Category: Empire Of Humanity

Guardian: Originally a natural state (inoperant) human who undertook an exhaustive course of study and physical preparation intended to prepare them to compete with operants. Now generalized to include various level of operant. Modern usage for natural state humans who qualify via the traditional means is First Order Guardian, but almost nobody bothers with the…

The Empire of Humanity has a history of over 100,000 years by their reckoning, roughly 80,000 by Earth’s. Here are a few major events and the eras they fall into, including major characters. Roughly 15,000 years before Empire: Human Confederacy defeated by C’Tangi. Some life survives on 21 human worlds within a radius of about…

Grace I would like to ask you about extending. The telepathic message was not unexpected. I had twelve days – three Imperial weeks – to go in my twenty year commitment to the Imperial military. In our capacity as Merlon’s Eyes, Asto and I had been all over the Empire in that time, from the…

The microwave dinged. I was being pulled in too many ways too fast. I didn’t trust myself to speak, so I simply opened the door and handed him one of them. Beef and cheese enchilada with rice and beans. I had machaca burrito with the same sides. Soon as I started eating, I realized I…

Someone asked about building a minimalist government. For a minimalist government to be stable as such, there must be a reason why it does not follow the historical norm of all governments, to arrogate progressively more power to itself, to the detriment of everyone. But it is in the interest of any given member of…

The prior step ended with the realization that not only did government have to be minimalist, and consciously so, it had to be composed of people who would be paying a personal price if it – or they – failed. How do you do that? One constant of the people who make country- and civilization-killing…

In the late 1970s, it became fashionable to bash the large scale stellar states that featured so prominently in science fiction. It was “plainly impossible” and exhibit A was always the writer’s preconception of what government did: Social work and industrial boards of this and that and regulations concerning the use of typewriters and television…