{"id":10308,"date":"2021-12-28T19:04:04","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T00:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/?p=10308"},"modified":"2021-12-28T19:07:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T00:07:35","slug":"the-winking-tempest-approaches-olumai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2021\/the-winking-tempest-approaches-olumai","title":{"rendered":"The Winking Tempest approaches Olumai"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gribus, Ghiarren, and their sapient trailblazer starcraft the Winking Tempest approach Olumai and the mysterious sentience that has shown an interest in them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1038\" height=\"725\" src=\"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/B90AFAD5-5045-47CE-B7D3-6FD2A9EEFB09-1038x725.jpeg\" alt=\"A vibrant, pink spacecraft enters from the right, coasting over the top of the enormous flying creatures still many kilometers below. \" class=\"wp-image-10309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/B90AFAD5-5045-47CE-B7D3-6FD2A9EEFB09-1038x725.jpeg 1038w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/B90AFAD5-5045-47CE-B7D3-6FD2A9EEFB09-300x210.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/B90AFAD5-5045-47CE-B7D3-6FD2A9EEFB09-150x105.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/B90AFAD5-5045-47CE-B7D3-6FD2A9EEFB09-768x536.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/B90AFAD5-5045-47CE-B7D3-6FD2A9EEFB09-1536x1073.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/B90AFAD5-5045-47CE-B7D3-6FD2A9EEFB09-2048x1431.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/B90AFAD5-5045-47CE-B7D3-6FD2A9EEFB09-1200x838.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/B90AFAD5-5045-47CE-B7D3-6FD2A9EEFB09-400x279.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/B90AFAD5-5045-47CE-B7D3-6FD2A9EEFB09-86x60.jpeg 86w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/B90AFAD5-5045-47CE-B7D3-6FD2A9EEFB09-129x90.jpeg 129w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>The Winking Tempest descends far above the flock of gargantuan Deltas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Flocks of hundreds of these air whales circle the moss planet of Olumai, filter feeding from the atmosphere. They are born flying, first tumbling into the vortices of the wingtips as tiny fry, then gaining full flight as they thrive in the dynamic microclimate stirred by the passing of their vast parents. They then join the triangular flock in its perpetual circumnavigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"209\" src=\"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image.png 1080w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image-300x58.png 300w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image-768x149.png 768w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image-1024x198.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Modular systems are a function of industrial society. But do people of The Fifth World still know how to agree to standards? With their acute interest in efficiency, I think they might have carried that lesson forward!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gribus, Ghiarren, and their sapient trailblazer starcraft the Winking Tempest approach Olumai and the mysterious sentience that has shown an interest in them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":10311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-set-of-all-sets-that-do-not-include-themselves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10308"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10312,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10308\/revisions\/10312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}