From: Zachary Vance Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2022 17:25:50 +0000 (-0400) Subject: migration of lexicon1 X-Git-Url: https://git.za3k.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=633e8930a351e67b4917015d1986862f88e103bf;p=za3k.git migration of lexicon1 --- diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Aldebaranians, The.md b/archive/lexicon1/Aldebaranians, The.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1e4e589 --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Aldebaranians, The.md @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Aldebaranians, The + +Extinct xeno culture that inhabited the northern hemisphere of Mizar 5 approximately 35.000-25.000 cycles ago, before the planets ice age. The Aldebaranians were a pre-historic civilisation, able to use and manufacture a variety of stone tools, simple pottery as well as bone- and leatherwork, but had no form of alphabet or written language. However, the incredibly precise calculations needed to create complex stone structures like the [[Webway of Faces]] point towards this otherwise primitive culture having unusually developed knowledge in mathematics, astronomy, and abstract thinking. It is fair to assume that while no written text has ever been found that they most likely possessed a developed way of verbal communication to properly coordinate between each other. + +The Aldebaranians are the oldest tool-using civilisation found on Mizar 5 so far, and their heritage ca still be seen in the remains of the Golgari civilisation that came long after. Nonetheless, the idea that this ancient pre-metalworking culture possessed [[Psychic Attunement]], as some of the more unhinged scholars and demiurges proclaim is clearly a preposterous assumption and can be thrown into the wastebin of desperate headlines and cheap comicbook writing. + + +- Prof. C.Orion, Archivist and Curator for the OPXH \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/An Ionzhi Gazeetter.md b/archive/lexicon1/An Ionzhi Gazeetter.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0987704 --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/An Ionzhi Gazeetter.md @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +*An Ionzhi Gazetteer* was a series of traveler’s handbooks published from Ionzhi years 5157 to 5245 (Real Ordinal Date Standard 454f9a - 45580e), produced by Werlact Julane until their execution in 5244 (RODS 45580b) by [[Elector-Prince Rzeszutko]]. The posthumous final edition of the book was sourced from Julane’s notes and published by their apprentices, before they were executed themselves. The travel guides covered the geography, history, culture, holidays, festivals, events, tourist attractions, inns, taverns, restaurants, and dangers of the entirety of the [[Principality of Ionzh]]. The eleven regional editions were updated yearly, and covered every meter of populated land within their domains, and often detailed areas otherwise, such as camping sites, fishing spots, and caves. Most of the information sourced for these books came from Julane’s apprentices stationed throughout the Principality, and other paid informants. The Omnibus edition combined all the recent changes and was released every six Ionzhi years, and often were the size of a small boulder. + +Julane’s very detailed series of works has been highly informative, and a boon to those attempting to research the history of the late Principality, especially in the face of Elector-Prince Rzeszutko’s anti-historiographical efforts. + +-Selii Niramaned, DJF, LA, LAFH \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Archipelago of the Damned.md b/archive/lexicon1/Archipelago of the Damned.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6ed7f0c --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Archipelago of the Damned.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +The Archipelago of the Damned is the informal name for the collection of planetoids orbiting a K-Class star in the [[Rho-HY472]] system. The cluster, so named for the cowardly Captain [[Varix Jhothar]]'s untimely end, following shortly after his decisive defeat and hasty escape at the [[Yozt Belt Skirmish]], consists of 47 planetoids and 183 moons. + +The system itself, although containing a few planetoids technically capable of supporting life, is found to be singularly uninhabitable - Varix' last verified correspondence from the planetoid [[Gondar-2]] describes an unusually high number of vicious predatory species of flora and fauna - his remains have yet to be found. + +Most travelers through the system stop only to scoop fuel, but a few brave (and/or stupid) would-be explorers make an attempt to survive a period of time on one or more of these planetoids. The few who make it past warden patrols are usually never heard from again, and those that tell tales are careful not to reveal themselves when recounting. + +-Ken \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Artifact Access Control.md b/archive/lexicon1/Artifact Access Control.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3d5ffe5 --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Artifact Access Control.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Provision 384.456.12.6 of the [[Fengu-Golgari Convention of 2452]] stipulates that all member nations of the IntraGalactic Astronomy Review Board and Xenology Annex shall have equal access to Golgari artifacts on Mizar-5. At the same time, to preserve artifacts for study for future generations, avoid favoritism, and prevent the collapse of less psychologically advanced civilizations, strict access controls have been implemented. Please observe the following rules. All time limits are given in standard Mizar-5 days or fractions of a day. + +- Artifacts may not be removed from Mizar-5 under any circumstance. Artifacts which have been removed must be returned, even if you are not in a member nation or did not sign the convention. +- Access to artifacts is keycard and DNA locked. If your keycard is missing, stolen, or altered report the incident to security immediately. Do not borrow or lend keycards, including to lab assistants. Species without DNA will be provided synthetic DNA vials on request. +- Artifacts should be signed out and back in *promptly* before removal for study to local labs, and then signed back in. Attach two accompanying timestamp cards (digital timecards not acceptable). Yes, even if you are returning it the same day. +- Civilizations without [[Sanity Certification]] should avoid examining alien artifacts that contain written text, artwork, computers, or music. You, or your entire civilization, may be destroyed. Do not just ask a friend with certification whether it is okay. If you are unsure if something is artwork, ask your supervisor. +- Do not take artifacts outside, to the cafeteria, library, bedroom, or other non-laboratory areas. Artifacts must be kept temperature and humidity controlled. +- To borrow an artifact for more than 7 days, your department head must submit Extended Use Request Form 0045D form in triplicate. Typical turn around is 16 days. If you do not get a reponse within 20 days, please resubmit your form. +- Artifacts are for study. If you sign out an artifact, account for its use with biweekly progress reports, and submit any results to your department head within three days of discovery. + + +*Memo from Mizar-5 InstraGalactic Internal Security and Administration* \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Atemporal Anomaly.md b/archive/lexicon1/Atemporal Anomaly.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..aab9ce5 --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Atemporal Anomaly.md @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +# Atemporal Anomaly: + + +Many of the artifacts recovered from Mizar-5 are entirely unique in the universe. This cannot, of course, be credited to the unique thoughts of the Golgori civilization, but is due to the remarkable preservation that has occurred due to a series of anomalies that dot the planet's surface. Vastly extending the minimum quanta of time for all objects within, the Atemporal Anomaly mimics as if no time were to pass at all for the objects within, giving Mizar-5 its nickname of "The Frozen Planet". Xenoarcheologists exploring Mizar-5 must be highly cautious and always wear their [Type-9 Quantum Compression Apparatus (QCA-9)](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Quantum%20Compression%20Apparatus%20(QCA)) to avoid getting trapped within the various anomalies, as there is often, especially within Class-Z danger areas, an abundance of these anomalies, which can be difficult to discern by the naked eye. + +Some areas of the planet, such as the [Denmortia Rainlands](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Denmortia%20Rainlands) are entirely covered by a Complete Atemporal Anomaly(which functionally stops the effects of time's passage within itself) while others are only affected by a Partial Atemporal Anomaly. Each is a veritable treasure trove, as many organic relics that would have otherwise decayed away millennia before discovery have been recovered. This, of course, includes the still functioning bodies of Mizar-5's inhabitants, however the process of having one's quanta of time stretched so violently results in brain death for any sentient life that undergoes the process, meaning that no interviews with the subjects have been possible. + +*Exerpt from "The Universal Implications of the Phenomena of Mizar-5," by T'iXath Reah'cha, XPh.* \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/B-Time.md b/archive/lexicon1/B-Time.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..02e4a93 --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/B-Time.md @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +B-Time is a continuous semi-parallel timestream, adjacent to our timestream. It contains the same celestial bodies and phenomena as our timestream does, including the [Atemporal Anomalies](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Atemporal%20Anomaly) on [[Mizar-5]]. However, there are a few notable differences: the [[Denmortia Rainlands]] do not exist, replaced by an empty desert, and neither does the famously quinary star system [[Haw-EN2525]], instead replaced by a singular red dwarf. Most important is the lack of any post-prokaryotic life, except for the [[Regina Apiana]], whose civilization is centered around the first [Aldebaranian](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Aldebaranians,%20The) settlements. Observation and travel to B-Time is unrecommended, for the cytotoxins produced by Regina Apiana can kill most life forms within a few microcycles. + +Note: G-Time and D-Time are non-continuous semi-parallel timestreams, and anyone who claims they are continuous are misinformed or lying. + +-Selii Niramaned DSf, HDS, DK diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Balefyre Engine.md b/archive/lexicon1/Balefyre Engine.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ba8f43a --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Balefyre Engine.md @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Balefyre Engine + +High-scale combustion engine which acted as the main source of power in the late stages Golgari civilisation. These massive, power-producing furnaces were powered mainly with sulphuric coal but were capable of turning every carbon or sulphur-based material into fuel and were even used for cremation of the dead, as studies within the [[Atemporal Anomaly]] AA-47 clearly show. The construction of first Balefyre Engine can be traced back to the worsening climates of the northern hemisphere of Mizar 5, historically named "The Great Chill" ( see [[Great Chill, the]]) neary two decades before the final collapse of the Golgari. Recovered newsarticles withing the ruined city of [[Heimhallif]] written during that time are split if these creations are a blessing or a curse due to their high levels of local air pollution, but their base design will be continued for at least a century. + + +- Prof. C.Orion, Archivist and Curator for the OPXH \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Bentways, The.md b/archive/lexicon1/Bentways, The.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9712dd5 --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Bentways, The.md @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +##Bentways, The: + +The Bentways are a series of channels running throughout the underground of the [Orianian Wasteland](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Orianian%20Wasteland,%20The) in the Eastern continent of [Mizar-5](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Mizar-5). These tunnels stretch on for hundreds of kilometers, their framework based around the ancient [Aldebaranian](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Aldebaranians,%20The) ruins that originally housed the main body of the civilization. The tunnels themselves have grown over time due to their hybrid [Floramateria](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Floramateria) composition, believed to have originated from a meteor that was a product of the destruction of a planetoid on the edge of the [Archipelago of the Damned](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Archipelago%20of%20the%20Damned). + +It is widely thought to be the cause of the end of the golden age of the Aldebaranian civilization, as its Floramateria spread rapidly, wiping out swaths of crops alongside infecting much of the populous, as dissection of subjects found in [Atemporal Anomaly](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Atemporal%20Anomaly) AA-153 has shown signs of Floramateria infiltration in the nervous channels. + +The tunnels themselves are one of the largest contiguous danger zones on Mizar-5, and thus are one of the least studied, despite the extremely valuable knowledge enclosed within. + +*Exerpt from "Disasters on Mizar-5 - Causes and Manifestations of Empire Collapse Phenomena," by T'iXath Reah'cha, XPh.* \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Blinking Cow Rumor.md b/archive/lexicon1/Blinking Cow Rumor.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f875647 --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Blinking Cow Rumor.md @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +In RODs 45599a, 3 cycles after the founding of Research Station 6, rumors started circulating there about a blinking cow (local equivalent), which only existed some days of the month, and whose milk turned into cheese. The rumors had all the telltale signs of an urban legend--disagreement on basic facts like who had seen the cow, when and where the cow disappeared, or in some cases even the species of animal. Reports appeared over the course of decades and were generally attributed to unnamed sources. Presumably the joke was to trick new station crew into believing into [[Extratemporal Anomalies]] or avoiding dairy products. + +Unfortunately the efforts of administration to supress the information, led to even stronger belief in the existence of Aldebaranian foreknowlege (see [[Aldebaranians, The]]), the [[History Paradox]], and support for anti-historiographic efforts in the vein of [[Elector-Prince Rzesutko]] in the nearby [[Principality of Ionzh]]. This gave fuel as locals and off-planet efforts to actively destroy research data intensified, and led to the [[Second Destruction of the Golgari Library]] + + +*Excerpt from "Arguments For and Against Free Speech", Mizar-5 Subcommittee on Open Research Access* diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Blinking Row Rumor.md b/archive/lexicon1/Blinking Row Rumor.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..885d1ce --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Blinking Row Rumor.md @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +In RODs 45599a, 3 cycles after the founding of Research Station 6, rumors started circulating there about a blinking cow (local equivalent), which only existed some days of the month, and whose milk turned into cheese. The rumors had all the telltale signs of an urban legend--disagreement on basic facts like who had seen the cow, when and where the cow disappeared, or in some cases even the species of animal. Reports appeared over the course of decades and were generally attributed to unnamed sources. Presumably the joke was to trick new station crew into believing into [[Extratemporal Anomalies]] or avoiding dairy products. + +Unfortunately the efforts of administration to supress the information, led to even stronger belief in the existence of [[Aldebaranians, The]] foreknowlege, the [[History Paradox]], and support for anti-historiographic efforts in the vein of [[Elector-Prince Rzesutko]] in the nearby [[Principality of Ionzh]]. This gave fuel as locals and off-planet efforts to actively destroy research data intensified, and led to the [[Second Destruction of the Golgari Library]] + + +*Excerpt from "Arguments For and Against Free Speech", Mizar-5 Subcommittee on Open Research Access* diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Boltrus Incident, The.md b/archive/lexicon1/Boltrus Incident, The.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ffb980d --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Boltrus Incident, The.md @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The Boltrus Incident refers to a sequence of events that occurred somewhere between ESDTF February 12 - March 22, 3361 in a small village on [[Mizar-5]]. The incident is believed to be the first written mention of the practice of [[Rotorastianism]]. The collection of diaries, journals, and accounts all describe an otherwise unremarkable woodcutter of the village having supposedly been struck by a floating grey apparition, in the shape of a [[Long-Necked Gh'dol]], a species native to the planet. The woodcutter, upon awakening, began to etch her collected logs with strange symbols, their meanings known only to their maker. Sometime before or after this event, the village was attacked by unusually aggressive gh'dols, and the accounts of most other villagers stopped - most believe due to death or disappearance. The woodcutter who would later be known as [[Zan-Taranth]] began a pilgrimage from Mizar-5 to spread her works to other peoples in the galaxy, and several surviving denizens of the village followed. With so few remaining members, the village itself soon fell into disarray, and the account of the last known surviving villager, recorded sometime between May 8 and 29 of the same year, alluded to the presence of some hostile spirit draining the village of its life and livelihood, with a lament for the future of surrounding towns. + +The exact order of events is under constant debate and scrutiny from several historians, and will likely never be settled due to the moderate [[Atemporal Anomaly]] surrounding the village, but the most trustworthy and credible scholars indicate that this so-called apparition was simply an aging gh'dol, the aggression of gh'dols a frenzy spurred by its inevitable death, the deaths and disappearances caused by the ensuing frenzy, and the writings of the woodcutter, indecipherable nonsense from which sprang a ludicrous following of half-cracked zealots and pretenders. Wiser readers would do well to put to rest any notions of spiritualism or otherworldly presence the more incredulous elements of this incident might invoke. + +-Ken \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Caduceus Expedition, The.md b/archive/lexicon1/Caduceus Expedition, The.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..05dd033 --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Caduceus Expedition, The.