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2 June 2013 (Lavoisier 9, 44 A.T.)

New and Amended Pages

Asomniacs :: Skill Module :: LithicGelidian Type worlds :: Hephaestian type worlds :: The Black Acropolis :: SunMiner :: Zarauztar :: The Tkzeph Empire :: PuYlong Ring :: The Hamilton Institute of Exopaleontology :: Unnamed Species: HIE236PPE :: RG Vijayanta III :: Fission Drives :: Enremdea :: The Menexenes :: Varnerkaspi :: The Golden Tower Builders :: Propoghanda :: Uganda ::

7 May 2013 (Kepler 11, 44 A.T.)

Voices: Future Tense Issue 21

Voices: Future Tense Issue 21 now online

Includes The Results of the 2011/2012 Short Fiction Contest ::

Also - New stories including the conclusion of the latest serial Heart of The Ice, and the first chapter of a new serial Dissension

30 April 2013 (Kepler 4, 44 A.T.)

New and Amended Pages

Danzig :: Boostbeam :: Tau Ceti (planetary system) :: Valparaiso Cycler :: Precursor Knowledge :: The Chrono-Transcendent Soul :: CrustClown Kingg :: Simurgh :: Djed

18 April 2013 (Jung 20, 44 A.T.)

The Best of the Year Polls 2012

Here's your chance to vote in the Second of the Orion's Arm 2012 Best of the Year Awards ::

Best EG Entries of 2012::

Don't delay, vote today! The system will only let you vote once, so make sure your vote is a good one.

8 April 2013 (Jung 10, 44 A.T.)

Important Announcement!

The Orion's Arm Universe Project Discussion Forum is now open!
All members of the Worldbuilding Group, Writing and Arts group, and 3D Modelling group are invited to join and continue the discussion there.

For the moment, we will be continuing to use the Yahoo groups for archiving, so don't unsubscribe just yet. Over time we will be moving the files, photos etc out of the Yahoo Groups and either onto the OA site itself or into the Forum, we'll be announcing that process as we go.
When posting on the new forum, please try to put posts in the correct area. Hopefully the structure is clear and reasonably self-explanatory, but do post any concerns in the suggestion box. Mods will aim to move threads into the correct area if necessary, but a redirect will be left its place so you can see where we have moved it to.
Any concerns, questions or suggestions can be posted here or (even better) on the new forum. Of course, you can also always contact any of the OA mods offline if you wish.

3 April 2013 (Jung 5, 44 A.T.)

The Best of the Year Polls 2012

Here's your chance to vote in the first of the Orion's Arm 2012 Best of the Year Awards ::

Best OA Stories of 2012::

Don't delay, vote today! The system will only let you vote once, so make sure your vote is a good one.

This poll will close on Saturday, April 20, 2013. The winners will be announced here soon afterward.

26 March 2013 (Imhotep 25, 44 A.T.)

New and Amended Pages

Autonomous Doctor Technology :: The Dark :: The Convocation :: Ringworlds :: Vanishment :: Stratificationism :: Gripler :: Cargo Gel :: Deletionism :: The Ultimates :: Conchsquid :: Perceptions Shows

20 Feb 2013 (Hipparchos 19, 44 A.T.)

Announcing the Paul Birch Archive. The Orion's Arm Universe Project has collected all available material written by the late Paul Birch of the British Interplanetary Society, and is now making it available on this page. Includes papers on terraforming, moving planets, orbital rings and supermundane worlds.

7 Feb 2013 (Hipparchos 6, 44 A.T.)

New and amended pages

The Samaelians :: Huycau - Sitr'achra :: Light-cone :: Samael :: Banks Orbital :: Sakvaback :: Remagar :: Ridley Ridley :: Light Speed Paranoia
Updated Gallery - Darren Ryding

4 Feb 2013 (Hipparchos 3, 44 A.T.)

On behalf of the managing Board of the Orion's Arm Universe Project, We are pleased to announce the winner of the OA Short Fiction Cover Art Contest.

And the winner is...

Cover Entry A by Arik/Ari Kohorn. Congratulations!

The second OA fiction contest is now closed. Stand by for an important announcement about the results.

December 26 2012 (Faraday 19, 44 A.T.)

