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Affines - virus affecting transapient behavious
Aiviser - A trans-sapient AI that has been constructed so as to be totally loyal to an individual or group of lower toposophic level
Algol Broadcasting Foundation - A small to medium-sized broadcasting entity within the NoCoZo
Assimilation Virii - a form of virii which can infect any sophont virch life-form and ultimately turn it into a subroutine of the sapient (usually of a higher toposophic) who created the virii and still controls it.
Black Angel: Combat specialized mini-ISO - The exact nature and capabilities of the Black Angel are only vaguely known and are mostly inferred from anecdotal accounts of eyewitnesses.
Botworld - a large area that is dominated by, or consists entirely of, self-replicating and self-repairing forms which are of mechanical origin
Brain Plague - rumor among the independent/Hider polities coreward from the Sephirotic wormhole networks concerning a malady of some unknown vector where the victim seems to disassociate themselves from their prior memetic set and instead begins to take up a strong xenophobic, biophilic memeset
Cinder Systems - A Cinder System is a solar system that has been ravaged by expansion, energy demands and populations run amok. Often they are dead and include a dying or dead star, black hole or some other "disfigured" solar body
Cybyota mechanical/biological world-seeding and terraforming agents of non-Terragen origin that have apparently evolved into independent life forms since their origin
Deepwood - Deep space orwood species of probable alien origin.
Deliplants -
Splice or neogen plants geneered to produce fruit that resemble animal
products such as meat or cheese.
Eidolon - Telepresence via Utility fog
Environmental_Cybernetics - Environmental Cybernetics, or EC, is a practical discipline and school of study regarding the broad scale interface and control of various incidental interfaces present in a technological environment: the local mechosystem and its entire set of cybernetic controls.
The Encyclopaedia Everythingiana
Enigma Four - Transapient hive mind of unkown origin
Frankenstein Syndrome - Many of the uninformed believe the story of Frankenstein to be historical. Scholars have in fact identified it as a cautionary tale from the late Industrial Age
Nearbaseline Archailect Femtosecond Emulation Project - project by which billions of near-baselines perfroming trillions of calculations emulate a single femtosecond thought process of an archailect
Foo - unidentified objects in the sky and in space
Godslist - a massive database attempts to list every transingularity power and archailect in existence, and define the origins, goals, and current activities of each.
Godstars - The transapientech/godtech modification and transcension of a star into a high toposophic archailect
Grazer - purpose-built spherically symmetric wormholes carried into systems, such as globular clusters, that are rich in material and energy but (usually) poor in planetary materials
Halomin
-a musical instrument also producing a light show
Hyperautism and Ultraconscious Depersonalisation Disorder - Mental disorders among cyborgs and other highly enhanced bionts
Hyperplacebo Effect - Directed use of the placebo effect by bionts for self-treatment without pharmaceuticals
The Ilahlu Barrier - a myth about alien wormholes
Induced Anosognosic Neglect (IAN) Syndrome - Induced mental deficit among archailects
Intellect Bonsai - two main forms, one practiced primarily amongst some transapient blights, the other often by more main-baseline-stream cultures.
The Ionians of Lothary - a declining populace of a small isolated planet, subverted by an advertising ai.
Knowledge Manipulation - techniques allowing knowledge within the sophont brain to be rewritten at will, once the detailed structure of a given sophont brain had been mapped to a sufficient level of detail.
Lost colonies - colonies that have been totally isolated from the remainder of Terragen civilization for a long period of time.
Lynk, lynking - the act of linking different locations by telepresence
Mormyrids - originally, a group of Teleost fishes from the rivers and lakes of Old Earth's Africa, later provolved, genmgineered, or reintroduced into various habitats
Medusa Fractal - A hypothetical mathematical figure which, when seen by a baseline or near-baseline human, sets up a feedback loop that sends them into a permanent catatonic state
Mythical Xenosphants -legends of hidden aliens in the midst of the Orion Arm Civilisation
Neuro-fractal Patterning - Science of using fractal patterns to influence the emotional or physical states of intelligent entities
Perfect Horror - common sapient term for a series of events, which in retrospect appear to be transapient attempts at 'perfect art' utilizing baseline societies as the medium. They are usually considered to also be a subset of blight.
