Search Results

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...

A warm winter feast for those of us in the northern hemisphere, and a merry summer feast for those of us in the southern hemisphere. I think dancing and athletic events will be a big part of the summer feast. It fits with the theme of celebrating youth. I've...

I just learned that Jupiter's "surface" gravity (measured at the cloud tops) is only around 2x that of Earth's. This is because even though Jupiter is much mor massive, it's also much larger, meaning the "surface" is much further away from the center. I think ...

Here's Welkinstead. The floating cities are clustered along two subtropical high pressure belts where the subsiding air helps keep the poisonous gases from upwelling into the breathable layer where the cities can be found.

Welkinstead was terraformed by accident. It turns out that oxygen is a byproduct of the gas refining process, meaning the more the platforms polluted, the more breathable the air became. Eventually a layer of air at normal temperature and pressure formed and i...

Pilgrims' Rest is a dwarf planet located in the Outer Belt. It was founded by remnants of the missionaries fleeing Firefly's genocide during the war of dissolution. Originally under Moonlitter's control, it is conquered by the Partisans shortly (in vulpithecin...

Code: Select all @@ ...

Here's a possible symbol for the Farspeakers. The gear motif is present and accounted-for. The inward-pointing arrows* represent introspection while the outward-pointing arrows represent communication. * recall that they're not really arrowheads, they're styli...

http://www.orbitsimulator.com/formulas/ ... inder.html Following from my earlier post. This website will give you the Lagrange points for a two body system given their masses and distance between them. I used Pluto (or a pluto-like dwarf planet with no moon) a...

I read an article that proposes deploying a really, really strong magnet at the first Lagrange point, between a planet and its star, in order to shield the planet from solar wind. It occurred to me that you could create a mini sun with a magnetic field and pro...

I've moved the wiki off of Cloudflare. It may take a bit for me to get it back up. The wiki itself isn't going anywhere. I self host it on a 15 year old laptop. What's moving is the reverse proxy server that's open to the internet. I've mentioned before that ...

I posted this on the wiki but don't think I've posted it here yet A hearthkeeper's duty is to bring physical and spiritual light and warmth to her congregation. This is accomplished through lighthouses, places of worship of the Bright Way. They evolved out of ...

The Atavists are a diverse collection of related ideologies that encompass the idea of going back to nature. The original, and most extreme, Atavist group believes that sapience is a curse and wishes to be rid of it. This group is opposed to the Bright Way, as...

Here's a topic I've needed to elaborate on for some time. With the exception of healers, yinrih don't wear clothes. While they do use things like backpacks and pocketed leg bands, the communicative function of clothing is filled by perfumes. Yinrih produce ph...