Strange plant-like creatures that many believe immigrated from the Moon to the Earth

What it says on the tin

Oberon Technologies is a modest corporation based around designing and marketing sim gear, sleep technology, and dream programming

One of the last large orbital builds during the Petroleum Era, MIDAS-1 was designed from the ground up to be the perfect blockchain crypto-mining facility ever. It technically succeeded in this goal.

There are few horrors starker than meeting a wormspawn, perhaps meeting one wearing your face is the worst

We made a mistake, we assumed they were normal goblins, short and cranky as they were. We thought the horns were some sort of decoration or one of their fetishes. The horns were attached and they were much more than mundane grots. They were hell grots. 

There is this quote about fighting monsters so long you become one, I thought it was total bullshit, the sort of stuff patchouli smoking ball tuggers said to justify not standing for anything. I spent twelve years of my life fighting criminals and terrorists and now I am one.

Stuart Gibson

A clandestine chapter of augmented men and rare women who've devoted their lives to thwarting the dangers of arcanotech and the horrors that come from it

There are currently only three arcanocrons in existence, and they are either the next generation of arcanotechnology or the biggest waste of resources since the Vaccine Wars of the 2030s

Also known as Loonshine

Riffing on things like the Hunger Games and other YA dystopian games to the death for fun and profit.

Also known as the Great Pewtergate Escape, or the Flight of the Drake

A variation on Encounter Suits specifically made for athletes and sports competitions. Often these are limited and regulated in some competitions

Black Magnum Artillery Group is a modest sized military industrial supply company that is infamous for very immodest military gear, the largest self-propelled guns in the Cosmic Era.

Setting the gaming table for a conflict in the bowels of an arcology, an exercise in zone based gaming, and strategic planning.

A Thrall is a terrible and wretched creature, made of equal parts corruption, power, and cowardice

More commonly known as an otretabletka or poteka, a portmanteau of Potyk and tabletka. Regardless of the name, the pill sized device is the object of cold terror for the denizens of the Cosmic Era first world nations and powers because of the insidious power it has.

The War of the Teratomorphs wasn't a military campaign, but rather it was a highly tumultuous period of human history where rampant arcanotech was misused and unleashed a storm of teratomorphs on the world. The creatures fought each other as much as they preyed on humanity. 

The CogNet is not a monolithic computer deity, and is not beholden to any single central system, no god-like architect sitting in a control center. It is a decentralized, disassociated, barely cohesive system known by a dozen names across the solar system. The Matrix, the Oasis, the Nexus, the Wired, it's all an electronic dream.

also known as slaughterbots, or lethal autonomous weapons