Cloudhiker
Cloudhiker is a website that allows the user to explore personal sites, articles, and resources at random, replicating the experience of exploring the "old" web.
Cosmic Noise
Cosmic noise is electromagnetic radiation from space that can be detected as radio signals.
Digital Gardens
Digital gardens are "free-form, work-in-progress" personal wikis or websites that emphasize connection, public learning, and non-linear exploration.
Genesis Tone
The Genesis Tone is a distinctive cosmic radio noise originating in deep space that's become the North Star of intergalactic wayfinding.
Great Remapping
The Great Remapping was a calamitous moment in Earth history that led to the mass hybridization of the human species.
Hian Empire
The Hian Empire, which once held dominion over vast swaths of the known galaxy, is a now known only as an extinct spacefaring culture.
JanusCorp
The Janus Corporation is an Earth-based Sovra that specializes in information technology and state-of-the-art bioengineering.
Meshnet
The meshnet is an intergalactic information network used by governing bodies and citizens alike that is largely owned by the Janus Corporation.
Shells
Shells are bioengineered creations of the Janus Corporation, built to gladly serve in roles ranging from nursery caretakers to proxy soldiers.
Sovras
Sovras (or 'Sovra-Class Entities,' SCEs) are sovereign corporate nationstates driven by capital, serving the needs of their shareholders before the needs of their citizenry.
Unincorporateds
Unincorporateds (or 'unincorporated bodies') are zoanthropes who aren't the citizens or employees of any recognized Sovra.
Vahnn
Vahnn is the mysterious CEO of the Janus Corporation and member of an ancient race long thought to be extinct.
Walking Cities
The Walking City was a speculative project by the avant-garde architectural group Archigram that imagined a high-tech city capable of changing locations.
Zoanthropes
Zoanthropes are spacefaring human-animal hybrids that hail from the planet Earth and come in many different shapes, colors, and sizes.