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They are the superpowers of the Shadowrun universe, with the largest corporations having far more political, economic, and military power than even the most powerful nation-states.
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They are preoccupied riding herd on control panels, switches, flashing colored lights on pale green or gray consoles that look like business machines.
They are supplied, a batch at a time, by a secret source and are continually changed by Wisman or his staff, at random intervals.
They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.
They recognized that slavery was a moral issue and not merely an economic interest, and that to recognize it explicitly in their Constitution would be in explosive contradiction to the concept of sovereignty they had set forth in the Declaration of 1776 that `` all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
They feel they are leagued against a hostile, persecutory world, faced with the concerted malevolent opposition of squares and their hirelings, the police.
They for their part are convinced that Holmes is too `` unorthodox '' and `` theoretical '' to make a good detective.
They tell us, sir, that we are free, because we have in one hand a ballot, and in the other a stock certificate.
On December 21, the day that the Irish House of Commons petitioned for removal of Sir Constantine Phipps, their Tory Lord Chancellor, Molesworth reportedly made this remark on the defense of Phipps by Convocation: `` They that have turned the world upside down, are come hither also ''.
Defoe then commented, `` If they Could Draw that young Gentleman into Their Measures They would show themselves quickly, for they are not asham'd to Say They want only a head to Make a beginning ''.
They emerged as interchangeable cogs in a faulty but formidable machine: shaved nearly naked, hair queued, greatcoated, jackbooted, and best of all -- in the opinion of the British professional, Major Semple-Lisle -- `` their minds are not estranged from the paths of obedience by those smatterings of knowledge which only serve to lead to insubordination and mutiny ''.
They and superpowers
They rely on the ability of " Gate Keepers ", who have the power to open dimensional " gates " of a paranormal energy that give them their superpowers.
They and Shadowrun
* They appear as playable race Koborokuru in Shadowrun, in the Shadowrun Companion: Beyond the Shadows rulebook.
They and universe
They represent two abstract and complementary aspects that every phenomenon in the universe can be divided into.
They also indicate the divine Principle of scientific being, the intelligent relation of God to man and the universe.
They have been measured in detail, and match what would be expected if small thermal variations, generated by quantum fluctuations of matter in a very tiny space, had expanded to the size of the observable universe we see today.
They are the most preposterous and unjustified of all the guesses which can be made about the universe, and I am not enough of a hair-splitter to pretend that I don't regard them as arrant and negligible moonshine.
They know nothing of other intelligent beings in the universe until first encountering Humans and Pierson's Puppeteers in Fleet of Worlds.
They began studying philosophy dealing with the ideal nature of the early universe and began employing an internal logic within their predictive planetary systems.
They also believed that water was everywhere, the top, bottom and sides, and that the universe was born from this enormous sea.
They are not limited to formulating syllogisms ; they are the supreme counselors of the Dune universe, as menial as an economist or a historian who might advise leadership, or as grand as advisor to the Emperor.
They both postulated that if the stars in the universe were distributed in a hierarchical fractal cosmology ( e. g., similar to Cantor dust )— the average density of any region diminishes as the region considered increases — it would not be necessary to rely on the Big Bang theory to explain Olbers ' paradox.
They derive from biblical chronology, mostly from the ancient genealogies in the books, Genesis to Second Kings, spanning the creation of the universe as the ancients understood it to the fall of Jerusalem with the destruction of its Temple in year 586 BC.
They commonly consist of very old Population II stars — just a few hundred million years younger than the universe itself — which are mostly yellow and red, with mass just less than two solar masses.
They are also said to draw power from the entire universe as revealed in the episode " Rise of the Cybermen " ( 2006 ), in which the TARDIS is brought to a parallel universe and cannot function without the use of a crystal power source from within the TARDIS, charged by the Doctor's life force.
They embody humane values such as freedom and justice and have a good understanding about the workings of human nature and the universe.
They had given up on the notion that LSD was " the secret that was going to unlock the universe " but it still had a place in the cloak-and-dagger arsenal.
They began studying philosophy dealing with the ideal nature of the early universe and began employing an internal logic within their predictive planetary systems.
They argue that the course of the universe is absolutely determined, but that humans are screened from knowledge of the determinative factors.
They were the first extraterrestrial species in the Star Trek universe to observe First Contact protocol with Humans.
They are used to do statistical analysis and hypothesis testing, checking occurrences or validating linguistic rules on a specific universe.
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