The Peregrinate - distributed pseudo-polity of unknown origin, consisting of individuals claiming allegiance to the Peregrinate and being under the protection of the Peregrin, an unknown AI god protecting them through adornments similar to the Solarian pilgrimage jewellery.
The Platypus War - Nobody knows for sure if there really was such a thing as a platypus war
Polysomatic Intellects - Intellects that utilize more than one discrete physical node for their processing. This includes many wide varieties of sophonts, from the anttechians to the multi-Mbrain Sephiriotic 'Gods'.
Quasar Dynamic Fleet - officially a semi-autonomous subsidiary of the Quasar Dynamic Group. But after the bankruptcy and dissolution of the QDG in the second half of the 9300's, the fleet has become a somewhat nomadic civilization whose only aim seems to be the complete and utter destruction of the Daharran Advance
Recursive Arcology - virch-based existence in which there is significant conflict between sophonts within a virch, each virch has significant conflicts for computronium, each computronium substrate has significant conflicts for power, and each power producer has significant conflicts for limited supplies of matter.
Ritual Duels - One-on-one combat between baseline-equivalent sapients under the supervision of higher level transapients
Sarcophobia - Sarcophobia is excessive fear and disgust in the presence of flesh, especially one's own.
The Scavenger - a semi-mythical computronium thief
The School of Will - one of the oddest and most iconoclastic institutions; the purpose of the School of Will is to produce Adepts of Will, sophonts who have been highly trained to find myriad ways to make eir will manifest in the universe
Semblance of Eternity - Controversial message posted widely across the Known Net, claiming to pertain to an intercepted high level extra-galactic artifact.
Serendib - Legendary/mythical very advanced hider colony in the Inner Sphere.
Sleepwalkers - modification and widespread genmod - allowing baseline human-equivalent functioning and interactions ona minimal level of consciousness. Used as a means of social control in some unethical polities
Software Wars - Caused by software incompatible with or actively destroying the software of other origin.
The Sophoncy Virus - a piece of self-replicating semi-sophont software that would upgrade any software entity into a sophont being, with mental characteristics derived from, but not limited to, those of the original piece of software
Substrate Shock - a not-uncommon psychological affliction amongst a significant fraction of baseline-equivalents (and allegedly higher-rated intellects) changing to a new substrate.
Subsumption - Subsumption is a form of violent assault, carried out by one AI or virtual against another. It has been compared, inadequately, to such perversions as rape, cannibalism, and bodyjacking. Of these, cannibalism is the closest equivalent.
The Surreal Rash - a failed transcension experiment, resulting in a 130 light year diameter volume of bizarre nanotech and nanecologies
Synsects - small bots, or occasionally cyborg/neogen or synano constructs on the scale of arthropods. Exhibit artificial instinct (as opposed to artificial intelligence), and are capable, like insects of considerably complex emergent behaviour. They are a ubiquitous in most modern technosystems.
The Tragedy of the G995 - starwisp used to ferry small numbers of copied intellects between systems was knocked off course, leading to an on-board revolt
Time Travel (legend) - Over the eons, many have claimed that travelling backward in time is possible.
Technohaunts - bits and pieces of incomplete or incorrect deletions, random programming errors and other strange activity caused by ultratech, transapientech, and godtech that seem supernatural or mysterious to those of lower tech and/or toposophic levels.
Undead Army of Dan Sanders - One of the quirkier legends in the Terragen sphere.
Virtual Labyrinths - Virtual environments can be used to confuse or contain as easily as to educate or entertain. Virtual Labyrinths, known by a variety of names across the Terragen sphere (Subtillion Traps, Epistemogrifiers, Dreamweirs), are one of the most deadly of these forms of confusion
Voluntary authentication of messages - Authentication agreement by which hyperturing or transapient can share eir assessment of authenticity with the recipient.
Warpship - Popular sapient rumor involving mythical FTL technology
The Watched - Higher transapient entertainment involving manipulation of the lives of lower toposophic beings
The Wilds - Generic term for non-sephirotic terragen space beyond the borders of the Civilized Galaxy
The Wishing Box - There has never been any empirical evidence for the existence of Wishing Boxes. Despite that, the story refuses to die.
Worm ai, etymological notes - Some anecdotal etymology on the class of AI that inhabits and maintains a wormhole
