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56-477: [REDACTED] Look up -isc in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ISC may refer to: Arts and entertainment [ edit ] Imperial Space Command , a fictional organization in the books by Catherine Asaro Indian Society of Cinematographers , a non-profit cultural and educational organisation Intervision Song Contest , an Eastern Bloc version of

112-943: A French business school International School of Carthage , a private school in Tunis, Tunisia International School of Curitiba , a school in Curitiba, Brazil International Students' Committee, organizers of the St. Gallen Symposium in Switzerland International Student Conference , a nonpartisan rival organization to the International Union of Students Islamic World Science Citation Database , Iranian regional citation index Sports [ edit ] International Shooto Commission , an international commission of combat sports called MMA International Softball Congress ,

168-659: A North American softball tournament organization International Speedway Corporation , former auto racing race track owner; merged with NASCAR in 2019 ISC (sportswear) , an Australian sports apparel manufacturer International Sportsworld Communicators , the owner of the commercial rights to the World Rally Championship Indonesia Soccer Championship , a football league system in Indonesia Indonesia Soccer Championship A ,

224-438: A Pharaoh under special circumstances, such as his when his royal mother had no daughters. However, their shallow understanding of space-faring technology, and possibly their corruption, led to the empire's collapse after only a few centuries. This isolated the hundreds of planets in their empire from each other for thousands of years. Eventually, about 400 years ago, Raylicans re-achieved space flight, this time fully understanding

280-472: A balance between humanity and efficiency, giving J-Force the highest alcoholism and suicide rates within the forces of the Skolian Imperialate. Some Jagernauts manage to survive by suppressing their more human side, becoming either cold and machine-like (Kurj), or living lives of quiet emotional desperation and loneliness (Sauscony). Help is usually available to emotionally damaged Jagernauts in

336-727: A corporation banding together many existing silver companies in Connecticut Information Services Corporation , a corporation responsible for the development, management and administration of: registries – land titles, personal property, corporate and survey registries in Saskatchewan Kandersteg International Scout Centre , Switzerland Other uses [ edit ] Internet Scrabble Club , an online Scrabble website St Mary's Airport, Isles of Scilly (IATA airport code), an airport in

392-487: A few Rhon serving as well. Their telepathic or empathic abilities mean that they function best when there is no crew (and their corresponding thoughts) to interfere with a Jagernaut's concentration. As such, they generally engage in battle in small squadrons, bound to their single-pilot craft called "Jags" in a near symbiosis of human and machine. A Jagernaut has "psiphon" sockets which allow them to interface their body directly with spacecraft. Their mind links directly to

448-665: A free software license introduced by the Internet Systems Consortium Education [ edit ] Independent Schools Council , a British organization representing independent schools Indian School Certificate , a national level examination for the upper years (Classes XI and XII) of high school Information Systems and Controls in the Uniform Certified Public Accountant Examination Institut supérieur du commerce de Paris ,

504-762: A group of software vendors Interactive Systems Corporation , a defunct Unix vendor Internet Storm Center , a program run by the SANS Institute that monitors the level of malicious activity on the Internet International Supercomputing Conference , a yearly conference on Supercomputing which has been held in Europe Inverse Symbolic Calculator Internet Systems Consortium , an organization that develops Internet software ISC license ,

560-549: A house or complex of buildings. In interstellar travel, Skolians often make use of quasis , which is a form of quantum -shielding that freezes the quantum state of all particles on a spacecraft. Ships in both the Skolian Empire and the Eubians are equipped with devices, controlled by EIs that shift a ship into "quasis" to avoid damage to the ship from weapons fire or from high-G maneuvers. The quasis prevents change in

616-406: A human lifespan to several centuries. People also keep a young appearance, as they stop visibly aging at the age of 30 – 40. It is important to start the treatments as early in life as possible. People who received those treatments in early childhood or before birth (passed on from mother to child during pregnancy) achieve the best results. The older a person is when receiving anti-aging treatments for

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672-777: A member of the Ruby Dynasty cannot assume this title for some reason, then the person who is currently next in command of the military becomes Imperator. To do the job well, to its full extent, the Imperator also has to be the Military Key in the Triad , as the commander must be able to coordinate the military forces with an amount of speed only allowed by using the psiberweb . The Skolian Imperators so far have been Jarac Skolia, Kurj Skolia , Sauscony Valdoria Skolia, General Naaj Majda, and Kelric Valdoria Skolia who presently holds

