Note: Similar to Blanche’s reaction to the car crash earlier, Doctor Frazier would have little knowledge of how to deal with a criminal. Even the fiction that was popular on Titan at this time would not have depicted such encounters[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: An Acuity Glimmer is just a use of visual acuity to create a disguise, and even the weakest of mentats can be trained to use such an acuity. Subjects from Project Virokas would all have been given such training,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: In-ground burial saw a resurgence on Titan. While the practice was becoming increasingly uncommon on other Human worlds, here it thrived, starting with the very first colonist death in 2189, when Colin J. Frazier died only a few days after[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: Alicia Frazier was a researcher working at Titan University on a grant from the defense department. There is no unclassified record of what she was working on, but it’s not hard to guess, due to her specialty in genetic[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: At this time, even the deepest, darkest parts of the Titanic wilderness were (on a typical night) perfectly safe even in the middle of the night. Later, Titan would come to be known as a lawless wasteland, but crime[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: The population of Titan became quickly divided by class, but it was very rarely devisive. The earliest industries on the world were education and spirits – much like Mars. The soil and large swaths of land given to each[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: Titan was settled by homesteaders under the same program that settled Luna and Mars, but due to the added expense of getting out to Titan, and the amount of land which was still freely available on Mars at the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: While it seems like something the military would be very interested in, the original research into Phase Fields and their generation and manipulation was funded by the mining industry. They imagined a time in which men or machines could use the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: Autonomous vehicles of this era did not have the programming to recognise a standing person, even in the middle of the road, as anything other than a pedestrian, who they they should simply avoid and continue on. A person sitting or[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: Living in a society in which autonomous vehicles have nearly eliminated traffic accidents, and in which deaths from such accidents are even more rare, one might not have a real understanding of just how unlikely survival is after a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…