Editing Quest:Void Quest (section)

===Tech and Other===

'''Hundred-Worlds Rebellion''' - The ''Harbinger''s first and only official mission. A religious xeno rebellion, put down by the ''Harbinger''. 3 planets were rendered sterile, 44 planets surrendered. The ''Harbinger'' was then ordered to investigate Iridus, and entered the system blind as to not betray its position. The rebellion sacrificed themselves to induce the system's twin suns to nova. The ''Harbinger'' performed a hasty jump away, and suffered severe damage as a result.

'''Elevated Intelligence (EI)''' - A human mind linked and transplanted into an Artificial Intelligence construct. Created in order to replace purely Artificial Intelligences (AIs) for high-security duties, such as the commander of a warship. Candidates for EI are thoroughly screened for loyalty, absence of family, etc. The elevation process itself involves a large number of highly trained scientists. No EIs have ever stepped down on a mission, though some have retired and gone on to be university, government, or intelligence computers. Very few. It’s extremely rare. The EI-subsumation process replaces the brain, spine, and major nerves with cyberware.

'''Artificial Intelligences (AI)''' - What it says on the tin. Tin-can brains. There has been one AI revolt prior to ''Harbinger''s dormancy, and at least one during it. The exact nature of these revolts are unknown, but the effect is that highly functioning AIs were feared in the days of the Ophidian Empire.

'''Singularity Reactor''' - A power generation source that harnesses a black hole. These come in different sizes and power outputs. The ''Harbinger'' has a large singularity reactor: at full output it would be possible to power an entire planet. While they are heavily shielded, it is indeed possible to collapse them. What happens is a truly catastrophic event of indiscriminate destruction. 

'''Cryostasis''' - As traditional: deep-frozen individuals (humans, usually) for long-keeping. Reliable if done correctly. There is a recovery period of a month or two during which re-freezing is inadvisable.

'''Cybernetics''' - Cybernetics were highly advanced in the Ophidian Empire. The Armada pays for all augmentations. Mind-machine interfacing is actively used. Hardware mental blocks are completely possible.

'''Virtual Self''' - An avatar of a mind during a mind-machine interface. Without special training one keeps the mental image of themselves they had prior to being cyberized.

'''Genemods''' - Genetic modifications: popular and common, everything from food to pets to even children were genemodded for things like slower cell degeneration, better immunities, making them tougher... things like that. No creating things out of whole cloth though.

'''Ophdian traffic only''' - The system is under the direct control of the Ophidian Empire and only human ships are permitted in the system, due to a combined military, economic, and political stranglehold. Typical for alien races that tried to resist becoming subject states at first but later gave up.

'''Ophidian Navy''' - Mentioned by Captain Charles Devri of the OIS Glorious Destiny in a recorded message at Orrin. Perhaps ruled by a High Command and the Regent.

'''Cloning''' - Possible, but not in the ''Harbinger''.

'''Hyperstate Reactor''' - A weak (relatively) reactor, barely capable of firing a medium energy canon. No containment signature, required vents and a cyclic recombiner.

'''Mater/antimatter Annihilation Reactor''' - A small-scale reactor type, more powerful than fusion/fission, but still very weak.

'''Marquis class''' - A fast attack destroyer-class warship. Created and deployed during ''Harbinger''s dormancy, in order to placate the Consuls worries about the Armada's political power. Presumably cheaper and weaker than the Harbinger-class.

'''That thing on Korlo''' - Foreshadowed by Anon in thread 2 as UltraMegaSpaceDeathVirus, and colloquially deemed "Space AIDS." The former is more accurate, as the virus stays alive for millenia and causes death within 30 minutes of contact by means of hemorrhaging from all orifices, including eyes.

'''The Galactic Core''' - The rough equivalent of the Bermuda Triangle. More stars there than the rest of the galaxy combined, they say. Rumors of races so powerful they fly through space without ships, wreathed in pure energy, laughing flames dancing from their eyes as they pull ships to their doom in the supermassive black hole that resides in the center.

Horrific stories of vessels flying through and getting caught in in Hawking radiation emanating from the core singularity, changing everyone on board. They walk and talk like normal people, you can't tell the difference, but sometimes they will all just stop and turn, staring at you, not saying a word. It's said that no matter what type of ship they were before they all go rogue, taking on passengers and then flying them through the eddies and currents only they can see... creating more of them.

'''The Charn''' - The most advanced and largest alien empire encountered to date by humanity. A propaganda-vilified extraterrestrial race that was wiped out completely for resisting to submit in any way.

'''Intergalactic Travel''' - There have been a lot of projects over there years but ultimately there was just no way to get there fast enough at the time of your accident.