Miscellaneous

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Alcohol

Humans, and many other life-forms enjoy the consumption of this organic compound.  

Space-booze


Base-8 Numbers

Throughout the Empire of 1,000,000 Suns, numbers are reckoned in base-8.

Description


Chaos Energy

Chaos energy is a mysterious force that has unpredictable effects.

Description


Chedoku

Chedoku is an extremely complex board game popular among beings of high intelligence.


The Election Festival

The Election Festival started with the Planetary League, as a way to choose office holders, but was continued in the Holy Empire of Man as a nationalistic event.


The Eye of God

A gigantic diamond over 100 Meters in diameter, discovered floating in deep space.

History


The Gorox Festival

Planets with a population of Gorox have a unique festival every thirty years.

The Gorox Festival


Grigoo

Grigoo is a term referring to anything considered worthless, especially nanotechnology.


Icebox worlds

Icebox worlds were once warm enough to support life, but have since frozen, turning them into immense freezers full of alien life.


Kly Fnofcob

In the Empire of 1,000,000 Suns, Kly Fnofcob is a generic name referring to an idealized citizen.


Monoculture worlds

There are a number of planets around the galaxy where a single species (or even a single organism) has come to completely dominate the biosphere.


Mr. WOW!

Mr. WOW! was a popular line of soft-drinks during eras 1 and 2.


Musical Acts in the galaxy

The galaxy is huge and contains a great diversity of life and culture. This is a fragment of a list of some of its notable musical acts.


Shinigami (死神)

Shinigami was a legendary battleoid, feared as a pirate, then later renowned as a rebel against the Holy Empire of Man.


Shipboard Combat

Most space-faring cultures observe certain rules during boarding actions or on other occasions when combat takes place aboard a ship or station.

Shipboard Combat


The Smiling Human

The iconic yellow smiley face found in popular culture has different meanings among alien cultures.

The Smiling Human


Storms

There are several types of events that space travelers refer to as storms.

Description


Storyteller Civilizations

Some cultures never reached the stars because they never learned to read and write.


Tesserites

Tesserites are objects that drift too close to a black hole and are stretched by tidal forces.

Tesserites


Triple-Lapels

They were quite the rage in the (GSC) 560’s.

Triple-Lapels