Tag Archives: Bones of Starlight

Business Entities & Groups

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the beloved – affliction survivors in touch with Vedani
Buzzer Squad 1 – vehicle transporters for the Palookatown Bash
Capitol Cab – a taxi company in Alisandre Capital, own by Iako Shukla
CJ&c., Ultd. – Casper Jacobs’ antiques, provenancing, rarities, and more
Dragonslayers – a remnant philosophical martial order
Fortuity – a competitor to Plexus, watched by Karma
Foundationals – a sometimes violent group often oppositional to research and exploration
Hirylien Remainder – those who survived the initial planet-killing outbreak of the Hirylien Affliction, not always affiliated with active cells
Hirylienites – those actively keeping the culture and society of Hirylien alive somehow, or trying to bring about justice
Homeboy Shopping Network – getters, mercs, some fine pirates, ex-military; tech-ops smugglers
InnerG – a company with a stake in the results of the Arch
Institute of Sphere Dynamics – a main independent center for the scientific discipline
Phronium Triangle – the core Hirylienites who engage in pursuing justice with the Imperium, clandestine and sometimes violent, led or represented by Raev Sturlusson
Plexus Corporation – intergalactic transportation and related industries, founded by Ravl Pliskin; travel, energy, transport, resource, science
Pliskin Program – charitable outreach arm of Plexus Corp., plus some projects
Red Nexus – Dragons who were extradimensionally banished from the Pan-Galactic Imperium after the Human-Dragon War
Remainder – see Hirylien Remainder
Seven Suns – a competitor to Plexus, watched by Karma
Starweavers – a truckers’ emergency volunteering network, only semi- official; who are they?; they know how to be where things are happening and how to help things work out
the Strangers – popular designation for the extrahumanoid silhouettes in the signal storm broadcast windows
Substitute Security & Systems – two-person back-end support run by Chad Dremel & Fred DeWalt
Unphased – Dragons who opted out of the Viridian Phasing and so have to step back from Imperial affairs
Women in Leadership Symposium / WLS – yearly conference, volunteer organized
Woollibee & Woollibee – twin brothers’ combo firm of architectural engineering and materials science

Government / Society / History: Titles

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Ascendants – next in line to the role of Queen or King
-.King Ascendant – in this generation, partner to the Queen Ascendant
-.Princess Ascendant – occurring on the rare occasion of a non-ruling age non-parenting next in line
-.Queen Ascendant – daughter to the Queen, mother of the Princess and royal children
Auditor – a financial city official position
Councillor – an elected representative to sit in Council
-.Aquari Councillor – one of those who represents the Aquarii
-.Dragon Councillor – sole position of political advisory from Dragons to the Pan-Galactic Imperium
King – there have been some ruling Magus Kings
-.King Proxem – in the unusual event that there is a non-ruling age female Scion with only a King to precede them, a King Proxem can rule until they mature
Magistrate – an administrative position on the planet Hirylien
Prince – male royal child, usually next in line to a Princess of any age
Princess – title for the first female royal child, also referred to as Scion Princess
Princessa – title for younger female royal children
Prinzx – a genderfluid title
Scion – prefix title for the youngest in the primary lineage of rule
Signalman – Raev Sturlusson’s title as a primary coordinator of a hidden movement
Queen – the traditional ruling personage of the Magus Dynasty of the Pan-Galactic Imperium, also referred to by:
-.Queen Regent – to distinguish the ruling Queen from
an Ascendant Queen
-.Your Eminence – or Your Vast Eminence, for the ruling monarch
Your Grace – courteous reference to any in the royal family

Government / Society / History: Magus Dynasty Eras

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1 Marialain – dragon contact, 1st expansion
2 Sophiane – expansion; battling / proving themselves for the first few generations
3 Oisine – expansion
4 Louisiane – 2nd expansion route
5 Mariselle – settle
6 K Emirio – factory boom
7 Arianne – the seekers – 4 Transnet planets
8 Arnelle
9 K Ricardio – military tech
10 Rochelle – federets, Aquari divisionist (<- this is how long it’s been since a people had subcitizen status)
11 Liselotte – the communicators
12 Annelise – the librarian
13 Teresiane – the iron justice
14 K Viridio – a reluctant miner nursing soil subcultures
15 Emmalise – stabilizer
16 Manuelle – fostered pastoral artistic culture
17 Marialise – caretaker
18 Azuriane – the idle // discovery & foundation of Pyrean Midsummer 19 Rianoire – the decadent
20 K Equio – crusader (sigh)
21 K Phiroen – wealth & graft, starving masses; military revolt
22 Trisiane – the restorer
23 Florianne – connection builder
24 Celeste – the eloquent
Charlotte
Soleil
(25 Mireille – the learned)

Government / Society / History: Functional Roles of the Imperial Royal Family Political Hierarchy

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Queen
-.policy shaper, future planning, implementor
(King)
-.military commander in chief
<—- Council Elect
Queen Ascendant
-.intergalactic-interplanetary relations
-.ambassadorial president
-.when present, holds a special position on the council
King Ascendant
-.judicial / structural
-.local relations
—> Justices/Arbiters (including Ascendants)
Princess / Scion
-.imperial emissary
-.public observer
Princessa(s)
-.expanded Scion roles
-.varying pursuits
Prince(s/x)
-.self-determining, or as the Princessa

Government / Society / History: the Synchrony

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The Synchrony is a conversion factor, not a timescale. It loops, but people don’t count them one after the other. People count planetary years, as this works better for linear timekeeping. The Synchrony is not itself a time, it just doesn’t really make good sense that way. People on spaceships live by a planetary time, and if they’re detaching from one planetary time, then they can go by another planetary time. Time is weird and troublesome without a planetary attachment. People learned this, and they don’t reckon by the Synchronies, which are just conversion codes. That said, there is an unusual flower that blooms by the synchrony. This system was a breakthrough after about six planets into Human space diaspora.

Minutes are part of hours are part of days are of unique timespans on each planet, divisible in unique ways. Someone on one planet checks their date, then uses the synchrony to find the date and approximate time on another planet. Date calendars may include synchrony markings, but there are no synchrony calendars. For planetary calendars, the synchrony calculates reliably ahead.

The Three Dials:
the outer synchrony is segmented into betasymbolic sections
the next dial is half-base-ten, the five petals
the finest distinction is counted in three-squared units, 1-9
thought time, plant time, bee time
language, flower/hand, geometry (daystar)

e.g.
epsilon
four-fifths
9

or Epsilon-4/5-9