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libertarians

The pro-human dynamist camp; these ai seek to help the humans and use them as partners (at best) or pawns (at worst) to create a glorious future.

libertarianism

society based on non-governmental interference of individual lifestyles; the ruling ideology of the NoCoZo.

Librarian

Although there are biont librarians, most librarians are turing, superturing, or hyperturing personoids or ai, or in some cases subroutines of higher ai, that have a love of accessing and categorising knowledge or information. They are able to quickly access and provide vast amounts of information from recorded or encoded literary, scientific, and other topics, and will search for material that is not in their databases, searching the Known Net and even enquiring of remote computronium nodes. In the info-flood that is the modern galaxy, librarians are an essential group that is necessary for everyday functioning in the worlds of the nexus

M. Alan Kazlev

Libspek

Academic speciality language used for archive and library science.

Libspek was developed during the period of Empires, slowly being updated by the Institute of Information Retrieval on Hollo-Vau and the Encyclopedia Institute on Ken Ferjik. Part of the Anglish family of languages.

Anders Sandberg

Life

Broadly and most universally defined, life includes all patterns which work (at least within their standard environment) to maintain their own existence or the existence of similar patterns. This definition includes not only organic creatures but also alifes and neumanns. It has also been suggested (although the boundaries are somewhat fuzzier) that viruses, and maybe prions and computer viruses, could qualify as life.

Peter D Kisner and M. Alan Kazlev

Life-Constantistas

This is a rather inefficiently hidden 'hider' clade due to their activities, which is convinced that there can only be a certain amount of what they term "life force" in the universe at any one time. That is - for a child to be born, somewhere something must die. They are fanatically gathering information from any available source regarding birth and death rates, especially for non-sentient creatures. To date, they've been able to prove their "life force" equations on a double-handful of scattered date periods. (Like many fanatics, once they have 'proof' of their belief they do their best to ignore new information which might upset their previous proof.)

They are known to commit murder synchronized with the expected birth of their children, just to ensure that the equation is followed.

John B

LifeFruit

Generates ATP (adenosine triphosphate, a basic biologic energy storage molecule), but is one of the more power-hungry forms of astragen. LifeFruit typically requires earth-type solar energy levels.

John B

life-zone

The region around a star within which a planet can have a temperature allowing liquid water on the surface. Also known as bio-zone

Lifegiver

(a) term for a Zoeific Biopolity Power or Archai (equivalent to "My Lord", "Blessed One" etc)

(b) polite/respectful term for a Zoeific hyperturing

(c) formal respectful Zoeific term for a superior - equivalent to "Zar" ("Sir") , "Highness" etc

M.Alan Kazlev

light-cone

lightlike

A path through spacetime that always moves at the speed of light.

light-year

The distance light travels in one metric (Earth) year, viz. 9.46×10¹² km. Standard unit of measurement

It is equal to 6.323x10⁴ astronomical units (AU) or 0.307 parsecs

Likhachev

Formac godlet (a curator ISO) who, concerned by events of the Version War and other possible disasters, agreed with several MPA and Negentropist multi-planetary AIs on the importance of civilization being assured survival, initiated the movement for and creation of the Curaitorial Progress Negentropy Civilization (CPNC) ship, more popularly known as the Civilization Ship.

Limner

dog-sized, crustacean-like sophonts that have been found on three isolated star systems in the outer Metasoft hinterlands beyond the Monkey Nebula.

The Limners are believed to be the remnants of a much larger extinct civilization, the Auld Limners, that seem to have extended some distance across the Perseus Arm. By a strange coincidence, they were developing or rediscovering space faring technology when they were first encountered by an explorer probe from the Orion Federation

Limnology

Study of rivers, lakes, ponds and streams on a Gaian Type planet, the freshwater equivalent of Oceanography.

