The main commodity in the Cosmic Era is data and communication, in the form of social media, entertainment, advertising, and other electronic sources of information. The spread of this data is measured in a unit known as a meme (also spelled meem)

A portmanteau of Kaku and engram. Dr. Kaku of the middle Petrol era posited the quantification of human emotion, while an engram is a cybertechnological recording of a human mind, a snapshot of a mental or emotional state.

A flash copy of a person, inserted into an auton, for a variety of purposes

Wonder World LLC is the largest operator of virtual theme parks, amusement parks, and other non-sport, non-mmo virtual environments.

Portraying artificial intelligence as NPCs in a game

KiKi is a common type of synthetic intelligence program found in the Cosmic Era. KiKi is considered malware.

The Floating World, the domain of the Hikikomori

Governments and mega-corporations have found a way to cheat the the system, the Dream Tanks are their most valuable assets.

One of the most common and well recognized SimSense parlors of the Cosmic Era

A forerunner in Black Datastream content, ACEG is known around the world for hosting and broadcasting some of the most violent, gore and fanaticism filled spectacles of human carnage.

A neural interface and mind recording device

M12 denotes the twelve sintelligences that operate the CogNet