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Mongo and Mongonians

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Mongo is a dark planet roughly the size of Mercury, whose atmosphere is cloaked in a sun obscuring layer of thick dust or smog of some sort. Being less bright than a small asteroid, even at closest approaches, seen only occasionally, it was often mistaken for a comet or asteroid. As such the sky is very diffuse light in perpetual twilight conditions, the sun an indistinct body, even the twilight and evening sky unaccountably bright with refracted sunlight. Mongo, like the planet Mercury, is a dense metallic ball with a much thinner rock crust, with a surface gravity of about 65% of Telestia. While its exact orbit is unknown, the most common estimate is 16 months, making its orbit about 1.2 Astronomical Units. Mongo’s angle to the ecliptic is extreme, so it only passes the plane of the ecliptic for only a few days every 8 months. Between its lack of luminosity (albedo) and that it only very occasionally crossed into the view where astronomers searched, Mongo’s existence went undetec...

Mad Moxie Part 3 Aboard the Klingon Secret Supply Depot

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Mad Moxie Part 2 The Tour AND Impromptu Requisitions of Opportunity

Mad Moxie Part 2 The Tour AND Impromptu Requisitions of Opportunity Before Nimbus became the planet of galactic peace, the sector it resided in was known as the Zeta Pictoris Sector, well known for its series of prison planets. Zeta Pictoris is a 1.4 solar mass Class F star, with a .97 solar mass Class-G companion star. Zeta Pictoris A has 33 rocky and metallic planets, 26 of which has commercially viable mineral deposits. As none of them were remotely terraformable, the system was primary a series of 61 hard labour prison settlements plus an additional 25 industrial installations mostly smelting and refining, some light manufabrication, inhabited by over 6 million prisoners and staff at its peak. Zeta Pictoris A also has 6 gas giants. Zeta Pictoris B has one gas giant and one Venusian metal rich planet. There are five marginally habitable star systems in the Zeta Pictoris Sector. The most habitable of the five was formerly known as Vodaynes, 18 LY from Zeta Pictoris. While nom...

Post-Verbal Communications

Post-Verbal Communications Courtesy of Sothothery Researcher Mirra Zanzibar. “The real world is unspeakable.” -Alfred Korzybski (early 20 th century Polish/Russian Philosopher/Scholar) A colleague of mine and I were discussing the limitations of language (among many things, like the best pancakes in Londinium). But we kept going in circles on just how difficult it could be to explain something using the spoken word… especially in trying to explain complex concepts like a deep experience, an abstract or philosophical concept, or a new idea, and most especially subjective phenomena. We were discussing was just how clumsy verbal or written communication is in spreading what exists in one head into another (we’ve all been there, trying our hardest to do that with a friend, loved one, colleague, student, or stranger) — that, instead of ‘transmutation’ of a concept or idea, like how a cold might spread, communicating an idea or viewpoint through language is actually quite difficult ...