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +##Caduceus Expedition, The: + +The Caduceus Expedition was a failed attempt to explore several widely argued thoughts about the [B-Time](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/B-Time) parallel time stream. With 164 members total, including [Uriath Xers, XPh.](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Uriath%20Xers,%20XPh.), famed Xenophysicist and author of the work, "Alternate Time Flow interactions with Stasis," concerning the interesting parallels between the [Atemporal Anomalies](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Atemporal%20Anomaly) in the B-Time stream to those of the Proper Time stream. The expedition was designed to create a proper foothold into the B-Time stream so that the researchers involved in the project, along with their less than moral backers, would have a base from which to launch research or exploitation missions of the parallel time stream. + +The plan was to start the expedition in Atemporal Anomaly AA-452 on [Mizar-5](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Mizar-5), one of the oldest, and most stable, anomalies on the surface of the planet. The crew would utilize their [Quantum Compression Apparatus](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Quantum%20Compression%20Apparatus%20(QCA)) suits to make their way to what is believed to have been a safehouse for deposed nobles hiding from [Elector-Prince Rzeszutko](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Elector-Prince%20Rzeszutko), which is a known weak spot in the temporal barrier due to the aftereffects of the [Incandescent Temporeactor](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Incandescent%20Temporeactor) meltdown that occurred there. The group would then enter into the stasis zone in the B-Time stream, and attempt to make a proper perimeter around it. + +However, the end of the expedition came abruptly when a group of [Regina Apiana](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Regina%20Apiana) located the camp, and, it is assumed, were attracted to the energy from the high compression reactor-batteries used to power the QCA suits and the pulse-towers. After a protracted battle, the camp was destroyed, and nearly all the expedition members had been killed or captured, including Uriath Xers, as their QCA suits had been drained of too much power for them to escape through the Atemporal Anomaly by the time the tides in the battle had turned. + +This failure of an operation has served as a warning to other prospective B-Time explorers to be exceedingly careful where they enter, and how what they carry may attract Regina Apiana members to their entrance point. + + +*Exerpt from "B-Time Exploration - Xenophysics' Biggest Hurdle," by T'iXath Reah'cha, XPh.* \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Candaxx Loop.md b/archive/lexicon1/Candaxx Loop.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9f4aef6 --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Candaxx Loop.md @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +A common merchant loop, picking up rare-earth elements and musical instruments in [[Gondar-2]], swapping rare earth elements for carbon-based foodstuffs on [[Mizar-4]], refueling in the [[Archipelago of the Damned]], swapping foodstuffs and instruments for mechanical tools and riding saddles at the [[Turban of God]], and finally returning the final leg of the journey back to [[Gondar-2]]. + +The Loop is considered medium-risk by those in the know, but recent decreased demand for music on [[Mizar-4]], and increased demand for reagents and scientific apparatus on Mizar-5 has lowered the popularity of the loop in favor of shorter, safer, and more profitable trading loops. + +*Excerpt from Mizar-5 Central Shipyard and Docking, Statistical Traffic and Impact Census 6139-674H.L. nonstandard time* diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Cataphract.md b/archive/lexicon1/Cataphract.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a1c2088 --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Cataphract.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +A Cataphract was an intended spacecraft produced by the [[Golgori Sovereign Empire]], although none ever escaped [[Mizar-5]]’s outer atmosphere. They were crafted of metals harvested from fallen meteorites, and propelled by a modified [[Balefyre Engine]]. The Engine was modified in such a way that the pilot of the craft could psycho-kinetically control how exactly the Engine operated, such as the speed of fuel intake and compression. This was necessary because a Cataphract had little in the way of electrical instruments, and very few options otherwise to control the spacecraft’s flight. + +It is estimated that there were a dozen or so attempts to escape Mizar-5’s atmosphere with a Cataphract, but as far as it is known, none succeeded. The attempts were likely limited by the rarity of the metals used and the rate in which [psychically-attuned](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Psychic%20Attunement) Golgari reached the age of maturity. Most of the Cataphracts failed because of mental stress: the burden of controlling the spacecraft caused fatal cerebral hemorrhages in the pilots. + +A perfectly preserved Cataphract can be observed in the [[Denmortia Rainlands]], frozen in the air. It has yet to be more closely examined, because of the unique difficulties in reaching it. + +-Selii Niramaned EWO, ITU, YE diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Causeways and Caravaneers.md b/archive/lexicon1/Causeways and Caravaneers.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d3f5a12 --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Causeways and Caravaneers.md @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Causeways of the Caravaneers.md b/archive/lexicon1/Causeways of the Caravaneers.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2bddd1a --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Causeways of the Caravaneers.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Causeways of the Caravaneers is the 87th edition of [[An Ionzhi Gazeetter]], published in IY5244, and focusing primarily on the historic sights and landmarks along and around the [[K'ghani Trail]]. The publication, in addition to the usual travelling tips, includes significant details on historical information regarding several areas of interest along the trail, like [[Traitor's Ridge]] and [[Lithis Falls Pass]], and the horrific events that occurred there. + +Julane and his apprentices were said to have included the expanded historical information in this edition as part of an ongoing protest against the revisionist propaganda attempting to minimize the barbarous behavior of the travelers - the revisionists are said to have obfuscated or destroyed all evidence of wrongdoing in a bid to stoke Ionzhian nationalist fervor and undermine the moralist party. The infamous revisionist leader [[Elector-Prince Rzeszutko]] used this and the few later editions of the Gazeetter as evidence of crimes against the empire and her people in the Freethinkers' Synod (See [[Freethinker's Synod, The]]), and cruelly hunted down and executed all involved in its publication. + +Like many other later editions of the Gazeetter, most copies of Causeways were rounded up and burned on the pyres: Only 13 known copies of this edition remain, many charred and illegible on several pages. + +-Ken \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Citations List.md b/archive/lexicon1/Citations List.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b740931 --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Citations List.md @@ -0,0 +1,347 @@ +#A + +[[Aldebaranians, The]] +cites: Psychic Attunement, Webway of Faces +cited by: Bentways, Blinking Cow Rumor, B-Time, Derivative Starchart, Eloping Dog, Industrial Ascendency + +[[An Ionzhi Gazeetter]] +cites: Elector-Prince Rzeszutko, Principality of Ionzh +cited by: Causeways of the Caravaneers, Curators Bane, Freethinkers' Synod + +[[Archipelago of the Damned]] +cites: Gondar-2, Rho-HY472, Varix Jhothar, Yozt Belt Skirmish +cited by: Bentways, Candaxx Loop, Derivative Starchart, Descent of the New Moon, Fengu-Golgori Convention of 2452, Gondar-2 + +[[Artifact Access Control]] +cites: Fengu-Golgori Convention of 2452, Sanity Certification +cited by: Endless Fabric, Fengu-Golgori Convention of 2452, Forbidden Room + +[[Atemporal Anomaly]] +cites: Denmortia Rainlands, Quantum Compression Apparatus (QCA) +cited by: Balefyre Engine, Bentways, Boltrus Incident, B-Time, Caduceus Expedition, Derivative Starchart, Eloping Dog, Extratemporal Anomalies, Great Chill, Hess Drive + + +#B + +[[Balefyre Engine]] +cites: Atemporal Anomaly; Great Chill, Heimhallif +cited by: Cataphract, Deljin Reactor Meltdown + +[[Bentways, The]] +cites: Aldebaranians, Archipelago of the Damned, Atemporal Anomaly; Floramateria, Mizar-5, Orianian Wasteland +cited by: Elector-Prince Rzeszutko + +[[Blinking Cow Rumor]] +cites: Aldebaranians; Elector-Prince Rzeszutko, Extratemporal Anomalies, History Paradox, Principality of Ionzh, Second Destruction of the Golgori Library +cited by: Extratemporal Anomalies + +[[Boltrus Incident, The]] +cites: Atemporal Anomaly; Long-Necked Gh'dol, Mizar-5, Rotorastianism, Zan-Taranth + +[[B-Time]] +cites: Aldebaranians, Atemporal Anomaly; Denmortia Rainlands, Haw-EN2525, Mizar-5, Regina Apiana +cited by: Caduceus Expedition, Curators Bane, Delay-Deny-Accept + +#C + +[[Caduceus Expedition, The]] +cites: Atemporal Anomaly, B-Time; Elector-Prince Rzeszutko, Incandescent Temporeactor, Mizar-5, Quantum Compression Apparatus (QCA), Regina Apiana, Uriath Xers, XPh. + +[[Candaxx Loop]] +cites: Archipelago of the Damned; Gondar-2, Mizar-4, Turban of God +cited by: Eldest Son, Gondar-2 + +[[Cataphract]] +cites: Balefyre Engine; Denmortia Rainlands, Golgori Sovereign Empire, Mizar-5, Psychic Attunement +cited by: Denmortia Rainlands, Derivative Starchart, Galactic Hegemony of Associated Commerce and Trade + +[[Causeways of the Caravaneers]] +cites: An Ionzhi Gazeetter; Elector-Prince Rzeszutko, Freethinkers' Synod, K'ghani Trail, Lithis Falls Pass, Traitor's Ridge +cited by: Freethinkers' Synod + +[[Curators Bane]] +cites: An Ionzhi Gazetter, B-Time; Ionzhi Calendar, Smotherer of Light + +#D + +[[Delay-Deny-Accept]] +cites: B-Time; Public Relations, Stasis Tourism + +[[Deljin Reactor Meltdown, The]] +cites: Balefyre Engine; Kester City, Orianian Wasteland +cited by: Hess Drive + +[[Denmortia Rainlands]] +cites: Cataphract; Golgori Sovereign Empire, Mizar-5, New Golgori Rebellion +cited by: Atemporal Anomaly, Balefyre Engine, B-Time, Cataphract, Derivative Starchart; Extratemporal Anomalies, Great Chill + +[[Derivative Starchart]] +cites: Aldebaranians, Archipelago of the Damned, Atemporal Anomaly, Cataphract, Denmortia Rainlands; Golgori Sovereign Empire, Kilt'iir, Mizar-4, Mizar-5, Nemarii Obelisk, Orianian Wasteland +cited by: Haw-EN2525 + +[[Descent of the New Moon, The]] +cites: Archipelago of the Damned; Extratemporal Anomalies, Golgori Sovereign Empire, Institute for Psykologikal Masterie, Mizar-5, New Golgori Rebellion, Oedeon, Varix Jhothar, Zan-Taranth + + +#E + +[[Elector-Prince Rzeszutko]] +cites: Bentways; Incandescent Temporeactor, Principality of Ionzh, Revisionist Period, Rotorastianism, Traitor's Ridge, Wax-Witch, Zan-Taranth +cited by: An Ionzhi Gazeetter, Blinking Cow Rumor, Caduceus Expedition, Causeways of the Caravaneers, Eldest Son, Eloping Dog; Freethinkers' Synod + +[[Eldest Son]] +cites: Candaxx Loop, Elector-Prince Rzeszutko; Galactic Hegemony of Associated Commerce and Trade, Wax-Witch + +[[Eloping Dog]] +cites: Aldebaranians, Atemporal Anomaly, Elector-Prince Rzeszutko; Floramateria, Mizar-5 + +[[Endless Fabric]] +cites: Artifact Access Control; Industrial Ascendency, Varphorium + +[[Extratemporal Anomalies]] +cites: Atemporal Anomaly, Blinking Cow Rumor, Denmortia Rainlands; Lillux Colossus, Universe-Universe Binary Interactions +cited by: Blinking Cow Rumor, Descent of the New Moon; Full Access + +#F + +[[Fengu-Golgori Convention of 2452]] +cites: Archipelago of the Damned, Artifact Access Control; Law of Finders Keepers +cited by: Artifact Access Control + +[[Floramateria]] +cites: Long-Necked Gh'dol, Mizar-4, Mizar-5, Rho-HY472, Rotorastianism, Theory of Forgotten Sin, Unit Star, Zan-Taranth +cited by: Bentways, Eloping Dog + +[[Forbidden Room, The]] +cites: Artifact Access Control; Psychic Attunement, Sanity Certification + +[[Freethinkers' Synod, The]] +cites: An Ionzhi Gazeetter, Causeways of the Caravaneers, Elector-Prince Rzeszutko; Incandescent Temporeactor, Ionzhi Calendar, Principality of Ionzh, True Ionzhi Republic +cited by: Causeways of the Caravaneers + +[[Full Access]] +cites: Extratemporal Anomaly; Galactic Hegemony of Associated Commerce and Trade, Lithis Falls Pass, U-U Card + +#G + +[[Galactic Hegemony of Associated Commerce and Trade]] +cites: Cataphract, Golgori Sovereign Empire; Mizar-5, Vultraum Sector +cited by: Eldest Son, Full Access; Industrial Ascendency + +[[Golgori Sovereign Empire]] +cited by: Cataphract, Denmortia Rainlands, Derivative Starchart, Descent of the New Moon, Galactic Hegemony of Associated Commerce and Trade, Golgori Standard Cube, Great Chill; Haw-EN2525, Industrial Ascendency + +[[Golgori Standard Cube]] +cites: Golgori Sovereign Empire; Phylidium, Universal Credit System +cited by: Industrial Ascendency + +[[Gondar-2]] +cites: Archipelago of the Damned, Candaxx Loop; Regina Apiana, Rho-HY472, Varix Jhothar, Varphorium +cited by: Archipelago of the Damned, Candaxx Loop + +[[Great Chill, the]] +cites: Atemporal Anomaly, Denmortia Rainlands, Golgori Sovereign Empire; Mizar-5, Quantum Compression Apparatus (QCA), Stasis Tourism, Sulfur Bankruptcy, ve Kenton Family +cited by: Balefyre Engine + +#H + +[[Haw-EN2525]] +cites: Derivative Starchart, Golgori Sovereign Empire; Manuscript Collection #47b, Mizar-5, Traitor's Ridge +cited by: B-Time + +[[Heimhallif]] +cited by: Balefyre Engine + +[[Hess Drive]] +cites: Atemporal Anomaly, Deljin Reactor Meltdown; Incandescent Temporeactor, Kester City, Kilt'iir, Psychic Attunement, Sanity Certification, Second Destruction of the Golgori Library. Universe-Universe Binary Interaction, Vvvelll Auto-genocide, ZZ-level + +[[History Paradox]] +cited by: Blinking Cow Rumor + +#I + +[[Incandescent Temporeactor]] +cited by: Caduceus Expedition, Elector-Prince Rzeszutko, Freethinkers' Synod, Hess Drive + +[[Industrial Ascendency]] +cites: Aldebaranians, Galactic Hegemony of Associated Commerce and Trade, Golgori Sovereign Empire, Golgori Standard Cube; Nemarii Obelisk, New Golgori Rebellion, Orianian Wasteland, Regina Apiana, Revisionist Period, Rotorastrianism, Web-Weaver +cited by: Endless Fabric + +[[Institute for Psykologikal Masterie]] +cited by: Descent of the New Moon + +[[Ionzhi Calendar]] +cited by: Curators Bane, Freethinkers' Synod + +#J-K + +[[Kester City]] +cited by: Deljin Reactor Meltdown, Hess Drive + +[[K'ghani Trail]] +cited by: Causeways of the Caravaneers + +[[Kilt'iir]] +cited by: Derivative Starchart, Hess Drive + +#L + +[[Law of Finders Keepers]] +cited by: Fengu-Golgori Convention of 2452 + +[[Lillux Colossus]] +cited by: Extratemporal Anomalies + +[[Lithis Falls Pass]] +cited by: Causeways of the Caravaneers, Full Access + +[[Long-Necked Gh'dol]] +cited by: Boltrus Incident, Floramateria + +[[Loping Doge, The]] +cited by: Eloping Dog + +#M + +[[Manuscript Collection #47b]] +cited by: Haw-EN2525 + +[[Mizar-4]] +cited by: Candaxx Loop, Floramateria, Derivative Starchart + +[[Mizar-5]] +cited by: Cataphract, Denmortia Rainlands, Derivative Starchart, Descent of the New Moon, Eloping Dog, Floramateria, Galactic Hegemony of Associated Commerce and Trade, Great Chill, Haw-EN2525 + +#N + +[[Nemarii Obelisk]] +cited by: Derivative Starchart, Industrial Ascendency + +[[New Golgori Rebellion]] +cited by: Denmortia Rainlands, Descent of the New Moon, Industrial Ascendency + +#O + +[[Oedeon]] +cited by: Descent of the New Moon + +[[Orianian Wasteland, The]] +cited by: Bentways, Deljin Reactor Meltdown, Derivative Starchart, Industrial Ascendency + +#P + +[[Phylidium]] +cited by: Golgori Standard Cube + +[[Principality of Ionzh]] +cited by: An Ionzhi Gazeetter, Blinking Cow Rumor, Elector-Prince Rzeszutko, Freethinkers' Synod + +[[Psychic Attunement]] +cited by: Aldebaranians, Cataphract, Forbidden Room, Hess Drive + +[[Public Relations]] +cited by: Delay-Deny-Accept + +#Q-R + +[[Quantum Compression Apparatus (QCA)]] +cited by: Atemporal Anomaly, Caduceus Expedition, Great Chill + +[[Regina Apiana]] +cited by: B-Time, Caduceus Expedition, Gondar-2, Industrial Ascendency + +[[Revisionist Period]] +cited by: Elector-Prince Rzeszutko, Industrial Ascendency + +[[Rho-HY472]] +cited by: Archipelago of the Damned, Floramateria, Gondar-2 + +[[Rotorastrianism]] +cited by: Boltrus Incident, Descent of the New Moon, Elector-Prince Rzeszutko, Floramateria, Industrial Ascendency + +#S + +[[Sanity Certification]] +cited by: Artifact Access Control, Forbidden Room, Hess Drive + +[[Second Destruction of the Golgori Library]] +cited by: Blinking Cow Rumor, Hess Drive + +[[Smotherer of Light, the]] +cited by: Curators Bane + +[[Stasis Tourism]] +cited by: Delay-Deny-Accept, Great Chill + +[[Sulfur Bankruptcy]] +cited by: Great Chill + +#T + +[[Theory of Forgotten Sin]] +cited by: Floramateria + +[[Traitor's Ridge]] +cited by: Causeways of the Caravaneers, Elector-Prince Rzeszutko, Haw-EN2525 + +[[True Ionzhi Republic]] +cited by: Freethinkers' Synod + +[[Turban of God]] +cited by: Candaxx Loop + +#U + +[[Unit Star]] +cited by: Floramateria + +[[Universal Credit System]] +cited by: Golgori Standard Cube + +[[Universe-Universe Binary Interaction]] +cited by: Extratemporal Anomalies, Hess Drive + +[[Uriath Xers, XPh.]] +cited by: Caduceus Expedition + +[[U-U Card]] +cited by: Full Access + +#V + +[[Varix Jhothar]] +cited by: Archipelago of the Damned, Descent of the New Moon + +[[Varphorium]] +cited by: Endless Fabric, Gondar-2 + +[[ve Kenton Family]] +cited by: Great Chill + +[[Vultraum Sector]] +cited by: Galactic Hegemony of Associated Commerce and Trade + +[[Vvvelll Auto-genocide]] +cited by: Hess Drive + +#W + +[[Wax-Witch]] +cited by: Elector-Prince Rzeszutko, Eldest Son + +[[Webway of Faces]] +cited by: Aldebaranians + +[[Web-Weaver]] +cited by: Industrial Ascendency + +#Y-Z + +[[Yozt Belt Skirmish]] +cited by: Archipelago of the Damned + +[[Zan-Taranth]] +cited by: Boltrus Incident, Descent of the New Moon, Elector-Prince Rzeszutko, Floramateria + +[[ZZ-level]] +cited by: Hess Drive \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Curators Bane.md b/archive/lexicon1/Curators Bane.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..86901d3 --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Curators Bane.md @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Curator's Bane + +Archived Object #335, also called Curators Bane, is a weathered and slightly stained issue of [[An Ionzhi Gazetter]] printed in 5197 of the [[Ionzhi Calender]]. While appearing to be a standard piece of informative literature at discovery, it has proven to be a pain to draw reliable information from its contents or even keep it correctly filed away, due to it's apparently innate ability to shift between realtime, [[B-Time]], as well as other potentially fictional timestreams and realities. These changes are irregular and change the content, Author and even language used within the object, while date and issue number appear to remain the same (or at least approximately, when the measurements of time or numerations work differently in the handbook's current reality. +The resulting impossability to correcty order and file this object in relation to other findings and reports have given the artifact the title 'Curator's Bane' + +Its most facinating realities in which it returns show a version of Mizar-5 that is a lush tropical jungleword inhabited by a doomsday-cult worshipping, warped version of the Golgari civilisation as we know it. This cult preaches the coming of a higher being called 'The Smotherer of Light' (--> [[Smotherer of Light, the]]) that will devour the sun's radiance unless kept at bay through worship and ritualistic sacrifice. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Delay-Deny-Accept.md b/archive/lexicon1/Delay-Deny-Accept.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8ea5780 --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Delay-Deny-Accept.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +In daily entry criteria to Mizar-5, 2583-39-4, the following erratums are present: + + - Under **GENERAL** + - **1.1.8.5** "visitors to Mizar-5 must have a valid visa to set foot on the planet, SHOULD read "land spacecraft on the planet". + - Under **DENY** + - **2.5.1** Presence of an existing visitor with identical genetics (clone, spore, twin sibling, etc), does not include the presence of a time-traveling version of the same vistor. + - **7.5.9** Tourism is a valid reason for travel, but [[Stasis Tourism]] should be denied by Board policy. + - Under **DELAY** + - **18.0** Proof of citizenship in a pan-galactic *entity* other than a planet is also accepted + - **24.6** [[B-Time]] visitors will allowed entry (indeed, given sole access), after cross-temporal event 394850c, and should be delayed until any point in their timeline after that event. A-Time visitors will lose access at this point, so we cannot schedule D-Time and G-Time access. Please direct D-Time visitors to speak with [[B-Time]] administration to learn when they will have access. + - Under **ACCEPT** + - **4.5.4.4.4**: Returning visitors includes returning tourists + - Additional note: Please redirect reporters or media inquiries to the [[Public Relations]] Department without talking to the individual further. + +*Update to daily entry criteria to Mizar-5, 2583-39-4, Increase Tourism Now Subcommittee* diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Deljin Reactor Meltdown, The.md b/archive/lexicon1/Deljin Reactor Meltdown, The.