728-524: A number of functions, including promoting injury recovery, preventing the ingestion of poison, augmenting skills, delaying aging, and more. Jagernauts are renowned for their large size and efficiency in battle. Jagernauts ranks from highest to lowest The main training academy for Jagernauts is the Dieshan Military Academy (DMA). The cadet ranks from lowest to highest are: Apprentice, Journeyman, Junior, and Senior. A Jagernaut exists on

784-457: A quasis field and re-animate the crew in the midst of a massive explosion. A collapse of a quasis field results in a rupture of the Klein bottles holding the anti-matter fuel used to power the ship, resulting in matter-antimatter explosions. Due to advanced nanotechnology , microscopic nanomeds can be put into people's bodies to manage cell repair and delay aging. This enables the extension of

840-461: A superluminal universe does exist, we have no way to reach it given that we must go through the speed of light, which to the best of our knowledge is impossible. In this paper, I show that by making speed complex, we can go around the speed of light in a manner analogous to the way a car faced with an infinitely tall roadblock might leave the road to go around that barrier. The treatment is a mathematical device; no known physical interpretation exists for

896-647: A top-tier league Indonesia Soccer Championship B , a second-tier league Other organizations [ edit ] Indigenous Services Canada Infiltration Surveillance Center , the defunct command center for Operation Igloo White in Nakhon Phanom, Thailand Intelligence and Security Committee , a committee of the UK Parliament International Signal and Control , an American defense contractor International Socialist Commission International Silver Company ,

952-512: Is Roca Skolia . Besides the Assembly, two important titles in the Skolian government are held by members of the Ruby Dynasty. Ruby Pharaoh is the hereditary title of a reigning monarch. It dates back to the ancient Ruby Empire that was ruled by powerful warrior queens. When the modern Skolian Empire was founded, the title of Ruby Pharaoh was resurrected, yet this time the power of a Pharaoh

1008-464: Is not absolute anymore. An elected Assembly governs, with the Pharaoh being mainly the titular head of the empire, though she holds an important bloc of votes in the Assembly. The role of the Pharaoh is also associated with the Triad title of Assembly Key, though both positions don't have to be necessarily joined together. There have been only two Skolian Pharaohs so far – Lahaylia Selei, the founder of

1064-424: Is now not uncommon for men to hold an influential position, many important ranks in Skolian politics and the military are still occupied by women. Many people, especially members of the noble houses, still consider men as the "weaker gender". The Skolian Imperialate is ruled partly by the Assembly, an elected parliament; and by the Ruby Dynasty, a hereditary monarchy. According to traditional Skolian political theory,

1120-514: Is one of the major empires in the science fiction novel series called the Saga of the Skolian Empire by Catherine Asaro . The stories of Asaro mostly revolve around the Skolian Empire. She also has written several novellas and novelettes on the world of the Skolian Empire. Skolians are in a permanent near-war state with their enemy, the Eubians, who rule a much bigger star-spanning empire called

1176-738: The Hilbert space described by the spherical harmonic eigenfunctions that solve the Laplace Equation , and some prose in the book is written in the shape of the sinusoidal waves found in the spherical harmonics. Her novel The Quantum Rose is an allegory to quantum scattering theory and is dedicated to her doctoral advisors and mentors in the subject, Alex Dalgarno , Kate Kirby , and Eric J. Heller . The novella "Aurora in Four Voices" includes topics ranging from Fourier series to integration problems in calculus . In essays at

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1232-552: The psiberweb , an interstellar network existing outside of normal space and time that transmits messages instantaneously. Their empire was called the Ruby Empire. The Ruby Empire was a matriarchy ruled by powerful females who held the title of Ruby Pharaoh. The Pharaohs wielded enormous power, leading armies to wars and treating their husbands like property. Succession went strictly through the female line, men being seen as incapable of such responsibilities. A man could only become

1288-420: The quantum state of any particle, temporarily rendering the ship invulnerable. While in quasis, the quantum state of all the occupants of the ship also freezes causing the crew to experience the quasis as a disjointed segment of time. Each weapon strike against a ship in quasis weakens its quasis field. The novels describe an unspecified number of weapon hits (typically suggesting two to four) that will collapse

