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===The Elder First=== | ===The Elder First=== | ||
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===Inheritor=== | ===Inheritor=== | ||
| − | + | The term used by the Elder's Vault's systems to refer to those Potentials left with the ability to access it. All but one of these were trained by the Elder First, with the exception being Amanda Hawk. Each Inheritor was left a Reliquary within the Vault, holding information of considerable value to them, and to humanity also. | |
===Lady in Fire Enfolded=== | ===Lady in Fire Enfolded=== | ||
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Source: A Place in the World and [https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/the-practice-war.31698/page-584#post-12536938 Link] | Source: A Place in the World and [https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/the-practice-war.31698/page-584#post-12536938 Link] | ||
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Contents
Humans
The Circles
An organisation created by Amanda Hawk as a child in an attempt to help others in her Institute rebuild the families they lost to the Week of Sorrows. It has since grown into a societal entity which has unified most of humanity in a vast and deeply communal support network.
The Elder First
Those of the First Awoken who awoke to more peaceful focuses, mostly along the lines of Insight and Mending. Curiously, all lacked the biological modifications which granted them indefinite lifespans. Engineered the restoration of humanity.
Inheritor
The term used by the Elder's Vault's systems to refer to those Potentials left with the ability to access it. All but one of these were trained by the Elder First, with the exception being Amanda Hawk. Each Inheritor was left a Reliquary within the Vault, holding information of considerable value to them, and to humanity also.
Lady in Fire Enfolded
A quasi-religious entity that came into being directly after the Second Battle of Sol. The titular Lady is Amanda Hawk, inspired by her most obvious action during the battle.z
Potential
Source: A Place in the World and Link
Potentials are those members of humanity who have Awoken to the ability to use Practice, the gift left behind by the self-sacrifice of the Dragons for their creators.
Project Insight
Project Insight is a highly important working group of Potentials, all sharing a Focus within the Insight classification, who use Practiced technology to pool and amplify their talents, and in so doing are capable of acquiring information from far outside traditional intelligence avenues.
Unisonbound
This term is used to refer to Potentials who have been found compatible with and bound themselves to a Unison Platform
The Two Twenty Three / 223
This term is used to refer to the first group of Unisonbound. It is in reference to the Original Number of members of the group
Heartcircle
Aliens
Shiplords
The primary Antagonists of The Practice War, little is known about them as a society
Contact Fleet
A group of Alien Representatives that traveled to Earth after hearing reports of the outcome of SBoS to determine future relations with Humanity
Cich’swa Confederacy
The Cich’swa Confederacy is a peacefully expansionist multi-species polity that integrates its cultures at an incredibly deep level. They appear to have either won or bargained for the right to several low level Second Secret modifications that allow their citizens to travel freely between the many different worlds of the Confederacy. Their culture is a rich mix of over a dozen races, and their government is a mildly bizarre form of electoral technocracy. It’s about as strange as it sounds.
Marionettes
A single species power, governed by a constitutional triumvirate with hereditary elements. There is considerable reference made to genetic memory and partners. They display an ability to ‘play tricks’ with their biology at some level.
Marionette Observer
Neras
One of the oldest alien races, these fungoid's appear to be contemporaries of the Shiplords. The Shiplords seem to respect the neutrality of the nera's in their conflict. They have an innate ability for FTL travel.
Nilean Community
A mixed polity, they have a competent military, but their true strength lies in covert operations. They have enjoyed almost seventeen-hundred years of peace thanks to their intelligence network, and are believed to have created the Group of Six. The Community is a selective demarchy.
Sarthee
An excellent example of a military republic, however any major actions on their part has been paralyzed by debate on Uninvolved status for the last hundred years.
Schorvan
A multi-species group, with some military power, but a great deal of wariness of the Shiplords on a cultural level. They practice a brand of strong libertarian-ism, with an overarching government providing little more than a unified military and law enforcement between the various spheres of the polity. They freely accept other races, so long as they’re capable of meeting the input requirements for their territory, but are generally hesitant of truly integrating with them.
Telas Luminary
A firebrand theocracy, they rose into the galactic stage after their successful defeat of a Tribute Fleet through an understanding of the Third Secret and what can only be described as bloody-minded obstinacy. Although they step carefully around the Shiplords, the Luminary is very clear about its opposition to their agenda.
Other Races
Dragons
The most powerful creatures humanity ever created, the Dragons were products of the Second Secret. Built to protect humanity, and the worlds they sought to colonise
Artificial Intelligence / AI
Artificial Intelligences are technology/computer based beings that have developed sentience and are known to posses souls, just as a biological human does
Virtual Intelligence / VI
Unlike their AI "cousin's" Virtual Intelligences (VIs) are not sentient and lack souls, operating purely as they were programmed to do
Unison Intelligence
Places
Arcadia Institute
Elder's Vault
A cache of information and artifacts left behind by The Elder First for a few chosen potentials to open in the future.
