Technology from Hugh Cook's Oceans of Light.
Category: Technology
armorstone - Artificial stone made for military purposes by the great powers. AKA Sablax. This was the Engramicus Mulch, the House of X, and, like the House Gorkindachina, it had been made of sablax, artificial...
Eloquent Smirkus - Eloquent Smirkus is a chartered sloop. It sank in the blast. Was the transport for the Ema-Ema-Enji Holographic Geohistorical Research Team, a media crew. Heineman could appreciate that, since they...
firecrown - A firecrown and a kindleclip, both coins from Hell, made of alloys so lightweight they hardly felt like metal. With his armored hands, Heineman fumbled for the brightness, picked up sand, picked up -...
frygun - Some sort of laser gun from Heaven and Hell. Atlanta Ignalina stood watching him, with the cool composure of a householder who has just broken the back of a poisonous snake. In her left hand was the...
inkan - A stamp used to authenticate documents. Gorkindachina was relieved to find that he was still safe in the possession of his inkan, his seal - an all-important piece of apparatus, this, for one of the...
jaghook - A hook I suppose. Sometimes used as a weapon. In the face of the burnt-out safe, the stolen frygun, old habits of denial were reasserting themselves. To face the full truth would have been...
kindleclip - A firecrown and a kindleclip, both coins from Hell, made of alloys so lightweight they hardly felt like metal. With his armored hands, Heineman fumbled for the brightness, picked up sand, picked up -...
lightwine - Liquid used to light rooms at night in Chalakanesia. In their wake, the light in the room was still faintly tremulous, since the vial of lightwine so viciously shaken by Rector Om had not yet settled...
Malthus - It was clear that the foreigners had skimped on their gold shielding. The other thing which was immediately obvious was that these foreigners had not been on Chalakanesian territory for long. You...
melagram - An elextronic form of communication. Chalakanesia has no telephone system, since a prohibitive amount of gold would be needed to shield handsets and wiring from the metapsychic faultline. Radio...
omagulous toad - An omagulous toad is a miniature universe inside a sphere used to generate power in Heaven and Hell. The metapsychic faultline doesn't like the toads so the only toad is plated in gold in the La...
Razamakantus Liver Lunger - A knife With a flourish, Atlanta produced a flat-sided handle of matt-black metal. At the touch of a button, steel jolted out. Razors of light splintered from the blade. 'This,' said Atlanta,...
sablax - Artificial Armorstone Jol Medlis, a citadel made of the artificial armorstone known as sablax, was a reminder of the wars in which Heaven had fought with Hell. [EoH Ch1] This was the Engramicus...
showcube - As Heineman sat on the beach, he remembered a fragmentary dream he had previously forgotten or suppressed. He had imagined himself imprisoned in a showcube - the term used in Chalakanesia for a...
showcubes - Some sort of video storage cubes Heineman was marginally appeased when he was saluted by the soldiers of the Senate Guard as he strode past the Guardian Wards. Still, he could have wished the guards...
skyship - A airship like a Zeppelin or similar. As the Zuzu Magore drew near the coastline, the hum grew deeper and lower as the ship slowed its speed to scarcely more than that of a seabird. The Zuzu Magore...
vodo - Also see: Vug Machine Heineman found Ambassador Teladex working in the vicinity of his desk. His head, connected to no apparent body, hung above the desk, and his hands were scribing over papers....
vug machine - See: vodo Another name for a Vodo Projector. A device that projects people as disembodied head and hands across distances. La Lantis soon had vugs at work, their freedoms enabled by the same vug...
Zapzarta Illustrator Pen - 'Think evil,' said Heineman, stabbing the paper with a Zapzarta Illustrator Pen. 'Think mean and evil. Think dirty fighting. If you were going to be shot at dawn tomorrow unless you found a way out of...
Zuzu Magore - A skyship that crashes into the ocean near the spliars at Eastbeach. That was what it looked like at first blush, from a distance, though closer inspection showed that it looked more like three...