A gorgeous metal bound book with what appear to be golden pages.
On the cover are embossed the familiar concentric rings of thirteen
stars symbolic of the Linked Worlds.
The pages are thin and crisp like fine paper, but completely
untearable.
On each of the left hand pages are various writings in numerous
different hands.
It is difficult to read, as each page seems to contain numerous
overlapping writings in different colors of print.
One color or another stands out more strongly depending upon the light
and how you hold your head.
On the right hand pages are intricate full-color diagrams and
illustrations, depicting familiar scenes such as the Palatium Tamarch,
and the dust nebula, as well as abstract designs, all interwoven with
texts of a highly technical nature.
People possessing the following skills can open the appropriate "memory packet" - see a GM to do so. You can read as many sections as you like, with one exception: you may only open one of the first six (Psychic theory = x) packets. Whatever your Psi Theory is at the time you open one of those, is the value you are stuck with for that set of six.
Q: Are there any Tamorae other than the Dust Wyrm/Leonard Nimoy still around?
A: Yes.
An essay about the industrial complexes of GanfreyIndustrial complexes of Ganfrey principally fall into two categories: first-order developments of research done on Ganfrey, and second-order manufacturies which use locally developed techniques to improve efficiency.
The first type includes the Komongrund gel chip facility, using magnetic suspensions to deposit semiconductor traces in a polymeric gel, allowing for super-miniaturized computer systems. This ties in to another spinoff, TumbleRobot Inc, which uses Komongrund chips for sophisticated behavior in a robot no larger than a large insect. TumbleRobots are designed for aggregate work; increasing the number of robots in close communication allows them to subdivide computing tasks and enables them to behave increasingly intelligently. TumbleRobot's manufacturing plant in the Northmountain Sea was essentially self-compiled, in that new TumbleRobots are built by a previous TumbleRobot release.
Examples of the second type of industry include the Pherris distilling plant at Chalcedon Bay, which uses microtemperature and gravitics to hyperfractionate volatile organic slurries into separate molecules; and the Hephaestus Conglomerate, which uses a combination of titanium-carbon dust and fast plasma bursts to sear a reinforcing shell around a structure without damaging internal material.
Despite the link between "pure" science and the "applied" science of engineering, there is a significant schism between the cultures; the former prefer to publish rather than allow their discoveries them to become trade secrets, while the latter prefer to continue with a proven procedure, rather than embark upon experimental innovation. Hence many transitions from the Polymath Institute to local industrial complexes happen through third parties elsewhere in the Linked Worlds.
[This a potential lead to an excavation site on Sundown...]