Op-ed regarding the baygasm that is Age of Extinction. Spoilers ahead if you haven't seen the movie.

A first generation supersoldier program, Dynamo Atlas was a success, and there are still a good number of these 'titans' alive and active

A Revised and improved collection of scallywags, scoundrels, and nautical ne'er do wells.

Five crowns were created to bind together five regions into a single powerful kingdom, while a sixth crown was created to control the five.

Pity that someone went and destroyed the Crown of Crowns

A hoary old tower that serves as the lair of a necromancer, but not is all as it seems.

Big monsters and low lifes

Screenery - the images and loops shown on large screens and monitors inside space stations, arcos, and geofronts to counter the feeling of oppression or claustrophobia that can occur in such enclosed locations.

A bloodthirsty band of brutal barbarian brigands, baneful and bleak in bearing. Beware!

Dominated by Chinese colonists, most people refer to the red planet as Huo Hsing, rather than Mars.

A meretrix is a clone, or clone template that is used to create a sexual engineered humanoid

A most useful race - if one can get past their appearance, and avoid being eaten...

Habitats and stations that float

Each time mankind ventures into a new realm of exploration, he returns with tales of incredible creatures. Be it from the new continent, the tops of the mountains, or the depths of the seas. It is the acme of foolishness to assume that space would be empty of lifeforms. The forms that these new biologies took simply defied conventional physics or chemistry

With triumph the Halfling thief pried the shining silver circlet from the skull of some poor merman long dead of the trident plunged clear thru the bones of his chest. As he swam to the surface he marveled at the craftsmanship and planned to take it straight to the camp. That thin fidgety wizard, Prinny the Prestidigitator, might know the worth of this silver circlet with waves so detailed he could almost feel the call of the sea....

The Ark Class ship formed part of the three-fold survival plan of the wealthy and powerful of the Petroleum Age. The other two legs of the plan were the arcologies, and space habitats.

'Come on,, chop chop, I haven't got all day.' The last words of Sir Percy Quantril before being beheaded for his attempted coup against Queen Yocasta.

A 99 word poem of a small town, and the demon who guards its chapel when the mists rise.

The objective of Operation Flycatcher was to collect samples of aphasic lifeforms for study in a lab. The project was black listed as a failure, with a high rate of personnel loss, and cost overruns.

This was not the truth.

Airborne assault, drop pods, and vertical insertion are common tactics for power armor combat. The inherent flaw is that the forces can only bring the weaponry they carry with them, and are reliant on air or space craft for fire support. The Perimeter Pod is a mobile insertion static weapon (MISW).