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Pressure Suits can make 1 G in space.
Consider Phlebas Population (100,000 Mind >18 trillion Citizens)
Coming out of Hyperspace in Planet.
Vavatch Orbital Size (note solving for diameter gets ~4.4 million kilometers)
Sense Warp Wake from centuries
Idiran War era Mind HDD Space.
End of Invention Door Durability.
Idiran War Era Power Generation.
Different Kinds of Power Sources.
One orbital manufactured ~10,000 GCUs of where there are a million or so in total.
Displacement is not Matter Transmission.
Culture Ships mostly make themselves.
A bunch of stuff likely grabbed by Displacers.
The Culture is about 8000 years beyond 1978 Earth.
Capable of building Ringworlds
SC Agent Beats up some people.
For Contact 73 years isn't long
Hub Displaces Drone from gas giant to Orbital.
Possible Murder Class Hull count ~50,000.
Description of LF's Effector also start stop so fast human can't notice
Leakfield separte hot/cold air.
Toxin Detecting Ring plus Forcefield jewlry.
You might call them soft, because they're very reluctant to kill, and they might agree with you, but they're soft the way the ocean is soft, and, well; ask any sea captain how harmless and puny the ocean can be.'
- The Use of Weapons, Chapter XIII - Page 40
Module Speed plus No Sonic Boom.
Continent Class GSV (Prompt Subclass) Mass/Population.
The Culture own large corp in a different civilization.
Tap into less intelligent creature's mind
Sleeper Transform 1 <30 days to resolution.
Sleeper Size and Gas Giant atmosphere.
Effector read's a drone's mind and makes it blabber as a side effect.
Effector sucks mind of of Drone.
Human replay events they weren't paying attention to.
"Quicken" makes humans perceive things in slow motion.
Could have Sublimed 8000 years ago.
Rate of Tech change directly affecting humans is modest.
Excession era warship numbers.
Desert Class MSV size (3 km) and Sleeper regularly construct 6 km ships
Human Trance maintain muscle mass.
Time to message across galaxy.
Culture System 3 orbitals orbital Size.
Sleeper Displacing things visible to humans.
Acceleration equation gigatons of water and gas giant.
Ships restricted to subsonic in dock atmosphere.
Description of the Culture Universe.
AA could destroy KT easily at a few light minutes if it gets the drop on them.
Cruise Ship major reconfiguration almost.
A GSV like Sleeper can contain over 100,000 ships.
Sleeper Fails to convince someone to deliver their child they have been pregnant with for 40 years.
Sleeper Fleet Size/industrial capacity.
Can store and run a human personality on something that can fit in a alien brain.
Said construct still needs to sleep but that can be accelerated.
Culture Could easily grow faster.
GSV Sanctioned Parts List Size.
Normal procedure to scan anything/anyone getting on board.
Perfect Medicine plus super virus.
Avatar has a lighter built into its finger.
Can Speed Up/Slow Down orbital rotation on a whim.
Perspective of someone getting their mind state sucked up.
Morthanveld Space Culture relatively small part of galactic community.
Shellworld flying animal speed.
Pan humans less than a percent of aggregated life.
C8M Big CU vs Small SV and hundred person Module
Morthanveld can't/won't interfere on a civ far lower than them.
Morthanveld views on intervention.
Low tech civ can reprogram humans.
Personal Surveillance consequences of leaving SC
Morthanveld Nestworld Size and Scope.
Nariscene small moon sized station.
Ships limited inside hyperspheres.
Iln Cyber attack sophistication.
Very likely that human isn't most intelligent being in their home.
A particular Orbital's buildings are functional spacecraft.
Culture response to orbital destruction.
50 trillion citizens and many millions of orbitals.
SD 1500 years after Idiran War.
Description of a human in Sim.
Plate class size, mass, population.
Counting Avatar gets into guarded building and disables surveillance
Mind state description/history.
[Merging Mindstates.](https://gist.github.com/KarlMrax/930535f057e56df5a00b7de3c22d735d
Quietus description and more dead than living.
GSV house nearly 10,000 ships at 50% capacity.
Simulations have the same fidelity as the Real
NonCulture Cit speculating on what minds think about her having sex with one of their Avatars.
Murder Class Model Speed Sustained and Burst.
Murder Class Crew Capacity (LF) 120 humans
[Tsun ship capabilities.](https://gist.github.com/KarlMrax/527fb7698ac7525ab527c57a8a556a1a
1 subsection of Hell can have 1.25 billion minds.
Not connecting to the energy grid properly kills their engines.
Sand grain sized bit of Smatter can be a problem (take over?) a small Culture unit
Sim time vs Real time incomplete.md
Understanding of the Universe.
Culture passes through degrees of mods.
All interstellar craft sentient.
Orbital Hub plus 2 plate orbitals.
Orbital Plate Structure maybe thickness.
Peace Faction Millions of ships.
Size Structure of artificial worldish.
Just SC things
She was not being allowed to take the drone with her on her return to Sursamen. SC agent combat drone was a combination that was well known far beyond the Culture. Although perilously close to a cliché, it remained a partnership you could, allegedly, still frighten children and bad people with.
- Matter, Chapter 10 - Page 176
Seatrider invs weapon power combat wiring.
[Combat Wiring control shaking.]https://gist.github.com/KarlMrax/3ebbb27211eb299aadf7bd9e34fa550b)
Post Humanity Shapes also human->Drone.
Gravity Adaption by Human Basic.
Shared Dreaming Lower Sleep Req.
Pre-SC Enhancements better than human.
Control over one's dreams common.
Neural Lace allows for perfect memory recall.
Using "Agents" to search for information on Dataverse.
Morthanveld Pop See through water as if it was clear SC enhancements can get O2 from water.
Could catch 28 birds with enhancements.
Detect and understand communication via short range laser.
Djan reactivate SC enhancements after Nest
Most high end gear uses AM reactors and batteries.
SC Agent AM reactor detonates killing the Iln.
Low Tech Occulenses IR Radar and NV.
Quicken drags out a person's last syllable for several seconds.
Culture Cit consistently gets flips coin to specific side.
Ships can supply Agents with enormous amounts of money.
Culture humans (with tech to add senses) can look in all directions at once.
Keeps accurate time count for hours until some kind of heat stroke like problem.
When getting asphyxiated body automatically starts shutting down less relevant parts.
Gzilt eyes see kilometers away.
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