#intragalactic

[bolithesenate]

where the real galactic politics are made

Sifo and his gal pals

[harbingersecho]

some short felix stuff. also price is there for a second

[azuremallone]

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[ambresinister]

who's to say humans are the average? that may just be a matter of perspective. we may be the best at thinking, or the worst at thinking. hell, maybe the way species generally develop causes the vast majority of them to be horrible swimmers and WE are the best in the universe. What the universal intelligent species "average" really is is what i would LOVE to conceptualize.

Humans are average at everything

And that makes other species crazy

"You swim well for your limb configuration but you will never be as fast in water as a Majoriranji."

Mo agreed with a nod. "They have fins, it's an unfair contest really."

"Nacbaqurs climb cliffs better than humans."

"Longer limbs, more fingers, that's no surprise. I know some elite climbers who could keep up but mostly ture enough."

"Chexits run much faster."

"Ah," Mo raised a finger. "They run on four legs, different configuration, unfair comparison. "

"My point is still valid. And you don't fly either."

"Mmm, no," Mo stopped to consider that one. "I don't think we have a winged ancestor. I have been sky diving, though, so I'm sure we missed out there."

"Sky diving? No, I have no wish to know. My question is this, why are you so feared? You cannot swim like a Majoriranji, or climb like a Nacbaqur, or run like a Chexit. Can you do anything special? Why should anyone be scared of humans?"

"Is that why you captured us? That's what you want to know?" Mo smiled as he leaned back in his chair. He had been afraid. Now he was amused.

He knew rescue was on the way. Just before the invaders managed to grab him and the other researchers, they were able to send a distress call. The Earth Alliance took attacks on their people seriously, they knew swift responses discouraged casual piracy.

"Okay, you'll probably be dead soon anyway so I'll give you a freebie. We're not the fastest swimmers, but most of us can swim and dive, and we can all hold our breath. We're not the fastest climbers, but our ancestors lived in trees, tall canopy plants, we can all climb. We're not the fastest runners, but we're not bad in a sprint, and we'll still be going hours after your fancy fast runners have collapsed and died of exhaustion. We don't have to be the best at one thing when we can be pretty good at just about everything."

[intragalactic-brain-bubbles]

Broken Bronze (TTRPG)

The Glorious Age of Bronze has ended, and an age of brittle & ugly iron is now before us. It has been 100 years since the Atala Calamity brought about an age of famine, plague, & war. Now the factory palaces of Hellagro lie abandoned, the wonders of their automata and storehouse of wonders broken & forgotten. The once holy and rich land of Blessed Hapinebu lies divided after the death of its last sun queen, while north of Isial’s Womb, unstable upstarts claim its lands. The Great Syberan Empire retreats to its island leaving Urnin & its great forges to burn, the secrets of Orichalcum & Adamant lost as the once proud fleet of chariots sit rotting in the fields. In this twilight of civilization horrors, beasts, pirates, & raiders grow rampant and wild. Shadowing over all of this is the dread of strange ships in the mist sailing from what is left of Atala with crews more monster than men, leaving little in their wake.

Not since the fall of the First City and desolation of the Sacred Kingdom has the world known such chaos. It is a time in need of heroes, for it is an age of blood and fire, where much has been lost, perhaps never to be regained.

[namorian]

losing my shit bc this episode confirms that there's JUST A BUNCH OF PUPPIES ON THE ENTERPRISE?????????????

[selkra-souza]

There's two variants of zrai recognized by most intragalactic communities. The zrai from this post are a genetically modified variant engineered by nedal as part of the zrai's 'uplifting' and integration into nedal societies (and the larger space community). The main change made was simplifing the chromatophores used to express emotion, and engineering more intricate vocal chords for speech capabilities to match the nedal, all to make communication between the two species easier. GMO zrai also have some modified behaviors, for example, the traditionally territorial females have been mellowed to better corporate with others outside their tribe (to better fit into wider society).

The zrai on the left image are the 'baseline' 'default' morph shared by their ancestors. Zrai traditionally have complex dialogue using more complex chromatophores, as opposed to vocal speech.