Voices:Future Tense Issue 20

Voices/Future Tense issue 20 now online.
Voting Is Now Open for the 2011/2012 Short Story Collection Contest; see V:FT 20 for more details.

December 13 2012 (Faraday 6, 44 A.T.)

New and amended pages

The Progression of Technology in the Terragen Civilisation :: The Second Vec War :: Tao Li :: The Genesis of the Second Vec War :: The Da'at disaster :: The Teleological Tendency :: Appeal to Toposophy :: Earthland :: Baroquification

October 29 2012 (Darwin 17, 44 A.T.)

New and amended pages

Alpha Centauri A+B :: Henson :: Wer-Water :: Uyuni :: Grabgrass :: Tangaroa :: Chorus :: The Queen of Pain :: Skalosak :: Zarathustra :: The Collectors :: Hubble's Variable Nebula :: Daedalus I

September 27 2012 (Copernicus 13, 44 A.T.)

New and amended pages

Unnamed species HIE300CZE :: Tillika the Siberoo :: Ainstinct :: Gamaliel :: Thunderbolt :: Living Tattoo :: Plasma Processor :: Wurm :: Daedalus II :: Negsoa :: Audubon :: Grignard :: Nadia :: Metasoft Version Tree

August 30 2012 (Brahe 14, 44 A.T.)

New and amended pages

The Fiarro Twin Worlds :: Harem Blight :: Vasculoid Circulatory Replacement System (Artificial Blood) :: Milk Tap :: Woven Graphene :: Carl Sagan :: The Aquila Rift

July 31 2012 (Archimedes 11, 44 A.T.)

New and amended pages

The Solar System in 539 AT :: Cygnus OB2-12 :: Siberoo :: Cybernetic Livestock :: Proxima :: Beta Coma Berenices :: Classic Ships

20 July 2012 (Armstrong Day, 43 A.T.)

Voices:Future Tense

Voices/Future Tense issue 19 now online.

20 July 2012 (Armstrong Day, 43 A.T.)

Happy Tranquility Day!

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June 30 2012 (Mendel 9, 43 A.T.)

New and amended pages

Dusty Scuttlers :: Post-scarcity :: Evanescence (Vanishments) :: The Sky on Alien Worlds :: Technology Timeline :: Reefs (Sepioteuthis sapiens) :: Animin :: Naos :: Animin Power

May 22 2012 (Kepler 26, 43 A.T.)

New and amended pages

ClearEye :: Dropball :: Amboseli :: Gliese 667 :: Gillbank :: Sy :: Labeyrie :: Incorp :: Marijuana :: Nadia :: Conversations :: Weather Machines ::
Updated Gallery - Darren Ryding

27 April 2012 (Kepler 1, 43 A.T.)

New and amended pages

Mobility Denial Myoribbon (MDMr) :: Nootropics :: Cyberdemocracy :: African Grey Parrot :: Criminal Rehabilitation :: Dirigibles :: Focal Point(world) :: Epsilon Sculptoris :: Blue Straggler :: Nanite :: Nanobot
Also visit our Facebook Page for a new image by Arik

12 April 2012 (Jung 14, 43 A.T.)

Happy Yuri's Night!

The anniversary of humanity's first flight into space.

Voices:Future Tense

Voices/Future Tense issue 18 now online.

Also now available at Smashwords

Orion's Arm Novel Betrayals by Steve Bowers (updated and revised, with a new glossary and timeline) $2.99

See also
Traveler's Notes: A Modest Proposal by Todd Drashner (free)

Outrunning The Storm by Michele Dutcher, now at Amazon
(novel inspired by the Orion's Arm Scenario)

14 March 2012 (Imhotep 13, 43 A.T.)

New and amended pages

Combat Jacket :: Pelion and Ossa :: Carbon Worlds :: Twin Clades :: Polymorphic Architecture :: Walking Mountain :: Protoplanet :: T Tauri Star :: Paula

21 Febuary 2012 (Hippocrates 20, 43 A.T.)

New and amended pages

Calyx :: The Wayfarers :: The Batholithic Civilisation :: Ascension Compensation Mods :: Subsequentialism :: The Horsehead Nebula :: Bioxox :: Patternism :: Cryonics

