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lubricracy

Government based on or infested by corruption.

Although some cultures have attempted deliberate lubricracies in order to get rid of corruption by institutionalising it, the system is never stable and tends to dissolve into anarchy, oligarchy or kleptarcy.

Anders Sandberg

ludd

generally, any clade or faction in opposition to high tech and the dominion of ai.

Not all ludds are prims; some prefer an atomic or early information-age level of technology. There are even a few unscrupulous ludd leaders who keep advanced tech for themselves while ensuring the masses under their control are disempowered by lack of technology
anglic, abbreviation of luddite - early industrial age group who destroyed labor-saving machinery in protest at the Industrial Revolution.

M. Alan Kazlev

The Luke Monastery Raid

in 10128 in Hyttinen (NoCoZo) the SCLArmy, a radical militant activist splinter group from the Sentient's Clone Liberation Association launched a terrorist raid on Luke Monastery, the local Church of the Original Sacrament monastery, killing several of the worshippers and priests (fortunately they all had copies) and freeing the Craises, who were then recortexised, had their intelligence boosted, and released. Despite Church protests, the terrorists responsible could not be extradited, as they had taken refuge in Jarribon Autonomous Habitat. Eventually the Church used its resources to take independent legal action, hiring some of the best lawyers in the NoCoZo. The SCLArmy were forced to pay extensive damages and legal costs, which resulted in their parent body, the Sentient's Clone Liberation Association (who were sympathetic, but worried about bad publicity) withdrawing support. The radicals were bankrupted and forced to sell their habitat, which was turned into a theme park by Real World (a large nano- and fog- world entertainment corporation) and a replica of the Luke Monastery built alongside where the daring raid - incomparably more bloodied and dramatised - was played out for funseekers, all of whom could take part as either SCLArmy activists, Church worshippers or ecclesia, or Clones. Here Church legal action was of no avail, and they themselves had to pay court costs and damages incurred to Real World by "malicious" countermemetics

Although The Luke Monastery Raid was the largest successful raid by clone-rights groups on the Church of the Original Sacrament, it was by no means the last. Most of the Church monasteries have since beefed up security. This only infuriates the activists more, and observers feel there may be more bloodshed before long

M.Alan Kazlev

luminosity

the total brightness of a star (or galaxy); the total amount of energy that a source radiates per metric second (including all wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation).

Yerkes Luminosity Classes	Star
Ia	Very luminous supergiants
Ib	Less luminous supergiants
II	Luminous giants
III	Giants
IV	Subgiants
V	Main sequence stars (dwarf stars)
VI	Subdwarf
VII	White Dwarf

Luna

Type:	Selenian SubType
Primary:	Earth
Diameter:	3474 km
Gravity:	0.166 G
Length of day / year:	27.32166 days / 27.32166 days
Atmosphere:	Paraterraformed under domes, Bluesky
Surface temperature:	vacuum:	-153°C to 107°C
Surface temperature:		Paraterraformed:	12°C to 27°C
Administration:	Solar Organisation memberworld
Population:	Biont	300 million
	Vec	140 million
	AI	5 million
	Cyborg	120 million
	Other	3 million

Natural satellite of Earth. Home to permanent human settlement since the late information age, the Moon is a densely populated world, rich in history. Although never been fully terraformed (the idea was raised a few times during Empires era, but was vehemently vetoed by the Lunarians, who described it as terranist environmental imperialism) here are extensive blueskys, as well as a number of underground settlements. Tourism in the non paraterraformed areas include observation domes and the scenic maglevs. Major cities include Artemis (where one can find a nanoreplica of the original first moonbase), Lunograd, Tycho City (an important cultural center - the Tycho Museum of History is a popular tourist stop), Earthview (with its magnificent above surface bluesky biosphere), Armstrong, Copernicus (with its quaint First Federation period architecture, the array of large surface bluesky parks and recreation areas), Aldrin, Schmitt, Tsukuyomi, Imbrium, Serenatis, and Darkside.

M. Alan Kazlev

LungFusion

First Federation era Penglaiese megacorp

Lung Fusion was for a long time the largest Penglaiese energy corporation, specialising in atmospheric converters, power plants and energy networks. During the imperial period it was aggressively expansionist, using profitable deals with various government factions as well as opportunistic alliances with various hyperturing guanxis to further its growth and become an interstellar megacorp. The corp was made a Conver Ambi subsidiary, and disappeared even before the start of the Second Empires War.