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b5f1ee2 --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Deljin Reactor Meltdown, The.md @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +The Deljin Reactor Meltdown was a catastrophic event that occurred on ESDTF October 22, 3647, at 4:27 PM. The incident claimed the lives of many of the plant workers in [[Kester City]], along with several bystanders in the surrounding area. This event is what most believe ultimately caused the remaining citizens to finally abandon the city to the [[Orianian Wasteland]]. + +According to survivor accounts, the meltdown began shortly before the second shift turnover, just as plant operators were finalizing logs to hand off to the next shift. There had been nominal fluctuations in the pressure and temperature readings that afternoon, but nothing that the technicians believed was any cause for concern. By the start of the second shift, the technicians discovered that temperatures had already risen beyond safe levels, and ordered an immediate evacuation of the plant. Thirteen minutes later, before the plant had been fully evacuated, the coolant system ruptured, and the resulting explosion caused a massive deposition of fissile material. + +The root cause of the meltdown was attributed to several small but crucial design flaws in the cooling system held over from the more basic construction methods and materials of the later [[Balefyre Engine]]s upon which the reactor was based. Particularly, it is observed that the majority of these flaws revolved around the manual operation of several aspects of the coolant pump system, which rendered the poison rods and failsafe shutdown measures ineffective, and allowed a positive feedback loop to raise temperatures beyond safe levels. Later iterations of reactor design, including the [[Incandescent Temporeactor]], would include elements that could automatically stabilize temperatures under similar conditions, drastically reducing the risk of another meltdown in this fashion. + +-Ken + diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Denmortia Rainlands.md b/archive/lexicon1/Denmortia Rainlands.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c7ed57d --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Denmortia Rainlands.md @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Denmortia Rainlands + +Wide-stretching biome covering most of the equatorial landmass on [[Mizar-5]]. The year-around heat, combined with gathering clouds from the nearby oceans on both sides lead to an incredibly heavy and humid air that turns to gushing periods of rainfall numerous times almost every day of the year. The ground is heavily eroded, and the flora and fauna that inhabits this foggy marshland had to adapt heavily to survive a constant shortage of dry land, changing streams and waterlogged soil. Mangrove trees dominate the region, with wading birds, amphibians, insects and fish of all sizes thriving in this near untouched piece of nature. + +The lack of easily accessable ressources, habitable space for settlments and transportation as well as the high number of poisonous or disease-transmitting plants and animals lead to a severe lack of colonisation by the [[Golgori Sovereign Empire]] or any other developed nation, although documents suggest that it may have been declared as a restricted military testing site for at least a few decades, evident through the crashed [[Cataphract]] hanging above its murky waters as well as a number of explosion craters. Small abandoned campsites with propaganda flyers, ammunition and reverse-engineered technology also point to several cells of the [[New Golgari Rebellion]] using the hostile terrain as their hideout. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Derivative Starchart.md b/archive/lexicon1/Derivative Starchart.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f5b56fb --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Derivative Starchart.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +##Derivative Starchart: + +Derivative starcharts are a series of relics discovered on both [Mizar-5](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Mizar-5) and [Mizar-4](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Mizar-4). They have a distinct pattern which aligns with many of the nearby stellar regions, accurate to relative distance and size. The areas within which they have been found include, the preserved [cataphract](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Cataphract) in the [Denmortia Rainlands](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Denmortia%20Rainlands), as well as several other large vessels that have been wrecked in various areas of the [Orianian Wasteland](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Orianian%20Wasteland,%20The), they have also been found in several [Aldebaranian](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Aldebaranians,%20The) ruins, as well as on the [Nemarii Obelisk](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Nemarii%20Obelisk) on Mizar-4. These relics are incredibly detailed, especially those found in the remains of the [Golgori Sovereign Empire](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Golgori%20Sovereign%20Empire), as those map all the way out until the beginning of the [Archipelago of the Damned](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Archipelago%20of%20the%20Damned). + +Though these relics seem to have been first developed by the Aldebaranians, the advancement of their use over time, the relatively primitive method by which those found in later cataphracts were created, and several Aldebaranian texts discovered in [Atemporal Anomaly](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Atemporal%20Anomaly) AA-6674 in fact point that the starcharts we have been able to find are merely a derivative of a much more advanced work, one we have yet to discover. It is widely believed that the [Kilt'iir](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Kilt'iir,%20The), a now extinct race whose territory formerly included the Mizar system, was responsible for this uplifting, however, as their records on this matter have been lost it is difficult to confirm. + +*Exerpt from "Mizar-5 Technology, the Universal Picture," by T'iXath Reah'cha, XPh.* \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Descent of the New Moon, The.md b/archive/lexicon1/Descent of the New Moon, The.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6e92c56 --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Descent of the New Moon, The.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +The Descent of the New Moon was an event in Golgori year ⅟↋↊↋ↈ (RODS 456abc), subject to much debate over what the event was. As far as it is understood today, a small celestial object, most likely a moon or large meteor, appeared in the night sky over [[Oedeon]], the capital of the [[Golgori Sovereign Empire]]. How the object traveled or appeared there is not understood, but it slowly fell towards the surface of [[Mizar-5]], impacting near dawn. The urban center and surrounding suburbs were completely obliterated, turned into glass or ash. + +Various theories from elements on Mizar-5 have been proposed, none of them conclusive, but I shall list them here for the Order’s sake. + +1. Divine punishment from [[Zan-Taranth]], for their impiety. This is unconvincing, as Oedeon was home to the largest population of [Rotorastianites](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Rotorastrianism) in the Empire +2. Divine punishment from an entity other than Zan-Taranth, for their impiety. Proposed by some of the banned cults of the [[New Golgori Rebellion]]. Unlikely, for the above reasons. +3. Caused by elements at the [[Institute for Psykologikal Masterie]], for it was relatively unscathed, the foundations of the building still standing in a landscape of glass. No known psychic has been shown to be able to summon celestial objects. +4. Research Station 6 claimed to have picked up the radio tags of [[Varix Jhothar]]’s flagship *The Painted Bird* moments before the object appeared, which has led some to believe that the infamous captain lived and then proceeded to crash his ship into Mizar-5. + +The only known non-Mizarian observance of the event was from a passing scrapper caravan in the [[Archipelago of the Damned]], which tried to sell to me corrupted and otherwise unusable logs from their spectroscopes, claiming their instruments picked up light from the impact. The lack of reliable neutral confirmation of the event has led to a wide increase in belief of [[Extratemporal Anomalies]]. + +-Selii Niramaned, QW-d-PK, MLS, @ diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Eldest Son.md b/archive/lexicon1/Eldest Son.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1925916 --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Eldest Son.md @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Eldest Son is a contemporary retro-electropunk band that was formed in ESTDF June 6th, 6122. The band's music uses digitized instrumentals and vocals alongside analog brass and percussion instruments similar to those used in imperial ceremony to produce a sound described as "flavorfully historic, yet unambiguously modern in its chaotic signatures and stylized synth." The band derives its name and a portion of its imagery directly from [[Elector-Prince Rzeszutko]], regarding the Empire's use of the mythology of the [[Wax Witch]] to cement the rule of the Rzeszutko dynasty. The band claims to take direct inspiration from the destruction of the cosmos prophesized by Rzeszutko, and that "...the entropic energy produced by the instruments of the apocalypse ushers in the inevitable end of the universe, culminating in a new era of divine primordial creation." + +Although the group has performed dozens of times on multiple planets, the band has managed to keep the identity of its members a closely guarded secret, although some have theorized that like their namesake, the band's members are each multiple different people, rotating regularly to keep the sound fresh and ensure no two albums are alike. The group has found unusual popularity in the [[Candaxx Loop]], owing somewhat to the route's ties to history and the band's persona. However, it also remains a cornerstone of electropunk culture in the area primarily because the band is one of the few that still releases their music on physical media, making it easier to acquire the music without needing to pass purchases through the [[Galactic Hegemony of Associated Commerce and Trade]]. + +-Ken \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Elector-Prince Rzeszutko.md b/archive/lexicon1/Elector-Prince Rzeszutko.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..77b1d6a --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Elector-Prince Rzeszutko.md @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Mionzha Rzes (5206-5289, Real Ordinal Date Standard 45541f-45624) was born in uncertain circumstances to a small village outside historical Hondif in the [[Principality of Ionzh]]. + +He was elected the 18th Elector-Prince-For-Life of Ionzh in 5240 (RODS 45576a), adopting the honorific name Ponzuknari (Dawning Sun). His first few years of rule reformed the lax system of laws, raising taxes and imposing far harsher legal penalties. Between his personal charisma and scholarly reputation, significant resulting economic boosts, and the removal of several well-known corrupt politicians, his reforms were if not met with approval at least accepted without major complaint. + +Two years into his rule, he started to become increasingly obsessed with a splinter sect of [[Rotorastianism]] focusing on ritual purity, indeed changing his honorific to Rzeszutko (Ritual Purity). He went into retreat in the Bentways (see [[Bentways, the]]) for a year, bathing dozens of times a day and by his own later account, spending every hour in study of fringe religious and scholarly texts. Finally he re-appeared, reporting a prophetic vision from [[Zan-Taranth]] that the Ionzhians were the Chosen People, but an unpreventable, cosmos-destroying disaster would come in eight thousand years. His attempts to prevent the disaster are well-documented as the [[Revisionist Period]]. He was in poor health for the second half of his reign, after his speech at [[Traitor's Ridge]]. + +After his death in the [[Incandescent Temporeactor]], his son took on the name and public identity of Elector-Prince Rzeszutko, under the fiction that Rzeszutko was a [[Wax-Witch]], an immortal mythological being which is reformed after its apparent death. By this means, the Rzeszutko dynasty continued for hundreds of years without the risk of popular election. + +*Excerpt from "The legal status of the present-day Rzeszutko Compound", Mizar-5 Diplomatic Corp* \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Eloping Dog.md b/archive/lexicon1/Eloping Dog.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4f3655c --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Eloping Dog.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +*Not be confused with the ship [The Loping Doge](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Loping%20Doge,%20The).* + +An Eloping Dog is a species of canine-analogous vertebrates, native to [[Mizar-5]]. They were originally tamed by [Aldebaranians](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Aldebaranians,%20The) as hunting companions, but most of the population died to the [[Floramateria]] with their masters. A small number survived, and were kept as novelty pets for rich members of society, and their population rose. In Ionzhi year 5333 (RODS 456333) during [[Elector-Prince Rzeszutko]]’s reign, a mass slaughter of the Eloping Dogs was carried out, allegedly because one vomited on the Elector-Prince. A small number were hidden by Research Station 6, and shipped offworld. Today, their number has risen to pre-massacre numbers, largely due to the efforts of the Mizar-4 Kennel Association. + +The animal is named as such because of its peculiar behavior. At least once a fortnight (Mizar-5 time), the Eloping Dogs escape by unknown means during the night (local time). Each Dog in a roughly 50 kilometer area meets up in a location roughly in between all of them, where they sit together for the night, before they return to their original location by morning. This has shown to happen between Dogs that have no idea of each other’s existence. It is unknown by what means their transportation occurs, but a clue may be found in temporal sciences, as a Dog will lie down and become unresponsive if brought into an [[Atemporal Anomaly]]. They will stay in this position until they are brought outside or die. + +-Selii Niramaned Wq, OI, RU diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Endless Fabric.md b/archive/lexicon1/Endless Fabric.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b3778de --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Endless Fabric.md @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Endless Fabric + +Traditional Golgori weaving tradition, in which the entire piece of clothing or other fabric-based product is made by a single thread, who's ends are intertwined at the completion of the work process, thereby completing an endless loop of fabric. Due to the intense manual labour and skill neccecary for this technique, the number of weavers still practising the art of Endless Fabric decreased drastically after the [[Industrial Ascendency]], as it cannot be reproduced via mechanised work. Teachings of this artform must have been purely through oral tradition as there are no written records speaking about the technical know-how that have been found to date. Experimental Archaeology has yet to recreate this unique weaving technique, an issue not helped by the severe restrictions of [[Artifact Access Control]]. + +Endless Fabric has been found in various artifacts made from plant fiber, animal hair, synthetic string and metal wire, and even hardened [[Varphorium]]. diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Extratemporal Anomalies.md b/archive/lexicon1/Extratemporal Anomalies.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c055eb3 --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Extratemporal Anomalies.md @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +##Extratemporal Anomalies: + +Extratemporal anomalies are a phenomenon that is, unlike what many believe, a very real occurrence in our universe. Though they do not take the form of such outlandish things as the famous system legend of the [Blinking Cow](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Blinking%20Cow%20Rumor), there have been scientifically documented reports of [Universe-Universe Binary Interactions](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Universe-Universe%20Binary%20Interaction) leading to phenomena that can result in objects entering or leaving the timestream unnaturally. There have been several examples of these anomalies throughout the star system, however, the one that is most relevant to this text is the [Lillux Colossus](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Lillux%20Colossus), a silicon based lifeform seemingly unaffected by the alterations of timeflow within [Atemporal Anomaly](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Atemporal%20Anomaly) AA-5542 (in the underground [Denmortia Rainlands](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Denmortia%20Rainlands). Energy readings from the period within which the anomaly was formed (from within the stasis zone) report that there was a universe-universe interaction along the J-254 fractal seam at this location, causing a partial temporal transmission of an object, in this case, the life seed of a silicon based life form. The temporal signature of the Lillux Colossus seems to have been scrambled in its transmission, leading to an object still affected by its alternate universe's temporal position as long as it remains within AA-5542, though when it leaves, our time stream seems to reject it, leading to rapid oxidization and death for any part of the being brought outside.' + +The general nature of extratemporal anomalies is not well understood, and thus most are discouraged from believing in them. Rumors such as the aforementioned Blinking Cow have a negative effect on research, as they can lead to a great deal of wasted effort and useless data. Thus, it is important that civilians be advised as to the truth of the nature of these anomalies, so they can help identify true cases from false. + +*Exerpt from "The Universal Implications of the Phenomena of Mizar-5," by T'iXath Reah'cha, XPh.* + + + diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Fengu-Golgari Convention of 2452.md b/archive/lexicon1/Fengu-Golgari Convention of 2452.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9361c57 --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Fengu-Golgari Convention of 2452.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Fengu-Golgari Convention of 2452 + +The Fengu-Golgari Convention of 2452 is a set of intra-galactic rules and guidelines regulating the handling of xeno cultural heritage, to counteract the smuggling trade of artifacts along the edges of the [[Archipelago of the Damned]] and ease military tensions between galactic powers claiming successor rights on neutral planets and systems. It includes regulations on the exchange of cultural artifacts, limits the extraction of artifacts of active Xeno cultures as well as strict rules about [[Artifact Access Control]]. The Fengu-Colgari Convention has since replaced the problematic and now defunct [[Law of Finders Keepers]] that preceeded it. + + + + diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Floramateria.md b/archive/lexicon1/Floramateria.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ad9e986 --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Floramateria.