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Rheolithoids

Crystalline life-form discovered by the Silicon Generation and native to Brimstone, an Ionian subtype world orbiting BD+15�4074Ac

The Rheolithoids are organised structures that have evolved from semi molten and flowing silicaceous minerals,together with impurities of, for instance, germanium and selenium in the matrix minerals resulting in a rheolithic self replicating life form.

Rho Bentharis

Hov's'sa home solar system.

rianth

the opposite of humanimal - a human modified by means of animal genome, a type of neospecies

"Rianth" is short for Theriomorphanthropes "animal humans" - these are human (often tribal and shamanistic) individuals and societies who have decided to go the other way - usually out of respect and admiration and attraction for the animal kingdom, bust sometimes simply as a fashion or lifestyle or peer-group choice - and incorporate animal genes. Common on some garden worlds under caretaker gods, but found everywhere. The alternative but less correct spelling "reanth" is sometimes used.

M.Alan Kazlev

Ribblehead

A 16000 km diameter neogaian terraformed world in MPA space orbiting the star Pen-y-ghent (YTS 56999 45812), with a mean density of 3340kg/m³ and a surface gravity of 0.98 earth standard.

Originally with a carbon dioxide/ methane rich runaway greenhouse atmosphere, this large planet was desired by several clades of extremophile adapts, but after some strife was terraformed by the Bluesky company (MPA) following their success with the Jakerekk worldhouse. Carbon from the atmosphere and surface weathering was removed via lofstrom loop to orbit where a geostationary cityring was built, incorporating several diamondoid computronium cybercosm nodes.

The surface of Ribblehead has 30% water cover, the land forming 23 continental land masses totalling 540 million square km. Most continents are joined to several others due to the relatively small oceans. Tectonic activity is low. Elevated dolomite and limestone mountains often have large cave systems and underground water courses. Most water bodies are weak carbonic acid solutions, but neutralization processing continues to allow a more varied aquatic ecosystem to develop.

High tech equipment is banned on the planetary surface, and all transportation is by animal drawn vehicles or bicycle, with each of the five hundred nations essentially isolated from each other. The phenotypes of the inhabitants were originally different in each continent, coming from tweak, splice, baseline and rianth populations all over the civilised Orion and Sagittarius arms. Communication with the Cityring and the Known Net is allowed only at one terminal per nation state. Consequently a rich and "interesting" political history has developed over the last two thousand years.

Steve Bowers

ribophunk

late information and early interplanetary age aesthetic punk subculture, characterized by their distinctive phenotypic augmentations

M.Alan Kazlev

ribosome

Cellular organelles composed of specialized ribosomal RNA and protein - the site of protein synthesis.

Ribosomes are part of the cells molecular machinery, microscopic factories that synthesize protein. Plastids and mitochondria have their own ribosomes (plasto- and mitoribosomes), and their are ribosome analogues in many xenobiota. Ribosomes were instructional in the development of bionano during the late information age. Sophisticated bio- and hylo- nano augmentation used by some clades involves replacing the ribosomes with specialised "nanosomes"

M.Alan Kazlev

rRNA, ribosomal RNA

A type of RNA found in the ribosomes of terragen cells.

Ridgewell

Chi Herculis V

Garden World initially exploited during the Federation era, later adopted by House Stevens. Part of the Mutual Progress Alliance.

rif

A ludd, an opponent of ultratech. Sometimes also applied to prims

[from Rifkinite, from Jeremy Rifkin, early information age opponent of genetic engineering and nanotech