Science and Tech

The yinrih use a dozenal numeral system. The highest place value is closest to the beginning of t...

Humans use anesthetic to make the blindingly painful and mentally scarring experience of having y...

Here's a possible resolution to two mutually exclusive taboos: 1. Males may not work in medicine....

Yeaning Sickness is the name given to the symptoms of withdrawal after being in suspension. It is...

Here's a possible concept of what interplanetary ferries look like: a ring of engines surrounding...

Random factoid: As you would expect from an arboreal species, monkey foxes make excellent linemen...

The standard unit of length at Focus is the Tailslength or just tail which, while long since rede...

Womb ships don't do atmospheric re-entry the same way as human spacecraft. They fully engage thei...

The more I think about it, the more the idea of knighthood being linked to mechs in the same way ...

The martial aspects of knighthood are largely downplayed outside of Hearthside, but some, such as...

A helmet used with yinrih powered armor. A few things to note: There are ear guards. While this s...

Here's a simple womb ship layout. There is extra storage in a basement that can be accessed throu...

Here's a healer's micro mech. The device above the mech is a biopsy capsule. They're stored on th...

Here are the negative and lateral (imaginary) number signs. A negative sign is an upper half circ...

I think, at least at first, the Bright Way might lose interest in the other planets of Focus afte...

Bit of a lazy one today. This is the retribution field generator featured in one of my stories. W...

This is a front paw gauntlet used in yinrih powered armor, with the palm facing up. The purple pa...

This is an amnion, or suspension capsule. This is how yinrih missionaries survive interstellar vo...

Here's a typical mech used by the Knights of the Sun.

HolyHandGrenade! wrote: 2024-12-07T02:15:57+00:00 What fun! Now it’s only a matter of time before...

Polymerite is a plastic that can be cured to give it the strength of steel. It can be formed usin...

The hatch is at the forward end of the ship. The shroud protecting the pressure vessel has a sens...

Here's a 3D "render" of the Dewfall (really it's a screenshot of the Plasticity viewport because ...

This is more or less what a womb ship looks like after it has landed. The force projectors (the g...

Here's the Dewfall textured in Blender.

Myosteol is the human name for a chemical added to the potable water of orbital colonies that neg...

Force projectors ground Newton's third law to its room without supper. They consist in a molecule...

I've already established that neurogel acts as a ventilation medium, and the widespread use of re...

HolyHandGrenade! wrote: 2025-04-19T14:38:11+00:00 And now I’m 4th I reran the stats just for y...

If it exists, a ham will either try to bounce radio waves off it or use it as an antenna. While Y...

Minnows* are a class of mass-produced submarine used on Sweetwater. They're more of a sub "chassi...

idea: rather than using electric current to transport power, the Bright Way uses thick optical fi...

What it looks like when a projectile strikes an active retribution field as seen from the inside....

The primary means of asynchronous long-form text communication (think email) and real-time voice ...

Will post improvements if I feel like it. Here's a knight (Lodestar specifically) in the cockpit ...

In honor of spoopy season, here's a shower thought I had regarding Firefly's current situation. I...

Before i forget, terraforming may involve building artificial rings to moderate insolation on inn...

The processes used in terraforming lifeless planets were pioneered not by the Bright Way, but by ...

I read an article that proposes deploying a really, really strong magnet at the first Lagrange po...

Fabricators are what you get when you take a really fancy 3D printer and stick an AI art program ...

So apparently there are CAD programs for building in Lego bricks. Since my drawing skills will in...

Here's another take on the retribution field generator. Did I mention I love neon translucent pla...

This one's unlit. Still working on making my builds more interesting. I'm learning the names of d...

Star lanterns are like miniature star hearths. As such, they're also micro fusion reactors. they ...

Here are some raw tailstone monocrystals. I haven't decided if tailstone can only be found natura...

Here's a sketch of the underlay tunnel interface card: because networking infrastructure is what ...

Here's a dorsal view of yinrih powered armor. The torso jacket is made of the same pseudosinew as...

The interplanetary ferry system is how yinrih got around Focus before the invention of the mass r...

Micro mechs are remotely operated robots used in medical procedures. They range in size from smal...

The Yinrih Ansible Protocol (YAP) is the human designation for the link layer protocol used to se...