1344-468: The Allieds, are an extension of a present-day Earth civilization who enter space travel only to find all worlds are already inhabited and thriving under either the Skolian or Eubian Empire. Their role in the series is that of a neutral party, interested only in the cessation of hostilities. Around 6,000 years ago an unknown race moved a group of Mayan humans from Earth to the distant planet Raylicon. Then

1400-563: The Assembly's power far from absolute. The Assembly consists of thousands of delegates, who represent the many worlds of the Imperialate. The number of votes held by delegates depends on the size of the population of the planet that elected them and also on their status within the Assembly. The largest block of votes belongs to the First Councilor, who is the leader of the Assembly. The next largest blocks are held by Councilors of

1456-496: The Eubian Concord. Eubians (often also referred to as Traders , due to their flourishing slave trade) have stronger militaries and dispose of greater resources. Skolians, though weaker, balance this out by usage of their faster-than-light interstellar communication network called psiberweb , which gives them an important advantage and is the only obstacle that prevents the Eubians from conquering Skolia. Another player on

1512-738: The Eurovision Song Contest from the 1970s and 1980s Iraq-Syria Caliphate or simply ISC, fictional terrorist organization (based on ISIS) in the 2017 Indian film Tiger Zinda Hai Science and technology [ edit ] Induced stem cells International Science Council , a non-governmental organization uniting scientific bodies International Seismological Centre , a seismology data center Intersystem crossing , an excited state dynamic in chemistry and physics Iron–sulfur cluster biosynthesis protein family , machinery for producing iron–sulfur clusters Computing [ edit ] Initiative for Software Choice ,

1568-526: The ISC headquarters and seat of the Dieshan Military Academy. Asaro is known as a hard science fiction writer for the scientific depth of her work. The amount of science varies from book to book, with novels such as Primary Inversion , The Radiant Seas , and Spherical Harmonic on the most scientifically dense end of the spectrum, including elements such as equations and diagrams of quantum mechanical wave functions and Klein bottles . Stanley Schmidt ,

1624-437: The Imperialate, and her daughter Dyhianna, who is the current Pharaoh. The heirs to the throne are Dyhiannas sons, first Taquinil, then Althor, with her younger sister Roca being next in line. The title of Imperator is associated with the army, the Imperator being the supreme commander of all Skolian military forces. This title is also hereditary but the Imperator can choose a successor from among several suitable candidates. If

1680-753: The Inner Circle and by Skolian Imperator and Ruby Pharaoh. All Skolian noble houses have hereditary seats in the Assembly but only the Ruby Dynasty and the House of Majda have blocs of votes with considerable influence. There are five main political parties within the Assembly: The Inner Circle consists of elected Councilors representing different ministries of the Skolian government: Industry, Life, Finance, Intelligence, Judiciary, Stars, Planetary Development, Domestic Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Protocol, and Nature. The Foreign Affairs Councillor

1736-627: The International Softball League. The ISC World Tournament is an annual tournament held each August to crown the best softball club in North America. Teams from six regions (US East, US Central, US West, Canada East, Canada West, International) are represented at the World Tournament. The ISC allocates berths by region to qualifying tournaments throughout North America. Teams gain entry by winning one of

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1792-592: The Isles of Scilly International service center, a type of United States Postal Service facility See also [ edit ] ICS (disambiguation) ISCC (disambiguation) (ISC)² (International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium), a non-profit organization headquartered in Palm Harbor, Florida, US ISSC (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

1848-658: The Locks. Ruby Dynasty members differ physically from the members of other noble Houses, who are mostly dark-haired and dark-eyed, also with darker skin. This is because some ancestors of the Ruby Dynasty came from ancient colonies of the Ruby Empire, where people genetically engineered themselves to better adapt to their surroundings. The first Skolian Imperator Jarac was extremely tall (over 7 feet) with metallic skin, eyes and hair. Some of his descendants inherited these traits, particularly his daughter Roca and grandsons Kurj , Althor and Kelric . Ruby family members who look similar to

