For those with the money and the vanity, there are ways to extend one’s life through. . . unnatural means. The results are ghosts.
The Clockbeast
The Clockbeast is an engineered life-form designed for accurate timekeeping, commonly found in the Empire of 1,000,000 Suns.
A Word About Beads
Bead-making is one of the most widely spread technologies in the galaxy, and was even named a “Galactic Heritage Technology” by the Planetary League. The bead-trade is also the closest thing that exists to a universal currency.
Negative energy technology
The generation and manipulation of negative energy fields underlies a number of advanced technologies from spatial compression to artificial gravity.
