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Vec

An artificial, a sophont constructed of machinic or inorganic components

(in practice, especially at the nano level, the distinction between vecs and bionts tends to blur

[from Hans Moravec, Information Age Roboticist)

$Category: Math$ vector

A one-dimensional array of numbers that can be used to represent a point in a multidimensional space.

Commonly in 3-space a vector is viewed as a number (a magnitude) plus a direction (compare with scalar). A vector can be represented by an arrow whose length represents the magnitude and the direction represents the direction. For example, velocity is a vector; velocity tells you how fast something is travelling, and its direction.

vector

Any medium, method, biotic organism, known net protocol, cultural environment, or vehicle for the transmission of a replicator such as a biological pathogens, ai viruses, madverts, or memes. Almost anything can be a vector for some for of replicator or another

M.Alan Kazlev

Vedokiklek

The Vedokiklek are a race of insectoid arthropod neogen provolves or splices that first became known during the later ComEmp period in the spinward Solar Dominion.

They appear to be the result of an escaped Genen hobby farm with its attendant AIs, perhaps dating back as far as the middle Empires period. They stand approximately 1 meter in height, and posses a strongly communal hive consciousness. This hivemind is the most obvious augmentation, based on the inclusion of radio-producing neural tissue and an artificial packet-based language ganglion.

Wetware augmentation is ubiquitous. They are generally reclusive, and activities in galactic politics are mostly confined to issues that involve them personally, or possible restrictions on the movement of their ships or colonization efforts. However, they have good relationships with a number of local hyperturings, who have provided technical assistance and helped them build up their industry.

Anders Sandberg and M.Alan Kazlev, after the original idea by Kevin Self

Vega

(Alpha Lyrae) is a very bright star, spectral type is A0Va, in the constellation Lyra. Vega is a young star surrounded by a dusty protoplanetary disk, about 25 light years from Sol. During the nanoswarm dark ages a neuman probe reached Vega and established a short-lived civilization out of the available protoplanetary material. Following Federation archeological teams and declaration of the larger structures in the area as Heritage Reserve, several novelty corporations used a legal loophole to begin extracting and selling off some of the artifacts. During the middle Federation period an ai-built curatorial Museum Ship / micro-ISO, the 245-19e, popularly known as "Darran", appropriated the system and expelled the corporations and most of the tourist and virch-archaeological industry. Whilst there was some talk of sending a Federation capital ship, or even a converted Company Ship, the corporations involved came under heavy adverse publicity at home from archaeologists and preservationist groups and decided to drop the idea. Meanwhile "Darran" set up a local polity, the Vega Preservation Society, aligned it with the Formalhaut hyperturings, opened friendly relations with terragen archaeologists and aiolgiosts, but was not interested in further developing the system.

During the late Federation (Imperialization) age a number of spacetime hyperturing research corporations approached the Vega Preservation Society and offered to exchange resources and research materials in favour of a 500 year lease that allowed them to use the solar energy of Vega and a number of original planetisimals that still remained. Surprisingly, Darran agreed, and Vega became one of the main research systems during the rush for spacetime engineering in the era of expansion, home to the Vega Geodesic hyperturing research corporate cluster. The cluster, as a part of the Vega Geodesic Triumvirate 4079 succeeded in creating the first stable macroscale wormhole. Over the next centuries the system was used to refine the technology, but technology and research increased moved elsewhere, and when the lease expired in 4512, the research hyperturings left. Two centuries later, for unknown reasons, "Darran" did likewise, leaving several junior hyperturings, the Vega Preservation Society, and a 50-meter gauge wormhole to Formalhaut. The wormhole was closed during the Version War and never opened (it is not known what happened to the controlling ai). The Vega Preservation Society was dismantled in 7915 when the joint hyperturing board underwent an unexpected transcendence. In the millennia since Vega has been successively and sporadically colonized by various cultures (sometimes for periods of up to several centuries at a time), before being deserted and later re-occupied by a different culture. Most of the cultures and clades are of Backgrounder, Sol-Kuiper, or Shadow Commonwealth descent.

Current Allegiance: Independent

Anders Sandberg and M. Alan Kazlev

Vegebrain

derogatory term for those ais and uploads that use biocybernetic processing systems instead of totally inorganic materials

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