A ringworld is a ring-like megastructure that completely encircles its star. Orion&39;s Arm was beginning to take on a life of its own, and by the end. For thousands of years BT, the area that would become the United States of America was inhabited by a multitude of indigenous cultures. An account of the colonisation and early history of this worldlet is given here. No major wars break out in OA, or are greatly exacerbated by the 40K factions. A transapient ai of hypersophonce or hypersapience ability or nature, dedicated to administration or complexity management (or a freed or retired individual of that category); an ai of a toposophic exceptionally beyond superturing; an ai or ai toposophic of SI1 and higher. Dollan and other contributors. They generally contain a breathable oxygen atmosphere, which is prevented from escaping by one of three methods; a thin composite membrane, a. Acknowledgements, References & other Extras. Within the Terragen Sphere supramundane planets (also known as supra-planetary habitats andor shells) can trace their origins back to the Supra-Jupiter concept of the information age visionary Paul. (1998-2099 CE) Image from Bernd Helfert. The year is 10601 AT (probably), with the AT calendar beginning on the day man first walked on the moon in 1969. Gigantes- A sub-clade of physically augmented Nephilim designed to be able to engage in "riskier" and more demanding activities. From Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The result is a bizarre combination of myth and reality becoming real and attempting to impose its will. In the mid-21st century, over a period of less than thirty years, several fields of research and technology came together to transform human civilization in ways nearly unimaginable to prior generations. And finally there is nanotech which explained by the website is very difficult to create. The Infant Orion&x27;s Arm On 6 June 2000, MAK and Donna established the Orion&x27;s Arm Writing Group, of which they were the co-founders. Archailect - Text by M. It has been compared, inadequately, to such perversions as rape, cannibalism, and bodyjacking. Subsumption is a form of violent assault, carried out by one AI or virtual against another. More replies. It is of interest because the Solar System (including the Earth) is inside it. The Outer Frontier. Snapshot Autofabricator 1. Image from Bernd Helfert. In the ensuing decades, the Free Habitat was gradually abandoned, later being dismantled as the Bracelet Band was built. Species which withdrew from the Orion Arm 5. First Federation Emissaries. Location Inner Sphere. Ubiquitous technological implant for connecting a sophont's brain to their exoself, the Net, equipment, and other beings. Hand-held Lasers. Personal Weapons and Galactic Society. This is an ongoing narration project for the Orions Arm collaborative fiction universe. The structure is large enough to have its own self. The most ubiquitous materials in Terragen technology are a class of materials called "diamondoid", all of them constructed from elemental carbon. The Limners (species Malacolimner stellae) are a group of dog-sized, superficially crustacean-like aliens that have been found on three isolated star systems in the hinterlands beyond the Monkey Nebula (counterspinwise of the Perseus rift). Alan Kazlev, Mauk Mcamuk and Chris Shaeffer, updated by Ithuriel Propulsion using explosive pulses of plasma external to the spacecraft; Nullship - Text by Liam Jones Virtual &x27;ships&x27; that travel the Lightways carrying virtual sophonts. The archetypical Terragen Banks&39; Orbital, made to duplicate conditions on Old Earth as closely as possible, orbits a Sol-like star at some distance within the Terragen life zone. An angelnet is any all-pervasive distributed processing supervision and safety infrastructure. 6 million years b. The manner in which a mammal feeds its young, using milk secreted from the mammary glands. In the settled habs and biospheres, clades, cultures, populations, and polities multiply. A Convocation Castle in the Dark. The star is continually overhead when seen from the surface of such a structure. Kinds and degrees of sophonce are well defined and testable in modern toposophology, but a full understanding of them eludes even superbright modosophonts. It is of interest because the Solar System (including the Earth) is inside it. The surface is extremely variable. The local Jupiter brain gets threatened and opens fire, and both sides get bloodluster against each other. The majority of Neptune&x27;s population is on the large, cryovolcanic moon Triton and in various virch clusters. 