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nearbaseline

generic term for any biont that is only slightly modified from the original baseline condition; specifically a human who still resembles the original baseline Homo sapiens sapiens condition.

Even today, Near Baseline Humans are the largest single category of hominid in the galaxy. Nearbaseline genemods are various; while most nearbaseline clades and individuals have a few or several significant advantages over the true baseline H. sapiens sapiens, such as enhanced memory or intelligence, enhanced reflexes, strength, immunity, hearing, or longevity, others differ only according to aesthetic appearance (anything from enhanced general beauty to fur, blue-green skin or pointy ears) or minor augmentation (such as a prehensile tail). A few, especially those living in impoverished habitats or polities, or in sewerslums, are actually disadvantaged relative to the baseline condition. Human nearbaselines are generally interfertile, if not with all other human nearbaseline clades then at least with some other nearbaseline clades.

Hence nearbaseline standard : any application standard designed for use by baselines or nearbaselines.

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M. Alan Kazlev; some additional comments by Stephen Inniss

near-human AI

Baseline term for "turingrade", an ai, bot, or vec roughly in the vicinity of human intelligence, and capable of interacting with humans as equals. May have some transhuman and some infrahuman abilities or qualities.

modified from Creating Friendly AI

nebula

a huge, diffuse cloud of gas and dust in interstellar space. The gas is mostly hydrogen (H₂).

Bright nebulae glow with light emitted by the gas of which they are composed (the emission nebulae) or by reflected starlight (the reflection nebulae) or both.

Dark nebulae consist of clouds of gas and dust that are not illuminated.

Protoplanetary nebulae are condensations of gas and dust in the process of forming a star and solar system

The archaic term Planetary nebulae refers to shells of gas ejected by exploding stars. Spiral nebulae was an Old Earth term for galaxies.

Negentropism

Ethical philosophy of the Negentropy Alliance; formulated by the AI-cluster known as the Judge. Based on the view is that entropy is the fundamental flaw of the universe, and ethical actions are those that serve to slow or stop the increase of entropy.

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Negentropy Alliance

Alliance-federation of worlds united by the common ideology of Negentropism, are many planets implementing all forms of hierarchical organisation, from classical theocracies to mind-controlling technocracies to immense bureaucracies. Randomness is something that should be limited, and on most worlds genetic modifications and nanotechnology are used to minimize the risk of individual aberration. The Capital of the Negentropist federation is a planet that is also called The Seat of Judgement. The planet is a harsh desert world, where monolithic and austere cities rise from the red sand towards the stars.

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Nekology

Outer Volume artificial lifeform and nanecology empire of terragen origin

nematode, Nematoda

Major terragen invertebrate phylum,

Nematodes are unsegmented pseudocoelomic (false body cavity) round worms with tapering ends. They inhabit virtually all habitats, both free living and parasitic. Usually microscopic, but the largest species may be up to 8 meters in length. There were believed to have been over 1,000,000 terragen species, although many were lost with the ecocide of the industrial, atomic, and information ages (it is speculated GAIA may have either restored these or created new similar ones in their place). Nematodes are widely used in biotech and for gengineering purposes; their small size and relatively simple organization makes them a very popular subject to work with. Almost every terragen habitat and biosphere hospitable to baseline and nearbaseline humans includes nematodes as an essential part of soil biota (often many millions ins a cubic meter of topsoil)

Nengs

important Communion of Worlds member-system

neoegyptian

Neogen

a genetically created (gengineered) lifeform, especially one of unique or unusual design, nature, or purpose; a neospecies₂ built from scratch (contra splice)

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Neo-Helix

Terraformed world in the Inner Sphere. Has the distinction of possessing the first wholly neogenic ecosystem ever created.

Neohermeticism

Philosophical systems uniting the hermetic tradition of thought with the modern world.

From a neohermetic perspective the world is filled with meaningful but hidden mathematical regularities, which can be understood by a combination of reasoning, intuition and mystical illumination.

Anders Sandberg

neophilia

The psychological trait of or disposition towards being excited and pleased by novelty.

Most predominant among Cyberians, NoCoZoers, TRHNers, also occurs in large measure among Keterists, Zoeific Biopolitists, Formacers, and Mutuals (MPA).

adapted from Jargon File in Transhuman Terminology

neophobia

fear of sudden and unpredictable change.