21 January 2012 (Galileo 17, 43 A.T.)

New and amended pages

Money in Post-scarcity economies :: Bubblehabs :: Nu Joloth :: Barkbat :: Chorus :: Arcadia :: Attention Economics :: Yanqui :: Pereira :: Skeblu :: Cascadia

16 December 2011 (Faraday 9, 43 A.T.)

New and amended pages

Superterrestrial Worlds :: The R'Foxxans :: Pax Archailectica :: Forge Integrated Technology :: Martian Tweaks :: Rajasekar :: Macrystis :: Kobolds

28 November 2011 (Einstein 19, 43 A.T.)

New and amended pages

Nathan :: Stamp :: Banks Orbital :: The Ginnungagap Theory :: Perfect Horror :: Glossary :: The Perversion of Glorsheeng :: The Black Net

10 November 2011 (Einstein 1, 43 A.T.)

New and amended pages

Aibitrator :: Locus :: Adamant :: Polyglot :: Ascension :: Tricorn Ship :: Psychoempaths :: Aroostai :: Meerlinda Nano-disaster :: Wormholes - A Layman's Guide :: Gradual Uploading :: Wormholes - Cultural Factors :: Transhumanism

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17 October 2011 (Darwin 5, 43 A.T.)

New and amended pages

DNI Capabilities and Components :: Anachrotech :: Medibot :: Nanomedicine :: Cableville :: Nanomedical systems :: Pigments :: Nanomedical system components and capabilities ::
N-FAK :: Omnimed :: Hot Neptunes :: Brown Dwarfs

22 September 2011 (Copernicus 8, 43 A.T.)

New and amended pages

Supporting Minds in the Red Star M'Pire :: Toposophic Level and Brain Size :: Arctic City Virch :: Mandra Quin'Si :: Ascend :: Transcend

6 September 2011 (Brahe 20, 43 A.T.)

New and amended pages

Terranova (82 Eridani) :: Sritht :: Daveth Tweaks :: Dauntless Incorporated :: Maximum toposophic level :: The ..... Spores :: Visual Arts :: Dumbbell Nebula :: The Prince :: Symbiotics

17 August 2011 (Archimedes 28, 43 A.T.)

New and amended pages

Å (world) :: Eutopia :: Thanatology :: Henon :: Blefuscu :: The Ynity Gate Project :: Gas Dwarfs :: Siris Habitat :: Cygnus X-1

23 July 2011 (Archimedes 3, 43 A.T.)

New and amended pages

Transcend Seven :: The World of Forking Paths :: Kalevalists :: Mollweide :: Wormhole Gazetteer :: Joker Leafants

20 July 2011 (Armstrong Day, 42 A.T.)

Happy Tranquility Day!

The second OA fiction contest has landed! Submit short stories and novelettes for the 2011 contest here.

Voices/Future Tense issue 17 online.

13 June 2011 (Lavoisier 20, 42 AT)

New and amended pages

Torch Ships :: Ishtar's Necklace :: The Screethraw :: The Shimmerers :: The Reflective Balance Mutuality :: Zoea :: Mooclick the Muuh and the Time Machine (a fable)

9 May 2011 (Kepler 13, 42 AT)

New and amended pages

Carina Cycler Union :: Zerzavec Commune :: Biaioid :: Kja Observance :: Virtual Kja Observance :: Beta Arae

2 May 2011 (Kepler 6, 42 AT)

New and amended pages

Backyarders :: Dividual Naming Schema :: Lums :: Incident at Tragadi Gap :: Kriavuks

ANNOUNCING - New Novel Now Available!

Outrunning The Storm by Michele Dutcher
A desperate tale of lovers, conquerors and genetically altered humans.

