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Jade Technology Jade is a grayish-green flaky crystal which looks similar to Jade on earth. Unlike most other crystals, it can hold charge discretely -- individual chunks of it can hold charge separately from other chunks, which can be variously charged, uncharged or inverted. The scale of this is ...

Raphael wrote: ↑Wed Sep 14, 2022 2:20 am Huh? Where did you ever get an initial /h/ for that one from?

That's not a huge stretch from /C/, which is evidently how it's pronounced in Greece.

Having letter-color synesthesia however, I will read "C flat" as a series of the colors pale orange, lime green, almost white gray, transparent, and medium blue. And those letters are always those colors to me, regardless of where or when I read them or the actual colors they are printed ...

If it hasn't been mentioned yet, I unlearned /hir\o/ for gyro , replacing it with /jir\o/ or /jiro/ and correcting anyone who used /dZair\o/ ... only to find out that that word has 16 distinct and acceptable pronunciations based on region of the world and whichever region of Greece the word originat...

Number system use I forgot to mention this in the other post, but the people of the Winged Isles use the number system described here in three different ways: * They use a base-10 number system for basic counting. This is similar to our own except it uses the left-side rule for counting digits, so ...

Number Systems Since it's going to come up in future updates, I'm going to take a minute to describe the Ik'Thulu number system (also in use in Pivotian and Nal'Tek society). I'm using English words as a substrate here (like with the rest of the language) because I wouldn't know where to begin with...

What are you defining as "advanced technology"? Certainly their development of technology would be different from ours, but whether or not they would develop "advanced" technology depends on what that means. I think that we agree that any technology would need tool use. To make ...

Couldn't they use wetsuits to do things outside of their aquatic environment? Like as humans we need oxygen and air pressure and can therefore do things outside our natural environments if we have suits that allow us to maintain our preferred environment. Similarly, aquatic species might be able to ...

Pivots The rest of the Edge post will have to wait since it's on another computer. Instead, I'm going to compile everything that's known about Pivots. I'm also unfortunately going to have to wait until I get to my other computer before underlining new words, so bear with me. It's worth pointing out...

It's been three years since the last update, so I'm switching focus again (though the Worm Scanner does actually tie into this update). The far reaches of the world In this section, I'll aggregate a lot of the knowledge and rumors the Pivotians and Ik'Thulu have about the farthest reaches of the wor...

Cygnus Pentad Physics It's been a while (again), so I'm going to go off-topic again and talk about the Cygnus Pentad understanding of physics. All dodecaverse societies that didn't degrade technologically have a more advanced physics than the one the original Civilization used (which is itself ligh...

oh. so its possible - if not deliberate in their particular case - to opt out of the mesh? When I read through the posts, I thought that cybcygs only killed traitors that were part of the mesh...mostly because at the time, I thought all cybcygs were part of the mesh. "Meshes" are formed f...

Kingslaves Kingslave Biology As mentioned, Kingslaves descend from the biological constructs that the mysterious aliens used to terraform and sculpt planets to their liking. Like their ancestors, Kingslaves are composed almost entirely out of liquid water, lattices made from Pandus Aquus that hold ...

Since I haven't posted in a couple years I'm going to skip over the remainder of Cybcyg society for now, and start talking about the two alien races (Kingslaves and Speccons). Known Alien History Both Kingslaves and Speccons are descendants of the mysterious aliens who disappeared (though not in the...

So, I assume that the Type III-a are not counted in, say, the chefwar's 80% vs 20%...or are they a part of the 80% and 20%, but not taking up arms or doing anything to advance either side in the war? Type III-a cybcygs do literally nothing, including interacting with the statistical probability mes...

How do you access different universes? To answer that it's kind of important to delve into the original civilization's understanding of physics. Bear in mind that most of it has been obsoleted by modern Cygnus Pentad science (and also science in other parts of the Dodecaverse, but that's irrelevant...

Any chance of expanding on the dodecaverse? How do you access different universes? Are these 12 dimensions like the umpteen of string theory all scrumpled up so small that you don't notice them? The Dodecaverse is a large collection of universes "arranged" along twelve axises (or in twelv...

- What are the options for Oneflesh who want to leave their wonderfully dystopian society, but are still weirded out by Dreamflesh, Newflesh and other transhuman antics? First of all, good questions! They do definitely help with the creative process. You'd be surprised at how normal transhumanism i...

I don’t have anything of substance to add, but this is delicious and I hope to see more. Thanks! Cybcyg Types Before we get into the larger groupings of Cybcygs, I should first mention the different types, as they play a pretty big role: * Type I -- These are essentially automatons. They do what th...

Cybcygs If you haven't already guessed, "Cybcyg" is short for "Cybernetic Cygnoids" -- an old designation that contrasted them with "Isomorphic Cygnoids" or "Technological Cygnoids" (basically just newly designed machines) in the old outdated *mech classifica...