The Old Arxiviste
For the attention of @malafoostress [[[Archive, Old Arxiviste, Confederation, tech level; divergent ideas]]] gosh there are lotta run-on sentences! Additions as of 26 Oct. '22 in rust Archive and Archaism — the Archive is an integrated, self-referential and functionally complete explanatory system of knowledge; to call it science or art or cosmology is inadequate. Sustained by sophisticated information systems (often roughly stove-sized fixtures with a long-standardized interface and display arrangement, decorated and extremely durable, built to last millennia if not actively thrown in a star or such!) Among other aspects it contains enormous long records of thousands if not millions of worlds throughout the Diaspora and integrates any number of xenosophont (aliens, all long extinct or reclusive by the time of the human galactic expansion) , the thoroughly patahuman or posthuman (short-lived) civilizations, and similar exotic knowledge bases. But using the Archive bends...