Available Here
(please note, this is a non-canonical story which is inspired by early events in the Orion's Arm universe)

18 April 2011 (Jung 20, 42 AT)

New and amended pages

Werewolves :: Genetic Encryption :: Raksha :: Unnamed species HIE072CZE :: Enforcer Objects :: The Silk God :: The Gum Nebula :: The Vela Supernova Remnant

30 March 2011 (Jung 1, 42 AT)

18 February 2011 (Hipparchos 17, 42 AT)

New and amended pages

The Last War :: Shangdu :: Bayesjutsu :: The Perfect Culture Empire :: Shinogi :: The Magvivisystem Hyperpolity :: Enhanced Uploads

1 February 2011 (Galileo 28, 42 AT)

New and amended pages

Nuisances :: The Svalbard Transap :: Quantum nanotechnology :: Quantum Impeller :: Transfer Plane :: Quantum Levitation :: Strakaysa :: Nepthys

18 January 2011 (Galileo 14, 42 AT)

New and amended pages

The ObCom Ontology :: Valkuya :: Shellworlds :: Delta Upali :: The Hamilton Institute of Exopaleontology :: The Sagittarius Preservers :: The Great Ecologist :: Paygeesu Virches :: Transapient Whales

31 December 2010 (Faraday 24, 42 AT)

New and amended pages

Lasyuka :: Hellspiders :: Telescopic Limbs :: The Laundry :: Gaian Whale :: Fractal Architecture

Buy someone The Orion's Arm Novella Collection for Christmas!

Available now on Amazon

10 December 2010 (Faraday 3, 42 AT)

New and amended pages

Rak Mesba :: Dividual Interaction Protocols :: Grignard :: Moby :: Incarnates :: Relief :: The Merged Humanoid Entity

23 November 2010 (Einstein 11, 42 AT)

New and amended pages

Worldrings :: Ceres Mater :: Plant :: Phototropic Seeds :: Ova Fusion :: Empath :: Empai :: The Insubstantials :: The Red Star Mpire

19 November 2010 (Einstein 7, 42 AT)

New and amended pages

Master Star List :: Yes Jolonah (comic) :: Niven Clouds (Smoke Rings) :: Gourd Houses :: Hobo Sapiens :: Epsilon Aurigae :: Wolf 359

4 November 2010 (Darwin 23, 42 AT)

New and amended pages

Shona :: Kepler and Bucky habitat clusters :: Translation Metamorphosis :: Morphological Freedom :: EuCytherean Subtype :: Automorphism :: Grapeship Ownership :: Auto-Toxic Meme :: Cookie Fiend :: Janusian type worlds :: Dorranok :: New Section; Comix

31 October 2010 (Darwin 19, 42 A.T.)

Voices/Future Tense : New Issue

18 October 2010 (Darwin 6, 42 A.T.)

New and amended pages

Rocket Performance :: The Terragen Sphere :: Vat-Tech :: Ceres - The Early Years :: The Regor Magnetar :: Aryan Morningstar League :: Pulsars :: Epoch (Astronomy) :: Destructive Uploading :: Non-destructive Uploading

8 October 2010 (Copernicus 24, 42 A.T.)

New and amended pages

Archanarchy :: Protist :: Fed Reps (Federation Representatives) :: Virch Egress Anxiety Disorder :: Virch-Speed Maladaptive Disorder :: Fons Luminis (Xi Ursae Majoris) :: Vacuum Adapted Humans

26 September 2010 (Copernicus 12, 42 A.T.)

New and amended pages

Phobos :: The Jeepers of Mik's Planet :: Heartland :: Legobots :: Modubots :: Utility Sand

15 September 2010 (Copernicus 1, 42 A.T.)

New and amended pages

Keepers :: Datastructuralism :: Nys-eldush :: Portable Laser Weapons :: Banks Orbital :: Fractal Dyson :: Stargate :: Darren Ryding's Gallery

8 September 2010 (Brahe 22, 42 A.T.)

New and amended pages

Ultimate Muscles :: The Evangelist :: The Reach of Gaia :: Aesopica Fantastica :: Brushbots

7 August 2010 (Archimedes 18, 42 A.T.)

To mark 10 years of the Orion's Arm Project, an interview with founder member M. Alan Kazlev

Follow Orion's Arm on Facebook

4 August 2010 (Archimedes 15, 42 A.T.)

New and Updated Pages

The Bunny Plague :: Portable Laser Weapons :: Alphaism :: Soon-Eh :: The Chronos Cluster :: The Hollerith Anomaly Object :: Mandra Quin'Si :: The Quasa'an Dynasty :: Plebhu :: Plebvec

21 July 2010 (Archimedes 1, 42 A.T.)

Voices: Future Tense - New Issue Out now!