Anders Sandberg with some notes by M. Alan Kazlev

Lurkship

Generally, a heavily armed and armoured, short-range hyperturing military vessel, capable of stealth operations in a hydrospheric and atmospheric environment for greatly extended periods of time.

Subcraft or subships are similar but smaller and less well armed and equipped.

M. Alan Kazlev

Lutitia's World

( GC B2529-a-6608 / Durer-253 I, on the coreward side Perseus arm, near the Bakharev cluster ) Hive society run by empath AI. Mainly active in the sex trade.

Lut'or

aka Luthor, aka Little Luthor aka LuTor

Ovoid-shaped TRHN ISO, approximately 95 cm in diameter with a weight of several 10⁷ tonnes, most the result of the thick quasi-neutronium shell and associated femto/atto/zeptotech processing nodes therein. Also possesses eir own singularity and Bias Drive. Lut'or is the author of a number of godseeds, including the much sort after Lil Lutor, and various other artifacts, some with an obvious purpose, others of seemingly only decorative value.

As with many TRHN ISOs, powers, and godlings, Lut'or's origins are unknown; even eir name is a mystery. Some have derived it from L'Thor, meaning "of the [archailect] Thor", others from Lex the borg Luther, the pulp-replicant antihero, others again from Tor(q) of Lu. But none of these explanations are very plausible.

Like many TRHN free agents, Lut'or travels widely through and beyond the Nexus, has eir own cult following among S<2 sentients, and is often in demand as a public speaker

M. Alan Kazlev

Lux

Kappa 1 Ceti IV-5 - Kappa 1 Ceti was only briefly explored, since it was known as a superflare star and hence unsuitable for colonisation.

The system was left untouched until the Version War, when refugees settled on a moon orbiting a Eujovian Type gas giant. In order to protect themselves they dug underground habitats. Over the years the Lux society grew, and developed into a major underground culture. When Lux reconnected to the Wormhole Nexus in 6467 the Lucians became known as experts in low gravity underground architecture and ecology. Regarding allegiance, the Lucians are mostly non-aligned, with some MPA leanings

Anders Sandberg

lycopod

Lycopods in the Mist Illuminated by the Sunrise

Renowned Hyperturing Carboniferophile and Lazurogeer

Lycopods in the Mist Illuminated by the Sunrise was seminal in reconstructing the entire terragen Carboniferous period (in distinct ecosystems representing 2 million year intervals); a project that excited a great deal of interest during the late Empires and early Second Federation period. Tragically, an entire solar system featuring five entire chrono-intervals was later destroyed during the Version War, this is still being recreated by dedicated paleo monks and superturings. But Lycopods in the Mist Illuminated by the Sunrise came to be best known during the middle Second Federation for re-creating an entire Euramerican Westphalian D coal-swamp biome in the Aristophane system [Sophic League), converting 14 asteroids and 23 comets in the process. Following the completion of "Westphalian D", Lycopods in the Mist Illuminated by the Sunrise seemed to lose interest in embodied existence, and transcended (although some say e still can be found in the nanobio incorporated in a much of the larger vegetation of the habitats).

M. Alan Kazlev

Lyaponov Tubes

Lyaponov Tubes (popularly called "Transfer Manifolds" after Poincare' or "The Ell") are particularly low energy courses used to navigate between massive bodies such as planets, moons or megastructures.

Lyaponov Tubes join libration (Lagrange) points L1 or L2 of a system of bodies to the L1 or L2 points of another system of bodies. A famous example is the mythical "Northwest Passage" a supposed Lyaponov tube between Mars and Cis-Luna or (in earlier stories, Mars and Earth) with a circuit time of less than a decade. The actual Mars/Cis-Luna Lyaponov circuit time is tens of thousands of years. The first highly successful Ell system was the Jupiter/Saturn Ell which has been refined to a circuit time of 32 years 78 days, Martian. The second busiest Ell is the Venus/Mars/Jupiter route, actually a fortunate intersection of two complete Ell systems. For technical reasons the outbound Ell is often called the "Unstable Ell" the inbound is known as the "Stable Ell." Thus the favorite Belter folk-lyric, "Tell her I'm on the Stable Ell and burning mass for glory."

Bill Glover

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