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V-LifeThere are many long-running virtual worlds which can be easily accessed by corporeal nearbaseline humans for entertainment purposes. One of the oldest formats of this kind of entertainment is the V-Life or Virchlife world. V-life scenarios are differentiated from games in that games, even those played on servers between millions of virtuals, have clear sets of rules; V-life scenarios have no rules, and constantly change according to the whims of the directors and the preferences of the participants. Once inside the V-life world, it is generally impossible to tell the difference between participants who are avatars of corporeal persons, and participants who are entirely virtual constructs.
Some V-life scenarios only operate at specified times; others are running continually. The most popular baseline V-lives in operation at the moment include Outer Volume: Colonyship, Beamrider, and The Prims (The Prims being available 24 hours a day, although viewers are limited to non-interventionist roles).
VA13Emotion oriented artificial language developed at Phobos Olrondi Lang Labs. Makes extensive use of carefully rehearsed gestures and facial expressions. Popular among empaths, especially in the Communion.
vaccime
VAH,
Vacuum Adapted HumanVacuum adapted clade, late interplanetary age to recent
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VAI-4important Metasoft world
Vajrayana or Diamond Vehicle BuddhismMajor Old Earth Buddhist sect
vallisOn a terrestrial class planet, a valley.
Valusaban4th toposophic archailect and current Overlord / embodied Mind of Kuranaba (Sophic League).
Valusaban is the latest in a series of 4th toposophic Minds (known locally as "Personalities" or "Avatars") that have ruled Kuranaba since it was established as a member world of the Sophic League vampireNeogen or tweak phenotypes modelled on gothic folklore, or as romantic quasi-parasitic bionts, bioborgs, or cryoborgs.
Van Allen beltstwo doughnut-shaped belts of ionized gas (plasma) that circle a Gaian Type planet. The belts are are caused by the interaction between the planet's magnetic field and the solar wind. The particles (plasma) is trapped by the planet's magnetosphere. When stray particles from these belts collide with air, they emit light, causing an aurora.
Vangelisimportant Communion of Worlds member-system.
VanGuard
AllianceFormer theocracy ruled by the mad godling VanGuard; now a close ally of the Toh Chi Lok-Nar.
Vanguin Ialso known as Thu'to'lhu'hu - birthplace of Ho'th'hss'lho, contains nanohabitats and databanks on the surface and in orbit.
Varadic
HegemonyExpansionist Late Consolidation and early Second Federation age biocyborg empire
VarnerkaspiOuter Crucis Corridor/Centaurus Sector Outer Volumes world formerly inhabited by the Neutral Way clade Durrel Inheritors (an off-shoot of the original cyborg Durrel Inheritors clan). In 8048 they departed at relativist velocity for the galactic core, leaving behind a rich selection of sometimes innovative and valuable and occasionally dangerous artifacts. The world is currently and profitably governed by the NoCoZo Posthuman Artifacts and Productions corpclade.
variable staris one whose brightness changes regularly. They can have periods ranging from minutes to years. The apparent changes in brightness are caused by different phenomena; some change in size, some eject material, and others are in pairs that periodically obscure and enhance each other.
variationGenetic differences among individuals in a population, necessary for microevolution.
Vast
Endeavour
vastento enhance one's mind strongly ("to become vast"), related to transcending.
Vastening EffectAs a being becomes faster (e.g. by uploading into a computer or upgrading to faster hardware if already virtual) the apparent distances seem to increase due to the finite speed of light. Every doubling of subjective speed will double external communications delays. This makes highly advanced beings isolated, and often leads to the creation of archailect clusters and other dense superobjects. The problem is partially ameliorated by use of nano- and microguage wormholes, but this has other problems, e.g. increasing instability, problem of flooding by virtual particles if the relativistic wormhole termini are too closely spaced, etc.
vastitasOn a terrestrial class planet, an extensive plain.
VastnessFamous for the expedition of Killavan Yu-Tang, the system has become a major tourist attraction through a single small wormhole. Access is still very limited, and much of the system is occupied with astrographic efforts.
VatNightside augmented bat-like flying sophont descended from reformed Jansenists; one of two AI-gengineered races of tweak fliers that inhabit the small planet Mazukata's Holiday, the other being the Virds.
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Vatican
CityOld Earth pilgrimage site
