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I have nowhere else to put this, but this has been stuck in my head all day. Inquisitor of the Ordo Xenos standing on the bridge of a void ship, hailing a yinrih outpost,: "In the name of the God-Emperor of Mankind, you filthy xenos must be purged!" Yinrih, in...

I'm really tired so let's see how weird this sounds tomorrow morning. There's this belief among Wayfarers, I'm not sure whether it's popular piety, established dogma, or somewhere in between, but here's the idea: You know that "ah-ha!" moment when learning som...

Before i forget, terraforming may involve building artificial rings to moderate insolation on inner planets or even provide artificial light on far out dwarf lanets. These rings would also serve as spaceports and may be connected to the surface by a space elev...

I've made the Lonely Galaxy Mediawiki instance public. It can be found at https://constructed.world. I don't know how long I can keep it up for, but there it is. Before I forget: "Curiosity and Caution" is an artistic motif, usually depicted in statuary, of a ...

Random idea for a human dish that replicates typical yinrih cuisine. Take smoked shredded beef brisket, dill relish, and diced white onions and mix them together into a dry stew. Add salt and pepper and serve in a bowl. Humans use a fork or spoon to eat, yinri...

A colossus is a cynoidomorphic structure with a full-sized lighthouse on its back. The word for these structures in all major yinrih languages has gone on to mean giant or titan, and is used to indicate anything imposing or intimidating. The first Colossus was...

The Split Horizon speaks English but they may use Shavian instead of Latin to write it. The colony was founded in part because some humans were concerned that they would not be fully independent if they accepted High Hearthekeper Lucy's homesteading offer but ...

This post may not be canon pending a good night's sleep. I'm le tired. It was fairly natural that shires would evolve into cities, and then city-states, and then into states proper. The first polity to be recognized as such was probably the jungles around New...

This is the transit of one of the Knights' orbital monasteries. The reason why they're called the Knights of the Sun is because many of these monasteries are inside the orbit of Hearthside very close to Focus. They're located where they are so as to better con...

Was just thinking about how militant misotheists seek to kill Wayfarers in order to starve the Uncreated Light of worshipers in revenge for cursing the yinrih with sapience. There's a potential contradiction in misotheist doctrine here. The noosphere is only e...

Jotting this down before I forget. Atavists believe that widespread beliefs can manifest as entities with agency over real space. They also craft mythologies for their self isolating communities. Put those two together and you get Atavists constructing mytholo...

I have mentioned the Lifebringers in passing before, a group of Neoshamanists that sought to create sapient life anew through artificial selection. It is this group that was responsible for much of the yinrih's early scientific knowledge of ecology, biology, ...

The office of High Hearthkeeper did not exist prior to the Shakeoff. Once Neoshamanism and Atavism emerged, it became necessary to create a tangible sign of unity within the Bright Way that could be used to precisely define what a Wayfarer is. The office is li...

The processes used in terraforming lifeless planets were pioneered not by the Bright Way, but by the Lifebringers, a sect of Neoshamanists. Whereas the Bright Way sought sapient life dwelling among the stars, the Lifebringers attempted to recreate sapient life...

If humans are natural distance runners and running/jogging is a common form of exercise, that it should follow that since yinrih are climbers then climbing should be a common form of exercise. I've already mentioned that yinrih use ladders rather than stairs....

Visions1 wrote: 2025-12-18T16:50:46+00:00 Do yin have chemical weapons? Bioweapons? Do they eat onions and garlic? Most animals can't stand them because of their smell (for example, onions contain a chemical that's basically tear gas, and the smell of fried on...

(from a post on Lemmy criticizing what Mozilla is doing with Firefox) Now I'm thinking about yinrih clowns again. I said before they wouldn't wear makeup, but perhaps distinct perfumes. Doug from the Multiverse Inn is perhaps the closest to what I'm thinking o...

Visions1 wrote: 2025-12-16T17:52:30+00:00 What was Bright Way organization like in the early years? And who was the first Hearthkeeper? What was she like? There wasn't a clear delineation between shamanism and the early Bright Way. A lot of laymen (if not at l...