AI Governing Dampening Substation
- Stop AI utilities from becoming self-aware AI
- ATIC engineers are careful about the emergence of consciousness in AI, the ethics and legal implications of the subordination of an enslaved sapient and fear of creating a powerful self-aware entity with the will to control or destroy biological life.
- Collapse of quantum wave functions housed within the microtubules of brain organoids connecting neural networks can cause consciousness to emerge in a system.
- The design of sapience governors using quantum field cages to reinforce time crystals within organoid microtubules, preventing quantum field collapse.
Androgynoid
Arty
Beta-cuck empire
- Insult used by ATIC Galaxy Guide for Minak
Centsq
- measurement of distance on land. Area is square centsq
Currency
- Credits are used throughout ATIC
- Some planets have a second, local currency as well
Fashion
- SQ29883 – Imperial Governor of Atopia started a fashion of wearing a long wrap around tie-dye garment under advice from his officials in order to improve his poor standing with the populace. The public did not agree with this choice and he was roundly mocked across all news outlets and shortly after, voted out of office.
- Ruffles of an Atopian Count’s formal dress
- Stark lines of Minak military
- Antanya collection of SQ34067 resemblance to Traxinian Umberspach dancer outfits – whirling skirts and bright colours
- Muezzin Talat’s SQ34110 collection was famous and reviewed by Sala Dino as “so good, he might be arrested for it.”
- Tirwan SQ34117 – puffball sleeves, orange sashes – escapism from fear and terror
- Palace deliberately draws connections with the past in their dress and shows a continuation of the line of the Shah – ceremonial tunic is essentially a replica of the 9th Shah’s accession tunic, with orchids to show the Shah’s youth at accession and circles of thorns to represent the royal family’s suffering. Shah’s outfit for presenting the princex includes loose pants and sandals of a style with Atopian peasants. The Shah wears purple, which suggests the Minak-Atopian society and is a stand against the government.
- SQ34117 – Muezzin announces a fashion range called MA society collection “Muezzin Allowed”, featuring the colour purple.
- Traxinians – a few generations ago (from SQ34117) adopted coloured ear coverings
- Hisperian singer Cyrine wore a live insect coverall to promote her album ‘we all live together’
Gender
- Children do not have a gender assigned until an unspecified age (maybe 8 or so); adults do have a gender, non-binary is recognised as a gender and not questioned
Genografting
- Service provided in the medical district in Salmet, Atopia
Intention Pod
- Allows ships to fly interplanetary (between planets) or interstellar
- Requires charging between uses
Ion puddle
- In orbit around Atopia – shimmering pool of charged particles that mess with ship electrics/weapons
Lifexqs
- life expectancy measured in standard quarters. The NIICE equivalent
Local impulse engines
- put ships into planetary orbit at Tirwan spaceport
Locale
Magi
- can be used in place of God in phrases but were also real people
Maji-glo holotizing
Micro-rations
- engineered to repair low-level DNA degradation from orbital space around Atopia
Minak-Atopian society (MA society)
- campaigned for peace at the time of the creation of ATIC – colour of society is purple
- a progressive organisation that believed in and campaigned for, not only an end to the war but even co-operation and allyship between the two great nations
- between SQ33490 and SQ33682
Octackle
- A sport played on Atopia, in the Imperial Stadium
- Eight Octackle-adiators on the field, names on their video-bibs. Each holo-contestant is assigned one of the others to vanquish. As Ocktackle-adiators are taken down they are removed and the assigned targets shuffled. Targets are posted on the game board. Last one standing wins.
- Bets are placed.
Orni-trucks
- At Commodities Market in Tirwan
Oy-oy
Paceball
- ball game, usually played on an indoor court but can also be played outside, on Atopia
Sheeksy
- briefly popular in SQ34113 – then the company went bust on Atopia
Time
- Milliquarter – a million quarters
- Decquarter – ten quarters (30 earth months, 1,000 Atopian days)
- Rotation – equivalent to an Earth year (4 standard quarters)
- Standard quarter - a unit of time approximately equal to three Earth months. There are 100 Atopian days in a Standard ===Quarter===
- CSQ – cents quarter – 1/10 standard quarter (0.3 Earth months, 10 Atopian days) – used on Atopia
- Cycle – 1/10 standard quarter (0.3 Earth months, 10 Atopian days) – used on Cho Hacha
- Subquarter or subbie – 1 Atopian day
- Subsec – somewhere between a second and a minute
- Dates are written ‘SQ34113.21’ = Standard quarter 34113, subquarter (or day) 21
Video-tainment
- Shown on screens in entertainment district in Tirwan