# General **URL:** https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/c/general/7.md [Latest](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/latest.md) · [Categories](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/categories.md) · [Tags](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/tags.md) --- ## [An Assortment of World Additions](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/an-assortment-of-world-additions/574)
**Author:** [@avatar](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/avatar)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [May 28, 2025, 6:01pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/an-assortment-of-world-additions/574 "2025-05-28T18:01:59Z")
In one feature replacing some now-lost functionality, this is my new thread for random things I happen to have added to the 'verse that I haven’t found occasion to use yet, but which are, nonetheless, now part of it. To… --- ## [Things Eldrae Would Definitely Not Appreciate](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/things-eldrae-would-definitely-not-appreciate/124)
**Author:** [@avatar](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/avatar)\ **Replies:** 79\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2026, 6:42pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/things-eldrae-would-definitely-not-appreciate/124 "2026-06-01T18:42:25Z")
To provide the diametric opposite to @Morgrim’s Things Eldrae Might Appreciate thread, this one provides a space for things that they would definitely not appreciate. (Primarily stupidity and barbarianism, I suspect.) T… --- ## [Things Eldrae Might Appreciate](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/things-eldrae-might-appreciate/122)
**Author:** [@Morgrim](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/Morgrim)\ **Replies:** 109\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2026, 11:00am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/things-eldrae-might-appreciate/122 "2026-09-15T11:00:05Z")
To me, this category involves the following traits: it’s complicated, it demonstrates skill, and you get art as a result. (Or potentially a very useful object, but eldrae seem to want their useful objects to be as beauti… --- ## [The Books: Tales of the Associated Worlds](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/the-books-tales-of-the-associated-worlds/20)
**Author:** [@avatar](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/avatar)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 22, 2020, 7:58pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/the-books-tales-of-the-associated-worlds/20 "2020-01-22T19:58:19Z")
The currently published books in the Tales of the Associated Worlds series are these: --- ## [About the General category](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/about-the-general-category/14)
**Author:** [@avatar](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/avatar)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 22, 2020, 7:20pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/about-the-general-category/14 "2020-01-22T19:20:16Z")
Discussion about the mainline Eldraeverse. Talk about the books, or indeed about anything else related to the 'verse. --- ## [Welcome to Discourse](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/welcome-to-discourse/7)
**Author:** [@system](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 22, 2020, 6:11pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/welcome-to-discourse/7 "2020-01-22T18:11:17Z")
Welcome to the Eldraeverse Discourse, a place for all readers and fans of the Eldraeverse books to chat! We have places to discuss the books, for fanfic authors, for frequently (or infrequently) asked questions, and just… --- ## [Earth Fanfic (Post-Contact Hilarity II)](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/earth-fanfic-post-contact-hilarity-ii/1244)
**Author:** [@avatar](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/avatar)\ **Replies:** 396\ **Last updated:** [September 18, 2026, 2:40pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/earth-fanfic-post-contact-hilarity-ii/1244 "2026-09-18T14:40:39Z")
This is the new and improved cousin of the Post-Contact Hilarity thread for all your not-long-enough-for-AO3 contact-with-Earth fanfic needs. Let me first, establish what is known about the Imperial presence hereabouts: … --- ## [What A Difference A Syllable Makes](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/what-a-difference-a-syllable-makes/3674)
**Author:** [@avatar](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/avatar)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2026, 1:12pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/what-a-difference-a-syllable-makes/3674 "2026-09-17T13:12:58Z")
clankie: Semi-affectionate slang term for a cybershell, or other robot body. Contrast the more neutral hardhat; compare squishie. An important note, however, is that the semi-affectionate slang term is clan… --- ## [Legal Courtesies](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/legal-courtesies/3673)
**Author:** [@avatar](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/avatar)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2026, 5:14pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/legal-courtesies/3673 "2026-09-15T17:14:32Z")
322. Bir-Brakt (Sea of Stars), a member world of the Linobir Disarchy, holds the unique distinction in the legal history of the Worlds of being the sole planet to sentence a criminal to death by elocution. T… --- ## [A personal pet theory/headcanon regarding the Eldraeverse and the Fermi Paradox](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/a-personal-pet-theory-headcanon-regarding-the-eldraeverse-and-the-fermi-paradox/3665)
