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**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… --- ## [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… --- ## [Interesting, Weird or Useful Science and Technology](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/interesting-weird-or-useful-science-and-technology/477)
**Author:** [@Morgrim](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/Morgrim)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2026, 5:42pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/interesting-weird-or-useful-science-and-technology/477 "2026-09-10T17:42:22Z")
Scientists Are Turning Dead Spiders Into ‘Necrobots’ And We Are So Creeped Out It turns out that puppeteering dead spiders is a more effective gripping tool for small lightweight objects than the majority of the purely … --- ## [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… --- ## [With a \*bounce\* \*bounce\* \*bounce\*](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/with-a-bounce-bounce-bounce/3666)
**Author:** [@avatar](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/avatar)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 27, 2026, 8:05am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/with-a-bounce-bounce-bounce/3666 "2026-08-27T08:05:19Z")
A historical development I learned about yesterday, in the course of research related to today’s upcoming piece: The experiments of the Royal Navy and US Navy, back in the 1950s, with flexible - for which read inflatabl… --- ## [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… --- ## [Machine Alignment Chart Collection Thread](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/machine-alignment-chart-collection-thread/541)
**Author:** [@avatar](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/avatar)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [August 17, 2026, 11:35pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/machine-alignment-chart-collection-thread/541 "2026-08-17T23:35:10Z")
Because I find them amusing and occasionally inspirational. Here’s one for aircraft carriers to start y’all off: --- ## [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… --- ## [Morgrim's Analogue Pixels Art (and other fibre arts)](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/morgrims-analogue-pixels-art-and-other-fibre-arts/3652)
**Author:** [@Morgrim](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/Morgrim)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [July 12, 2026, 1:55pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/morgrims-analogue-pixels-art-and-other-fibre-arts/3652 "2026-07-12T13:55:53Z")
I am in a major depressive slump right now, and trying to drag myself out of it via showing myself I CAN do good and/or useful things. So I’m sharing some of the embroidery I’ve finished. Some Christmas-themed owls. … --- ## [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. --- ## [For those of you wondering](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/for-those-of-you-wondering/3655)
**Author:** [@avatar](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/avatar)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 25, 2026, 8:40am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/for-those-of-you-wondering/3655 "2026-06-25T08:40:35Z")
…what I have been up to for the last few weeks, here, for your enjoyment, is a video of a chubby fifty-one-year-old SF writer yeeting an I-beam off the top of a no-longer-required 1950/1960s garage: --- ## [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… [Next page](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/latest.md?page=1)