An interesting point to be made about the Branan is that they are born with six limbs. Arms, legs, and wings. The problem is that their brain can only handle four limbs, so most Branan have their wings removed. But[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Many consider the Branan to be a warlike race. The truth is that they are no more warlike than us. They just don’t hide that fact from themselves. We publicly decry war while waging it on many levels all of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Second Life Branan have many superficial similarities to our own artificial and cybernetic intelligences. But do not assume they are the same. Artificial intelligences are inherently artificial, coded by a living human to perform a task or group of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The real trick to understanding the Branan is to recognize the fact that they’ve had fully developed physical and digital worlds living side by side since before Caesar crossed the Rubicon and took over the Roman Republic. Earthborn humanity grew[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One thing that kept the disparate parts of Branan civilization linked was the easy communication between the physical and electronic worlds. The Second Lifers could of course speak with their meat-bound relatives in the physical world via anything from basic[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Branan systems were separated by lightyears of space, but they were linked together by the lightspeed networks that allowed communications across their far-flung colonial holdings. It may have taken them years or decades to send transmissions back and forth,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Branan’s short-lived bodies broke down in a matter of five or six decades at most, but while we sought to lengthen our lifespan, the Branan sought immortality through a different route. They copied their minds into the computer networks[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Branan have an intense industrial society that China’s famous industrial districts wish they could match. People looking in from the outside are appalled at their lack of safety precautions and the conditions of their workers. And environmentalists fall into[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Branan were limited to normalspace by the stellar geography they lived in, so they spent centuries preparing colonization fleets that traveled a century or more across ten, fifteen, or even twenty lightyears to new star systems. They left their[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The greatest problem the Branan thought they had to surpass was the fact that the stars they wanted to colonize were simply so far away. The true problem was that they were actually far too close to each other. Hyperspace[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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