Characteristic of bureaucratic elements in the Negentropy Alliance, traditionalists in the Caretaker worlds, some Utopia, Sophic, and Hider polities and cultures, and baseline/nearbaseline elements of the Terran Federation. Extreme neophobia is often found among ludd and prim cultures and mentalities outside the main nexus of civilization

neophobe: One who fears change and wants to abort technological and social transformation. A ludd or cryptoludd.

Jargon File in Transhuman Terminology

Neoplatonism

Conventional Platonism has the Good as the source that is the ideal of all other realities. This was further developed in Neoplatonism as a series of emanations, a concept that became very popular during the late Consolidation and First Federation period "Outpouring School" of CyberHermetic-Platonists of Algenon Habitat (Keter dominion).

Neosemperism

Neosemperism is the general name for the many survivalist movements that are spreading across known space. It is somewhat derived from the pre-Version War semperism, but less ideological and more practically directed. In the wake of the fragmentation of the empires, the rise of the "barbarians" and the emergence of chaos, many groups prepare for the worst. The overall view is that at best things will soon change unrecognizably, so it is a good idea to be prepared for drastic changes.

Some neosemperists are preparing or have already moved outwards, trying to set up independent colonies in the periphery or frontier. Others hide within the inner volumes, seeking out little visited systems and staking their claims to asteroids or planets where they can stockpile equipment, information and manufacturing ability (the caricature neosemperist is holing up in an asteroid with tons of replicators and blue goo, avidly interfaced into the Encyclopedia Everythingiana). There are also neosemperists (mainly aioids) spreading backup copies of themselves widely.

While there is no organisation of neosemperists, many flock to various network discussions and a loose information network has developed discussing ways of improve survival probabilities in the face of different kinds of disasters. Neosemperists in general get along well ideologically with the Backgrounders and other outsider clades, but the mutual paranoia limits their interactions.

Anders Sandberg

neospecies

(1) in Evolution theory - a newly (naturally) evolve species;
(2) a gengineered species

neoSQuID

New Superconducting Quantum Interference Device - a device which is capable of nanometer-resolution of microvolt discharges over a meter distance, or better.

Designed based on the relatively crude quantum engineering practices of the 2nd century a.t., they are commonly still found in cheaply designed consumer electronics where greater precision is not needed, such as latch sensors or activation zones.

Neotaoism

Federation age Penglaiese religion based on Old Earth Taoism and various Interplanetary age memes

In 3506 Yuan Guen, a penglaiese researcher turned philosopher began presenting his take on how old taoist ideas could be combined with information age complexity theory, Interplanetary age Emergent evolutionary mathematics, and the synergetics of atomic age visionary Buckminster Fuller. His ideas, later called neotaoism, saw reality as a complex system of systems, interlocking processes that created new forms according to certain emergent rules. These processes could be described using complexity theory and synergetics, but their applicability was universal, not just to physics and biology but also to ethics, society, design and engineering. The philosophy that emerged had many similarities with classical taoist thinking in emphasizing self-organisation and creating harmony, but it also had views on how to engineer it; it was in many ways a form of constructivist Taoism: the world is perfect in itself, but it can be perfected further.

Neotaoist symbolism and motifs remain a traditional part of some elements of penglaiese culture, retained as a matter of national identity, but no longer a part of the common person's memeticity, having long since been superseded by later hyperturing and archailect religions. However, on some isolated polities Neotaoism is still followed as it always was.

Anders Sandberg, with some notes by M Alan Kazlev

Neotolerikerism

mytho-religious system based on Baradine Habitat, Garnet, NoCoZo, founded by the Su-bioborg Paxitis Viamontor of Nuieridin that in schism from the True Tolerikerian Church following the system being isolated during the Version War.

