The Yazira Khwairif Tamaris Bagrationi of the Tsovereign Commonwealth of Mu Draconis

 T he Imperial Sovereign of the Concordat Dynasty of the Trantorian Galactic Imperium is a deeply spiritual man, his utterances are studied throughout the Imperium.   A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others. An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms. An unpredictable, faithful and objective hazard seems to have systematically singled out my life to make what are normally uneventful incidents violent, phenomenal and memorable. Art is honesty. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. Beauty should be edible, or not at all. Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making. Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid. Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being me. Everything alters me, but nothing changes me. Giv...

  Official interpretation of the Imperial Vision: Metamorphosis In his immobility     Under the split in the retreating black cloud the invisible scale of spring is oscillating in the fresh April sky. On the highest mountain, the god of the snow, his dazzling head bent over the dizzy space of reflections, starts melting with desire in the vertical cataracts of the thaw annihilating himself loudly among the excremental cries of minerals, or between the silences of mosses towards the distant mirror of the lake in which, the veils of winter having disappeared, he has newly discovered the lightning flash of his faithful image. It seems that with the loss of his divinity the whole high plateau pours itself out, crashes and crumbles among the solitude and the incurable silence of iron oxides while its dead weight raises the entire swarming and apotheosic plateau from the plain from which already thrust towards the sky th...

 

Meson Accelerator and its more plausible alternatives Part 1 Meson Accelerator Part 1b Meson Accelerator Issues Part 2 Update of the Meson Accelerator Concept. Enter, the Muon Cannon. Part 3 The Neutron Beam Weapon Part 4 Proton Beam Part 5 Electron Beam Conclusion Overview Addendum: Concentrated Ultra-High Energy Neutrino Beam Part 1 Meson Accelerator Perhaps one the most potent starship weapons is the dreaded Meson Accelerator (MA). Warships have substantial armor to protect them from hostile missile, laser, and particle beam weapon fire. Armor is utterly worthless against Meson Accelerator fire. Meson Accelerators are marvelous as a planetary defense weapon. Meson Accelerators several kilometers below the planetary surface can still shoot at hostile orbiting spacecraft. Hostile spacecraft will not be able to shoot through several kilometers of solid rock, unless they too are armed with Meson Accelerators and know where your Meson Accelerator is located. M...

Araxes Haggis Recipe and Traditions Traditionally served in late January (Imperium Calendar), but the first was held in late July, the date the Bagrationi clan continued to celebrate it. Ingredients: 1 fat widow stomach 1 fat widow transestrification liver 1 fat widow intestines 1 fat widow heart 1 fat widow lung/airsac 1 fat widow brain and nerve chord 1 kilogram minced suet 1 kilogram fat widow ovaries 1 liter vinegar 12 medium onions, minced 2 pound dry oats, toasted 1 tablespoon kosher salt 1 tablespoon ground black pepper 1 tablespoon dried ground herbs The suet is usually the fatty cuttings from inside the carapace, organ meat and connective tissue of the fat widows. Because of the transestrification process that is part of the Arthropoda Araxi, they have very little fat, but enough gathers up over time or if one finds larval or juvelile arthropoids. Directions 1. Gently turn the fat widow on its back and carefully make a Y-shaped incision ...

Water Footprint of various crops. These numbers reflect the typical amount of water for open air row crops. Most of our crops are built in enclosed structures, but these same numbers are proportional to the amount of infrastructure required to raise the same crop using recycles water. Tons of water per ton of crop 91            Cranberries 106          Carrots 106          Celery 106          Turnips 108          Tomatoes 118          Spinach 125          Melons 133          Cabbage 133          Lettuce 150          Watermelon 176     ...

Proto  Cliodynamic: Turnings To the Foundation, the galaxy so overflowing with people that individual humans can be treated collectively as interchangeable units. A branch of statistical mathematics called psychohistory is used to predict the future evolution of human society in the galaxy, in much the same way that the mathematics of thermodynamics can be used to predict the behavior of an ideal gas. The laws of thermodynamics could not be worked out until a great deal of experience had been accumulated with steam engines and carefully designed experiments had produced sufficient useful data. It was only when a given set of prior conditions could be shown to consistently produce the same result at a later time that equations could be found that expressed this relationship, and made it possible to predict a future result from a prior set of conditions. Implicit in Asimov’s Foundation is the idea that human behavior and societies must be, in some way, cyclical. If human progre...