“Subjective age” describes someone’s perceived age – in terms of how old they look to observers, and how many years they have experienced – and “real age” describes their age in Union Standard Years (abbreviated as “u”).
Broadly, Anthrochauvinism is a political ideology that adopts a manifest destiny approach to humanity’s — specifically, humanity as defined on Cradle — existence on the galactic stage.
Blinkspace is a void, a space outside of human perception that it at once infinite and without form, blank and cacophony.
Under ThirdComm, cloning – that is, the cultivation and growth of whole or partial genetic facsimiles of persons and other fauna, whether cultivated in realtime or via catalytic processes – occupies a spectrum of legality, morality, and ethics.
Not all pilots or people who crew mechs are Lancers — the majority of them are just competent pilots — but all Lancers are pilots.
On hard terrain, in zero-g, and in transitional spaces, a piloted mechanized chassis, a mech, could outperform and outmaneuver any other ground-based all-theater attack option.
[NHPs] viewed themselves as distinct, discrete individuals -- persons, conscious minds born into a machine by a mind that realized itself from the dream of the Five Voices.
Causality is the relationship between cause and effect; paracausality references things abnormal to, adjacent to, or apart from cause and effect. Paracausality is a fuzzy science.
Printing is a ubiquitous term for matter processor/fabricator systems found throughout the galaxy.