1904-481: The Rhon project, however, was the creation of Aristos, a race of anti-empaths, whose brains interpret pain of others (especially of psions ) as pleasure, which turned them into sadists. This result led to the birth of two competing interstellar empires – Eubian Concord (founded by Aristos) and Skolian Empire – founded by Lahaylia Selei, progenitor of the modern Ruby Dynasty, a family of Rhon telepaths who currently co-rule

1960-676: The Skolian Empire books comes from a paper Asaro wrote on complex variables and special relativity that appeared in the American Journal of Physics . The form of space travel is called "inversion" because the equations of relativistic physics predict that if ships could travel in a supraluminal universe, the constellations as we know them would appear inverted in position. In the abstract for her paper, "Complex Speeds and Special Relativity," Asaro writes "The quest to find faster‐than‐light particles has intrigued physicists for decades, though it has yet to turn up any real candidates. Even if

2016-609: The Skolian Imperialate and power and maintain the Kyle Web . The collection of Skolian armed forces is called Imperial Space Command , or ISC . The commander-in-chief of all ISC forces is the Imperator of Skolia. The ISC has four divisions: The main centers of ISC are the space habitat Orbiter with its War Room, Triad Chair and Lock , the Onyx Platform protecting the Third Lock and the planet Diesha, which serves as

2072-472: The Skolian Imperialate. Once a member of the Ruby Dynasty makes contact with a Lock, they become part of the Triad (formerly a Dyad). A member of the Triad is called a Key. Three types of Keys exist: Assembly Key , Military Key and Web Key . Each Key has to have a unique personality different from the other two as much as possible because if the neurological processes are too similar, they cannot coexist in

2128-627: The Triad. So far the title of Pharaoh was always associated with the Assembly Key, while the title Imperator was associated with the Military Key. Jagernauts are fictional soldiers in the Saga of the Skolian Empire by Catherine Asaro. They are members of the J-Force, which is an ISC elite fighting division composed of independent fighter pilots who engage in small squadron combat with the Eubians. Jagernauts are psions with high Kyle Ratings , generally full empaths or even telepaths, with even

2184-502: The back of some of her novels, Asaro explains the mathematical and physics basis of the ideas used in the books, in particular Spherical Harmonic, The Quantum Rose , and The Moon's Shadow. In the anthology Aurora in Four Voices (which includes the novella of the same name), Asaro describes the mathematical basis of several stories in the anthology, including the use of Fourier transforms, Riemann sheets , and complex numbers in "The SpaceTime Pool." The method of space travel used in

2240-590: The empire was rebuilt, and approximately 400 years ago, the Raylicans re-developed space travel. The Raylicans also rediscovered the Locks , devices that have allowed advanced telepaths to establish the interstellar network called the Kyle Web or psiberweb, which can be used by others. Thus, the Rhon project was developed to develop genetically the necessary neurochemistry to power the Locks . The unintended result of

2296-443: The first Pharaoh Lahaylia, such as Dyhianna, Sauscony or Taquinil, are on the other hand smaller than average and slim with black hair. Eldrinson Valdoria , a native Lyshrioli , had violet eyes, fair skin and burgundy hair, which is also true for several of his children, especially Eldrin and Del-Kurj. Ruby Dynasty members tend to be good-looking because their progenitors were bred as pleasure slaves before they rebelled and established

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2352-602: The first time, the larger the possibility that they won't work that well. In Skolian Empire, many people, most often in the military or administration, carry bio-implants . Most common are nodes in brain which are used mainly as extended memory to store useful data. Many people have also psiphon sockets in their spine, wrists, and ankles, that enable them to lock into the psiberweb . People who suffer severe injuries and lose their limbs or eyes can get prosthetic ones. The Skolian Imperialate consists of many worlds with hundreds or thousands of different languages. The language that

2408-503: The form of military psychiatric therapists, known as "heartbenders". International Softball Congress The International Softball Congress (ISC) is a non-profit association for the promotion and administration of men's and boys fastpitch softball throughout North America with athletes coming from all over the world. The ISC was formed in 1958 as an amalgamation of the National Softball Congress and

2464-560: The imaginary part of a complex speed. However, it can provide an entertaining problem in special relativity, one that may encourage students to think about the connections between equations and the physical universe." Evolving Intelligence, also known as EI , is the term given to sophisticated computer systems, similar to what is commonly known as Artificial Intelligence , or AI, but with more capabilities, such as complex learning algorithms and personality routines. EIs are used for example in starships or as administrators of computer systems in