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Floramateria is the name given to an entire phyla of species in the Mizar star system. The species are characteristically brightly colored (blue to ultraviolet) and shift rapidly in color, triggering a hypnotic effect on some species of tourist. Florameteria spread aggressively, and consume or parasitize other species. Exposure is fatal to humans, and life-threatening in most species. Floramateria send out clouds of reproductive spores which tolerate vacuum, cold down to absolute zero, and resist oxidative processes. + +Three theories have been advanced as to the origin of Floramateria, all uncompelling: + +1. Genetic similarity to certain species in [[Rho-HY472]], combined with cold and vaccum resistance +, suggest possible travel. The appearance of Florameteria on Mizar-5 corresponds with the appearance of a +meteor (the "[[Unit Star]]") which could have brought spores from Rho-HY472. This explanation is unlikely- +-meteor appearances are common, genetic matches vaguely suggestive more than identical, and no tracked met +eors traveled between those two points at the appropriate time. +2. As a divine plague sent to destroy any spriritual successors to [[Zan-Taranth]], depending on the [[Rotorastianism]] sect either by a jealous [[Zan-Taranth]] herself or by the Vanguard of Darkness attempting to prevent its own destruction and corrupt the hearts of personkind. Questions of miracles aside, the rise of Floramateria seems to predate the widespread adoption of [[Rotorastianism]] on [[Mizar-5]] itself, and this explanation seems to have been instead added later by revisionist scholars on [[Mizar-4]] instead to conform to the [[Theory of Forgotten Sin]]. +3. Co-evolving (as with lichen) with the rust mite, a species parasitic to the [[Long-Necked Gh'dol]]. While Floramateria are well-evolved to prey on the Gh'dol (both short- and long-necked), they would des +troy the population in short order--too short to allow evolutionary steps to parasitize on other species. + +*See Don't Touch: A Friendly Guide to the Bentways. A pamphlet found in a Mizar-5 history museum* \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Forbidden Room, The.md b/archive/lexicon1/Forbidden Room, The.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9bb0bb0 --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Forbidden Room, The.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +The Forbidden Room, the location of which is closely guarded by the IntraGalactic Astronomy Review Board, serves as a repository for all artifacts deemed too dangerous for standard access as prescribed via [[Artifact Access Control]]. The following stipulations exist for access should a member wish to study one of these artifacts: + +- Form RSA-743 must be filled out in triplicate and submitted to the review board thirty (30) days in advance of any requested access. +- Access is to be limited to no more than one (1) hour per twenty-four (24) hour period, for no more than five (5) successive periods. +- If and when access is granted, the member and accompanying persons will be prohibited from accessing any artifacts relegated to the Forbidden Room for up to sixty (60) days after the last access period. +- The member and any accompanying persons are required to have current Class-B or above [[Sanity Certification]]. Class-C and/or Class-D certification may be required for specific artifacts, at the board's discretion. +- Members with [[Psychic Attunement]] capabilities or suspected of psychic sensitivity are prohibited from accessing any part of the Forbidden Room. +- The artifact is not to be removed from the viewing room - any equipment used to examine or test artifacts must be listed on the form and vetted by the review board to be brought onsite. +- No equipment may be used to copy, photograph or record any part of an artifact. Any and all transcriptions must be handwritten by the member or an accompanying scribe. +- Access may be denied at any time prior to or during the request period, for any reason, at the discretion of the review board. The review board is encouraged to revoke access immediately if the member begins to show signs of instability. +- Should the member refuse to leave once access is revoked or expired, or attempt to verify the location of the Forbidden Room, the board is authorized to deploy lethal force to secure the Forbidden Room and relegated artifacts. + +Any questions or comments on the above regulations can be directed to the IntraGalactic Astronomy Helpdesk, either in person or via telemail at serial 3HVB-29Y-47XK0. + +-Ken \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Freethinkers' Synod, The.md b/archive/lexicon1/Freethinkers' Synod, The.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5ac38a8 --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Freethinkers' Synod, The.md @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +##Freethinkers' Synod, The: + +The Freethinkers' Synod was a sizable organization created in the latter years of the [True Ionzhi Republic](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/True%20Ionzhi%20Republic), which ruled the [Principality of Ionzh](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Principality%20of%20Ionzh) for the first 400 cycles of the [Ionzhi Calendar](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Ionzhi%20Calendar). As governmental corruption had begun to spread in the Principality, many of the more politically involved laypeople became concerned with the state of the government. In particular, [Werlact Julane](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Werlact%20Julane), who created the [An Ionzhi Gazetteer](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/An%20Ionzhi%20Gazeetter) in order to combat this political instability. The Gazetteer was created by the use of a network of informants, gathering information from around Ionzh, who were named after the third edition mentioned a group of "Free Thinking Activists" in its editor's note. This was, over time, shortened to the Freethinker's Synod. + +The Synod continued to produce the Gazetteer until the rise of [Elector-Prince Rzeszutko](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Elector-Prince%20Rzeszutko), who felt threatened by the Gazetteer's expose of his illicit dealings and corruption of the Republic's systems in order to gain his seat. Many of the Synod's members, including Julane, were executed during the production of their final issue, [Causeways of the Caravaneers](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Causeways%20of%20the%20Caravaneers), however, a small group continued to be active throughout Rzeszutko's reign, eventually escaping the Principality upon their final safehouse falling victim to its own [Incandescent Temporeactor](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Incandescent%20Temporeactor). + + +*Exerpt from "Rise, Fall, and Rise Again - The Story of the True Ionzhi Republic," by T'iXath Reah'cha, XPh.* + + diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Full Access.md b/archive/lexicon1/Full Access.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9565573 --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Full Access.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +This memo has been forwarded to me by a source in the [[Galactic Hegemony of Associated Commerce and Trade]]. Their identity will remain anonymous. + +Addendum to yearly entry criteria to Mizar-5, 2580: + +Under **GENERAL** + - **0.1.1** Visitors with a [[U-U Card]] should be rerouted to the [[Lithis Falls Pass]] landing station, and be treated with all respect. They are to be given Full Access to all areas and subareas. + +Under **DELAY** + - **2.3.5** Visitors with a V-V Card (note: V-V, not U-U) are to be considered an [Extratemporal Anomalous](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Extratemporal%20Anomalies) being, and reported to your immediate supervisor. Do NOT come into contact with them. Do NOT accept any gifts. + +-Selii Niramaned Z-C, MNA, P; diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Galactic Hegemony of Associated Commerce and Trade.md b/archive/lexicon1/Galactic Hegemony of Associated Commerce and Trade.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8c8a9cf --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Galactic Hegemony of Associated Commerce and Trade.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +The Galactic Hegemony of Associated Commerce and Trade (or GHACT) is a interstellar megacooperation holding a great number of pre-FTL species under their political and economic dominion. Starting out as a galactic shipping company, their rise to power began with their monopoly on commercial interstellar travel in the [[Vultraum Sector]]. While this monopoly has since then losened, they still hold majority shares in their vassal states governments and full control over their off-planet in- and exports. +Remains of GHACT packaging have been found on [[Mizar-5]], their spokesperson refused clarification if their company used this off-limit planet for commerce or merely as waste dump, but the visual similarities between outdated GHACT automated shipping vessels and the [[Golgori Sovereign Empire]]'s [[Cataphract]] project suggest that the technological and cultural development of the planet has been influenced from outside sources, be it intentional or not. + +Investigation on a potential responsability of the company to the native populations extinction is still ongoing. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Golgori Sovereign Empire.md b/archive/lexicon1/Golgori Sovereign Empire.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f610aba --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Golgori Sovereign Empire.md @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +##Golgori Sovereign Empire + +The Golgori Sovereign Empire was the largest, and most recent, civilization present on [Mizar-5](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Mizar-5), which came about approximately 1400 cycles after the fracturing of the [Principality of Ionzh](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Principality%20of%20Ionzh). The Empire's reach stretched over most of the habitable land on Mizar-5, and even began to stretch into the less habitable southern regions and the [Denmortia Rainlands](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Denmortia%20Rainlands). They are noteworthy for, based on the preserved [Cataphract](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Cataphract) found in the Rainlands, being the first of Mizar-5's civilization to develop vessels capable of interplanetary travel, though there is no evidence that any ever escaped Mizar-5's upper atmosphere. + +The Golgori started off as a group of traders, originally, and by utilizing the [Golgori Standard Cube](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Golgori%20Standard%20Cube) as their main form of currency, quickly became the dominant economic force in the [New Hinterland Peninsula](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/New%20Hinterland%20Peninsula), their place of origin. Cities sprung up around their trading posts, centered around the future Golgori capital, [Oedeon](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Oedeon). Though this empire enjoyed a long term of relative peace, as its creation was economic instead of a conquest, the [Rotorastrians](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Rotorastrianism) and the [New Golgori Rebellion](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/New%20Golgori%20Rebellion) both grew in the shadows of the empire, their threat peaking after the [Descent of the New Moon](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Descent%20of%20the%20New%20Moon,%20The), the aftermath of which lead to the [Manifold Battle](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Manifold%20Battle,%20The), which is widely believed to be the cause of the massive [Atemporal Anomaly](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Atemporal%20Anomaly) over the Denmortia Rainlands, and the [Great Chill](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Great%20Chill,%20the), which drove many of the Golgori south. + +Remnants of the Golgori Sovereign Empire remain for another 300 cycles, after which it is surmised that they were finished off by [Sulfur Bankruptcy](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Sulfur%20Bankruptcy). + +*Exerpt from "Disasters on Mizar-5 - Causes and Manifestations of Empire Collapse Phenomena," by T'iXath Reah'cha, XPh.* \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Golgori Standard Cube.md b/archive/lexicon1/Golgori Standard Cube.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f3930b3 --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Golgori Standard Cube.md @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +The Golgori Standard Cube was the standardized currency unit used in trade across the [[Golgari Sovereign Empire]]. The value of the currency fluctuated moderately depending on local economic conditions, but at the height of the empire, one Cube had an approximate worth of $10.42, accounting for inflation. A Cube, composed of approximately 4.72g of compressed [[Phylidium]], found rapid adoption as a measure of currency largely owing to the inconvenience of needing a scale to verify the amount of powdered Phylidium in more remote locations across the Empire - Traders found counting out a handful of cubes for smaller transactions easier, and somewhat larger trades could still be conducted quickly with the same scales used for powdered Phylidium. + +Though more convenient, the mass of individual cubes in exceedingly large deals quickly became a burden. Many found it easier to issue bonds with a claim for hundreds, thousands, or even millions of cubes, eventually leading to the development of a centralized bank that could send and receive updated totals within hours or even minutes of deposit or withdrawal. This would be the precursor to the [[Universal Credit System]] that would gain widespread adoption across the galaxy to its use in present day. + +-Ken + diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Gondar-2.md b/archive/lexicon1/Gondar-2.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ea1c7c4 --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Gondar-2.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Gondar-2 is a life-supporting telluric planet in the [[Rho-HY472]] system. The flora of Gondar-2 have long been cataloged by xenobiologists and xenomusicians alike, as the cacti-like plants that flourish on the planet are highly sought after for their unique properties. The 2002 identified species all make a unique sound, quite unlike anything else, if struck, strung, or vibrated. Because of this, they fetch a high price for musicians looking for a new sound, or a scientist looking for something to spice up the lab. + +No fauna are known to exist on Gondar-2, although [[Varix Jhothar]]’s last communique describes his crew being killed with a substance similar to [[Regina Apiana]] cytotoxin by native fauna. This, combined with a long history of unexplained ship disappearances in the [[Archipelago of the Damned]], has resulted in a popular conception of Gondar-2 as cursed. + +Gondar-2 is a popular stop on the [[Candaxx Loop]], if merchants are brave enough, to harvest the cacti and [[Varphorium]] on the planet. + +-Selii Niramaned PLM, QAZ, R diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Great Chill, the.md b/archive/lexicon1/Great Chill, the.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..eb00b9f --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Great Chill, the.md @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +The Great Chill, or the Very Large Weather Shift was a massive climate shift in [[Mizar-5]] shortly before the collapse of the Golgori. The entire planet became much colder, making the northern half unlivably cold, the equator below freezing, and the southern third of the planet barely habitable. + +Because the [[Golgari Soverign Empire]] had never settled the previously unhabitably southern third, they turned to artifical heating methods instead, depleting the local ecosphere. Ultimately the empire collapse +d due to [[Sulfur Bankruptcy]]. + +Pre-chill climate can be seen several places on Mizar-5, most famously in the lush [[Denmortia Rainlands]]. Lost or desperate travellers sometimes seek refuge in an [[Atemporal Anomaly]]. Famously the Orison Exploratory Mission ended at the border of the Denmortia Rainlands, half of the party stuck in the border, half frozen to death only feet away. More forgotten, the Reknak Party deperately attempted to enter the Halfway Point Anamoly despite knowing better. The Halfway Point safety scandal increased [[Quantum Compression Apparatus (QCA)]] adoption, but also popularized [[Stasis Tourism]]. + +*excerpt from "Is Your QCA Charged?: How Halfway Got Us All the Way" by Sid "Rogers" ve Kenton (see [[ve Kenton Family]]), Mizar-5 history museum* diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Half-Hearted Sarcophagus.md b/archive/lexicon1/Half-Hearted Sarcophagus.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d767088 --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Half-Hearted Sarcophagus.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +The H'dell Coffin, popularly known as the Half-Hearted Sarcophagus, is an Extratemporal Anomaly (see [[Extratemporal Anomalies]]) discovered on Mizar-5. The Coffin is a bronze burial device dating from the early [[Web-Weaver]] period, depicting the internal organs and bone structure of a web weaver. It was flagged as worthy of further study by biologists, who had not yet found intact living Web-Weaver specimens. + +On investigation, some organs appeared missing, but scientists disagreed over which ones. Comparing notes, + it became clear that some carved organs were present in A-Time, others in [[B-Time]]. The Coffin does not + change properties when moved. + +Construction of a multi-timeline object would have been as far beyond bronze-age Web-Weaver technology as it is beyond our own today. Speculation that the Coffin was deliberately carved to only be visible to some kind of living Extratemporal Anomaly is unfounded, and it is more likely the result of a random [[Universe-Universe Binary Interaction]]. diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Haw-EN2525.md b/archive/lexicon1/Haw-EN2525.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0cd003e --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Haw-EN2525.md @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Haw-EN2525 (Stellar Object) + +Haw-EN2525 is a quinary star system that is 3.2 light years away from the Mizar system. It holds no habitable planets, two gas giants and an thick asteroid belt directly within the goldilock zone of its circling star cluster, which might once have been a planet. Due to its intense light output and relatively close proximity, its presence shows in many [[Derivative Starchart]]s on [[Mizar-5]], where it is named the Bright Wanderer due to the planets rotational axis. + +While there is no direct proof of any culture on the planet tying this (from their perspective) unparallelled bright stellar object in the night sky, during the time of the [[Golgori Sovereign Empire]] there are at least 17 different plays, musicals and movies either depicting a personified Bright Wanderer or bearing its astronomical symbol as a Leitmotiv, as shown in the [[Manuscript Collection 47b]] found and left in sito at [[Traitor's Ridge]] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Hess Drive.md b/archive/lexicon1/Hess Drive.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fc80973 --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Hess Drive.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +The Hess Drive was a [[ZZ-level]] artifact in [[Kester City]]. It was recorded destroyed in the Delijn Reactor Meltdown. All information about its purpose and correct operation was lost in the [[Second Destruction of the Golgari Library]]. Between the two disasters, information is sketchy. Our primary sources of information are Golgori historical records (always unreliable), and a single still frame of a schoolchild watching an educational program showing the Drive, found in an [[Atemporal Anomaly]]. Archeologists identify the markings on the object as first-millinium Kilt'iir (see [[Kilt'iir, the]]). + +Study of the Hess Drive is believed to have led to Temporeactor technology (see [[Delijn Reactor Meltdown, the]], [[Incandescent Temporeactor]]), the temporal warp engine, the discovery of [[Universe-Universe Binary Interaction]], the revised quantum-loop theory of [[Psychic Attunement]], and the theory of progressive ergonomic adaption. Study of the Hess Drive caused the [[Vvvelll Auto-genocide]] (see, [[Sanity Certification]]). Rarely have so many civilizations been so profoundly impacted by single object. + +The previous existence of the Drive was re-discovered by Joseph S. Hess II in RODS 56580a during routine digital archeology in the [[Kester City]] pseudo-anamoly. + +*Historical Plaque in the Joseph S. Hess II Cafeteria* diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/History Paradox.md b/archive/lexicon1/History Paradox.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..213345f --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/History Paradox.