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    Thread: Lyra Co-operative - developing the Sophoncy Virus and the late Fed Inner Sphere
Post: RE: Lyra Co-operative - developing the Sophoncy Vi...

Thank you, I'm happy to hear you think it's up to scratch!
Nyeti Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 22 377 Yesterday, 08:00 AM
    Thread: Lyra Co-operative - developing the Sophoncy Virus and the late Fed Inner Sphere
Post: RE: Lyra Co-operative - developing the Sophoncy Vi...

Thanks both for the ideas and feedback!  I've made some edits to reflect your comments, and I think the article is ready to go. (I am leaving the bit about the Free Pals wiped out in the First Vec Wa...
Nyeti Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 22 377 04-16-2025, 08:40 PM
    Thread: Ideas for the Version War
Post: RE: Ideas for the Version War

TSSL Wrote: (01-16-2025, 04:08 PM) -- This raises the point, I think, that the Version War as a term could encompass a whole series of related conflicts, including ones at lower S levels that spin of...
Nyeti General Setting Discussion 31 314 04-16-2025, 07:31 AM
    Thread: Body Transformation Protocols
Post: RE: Body Transformation Protocols

Love it. That animation shows the concept beautifully - and it's just the right level of uncanny.
Nyeti Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 18 265 04-15-2025, 10:09 PM
    Thread: Lyra Co-operative - developing the Sophoncy Virus and the late Fed Inner Sphere
Post: RE: Lyra Co-operative - developing the Sophoncy Vi...

All right, edited version is at the link here (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zrTdfMWSXa9DsuIZ-FHIoQiLfuDIPbmOSjwQcLZgkUg/edit?usp=drivesdk) with changes underlined. The new bits... [hr] ...
Nyeti Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 22 377 04-12-2025, 02:07 AM
    Thread: Typos
Post: RE: Typos

The Galactography (https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-topic/45b17e0030cdc) topic has a missing word: Quote: -- Most of the colonised and inhabited systems are found within the thick disk of the Milky Wa...
Nyeti Website and Content Issues 671 6,689 04-10-2025, 10:56 PM
    Thread: Lyra Co-operative - developing the Sophoncy Virus and the late Fed Inner Sphere
Post: RE: Lyra Co-operative - developing the Sophoncy Vi...

Grawa427 Wrote: (04-09-2025, 10:19 PM) -- Quote: -- Yeah, that's how my thoughts ran when I was planning out this idea. As you say, bots and vots are so widely used that it's enough of a crisis if ...
Nyeti Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 22 377 04-10-2025, 10:50 PM
    Thread: Lyra Co-operative - developing the Sophoncy Virus and the late Fed Inner Sphere
Post: RE: Lyra Co-operative - developing the Sophoncy Vi...

Grawa427 Wrote: (04-09-2025, 07:28 PM) -- Quote: -- non-sophont bot -- By definition a bot is non-sophont so I don't think you need to precise. One thing that I would like to change about the ...
Nyeti Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 22 377 04-09-2025, 09:32 PM
    Thread: Rivers in the Sun
Post: RE: Rivers in the Sun

This has got me exploring the story of the Excelsior Incident and that really speaks for its quality. I love the academic style and the colourful controversies including a "pristine fork" participatin...
Nyeti Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 19 305 04-09-2025, 09:22 PM
    Thread: Lyra Co-operative - developing the Sophoncy Virus and the late Fed Inner Sphere
Post: RE: Lyra Co-operative - developing the Sophoncy Vi...

Here's my idea of a Lyra Co-op emblem. As other people have observed on Discord, the symbolism of the three arrows is probably very outdated by the 35th century CE, but I think that fits the backward-...
Nyeti Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 22 377 04-09-2025, 06:54 AM
    Thread: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
Post: RE: Updates to Old Clade Terminology

Avengium Wrote: (04-07-2025, 05:16 AM) -- I think: Infomorph, biomorph, hylomorph, allomorph are good as categories. [...] Provolve: Beings that have been raised to sophont level from a pre...
Nyeti General Setting Discussion 293 3,684 04-09-2025, 12:59 AM
    Thread: Smart Spiders: Jumping Spider Provolve Concept
Post: RE: Smart Spiders: Jumping Spider Provolve Concept

DSPE Wrote: (04-05-2025, 09:39 PM) -- Did you enjoy reading this? Or did you have to pull yourself through just to get to the end? Why? -- I like it! Their history and especially the section on the...
Nyeti Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 34 325 04-07-2025, 04:44 AM
    Thread: Smart Spiders: Jumping Spider Provolve Concept
Post: RE: Smart Spiders: Jumping Spider Provolve Concept

How about a vignette - a story of a few hundred words at most to show how they might live?
Nyeti Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 34 325 04-04-2025, 05:17 AM
    Thread: Black Hole Superrace and Black Hole Drive article
Post: RE: Black Hole Superrace and Black Hole Drive arti...

Seconded.  This is a fun and flavourful concept, and I like the draft.  And if S2s are organising and providing the required technology, I don't see why it shouldn't work  :D
Nyeti Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 40 568 04-03-2025, 08:03 AM
    Thread: Caretaker Gods
Post: RE: Caretaker Gods

I quite like the idea of a caretaker god in the authenticist/ahuman vein who wants to preserve a simple biosphere from the strife of sophont (or even animal?) life. Presumably e would have to conside...
Nyeti Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 62 1,414 04-03-2025, 01:53 AM
    Thread: Lyra Co-operative - developing the Sophoncy Virus and the late Fed Inner Sphere
Post: RE: Lyra Co-operative - developing the Sophoncy Vi...

I've been working on this draft for a while and I think it's ready for review. It did get a little out of hand. To the point that it's well over 4000 words. Please forgive me. Feedback is very we...
Nyeti Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 22 377 04-02-2025, 09:28 AM
    Thread: Dwarf-Clade (Homo-Isoptera)
Post: RE: Dwarf-Clade (Homo-Isoptera)

Seconded on the art - it's superbly flavourful, nice clean lines too.  :)
Nyeti Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 38 560 03-31-2025, 07:17 PM
    Thread: Tohul Geological History ready for editing
Post: RE: Tohul Geological History ready for editing

This is superb. Love the description and the diagram. I don't have any more detailed comments than that, just that I really like it!
Nyeti Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 80 1,527 03-15-2025, 12:51 AM
    Thread: Images of Smart Spiders Hanging Out
Post: RE: Images of Smart Spiders Hanging Out

DSPE Wrote: (03-10-2025, 11:12 AM) -- Thanks for the compliments! Compliments can put a lot of fuel in someone's tank. Also, they are somewhat alien in psychology, at least in my head canon. While...
Nyeti Art and Visual Media 23 206 03-12-2025, 11:35 PM
    Thread: Hey everyone, I'm new
Post: RE: Hey everyone, I'm new

Hey, welcome on board! I'm another fairly new arrival and I'm interested in linguistics too, so please do share your ideas :D
Nyeti The Arrivals Lounge 4 2,739 03-12-2025, 11:29 PM