20 July 2010 (Armstrong Day, 41 A.T.)

Happy Tranquility Day!

17 July 2010 (Mendel 26 41 AT)

New and Updated Pages

Mycosmids :: BOSS :: Heteromorphs :: Performance ::Lycopods :: Ma-Tesh :: Freegems :: Eostremonath - 61 Virginis :: IV

Updated Galleries

Darren Ryding :: Felipe Brando Cadavid

23 June 2010 (Mendel 2 41 AT)

New and Updated Pages

Familiar Perentie :: Alcor and Mizar :: Touchlink :: Akilaspek Trees :: Anchor Seed :: Olfactory Array :: Africa :: Australia :: North America :: South America :: Europe :: Asia :: Elmo :: Betelgeuse

12 June 2010 (Lavoisier 19 41 AT )

New and Updated Pages

Mattercache :: Polysophonce :: Fusion Plasma Rockets :: The Spacefarer Union :: The Five Morph :: Supersophonts :: Simico :: Fragmentation :: The Ozymandias Institute

New Topic

++Ghost Net ((hidden links detected))++

8 May 2010 (Kepler 12, 41 AT)

New and Updated Pages

Links and Extras pages Updated :: The Regor Supernova :: Relativistic Kinetic Kill System :: Clade Tavi :: Aron Tech VX12 Trans-atmospheric Fighter :: Ice Age

29 April 2010 (Kepler 3, 41 A.T)

New Pages

Ambi Limis :: ACER (aka 'Boom Bullets') :: Implosion Weapons

Updated Pages

Ruach :: The Ruach Singers :: Qjellto :: Exosphere:: Babel 'Fish' :: India :: America :: China

18 April 2010 (Jung 20, 41 a.t.)

Updated Timeline Pages

Preterragen Era :: Agricultural Age :: Industrial Age :: Information Age :: Interplanetary Age :: Nanotech Age :: Nanoswarm Age :: Early Federation :: Middle Federation :: Late Federation :: Age of Expansion :: Age of Establishment :: Age of Interstellar Empires :: Second Federation :: The Version War :: ComEmp Period :: Age of Fragmentation :: Age of Re-Evaluation :: Age of Crisis :: The Central Alliance :: Expansionist New Empires :: The Current Era

9 April 2010 (Jung 11, 41 a.t.)

Updated Pages

Worldbuilding Links :: Hyl Op :: The Hyperutilization Supremacy :: The Normidic Machinophyle Supercluster :: The Great Whale ISO :: Ruach :: Mithras :: Panvirtuality Ultima :: Ihikkk (Zeta Tucanae IV)

17 March 2010 (Imhotep 16, 41 a.t.)

New Pages

Conspicuous Delight :: '.....' Spores :: Antimatter Mining

Amended Pages

Sigma Draconis :: Snarks :: Toposophic Levels and Mental Abilities

8 March 2010 (Imhotep 7, 41 a.t.)

New Topic

NewsNet

Updated Pages

Biomachine :: Biobot :: Deimarc :: Muschine :: Under The Looking Glass - Novelette

24 February 2010 (Hippocrates 11, 41 a.t.)

New Pages

Stendhal-Bomb :: Simmball :: Exotic Energy

Updated Pages

Orion's Arm Glossary :: Dome Habitat :: Second Federation Ontology :: The Fragan Sphere

13 February 2010 (Hippocrates 12, 41 a.t.)

New Page

Void Swarms

New Images

Macoss Habitat-Ship :: Giant Space Amoeba :: Restorers

2 February 2010 (Hippocrates 1, 41 a.t.)

New Pages up

Clade Eudore :: Blood Angel :: Mootism :: Gastropod :: Neo Whorfianism :: Noospheric Theory :: Novelty Node :: Polyculture :: Retro Abo :: Technoanimism :: Technoshamanism :: Universal Design

