in which a succession of approximations, each building on the one preceding, in order to achieve a reasonably accuracy result.

MPA system; M-type star near Djed, the site of the original Argus Array. The array wormholes have made this once unassuming local region an important information node, so by now a thriving information economy exists in the system, although subordinate to the Array Council.