3 Ideology or view that promotes fabulism in the second sense as a way of life, hiding ones real life behind a layer of disinformation. Usually, a sophont between S0. The Ships would scout the galaxy, seeking to wipe out the empires that created these swarms. Unlike traditional mysticism, there is little or no emphasis on transcendence of phenomena; indeed a deeper apperception of phenomena is. A Supramundane ring constructed around the gas giant Ryker Survey 1. The Orion's Arm Universe Project is an online collaborative fiction setting that describes itself as a transhumanist Space Opera with many worldbuilding elements. Elden Ring is an action RPG which takes place in the Lands Between, sometime after the Shattering of the titular Elden Ring. Aug 23, 2000 The original purpose of the Dawn Hunters according to proponents of the Dawn Hunters scenario was to protect the universe from threats like out-of-control, aggressive self-replicating swarms, but they also had a more sinister motive as well. The Sephirotics, Panvirtuality, Diamond Network, Perseus Princes, and the The Objectivist Commonwealth. The Orion Arm is named for the Orion. During the late 200s AT, Brazil saw its first president born off-world, Rafaela. Both the Union and the Shipwrights are however, silent on the issue. A group of (usually although not necessarily) armed ships moving together as a unit. An account of the colonisation and early history of this worldlet is given here. Image from Bernd Helfert. The ruins of Admntop on Grudat, a few years after being reached by the first blast from the Gehenna cluster in 8030. An imaginary technology cluster. Zavijava (Beta Virginis) - Text by M. ) is used to represent the various breakthroughs in intelligence observed in the history of humanity and post-humanity. The local spiral arm of our Galaxy, also called the Orion Spur as it is a partial arm located between the larger Sagittarius Arm and Perseus Arm. , these intelligent aliens were studied for hundreds of years before they joined the mainstream Orion&39;s Arm civilisation. The stream is sent into space, typically about 80km up. Make sure you check in regularly 141. Although it appears to be much like one of the encyclopedias available to ancient humans, this hardcopy version of the Encyclopaedia Galactica is far more versatile. Alan Kazlev Any Mind of the Fourth Toposophic or higher; a megascale brain of dysonic (Kardashev II) or greater ability and efficiency; a mind or cluster of minds that has grown so vast as to become a god-like entity. Particle beams can pose a radiation hazard to all bionts and non-radiation hardened electronics in the vicinity of the. Others gain most of their initial speed. The Orion Arm is a minor spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy some 69 across and approximately 69 in length. 6 million years b. Why do the powers wage war I really don&x27;t get it, there are a whole host of technologies and mechanisms for both war and defense throughout the Orions Arm universe. 36 x Earth&x27;s. As it propagates at the speed of light it is undetectable, and as it destroys space-time it is irresistible. Nanoweapons have a number of inherent limitations which mean that, in practice, countermeasures can be devised to slow down or stop many or most forms of nanoattack. Unlike Hitech, ultratech is derived, in part or in whole, from technology originally devised by transapient entities. Examples of memetic warriors might be PR agents, priest, poets, empaths. Void Bubble. The build-up to the Metasoft Civil war. Some questions arising from those events remain unanswered to this day. Image from Steve Bowers. Conversion Technology. The Ships would scout the galaxy, seeking to wipe out the empires that created these swarms. Settlers from various European monarchies began to arrive in the mid-1500s CE (late 400s BT). Hand-held kinetic weapon which may be dumb or smart (rarely sentient), capable of firing one or a variety of projectiles; effective range generally in the vicinity of several hundred meters. Basic Transapients (also known as Hyperturings, Powers. "small" (typically less than one km in diameter) 2. You can also view these stories organized as , with. Their biochemistry is based on liquid hydrocarbons, in a methane-nitrogen atmosphere; it is one of the best known examples of methane-ethane based life. - "Auld Limner" species raised to sophonce by a Soft Ones artisan clade. The Ain Soph Aur Dyson Swarm. A Faber can operate in oxidizing atmospheres of the standard terragen oxygen-nitrogen mix, in a vacuum, and in a variety of other chemical environments. The circuitry of the W-Brain is the wormhole network itself. Which was kind of a fad in sci-fi at the time of its conception. The atmosphere is mostly retained by the centrifugal force of the spinning habitat, but to reduce losses further, most rings have a thin transparent membrane that seals the opening. In my view its probably the best to date description of what future civilisations would look. All the main naked-eye stars are part of the Orion arm, including those of Orion itself. Member Galleries Member Videos. Sophont, sapient and sentient entities inhabiting virtual environments. Most Caretaker Gods appear to be singleton intelligences, possibly with tightly controlled avatars and subordinate minds. Cybercosm virtual wargame; The Game is a multi-faceted struggle in which each player attempts to ultimately dominate and destroy all others by any and all means. 