Workin’ On The Star Road
“Gentlesophs,” the silver figure at the front of the room said. “Congratulations on your transfer to Kalcír Station. If you don’t know me, I am Istry 0xC89ABB62, Chief Security Officer, and I’m here...
View ArticleTrope-a-Day: Casual Interstellar Travel / Casual Interplanetary Travel
Casual Interstellar Travel / Casual Interplanetary Travel: It’s a little complicated. Technically, yes, you can travel interstellarly fairly casually, since while you have to drag one end of your...
View ArticleHow Unlikely Are We?
“The difficulties of interstellar travel are widely underestimated. Within the stargate plexus, even simple ships — capable of only relatively low accelerations, capable of being built by cultures...
View ArticleTrope-a-Day: Portal Network
Portal Network: The stargate plexus, which is the collection of all the stargate pairs in the Associated Worlds. Pretty much every civilized system, except for really newly discovered ones, which may...
View ArticleAuthor’s Note: Astrography
So let’s talk a little about the setting of our ongoing fiction, the Associated Worlds. First: they’re big. Really, really frakkin’ big. Sci-fi writers with a sense of scale big. I mean, you may think...
View ArticleSidebar: Fixed Wormholes
(An in-universe explanation as to why the Empire, et. al., prefer to use their special – i.e., yes, per here, space-magic enhanced – wormhole technology.) A common question among newcomers to the field...
View ArticleThe Spice Way
In the year 8054, a forward-thinking Initiative of Ring Dynamics, ICC, evaluating the expansion program for the stargate plexus based on the recent advent of the frameslip drive, a free-flight capable...
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