Glossary
Glossary items define how terms are used within stories and commentary. Glossary entries are updated to incorporate more information revealed within a story. All glossary items are available here. Browse glossary items in alphabetical order, by date published or sort them by the date they were updated.
Glossary in Alphabetical Order
D
- Demagogue
Someone who aims to gain power by appealing to the prejudices of those they wish to control for their ends by making false claims and promises.
(view full entry) - Directed Social Evolution
A method by which learned instinctive behavior is modified to retain the original instinct that triggered it while neutralizing the adverse responses that led to the eradication of 99.97% of the world’s population.
(view full entry) - Directions
Habitat residents were oriented in a circular fashion, with speciific directions typically being used. Open entry for specifics.
(view full entry) - Donations
Donations are the combining of individual resources, such as units, food, and food subsidies, for a group’s benefit.
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E
- Earth
Humanity’s original homeworld.
(view full entry) - Eatery
Originally known as the Canteen, the Eatery was the common name for the combination of dining hall and grocery available to habitat residents for everyday dietary needs. Eateries were located on each Culinary Floor at the outer wall and inner circle, with entrances at the compass points.
(view full entry) - Energy
Also known as prana or chi, energy is the vital spirit that resides within all that draws breath and lives, binding individual entities together as parts of a unifying whole.
(view full entry) - Eras
The stories told are divided into eras.
(view full entry) - Euthanasia
With its clauses guaranteeing health care and allowing individuals to make their own choices, the Charter guarantees the choice to end your own life. There was a process to be followed to ensure that no one ended their life prematurely, but that right was enshrined and held inviolate.
(view full entry) - Eventware
A specialized grouping of drinking and eating containers, along with cutlery appropriate for use in an outdoor setting.
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- Face of the Foundation
As the Foundation Board’s spokesperson, internally throughout the Habitats and to the outside world, Alexandra Hanlon was called the ‟Face of the Foundation.”
(view full entry) - Feeds
All aspects of digital communication were provided by Feeds, providing a safe communications vector through video, audio and messaging systems available internally to a specific habitat, along with access to group feeds between all the habitats.
(view full entry) - Field Bowl
A lowered recreation field featuring team sports down below while spectators sit on the sloping sides, allowing them to see events below them. Also useful for concerts and even private party rentals
(view full entry) - Foundation Board
The Foundation Board was a leadership board selected by the original founders of the Foundation. It consisted of twenty people, each living in a separate habitat.
(view full entry) - Foundation, The
The Foundation was the originator of the Habitats, funding, designing and constructing twenty of them worldwide. They were also responsible for recruiting people to live within them.
(view full entry) - Genetic Material
Refers to the eggs, ovum, pollen, seed, sperm, and spores collected by the Foundation of as many species of flora and fauna as possible during the decades leading up to the Catastrophe.
(view full entry) - Habitat
Individual Bio-spheres scattered around Earth, typically built under and within mountain ranges for extra protection, were self-contained and self-sustaining cities that could be inhabited for hundreds of years.
(view full entry) - Habitat Administrationupdated
Habitat Administration was tasked with ensuring the habitats were always livable. All departments, from recycling to water and energy requirements, logistics, Stores, and even venue rentals, were under the Habitat Administration.
(view full entry) - Habitat Governance
The democratically elected government of the Habitats. Duly elected representatives of each habitat work with the Foundation Board to decide on courses of action for the habitats as a whole.
(view full entry) - Habitat Structure
As designed and constructed, each habitat was a cylinder with identical dimensions. Its inhabitable space was 5 miles (8.05 kilometers) in both height and diameter. Within that space, 14 separate sections were constructed, each of which could form a self-contained biosphere if necessary.
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