CO +1
IC: -3
LO: +1
UA: 0
PD: +2
RE: +1
SR: -3
EX +1
Endymion
Moon Eneev.
12 Clarketech: Gravity manipulation, space-time engineering
TL 13 industry?!?!?
Industrial universe
Computing universe
10 Postscarcity economics (both material and immaterial goods are trivial to produce; the economy has to deal with total abundance)
Interstellar (CO: -1, EX: +1)
Melting pot: A large number of ethnicities with no dominant ethnicity
Rule by computers or AI; requires TL 7 or more. (IC: -1, LO: +1)
[adel: Citizens subordinate to the race or state. (UA: +1, PD: +2, RE: +2, IC: -3, CO: +1, EX: +1) ]
Degree social strat 74%
Monogamy
Nuclear family. Both (or all) parents rear the child
Mixed sex dominance
92% strength
lineage same as sex dom
inheriance/succession
Children compete for inheritance (SR: -2)
Inheritance is determined by individual wills or spouse(s).
Childhood is idealized as a time of innocence, happiness or spirituality that should be protected. (UA: -1, RE: -1, IC: +1, SR: -1)
Big idea: conservation
Virtue: patience
Vice: decadence, adultery
Art: noble, patriotic., contrast multilayerdness vs masculinity
News as great amusement
No education – everything is infotainment
Time is repeating itself or certain themes, but is also moving towards or away from a definite point.
Antireligion
Pluralist level belief
Commercial law: Law is produced by court companies and arbitrators, which are hired by law consumers. Requires private or polycentric law (or a mixture of one of these with another system). Different court companies base their laws on different foundations.
Imperial code vs private code
Strict enforcement
Seafaring: The society has a long maritime tradition.
Dark age: The culture has in the past had a more complex society, which crashed for one reason or another. An institution (such as a church or corporation) may have survived through this and now retains its legacy; in this case CO: +1. (TL: -1)
Standardization problems: Lack of standards make use of technology less efficient and somewhat risky (EX: -1)
One - Status of the protectorate
A: The protectorate rules the worlds and systems it holds and claims.
B: The protectorate is subject to the Device
C: The protectorate may own and operate institutions specifically liable under protectorate sublaw
Two – Status of protectorate officials
A: Any official appointed by the Device exercises authority in accordance with his letter of appointment and this code.
B: When acting in a professional capacity, no official may be held liable under protectorate sublaw.
Three – Status of protectorate subjects
A: An Official of the protectorate is entitled to salary, residency, appeal and exile.
B: A Lord of the protectorate is entitled to his domain and the incomes thereof, stipend, residency and appeal.
C: A Citizen of the protectorate is entitled to stipend, residency and appeal.
D: A Resident of the protectorate is entitled to residency and lesser appeal.
E: A transient of the protectorate have no rights in this code.
Four – Crimes against the protectorate
A: It is forbidden to rebel against protectorate and Device
B: It is forbidden to raise armed forces without the approval of the protectorate
C: It is forbidden to represent the protectorate without due warrant
Five – Crimes against reality
A: It is forbidden to travel via X through, from, to and within the protectorate.
B: It is forbidden to violate causality without protectorate permission
Six – Special provisions
A: A greater appeal may be made to either an protectorate official tasked with receiving such, or to the Device if none are extant.
B: A lesser appeal may be made to any executor of protectorate sublaw
C: Protectorate sublaw may not contradict this code
D: Should the Device experience down-time, the protectorate stands adjourned
The Protectorate Calendar
AA 0 (2950) Ascendancy of the protectorate by the Angelic Device
AA180 Now
Stoic
Knightly ideals
Against transcendence, posthumans and
The Gadgets are not a human empire but rather an expansive market consisting of sentient equipment with a penchant for garish, cheerful signalling. The border between empire and citizen is blurred: individuality is something ephemeral and fleeting.
The Culutre meets Hells Angels
Arms dealers
Wormholes
Acrospire drive
The tippybob drive
The spongelike texture of the supercontext
Neutron star fogs
Dimension of pain drive
Karma relevant
Bad for sanity
Geburah-drive
Blood drive
Living spaceship
Netzach
Phoenix drive
Ship dissolves, reforms
Yesodic drive
Dolphin drive
Sea ships
Transport universe as sea/river
Satan chips
Genomsk[dar saker
Gog slicer
Malkuth smasher
Principal Planets
The anarchic spheres
Financial Astronetics
Unlimited mangosys
Penguin Land
Regions of the Charitable
Renewing Kingdoms
Citadel of the Unspeakable
Concordant Domains
Low Cities of the Lost
The Rupture
The Gloomy Epoch of the Planet
The Advancing Epoch of Automation
The Epoch of the Sainted Cosmonauts
The Era of Moons
The Orbiting Epoch
The Innocent Era of the Spaceship
Time of Excursions
The Era of Blameless Weapons
The Era of Hellish Gadgets
The Epoch of the Angelic Device
The Virtuous Century
The Intergalactic Time
The Angelic Device, also known as The Unspeakable or just IT, is the true ruler/protector/father of the empire. Apparently the first system to achieve a full Omega Point, it possesses powers that can only be regarded as divine.
Why did the dark ages of Endymion last so long?
The Angelic Device put Endymion with a field of accelerated time to allow its culture to mature, hardened through the challenges of the sea and the bitter experience of history into a people truly suitable for empire.
[Actually, the civilization grew within one of the many simulated worlds within the Device]
The goals of the Device are inscrutable, but appears to favor an expanding empire.
Sagittate
Picaroon
Ingulf
Gaudery
Briarean
Aeroplanist
Dissentient
Subarborescent
Predeliberation
Frication
Agamist
Plumule
Nitency
Naik
Bibblebabble
Belling
Limitarian
Playsome
He was playsome in his gaudery despite being a limitarian.
The worlds of the supercontext are immeasurable, but the protectorate-created universes are relatively manageable:
Tiphareth The real world, base reality
Yesod: Industrial universe
Malkuth: Waste dump and recycling universe. Everything turns into iron spheres rapidly.
Hod: communications universe
Netzach: Agricultural universe
Geburah: military universe
Cheshed: transport universe
Keter: The realm of the Device