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Miscellaneous Topics |
Abdicators - Transapients who return to a lower toposophic level for whatever reason
Academic Coronese Alphabet -developed on Corona, but used widely throughout the Civilised Galaxy
Affines - virus affecting transapient behaviours
Aiviser - A trans-sapient AI that has been constructed so as to be totally loyal to an individual or group of lower toposophic levelAlgol Broadcasting Foundation - A small to medium-sized broadcasting entity within the NoCoZo
Alternate Orion ArmsThe Amalgamation - Deadly transapient replicating swarm of unknown origin
The Artefacts of Mystery -five of the most mystreious objects yet discovered in the Terragen Sphere
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.BioGeoComputing - A layer of crustal bacteria in several planets which has been converted into processing substrate
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.The Boneless - Apparently mythical creature
Botworld - a large area that is dominated by, or consists entirely of, self-replicating and self-repairing forms which are of mechanical originBrain Plague -rumour 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
Calendars and Timekeeping in the Terragen Sphere - accurate synchronisation of clocks in a universe dominated by Special Relativity is quite literally impossible
The Chaos - myth of impending collapseCinder
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.
The Crystal Blossom - airborne floating artwork/home of the artist/philosopher Aura Ghami
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 - a bootstrap database for lost or abandoned societies
Enigma Four - Transapient hive mind of unknown origin
Eugenics - some transapients attempt to shape species using selective breeding
The Fair Folk - a diminutive clade who practice technomagic
The Far Horizon Venture - Long distance relativistic explorers
Fiat Caecus Lux - Archai Hyperactivity Disorder
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 performing 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 materialsHalomin
-a musical instrument also producing
a light show
Hyperautism
and
Ultraconscious
Depersonalization 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 practised 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
Manaran (The Pure King) - a fictional cycle of stories written by Laucen Greatguy
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
Mormyrids - originally, a group of Teleost fishes from the rivers and lakes of Old Earth's Africa, later provolved, gengineered, or reintroduced into various habitats
Multiplanet Reserves - Regions of space with many independent colonies, treated as reserves by the archai
Museum ShipsNeuro-fractal Patterning - Science of using fractal patterns to influence the emotional or physical states of intelligent entities
Neuropsychism - the belief in the superiority of biological brains (literally, superiority of neurons)
Omega Key -almost universal decryption devicePerfect 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 Sephirotic 'Gods'.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.
The
Redux Strategy; a fall-back position in case of the collapse of
civilisation
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.
Scion - a
partial or full copy of a sophont, using the same substrate as the
original
Semblance
of
Eternity - Controversial message posted widely across the
Known Net, claiming to pertain to an intercepted high level
extra-galactic artefact.
Serendib - Legendary/mythical very advanced hider colony in the Inner Sphere.
The
Sphere of Twelve Billion Faces - religion-inspired artifact in
Sophic space
Sleepwalkers - modification and widespread genemod - allowing baseline human-equivalent functioning and interactions on a minimal level of consciousness. Used as a means of social control in some unethical polities.
The Sleeper Monks - an institute dedicated to the preservation of sleepers in nanostasis
The SMPX -
it's... the spaghetti monster from planet X!
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.
Space
Hulks - deserted shipwrecks in deep space, some becoming habitats
for hider clades
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.
Supporting
Minds of the Red Star M'Pire
- Some of the godbrains in this isolated empire
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.
The
To'ul'h Calendar - as used by the alien To'ul'h race
Transcendence
Blights and Perversities - blights and perversities that are the
direct result of failed transcendence events.
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.
Twitterbird - genetically modified alien birdlike animal
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.
