4 Terms
Contributors in Fiction
Fiction
Auriga
Literature; Fiction
One of the earliest-settled human colonies in the Hub worlds, settled in the first wave of human expansion to the stars. At the time of the Veran colonial venture it was already becoming dependent on ...
Atmoshield
Literature; Fiction
A small portable field generator that creates a barrier, ranging from a hemisphere to a complete enclosure, preventing atmospheric molecular exchange--thus, when used in full-sphere mode, a powered ...
Biome
Literature; Fiction
Enclaves within or associated with habitats that are specifically engineered to provide a largely self-sustaining but limited ecosystem of terraform or exotic life. Mostly for recreational and ...
Agronics
Literature; Fiction
Food-production technology based on terraform biologicals, using tissue cloning and artificial proliferation induction for animal products and grow-vat arrays for plant products.
Laylies
Literature; Fiction
Slang: 'Lay leadership' are the highest level in the lay hierarchy, the senior executives in the educational, health care, social service and other church bureaucracies.
Caslon
Literature; Fiction
Almanac: All the colonised Planets, standard reference work published decenially by Caslon under a contract from the University League.
Calichaeism
Literature; Fiction
A quasi-religious philosophy common throughout the large matrix of colonies settled by population groups of Aurigan origin.
