![]() Everything was running as expected until Omen Bainbridge barged into my life. Yet here I am, lightyears from home and touching alien grass. What happens when an off-planet work trip turns into a sham honeymoon with a fake alien husband? I, Birdie Clayton, a travel agent with a crippling fear of flying and a pile of debt, never thought I’d be doomed to face my worst phobia to avoid getting fired. HACKLES AND A HONEYMOON (CURSED BY KOSMOS) by Poppy Rhys Not an easy task, when other alien males also want his Kelsey. He’ll just have to make sure she survives long enough to give him a chance to win her heart. His littermates and cousin are very happy with the Earth females they’ve rescued and claimed, and after a lifetime alone, Crath wants someone to call his own. He’s got to be crazy, right? Since joining the crew of The Vorge, Tryleskian male Crath Vellar wants what his family has-a human life-lock. Until she’s rescued by a feline alien who claims to want to marry her. ![]() Since being betrayed by her home planet, Kelsey Bowen has been sold at auction as a human incubator. VS Note: So happy to see a new one in her VORGE series! She’s always an autobuy for me. ‘AB’ denotes audiobook and the Amazon buy link. Like gold during the Age of Exploration, it is one thing that all societies, regardless of how different they are from each other, want and desire, except for the Harmony.I have not read most of the new releases listed (although I always end up one-clicking quite a few as I prepare these posts L OL). On the other hand, because it is highly valuable and relatively easy to find (in this galaxy awash with the ruins of the Endless civilization), it has become the common currency of Endless Space. ![]() As the game goes on and technology improves, however, Dust will become increasingly useful as technologies are unlocked that allow Empires to better exploit it. In the world of Endless Space 2, however, the Empires lack the ability of the Endless to understand and manipulate Dust. Their cities and ships contained enormous quantities of Dust space stations and habitats were formed almost entirely from it. The Endless came to rely upon Dust to the point where their civilization was almost symbiotic between life-forms and Dust. Sufficiently large quantities of Dust could form networks and supercomputers small quantities could assemble into cybernetic enhancements. During the time of the Endless it improved computing systems and networks, added intelligence to things that were usually "dumb" (roads, buildings, tables, lights, clothing, etc.), and even locked itself together to form structures. Both Concretes and Virtuals, desperate to destroy the opposing side harvested the Lost to death, using multiple massive devices known as the Lodestones to lure them from their hiding spots, and trapped them so they could commit the horrid deed.`ĭust is valuable and versatile. During the Dust Wars, both sides of Endless found out where Dust came from, and tried to make their own artificial version of it, but it was but a pale imitation of the real thing, the original Primordial Dust. Dust originally came from an ancient race of immensely powerful beings entirely made of it, who were once worshiped by the Endless as gods. ![]() In fact, the Endless did not even yet exist as the original three species that evolved from their homeworld of Tor. In the Tabernacle of Remorse, or the Tabernacle of Lies as it later came to be known by the Vodyani Church, it is revealed to Isyander that the Endless did not create Dust. In reality, however, the Endless' "synthetic Dust" was "a pale imitation" of the true, primordial Dust it was patterned after. As a result, "clouds" of Dust could form extremely sophisticated systems. While individual motes of Dust had very limited computing power, the ability to "talk" and network was built in. The technology was sufficiently advanced to self-replicate itself and self-assemble. Some used these infinitesimally small machines to help maintain their biological bodies, while others used constructs of these nano-elements - known collectively as "Dust" - as virtual bodies once they uploaded themselves. Through their mastery of nano-engineering, the Endless created an infrastructure of nanobots and nano-computers to maintain their society.
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