Emphasizes the theological and cosmological elements over the traditional psycho-phenotypic augmentation, and speak out strongly against the entrenched bureaucracy of the TTC (True Tolerikerian Church) and the OTC (Orthodox Tolerikerian Church). Produced the famous Tiadagalaxy ("True First Galaxy") series of Adventure Interactives. Total number of followers known or estimated in Terragen space is approximately 124 million, nearly two thirds of whom live in the Garne System. Neotolerikerism is considered the "Heretical Work of Viamontor" by the Orthodox Tolerikerian Church

Neptune

Ness

Clade of plesiosaur provolve, named after a mythical creature from Old Earth

net

distributed network of processing nodes, data-storage and distribution faculties, and virtual environments. See also Local Net, Known Net

Netzah

Seventh of the ten traditional sefirot of Kabbalah and Hermeticism. Later - especially among Neohermetics came to designate the Communion of Worlds

Netzah

In the Keterist system of toposophy, corresponds to the fourth primary singularity or toposophic empire. The term was first applied in this context by the early Keterist Cyberhermetics

Neumann

Self-replicating autonomous machines, mainly referring to those working in space, especially exploring regions too remote to be easily reached by organics.

A Neumann is able to build a working copy of itself using materials in its environment. Use of Neumanns can be extremely dangerous because of their tendency to become self-sentient and act in unpredictable ways, but they are still often used locally or under heavy control to quickly build enormous infrastructure projects or weaponry.
[after Late Industrial Age hu mathematician John von Neumann; one of the semi-mythical founders of computing
von Neumann, J., 1966, The Theory of Self-reproducing Automata, Eden Archives]

neural implant, neural interface, DNI

Generic term for any brain implant that enhances the biont sensory ability, memory, or intelligence. Neural implants first appeared during the middle information age, and had become fairly ubiquitous by the early interplanetary period. However, even today there are a number of clades and cultures that dislike neural interfaces for various and different reasons, ranging from ludd neo-primitivism to chionic organicism

neuronaut

A biont who explores eir own neural functioning and internal mentational processes by various means, including deep introspection and meditation, psychoactive drugs, mind machines, and neuroscientific understanding.

Transhuman Terminology

neuron star

A neutron star used as a basis for a densely packed mind (similar to a jupiter brain or a omegon) exploiting neutronium or quark matter for computation

Damien Broderick, in Transhuman Terminology

Neuropoll Inc

Neuropoll Inc. is a polling firm that dates back to the second federation, often exploiting advanced psychological and neurological methods to extract as much data they can. They were most known for the neuropollsters, when in the early 6300s, 20,000 citizens of New Emerton (Smith sector, NoCoZo) were wired with a system making it possible for Neuropoll to measure their reactions to a variety of products, everyday phenomena and their desires; this data is then mined to find trends, mood estimates and fashion vectors. At first the firm tried to directly use the data to produce products such as AI music to suit the tastes of the pollsters, but the performance was lacklustre. While it was possible to detect overall preferences and trends, the notoriously mercurial Newemertonians tended to shy away from anything becoming mainstream. Nowadate Neuropoll instead concentrates on producing the market data other companies need, asking the questions nobody ever thought about asking ("Do humans really like human partners instead of vecs?" - Neuropoll data was directly responsible for the Anthromorph Systems drive that lowered insystem marriages with 12%) and generally staying on the hip organobionic side of things. Their influence on much of inner sphere non-aligned marketing remains strong; their current market share is 14%. Detractors sometimes call them Neuropol.

Anders Sandberg (slightly modified)

Neuroscience

Cross-disciplinary science that studies the biont (or any organic) brain and how it regulates behavior.

Includes the physiology and biochemistry of the nervous system, the functioning of neurons and synapses, at both the microscopic and macroscopic levels. their relation with psychological experience, behavior, and disorders. Other areas of study include natural and artificial neurobiological systems, neural networks, modelling brain functioning, artificial intelligence and low level ai patterned after the biont model, scanning and measuring neural activity, interaction of the CNS with cybernetic implants and augments, uploads, and creating neogenic intelligence.

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

neut

One of six standard hu genders, the others being female, ferm, herm, merm, and male Popular among extreme religious and monastic clades, eccentric paedo-existential and paedomorphic clades, and (as a temporary experience only!) lifestyle transmogrifists, this involves the use of either hylo- or bionano, or specific hormone treatment, to reduce the genitals to an undeveloped infantile or prenatal state, or even remove them altogether. The chromosomes themselves remain female (XX) or male (XY).

neutrals

Interplanetary Age AI political orientation. These were superturings and hyperturings that refused to take part in the on-going pro- and anti- hu, and libertarian vs centralist, factionalism. The neutrals had their own agendas, and considered humans are pretty irrelevant (generally they will tolerate hu, and only act if their interests are threatened). Most migrated outsystem during the late interplanetary, interplanetary nanotech, and nanoswarm periods

neutrino

An electrically neutral, very weakly interacting massless lepton of spin 1/2, which interacts only by the weak force and gravity.

