The Milky Way galaxy is a fairly diverse place.  The Golden Alliance catalogs at least three hundred individual races within twelve large racial groups, and despite the bickering political factions that have a hand in most interplanetary dealings, the truth of the matter is that most people get along with each other pretty well.  Though there's always going to be the occasional xenophobe or culture that disapproves of disparate racial pairings, if you really fall in love with someone of another race, there will always be a way for that relationship to be the start of a family.  With that in mind, it's easy to wonder why all of the galactic ra

Replitech Enterprises was a small GA-based design business specializing in creating generic repair parts for numerous vehicles, and they were subject to a stroke of good fortune when they managed to acquire a used netcore from a pirate recovery auction.  Its founder had the idea to use this Netcore to automate a vehicle factory on a barren moon, and with the help of investments from the trade firms that would eventually become the exchanges division of The Consortium, a toxic but mineral-rich moon orbiting a lone gas giant in a system appropriately named Obscurus Vector Gamma was purchased.  The initial production plants for this venture were

Officially, of the six primary participatory factions of the Milky Way galaxy, none is granted express power over the others.  Some act more dominant or subservient, but there's not one faction with a true dominion.  In practice, however, that doesn't really matter, as the Goldlen Alliance is clearly the political powerhouse faction.  The Angelic Protectorate considers them the main area which they must protect, all the others fear that they might expand into their territories, and getting around in civilized space is incredibly difficult without a GA-issued IFF transponder.  They enjoy a few other privileges, but one of the most valuable is

When a Legion arrives at MSF High, or they are willingly converted by one of Althea's daughters, their mind is taken to a well-preserved memory within the hive that they are then allowed to experience.  This recreates the story that Althea told upon joining the local hive in Mahou City, and recreations of it are available in many forms throughout the school and surrounding businesses.  Here is the most basic transcription of the story: Many years before there was the race we call Legion, there were two lovers.  One, Uvius, was a brilliant Human spellcaster.  He specialized in Purity magic, and that was due in large part to his betrothed, Per

Golden Alliance Year 452(AD 192) --Sender-- Maximillan Marcus III c/o Marcus Materiels Corporation Research/Development Station I-14 Near Olberon II --Recipient-- Representative BlueWind Golden Alliance High Command Terra As you are well aware, I have refrained from making any public appearances in the past three months, and I know that you also are aware of the reason why.  The assault on Vraxis IV was the most brutal and vile attack by these monsters that has yet been witnessed, and the loss of my son is of course a tragedy that should have never happened, but the footage of the civilian escape from the planet can also serve as an invalu

Another of my contributors has asked to learn more about my first days at MSF High, so I'll recount it as best I can remember!  Do please keep in mind that there's likely something I've forgotten, or that my version of events may not match up perfectly with the way others might remember it.  With that out of the way, let me begin. My first day was, understandably, one of considerable confusion and disbelief.  When I had created a character at MSF High for myself, I had planned for it all to be little more than an escape from the mundanity of my life as a teaching assistant, and of course my initial reaction was to assume that I was dreaming

At the end of the Legion war, many Queens had their personalities suddenly restored, and while they still felt the environmental imperative that drove the war in the first place, they no longer felt the need to convert everyone around them.  This was the reason for the sudden cessation of conflict, with the war ending almost overnight.  For years, the Queens did their best to make amends by staying silent and, on planets that they had not completely taken over, either move offworld to a previously-uninhabitable world that they could fix or make peace with the non-Legion sentients there.  This policy of near-total submission worked well at fir

It can, at times, be easy for those attending and working at MSF High to forget that their abilities far surpass those of the average galactic citizen, but this is a reality that they should keep in mind as they enter into their studies, and is the focus of more than a few teaching sessions at each stage of the process.  For instance, at least once per year, Sensei Hwang, Professor Riley or Miss Megumi will requisition the use of the facility's netcore to create a simulated world in which everything but the students are ridiculously fragile, then assign them to make it from one place to another while doing as little damage as possible.  Some

Mahoutechnology is the word for both the process of creating technology that takes advantage of magical properties and the results of that creation.  By the strictest definition, a spellbook counts as this, as the pages were likely manufactured or otherwise technologically created, but for those of us who want to be less pedantic about the meaning of the word, the most common property of truly mahoutechnological items is the presence of Mahoucite in either the finished product or the construction of the item.  Since its discovery in the formative days of the Golden Alliance, this incredible mineral has driven countless innovations in both fie

Physics can be a bit of a double-edged sword.  Without the various forces that bind atoms together, our universe would be unable to sustain life as we know it, but someone who is falling off a cliff or getting hit in the face with a shovel would readily wish for just a little leniency when it comes to the physical laws that govern spacetime.  As a general linguistic rule, working within the limits of these natural laws is the process of science, while working to subvert them is the process of magic.  For the Humans of Terra and the Elves of Mythar, their respective reliance on a single field left them pinned within a single star system, and t