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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...

There are three major factions in Moonlitter politics: Pro-AW, who seek anything from closer ties to outright formal union with the Allied Worlds, Pro-Partisan, who are the same but for the Partisans, and Nationalists, who want both the AW and the Partisans of...

The Unionists are a manifest destiny movement within the Allied Worlds that seeks to unite all of Focus under the AW government. Their slogan is <rdr scrg, rdr rmLg, rdr rJhg, rdr rgHHGg> One star, one species, one throat, one rule. Their symbol is a filleted...

Some sects of neoshamanists employ exorcists to expel evil spirits from places and objects. Some wayfarers also seek out the services of an exorcist, but as with everything surrounding demons, the Claravian magisterium frowns on discussing them at all, even ne...

Hearthkeepers use dielectric chrism instead of blessed milk when performing rites of blessing on electrical equipment. Since yinrih milk is water-based and organic, it may interfere with sensitive electronic components. The chrism can take the form of a liquid...