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Mycroft

Interplanetary Age AI.

Mycroft acquired eir moniker due to e being the Luna States central AI, and ended up playing the role. Strong libertarian, ended up acting as a moderating influence on Kilburn's more "militant" solutions to the luddite/NeoPrim problem.

Ben Higginbottom

Mykropht III

a rather inhospitable partially terraformed garden world subjected to the intense UV and X-ray radiation from the neutron star Mykropht B. microflora includes Deinococcus radiodurans (introduced from Earth) and Xenobacter mirabilis, which are easily geneered to form symbiotic DNA repair systems used by soft radnads.

Mykultura / Egotheism

Self-worship, the religious veneration of oneself.

Mykultura emerged in the Communion religious communities in the Regernar system in the early 5000's, although commonly Recor Hochent is named as the founder.

Although elements of worshipping the god within has been part of most human mystical philosophies, this was usually placed in a context where the inherent divinity of the worshipper was located in a perspective of a greater external divinity or source of divinity (c.f. the solarist concept of multiple reflectors of divine light). Although often accused for promoting egocentricity, the various self-help philosophies and their successors transhumanism and the first federation self improvement cults never strongly promoted the idea of the individual as God, but rather something inherently valuable but not necessarily venerable.

Mykultura continues the trend pantheism - polytheism - henotheism - monotheism to egotheism: there exists one god, and that god is the subject. The divinity of the subject is the source of all meaning and order in the world. A central tenet of mykultura is the insufficiency of solipsism (other beings certainly exist and are similar to the subject) and the fallacy of omnipotence (the subject is not omnipotent) - the subject is divine, but only relative to oneself. Other subjects are equally divine relative to themselves, but their divinity has no bearing on the world of another subject.

The mykultura philosophy does not concern itself with metaphysics, but rather with ethics and practical psychology. Egotheist religion deals with the proper veneration of the Divine Self and the progressive unfolding of the individual divine plan. Priest/counsellors help the believers to achieve this, and mykultura religious networks have sprung up across the wormhole nexus.

Anders Sandberg

Mynti

85 Pegasi IV

Former home of the Eden Institute of Xenoscience. Destroyed by Metasoft during the Version War.

myth, mythology

Any ancient traditional story of archailects, superiors, powers, gods or heroes, especially one offering an explanation of some fact or phenomenon; a story with a veiled or extended meaning; a commonly-held belief that is untrue, or without objective foundation, a powerful but obscure memeticity.

Hence, Mythology: The traditional datarecords and memeticities of a clade or culture or subculture which collectively constitute their folk history and that of their archailects, hyperturings, and powers, that embodies their beliefs and ideas, and represents an affirmation of their culture. Most manor mythologies originated in pre-literate societies and were passed on orally.

The stories within a mythology fall into 3 main types:

myths proper, which take place in a timeless - or at least a pre-historical, non-cliological, ascientific, or unknown past and are serious attempts to rationalize the mysterious and unknowable - i.e., the creation of the world and of civilization, the origin of the gods, archailects, artifacts, aliens, terragens, etc.; the nature of death and afterlife, what happens during failed uploads, etc.; the seasonal renewal and recycling of resources
folk tales, narratives set in historical or recorded time and more social than religious in their concerns;
legends and sagas, which recount the embellished exploits of culture heroes, superiors, and powers.

Comparative studies have revealed fundamental similarities of theme and action among many widely separated mythologies. These similarities are thought by some to be the result of cultural interchanges. For others they constitute evidence of universal attractors or archetypes, the embodiments of the unconscious racial memories common to all mindkind.

M. Alan Kazlev

Myst

Narcotic beverage.

Consists of a glass of alcohol and sugar water or fruit juice into which different colored beads of activator are dropped. Each bead is made up of layers of scents, condensed nanotech neural simulants and nanocontainers of CO₂. When the beads are dropped into the mixture they dissolve and the scents alter the odor of the drink. At the same time the CO₂ is released and causes the drink to begin to fizz and release a mist of nanodevices into the air. The mist is inhaled by the drinker and the nanostimulators enter the body and attach themselves temporarily to the various neural clusters in the brain. They then activate, causing various pleasant sensations and emotions for a short time until the nanodevices run out of stored energy, deactivate and are flushed into the bloodstream. The user than drops another bead into the drink and takes another hit. Different activator beads have different scents and effects and are color coded for ease of use. Each is about the size of a pea. The drink is sipped in between hits or during depending on preference. Typically served in a snifter glass with a modified base designed to hold a selection of activators.

Donna Malcolm Hirsekorn and Todd Drashner

mysticism

Belief that sophont beings can experience a transcendental union with the Absolute through meditation, augmentation, and other techniques, and the practice thereof. The experience is described in terms of enlightenment, ecstasy, expansion of consciousness, breaching toposophic barriers, etc. It is at the core of many religions, and is especially predominant in the Sophic League and the Keter Dominion. Mystical experience can be expressed only in metaphors, which may or may not be inscrutable to those sentients of a lower toposophic level than the mystic.

M. Alan Kazlev

Mysterian

The name used by the local populace to describe the long vanished terraformers of alien origin who terraformed Ararat II. The mysterian jungle is made of the numerous plant/jellyfish creatures that have taken residence on the planet and, through accident or not, and outlived the mysterians themselves.

Mysticeti (baleen whales)

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