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Usage examples of templates.

Lord Faro and Ibelin Belfortune from a session she herself had played on Demeter a few months before, whom she had salvaged from certain death because their templates were more interesting than her players had been capable of making them.

Thousand Years War the technology had been perfected whereby, instead of simply transporting matter, the microcodes could be recorded on permanent templates, and multiple facsimiles could be created at will of any object including animals and living human beings for which there was such a template.

DNA in the nucleus, for example, and as the templates for making the structures called telomeres that stabilize the ends of chromosomes.

Ambidexter, and usually Cella hinting in the background that he ought to come back to show people how his templates are supposed to be played.

She studied the numbers for a moment longer, balancing skills and quirks and basic numbers, then touched the keys that dumped the templates to the system.

For a moment, she saw Roscha webbed in the Game shapes, tangled with the visible templates, and then the images sharpened, and she turned her attention to the double task of ending the old Game and creating the new.

Suddenly, a three-fingered hand reached over her and pushed two red templates on the panel.

It was extremely lucky that Stuff Central had imposed an absolute prohibition on the templates for weapons of real mass destruction, or without a doubt Baptiste would have committed holocaust on a grand scale and his body count would have risen to truly astronomical figures.

What is not clear is whether Stuff Central directly transmitted the required objects, or whether it only supplied a file of templates for later use.

The use of adapted templates made it possible to tailor hardware and create strange hybrids that fitted with any cultural fantasy.

Arboreal life had reshaped her kind: Selection had reached back to ancient designs, much modified, their templates never abandoned.

Only the last series of experiments were left, and because there was no control, they were never shut down even when they were used as the templates for worlds like the one you came from.