Amended Page

Terragen Expansion

New Images

Darren Ryding's Gallery :: The Cronosians :: Subsumption

1 February 2010 (Galileo 28, 41 A.T.)

Voices/Future Tense : New Issue

Orion's Arm Facebook Page updated

24 January 2010 (Galileo 20, 41 A.T.)

New and Amended pages

Displacement Cannon :: Toposophic Level and Brain Size:: Microgravity Space Habitats :: Age :: Period :: Epoch :: Progenitism :: Landscapes

External Link

Orinetz Orbit Simulator

16 January 2010 (Galileo 12, 41 A.T.)

New and Amended pages

Paleontology :: Music

New Images

The Fubas Clone Goo Event :: The Great Hexadecimal :: Mesozoic Era

7 January 2010 (Galileo 3, 41 A.T.)

New Pages up

House Conver Limis :: Pandya :: Raffins :: Newlife :: Clive's Brain

Updated Pages

The Soft Cathedrals :: The Specialist :: Amat Farms

20 December 2009 (Faraday 13, 41 A.T.)

New Pages up

Clade Aruan :: Pantropy :: Thought Stream Recorder

Updated Pages

Trillicon Arms :: The Rat Barrel

New Image

Clade Kanuma

5 December 2009 (Einstein 26, 41 A.T.)

Orion's Arm Facebook page now open! Join for updates and news.

Still time to get your copy of Against a Diamond Sky for Xmas!

2 December 2009 (Einstein 23, 41 A.T.)

New Pages

Huginn and Muninn :: The Perpetua Project :: Linelayer

Updated Pages

Titan :: Weylforge

New Image

Ruby Marine

26 November 2009 (Einstein 17, 41 A.T.)

New Pages

Environmental Optimization Protocols :: Dragon (neogen)

New Images

Lazurogenics :: Pseudolazurogen :: Wormhole Termini :: Vampires :: Systems & Worlds 0 - 9 : A - B : C - D : E - F : G - H : I - J : K - L : M - N : O - P: Q - R : S - T : U - V : W - X : Y - Z :: Juggernaut Class :: Ultratech :: Conway's World :: Lo Teks :: Prims

11 November 2009 (Einstein 2, 41 A.T.)

New Pages

The Pas'utu'ril :: Twinkle :: The Magellan Scions :: Ferdinand Magellan

New Images

Chiri :: Clade Faber

New and updated galleries

Darren Ryding :: Felipe Brando Cadavid

6 November 2009 (Darwin 22, 41 A.T.)

New Page

Skalosak

New Images

To'ul'hs :: Medusa Fractal :: Magnetar :: Skywrack :: Cryonic Suspension :: The Philosophy of Abundance

14 October 2009 (Darwin 2, 41 A.T.)

New Pages

Metal Monkeys :: Active Polymorphic Defence :: Envirosuit :: Institute for Vec Progress :: KROME1101 :: Klemperer rosette :: Clade Kockengen :: Evangelical Orthodox Catholic Christianity :: Balance Wheel

2 October 2009 (Copernicus 18, 41 A.T.)

New Images

Rantreleka :: Nova Terra :: Sunline :: Posthuman

29 September 2009 (Copernicus 15, 41 A.T.)

New Pages

Perdix :: Immunity Challenge :: Silenus :: AT :: BT ::The Amerindian Worlds

18 September 2009 (Copernicus 4, 41 A.T.)

New Pages

The Realm :: Flera :: Blue Lung :: Shoulder Laser :: Sunline :: Glidemonkeys :: Conversion Technology

New Images

Atlantis (Zeta1 Reticuli II) :: Brown Dwarf

11 September 2009 (Brahe 25, 41 A.T.)

Now Available! The Orion's Arm Novella Collection

'Against A Diamond Sky'

Tales from Orion's Arm | Volume 1
More details here

7 August 2009 (Archimedes 18, 41 A.T.)

New Pages

Cliff Dancing :: Zero Tag :: Pets

Updated Pages

Orion's Arm Celestia Addons :: Orion's Arm Celestia Addons: page 2 :: Orion's Arm Celestia Add-ons page 3 :: Star Lifting

20 July 2009 (Armstrong Day, 40 A.T.)

Happy Tranquility Day! The Orion's Arm Universe Project commemorates the fortieth anniversary of the first Moon Landing, by fully switching over to the New Orion's Arm site. Note that the old site will no longer be available.

Voices/Future Tense : New Issue