Glossary

A

Arcaelit

Noun. See Signatory.

Adjective. Relating to or stemming from a TTMA signatory culture.

Arcology

Noun. The Arcaelits regard any large, mostly or totally self-contained life-supporting structure as an Arcology. In fact, the term Arcaelit itself descends from an ancient word for "Arcology-Dweller". The term applies equally to huge structures on planets like Arco Heissan and orbital stations like Mobile Arco Atsuvan. Often shortened to Arco.

Azulette

Adjective. Person with blue hair.

C

Centraframe

Noun. Any freefall structure made to provide inertial artificial gravity via rotation.

Courier Ship

Noun. Starship that purposefully relays, records, and transmits arbitrary information at its stops. Vimana are known to act as courier ships at times, barely emerging into Realspace long enough to exchange information before moving on.

E

Engram

Noun. In the context of the practice of Enveneration, engrams are raw components of personhood. They include representations of memories as well as the bodily experiences of a person. They can be stored or expressed. A stored engram is held as data. An expressed engram is present in a body, and constantly changes as part of that body.

Envenerate

Noun. Person, especially a Veilene human, composed of engrams rather than growing from a zygote stage.

Verb. To combine engrams to form a new, independent person.

Exo

Noun. Short for Exoarmor. Catch-all term for multi-limbed or highly-articulated vehicles. Also used for teleic organisms with a native Hyladrome since these entities host their Dyads in a similar way.

H

Haecceity

Noun. Jargon in Object-Translational Travel and Hylaesis referring to the full is-ness of an organism, their entire spectrum of possible experience given their body or other self-identifying expression.

K

Ketmillenium

Noun. Period of 100,000 years.

R

Rosette

Adjective. Having pink hair.

Noun. Person with pink hair.

S

Shared Moon

Noun. Celestial body whose basic orbital parameters are determined by bodies additional to its host. This is the terminology favored by the Arcaelits, but is also related to the real-life term Irregular Moon.

Signatory

Noun. Person or community that follows the Treaty of Tetyon, becoming part of TTMA.

T

Teleian

Noun. Organisms and/or species resulting from Simulated Evolution. Includes Ikoska, Vimana, Pulsids, Weavers, and more.

Adjective. An ecology where all materials, resources, objects, and organisms are linked together in cycles with no accumulating waste.

V

Vertette

Noun. Person with green hair.

W

Womb-Born

Adjective. Person born by being carried as an embryo (or other seed state) until able to survive detached from the reproductive system that bore them.

Worldlike

Noun. Planet, large space station, or other celestial object able to support its inhabitants on its own.

Y

Years Arcaelit Advent (AA)

Noun. The most common calendrical system among TTMA signatories. 0 AA is measured from the initial announcement of the Treaty of Tetyon.