4 Fourth Toposophic (middle Archailects) 5 Fifth Toposophic (middle to higher Archailects) 6 Sixth Toposophic (higher Archailects) 7 Seventh Toposophic (even higher Archailects) 8 Eighth Toposophic (highest Archailects) The Keterist scale is similar but goes up to ten. Quantum dots come in two fundamentally unique classes fixed and variable. Psyche, Art, Culture. Get inspired by our community of talented artists. The final stage of the megastructure constructed by the Silk God, known as the Grove; in 9958 it had become a fractally organised Diffusion Sphere, capable of launching lightsails to neighbouring systems. 2) Production of magmatter. The Orion's Arm Universe Project is an online collaborative fiction setting that describes itself as a transhumanist Space Opera with many worldbuilding elements. 1 Pfhor. Sophonce is sentience and sapience with metacognition self-awareness, including self-reflection and the ability to think about one&x27;s thinking. In principle, any one of these techs has been invented by a society of modosophonts. As outlined in its founding documents, the official name of the First Federation was the Federation of Sophonts. 693 subscribers in the OrionsArm community. Generally employed at the S3 level or higher, conversion weapons normally operate by injecting one or more self-replicating. The hemispheres retracted into squat barrel-forms before rising on six flexible limbs. Initially published on 05 September 2005. For thousands of years BT, the area that would become the United States of America was inhabited by a multitude of indigenous cultures. Please note first century hu are reported to have. 2) Production of magmatter. Each Sephirotic empire has its own unique history, arising in different ways and from different origins many thousands of years ago. This means it is ten and a half millennia in the future, and as you can guess, the far future is an place, where the. The Daidarabotchi Megadyson, also known as the Ginnungagap Dyson, Starlight-Dies-In-Heaven, or Canes Venatici Hyperobject 1 among other names depending on the culture, is a dyson shell constructed by an unknown xenosophont civilization at least 6. After that point (9400 AT), the region became known as the Archosaurian Empire. Character Profiles Links & Extras The Archive. Please Note The Orion&x27;s Arm Universe Project is an ever-evolving scenario. Temperatures from -200 to 50 C are quite tolerable to them. Memory and Observation Su possess both a redesigned and more efficient brain structure. TU6 (Turingsen-Bichip-Hursch210 Hyperturing Scale. The magtron has a 1 or -1 magcharge and a mass of 1. Citi announces the transition of more than 70 of its 300, 000 global users to Snapdragon mobile PCs, and Oryon as a next-gen CPU core. The project itself has been going on for almost 25 years at this point, and I. 9 toposophic (hu baseline is S0. The fuel for AIM torch drives is a pellet of plastic-clad deuteriumhelium-3 ice with an inner core of a heavy element, commonly uranium or lead. Alpha Orionis, 58 Orionis, the capital of the Betelgeuse volume. Academion was involved in the effort to build the Global. Millions of times more intelligent than humans and perform any skills they can with far greater efficiency and productivity than SI 1 entities. Human colonisation began in 91 A. As it propagates at the speed of light it is undetectable, and as it destroys space-time it is irresistible. 3 to 1. A small, airless world covered with two separate worldhouse roofs, with a narrow strip between at the equator which allows interplanetary spacecraft access to the original rocky surface. One of the first habitats to identify itself as a space city was Supra-Tokyo, located in geostationary orbit above the Pacific ocean on Old Earth. In this video we cover the years 50AT to 130AT of the Terragen Empire. See also the Orion's Arm Short Story Collections for more stories, and check out the issues of the (discontinued) online OA magazine VoicesFuture Tense for stories, reviews and articles. The 36 modules were connected using polycarbon cables and rotated together in order to simulate 0. A-life evolution occurs within specially designed virtual worlds, where evolution is possible or even necessary. In some ways humanity discovered the world of Oshiq ten million years too late; until that date the climate of this world was comfortable, and Oshiq would have been counted among the rare class of garden worlds which need no alteration whatever before colonisation. Image from Keith Wigdor. Snapshot Autofabricator 1. Fourth Singularity Q-Battery. Culture and Society Daily Life. A clade or phyle, or more often, a sub-clade or sub-phyle. Orion&x27;s Arm Universe Project. After the Technocalypse first erupted in the inner system in 565 AT, immigration soared as thousands attempted to flee to the supposed isolation induced safety of Pluto and its moons. The following is a (by no means exhaustive) list of just some of the varied approaches post-scarcity economies take resource allocation. Firstly, carbon is the fourth most common element in the universe, and of the "top ten" is one of only three (the others. Of course, we are talking about the Orion&x27;s Belt asterism - a three-star line marking the waist of the Hunter. Name Metropolis Ring City (also known as Metropolis, MRC, Urban Cloudscapes City, or simply, the City) Symbol Idealised Banks Orbital Ring with cityscape. THE PAUL BIRCH WEB ARCHIVE Reprinted papers Papers Books Essays Proposals Reviews Poems Stories Papers (facsimile reprints Note; all papers are in PDF format. A common configuration for a gravity tug system uses two or more massive craft in orbit around a point forward of the asteroid itself. Orion&x27;s Arm is an incredible repository of beautiful science-fiction concepts, but strictly speaking I don&x27;t think it can be described as &x27;well written&x27;. Welcome to the Orion&39;s Arm Universe Project. Because of these limitations, flywheels can store. 2 meters when they are on all fours. (When they aren&x27;t as "ridiculously" fast, powerful or wide spread as they are later- still are very uber and small though) Photography. Some questions arising from those events remain unanswered to this day. Alan Kazlev, Mauk Mcamuk and Chris Shaeffer, updated by Ithuriel Propulsion using explosive pulses of plasma external to the spacecraft; Nullship - Text by Liam Jones Virtual &x27;ships&x27; that travel the Lightways carrying virtual sophonts. This basement universe is different from a more conventional Tipler Oracle due to its massive size as opposed to small-scale &x27;tipler universes&x27; as well as due to its purpose as a possibly eternal and "general purpose" basement universe (a Tipler Oracle is usually constructed for. Tech Levels Transapientech, Godtech. This object was first detected because of the Einstein Rings surrounding it; the sphere is silhouetted against the distant galaxy DDF 155A09A091 which has a redshift of z 10. It is also called the Orion Arm. At very high temperatures - e. Elden Ring is an action RPG which takes place in the Lands Between, sometime after the Shattering of the titular Elden Ring. From Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Archailect - Text by M. Plasma - Text by M. The total detectable emission by such a civilisation can be considerable, but generally quite diffuse. The definitions used by transapients of S1 and. The invading Chaos is at least partially based on the collective digital unconscious, and apparently tends to combine deep sophont motivations and archetypes with utterly alien motives. The 36 modules were connected using polycarbon cables and rotated together in order to simulate 0. She may in fact be the reason that Terragens have survived to the. Inheritable bioborg organs, tissues and nanosystems give Bright Cats the equivalent of all common nearbaseline genemods and Superior-like efficient digestion and sleep quality (giving them the same average waking time as humans). Paraterraforming involves the construction of large pressurised habitats which contain a breathable atmosphere at a maintained. A typical sophont. The Argus Array is a distributed telescopic network occupying a spherical volume approximately 1000 ly across in the Inner and Middle Regions, concentrated in two clouds located above and below the main galactic plane (to achieve better. The small. The confined charge carriers form artificial atoms. The map shows several stars visible with the naked eye which are located deep within the Orion arm. Q-Balls are a form of exotic shadow matter, used in many hi-tech applications, particularly the manufacture of antimatter from matter. When infected, individuals undergo a toposophic ascent of several orders of magnitude. In the current era, the network is centered in the Lucida (Iota Piscium) system and includes a variety of planets, megastructures, and star systems within the inner sphere. Member Galleries Member Videos. Distribution Terragen Archailects are mostly found in the Inner. Any Mind of the Fourth Toposophic or higher; a megascale brain of dysonic (Kardaschev II) or greater ability and efficiency; a mind or cluster of minds that has grown so vast as to become a god-like entity. Orion&x27;s Arm (also called the Orion&x27;s Arm Universe Project, OAUP, or simply OA and formerly known as the Orion&x27;s Arm Worldbuilding Group) is a multi-authored online science fiction world-building project, first established in 2000 by M. 88s, -60. Sophonce is sentience and sapience with metacognition self-awareness, including self-reflection and the ability to think about one&x27;s thinking. The world of Fiori is attacked by relativistic kinetic missiles in the Oracle War conflict. By definition events lacking a record are peripheral to historical studies (see Paleontology, Exopaleontology), even if they involve sophont life. as an early attempt by the United States of America to investigate the gas giants of Solsys. One of the responses with that the Orion&x27;s spur is a branch off the Sagittarius arm and not actually a separate spiral arm. Their biology is unique in the Terragen Sphere, being based around resistive magnetohydrodynamics rather than any sort of conventional chemistry. The spiral arm is some 3,500 light-years (1,100 parsecs) across and. Kirillov and D. Take a furious, half-dead cat and upliftenhance it over and over again until it&x27;s basically been warped into a madness-inducing Eldritch Abomination that loves to torture. Vosians - The Vosians, organized into a nation known as the "Greater Vosian Hegemony" is one of the largest and most powerful factions on the interstellar stage. Orion&x27;s Arm - Encyclopedia Galactica - Surface Weapons. 