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The Alchemist of Liberty Glossary
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Characters, terms, and phrases (appropriated or not) from "The Alchemist of Liberty" (abbreviated AoL).
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Glossary
- Diamond, or a diamond like composite that is formed using alchemy.
- An airship operations and docking area.
- The alchemistry permeating an organism's tissue, both inter- and intra-cellular.
- A practitioner of alchemistry.
- Nanotechnology. Some forms of alchemistry are mediated by tech, other forms are meant to operate in the dimlands or during an interregnum and not need the mediation of Monoliths.
- The process of alchemistry.
- The alpha form of neohumans that are (outwardly) the most similar to us (homo sapiens).
- A neohuman rad that is taller and more slender than alpha-humans that was originally engineered for lower gravity worlds.
- A sub-sentient biological robot.
- The collection of biotics / biots that is the primary transportation and emergency response system in Arbaris.
- Slang term for beta-jaishin.
- A screen used to hide when people jack into or out of an off-space to maintain the social illusion that off-space is just like on-space.
- A sort of personal obscuration / cloaking field.
- A political group that rose to power during the beta-revolt in Edmee and one of the major forces behind the the Terror.
- The fade is another term for nulspace. Used by majority of the population. The term nulspace is used by nulnauts / nulship personal.
- A name marker used in jaishin culture for "noble" families.
- A disposable paper-like substance.
- An indication of energy flow.
- The creation of a mental clone of an individual.
- Symbols, text and other visual overlays. A visual component of augmented reality.
- A vat grown artificial human.
- A slang term for beta-humans.
- A sub-sentient autonomous 'program' (as in computer program).
- The after affects of jumping. Typically dizziness and disorientation.
- Torpedo launcher (French for 'launcher').
- The navigational "channel" between two Monoliths. Ley lines are extremely important for navigation in nulspace. Without them, it is extremely easy to get lost. To travel off of a ley line requires the nulship to have a micro-Monolith.
- The neohuman ability to communicate directly with another neohuman. Linking is similar to telepathy, but is not psionic like telepathy.
- A physical form of tech.
- Meduse (or the plural medusae) are biological blimp / aeroship / biot developed by the Shapers. Medusae resemble huge aerial egg-shaped jellyfish with a variety of tentacles and other fleshy parts dangling from their underside.
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- micro-Monolith
- See μMonolith.
- A telepathic or psionic forced reading of at mind. Usually performed to verify the targets identity.
- A physical modification (of an organism).
- To have a mod, to be physical changed.
- To mod.
- Monoliths are massive artifacts left by the transhumans. The single most important feature supporting tech and the brightlands culture of the Nexus.
- The torpedo battery converted into an execution device for launching people into the fade.
- Someone who travels through nulspace.
- A term for virtual reality. As versus real-space.
- The government of Edmee during the Era of Revolution (TE9).
- The physical world. As versus null space or off-space.
- Tech that shifts the highly unstable nature of nulspace in such a way as to create a bubble of stable real-space.
- To bring back to life. There are two forms of resurrection, recorporialization and revivification.
- To resurrect using a repaired body rather than a new one (see recorporialize).
- Prior to the Edmee beta revolt the elite alpha-jaishin ruling class of the Edmee. Known for their abilities in genetic engineering, biological sciences, and biotech.
- The city of Spire and its enclosing empyrean are both named after the Spire Monolith.
- Acronym for Transhuman Echo.
- Acronym for Transhuman Echo 9.
- Technology so sophisticated that it will only (fully) operate when supported by a Monolith.
- During the Era of Revolution, the period when the People's Republic of Edmee became a tyranny.
- Our descendants who form a wide flung civilization. We are the distant ancestors of neohumans.
- The Transhuman civilization was the neohuman civilization of the Transhuman Era, a civilization of effective immortals that created the Monoliths, colonized null-space, and discovered the Nexus. -- (Source: Fritz Freiheit)
- A period when tech is fully functional, which occurs (somewhat unpredictably) at intervals after the fall of the Transhumans. As versus Darkage.
- The period when humanity made its greatest achievements, including the creation of the Monoliths and the establishment of the Nexus structures interconnected via null-space ley lines.
- The transhuman civilization that is the progenitor of the civilizations in the Nexus. The exact circumstances behind the fall of the Transhumans is not known, but it is rumored that some of the Powers still living were alive during height of the Transhuman Civilization.
- A general term for the transhuman civilization that predates the civilization of the Nexus.
- A lighter than air craft with a rigid structure containing the lift cells. As versus blimp or balloon.
- Failure to jump or jack in (to an off-space), being thrown back to ones starting point, being forced to start over.
Characters
Captain Hacken (AoL character)
Eléta Fé Urllia (AoL character)
Night Whippoorwill, the (AoL character)
Noma Fé Urllia (AoL character)
Shaper Fé Apisterra (AoL character)
- A ten-year-old alpha-jaishin girl who was rescued by the Intrepids a year before the events of "The Alchemist of Liberty".
Sir Tristan Bryght (AoL character)
Groups
Ships
Clusters of Related Terms
Also See
- Glossary Nexium
- The Shaper's Daughter Glossary
- A note on the use (or lack thereof) of capitalization in the "Chronicles from the Nexus".
- Special:ExpandTemplates
