Posts in category “story”
- noun
- A craft for travelling in the atmosphere of a gas giant.
- Origin
- Derived from ánemos (wind) and pteron (wing).
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- Finisterra
- noun
- An animal bred for slavery, genetically similar to a human.
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- Good Mountain
- noun informal
- A person without cybernetic brain implants.
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- The Star Surgeon’s Apprentice
- noun
- A state of neural communion attained by a group of people using artificial implants.
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- Great Wall of Mars
- noun
- A spaceship that travels at relativistic speeds.
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- Weather
- verb informal
- To travel in a spaceship that is nearly as fast as light.
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- The Shobies’ Story
- noun
- A vessel that allows the occupant to travel through time.
- Origin
- Derived from aná (upon), khrónos (time), and pedes (“one who walks”).
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- The Shape of My Name
- noun
- A type of stardrive that is claimed to kill everyone who uses it.
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- A Vector Alphabet of Interstellar Travel
- noun plural
- Fast moving symbiotic organisms that invade the human body and cause it to grow new parts.
- Origin
- Derived from drómos (running) and zôion (animal).
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- A Planet Named Shayol
- noun
- Matter and anti-matter locked in a fine magnetic grid to ward off the outermost perils of space.
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- The Rediscovery of Man
- adjective
- Able to distort time.
- Origin
- Formed from khrónos (time) and the suffix -pathic (abnormality).
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- The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal
- verb
- A method of faster-than-light travel that involves compressing space into two dimensions.
- Origin
- Pairing of ‘plane’ (a flat surface) and ‘form’.
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- The Game of Rat and Dragon