5 kilos of computronium in their heads as brain tissue. Because of this discovery, the public began to refer to Iota Piscium d by the nickname &x27;Corona&x27;, which stuck and eventually got recognized by the now-defunct IAU. Shape-changing programmable matter includes Utility Fog, Utility Sand, Hyperfog. Orion's Arm - Encyclopedia Galactica - Culture and Society. Although not a spiral arm, the Orion spur is nevertheless a major Milky Way structure that crosses the Perseus arm, linking the Sagittarius and Outer arms. The year is 10601 AT (more or less), with the AT calendar beginning on the day man first walked on the moon in 1969. She may in fact be the reason that Terragens have survived to the. Anyone Ever read Anything from the Orion&x27;s Arm Worldbuilding project A world building project that attempts to predict what a post singularity world would be like, creating an encyclopedia full of articles about possible concepts, such as ai gods, virtual reality worlds, transhumanism, uplifted animals, interstellar travel, and forms of. 36 x Earth&x27;s. 5 and a light-travel-time distance of 13. A Vitriolic type world, with a biosphere that both produces and utilises atmospheric sulphur compounds. A collective hard science fiction world building endeavor. (129 A. Only after GAIA ascended to the Second Singularity and initiated the Great Expulsion did the First Toposophic Transapients decide to 'come out' and operate at least somewhat openly. The Orion Arm is the spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy where our sun and Earth lie. Depending on the type and purpose, may function as secretary, data miner, bodyguard, servant, esoteric companion, etc. Sophont, sapient and sentient entities inhabiting virtual environments. Stellar Type. A sophont skilled in statistical interpretation and manipulation of data. Current time 12-22-2023, 0250 AM Hello There, Guest Login Register The Orion&x27;s Arm Universe Project Forums Offtopics and Extras; Other Cool Stuff Books, Games, Movies, and TV Orion&x27;s Arm and the Lensmen. 5 kilos of computronium in their heads as brain tissue. First established in Information Age Old Earth. Most high toposophic minds and even medium level ai make extensive use of subroutines. From 5239 to 5660, the track drifts through the Sophic league, before finally disappearing for more than a thousand years in the MonocerosOrion region. A far as the eye could see, the ground heaved and undulated with mountains of raw muscle. Apparently it looks like this now. In the Orion&x27;s Arm setting different clades would see very different things in the same sky and some of them would describe things that would sound extremely bizarre to an unsophisticated nearbaseline human. Dec 12, 2001 An orbital ring, suspended 100km above the world Wegener. by Dennis Overbye The New York Times. The energy density (energy per unit volume) of a superconductive solenoid is determined by the magnetic field strength it can sustain. Most trace their origins to S2 and later S3 transapient-led polities that arose during and after the Federation of Sophonts (in the 2nd-3rd millennium AT). Sep 26, 2012 A thunderbolt is a linear singularity weapon, possibly a beam of gravitational waves which destroys the universe as it goes. The spiral arm is some 3,500 light-years (1,100 parsecs) across and approximately 10,000 light-years (3,100 parsecs) in length. A disk-shaped galaxy with a spiral pattern of arms, typically containing 10 10 or more solar masses of stars, dust, and gas. In others, it is drastically different, unique, and unlike anything that has existed in prior ages. Used a number of times during the Second. ) by a multinational mission from Earth. saGoanna - Text by M. A suspected Thunderbolt attack observed in 10550 AT. Fermi Paradox. Smoke Rings are microgravity environments which entirely encircle a star. A Supramundane ring constructed around the gas giant Ryker Survey 1. The Mutual Progress Association - Data Panel Definition Major empire, Inner Sphere and Middle Regions Symbol MPA logo (three interlocking circles surrounding a star) and interactive module. As the historical timeline of the Orion&39;s Arm universe began to be fleshed out, new empires and worlds were suggested, and discussions moved ever forward. Some suffered natural destructive events such as the brightening of the local star or devastating asteroid impacts. - "Auld Limner" species raised to sophonce by a Soft Ones artisan clade. Out beyond the edge of civilized space and the human-friendly worlds, adventure awaits. Q-balls are a form of shadow matter, participating only in gravitational interactions. The Current Era is one in which there has never been such stability