Frontier: man and machine
While the scientists of Human Unity have pushed the frontiers of science and innovation further than any of their ancestors,...
Frontier Swarmtech
Swarmtech is the application of robotics to nanotech principles. Nanotech is used extensively in molecular replicators – large immobile devices...
Frontier: other machine intelligences
Emotional Machines While they are not beings of pure logic, Experts cannot claim to have emotions. They do not get...
Questions about Frontier
Back in the day, Eamon, Colin and I did spend some time discussing the concepts a long time ago but...
Citizen: a skill?
In our BRP-based Runequest game, Michael has asked a few times for rolls on ‘Gloranthan Lore’ and ‘Human Lore’ so...
Frontier: opening the book
I find myself thinking a lot about Frontier these days. (It’s probably because I have some self-imposed deadlines for ‘Illusion’...
Transhumanism
In 1966, Transhuman was defined by F. M. Esfandiary (later, FM-2030) as: included physical and mental augmentations including prostheses, reconstructive...
Contact
What is more likely? That an all-powerful mysterious God created the Universe and then decided not to give any proof...
Masters of War
Human Unity, though most pacifist by most standards, does construct weapons for use by natural humans and Experts. They build...
Human Unity
“In teaching there should be no distinction of classes.” – Confucius, Analects XV. 39 Human Unity is a technocratic utopia...
Explorer ISD
The Internal Security Department manages all aspects of security aboard an Explorer. In a 24 hour period, a security officer...
Religion in the far future…
This came in to the jabber channel from Aidan at an opportune moment. Religion survives in Frontier, writing about it...
Life on the Frontier
An Explorer ship can expect to be out of touch for more than two years at a stretch with only...
Wormholes
Unknown to most, Wormholes are naturally occurring tunnels through space. They allow, through the use of sophisticated detection and navigation...
A Visit to Kumbu
There are various periods in Humanity’s history that can be legitimately called “The Dark Ages”. Any period where there is...
Ajinabi
We were startled by our uniqueness. The first Explorer craft took the time to catalog everything they encountered, well aware...
Trade Talk: Tales of Sol
There is a world, twelve pipes from here, where the people are soft and covered in a very fine fur,...
The Ant Hill
Swarm Intelligences were prevalent on Earth in the form of social insect colonies long before we encountered the Ant Hill....
Aliens: The Snakes of Rist
Rist is an Earth-like planet orbiting a yellow star. Astrogation has not yet pinpointed the location of the system. Explorer...
The Conquest Society
The planetary solar system around HO Librae (also known as Gliese 581) was discovered in CE 2007, several hundred years...
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