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This fellow currently cowering in fear of the scary noises outside is my guide dog. He is the inspiration for Commonthroat and to a lesser extent the yinrih as a whole. I posted a spliced-together sample of his sleep vocalizations, the ones that inspired the s...

More 3D printing nonsense. Here's an improved star and gear... coaster? IDK it's way to big to serve as a keychain. The old version is on the left and the new one is on the right. I used a different coloring method and larger layers to make it print faster. I...

Polymerite is a plastic that can be cured to give it the strength of steel. It can be formed using injection molding or additive manufacturing. After it is formed, it is cured by exposing it to gamma rays, either directly or by bombarding it with positrons to ...

Yinrih are about 200 cm long from the tip of the nose to the tip of the tail. The back is about 34 cm wide and they stand about 76 cm at the withers. The tail is slightly longer than the distance from the tip of the nose to the base of the tail, allowing them ...

Much like humanity, the yinrih's information age dawned around the same time they achieved spaceflight. Through the millennia their internetwork has grown in size and complexity as they settled throughout Focus, and by the time of First Contact they have amass...

Yinrih consume a similar variety of media as humans. There are experiences similar to movies and TV shows as well as print and audio media. The phrase "canned play/drama" is used to refer to what humans call movies and serialized TV shows. One of the more u...

I may or may not have mentioned before that womb ships are based on the Titan. I started the Lonely Galaxy around the time this was in the news. The Bright Way's cavalier attitude toward death in pursuit of the Great Commandment during the Golden Age is inspir...

Earlier I mentioned that most branches of Neoshamanism regard the noosphere as a spiritual phenomenon rather than an abstract concept as envisioned in the Bright Way. Further, Neoshamanists believe that all consciousness emanates from the noosphere, and that ...

Claravian scripture is divided into two categories. The first is a very small protocanon consisting of contemporary documents of newly sapient yinrih, accounts of the Theophany and emergence of the Bright Way. Lists of moral precepts and norms governing liturg...

After the dawn of the information age, as the Neoshamanist Mindseekers made strides in artificial intelligence, a debate emerged within the Bright Way. The Claravian magisterium regarded true conscious AI as impossible, but it acknowledged that something that ...

The hatch is at the forward end of the ship. The shroud protecting the pressure vessel has a sensor array that is fed into the simulacrum in realtime. Log summaries are sent in batches at regular intervals through the ansible back to mission control as well. T...

The qhrBFg, "weeping sires" or simply rBFmg "those who weep", is one of the oldest surviving examples of cynoid folklore. Depictions and explanations vary widely, but some elements are common. They are usually depicted as the vengeful ghosts of sires who have...

Tales of giant sea monsters are ubiquitous throughout human culture. The same is true at Focus. Yih's nautical folklore survived the yinrih's leap to the stars and has thrived among the salty-pelted sailors that call the surface of Sweetwater home. The most f...

Gross features of a single Alliance Token (AW currency). Here's a 3D printed version the size of a US half dollar. All AW currency is made of polymerite. Because of the exotic materials and immensely intricate anti-forgery features (which I'm too lazy to depi...

Since the yinrih's star has been given a Latin name (Focus), here are a few candidates for a Latin name for Yih. Yih /jIh/ or /jI/ (like "yip" without the p) comes from the Commonthorat word <sfqg> /yip, short high strong whine, huff, short low weak growl/. T...

Now that I'm working on Outlander, and since I want to start working on Hearthsider in the future, I decided I want to create a universal system for referring to yinrih speech sounds. Here is one candidate. Yinrih language is highly tonal. Plenty of Terran lan...

The Allied Worlds is like a combination of NATO and the European Union. The individual planets within the alliance have their own militaries and legal systems, but the central government on Yih can and does oblige members to contribute to mutual defense, as wi...