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TundralPelagic Subtype

TundralPelagic Subtype Largely arctic Gaian Type worlds. However, small and scattered continents will inspire great amounts of precipitation, leading to large polar caps and land glaciation. Only the equator of most worlds have a warm year around climate.

Planet Classification List

TundralXeric Subtype

TundralXeric Subtype Gaian Type world with a cold climate, with an average temperature of around 58 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. Oceanic ice, even near the equator, can be up to 1 kilometer thick or greater. almost no precipitation leaves the continents barren, dry wastelands. Life is restricted on land to microbial forms, while in the oceans it is typically found only around hot springs and thermal vents.

Planet Classification List

Tunh

Neb 34786

System where alien wormhole was discovered in 4965. Now member of the STC.

tunnelling

In quantum mechanics, the ability of electrons and other subatomic particles to exist in two places at once, in particular on both sides of a barrier. Tunnelling allows some of the electrons to effectively move through the barrier and accounts for the "semi" conductor properties of a transistor. Important principle in solid-state electronics, molectronics, photonanotech and picotech.

Tuphz

Recurring SI:<1 fad that encourages independence among sophonts, by attempting to cure them of BHS

Tupilaks

Composite bioborgs or neogens, built from cultured organs or limbs. While not often seen much use outside specialised applications, building bioborgs from modular parts is sometimes more cost-effective than engineering entirely new species.

Anders Sandberg

Turing

Castor planetary orbital bands

Capital of the Technorapure Hypernation

Alan Turing (1912 - 1954)

Late Industrial/early Atomic Age British mathematician and computer theorist; one of the fathers of artificial intelligence and computing.

During World War II he was instrumental in deciphering German messages encrypted by the Enigma cipher machine. After the war, he helped design computers, first for the British government and then the University of Manchester. During this period, he produced a body of work that helped form the basis of the newly emerging field of artificial intelligence; including the Turing test and the Turing Machine. He was arrested for a homosexuality (still illegal at this time) and committed suicide shortly after. He is revered as an avatar, exemplar or founder by some ai and cyborg clades

turing machine

An idealized computer consisting of an infinite tape and a read-write "head" which moves back and forth on the tape, reading and writing, according to a rule set that refers to i) what it sees on the tape ii) an internal "memory" state.

Transhuman Treminology

Turing test

Turing's proposed test for whether a machine is conscious (or intelligent, or aware): the subject communicate via text with it and with a hidden human. If the subject cannot tell which of our partners in dialogue is the human, we say the computer is conscious (i.e. is an AI). Turing did not specify many key details, such as the duration of the interrogation and the sophistication of the human judge and foils. By the middle Information age, computer AIs were regularily passing the test, although the validity of the test remained a point of controversy and philosophical debate for some decades more.

modified from Transhuman Treminology

turingrade

an ai of baseline human equivalent intelligence and sapience

Turo-ro_Singer

Neo-frog clade

Turon

solar system in the outer Crucis Corridor, the Lexxian Turon Sapient's Republic was established by the Lexxim On The Wings of ZPE during the period of post-Version War chaos, and remains a small but flourishing institution

M. Alan Kazlev

tweak

Generally, a human who has been radically modified for environmental or aptitudinal purposes, as distinct from a nearbaseline. Also used to designate any terragen organism who has been so radically modified for environmental or aptitudinal purposes

the Twenty Four

the SI:1 Hyperturings who worked in partnership with humanity to establish the First Federation

M.Alan Kazlev

Twilight

40 Eridani A I

inner sphere world with narrow habitable twilight zone

Twilight (formally named Dawn by TakiCorb, but the other name stuck) was one of the first colony projects of the first federation era. The planet had been visited and briefly inhabited by refugees from the nanodisaster in 2500, but they did not survive beyond 2850.

The planet is tidally locked to the star, with a hot dayside and a freezing nightside. A constant cold and moist wind blows from nightside towards sunside, providing a narrow habitable twilight zone with liquid water in a ring around the planet. The twilight zone was colonised by tweaks, overseeing the construction of large climate controlled habitats for TakiCorb. The planet was colonised by a large contingent of Chinese descended baselines as part of the Phobos Expulsion Resettlement Treaty. Twilight became a member and firm supporter of the Eridanus league, but lacked the clout to keep the League together against the other interests.

The system never reached prominence, and the maintenance of the habitats proved expensive. Gradually they failed, and only the Twilight Tweaks remained. They formally joined the NoCoZo in 5403. Since then they have quietly built their own culture on the planet, with minimal contact with the outside world. The Twilight culture is known to be based around a complex animist religious philosophy involving the sun, the planet, the weather and the concept of flying (sailing on the intense winds is a common sport and form of religious worship). From time to time resurgences of expansionism occur, and radicals break off to mainstream interstellar culture.

Anders Sandberg

Tych

An ultra-precise language developed in Tycho City that was primarily used in written communication during the late First Federation. Today mainly used for formal declarations and to some extent Negentropicpoetry.

Anders Sandberg

Tycho City

Major lunar city

Tylansia

small baseline colony near the border of the Keter Dominion. The planet has been essentially frozen at an Information Age tech level for thousands of years.

Typers of Gilbert

The Typers (or "Typers of Gilbert" as they were later known) were an association of SI:1 "idiot savants" used by the Institute of Baseline Psychotypology (Junna, Negentropy Alliance) during the period from 5267 to 5421 to develop their database of all possible Baseline and Near-baseline psychological typologies. When the Institute finished their task and disbanded, the Psychotype Sequencers were released with a small payment of Alliance ErgCredits. The Typers, being totally lost in the larger galaxy, even after extensive adaptive therapy and sociolisation modules, were given haven at Gilbert, a run down orbital in the Inner Sophic League around the Mercurian-Type rockball Hansin (YTS 2193 098 170 - I) by a friendly monastic AI (known simply as "The Brother") who was looking for some company. The Brother was quite intrigued by the Typers skills and asked them to create some neogens - each corresponding to one of the four neojungian typologies - who could renovate the run down orbital, and care for it when e embarked on a pilgrimage to the important Sophic Centers.

Despite original successes, all of the neogens proved ultimately unreliable in the cloistered envirobnment, except for the Spox (Thinking Type). Following The Brother's Transcendence, ownership of Gilbert (now called New Vulcan) was handed over to the Spox, who developed it into a local economic and philosophy center of some repute. The Typers can still be found there, busily at work creating obscure and elaborate combinations of baseline subtypes, only several dozen of which each century are allowed to go from virtual and lab to full genotype.

M.Alan Kazlev

Tytalus

DM-28 694 I

Early discovered chlorine ecology.

Tzekph

expansionist hegemonising race that apparently had advanced AI-controlled wormholes, not unlike the terragen civilization. At their height they controlled 38% of the galaxy. Although they developed a huge empire, there is no evidence that territory extended to the Sol System. Their civilization inexplicably collapsed some 312 million years ago. It is not known why they disappeared, but endkless myths abound. No complete ship or wormhole artifact has ever been found

Overview of the Hov's'sa incident

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