2520-420: The interstellar stage is the Allieds, the smallest of the three empires, centered on Earth. They act in a strictly neutral way to both Eubians and Skolians and support the solution of their neighbour's conflicts by political, rather than military means. Today's Skolian Empire is an egalitarian society, but the original Ruby Empire was a matriarchy and remnants of this still remain in Skolian culture. Although it

2576-405: The kidnappers disappeared, leaving their victims on their own. The Raylicans developed star travel using the remains of three starships left behind by the aliens on their new homeworld. They reverse engineered the technology, allowing them to achieve spaceflight and colonize hundreds of planets. They also discovered the Locks , an ancient and sentient alien technology that allowed them to create

2632-529: The long time editor of Analog magazine, wrote that Primary Inversion is "an impressive first novel; not just a good story, but the kind of speculation we too seldom see – really new science that just might be possible." Asaro is noted as one of the few female science fiction writers who also has a doctorate in hard science, in Asaro's case a PhD from Harvard in theoretical Chemical Physics. The novel Spherical Harmonic involves an imagined universe based on

2688-425: The other hand, while larger in number and more successful economically, constitute a society built entirely of a slave hierarchy run by Aristos, who have been genetically engineered and have no capability for compassion, but rather experience pleasure in the form of "transcendence" through the projected suffering of powerful psions that have been kidnapped from the Skolian Imperialate. A third but much smaller group,

2744-427: The psiberweb. The ruling family of today's Skolian Empire is called the Ruby Dynasty, as Lahaylia Selei, the progenitor of the modern Ruby family, was cloned from the genetic material of one of the long dead warrior queens of the Ruby Empire. The descendants of the Ruby Dynasty are all Rhon psions . They can read moods, and even particular thoughts. They were created in a genetic engineering experiment to help power

2800-521: The razor's edge of sanity needing to balance empathy with efficient battle reflexes. Jagernauts must be psions to make the necessary neural links with the Evolving Intelligences of their starfighters, but that also means they experience what happens during war more intensely than most soldiers. To maintain self-control every Jagernaut is trained to adhere to a strict moral code of honor and personal decency. Not all succeed in maintaining

2856-455: The ruling body is absolute, therefore the Assembly is Sovereign. All powers of the Imperator and the Pharaoh are theoretically derived from the Assembly, including their right to vote within the Assembly. In actuality the Pharaoh, and also the Imperator, have power because they are necessary to the continued existence of the Imperialate. In the case of the Pharaoh, traditional loyalty to the Ruby Dynasty queen also plays an important role. This makes

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2912-444: The ship's EI , and together they control all aspects of the ship. A Jagernaut is enhanced with biomechanics. Bioplastics and other materials enhance their muscles and bones significantly. Although still requiring food, a Jagernaut has internal systems powered by a microfusion reactor. Complete with the latest in small-scale technology, Jagernauts have numerous nanomeds and nano / pico devices in their bodies that are responsible for

2968-418: The technology, and started to rebuild their empire. Because of this theme, Asaro's Skolian Empire novels have been categorized in the lost world genre . By the time the Raylicans started rebuilding their empire, the psions which had a strong enough KAB Rating to power the psiberweb had been all but lost. As a result, the Rhon project was created to genetically engineer the traits necessary to create

3024-495: The title ISC . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ISC&oldid=1199193359 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Imperial Space Command The Skolian Empire , or Skolian Imperialate ,

3080-539: The title. The Skolian Empire traces its roots to six thousand years ago, when an unknown race took humans from Earth and resettled them on a planet called Raylicon. Then the unknown race disappeared, leaving only parts of their technology behind. The humans on Raylicon used this technology to develop space travel. They founded the Ruby Empire and colonized hundreds of planets. But the empire collapsed, and many worlds were left isolated for thousands of years. Gradually,

3136-495: Was chosen as a common tongue is called Skolian Flag. People from the Ruby Dynasty and other noble houses speak a nearly extinct language called Iotic. The Ruby Dynasty, the ancient rulers of the Skolian Empire , while possessing empathic and telepathic abilities enhanced by " pico " and " nano " technology, constitute a monarchy plagued by internal struggle and conflict with the elected Assembly. The Eubian Traders, on

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