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +A History Paradox is the theory of an occurrence of two or more discrete events that contradict each other happening at the same time in recorded history, with accounts primarily revolving around the simultaneous presence, extrapresence, modification, and/or absence of an object or individual. History Paradoxes can occur as the result of [[Extratemporal Anomalies]] that fall under observation by two or more individuals with conflicting accounts. Some scholars that adhere to the theory claim that these events are in quantum flux between different timelines, a la [[B-Time]], and that the paradox occurs when observation cannot completely collapse the wave function - this aligns with the observation that those wearing a [[Quantum Compression Apparatus (QCA)]] have no reported encounters with these paradoxes. + +The exact nature of these paradoxes can be difficult to understand, as they conveniently defy direct observation - though the [[Blinking Cow Rumor]] is obviously farcical, it offers useful material for an example: A cow that is observed and not observed in the same space by two or more individuals qualifies as a history paradox, as does a unique cow observed in two different places at the same time. Another less-observed example is the occurrence of a cow observed by multiple parties to have differing properties (e.g. a "brown cow" vs. "speckled cow.") The absence of a cow observed by several individuals, however, falls under more scrutiny. It could be that the cow has simply gone unaccounted for, but the disappearance can be attributed to a paradox if, under later observation, the cow is found to have been displaced further than mundane travel could account for over the time period of absence - an example of one such event being the Two-Crown Paradox (See [[Two-Crown Paradox, The]]) observed under the reign of what most scholars conclude to be Rzeszutko's fourteenth son (See [[Elector-Prince Rzeszutko]]) which called into question the legitimacy of the already waning Rzeszutko dynasty. + +Obviously, the frequency of alleged occurrences of these events makes cataloging the history of the Golgori very difficult, to the point that even their name is called into question with some scholars apparently finding records of a "Golgari" civilization. As such, some details may not align with one-another, even when directly referenced, although it is this scholar's opinion that the others have simply catalogued their findings while stimulant-addled and sleep-deprived. One would do well to remember that the candle cannot be burned at both ends. + +-Ken \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Iceproofed Shielding.md b/archive/lexicon1/Iceproofed Shielding.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6885e0f --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Iceproofed Shielding.md @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Iceproofed Shielding + +Iceproofed Shielding, both in architecture and machinery, can be found in almost all settlements of the [[Golgori Sovereign Empire]] and concurrent cultures. It includes a duality of treated steel and hardened microfoam for isolation and then often painted in anti-stick ventablack to absorb as much sun energies as possible (however this extra layer of coating can usually be found only in later models). The further towards the north pole of [[Mizar-5]] the town is located, the older the shields are, showing the slow but steady spread of sub-zero temperatures after the Great Chill (see [[Great Chill, the]]). + +Noteworthy is the complete lack of any Iceproof Shielding within temples or dogmatic (and abandoned) settlements belonging to the [[Rotorastrianism]] religion, probably finding the act of blocking natural outside influences as heretical. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Industrial Ascendency.md b/archive/lexicon1/Industrial Ascendency.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5fa6c9d --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Industrial Ascendency.md @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +## D-level technology on Mizar-5 + +### Aldebaranian + +Aldebaranian (see, [[Aldebaranians, The]]) technology never reached D-level, stopping at B-level or C-level (analysis differs). + +### Golgari + +**Industrial Ascendency**: The period of D-level technology in the Golgari civilization. Industrial-level technology enabled economic growth, increasing the standard of living, and especially providing heat and sulfuric acid to all farmholds. + +Industrial Ascendency occured after economic unification (see [[Golgori Standard Cube]]); after cultural unification (see, [[Nemarii Obelisk]]); after religious unification (see [[Rotorastriansim]]); but before political unification (see, [[Golgari Sovereign Empire]]) and before social unification (see, [[New Golgori Rebellion]]). + +Golgari adoption of E-level technology (*note to human readers: electronics*) was unusally slow. E-level techology was developed early in the [[Orianian Wasteland]], but was not widely adopted. Due to [[Regina Apiana]], devices had to be carefully designed and popular adoption often resulted in collapse and re-design. The [[Revisionist Period]] also meant improvements and basic technology was independently invented and re-invented time and time again. + +Astonishly, the Golgari developed spaceship technology with only D-level technology. This historian believes they were on the brink of skipping directly to F-level or G-level technology, at least regionally, without electricity. + +### [[Web-Weaver]] + +Web-weaver technology reached D-level early, due to + +Pay 16© to continue reading this database entry. The GHACT guarantees satisfaction† or your money back!‡ + +*[[Galactic Hegemony of Associated Commerce and Trade]], Galactic Civilization Catalogue, 180th to 192nd edition. Article was removed starting with the 193rd edition ("non-notable and out-of-date").* diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Institute for Psykologikal Masterie.md b/archive/lexicon1/Institute for Psykologikal Masterie.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f4b8d5f --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Institute for Psykologikal Masterie.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +The Institute for Psykologikal Masterie was an establishment on [[Mizar-5]] dedicated to the study of the pseudoscience of [[Psychic Attunement]]. The building was partially destroyed by the impact of the New Moon (See [[Descent of the New Moon, The]]) although the foundation and a few artifacts were found intact enough to be recovered, including [[Manuscript Collection 47b]]. The inspection of the ruin indicates that the building was constructed around ESDTF May 7, 4429, and the building covered 87,000 square feet of ground. The institute was comprised of three large lecture halls, a dozen smaller classrooms and labs, offices, and dormitories for up to 100 staff and students, with the majority of space being dedicated to classroom facilities. + +The lecture halls, each capable of seating about forty students in a semicircular configuration around a central stage, were primarily used for instructor and student demonstrations of so-called "psychic aptitude," with journal entries outlining a typical lecture procedure as an instructor getting up to demonstrate some nonsense ability, and students coming up in turn to attempt to duplicate the feat, almost wholly without success, and where success was found, probably attributable to happenstance. Some instructor accounts outline a sincere (if completely misguided) belief in their psychic aptitude, but a number also admit to misleading and defrauding students with cold reading and staged incidents. + +The classrooms and labs were divided up into several different aspects of what the instructors believed to encompass psychic ability - clairvoyance, telepathy, thought manipulation, to name a few - and bizarre apparatuses that instructors purported to increase psychic capabilities if used for long periods of time. Instructors would hold smaller sessions here, hoping to both reinforce any material presented in larger lectures among students, and to gauge the students' aptitude (and to an equal extent, their ability and willingness to continue to pay tuition to the institute.) + +The student dormitories were spartan in decoration and poorly constructed compared to the rest of the building - student accounts detail the brutality of the hot and cold seasons, often resorting to makeshift fires and rudimentary cooling systems to keep the rooms within livable temperatures. Most of the instructor dormitories fared slightly better, although senior staff always had the budget for renovation of personal offices and private studies, among other creature comforts. + +The destruction of the institute resulted in the near-overnight collapse of beliefs in psychic ability, though there are some modern-day holdouts that still claim to be psychically attuned. Thankfully, any individuals bold enough to make such claims are barred from [[Sanity Certification]] and accessing any artifacts with the potential to cause a lapse in sanity (like as not because they're already crazy enough.) + +-Ken \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Ionzhi Calendar.md b/archive/lexicon1/Ionzhi Calendar.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bc45f8d --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Ionzhi Calendar.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +The Ionzhi Calendar was used in the [[Principality of Ionzh]] and the [[True Ionzhi Republic]]. It begins in 4014 local time (Real Ordinal Date Standard 44934e) and ends in year 5333 (Real Ordinal Date Standard 456333). Each local year corresponds to 4.0000034 mean local solar orbits in RODS 44934e. The epoch (year 0) of the Calendar seems to date from an unclear event before the existence of the Golgori, let alone the [[Golgori Sovereign Empire]]. The existence of a previous calendar seems likely but no historical evidence + to support this theory has been disovered yet. diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/K'ghani Trail.md b/archive/lexicon1/K'ghani Trail.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..26e4d4c --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/K'ghani Trail.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +The K'ghani Trail was used for two hundred standard years to wrangle now-extinct Fat Dogs (see [[Eloping Dog]], a surviving cousin). Dogs were walked from the [[Principality of Ionzh]], north and west to the [[Golgori Sovereign Empire]]. After the [[Law of Finders Keepers]] stopped trade in animals, the trail was paved and became a major roadway. It was disused and gradually disintegrated with the adoption of the airbus, after Golgori Empire settlement. + +The K'ghani Trail starts in western Ionzh near [[Traitor's Ridge]], winding through several small- and medium-sized cities. It then heads north through [[Lithis Falls Pass]] and the scenic Pemnone Mountains. It briefly passes north and west through the Orianian Wasteland (see [[Orianian Wasteland, The]]), before terminating in the Golgori Sovereign Empire territory of Bondovi. diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Kettlebelly Ceramic.md b/archive/lexicon1/Kettlebelly Ceramic.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..719de74 --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Kettlebelly Ceramic.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Kettlebelly Ceramic + +Typus of burned ceramic bowls and vases of the early, pre-emperial Golgori culture ( see [[Golgori Sovereign Empire]]). They are easy to identify due to their characteristic features each of the ceramic containers shares with each other: + +- Wide, almost spherical bottom, either with three small support legs or without +- Two to four handlebars, dents or other features near the rim that can be used to grip and carry the artifact +- A straight line (either painted on, dented in or prodding outwards) at the waistline of the container + +42% of the Kettlebelly Ceramic found to this date also showed detailed motives of flora (even [[Floramateria]] on some occasions) and fauna, historical or mythological events and figures or what is assumed to be images of personal importance. That, and the fact that most have either been found underground or in great numbers opens the hypothesis that they had sigificant ritualistic importance, perhaps as burial urns, to contain sacred or sacrificial ingrediences or used in other important cultural events. + +The name "Kettlebelly Ceramic" is a purely archeaological term, as the true cultural name of this type or ceramic wares has been erased from the historical records in the [[Revisionist Period]], like so many pre-emperial regional traditions and crafts that promote freedom of expression. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Kilt'iir, The.md b/archive/lexicon1/Kilt'iir, The.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..aba78cc --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Kilt'iir, The.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +The Kilt'iir were a highly advanced civilization that occupied the Mizar system roughly between ESTDF years 200-1800. A number of notable historic discoveries are credited to the Kilt'iir, including highly detailed starcharts (See [[Derivative Starchart]],) and the [[Hess Drive]], perhaps the single most shrouded invention in Golgorian history, yet so important to our understanding of how the Golgori were able to achieve space travel without access to F- or G-level technology (See [[Industrial Ascendancy]].) + +Due to the repeated destruction of information predating the Golgori (See [[Second Destruction of the Golgari Library]],) little information can be found on their interaction with the Kilt'iir before their mysterious disappearance before the turn of the second millennium. Some historians speculate that [[Elector-Prince Rzeszutko]] took pains to remove all traces of their existence in an attempt to avert his prophesized apocalypse, though the more credible explanation is that the monarchy simply wanted to maintain an iron grip on their rule, and the evidence of a more technologically advanced civilization before the Golgori could undermine that claim. + +Though it need not be mentioned to experienced historians, only those with Class-D [[Sanity Certification]] are allowed to analyze Kilt'iir artifacts. If any uninformed readers find what they suspect to be a Kilt'iir artifact, they are to report it to the IGARB immediately and avoid further contact with sentient beings until psychoactive stability can be verified. + +-Ken \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Law of Finders Keepers.md b/archive/lexicon1/Law of Finders Keepers.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b2e6fe9 --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Law of Finders Keepers.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +The Law of Finders Keepers, preceding the [[Fengu-Golgari Convention of 2452]], is an extralegal term for the plundering of artifacts that occurred previous to 2452. The existence of this period is both a blessing and a curse for the historians cataloguing Golgori history - on the one hand, most highly trafficked sites, including those along the [[Candaxx Loop]] and in the [[Vultraum Sector]] had been picked clean of artifacts long before the preservation effort began. However, the valuation of texts, tools, and jewelry within imperialist groups of the period has helped keep many of these artifacts in better condition than if they were to have been left behind for the ravages of events like the [[Second Destruction of the Golgari Library]]. A particular gratitude goes to the descendants of the [[ve Kenton Family]] for their generous donations in the pursuit of historical preservation. + +-Ken \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Long-Necked Gh'dol.md b/archive/lexicon1/Long-Necked Gh'dol.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..aba83c1 --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Long-Necked Gh'dol.md @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The long-necked gh'dol is an endangered native species of [[Mizar-5]]. It is most famous as a symbol of piety and obedience to the church in [[Rotorastianism]]. Rotorastians may display gh'dol banners, gh'dol symbolism on wooden furniture or plateware. The very wealthy or very eccentric may even keep live gh'dol in their house, though they are not ideal pets. Most representations of the gh'dol off Mizar-5 actually show the brilliant blue of the common (or "normal-necked") blue gh'dol, which survives better in captivity. The true long-necked gh'dol stands almost twice as tall, and has much duller off-white matte scales. + +The long-necked gh'dol stands over 12 feet tall including the neck, but is very delicate, and flees from predators rather than fight back. It survives on insects, berries, and small solar-lizards. Like all gh'dol, it cannot truly fly, but only glide and swing from branch to branch. It makes a distinctive "Kii kii kii" call. While popular religious art shows the gh'dol as graceful (The "Divine Grace"), its movements could be more accurately described as slow. + +The [[Turban of God]] is named after the long-necked gh'dol's characteristicly wrapped head-tongue. diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Loping Doge, The.md b/archive/lexicon1/Loping Doge, The.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3e9c334 --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Loping Doge, The.md @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Loping Doge (Naval Vessel) + +The sailing ship "The Loping Doge" was constructed as a personal parade-ship for [[Omarius Dahl IV]] Elector-Prince of Ionzh, deliberately using the already antiquated propulsion through wind instead through sulphur-powered turbines. Measuring an incredible 386m in length, built 8 stories tall, and built out of rare woods from the [[Denmortia Rainlands]], its 12 year construction nearly bankrupted the Principality of Ionzh, torpedoing his popularity while bribing the electees through loans from neighbouring regions. The Loping Doge never left the harbour, as the Elector-Prinz refused to pay the dockworkers their overdue paycheck, leading to a local revolt and the beheading of the Prinz. 3 months later, [[Elector-Prince Rzeszutko]] was elected into office who turned the unfinished jewel of a ship into a public market hall and trade depot until it burnt down in an accident two centuries later. Remains of its hull, galleys figure and several documents and photographs could be found in an excavated time capsule near [[Traitor' Ridge]] and are now on holographic display. + +- from the Yedalii Museum of Interstellar Archeology \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Manuscript Collection 47b.md b/archive/lexicon1/Manuscript Collection 47b.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..775c698 --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Manuscript Collection 47b.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Manuscript Collection 47b was recovered from rubble at coordinates -34.6755, 0.2346 ([[Institute for Psykologikal Masterie]]). Condition of the overall collection is *fair*. Rarity of the content is *unremarkable*. Rarity of the historical period is *rare*. Sulphur dating shows all elements of the collection date from RODS 454ab-460ab, consistent with rubble generation in event A-3952.934.5 (see [[Descent of the New Moon, The]]). + +- Local news, condition *very poor*. Medium value. Update: This item was destroyed. +- Personal correspondence, condition *fair*. See [[Varix Jhothar]] letters. +- One starchart, condition *excellent*. Includes all stars of brightness less than 10^5 photons/sec as seen from Mizar-5. +- City and principality maps, condition *fair*. Easily the most valuable item in the collection. +- Pedagogy, condition *various*. Literacy aids, Medicine (esp. golgori psychology), history, politics, general science education, [[Psychic Attunement]], [[Public Relations]]. +- Calendars, condition *poor*. See [[Ionzhi Calendar]]. +- Misc entertainment, condition *very poor*. Local historical and fantastic. +- Damaged [[U-U Card]]. See [[Forbidden Room, The]]. +- Item description removed. See [[Forbidden Room, The]]. +- Item description removed. See [[Forbidden Room, The]]. + +*Mizar-5 central archive index, page 2556* diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Markdown Syntax.md b/archive/lexicon1/Markdown Syntax.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f67d945 --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/lexicon1/Markdown Syntax.md @@ -0,0 +1,856 @@ +

