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Here's a spacer's canteen filled with yinrih milk. Their milk and their ink have similar origins, which is why the milk is blue, and why it is sweated from the palms of the forepaws. It doesn't have the earthy rain smell that ink has. The milk has very strong ...

Golden Hour city is a small village located on the terminator of Hearthside where the sun is frozen near the horizon. The city is bathed in an everlasting golden glow. It's notable for being the location of the clinic where the donated human cadavers were stud...

Firefly was hatched on a dwarf planet in the outer belt in the waning centuries of the age of decadence. His sires and dams were active with the missionaries. Although none of them had been selected to go on a mission, they assisted in other ways like mission ...

During the centuries that the missionaries were making their way to the exoplanet, the Outer Belt saw a period of quiet, with the Bright Way regaining control over much of the region. The clergy’s little PR stunt painting First Contact as an inevitability seem...

Pascal is one of the crew of the Dewfall. His Commonthroat name is rLPqsgrp /chuff, long rising strengthening grunt, huff, yip, short low weak growl, chuff, short high strong grunt/ which means "ring light", referring to sunlight reflected of of Yih's ring on...

V: From the breath of the sun The Light wrought the Earth. R: Glory to The Light! V: From the stone of the earth, The Light drew forth life. R: Glory to The Light! V: From the garden of life, The Light kindled mind. R: Glory to The Uncreated Light! This is a p...

The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts, without possessions, eating anything they could get and sleeping anyhow on the ground. St. Francis answered him with tha...

The <rLr-sfB-g> /chuff, long low weak grunt, chuff, yip, early falling weakening whine, short low weak growl/, "realm of minds, noosphere" sometimes poetically called the <jhq-sfB-g> /short falling strengthening growl, huff, etc/ or "mind sea" is an important ...

In the days when the Bright Way controlled interplanetary communication, farspeakers were responsible for maintaining that infrastructure, much like hearthkeepers maintained the power grid. Unlike hearthkeepers, farspeakers were not descendants of the old sham...

There are several different ideas about what it means to fulfill the Great Commandment. Everyone agrees that the yinrih have been chosen to find other intelligent species, but different groups within the Bright Way have their own ideas about what that looks li...

Micro mechs are remotely operated robots used in medical procedures. They range in size from smaller than a blood cell to the size of a grain of rice or a small pill. They're designed to enter the patient's body and aid in surgeries that would otherwise requir...

The Yinrih Ansible Protocol (YAP) is the human designation for the link layer protocol used to send information from one ansible to another. Ansibles sharing tailstone wafers from a single monocrystal are assigned unique ansible numbers at the manufacturer. Wh...

In addition to keyers, the yinrih use tail gesture rings as computer input devices. The ring is worn around the tail, and the tail can execute 3-dimensional gestures like flicks, swipes, and twitches etc. Tail rings are favored when walking since it's easier t...

Here's a render of a pair of HUD specs. They work similar to Google glass. They're designed to sit about half way down the muzzle. The angle of the lenses can be adjusted to meet the wearer's needs, and there are brightness and contrast dials on the side. As m...