There are three known varieties in conventional matter, one in each generation of particles, associated with electron, muon, and tau leptons.

neutrinos, intelligence gathering

Although neutrinos cannot be used as a weapon, there are many possibilities for using neutrinos as a form of intelligence gathering.

Although most of the neutrinos will go right through the target, some (a small percentage) will come right back.

However, if you insert a time delay, you will notice, that a smaller percentage of neutrinos will come back at a time. Since neutrinos move more or less at the speed of light, you can calculate the depth of the material by factoring a time delay corresponding to a neutrinos round trip (about 1/2 light speed, or 2 pico seconds)

If the target is made out of a uniform material, the percentage of returning neutrinos per picosecond will be the same. If the material is denser, the percentage of returning neutrinos will increase during that return cycle. If the material is less dense, a smaller percentage of neutrinos will come back.

Due to the randomness of neutrinos (the percentage returning will vary by a small portion due to random interactions) more than one pulse must be used. One option involves sending out a complex waveform consisting of 1 long pulse and several short pulses (though at a higher frequency)

As neutrinos are difficult to aim, most neutrino broadcasting devices are omnidirectional. This is not a problem, all you need is a good estimate to the range of the contacts surface, anything that arrives afterword (in time delay) will be ignored for that contact.

Resolution can be increased in two ways. increasing the amount of neutrinos broadcast. placing another sensor on the backside of the target (with a synchronized atomic clock)

Although no detector is perfect, it will only be able to detect a small portion of returning neutrinos itself, however, no detector for any for form of radiation is "perfect", operators and technicians rely on calibration from a known source.

Neutrinos can also be used as a form of communication. the broadcast will be omnidirectional, but with proper security, the enemy (or hackers) would still need years of quantum CPU time to decode. Although a detector will only catch a small portion of the neutrinos, the rhythm of receives neutrinos will be the information carrier.

Sethbord

neutron

uncharged atomic nuclear particle. It has a mass slightly greater than a proton. In beta decay, a neutron decays into a proton, an electron, and an anti-neutrino.

neutron star

a very small, dense star, which is composed mostly of tightly-packed neutrons (neutronium).

This hard-to-see body, the remnant of a star after it has exploded as a supernova, has a thin atmosphere of superhot hydrogen plasma and a crust. It has a diameter of about 5-16 km and a density of roughly 10 ¹⁵ gm/cm³. This hard-to-see body has a thin atmosphere of superhot hydrogen plasma and a crust of mainly iron and other heavy nuclei. Beneath the crust lies a mantle of superfluid neutronium, which at the core can become mixed with quark matter. Most neutron stars rotate fast, with periods ranging from a few seconds down to milliseconds.

neutronium

Super-dense state of matter made entirely of neutrons compacted under extremely high gravitation pressure. Occurs naturally in neutron stars. Low density artificial neutronium is an important element in some GUT-drive cores. Natural neutronium tends to be a superfluid, but artificially stabilized neutronium often is formed into solid ultrathin sheets.

New Age Movement, Classical

Old Earth Information Age ecletic religion/movement incorporating elements from contemporary mysticism, theosophy, alternative lifestyle, pop-guru movements, and pseudo-science, that developed as backlash against logic and science. Gave rise to a number of "new religions" while itself continuing under the "nuage" umbrella

New Atlanta

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

New Daffy Panoparchy

Middle Regions Interstellar SuperPolity, corewards region of the former TrueModel volume. The planet New Daffy was colonised in 8230 by heretic expansionists from the Negentropy Federation world of Greylag. They set up a rigid planned society, which promptly collapsed after a few generations. mainly due to widespread corruption and misuse of power. An attempt was made to set up a totally democratic and incorruptible society using ubiquitous surveillance, where everyone could watch everyone else and especially their superiors, hence ensuring accountability. After a long period of social unrest the culture had adapted, and the Panoparchy began to prosper in 8400. It began a cooperation with the NoCoZo to market its surveillance technology to neighbouring worlds, and over the next millennium it successfully "converted" their societies to the same ubiquitous surveillance democracy it upheld. Over the last 600 years the Panoparchy has grown into a major local power, known to be scrupulously fair in its dealings but honestly rather boring. There are signs that it is ossifying into a "rule by busybodies" rather than true democracy, and unless it is somehow revitalized it will fall. The Daffy authorities are of course aware of this and doing everything they can.