Overview

+ +

Philosophy

+ +Markdown is intended to be as easy-to-read and easy-to-write as is feasible. + +Readability, however, is emphasized above all else. A Markdown-formatted +document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking +like it's been marked up with tags or formatting instructions. While +Markdown's syntax has been influenced by several existing text-to-HTML +filters -- including [Setext] [1], [atx] [2], [Textile] [3], [reStructuredText] [4], +[Grutatext] [5], and [EtText] [6] -- the single biggest source of +inspiration for Markdown's syntax is the format of plain text email. + + [1]: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/mirror/setext.html + [2]: http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/atx/ + [3]: http://textism.com/tools/textile/ + [4]: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html + [5]: http://www.triptico.com/software/grutatxt.html + [6]: http://ettext.taint.org/doc/ + +To this end, Markdown's syntax is comprised entirely of punctuation +characters, which punctuation characters have been carefully chosen so +as to look like what they mean. E.g., asterisks around a word actually +look like \*emphasis\*. Markdown lists look like, well, lists. Even +blockquotes look like quoted passages of text, assuming you've ever +used email. + + + +

Inline HTML

+ +Markdown's syntax is intended for one purpose: to be used as a +format for *writing* for the web. + +Markdown is not a replacement for HTML, or even close to it. Its +syntax is very small, corresponding only to a very small subset of +HTML tags. The idea is *not* to create a syntax that makes it easier +to insert HTML tags. In my opinion, HTML tags are already easy to +insert. The idea for Markdown is to make it easy to read, write, and +edit prose. HTML is a *publishing* format; Markdown is a *writing* +format. Thus, Markdown's formatting syntax only addresses issues that +can be conveyed in plain text. + +For any markup that is not covered by Markdown's syntax, you simply +use HTML itself. There's no need to preface it or delimit it to +indicate that you're switching from Markdown to HTML; you just use +the tags. + +The only restrictions are that block-level HTML elements -- e.g. `
`, +``, `
`, `
`, etc. -- must be separated from surrounding
+content by blank lines, and the start and end tags of the block should
+not be indented with tabs or spaces. Markdown is smart enough not
+to add extra (unwanted) `
` tags around HTML block-level tags.
+
+For example, to add an HTML table to a Markdown article:
+
+    This is a regular paragraph.
+
+
+ + + +
Foo
+ + This is another regular paragraph. + +Note that Markdown formatting syntax is not processed within block-level +HTML tags. E.g., you can't use Markdown-style `*emphasis*` inside an +HTML block. + +Span-level HTML tags -- e.g. ``, ``, or `` -- can be +used anywhere in a Markdown paragraph, list item, or header. If you +want, you can even use HTML tags instead of Markdown formatting; e.g. if +you'd prefer to use HTML `` or `` tags instead of Markdown's +link or image syntax, go right ahead. + +Unlike block-level HTML tags, Markdown syntax *is* processed within +span-level tags. + + +

Automatic Escaping for Special Characters

+ +In HTML, there are two characters that demand special treatment: `<` +and `&`. Left angle brackets are used to start tags; ampersands are +used to denote HTML entities. If you want to use them as literal +characters, you must escape them as entities, e.g. `<`, and +`&`. + +Ampersands in particular are bedeviling for web writers. If you want to +write about 'AT&T', you need to write '`AT&T`'. You even need to +escape ampersands within URLs. Thus, if you want to link to: + + http://images.google.com/images?num=30&q=larry+bird + +you need to encode the URL as: + + http://images.google.com/images?num=30&q=larry+bird + +in your anchor tag `href` attribute. Needless to say, this is easy to +forget, and is probably the single most common source of HTML validation +errors in otherwise well-marked-up web sites. + +Markdown allows you to use these characters naturally, taking care of +all the necessary escaping for you. If you use an ampersand as part of +an HTML entity, it remains unchanged; otherwise it will be translated +into `&`. + +So, if you want to include a copyright symbol in your article, you can write: + + © + +and Markdown will leave it alone. But if you write: + + AT&T + +Markdown will translate it to: + + AT&T + +Similarly, because Markdown supports [inline HTML](#html), if you use +angle brackets as delimiters for HTML tags, Markdown will treat them as +such. But if you write: + + 4 < 5 + +Markdown will translate it to: + + 4 < 5 + +However, inside Markdown code spans and blocks, angle brackets and +ampersands are *always* encoded automatically. This makes it easy to use +Markdown to write about HTML code. (As opposed to raw HTML, which is a +terrible format for writing about HTML syntax, because every single `<` +and `&` in your example code needs to be escaped.) + + +* * * + + +

Block Elements

+ + +

Paragraphs and Line Breaks

+ +A paragraph is simply one or more consecutive lines of text, separated +by one or more blank lines. (A blank line is any line that looks like a +blank line -- a line containing nothing but spaces or tabs is considered +blank.) Normal paragraphs should not be indented with spaces or tabs. + +The implication of the "one or more consecutive lines of text" rule is +that Markdown supports "hard-wrapped" text paragraphs. This differs +significantly from most other text-to-HTML formatters (including Movable +Type's "Convert Line Breaks" option) which translate every line break +character in a paragraph into a `
` tag. + +When you *do* want to insert a `
` break tag using Markdown, you +end a line with two or more spaces, then type return. + +Yes, this takes a tad more effort to create a `
`, but a simplistic +"every line break is a `
`" rule wouldn't work for Markdown. +Markdown's email-style [blockquoting][bq] and multi-paragraph [list items][l] +work best -- and look better -- when you format them with hard breaks. + + [bq]: #blockquote + [l]: #list + + + + + +Markdown supports two styles of headers, [Setext] [1] and [atx] [2]. + +Setext-style headers are "underlined" using equal signs (for first-level +headers) and dashes (for second-level headers). For example: + + This is an H1 + ============= + + This is an H2 + ------------- + +Any number of underlining `=`'s or `-`'s will work. + +Atx-style headers use 1-6 hash characters at the start of the line, +corresponding to header levels 1-6. For example: + + # This is an H1 + + ## This is an H2 + + ###### This is an H6 + +Optionally, you may "close" atx-style headers. This is purely +cosmetic -- you can use this if you think it looks better. The +closing hashes don't even need to match the number of hashes +used to open the header. (The number of opening hashes +determines the header level.) : + + # This is an H1 # + + ## This is an H2 ## + + ### This is an H3 ###### + + +

Blockquotes

+ +Markdown uses email-style `>` characters for blockquoting. If you're +familiar with quoting passages of text in an email message, then you +know how to create a blockquote in Markdown. It looks best if you hard +wrap the text and put a `>` before every line: + + > This is a blockquote with two paragraphs. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, + > consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aliquam hendrerit mi posuere lectus. + > Vestibulum enim wisi, viverra nec, fringilla in, laoreet vitae, risus. + > + > Donec sit amet nisl. Aliquam semper ipsum sit amet velit. Suspendisse + > id sem consectetuer libero luctus adipiscing. + +Markdown allows you to be lazy and only put the `>` before the first +line of a hard-wrapped paragraph: + + > This is a blockquote with two paragraphs. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, + consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aliquam hendrerit mi posuere lectus. + Vestibulum enim wisi, viverra nec, fringilla in, laoreet vitae, risus. + + > Donec sit amet nisl. Aliquam semper ipsum sit amet velit. Suspendisse + id sem consectetuer libero luctus adipiscing. + +Blockquotes can be nested (i.e. a blockquote-in-a-blockquote) by +adding additional levels of `>`: + + > This is the first level of quoting. + > + > > This is nested blockquote. + > + > Back to the first level. + +Blockquotes can contain other Markdown elements, including headers, lists, +and code blocks: + + > ## This is a header. + > + > 1. This is the first list item. + > 2. This is the second list item. + > + > Here's some example code: + > + > return shell_exec("echo $input | $markdown_script"); + +Any decent text editor should make email-style quoting easy. For +example, with BBEdit, you can make a selection and choose Increase +Quote Level from the Text menu. + + +

Lists

+ +Markdown supports ordered (numbered) and unordered (bulleted) lists. + +Unordered lists use asterisks, pluses, and hyphens -- interchangably +-- as list markers: + + * Red + * Green + * Blue + +is equivalent to: + + + Red + + Green + + Blue + +and: + + - Red + - Green + - Blue + +Ordered lists use numbers followed by periods: + + 1. Bird + 2. McHale + 3. Parish + +It's important to note that the actual numbers you use to mark the +list have no effect on the HTML output Markdown produces. The HTML +Markdown produces from the above list is: + +
    +
  1. Bird
    2. +
  2. McHale
    3. +
  3. Parish
    4. +
+ +If you instead wrote the list in Markdown like this: + + 1. Bird + 1. McHale + 1. Parish + +or even: + + 3. Bird + 1. McHale + 8. Parish + +you'd get the exact same HTML output. The point is, if you want to, +you can use ordinal numbers in your ordered Markdown lists, so that +the numbers in your source match the numbers in your published HTML. +But if you want to be lazy, you don't have to. + +If you do use lazy list numbering, however, you should still start the +list with the number 1. At some point in the future, Markdown may support +starting ordered lists at an arbitrary number. + +List markers typically start at the left margin, but may be indented by +up to three spaces. List markers must be followed by one or more spaces +or a tab. + +To make lists look nice, you can wrap items with hanging indents: + + * Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. + Aliquam hendrerit mi posuere lectus. Vestibulum enim wisi, + viverra nec, fringilla in, laoreet vitae, risus. + * Donec sit amet nisl. Aliquam semper ipsum sit amet velit. + Suspendisse id sem consectetuer libero luctus adipiscing. + +But if you want to be lazy, you don't have to: + + * Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. + Aliquam hendrerit mi posuere lectus. Vestibulum enim wisi, + viverra nec, fringilla in, laoreet vitae, risus. + * Donec sit amet nisl. Aliquam semper ipsum sit amet velit. + Suspendisse id sem consectetuer libero luctus adipiscing. + +If list items are separated by blank lines, Markdown will wrap the +items in `

