- noun
- A corporation with extreme economic and political power, usually having nation status.
- Origin
- Pairing of polús (great) and ‘corporate’.
- Source
- Voice of the Whirlwind
- noun
- A condominium living complex with its own constitution and ideology.
- Origin
- Portmanteau of ‘condominium’ and ‘ecology’.
- Source
- Voice of the Whirlwind
- noun informal
- A low-status male living on Earth, not in the employ of the United Orbital Soviet.
- See also
- Dirtgirl
- Source
- Hardwired
- noun informal
- A low-status female living on Earth, not in the employ of the United Orbital Soviet.
- See also
- Mudboy
- Source
- Hardwired
- noun
- An online tabloid news publication.
- Origin
- Coined after the sensationalist reporting style.
- Source
- Hardwired
- noun informal
- A person implanted with cybernetic sockets for plugging peripherals directly into the brain.
- Source
- Hardwired
- noun
- The pilot of an armoured assault hovercraft used for cross-border smuggling.
- Origin
- Panzer (armour plating).
- Source
- Hardwired
- noun
- The science and technology of developing Artificial Intelligence.
- Origin
- Formed from ‘memory’ and ‘electronics’.
- Source
- The Regression Test
- noun
- A scientific field concerned with digitizing the personality of an individual.
- Source
- The Beast Has Died
- noun
- A device used to prepare a time traveller’s cellular structure and brain patterns for survival in their selected time period.
- Origin
- Derived from atavus (ancestor) and khrónos (time).
- Source
- Star Trek: The Original Series