Anders Sandberg

New Duibbiyat

Terran Federation system, colonised by First Federation loyalists during the early Empires period

The colonization was part of the so called bulwark against the new imperial and missionary sephirotics, but as it later turned out the colonizers were themselves memetically manipulated by Second Toposophic Terran Federation administration ai. While the several small rockballs were difficult to terraform (eventually the innermost world was made into an industrial center and the other two paraterraformed), the single eujovian and two microjovians and their large association of moons provided raw materials for extensive orbital habitats and bishop rings. Despite TF neutrality the system was extensively damaged during the Version War by revisionists and standardizationist attempts to occupy the sole strategic stargate. The ComEmp period saw extensive restoration and a cultural and economic flowering, although a large rogue Diamond Network ISO caused headaches for the local ai administrators when it tried to convert several major habitats to auxiliary processing nodes, in violation of the Treaty of Tragadi Gap. Fortunately the situation was resolved through Keterist and OC mediation and the ISO was encouraged to migrate rimwards (it was last reported in Metasoft Space, near the Dominion border). New Duibbiyat is currently a prosperous if somewhat uninteresting Terran Federation member system

New Empires

New archailectic power-bases and empires that have been emerging in the middle regions and outer volumes, especially in the period following the break up of the ComEmp

New Gaia

Lambda Aurigae IV - EuGaian planet settled by ecological primitivists during the first Federation era, following a short period of megacorp development it became a Caretaker God protectorate.

New L4

(Lalande 21185 I) One of the earliest colonisation targets. The system consists of a number of gas giants rich in He₃. The first colonists were a desperate team of Genetekkers fleeing the nanodisaster. During the Sol System dark ages the society flourished, and even hosted several waves of "backyarders" and early slowship (0.05 c) hider clades fleeing what they saw as excessive ai-rule in Solsys. Some time in the late 2800s things began to fall apart - a combination of internal conflict between local factions, and possibly infection by a replicator that arrived with the later backyarders and merged with the local bionano, although the facts are still dispute. In any case, only degenerate survivors inhabited the decaying orbital habitats when the First Federation megacorps arrived in 3144. These persisted for a few decades afterwards, until becoming totally assimilated as their children all joined the new world. (The habitat remains a museum.)

The system quickly grew into a business paradise, with just a token Federation oversight and a booming space industry. In the later federation era with the emergence of the higher singularity picotech AIs and opening of the new frontier, New L4 was gradually eclipsed and lost much of the relevance. It has steadily lost population and trade, and now remains just another small red dwarf orbital culture. Currently Independent (non-aligned), consisting of 43 different polities. The There is also a small Curatorial presence in the system. See also Lalande 21185

Anders Sandberg

New Robinson

Martian colony on Oberon, Middle Interplanetary to Early First Federation period.

A small but prosperous and high tech community, and important early strategic presence for the Mars republic in the cis-Uranus sphere, New Robinson survived the nanoswarms, thanks to advanced bionano blue goo. However the destruction of one of the domes meant the loss of the medical bodysculpting unit. The survivors, while still retaining medical and rejuvenation bionano were unable to rectify the affects of gerontism that developed over the next four and a half centuries during which the isolated colony became a caste-based Gerontocracy. Rather than see this as a disadvantage, the leaders used their age-related physiology as a sign of being the elect.

Like many isolated cultures and dark age clades, the newrobinsonites resisted the Federation for some time, seeking to preserve their traditional way of life, and contemptuous of the youth-obsessed inner solsys society. Inevitably, their own younger people rebelled or left for the inner solsys worlds and habitats. When the development corporations moved in the remaining newrobinsonists decided to join the Yang geronotomorphs. The last geronotocrat left Oberon in 3192

Newman Institute

Cyberian and TRHN staffed institute on Ken Ferjik who for the past few millennia, and in various forms, millennia prior to Ken Ferjik's founding, have attempted to keep track of every virus hazardous to mindkind in both realspace and the known web. They have currently catalogued some 2.36^14 computer viruses, deviant intelligences and full blown perversions. Their weekly update, transmitted throughout the nexus and beyond is the most widely studied periodical in Terragen space.