` tags in the HTML output. For example, this input: + + * Bird + * Magic + +will turn into: + +

    +
  • Bird
    • +
  • Magic
    • +
+ +But this: + + * Bird + + * Magic + +will turn into: + +
    +

  • Bird

    • +

  • Magic

    • +
+ +List items may consist of multiple paragraphs. Each subsequent +paragraph in a list item must be intended by either 4 spaces +or one tab: + + 1. This is a list item with two paragraphs. Lorem ipsum dolor + sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aliquam hendrerit + mi posuere lectus. + + Vestibulum enim wisi, viverra nec, fringilla in, laoreet + vitae, risus. Donec sit amet nisl. Aliquam semper ipsum + sit amet velit. + + 2. Suspendisse id sem consectetuer libero luctus adipiscing. + +It looks nice if you indent every line of the subsequent +paragraphs, but here again, Markdown will allow you to be +lazy: + + * This is a list item with two paragraphs. + + This is the second paragraph in the list item. You're + only required to indent the first line. Lorem ipsum dolor + sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. + + * Another item in the same list. + +To put a blockquote within a list item, the blockquote's `>` +delimiters need to be indented: + + * A list item with a blockquote: + + > This is a blockquote + > inside a list item. + +To put a code block within a list item, the code block needs +to be indented *twice* -- 8 spaces or two tabs: + + * A list item with a code block: + + + + +It's worth noting that it's possible to trigger an ordered list by +accident, by writing something like this: + + 1986. What a great season. + +In other words, a *number-period-space* sequence at the beginning of a +line. To avoid this, you can backslash-escape the period: + + 1986\. What a great season. + + + +

Code Blocks

+ +Pre-formatted code blocks are used for writing about programming or +markup source code. Rather than forming normal paragraphs, the lines +of a code block are interpreted literally. Markdown wraps a code block +in both `
` and `` tags.
+
+To produce a code block in Markdown, simply indent every line of the
+block by at least 4 spaces or 1 tab. For example, given this input:
+
+    This is a normal paragraph:
+
+        This is a code block.
+
+Markdown will generate:
+
+    
This is a normal paragraph:

+
+    
This is a code block.
+    

+
+One level of indentation -- 4 spaces or 1 tab -- is removed from each
+line of the code block. For example, this:
+
+    Here is an example of AppleScript:
+
+        tell application "Foo"
+            beep
+        end tell
+
+will turn into:
+
+    
Here is an example of AppleScript:

+
+    
tell application "Foo"
+        beep
+    end tell
+    

+
+A code block continues until it reaches a line that is not indented
+(or the end of the article).
+
+Within a code block, ampersands (`&`) and angle brackets (`<` and `>`)
+are automatically converted into HTML entities. This makes it very
+easy to include example HTML source code using Markdown -- just paste
+it and indent it, and Markdown will handle the hassle of encoding the
+ampersands and angle brackets. For example, this:
+
+        

+            © 2004 Foo Corporation
+        

+
+will turn into:
+
+    
<div class="footer">
+        &copy; 2004 Foo Corporation
+    </div>
+    

+
+Regular Markdown syntax is not processed within code blocks. E.g.,
+asterisks are just literal asterisks within a code block. This means
+it's also easy to use Markdown to write about Markdown's own syntax.
+
+
+
+
Horizontal Rules

+
+You can produce a horizontal rule tag (`
`) by placing three or
+more hyphens, asterisks, or underscores on a line by themselves. If you
+wish, you may use spaces between the hyphens or asterisks. Each of the
+following lines will produce a horizontal rule:
+
+    * * *
+
+    ***
+
+    *****
+
+    - - -
+
+    ---------------------------------------
+
+
+* * *
+
+
Span Elements

+
+
+
+Markdown supports two style of links: *inline* and *reference*.
+
+In both styles, the link text is delimited by [square brackets].
+
+To create an inline link, use a set of regular parentheses immediately
+after the link text's closing square bracket. Inside the parentheses,
+put the URL where you want the link to point, along with an *optional*
+title for the link, surrounded in quotes. For example:
+
+    This is [an example](http://example.com/ "Title") inline link.
+
+    [This link](http://example.net/) has no title attribute.
+
+Will produce:
+
+    
This is 
+    an example inline link.

+
+    
This link has no
+    title attribute.

+
+If you're referring to a local resource on the same server, you can
+use relative paths:
+
+    See my [About](/about/) page for details.   
+
+Reference-style links use a second set of square brackets, inside
+which you place a label of your choosing to identify the link:
+
+    This is [an example][id] reference-style link.
+
+You can optionally use a space to separate the sets of brackets:
+
+    This is [an example] [id] reference-style link.
+
+Then, anywhere in the document, you define your link label like this,
+on a line by itself:
+
+    [id]: http://example.com/  "Optional Title Here"
+
+That is:
+
+*   Square brackets containing the link identifier (optionally
+    indented from the left margin using up to three spaces);
+*   followed by a colon;
+*   followed by one or more spaces (or tabs);
+*   followed by the URL for the link;
+*   optionally followed by a title attribute for the link, enclosed
+    in double or single quotes, or enclosed in parentheses.
+
+The following three link definitions are equivalent:
+
+	[foo]: http://example.com/  "Optional Title Here"
+	[foo]: http://example.com/  'Optional Title Here'
+	[foo]: http://example.com/  (Optional Title Here)
+
+**Note:** There is a known bug in Markdown.pl 1.0.1 which prevents
+single quotes from being used to delimit link titles.
+
+The link URL may, optionally, be surrounded by angle brackets:
+
+    [id]:   "Optional Title Here"
+
+You can put the title attribute on the next line and use extra spaces
+or tabs for padding, which tends to look better with longer URLs:
+
+    [id]: http://example.com/longish/path/to/resource/here
+        "Optional Title Here"
+
+Link definitions are only used for creating links during Markdown
+processing, and are stripped from your document in the HTML output.
+
+Link definition names may constist of letters, numbers, spaces, and
+punctuation -- but they are *not* case sensitive. E.g. these two
+links:
+
+	[link text][a]
+	[link text][A]
+
+are equivalent.
+
+The *implicit link name* shortcut allows you to omit the name of the
+link, in which case the link text itself is used as the name.
+Just use an empty set of square brackets -- e.g., to link the word
+"Google" to the google.com web site, you could simply write:
+
+	[Google][]
+
+And then define the link:
+
+	[Google]: http://google.com/
+
+Because link names may contain spaces, this shortcut even works for
+multiple words in the link text:
+
+	Visit [Daring Fireball][] for more information.
+
+And then define the link:
+	
+	[Daring Fireball]: http://daringfireball.net/
+
+Link definitions can be placed anywhere in your Markdown document. I
+tend to put them immediately after each paragraph in which they're
+used, but if you want, you can put them all at the end of your
+document, sort of like footnotes.
+
+Here's an example of reference links in action:
+
+    I get 10 times more traffic from [Google] [1] than from
+    [Yahoo] [2] or [MSN] [3].
+
+      [1]: http://google.com/        "Google"
+      [2]: http://search.yahoo.com/  "Yahoo Search"
+      [3]: http://search.msn.com/    "MSN Search"
+
+Using the implicit link name shortcut, you could instead write:
+
+    I get 10 times more traffic from [Google][] than from
+    [Yahoo][] or [MSN][].
+
+      [google]: http://google.com/        "Google"
+      [yahoo]:  http://search.yahoo.com/  "Yahoo Search"
+      [msn]:    http://search.msn.com/    "MSN Search"
+
+Both of the above examples will produce the following HTML output:
+
+    
I get 10 times more traffic from Google than from
+    Yahoo
+    or MSN.

+
+For comparison, here is the same paragraph written using
+Markdown's inline link style:
+
+    I get 10 times more traffic from [Google](http://google.com/ "Google")
+    than from [Yahoo](http://search.yahoo.com/ "Yahoo Search") or
+    [MSN](http://search.msn.com/ "MSN Search").
+
+The point of reference-style links is not that they're easier to
+write. The point is that with reference-style links, your document
+source is vastly more readable. Compare the above examples: using
+reference-style links, the paragraph itself is only 81 characters
+long; with inline-style links, it's 176 characters; and as raw HTML,
+it's 234 characters. In the raw HTML, there's more markup than there
+is text.
+
+With Markdown's reference-style links, a source document much more
+closely resembles the final output, as rendered in a browser. By
+allowing you to move the markup-related metadata out of the paragraph,
+you can add links without interrupting the narrative flow of your
+prose.
+
+
+
Emphasis

+
+Markdown treats asterisks (`*`) and underscores (`_`) as indicators of
+emphasis. Text wrapped with one `*` or `_` will be wrapped with an
+HTML `` tag; double `*`'s or `_`'s will be wrapped with an HTML
+`` tag. E.g., this input:
+
+    *single asterisks*
+
+    _single underscores_
+
+    **double asterisks**
+
+    __double underscores__
+
+will produce:
+
+    single asterisks
+
+    single underscores
+
+    double asterisks
+
+    double underscores
+
+You can use whichever style you prefer; the lone restriction is that
+the same character must be used to open and close an emphasis span.
+
+Emphasis can be used in the middle of a word:
+
+    un*fucking*believable
+
+But if you surround an `*` or `_` with spaces, it'll be treated as a
+literal asterisk or underscore.
+
+To produce a literal asterisk or underscore at a position where it
+would otherwise be used as an emphasis delimiter, you can backslash
+escape it:
+
+    \*this text is surrounded by literal asterisks\*
+
+
+
+
Code

+
+To indicate a span of code, wrap it with backtick quotes (`` ` ``).
+Unlike a pre-formatted code block, a code span indicates code within a
+normal paragraph. For example:
+
+    Use the `printf()` function.
+
+will produce:
+
+    
Use the printf() function.

+
+To include a literal backtick character within a code span, you can use
+multiple backticks as the opening and closing delimiters:
+
+    ``There is a literal backtick (`) here.``
+
+which will produce this:
+
+    
There is a literal backtick (`) here.

+
+The backtick delimiters surrounding a code span may include spaces --
+one after the opening, one before the closing. This allows you to place
+literal backtick characters at the beginning or end of a code span:
+
+	A single backtick in a code span: `` ` ``
+	
+	A backtick-delimited string in a code span: `` `foo` ``
+
+will produce:
+
+	
A single backtick in a code span: `

+	
+	
A backtick-delimited string in a code span: `foo`

+
+With a code span, ampersands and angle brackets are encoded as HTML
+entities automatically, which makes it easy to include example HTML
+tags. Markdown will turn this:
+
+    Please don't use any `` tags.
+
+into:
+
+    
Please don't use any <blink> tags.

+
+You can write this:
+
+    `—` is the decimal-encoded equivalent of `—`.
+
+to produce:
+
+    
&#8212; is the decimal-encoded
+    equivalent of &mdash;.

+
+
+
+
Images

+
+Admittedly, it's fairly difficult to devise a "natural" syntax for
+placing images into a plain text document format.
+
+Markdown uses an image syntax that is intended to resemble the syntax
+for links, allowing for two styles: *inline* and *reference*.
+
+Inline image syntax looks like this:
+
+    ![Alt text](/path/to/img.jpg)
+
+    ![Alt text](/path/to/img.jpg "Optional title")
+
+That is:
+
+*   An exclamation mark: `!`;
+*   followed by a set of square brackets, containing the `alt`
+    attribute text for the image;
+*   followed by a set of parentheses, containing the URL or path to
+    the image, and an optional `title` attribute enclosed in double
+    or single quotes.
+
+Reference-style image syntax looks like this:
+
+    ![Alt text][id]
+
+Where "id" is the name of a defined image reference. Image references
+are defined using syntax identical to link references:
+
+    [id]: url/to/image  "Optional title attribute"
+
+As of this writing, Markdown has no syntax for specifying the
+dimensions of an image; if this is important to you, you can simply
+use regular HTML `` tags.
+
+
+* * *
+
+
+
Miscellaneous

+
+
+
+Markdown supports a shortcut style for creating "automatic" links for URLs and email addresses: simply surround the URL or email address with angle brackets. What this means is that if you want to show the actual text of a URL or email address, and also have it be a clickable link, you can do this:
+
+    
+    
+Markdown will turn this into:
+
+    http://example.com/
+
+Automatic links for email addresses work similarly, except that
+Markdown will also perform a bit of randomized decimal and hex
+entity-encoding to help obscure your address from address-harvesting
+spambots. For example, Markdown will turn this:
+
+    
+
+into something like this:
+
+    address@exa
+    mple.com
+
+which will render in a browser as a clickable link to "address@example.com".
+
+(This sort of entity-encoding trick will indeed fool many, if not
+most, address-harvesting bots, but it definitely won't fool all of
+them. It's better than nothing, but an address published in this way
+will probably eventually start receiving spam.)
+
+
+
+
Backslash Escapes