Putting a GMO and a baseline in the same room creates a language barrier between the two, since the former relies on vocalizing, and the later relies on color display. To a GMO, the baseline is communicating in an overly ornate and barely recognizable medieval language; while to a baseline, a GMO is speaking in incomprehensibly fragmented LEETspeak.

While GMO zrai are better integrated into nedal society (and as a result other alien societies), the nerf to their traditional communication methods ostracizes them from their heritage and their neighboring baseline zrai. Because baseline zrai are highly tribalistic, most traditional communities are actively hostile to GMO zrai, treating them as a separate species. This is extra belittling to more friendly GMO zrai who seek to form community with them. Baseline zrai mostly live on their homeworld (though some closely knit tribes have formed settlements elsewhere with help of space faring sophants) . Meanwhile GMO zrai are living all across the galaxy, and they live across a wide variety of societies, so whether or not being cutoff from their lineages is a distressing issue will vary across individuals and local populations.

[dduane]

(snickering) What…? Seems obvious.

DIANE AND PETER PLEASE

[pinewae]

if we were in the star wars universe people would so accuse dream of supporting the galactic empire and aligning with imperialism and eventually it would come out that dream has force abilities and has been using them to help people or merely in self defense and his fans would be mad that he isn't a jedi and dream would have to be like "yeah guys i've always been able to control the force but for the safety of my family i can't join the rebel alliance, this was my own decision and i don't condone hate towards any rebel forces" and then antis on intragalactic twitter would create conspiracy theories about him having dark side tendencies and they would call dream stans sith apologists. and patches would be an astromech droid

[thatringboy]

Ruan Mei don’t reanimate another extinct intragalactic planet-swallowing invasive species any precent impossible challenge

[leohtttbriar]

it is groovy. i also want to connect my nervous system to the intragalactic-vacuum invisible mycelium that subverts the principles of general relativity and dissolves the loneliness of separate bodies spread out over too much space

[notarobot1006]

"Intragalactic", on the other hand, has a lot more wiggle room. On one hand, Plucky Protagonist moving from one planet to another qualifies as intragalactic travel.

On the other hand, so does me moving from my kitchen to my living room.

Said it before, will say it again: if your blurb for some scifi project involves the word “intergalactic”, you fucking better have worldbuilding that justifies involving two collections of hundreds of billions of stars.

Actually, motherfucker, you better have it involve two galaxies. A lot of the time it seems fuckers are just using “intergalactic” as, like, a space-y equivalent of “high-flying”.

[karanseraph]

how to tag interfacing

heed the tag

Some TF fandom events prefer that we tag the type of interfacing, which is cool. Readers want to know what they are getting into.

Um, what is the name/type for the one that I write?

I don't have a great example of it. I've been working on it and having characters in posted chapters discuss it, without depicting it acted out, yet.

It can, in some cases, look like 'sticky' but without the specific sticky element. It's more electromagnetic than some authors' version of sticky (there's a range within that type, as well).

But the core concept is that bots have an array (like in some other versions) of gear which generates forms at will (sometimes from a catalog, depending on compatibility mode), so there could be spikes and/or valves, but there could also be buttons or sticks or discs or slots, or claspers, or tentacles . Sometimes, where Quintesson or intragalactic marketing was at play the forms have specific names like Prysmosian death button, or disco stick classic.

It's like having alt-modes for their gear, I guess??

But this proposed type is not quite like the type of interfacing that I also sometimes write which is a hybrid between this and sticky where bots just have natural variation of gear and sometimes have a particular alt-form instead of the whole catalog/ability to choose at will.

I feel like someone else must have separately invented and written this over the decades. Is there a name for this?

Or do I have the burden of naming this?

[themynock]

they're intragalactic criminals, they have NO money, and they wish to BARTER with YOU

[followcb]

Born in My Soul

intragalactic galaxies

spinning, whizzing, coexisting

alchemy of poetry

transitions mysteries from history

rhythmic synergy of sublime rhymes

the one-two-threes of metaphors

sweet similies like harmonic melodies

overt overtures of silent symphonies

connect, entwine, mesmerize

hypnotize my spiritual eyes

everything my heart's always known

has been born in my soul

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©️ @followcb ☆ December 19, 2023