**Author:** [@Adam\_Lincoln\_Steele](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/Adam_Lincoln_Steele)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [September 5, 2026, 9:26am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/a-personal-pet-theory-headcanon-regarding-the-eldraeverse-and-the-fermi-paradox/3665 "2026-09-05T09:26:17Z")
One oddity about the Eldraeverse is the prevalence of contacted sophont civilizations at a relatively young stage of development, not so low and undeveloped as to not be sophont but not so advanced as to be godlike. That… --- ## [Fighting Words, Not Fighting Words](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/fighting-words-not-fighting-words/3097)
**Author:** [@avatar](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/avatar)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [September 4, 2026, 3:04pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/fighting-words-not-fighting-words/3097 "2026-09-04T15:04:15Z")
So, it is suggested that I do not understand the fighting words doctrine. To which I must respond that the problem is that you are thinking of the fighting words doctrine, not the fighting words doctrine. 🙂 … --- ## [Cultural Crossovers #14: Doctor Strange](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/cultural-crossovers-14-doctor-strange/2132)
**Author:** [@avatar](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/avatar)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2026, 2:57am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/cultural-crossovers-14-doctor-strange/2132 "2026-08-31T02:57:26Z")
A quick pre-note: while suspension of disbelief is needed to believe in magic, of course, it’s not an unfamiliar context to the audience. The eldrae have a fine old hermetic tradition of their own, even if i… --- ## [Does the Empire use self-replicating von neumann machines?](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/does-the-empire-use-self-replicating-von-neumann-machines/3631)
**Author:** [@Elise](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/Elise)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2026, 12:32pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/does-the-empire-use-self-replicating-von-neumann-machines/3631 "2026-08-29T12:32:56Z")
It has both civil and military applications. --- ## [Brane Stopped Play](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/brane-stopped-play/3668)
**Author:** [@avatar](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/avatar)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2026, 12:22pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/brane-stopped-play/3668 "2026-08-29T12:22:10Z")
RESPLENDENT EXPONENTIAL VECTOR - Today's particleball final between the Asymptote Automata and the Technopolis Turbines was ruled a no-score draw today, after zero minutes of play and over an hour of philoso… --- ## [Not Even Their Final Form](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/not-even-their-final-form/3667)
**Author:** [@avatar](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/avatar)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [August 27, 2026, 8:02am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/not-even-their-final-form/3667 "2026-08-27T08:02:16Z")
The classical image of the aircraft carrier remains that set by the Third, Fourth, and even Fifth Oceanic Dominances - from the flush-deck carriers common at the start of the Third, to the V-deckers that dom… --- ## [Heavy Cavalry Redux](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/heavy-cavalry-redux/1653)
**Author:** [@avatar](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/avatar)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [August 18, 2026, 8:04pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/heavy-cavalry-redux/1653 "2026-08-18T20:04:31Z")
“Drive me closer! I want to hit them with my sword!” no-one with a tank, ever This is a recreation/reformulation/retcon of the original description of the Empire’s heavy cavalry legions, in light of b… --- ## [Undistress (4)](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/undistress-4/3664)
**Author:** [@avatar](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/avatar)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2026, 12:40pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/undistress-4/3664 "2026-08-01T12:40:25Z")
IMS Sukorya's Joy; and IMS Esseldár's Champion, Cerulean Ocean, 1340 Gradakhmath 4 I didn't believe my own eyes. I didn't believe the documentation, either. (Although the remnants of an old esklav stain o… --- ## [Data Snek](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/data-snek/3663)
**Author:** [@avatar](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/avatar)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2026, 12:31pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/data-snek/3663 "2026-08-01T12:31:40Z")
Another feature of life on Mmrdene, of course, is the nature of its dataweave. As you might expect, the esseli don't use the same optronic nanocircs as the more hard-technology inclined species of the Empire… --- ## [Church militants of the Empire](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/church-militants-of-the-empire/3531)
**Author:** [@Elise](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/Elise)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [July 22, 2026, 7:08pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/church-militants-of-the-empire/3531 "2026-07-22T19:08:51Z")
Does the Empire have church militants and church-affiliated soldiers? Bishoprics, templars, crusader kingdoms, glebes, monastic orders, brotherhoods of holy warriors, fraternities, dueling cults etc. If the Empire does c… --- ## [More Peculiar Legions](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/more-peculiar-legions/3498)
**Author:** [@Elise](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/Elise)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [July 15, 2026, 3:40am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/more-peculiar-legions/3498 "2026-07-15T03:40:07Z")
What are the some of the most idiosyncratic Legions in the Empire? Does the Empire have a Legion specialized in taking down the weakly-godlike entities? If that is the case, I suspect such Legion(s) will be under jurisdi… --- ## [Letter of Last Resort](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/letter-of-last-resort/3656)
