Archive for 2026 week 18
- Zhdez housing - 27 Apr 2026
- Can tags - 28 Apr 2026
- Canships? Canstations? - 29 Apr 2026
- Naming conventions - 30 Apr 2026
- Outed - 01 May 2026
- More of a comment than an email - 02 May 2026
- Space pets: zechche - 03 May 2026
Single-family detached housing is the least-efficient way to build, so Zhdez aren't going to do it often. In keeping with their communal tendencies, they're going to be more likely to live in apartment type buildings, rowhomes, or the like, and it's most likely a cohousing sort of setup. A group of households will have individual housing that has shared facilities, something like an apartment complex with a clubhouse and pool, but more so.
Cargo cans) aren't especially well-tracked, but they do have tags, embedded in their hullmetal, with theoretically-write-only caches. There's not a huge amount of incentive to write fake info to it (you could simply not write anything at all) so what's there is usually acccurate, if incomplete. If someone says they hauled something food-unsafe in that can, you assume they did. If someone says they hauled the can somewhere (and you can confirm that they signed it with their private key), they probably did.
The flip side of cargo cans) being inexpensive and everywhere is that, like modern rail cars and shipping containers, they get misplaced, repurposed, dumped, you name it.
I am swiping ship naming conventions from my favorite science fiction, shamelessly.
As a result of the great CopyFail exploit, spouse decided it was time to review all our various domains and clean up the trail of abandoned ones, and realized that this one was active and being posted to. I hadn't mentioned it because I assumed he would notice right away and then when he didn't I decided not to mention it until he did.
Spouse sent me a Discord comment on the last post, so I have manually added it as a "comment." This seems like a reasonable system except for the "Discord" part, so I guess I'll set up some kind of comments-at email address, where I will post (some of) what you imaginary people send me.
Zhdez starships almost invariable have a cat, or zechche aboard. Zhdez domestic cats vary in size more than Terran ones do, though not as much as Terran dogs: they range from 5 to 60 pounds, though shipboard animals tend to the smaller end of that scale. They are longer-legged than Terran cats, tending to look larger than their actual weight.