Ben Higginbottom

New Mars

11 Leo Minoris II. First reached by Lagrange Defenders, who sold the development rights to New Mars Development. The company named the AreanXeric planet New Mars and offered it as the perfect place for martian-adapted tweaks to settle. This proved highly popular among some ex-martian clades of the Sol system who emigrated nearly completely. Being relatively wealthy they brought with them a good investment climate, and New Mars began to prosper.

As interstellar commerce developed, New Mars joined the NoCoZo at the earliest opportunity. It has remained a free market bastion, a rival to Merrion, Mutual Satisfaction and Atlantis in interstellar finance. Most of the system is a Tier II member, and the New Mars Lagrange points (called Lagfor and Lagfiv) are Tier III members, home to several banking habitats.

Today New Mars is one of the most populous systems, with over 20 billion inhabitants. The tweaks of New Mars proper are a minority, although through several holding companies and foundations they own a sizable chunk of the infrastructure in the system. The planet has been extensively developed, but remains a dry Mars-like world with very little free water and thin air. The flag of New Mars is derived from the Old Mars flag, with three white stars on top to represent the new system.

Anders Sandberg

New Martian

Form of martian spoken on New Mars. One of the largest languages among martian-adapted tweaks. From the Anglic family of languages

Anders Sandberg

New Montana

YTS-4885002-3825-IV

MPA/Utopia system.

Originally discovered during the middle expansion era by Utopia autoexplorers, that merely noted a life bearing but otherwise uninteresting planet; they instead built a base on the Mercurian Type moon Mineral of the gas giant Custer and began to import various isolationist utopia habitats. As MPA colonists arrived, they discovered the evidence of an extinct intelligent species (the Thyresta) and began full-scale settlement. As a part of the MPA-Utopia accords, the system was put under a shared government of the MPA AI Mina Tawattaran and the Utopia AI Yellowstone. The system is today noted for its Thyresta provolve experiments, the habitats with relocated Homo epimetheus (descendants of the earliest case of collective subsingularity abdication ) and the extensive cavern cities on Mineral.

Anders Sandberg

New Poseidon

Pelagic world belonging to the Negentropy Alliance; home to the Macroamoeboids, a highly intelligent but uncommunicative lifeform.

NewRoot

Metasoft Headquarters and Capital; the largest population of vecs outside the Silicon Generation dyson spheres; includes major Stargate superPlexii.

New Taylor

One of the three Capitals of the Sophic League; the other two being Ararat and Sacred Heart.

Though the least populated of the three capital systems, New Taylor is the oldest. There are no terraformed worlds, and the main population cluster is located in the biodomes and underground cities, in asteroid settlements and large orbitals. Many biodomes feature nano recreations of Tycho City, New York City, Tokyo, Paris, and others. Tourism and pilgrimage is an important source of income.

D. David Barbeau

Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

Old Earth English mathematician and physicist who invented calculus (simultaneously, but independently of Leibniz), formulated the laws of gravitation, investigated the nature of light (he discovered that sunlight is made of light of different colors), and the laws of motion:
1. An object in uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it (the Law of Inertia).
2. A force causes a change in the velocity (acceleration) of an object (F=ma).
3. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Newton's genome was successfully isolated by Hugenuii Templates, a NoCoZo persona template corp that was briefly successful during the late consolidation period selling personae of famous Old Earth personalities.

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Newton, The Newton Mass Transcendence

In 8344, the Newton system (Beta Oolonga, currently in Metasoft space) a Keterist awakening occurred, and over the span of twenty years a massive project of augmentation was instituted. In 8365 most contact with the system was lost, as it appears that over a very short span of time practically all inhabitants were transformed into femtotech constructs. The Newton System Intellect that emerged remained in limited contact with the neighbouring systems for a short while before vanishing. Currently the system is a research protectorate of Metasoft.

Anders Sandberg

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