**Author:** [@avatar](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/avatar)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [July 14, 2026, 2:56pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/letter-of-last-resort/3656 "2026-07-14T14:56:46Z")
FROM: IMPERIAL CONTINUITY DIRECTORATE (EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY) TO: CIVILIZATION BACKUP ARK-SHIPS AS FOLLOWS; CSS ABSTRACT ENDURANCE CSS AGAINST THE FALL OF NIGHT CSS KEEPER OF THE FLAME CSS SEM… --- ## [What is the Imperial Guard of Borders and Volumes?](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/what-is-the-imperial-guard-of-borders-and-volumes/3660)
**Author:** [@Elise](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/Elise)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [July 13, 2026, 6:26pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/what-is-the-imperial-guard-of-borders-and-volumes/3660 "2026-07-13T18:26:26Z")
Are they separated from the Orbit Guard? --- ## [How many offices, boards, ministries and logarchies does the Empire have?](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/how-many-offices-boards-ministries-and-logarchies-does-the-empire-have/3659)
**Author:** [@Elise](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/Elise)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 13, 2026, 2:29am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/how-many-offices-boards-ministries-and-logarchies-does-the-empire-have/3659 "2026-07-13T02:29:34Z")
Is there a complete chart or a table delineating the Imperial institutions? --- ## [Armor Beast](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/armor-beast/3632)
**Author:** [@avatar](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/avatar)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [July 12, 2026, 8:45pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/armor-beast/3632 "2026-07-12T20:45:42Z")
On occasion, I have spoken of the raztark (lit. "armor beast") of Paltraeth. It's something you might find vaguely familiar, as in Earth terms it's what you would call an ankylosaurid¹. It's one of the plane… --- ## [Specialists of Watch Constabulary and Office of Investigation and Pursuit](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/specialists-of-watch-constabulary-and-office-of-investigation-and-pursuit/3658)
**Author:** [@Elise](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/Elise)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 12, 2026, 9:37am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/specialists-of-watch-constabulary-and-office-of-investigation-and-pursuit/3658 "2026-07-12T09:37:52Z")
Notable, too, is the incorporation of the Disaster Instant Response teams, the Quenchers, and Gaëlenén’s Scalpel into the Watch Constabulary’s structure as specialists, and the extensive cross-training of all constabular… --- ## [Imperial Intelligence Community](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/imperial-intelligence-community/3496)
**Author:** [@Elise](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/Elise)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2026, 3:38am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/imperial-intelligence-community/3496 "2026-07-04T03:38:29Z")
Exactly how many intelligence agencies does the Empire have? It seems there are a lot of them. I wonder if each of those agencies has its own role and specializations in the grand scheme of things. BTW, does the Empire … --- ## [Education](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/education/1680)
**Author:** [@avatar](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/avatar)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [June 26, 2026, 2:28am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/education/1680 "2026-06-26T02:28:29Z")
So, Gregory Johnson was asking about education: On a tangentially related note (to firmish SF), how does education work exactly, in your universe? It has been implied in several places that skills get basic… --- ## [List of organizations and institutions related to the Transcend](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/list-of-organizations-and-institutions-related-to-the-transcend/3654)
**Author:** [@Elise](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/Elise)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [June 25, 2026, 3:45pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/list-of-organizations-and-institutions-related-to-the-transcend/3654 "2026-06-25T15:45:32Z")
Which Imperial organizations and institutions are associated/affiliated with the Transcend? It does not necessarily have to be under the direct or indirect jurisdiction of the Transcend; relevance alone is sufficient. --- ## [Minor Weirdnesses](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/minor-weirdnesses/605)
**Author:** [@avatar](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/avatar)\ **Replies:** 74\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2026, 9:55pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/minor-weirdnesses/605 "2026-06-14T21:55:00Z")
So, I’m doing the questions in the #WritingWonders hashtag over on Mastodon, at least this month, and today’s was: What is a common occurrence in your story that would be odd here? For which, well - I write science… --- ## [On the Care and Nurturing of Aesthants](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/on-the-care-and-nurturing-of-aesthants/3653)
**Author:** [@doctorcatfish](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/doctorcatfish)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2026, 3:09pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/on-the-care-and-nurturing-of-aesthants/3653 "2026-06-14T15:09:50Z")
So I was contemplating the surprising depths of philosophy in lighthearted American pop culture (to wit, Fraggle Rock) and its current stewardship by Disney, and the trends past and present that bend plutarchs and execut… [Next page](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/c/general/7.md?page=1)