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I refuse to call it art, but AI-generated images can be a good source of inspiration sometimes. This is the closest I've come to getting an AI image generator to depict the yinrih. There are some obvious discrepancies beyond the usual AI horror show. The eyes ...

Here's a much nicer geopolitical map of Focus

Because yinrih language relies very heavily on subtle chances in volume, analog radio telephony--voice communication--proved much more difficult for monkey foxes than it did for humans. When radio signals bounce off the ionosphere, they can experience fading, ...

I'm impressed I've been able to keep this up for so long. I didn't even notice the 700th post at the time. Almost nobody IRL knows about this little project of mine. I feel ashamed to bring it up. I aggressively separate my online persona from my meatspace sel...

I feel like I should explain a bit of my own personal philosophy that has informed some of my worldbuilding. It's something I like to call The Headphone Jack Effect, which is a reference to Apple's controversial removal of the headphone jack from the iPhone 7....

The fruit of our minds and work of mortal paws, it is but a pale imitation of thy handiwork. Outside of liturgy during most of the year, the star hearth is concealed behind a sanctuary curtain that allows the star's light to pass through. The curtain is drawn ...

Here's another picture of the star hearth, this time done with toon shaders.

It is common for Wayfarers to pray for the dead. It works a bit differently than most human faiths. While the Bright Way has a similar concept to Purgatory, where the souls of the deceased are purified of sinful attachments in order to perfectly reflect the Un...

Force projectors ground Newton's third law to its room without supper. They consist in a molecule-thin sheet of crystalline material that experiences a reactionless force normal to its surface when a voltage is applied across it. The higher the voltage, the st...

OK, let's wash that digital abomination out of our brains with an attempt at visual art by a human. This is a bottle of nose balm. It's fairly representative of pill bottles and other similarly sized containers. The only real curve ball compared to its Terran ...

Yinrih are arboreal animals. Their limbs are built to pull their weight against gravity and are naturally dense with musculature. This is a trait made obvious with healers since they have no fur. The surface-dwellers of Sweetwater tend to have more body fat t...

A rough ideological tree showing the relationships among the major belief systems of Focus. It's not scaled for time.

After the shakeoff, a sect of neoshamanists formed known as the Mindseekers. They rejected the Great Commandment as a fool's errand. However, they still clung to the hope that they would one day see bone not of their bone and flesh not of their flesh. Rather t...

One persistent subject of interest to amateur cyberarcheologists is the so-called Oracle OS. It was said to have been programmed by a mad monk who claimed it was a conduit through which the Light could communicate with mortals. While many pieces of software cl...

I've already established that neurogel acts as a ventilation medium, and the widespread use of recreational suspension implies that the general public is comfortable with the concept of liquid breathing. So instead of scuba gear, yinrih divers fill their lung...

Here's some stuff I wrote on the Discord server. Responding to Egerius while discussing yinrih bathroom habits: You manage to position yourself over the toilet. This bathroom is mercifully empty, and the hallway outside is deserted. The stall is something out ...

HolyHandGrenade! wrote: 2025-04-19T14:38:11+00:00 And now I’m 4th I reran the stats just for you Topic: The Lonely Galaxy Megathread (comments encouraged) By: lurker Stats generated on: Saturday April 19 2025 15:04 Time Stats (UTC) Topic Started: Wednesday...

I drew this kit a long time ago but never shared it for some reason.