>>5838357>>5839168Kenglu, of the Saevasque Concord
-Your ship is of Isonomy manufacture, yet I do not think you are of that faction. You seem to know something of the stars... Here in the Ascended Sea the endless dark takes more than the light gives, as far as the Eclipse that fell upon our kind for ten thousand years before the Decolonisation Wars. The death-throes of those burning worlds have yet to reach us even as the light echoes writhe in their distant and radiant misery. You know of their great lie, no? The great lie of the Isonomy? The lie that is the truth of their tyranny. Are you a believer in the isotropy of space?
>Why, this is undeniable. The laws of physics are everywhere the same. Hydrogen in the most distant galaxy conforms to the same behaviour as hydrogen within the nearest star. The values of the universal constants, the permittivity and permeability of free space, are immutable, as is the reciprocal of the square root of their product, the speed of light itself. You may not like the Isonomy, but their belief in the isotropy of space is sacrosanct and inviolate.>There is no universal law. Mankind has never unified even the most basic understandings - why do they have one law for the sizes great and vast, the movement of the planets and the stars, the colossal mass and heat and reach of light, and yet another law for the small and infinitesimal, the imperceptible particles of that very same light and force and mass? We know of no universal law. This is the lie behind the Isonomy. They claim their algorithm is based upon universal physical law - and they cannot reconcile why their laws differ between those who are Great and those who are Small.>(if only you had some... postcolonial gender studies Knowledge asset...?) Reply: we must decolonise mathematics! Tensor calculus is a form of slavery, burdened by the timeless legacy of oppression and power hierarchies. Whenever you perform matrix multiplication or compute a hyperdeterminant, it is like you have amputated a woman's womb.>Say simply, I do not know.>Gawk at Kenglu and say: are you... an alien? ooohhh.... ah... No really, are you an alien?>Reply: whether or not there is a universal law or order, Mankind should unify against the vast reach of the dark>Reply: if the Isonomy did not exist, the alternatives would be far worse.>Reply: this is one Universe amongst many. Mankind is the measure of this universe, and its rules are made by men.>Reply: why don't you just explain what you are doing here? This is my star system, I found it first, you know. >Something else...? 