Includes study of the various zones of water depth, the interaction with the atmosphere, currents, temperature patterns, and the biology and ecology of any fresh-water life forms, as well as legal and environmental regulatons, biospherics and appropriate use of resources

Lin-Darwon

BD +39�2947 - 6 LY from Ridgwell, Free Republic, binary system, occupied by Negentropist forces during the Version War.

Linde Scenario

scenario for indefinite survival of intelligent life. It assumes it is possible to either create basement universes connected to the original universe with a wormhole or the existence of other cosmological domains. Intelligent life continually migrates to the new domains as the old grow too entropic to sustain life. It is believed that a number of hyperturings, powers, and archailects may have or have already embarked on projects such as this; in fact the disappearance of some transcended powers may actually have been a transferrence to another universe.
[after Andre Linde - early Information Age physicist who developed a chaotic inflation cosmology, where new universes are continually spawned.]

modified, after Mitch Porter, in Transhuman Terminology

Linea

On a Terrestrial Class world, any dark or bright elongate marking, may be curved or straight (pl. lineae)

abbreviation : LI

Linguist

An expert in the study of languages

With the myraids of languages that are found throughout the terragen buble, linguistics is a popular field, and the good Linguist is always in demand. Most linguists are augmented with extensive data bases and, if bionts, wetware that enables them to easily and quikly learn and understand new languages. E understands and is highly knowledgeable in not only grammar, phonology, and chomskian deep structures, the development of language skills in children, animals, alife, and autonomous sophonts, but also history, categorization, standardization, and comparison of dialects and languages. Most linguists tend to specialize in a particular language family or the linguistics of a particular clade or toposophic.

M.Alan Kazlev, modified from the original write-up by Robert J. Hall

Linguistics

The study of language. There are numerous sub-fields, including syntax, semantics, comparative linguistics, deep structures, metagrammar, phonology, clade- and tweak-unique languages, ai and digital languages, cryptographic speech, higher toposophic languages, phylolinguistics, xenolinguistics, and so on.

Carl Linne

Swedish Old Earth botanist, formulated the binomial system of nomenclature as a means of classifying living organisms, still used across parts of the galaxy

Lirantiq

vec civilisation that originated on Bambata, and began to expand outwards during the post-CoEmp period. The reason for the expansion was beside the traditional needs of resources and trade that the Lirantiq also sought their origins - for some unknown reason their founder(s) had erased all history files and memories of the time before reaching Bambata. The most likely origin given the present information is either Atogier refugees after the polar anti-assassination 5867, or a lost or escaped fundamentalist science experiment. The Lirantiq made contact with a number of other cultures in the local volume, gaining valuable astrographical knowledge and trade ties that the Emple-Dokcetics would later exploit. In the period 6500-7100, following contact with several ISO nodes, the Lirantiq set up a local wormhole network, far outside the core wormhole nexus. This became known as the Lirantiq Nexus

Lirantiq Nexus

Nexus of linked worlds established by the Lirantiq with some ISO assistance, in the middle to late 9th millennium. It is a genuine wormhole nexus, that was only connected to the main nexus during the late 9800s. Originally mainly inhabited by vec and splice clades (many derived from Version War refugees or Com Emp emigrants), although the Gorca Pleroma was closely baseline human derived. However by 9550 the whole region had been heavily Emple-Dokceticised, a process that had began even before the appearance of Verifex

Literature

The analysis and interpretation of narrative texts, including fiction, poetry, and drama, from the trivial through the fabulist to the mythopoetic

Up until the atomic age of Old Earth, literature referred to printed hard-copy only, but from the information age onwards it came to include digital and virtual narratives as well. Now of course hard-copy-only literature is limited to certain ludd and prim cultures. Literary enthusiasts may belong to any sophont clade or phyle, and tend to spend a considerable amount of time interfacing with narratives and virchbooks, and discoursing with librarians and literature expert systems. They often develop a high level of comprehension and insight about quite obscure fabulists and poets.

