Note: Luckily for Blanche, and for Matter-Phase research, Leonard was able to put the pieces of the story together when the wreckage of Blanche’s car was found a few hours later. He was then able to reverse Blanche’s condition. Afterward,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: Blanche is half-right. Philip Pembroke was a bit of a waste, but that changed sometime after this story is set. He eventually left the service of the Frazier estate (they never really needed him anyway; he was more of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: There was no way for Blanche to know at the time, but she was lucky that the fork and the gun she manipulated contained no pure iron. As anyone today knows, iron has a destabilizing effect on phase fields.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: The Viroka project was scrapped specifically because the modifications seemed to cause irrationality and lack of self-control. More than any other GenMod project that sought to give animal traits to humans, the Viroka seemed to become the beasts that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: The howling of the Virokas here is an affectation. There is no physiological cue for howling built into them, nor do they have the correct vocal configuration for such howling. Also: they certainly would have been communication with radios.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: Leonard’s Grandfather was Kyle Frazier, the second officer on board the first colony ship to arrive on Titan, the unironically named Titanic, in 2189. The officer’s families became the first elite of Titan, as they were the first to claim[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: While personal firearms were illegal across the entire Sol system at this time, exceptions were made for homesteading, and it was not strange for these homesteaders to bring single-shot muzzle-loading weapons. They are easy to maintain over long stretches of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: The discoveries that were made about the effects of phase shifts on sentient subjects led directly into the research on what we now call Acuity Engines. Many of the same forces are at work in both technologies. If Blanche[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: While not as strong as the Drak, or as sly as the Lynx, the wolf-like Viroka were still formidable opponents in combat. Designed to be pack-led, ferocious and easy to produce, a pack of Virokas would not need tactics[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: As mentioned previously, In an unphased state, matter tends to vaporize. The only exception to this rules seems to be sentient beings with particularly strong will. If strong enough, such a person can interact with physical matter, and in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…