Culture-and-society
2 entries
Frontier Life
The constant conflict of the core worlds (Sol and nearby) has driven many out to the frontiers seeking to build new lives and societies out from the shadow of the corps.
Languages
Language in the verse is shaped by three forces: the bottleneck of the exodus, the diversity of sapient life, and the absence of faster-than-light communication. Humanity carried thousands of languages into space but the pressures of survival, cohabitation, and political consolidation compressed them into a far smaller number. Contact with alien sapients, the rise of uplifted Revs, and the existence of machine superintelligences have since expanded the question of what "language" even means. This article provides a broad overview; individual species articles cover the specifics of each Asap language in detail.