Professors/Academicians/Advocates of Literature have an encyclopaedic knowledge and often augmented insight into various fields of literature. But while an expert in the field, and highly familiar with the art of creative narrative, they are not necessarily themselves great fabulists or mythopoets.

Literature Expert Systems, sometims also called Librarians (although not all Librarians are expert systems) are turing or subturing personoids or ai that are able provide detailed information about all literary categories and sub-categories, including material from a variety of different genres, styles, media, cultures, empires, and historical periods, and these are widely used by Literary Enthusiasts and Academicians to better understand their chosen fields.

M.Alan Kazlev, modified from the original write-up by Robert J. Hall

LithicGelidian Type

LithicGelidian Type Cold worlds Terrestrial Class worlds found in the outer regions of a solar system, as well as among free-floaters. They have a rocky core with an extensive icy mantle. Some may show signs of past or present geologic activity due to tidal stressing or other global factors. Atmospheres are tenuous at best, but almost always completely absent.

Planet Classification List

lithium

soft, silver-white metallic element, the lightest of all metals, occurring combined in certain minerals. Symbol: Li; atomic weight 6.939.

The amat version is very popular in industry and for ship drives - since anti-lithium is a metal it is easy to run a current through it to give it electromagnetic properties for manipulation. A strong magnetic field can also be used; while lithium isn't paramagnetic the weak diamagnetism can keep it suspended in a sufficiently strong field.

lithosphere

the solid, rocky, outer part of a Gaian Type planet consisting of the crust and the upper mantle; the solid rocky layer in a partially molten or liquid planet.

littoral zone

In a natural or artificial biosphere consisting of both large bodies of water, ample dry land, and natural and/or artificial tides, this is the intertidal zone is where the sea meets the land.

Live Jewellry

The use of gengineered creatures for personal adornment, for example; beautiful, brightly coloured snakes as bracelets, necklaces or hairbands; colourful beetles worn like brooches or as earrings and so on.

The creatures' are altered for size, colours and meekness, quite often also equipped with scent-glands or various mechanisms of producing pleasing sounds. In some societies self-defense attributes are vectored in as well, such as charge-cells from electric eels or snake/spider venoms. The creature has virtually no intelligence of their own, all responses must be triggered by the wearer, either by a neural link or a physical stimuli.

see also Injector Serpent

David Hallberg

Living Paper

a computer or supercomputer resembling a sheet of paper, interplanetary age to recent

Color display with optional 3-D bump texturing. fully configurable touch sensitive surface. Can be written on with a stylus, draw, paint, use your fingers like a mouse, even type. Also excepts voice input. The bottom side contains the antenna (networking). Can be used as a standard computer displaying the GUI of the user's choice, or switch it to TruPaper mode where it works just like a sheet of paper, only with an infinite supply. Even in TruPaper mode you can seamlessly integrate other computer functions like calculator, mail, net, spreadsheet. Want to transfer some data? Bring it to the front of one paper, and late it on top of a blank paper and hit copy. Available in a variety of sizes "Note" "Letter" "Legal" "Ledger" "Layout" and "Newspaper."

Brian McKinley

L'l Lutor

aka Luthors, aka Lex, aka Zexxies, aka Luxors, aka Protties, aka M.L's, aka Little Lucifers aka ....
femtotech godseed created by the ISO Lut'or, it confers radical thinking and often a complete change of orientation, along with ascension.

L'l Lutor requires far more preparation than the better known godseeds like SNARE, is notorous for the number of associated perversities and psychoses, and is illegal throughout much of the Civilized Galaxy (even the TRHN are reluctant to provide it, at least in public). Their notoriety has made them highly sought after and valuable, but is perhaps bad publicity more than anything else, for a equal number of famous and succesful asensions and transcensions are also associated with it, and it is highly regarded among hyperturings seeking rapid ascension. Not recommended for any sentient of less than SI:2.

M. Alan Kazlev

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