Omniverse One

The principal city on the island of Dalmakh is Nim Li . Like many settlements in the Cataract Archipelago Nim Li is perpetually assailed by the encroaching jungles, and its people live off the sea more than the land. It is an ancient city, built atop its own ruins by neccesity, hemmed in by great ti...

Oh man, Starcraft Legacy... Now there's a name I hadn't heard in a decade or so. I have fond memories of that site, and news of its demise makes me feel old :) . Oh well, dust in the wind and all that. Yeah, developing a moderately radioactive dustball into a city-planet in four years (or forty for ...

Maybe anyone without top-level Ministry mental engrams and noetic hardening immediately forgets about the existence of the All-Father. Like, anyone can become aware of His potentiality on this stratum but the mere presence of such knowledge within a conscious mind immediately invites the full pressu...

Yes, exactly. The Terran starting levels of SC are seriously good storytelling for its medium, especially at the time. You're a low-level bureaucrat in a colonial backwater that's experiencing some weird wildlife behavior, you try to investigate with the help of your trusty local sheriff Johnny Rayn...

Right, I forgot the numbers were actually that small. I remembered them in the hundreds of thousands when apparently not, welp. Yeah, this makes the whole Coruscantified Korhal unbelievable. I don't want to sound like a disgruntled fanboy but there are large parts of the SC2 look and feel that I fe...

There is some justification for this; the intro booklet of the original SC spoke of a period of serious social upheaval and collapse following the establishment of the UPL and the rounding up of the 'undesirables', some of whom eventually ended up getting sent to the K-sector. Also, a high proportio...

It is common for San Doradan households to have a small shrine dedicated to Tyche somewhere close to the front door of their residence. The statue of Lady Fortune found in such shrines faces the wall when the tenant is in the house, and is turned to face the door when they leave. Unwanted intruders ...

Do you have any more thoughts on these monastic orders? The idea of a Ziggie order proscribing strikes me as kinda un-Ziggie, unless you mean like as in sagely advice for better living from your local juju man - like he's not saying "thou shalt" but "thou shouldst", like, you know?

Many moons ago we talked about Zigonians and how their social order is based more on internal concepts of what's cool and uncool rather than strict extrernal laws. I wonder though if this perhaps their natural order subtly reflects a Zigonian's 'karma' somehow -- like, if you're the Zigonian equival...

You, sir, are a machine. The paperback version of your first book is on my to-buy list for the next Amazon order. I'm looking forward to reading it... Now to find a way to get your signature too

Perhaps the only thing such large firms respect are the agents of the Mayor's Office Contravention Section (Contra), who investigate serious contraventions of contract and in ultimo even have the power to suspend an Enforcement License. 'Contra' ended up not sounding quite right. So instead: One of...

Yes, but that system was cribbed from the works of Julian May, and established mostly to be contrarian. For this setting I don't think it fully fits, nor does the motivation for implementing it apply ;) . To recap, the May-style 'metafaculties' used were: Creativity: the manipulation matter and ener...

I think it would be fitting that if the Silver Shield used a system of indication of a psion's talents, training or level of ability, it does so using a semi-operatic nomenclature. Caprix - novices, new recruits, neophytes; Suggeritor - oracles, telepaths, shapers of understanding; Animat - force we...

On maps of the world and in history books the Khaganate of Kagaria appears as a vast, monolithic entity, the largest contiguous land empire in world history home to uncounted multitudes, ruled over by cruel and bellicose rulers all too eager to unleash destruction on the world. In honesty this image...

Well, "Pivot to Lethality" certainly should be the name of a USN Warstar and its associated killbrain.

Glad to have you back, Heretic!

First major comprehensive revision: - Updated world map States of Yaxhia now shown; Revised names of Cataract Archipelago states; Revised outlying Daedalean territories; Amended Teyrnon Canhastyr to Tyr Caelhyr. Amended Glass Coast to Zazau. - Updated sovereignties Added autarchic dioceses of the Da...

The Rais of Tamdoult is a steward and national leader, tasked with maintaining peace and order. They are elected by the Twelve Gates, the council of governors of Tamdoult. The governors are appointed by village masters, who in turn are elected in free local assemblies open to all citizens. Citizens ...

San Dorado > Downtown > Shevirat “Silver City”, "Shekel City", “the Square Mile”, “the Coronet”, “the Tops”, “Tendertown”, “Shevvy”, “the Sublimate” (archaic) Shevirat is the oldest and most historically significant part of San Dorado City, a storied island in Lake Ventura with a history ...

Another, perhaps less interesting, option is that they were essentially hibernating. During the Earthreign a significant part of the galaxy might as well have been in stasis, with very little happening besides the usual wanton cruelty that is of zero interest to the Lords. It's the massive psychic s...

It's a dynasty, baby. There might be another family line under Odyl, or maybe she took another name. Tizzy and Tiff are twins, as are Jinx and Medley. Havoc Branham in this universe has a role similar to that of his alt-universe cousin Chaos Farley. He was a commander for a Branham-Harper-owned priv...

Bedlam Branham (1837 - 1913), 'the last of the great steam pirates', was a San Doradan sea captain, merchant and privateer. Branham captured the public imagination in a series of dime novels chronicling his adventures in the Cataract Archipelago, painting him as a swashbuckling scoundrel braving th...

The Magisterial Commonwealth of the Nine Nations of Dai Xich is built upon the Bond of Concordance, the oaths of loyalty sworn to the Claret Empress by the warlords and regional chieftains she vanquished during her campaigns in the 11th century. Under ordinary circumstances such oaths of personal al...

I can't see that document, I only see SOTS Master List 1 - Species and clades and SOTS Master List 2 - Polities & organizations.

Holy shit that's incredible... perhaps the initial FABULA NOVA CRYSTALISES were used by the Rhapsodites as a proto-Oversoul to help oppress the Apexai. The Oversoul basically can only contain the knowledge and souls of Apexai since it was created. It makes sense then that it was used to stagnate Ap...