Aerofoil: These were the earliest Creator aircraft, propeller or compressed air gliders, fan-wings, tail-sitters – anything driven or launched by purely mechanical action. They were among the State’s proudest achievements and a symbol of their dynasty, though by the time of their development their conquest of the known world was in its final stages. Aerofoils were powered by Balluuni air batteries or banks of cubits.
Aerodyne: Once they’d mastered rocketry, aerodynamics became less important and the term ‘aerodyne’ was commonly applied to any vehicle that overcame aerodynamic limitations by way of sheer thrust. This allowed a much wider range of aircraft hull shapes, Nigh being perhaps the ultimate example. Aerodynes require Third Light to power their complicated thrusters, a form of energy which is impossible to control without mechanical assistance (such as a friendly Machine or proficiently-operated Solver).
Aktek Militar:The industrial titan of war, Aktek Militar was the front by which Aethos passed the most hideous weapon designs to the mortal empire. The rogue deity used Aktek Militar to launder and obfuscate his inventions and to coat them in enough hubris to fool his divine brethren into thinking them foolish and ineffective. This coat of hubris was AM's specialty, and the reason the gods didn't expect them to actually work as promised. In fact, a significant portion of the Creator State's population also thought they wouldn't work. But they did.
Autodyne: Rym had no reliable beasts of burden during the Second Age, nothing to ride or draw carriages, and so the development of the vehicle skipped a few steps. The first models used compact sail arrangements, followed by a compressed air and spiral springs, steam, electricity, and finally radiance. They came in all shapes and sizes, eventually classified as Type 1 (1 passenger), Type 2 (2-6 passengers), and the enormous Type 3 (7-97) passengers. Each had its own corresponding road or road partition.
Automat: A small self-stocking automatic vendor. Nearly all of these are smashed or burned-out but some ruins contain ‘working’ units yet capable of dispensing goods. Most automats have simple vocalization routines for enticement and to answer basic questions related to their stock. Automats usually dispense food, drinks, or toys in exhange for pazools, fabricating them from hoppers filled with material dust. The desired item is then stylishly fabricated before the buyer's eyes. Automats violently explode if their Quiet Air chamber is breached.
Automatic War: The closing event of the Second Age. The old divine order, struggling to restrain mortal ambition, attempted to strip the kuil and their wondrous Creator State of all the knowledge and power given to them in secret by one of their own. Aethos, traitor to them all, equipped the mortal empire with the knowledge necessary to bring the old older to ruin. The escalation of antagonistic atrocities culimated in the so-called Day of Victory in which Aethos' ultimate weapon slipped his control and laid waste to the entire continent. The name is a hallmark of the war's main mechanized forces, or 'automatics'.
Balluuni: The Henry Ford of atmospherics and airship design, a sort of lunatic legend who founded the titanic gas and vapor monopoly that bears his namesake. Anach Balluuni invented the first dirigibles and light vehicles powered entirely by pressurized gas canisters. His legacy went on to refine the mechanisms of air-powered devices, gas compression, city domes, and the atmospheric mechanical preservative known as Q-Air. The ruins are littered with spent or ruptured canisters with their badge on it. Most white (oxygen) or blue (hydrogen) pipes are similarly stamped. You might even find a few cans of flavored air here and there, or a tank of the infamous Party Atmosphere.
Big Light (BL): Big Light branding can be found on most of the light-related products of the old Creator State. Illuminated strips and pips can still be found in the ruins, feeding off the few remaining sun banks. If it shines, it has a BL on it somewhere. This monopoly controlled all things related to illumination, from the smallest glow-dots to the vast Celestial Pillar spotlights which shone up from their capitals. BL would also go on to create the beam-weapons employed by the mechanical soldiers of the Automatic War, partenered with Aktek Militar.
Blue: A nickname for the cash of the previous era, also known as Pazools. Each thin square or triagular token, in various denominations, represented a share of the State's continuously-tabulated mineral wealth, though these were eventually replaced by the State's simpler meritocracy of lifestyle privileges and per diems, relegating the pazool to the secondary 'kiosk economy' of automatic vending machines. Regardless, the name stuck, and the old blued metal tokens can still be found in some of the ruins. They're prized by wasteland traders for their ability to unlock certain doors or activate functional automats or vendomats, and as ammunition for certain weapons, or to make triangle-mail.
Chatter: This hoomiku gadget is a small puck-shaped device that records and 'learns' any language to which it's exposed. The owner may, through interpretive gesture, encourage the speaker of a foreign tongue to have a discussion with the chatter, which first parrots back what it hears, graduating steadily towards simplistic questions, structural grammar acquisition, and rudimentary translation. It learns language fundamentals on a programmed formula, and with full cooperation, can accomodate basic two-way translation within an hour or so. It can also keep morons amused for hours.
Centipede Tank: There were several variations of these train-like armored vehicles, all based on the classic Juggernaut. They were able to link up into long formations, either to form mobile weapon walls or combine their multi-legged carriages to encircle and defend a variety of larger stationary siege weapons. Though slow, their power and mobility combined with their easily-swapped segments made them formidable reinforcements to automatic soldiers. Even when blasted in half, these walking tanks could continue to function as independent platforms. Centipede tanks ranged from ten to twenty segments, each with its own function or weapon emplacement, and its own pair of legs.
City Mind: A city built to act as a computer, complete with buildings and communication systems designed around the immitation of something far more advanced. It was meant to conceal the origin of the information Aethos fed to the Creator State, to make it seem as if the incredible coordination and concentrated intelligence of the extra-smart inhabitants were responsible. It was a huge lie, though it gave nearly a million citizens an immense computer-like experience that really did produce a lot of interesting ideas. Enough for Aethos to toss in the occasional terrifying breakthrough without the other gods noticing.
Creator: The arrogant and rather unimaginative self-appointed title of Rym’s fallen master race. They were just one among the host of sentient species saved from their own squabbling self-extinction by the compassionate gods of old, who felt they deserved a second chance, a new world, and better role models. Unfortunately for the compassionate gods of old, harmonious cooperation made their foster-race even more dangerous and ultimately lead to their shared downfall.
Cubit: The earliest Creator batteries were boxes of acid and metal built to hold an electrical charge. These evolved over time but the cube shape was retained throughout the Second Age, even as light replaced electricity. This form of light, the Third Light, was strong enough to be transmitted and even stored as power in the same manner as electrical energy by using a form of crystalline substance s Cubits range in size from the die-sized Cu1 to the vehicular-type Cu8. They can be combined into larger cubits and held together by a lightly-magnetized casing. All cubits have illuminated pips to indicate their remaining charge. This charge is held in a form of solidified light - a reservoir of interlocking photons derived from Second Light.
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