News: How to Solve Galactic Anarchy

Infographic contrasting unrestricted galactic anarchy with secure Nightwatchman AI governance

According to a Forethought article, unrestricted “galactic anarchy” in space colonization is dangerous because vast distances prevent timely enforcement against rogue star systems that could waste cosmic resources in expansion races, trigger universe-destroying events, or create astronomical suffering. To avert this, every outgoing probe should carry a “nightwatchman” superintelligent AI that holds a decisive local … Continue reading News: How to Solve Galactic Anarchy →

Shoreline

Shoreline by RomeDome. The beach at Northwinds Sandestin had emptied before midnight. Only the four of us remained, walking at the seam where the Gulf folded itself onto the sand. Far out over the water, a thunderstorm pulsed behind the horizon—silent flashes at first, then a low delay of thunder that seemed to travel beneath … Continue reading Shoreline →

Đỉa Tinh

Đỉa Tinh by RomeDome. “ Days of heavy rain flooded the valley floor and filled trenches with mud and water; the battlefield … began to resemble something from the Somme or Passchendaele.” — J. Llewellyn et al, “Dien Bien Phu” “At Dien Bien Phu, the enemy did not come out of the jungle. They came through … Continue reading Đỉa Tinh →

Closer to Mercury

9/3/2026 : A pair of spacecraft draw closer to Mercury after nearly decade-long voyage. AP News Link here : https://apnews.com/article/mercury-bepicolombo-spacecraft-8840475f5f873b9bcc7245f45ffdc50c

Potato Field

Potato Field By Taters Canning. When I was a young boy, thin as a rake, The Dust Bowl had left us with little to take. We drifted west, Depression weary in our hair, To Salinas, California, for work—or a prayer. My pa saw a field in the moon’s silver glow, With potatoes … Continue reading Potato Field →

The Silence Above

The Silence Above Xuois by RomeDome. Above the vast blue storms of planet Xuois, where the ringed sun scattered silver fire across the upper atmosphere, three heendinburks kept watch. They were neither ships nor dirigibles, though the sevitan artisans called them that. They were living beings: immense organic-tech creatures evolved from the ancient noollab blimpoids, their blue-whale-sized bodies grown through with … Continue reading The Silence Above →

Toenail

Toenail by Ozrafs the Great. Passed Mercury’s bright, metallic glow, Three friends arrived in Earth’s below: Ozrafs the Great, in scales of gold, Rolyat, quick, and Oemor, bold. From Planet Elppa they had flown, In a ship with fins of polished stone; They sought, in nineteen-eighty-something, A meal that Earthlings called “quite comforting.” To Campbell, … Continue reading Toenail →

The Hand That Welcomed

The Hand That Welcomed By RomeDome. Etienne Aguinaldo had been called “Eighteen” since cadet school, though no one aboard the Fearnought remembered why. Some said he had been the eighteenth child in a sprawling Filipino-French family. Others said he had once survived eighteen minutes in an airlock whose seal had failed. Eighteen himself only shrugged … Continue reading The Hand That Welcomed →

Grapes of Rath

The Grapes-Folk of Rath by Tulaijeet Tuqueet. On Planet Rath, where purple moons Rise over trellised, silver dunes, The Grapes-Folk gathered, plump with pride, For wine and wit and friends inside. Their host, Lord Merlot, raised a glass: “Tonight, my clustered guests, we pass Beyond the usual berry press— To humans, bottled at their best!” … Continue reading Grapes of Rath →

Plantolia

Plantolia After Retirement by Overbort Aerobee-em-bee. On Planet Plantolia, beneath a violet sun, Old Autumn-Sage declared his working days done. He polished his roots, stretched each leaf with great art, Then opened his screen with a sigh and a start. “Another AI landscape for Planet Magazine— With moons made of marmalade, forests neon-green! A tentacled … Continue reading Plantolia →

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