Mytikas
A city on Mars that was destroyed during the FBoS. The buildings and information located there were revived by a practiced miracle in (*insert year here*)
Olympus Colleges
Places of Research and Education located on Mars in Mytikas
Orbitals
Space Stations on which some of humanity lives
Reliquary
A room within the Elder's Vault keyed to a particular Potential, typically a student of the first awakened, that contains resources or information that the Elder First thought needed to be preserved, but potentially too dangerous for the time at which it was put away
Skylark
Sol
The star that Earth and Mars orbit, or by extension the whole solar system. Home of Humanity.
The Institutes
Where most children were raised and educated after the Week of Sorrows.
Terms of Practice
Practice
The term used to referr to the special abilities gained by a portion of huamity after the week of sorrows
Awakening / Awoken
This is a term used to describe the time of a Potential or group of Potentials first coming into their powers. These events typically happen in waves with an indeterminate amount of time between groups.
Focus / Aspect
A Focus is something that defines the essence of a Potential and is the core of what their Practice can do. It is typically a word that defines the user at a spiritual level.
Practice Trance / Trance
Source: Place in the World
A Practice Trance is the truest expression of a Potential’s power, a state in which they are able to transcend any limit in the pursuit of their Focus.
Practiced Miracle / Miracle
When a Practice Trance comes together to produce an effect that is even greater than the intended result of the trance
Speaking
The act of infusing a word with the power of practice to affect the world.
Speaker
A Potential who has mastered the ability to invoke the power of Practice through use of the spoken word.
A / The Word
This phrase referrs to a word (or the word) that has been infused with practice.
The Web
A phenomenon that connects all of humanity through Practice although little else is known about it at present
Secrets
"Secrets appear to be ways to bend reality to generate a desired result that would otherwise be considered scientifically impossible. Secrets are numbered and only a limited number seem to exist
""a fusion of science and belief made into something real""
""Actually understanding what the Secrets are beyond what they do [...is] certainly beyond humanity right now."""
First Secret
a means to move through space-time generating faster than light (FTL) travel without excessive energy costs
Second Secret
genetic engineering on a truly incredible scale
Third Secret
A Secret known to the Telas, but not yet to Humanity. Appears to have something to do with manipulating electromagnetism.
Fourth Secret
Unavailable
Fifth Secret
a method to grant unparalleled manipulation and mastery over the fundamental force of gravity
Sixth Secret
" the creation of nanotechnology at a similar level to previous Practiced designs without the need for practice & the total obliteration of Moore’s law. This led to an explosion of integrated virtual assistant and prediction systems"
Objects
Artifact
An Artifact is a tool created by a Potential using Practice that can enhance or focus their ability
The Adamant
A ship left behind by the Elder First in the Elder's Vault (unless i've mixed it up with something else)
Inviolate Material
need to look up
Prologue / Project Prologue
Source: Place in the World
Nano-Technology used to replicate the effect of Second Secret Bio-Engineering after the Secret was forbidden
Tombstone Platform
Unison Platform
Initially a device to connect to a Potential and expand their use of practice they have become sentient entities in their own right an exist alongside their Potential as an individual while still performing their original function and more
Ships
Dauntless Class
The first Practice hybrid warship ever constructed. They were designed as purely offensive platforms and are painfully short on defensive systems. They require potentials to operatate non-standard armaments
Tower Class
The second type of Practice hybrid warship. These ships were primarity dedicated to Defence with self-repair systems. Their most advanced defensive systems require a potential to operate them.
Ulfberht Class
The most powerful warships humanity has ever built; they are planned to replace Dauntless class. They are more durable than Dauntless Class ships and have much stronger armaments.
Tribute Fleet
Regular Fleet
War Fleet
Other
Directives
The Directives are the rules that The Shiplords left behind after The Week of Sorrows designating actions that would cause them to destroy humanity
FTL
An abbreviation meaning "Faster Than Light". Achieving FTL travel is necessary for interstellar travel.
Hero Unit
A character in the quest that the players can specifically designate their action ability to help the main Protagonist
Humanity 2.0
A term often used by Questers to describe the current sociopolitical arrangement of humanity in the Universe Practice war and how it differs from humanity as we know it in the present
Kingslayer
SBoS
See "Second Battle of Sol"
Second Contact
Soul
The Soul is known to exist in The Practice War universe and it is from the soul the Practice comes. All sentient Species are known to have souls, although not every species/individual has the power of Practice
Stack
System Hooks
The Pattern
Week of Sorrows
Aftermath of the First Battle of Sol (FBoS?) in which a price was extracted from humanity of most of the remaining adult human population and the Directives were laid down the by Shiplords by whom they were defeated