at home and yet, paradoxically, such instability. Orion&x27;s Arm Tranquility Calendar Conversion Tool. An Archai on the S6 level is completely incomprehensible to human intelligences. An island continent between the Indian and Pacific Oceans on Old Earth. or a. In the end, the ancient fortress would become an abandoned warren, forgotten even in the histories, crumbling slowly under the weight of the settling mountain. Sophonce is sentience and sapience with metacognition self-awareness, including self-reflection and the ability to think about one&x27;s thinking. Blights can be distinguished from Perversities, which do not seek to assimilate or. A single foglet of Utility Fog; this model has twelve arms, arranged in a dodecahedral shape. Dollan and other contributors. Orion's Arm (also called the Orion's Arm Universe Project, OAUP, or simply OA and formerly known as the Orion's Arm Worldbuilding Group) is a multi-authored online science fiction world-building project, first established in 2000 by M. An offshoot or subclade of Minervans designed for combat. It assumes that not only artifical intelligences will get vastly more competent than vanilla humans (i. The Terragen Sphere discovers a way to create wormhole routes to the WH40k galaxy in 800M41; at the same time (and perhaps because of it), the IoM discovers stable Warp routes to the Orion's Arm Milky Way. This is an extremely broad category; some technologies used by the greater Archailects are reputedly as incomprehensible to a "mere" S1 or S2 as a bicycle is to a beetle. petticoat junction guest appearances, mariachi band near me
Dec 8, 2018 7 Mr Sheldon said I meant it is possible for a human to understand them. . Orions arm
Divided into eleven sectors corresponding to the Nexus' root node and its ten first layer Relays, it is the most densely settled volume of space. After that point (9400 AT), the region became known as the Archosaurian Empire. (01-11-2017, 1229 PM) Avalancheon Wrote In the real world, there are three types of energy weaponse that are feasible Laser beams, particle beams, and plasma bolts. The action was the first use of an armed space assault ever and proved that the New America space navy was indeed able to handle real combat. In this video we cover the years 50AT to 130AT of the Terragen Empire, the. Orion&39;s Arm (also called the Orion&39;s Arm Universe Project, OAUP, or simply OA and formerly known as the Orion&39;s Arm Worldbuilding Group) is a multi-authored online science fiction world-building project, first established in 2000 1 by M. The spiral arm is some 3,500 light-years (1,100 parsecs) across and approximately 10,000 light-years (3,100 parsecs) in length. Character Profiles Links & Extras The Archive. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright. The OA Project Radical Hard SF. Image from Steve Bowers. Baseline humans, clones, AIs, and tweaks will compete to claim their place in a social order ruled over by super-corporations. No moderate or major polities embrace the Imperial Cult, Pleasure Cults, or are destroyed, damaged or subverted by the factions of WH40K. Member Galleries Member Videos. Jul 7, 2000 Orion&39;s Arm Tranquility Calendar Conversion Tool. Lifespan varies depending on modifications and implants, although in general it is significantly shorter than baseline (20-50 years). We see a smooth tunnel extending to an upwards-curved horizon. THE PAUL BIRCH WEB ARCHIVE Reprinted papers Papers Books Essays Proposals Reviews Poems Stories Papers (facsimile reprints Note; all papers are in PDF format 010801 "Is the Universe Rotating", Nature, 298, 451 (1982) (0. Silicon Generation transapients and archailects are often derived from early &x27;co-ordinator minds&x27;, and generally act to help co-ordinate the millions of specialised clades in the Generation. 7c, there is a large ring-shaped section of the Explored Galaxy that is not yet. A far as the eye could see, the ground heaved and undulated with mountains of raw muscle. Image from Arik. The attacker takes all of the victim&x27;s memories, cognitive structures, and available computronium, and. Others conceal themselves in great worldships plying the vast distances between the stars, or in small. Gigantic inflated, self-gravitating megastructures. By expanding the space time metric behind the bubble and contracting the metric in front, the bubble can be made to move without the use of propellant mass. The greatest archailects known to the Terragen Civilisation emerged in the Seventh Millenium, although the exact date and location of the first event is debatable. There are a multitude of processes available for the harvest and extraction of stellar matter. Generally, an aggregation or collection of thousands of interconnected virchworlds or cybercosms, all sharing the same basic ontology and lay-out, to make traveling from one to the other easier. Orion's Arm (also called the Orion's Arm Universe Project, OAUP, or simply OA and formerly known as the Orion's Arm Worldbuilding Group) is a multi-authored. The bonding process of joining a particular Caleb to a particular human "host" (often euphemistically termed that Neo-Dog&39;s "alpha"), who would be the Neo-Dog&39;s handler thereafter, has been described not too inaccurately as deeper and more intimate in a mental sense than most Human marriages. The first steps towards building a permanent colony on Luna began in 68 A. A semi-mythical godtech device said to be created by the AI Gods when they have a particularly intractable computational problem to resolve. The Voyager probes had been launched in 8 a. All fundamental forces in the known. In some ways humanity discovered the world of Oshiq ten million years too late; until that date the climate of this world was comfortable, and Oshiq would have been counted among the rare class of garden worlds which need no alteration whatever before colonisation. This has contributed to their widespread distribution in the present day, along with a steady flow of converts to the clade. Great Expulsion, The. The Network uses arrays of mass beam projectors (also known as Boostbeams) to magnetically accelerate self. Used a number of times during the Second. Extended World Classification System - Aerosols grouped by Thermal Class. The explosion of a star caused by a Conversion Weapon; this particular type of artificial supernova is classified as Class IV. The study of transapient science and technology by beings of lower toposophic level. They include sentients of all major clades, several transapients, and large populations of the Muuh and the Soft Ones. The Tau one not the Imperium one. The Orion Arm, or Orion-Cygnus Arm, is a minor spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy. Established 7610 AT, after the clade Shar underwent a collective ascension and began a long-term project for restoring order in the Arion Outer Plexus after its social breakdown. Orion&x27;s Arm describes the history of humanity and its descendents - collectively known as the Terragen - over the next 10k years. Paper books were easily burned. We see a smooth tunnel extending to an upwards-curved horizon. Others conceal themselves in great worldships plying the vast distances between the stars, or in small. Sun Tzu began his art of war by listing five factors that determines the outcome of warfare the relationship between superiors and their inferiors, the climate, geography, the personal characteristics of the general and logistics. A common modification, and one introduced in the late Interplanetary Age, is to make breast-feeding easier, pain-free and more instinctive for the mother. Orion's Arm is a work in progress, a space opera setting like no other. Few nearbaseline populations (or indeed individuals) possess the same set of modifications. Megascale engineering uses energies and methods (including self-replicating nanotechnology and other more advanced techniques up to and including metric engineering) sufficient to build immense structures on an asteroidal, planetary, or even stellar scale. A sophont skilled in statistical interpretation and manipulation of data. Local war between Metasoft and a Top-level blight. Orion&x27;s Arm is a multi-authored online science fiction world-building project, first established in 2000 by M. Void Bubble. The Periphery is the ever-expanding wavefront of Terragen exploration and colonisation. This short elevator was used to transport passengers and cargo to and from the L1 point and to launch supplies in support of development and colonization missions to the rest of the Solar System. More rarely they may be used to "reignite" white dwarf stars. The higher-dimension space within which the brane which defines our universe is embedded. Specialized autofabs that produce clothing. Orion&x27;s two brightest stars, Rigel () and Betelgeuse (),. The Ships would scout the galaxy, seeking to wipe out the empires that created these swarms. The bonding process of joining a particular Caleb to a particular human "host" (often euphemistically termed that Neo-Dog&x27;s "alpha"), who would be the Neo-Dog&x27;s handler thereafter, has been described not too inaccurately as deeper and more intimate in a mental sense than most Human marriages. Godlike ascended intelligences rule vast interstellar empires, and lesser factions seek to carve out their own dominions through intrigue and conquest. saGoanna - Text by M. It does convey the general idea that the focus is on staying close to what current scientific understanding tells us does happen or could happen, but in detail it means different things to. History is the study and interpretation of the record of sophonts and their societies and civilizations. 