+
+Markdown allows you to use backslash escapes to generate literal
+characters which would otherwise have special meaning in Markdown's
+formatting syntax. For example, if you wanted to surround a word with
+literal asterisks (instead of an HTML `` tag), you can backslashes
+before the asterisks, like this:
+
+    \*literal asterisks\*
+
+Markdown provides backslash escapes for the following characters:
+
+    \   backslash
+    `   backtick
+    *   asterisk
+    _   underscore
+    {}  curly braces
+    []  square brackets
+    ()  parentheses
+    #   hash mark
+	+	plus sign
+	-	minus sign (hyphen)
+    .   dot
+    !   exclamation mark
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+Mizar-4 is a designation given to a temperate planet in the Mizar system, located along the [[Candaxx Loop]] trade route. It was previously inhabited by farmers and homesteaders mainly due to the generous solar cycle and nitrogen-rich soil promoting rapid growth of vegetation, and accounts for roughly 7% of the organic produce for the Mizar system and surrounding microsystems. As with other planets, Mizar-4 is host to dangerous [[Floramateria]], although recent breakthroughs in biodiversity preservation have minimized its impact on day-to-day life. 
+
+Though not as active a historic site as [[Mizar-5]], the planet is host to its fair share of historic discoveries, notably regarding various sects of [[Rotorastrianism]] involved with [[Zan-Taranth]] and the [[Theory of Forgotten Sin]], this theory having gained footholds from adoption by locals in times of famine and strife. Based on local writings dated back to around the century ESDTF 4400-4500, it seems as though before the destruction of the [[Institute for Psykologikal Masterie]], some scholars managed to establish a small satellite school on Mizar-4, and this small group is largely accredited with the continuation of instruction regarding [[Psychic Attunement]]. 
+
+-Ken
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+Mizar-5 (Planet)
+
+Mizar-5 is a now uninhabited, frozen planet of the size category 19, orbiting the yellow dwarf star of Mizar within the outer edge of the habitable zone. Its orbit is not entirely stable as the planetary body edges a few centimeters futher away from the sun every year, potentially caused by a large impact on the planetary surface (see [[Descent of the New Moon, the]]). Geological features, ice-core samples and historical documents show that Mizar-5 once was of temperate climate until a documented weathershift (see [[Great Chill, the]], before its complete freezing process it had several developed indigenous cultures inhabiting the surface, the latest of them, the Golgori (see [[Golgori Sovereign Empire]]) nearly reaching space-flight technology before going extinct.
+
+Mizar-5 is known in the academia for its high percentage of cross-reality and time-warping phenomenas, (see [[Atemporal Anomaliy]], [[Extratemporal Anomalies]], and [[B-Time]]), as well as the [[Nevermind-Debate Schism]] following its discovery, splitting the different interstellar Pre-FTL study fields for decades to come.
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diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Nemarii Obelisk.md b/archive/lexicon1/Nemarii Obelisk.md
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+Nemarii Obelisk
+
+The Nemarii Obelisk is a 37ft tall basalt monolith on [[Mizar-4]] displaying a variety of [[Derivative Starchart]]s on its front and backside. Its construction date is unclear since all dating methods produce nothing but scrambled data when done with or near material from the obelisk, although it clearly predates the founding of the Golgori Sovereign Empire by at least one millenia, potentially being created or inspired by the spacefaring Kilt'iir civilisation (see[[Kilt'iir, The]]). The artifact, which remains in-situ due to its massive weight, bears no coherent written language, but the smaller rimsides show an intricate motive of abstract figures, geometric shapes and looping coils that are still up to debate. 
+
+Besides the difficulties in dating, the presence of the obelisk also tends to mess with radio, micro and soundwaves, altering their frequency and producing results that on their own might look reasonable or coherent, but have nothing to do with reality when taken into context. Due to its strange properties, many pseudo-scientists claim that the artifact posesses mystical [[Ormommon Forces]] tied to [[Psychic Attunement]], however the much more realistic answer would be that the Nemarii Obelisk contains a stable miniature [[Extratemporal Anomaly]] inside itself, passively sending out data from another reality.
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diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Nevermind-Debate Schism.md b/archive/lexicon1/Nevermind-Debate Schism.md
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+The Nevermind-Debate Schism is a clockwise-future [[B-time]] academic social split resulting from the Nevermind-Debate. Because the Nevermind-Debate has not yet occured in A-Time, we can only guess at the contents of the debate by observing the resulting schism. (For the A-Time disagreement over the likely contents, see Nevermind-Debate Schism Schism). The facts as we know them are:
+
+1. The debate seems to be an actual debate, broadcast by hologram on [[Mizar-4]]. The debate has been announced decades in advance as the Nevermind-Debate.
+2. Observing the exact contents of the debates in A-Time creates a time paradox until at least 40 years in the future.
+3. The B-time schism starts immediately after the debate, within hours
+4. The schism proceeds for decades afterwards. The fallout seems to be mostly between scientists who presently study interstellar travel, especially pre-FTL travel.
+5. Four species on one side of the schism have [[Sanity Certification]]. All have it revoked during reconcilliation.
+
+From this, we can deduce that the participants in the debate, or the topic of the debate, may involve spac
+e travel. Given that the debate was announced decades in advance, it is unlikely to have been merely cance
+lled.
+
+Specific further deductions are pointless, because any sufficiently accurate guess would result in an imme
+diate time paradox. Nonetheless, [[Stasis Tourism]] to attempt to talk to a "Never-Mind" outside time itse
+lf has spates of popularity.
+
+However, the possibility of trying to deduce the *least* accurate guess has in this author's opinion been
+insufficiently explored, owing to...
+
+*Background section from "Random Guessing: The Best Possible Approach?" by Dr. D D D M Scrubly, Esquire*
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diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/New Hinterland Peninsula.md b/archive/lexicon1/New Hinterland Peninsula.md
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+The New Hinterland Peninsula is a temperate region between 10.5 and 14.5 degrees north and 30 and 37.5 degrees west on [[Mizar-5]], east of the [[Denmortia Rainlands]]. Said to be the original homeland of the Golgori, and the [[Golgori Sovereign Empire]], the ruins of [[Oedeon]] are located near the eastern tip, having been a natural hub for trade and exploration given its proximity to the [[Y'lin River Basin]].
+
+The area is rich in deposits of most minerals required to manufacture [[Phylidium]], and the air currents make the climate highly suitable for farming and homesteading, although notably, a lack of extraction sites indicates that only a modest amount of sulfur occurred naturally in the area, likely leading to the [[Sulfur Bankruptcy]] that caused the rapid contraction of the Golgori economy, beginning a period of strife and conflict, and eventually leading to the end of the Golgori empire.
+
+-Ken
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+Oedeon
+
+The capital city of the [[Golgori Sovereign Empire]], Great Heart Oedeon (or Oedeon as it is called in less official written accounts) was the cultural and political centre of the Golgori civilisation. During its height before its cataclystic destruction (see [[Descent of the New Moon, The]]) it housed between 26-27 million citizens due to official countings, and most likely many millions more in the grey number. After the tragedy of its destruction, the captial was moved into the [[Principality of Ionzh]] where it would change between local cities but remain in the region until the collapse of the empire.
+
+Oedeon had many important structures and buildings (however most of them have been completely wiped off the map in its destruction) including the [[Zenith Throneroom]] (fully destroyed, only memorials and historical evidence remains)and the [[Institute for Psykologikal Masterie]] (strangely untouched by the destruction, slight damages through time and erosion).
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diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Ormommon Forces.md b/archive/lexicon1/Ormommon Forces.md
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+Ormommon Forces are said to be mystic energies that emanate from objects charged with latent residual psychic power. Closely related to [[Psychic Attunement]], self-proclaimed psychics express interest in locating and attuning with these forces to enhance their connection to people, places, and events associated with the source. Accounts indicate that although these forces may exist anywhere, they're much more likely to be tied to places and objects associated with or belonging to previous psychics. 
+
+Often, there *are* other effects, though the causal relationship between these effects and the Ormommon Forces is dubious - One such proclaimed object, the [[Nemarii Obelisk]], is of great interest to the psychic community, due to its tendency to disrupt contemporary communications devices, though this has already been attributed to an [[Extratemporal Anomaly]] located within. Another object of interest is a belt buckle belonging to [[Varix Jhothar]], one of the few personal effects recovered from the wreckage of his ship on [[Gondar-2]]. Psychics claim to be able to communicate with the long-dead captain simply by touching it, though they all have differing accounts describing what happened on the planetoid.
+ 
+(Ed. Note - 'Mystic energies?' What rubbish. I'm going to throw the book at Collins for putting me on the Metaphysics Analysis and Cataloging Subcommittee when this is all over.)
+
+-Ken
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+Phylidium
+
+Phylidium is a composite ceramo-metal created by combining 6 parts of ceramic with 1 part of platinum at at least 2.000 degrees celsius. The use of chlorophyll-based cooling liquids to temper the composite material gives it its signature and unique metallic green shine. 
+
+Phylidium is highly resistant against corrosion of all kind, with [[Widow's Polish]] being the only known acid known to scholars able to dissolve it completely. It provides mediocre protection against being irradiated and repairs damages to its form slowly as long as it is exposed to sunlight, making it a very durable material against exposure and to store toxic, corrosive or otherwise harmful substances safely. However, its relative brittleness due to the high amount of ceramics makes it sub-standard for military applications or otherwise protect against direct force application. The [[Golgori Sovereign Empire]] based their currency, the [[Golgori Standard Cube]] on Phylidium due to its longlivity, as well as using it as additional layers of protection in reactors and chemical laboratories to prevent further catastrophic accidents (see [[Deljin Reactor Meltdown, The]])
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diff --git a/archive/lexicon1/Public Relations.md b/archive/lexicon1/Public Relations.md
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+The Public Relations department, headed by Thomas Collins, XPh., is a branch of The Order of the Preservation for Xenological History tasked with handling the perception of the preservation operation by the public. Its mission is threefold:
+
+- To assuage the fears of the public about any of the more fantastical elements, like [[Psychic Attunement]] or [[B-Time]].
+- To simultaneously discourage any interaction with potentially harmful artifacts, like a [[U-U Card]], except by members of the preservation operation.
+- To encourage donations of resources, volunteering, or application to join the preservation operation.
+
+Although the public-facing aspect of the department implies a low risk of sanity slippage, all members of the Public Relations department are nonetheless required to have Class-A or higher [[Sanity Certification]]. If you are interested in learning more about the Public Relations department, or joining the preservation effort, please contact the Director of Inquiries at serial 6JGH-34P-80MQ3
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+-Ken
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+Here's a little roleplaying game that I've been toying with. I call it the Lexicon rpg, in honor of its inspiration, Milorad Pavic's Dictionary of the Khazars.
+
+The basic idea is that each player takes on the role of a scholar, from before scholarly pursuits became professionalized (or possibly after they ceased to be). You are cranky, opinionated, prejudiced and eccentric. You are also collaborating with a number of your peers -- the other players -- on the construction of an encyclopedia describing some historical period (possibly of a fantastic world).
+
+The game is played in 2622 turns, one for each letter of the alphabet (excluding J, Q, X, and Z).
+
+- On the first turn, each player writes an entry for the letter 'A'. You come up with the name of the entry, and you write 100-200 words on the subject. At the end of the article, you sign your name, and make two citations to other entries in the encyclopedia. These citations will be phantoms -- their names exist, but their content will get filled in only on the appropriate turn. No letter can have more entries than the number of players, either, so all citations made on the first turn have to start with non-A letters.
+- On the second and subsequent turns, you continue to write entries for B, C, D and so on. However, you need to make three citations. One must be a reference to an already-written entry, and two must be to unwritten entries. (On the 25th and 26th turns, you only need to cite one and zero phantom entries, respectively, because there won't be enough phantom entries, otherwise.)
+
+It's an academic sin to cite yourself, you can never cite an entry you've written. (OOC, this forces the players to intertwingle their entries, so that everybody depends on everyone else's facts.) Incidentally, once you run out of empty slots, obviously you can only cite the phantom slots.
+
+Despite the fact that your peers are self-important, narrow-minded dunderheads, they are honest scholars. No matter how strained their interpretations are, their facts are accurate as historical research can make them. So if you cite an entry, you have to treat its factual content as true! (Though you can argue vociferously with the interpretation and introduce new facts that shade the interpretation.)
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+This little game will probably play best on a wiki, and it should take a month or so to play to completion. At the end of it, you'll have a highly-hyperlinked document that details a nice little piece of collaborative world-building.
+
+The owner of the wiki should set the general subject of the Lexicon. I suggest that he or she make use of the technique of "open reference" when describing the historical period: "You are all revisionist scholars from the Paleotechnic Era arguing about how the Void Ghost Rebellion led to the overthrow of the cyber-gnostic theocracy and the establishment of the Third Republic." What a cyber-gnostic theocracy is, or what happened to the first two republics, or what the Paleotechnic Era is are all unknown -- they are named to specifically to evoke a mood and inspire the other players' creativity. (This is an idea which I've first seen in fully articulated form in the character creation rules for Robin Laws's Hero Wars game.)
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+# Replace [[The Dog]] with [The Dog](The Dog)
+
+# Replace [The Loping Doge](https://lexicon.za3k.com/index.php/Loping%20Doge,%20The) with [The Loping Doge](Loping Doge, The)
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+Lexicon is a collaborative world-building game for 2 or more players, taking place over a month or so on a wiki. [[RulesOfLexicon]]
+We played on Discord and wrote a wiki. This is a record of the wiki when we stopped playing.
+
+Click here to learn more about the [[Markdown Syntax]] used to edit the Wiki.
+
+Our prompt:
+> The Order of the Preservation for Xenological History has called for the aggregation of work on the remains and history of the fallen Golgori alien civilization on the frozen world of Mizar-5
+
+Entries beginning with * below have not yet been written
+
+Niramaned maintained a partially complete [[Citations List]]
+
+# Index
+## A
+- [Aldebaranians, The](Aldebaranians, The)
+- [[An Ionzhi Gazeetter]]
+- [[Archipelago of the Damned]]
+- [[Artifact Access Control]]
+- [[Atemporal Anomaly]]
+## B
+- [[B-Time]]
+- [[Balefyre Engine]]
+- [[Bentways, The]]
+- [[Blinking Cow Rumor]]
+- [[Boltrus Incident, The]]
+## C
+- [[Caduceus Expedition, The]]
+- [[Candaxx Loop]]
+- [[Cataphract]]
+- [[Causeways of the Caravaneers]]
+- [[Curators Bane]]
+## D
+- [[Denmortia Rainlands]]
+- [[Delay/Deny/Accept]]
+- [[Deljin Reactor Meltdown, The]]
+- [[Derivative Starchart]]
+- [[Descent of the New Moon, The]]
+## E
+- [[Eldest Son]]
+- [[Elector-Prince Rzeszutko]]
+- [[Eloping Dog]]
+- [[Endless Fabric]]
+- [[Extratemporal Anomalies]]
+## F
+- [[Fengu-Golgari Convention of 2452]]
+- [[Floramateria]]
+- [[Forbidden Room, The]]
+- [[Freethinkers' Synod, The]]
+- [[Full Access]]
+## G
+- [[Galactic Hegemony of Associated Commerce and Trade]]
+- [[Golgori Sovereign Empire]]
+- [[Golgori Standard Cube]]
+- [[Gondar-2]]
+- [[Great Chill, the]]
+## H
+- [[Half-Hearted Sarcophagus]]
+- [[Haw-EN2525]]
+- *[[Heimhallif]]
+- [[Hess Drive]]
+- [[History Paradox]]
+## I
+- *[[Incandescent Temporeactor]]
+- [[Industrial Ascendency]]
+- [[Institute for Psykologikal Masterie]]
+- [[Ionzhi Calendar]]
+- [[Iceproofed Shielding]]
+## J-K
+- *[[Kester City]]
+- [[K'ghani Trail]]
+- [[Kilt'iir, The]]
+- [[Kettlebelly Ceramic]]
+- Empty
+## L
+- [[Law of Finders Keepers]]
+- [[Long-Necked Gh'dol]]
+- *[[Lillux Colossus]]
+- *[[Lithis Falls Pass]]
+- [[Loping Doge, The]]
+## M
+- [[Manuscript Collection 47b]]
+- [[Mizar-4]]
+- [[Mizar-5]]
+- *[[Manifold Battle, The]]
+- Empty
+## N
+- *[[New Golgori Rebellion]]
+- [[Nemarii Obelisk]]
+- [[New Hinterland Peninsula]]
+- [[Nevermind-Debate Schism]]
+- Empty
+## O
+- [[Oedeon]]
+- *[[Orianian Wasteland, The]]
+- [[Ormommon Forces]]
+- Empty
+- Empty
+## P
+- *[[Principality of Ionzh]]
+- *[[Psychic Attunement]]
+- [[Public Relations]]
+- [[Phylidium]]
+- Empty
+## Q-R
+- *[[Quantum Compression Apparatus (QCA)]]
+- *[[Regina Apiana]]
+- *[[Rho-HY472]]
+- *[[Rotorastrianism]]
+- *[[Revisionist Period]]
+- Empty
+## S
+- *[[Sanity Certification]]
+- *[[Second Destruction of the Golgari Library]]
+- *[[Smotherer of Light, the]]
+- *[[Stasis Tourism]]
+- *[[Sulfur Bankruptcy]]
+## T
+- *[[Theory of Forgotten Sin]]
+- *[[Traitor's Ridge]]
+- *[[True Ionzhi Republic]]
+- *[[Turban of God]]
+- *[[Two-Crown Paradox, The]]
+## U
+- *[[U-U Card]]
+- *[[Unit Star]]
+- *[[Universal Credit System]]
+- *[[Universe-Universe Binary Interaction]]
+- *[[Uriath Xers, XPh.]]
+## V
+- *[[Varix Jhothar]]
+- *[[Varphorium]]
+- *[[ve Kenton Family]]
+- *[[Vultraum Sector]]
+- *[[Vvvelll Auto-genocide]]
+## W
+- *[[Wax-Witch]]
+- *[[Web-Weaver]]
+- *[[Webway of Faces]]
+- *[[Werlact Julane]]
+- *[[Widow's Polish]]
+## Y-Z
+- *[[Yozt Belt Skirmish]]
+- ^[[Y'lin River Basin]]
+- *[[Zenith Throneroom]]
+- *[[Zan-Taranth]]
+- *[[ZZ-level]]