Encyclopaedia - The Jackrabbit

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Welcome to The Jackrabbit Encyclopaedia, your source for understanding the technologies, institutions, and power structures that shape human civilisation in the 23rd century. From faster-than-light communication and travel to artificial intelligence, corporate governance, and the cryptographic frameworks that underpin interstellar society, these entries provide detailed insights into the world of The Jackrabbit series.

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)

Forbidden Consciousness Technology

Truly conscious, self-aware artificial entities capable of independent thought, creativity, and moral reasoning. Strictly prohibited throughout human space and subject to active suppression by corporate military forces.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Limited Autonomous Systems Technology

Automated systems that perform autonomous decision-making within strictly defined parameters. These sophisticated state machines execute predefined protocols without consciousness or self-awareness.

SnapMesh

Interstellar Communication Network

The galaxy's primary interstellar communication network, enabling faster-than-light data transmission across vast distances through a distributed mesh of autonomous relay nodes.

SnapSpace Travel

FTL Transportation Technology

Humanity's primary method of faster-than-light transportation, enabling near-instantaneous movement between distant points by transitioning through higher dimensional space.

Suits

Hazardous Environment Suits

A range of safety equipment which enables people to work in otherwise inaccessible environments.

AG

Artificial Gravity

The two known types of synthetic gravity.

AMS

Atmospheric Management Systems

How to Breathe in Space.

Governance

Corporate Governance

A brief history of politics.

Consortium Data Standards (CDS)

Data Governance and Cryptographic Framework

The mandatory technical and cryptographic framework governing all packetised data transmission across Consortium-administered infrastructure, operated centrally by CyberNexus.

The Consortium

Corporate Governance and Megacorporate Power

The collective of fifteen megacorporations exercising effective control over human space, each holding a monopoly over a specific sector of the economy through the self-enforcing Consortium Agreement.