2 It is of interest because the Solar System (including the Earth) is inside it. Many Ahumans left (or were expelled from) the Solar System before the Technocalypse and the Great Expulsion. Sophonce is sentience and sapience with metacognition self-awareness, including self-reflection and the ability to think about one's thinking. The definitions used by transapients of S1 and. The Orion&x27;s arm AI gods and their minions at their prime against the Culture as of the middle of the Idran war. After that point (9400 AT), the region became known as the Archosaurian Empire. Among Orion&x27;s best-known features is the "belt," consisting of three bright stars in a line, each of which can. At the annual Qualcomm Summit, the company revealed the name. Most of the group was caught and its members re-educated by the great hyperturing anti-terrorist Jarq Ka Mu86. It is of interest because the Solar System (including the Earth) is inside it. However the Quercus robur, a seedship of the Zoeific Biopolity, the first ship to reach this system did not arrive until more than three thousand years had passed, in 3377 a. orbital period Titan is tidally locked to Saturn and orbits that world every 15 days and 22 hours Saturn has an orbital period year of 29. Systems of Resource Allocation. Godlike ascended intelligences rule vast interstellar empires, and lesser factions seek to carve out their own dominions through intrigue and conquest. The SyntheticHuman Alliance is located in the GJ 3655A-B star system, which is about. The Stellar Propulsion Swarm is a method of moving stars by using their own energy to accelerate fusion at selected points on the star's surface. M Orion&x27;s Arm is certainly one of the better SFworldbuilding projects around M Orion&x27;s Arm is perhaps the single best futuristic hard science SF project you will find anywhere L Position on the List The Mail List is the official OA forum in which new ideas are presented, and old ones discussed. This relatively young tree is as yet sparsely populated, and does not show the massive hab development, utility fog wisps, and shuttle traffic characteristic of the more densely inhabited trees. Archailect - Text by M. The first steps towards building a permanent colony on Luna began in 68 A. Orion, in Greek mythology, a giant and very handsome hunter who was identified as early as Homer (Iliad, Book XVIII) with the constellation known by his name. EG entry. 2) Production of magmatter. This means it is ten and a half millennia in the future, and as you can guess, the. Alan Kazlev and Anders Sandberg. The Orion&x27;s Arm Universe Project Forums. A fairly minor arm. A day-night cycle, if desired, can be provided by sunshades of various kinds. - "Auld Limner" species raised to sophonce by a Soft Ones artisan clade. Archailect - Text by M. The Infant Orion&x27;s Arm On 6 June 2000, MAK and Donna established the Orion&x27;s Arm Writing Group, of which they were the co-founders. Pages (2. Both stars had extensive rocky asteroid belts with which to construct new. The story of Orion has many different versions. The size of a Banks Orbital is determined by the combined factors of the desired length of its daynight cycle. , when remote-controlled &x27;telenaut&x27; devices began constructing infrastructure there; no accommodation for humans was made at this stage. A series of maps zooming in on the vicinity of Sol in the Orion Arm. Now we have the basic package, we can add some of the Megastructures, and some high-res textures for colony worlds made by John M. Steve Bowers. History is the study and interpretation of the record of sophonts and their societies and civilizations. As the tugs exert thrust they drag the asteroid behind them, using the asteroid&x27;s own gravity. --The Ghost Net. It is of interest because the Solar System (including the Earth) is inside it. That&x27;s right, Orion&x27;s Arm was going to be Halo (humans with pretensions of hard-SF technology invaded by glowy Star Trek aliens) before Halo was a thing. The noisy technosphere of Earth made. Unusual distortions in space-time were briefly visible in this location, but they dissipated shortly afterwards. Giant rotating orbital habitat, built of woven diamondoidbuckyfibre cable; these come in a range of sizes up to 2000 km in diameter and 500 km deep. 46 m on a side. The arrival of the first settlers at Heartland in 2292 AT is commonly regarded as the founding of the Communion of Worlds. The blue auroral glow was observed in 95 AT (2064 AT), the first time an aurora is detected on a terrestrial extrasolar planet. Collecting the interstellar medium, slowing it down and using the kinetic energy collected to power the magnetic ramscoop. This means it is ten and a half millennia in the future, and as. A personal assistant; either aioid (implant or remote) or a distinct sapient being (biont or vec, domestic or zar). It spans the next ten thousand years of galactic history, from the near future interp. Indonesia is a large archipelago on Old Earth in South-East Asia and a former nation-state lasting from the Industrial Age to the Great Expulsion. At the top the loop runs horizontally for 2000km, allowing. The first crewed landing was in 2098 c. , these intelligent aliens were studied for hundreds of years before they joined the mainstream Orion&x27;s Arm civilisation. Extending upward from Betelgeuse is Orion&x27;s other arm, which holds a club or sword. A single foglet of Utility Fog; this model has twelve arms, arranged in a dodecahedral shape. 2 It was described by Cory Doctorow as "a. Feb 29, 2016 Footnotes. . lords of the fallen walkthrough