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# Glossary

| Text                        | Description                                                                                                                              |
| --------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Mecha(s)                    | Titanic and super-powerful robots piloted by humans                                                                                      |
| MechaChain                  | Name of the project and the company. Also the network allowing pilots to control their Mechas.                                           |
| Mechanium(s)                | Central cryptocurrency of the MechaChain ecosystem; it is an enriched ore that feeds the Mechas' generators                              |
| Singularity (technological) | Theoretical breaking point at which technological progress would escape human understanding                                              |
| Hêmérê                      | One of the two AI that led to the Singularity, restricted in order to guarantee the integrity of the human body and mind                 |
| Techno-democracy of Hêmérê  | The super-nation centered around Hêmérê                                                                                                  |
| Pure-Genes                  | The citizens of the techno-democracy of Hêmérê                                                                                           |
| Guardians of the precepts   | Pure-gene house attached to the defense of the ancient precepts                                                                          |
| Cult of Hêmérê              | House of Pure-Gene composed of pious engineers worshipping Hêmérê as a deity                                                             |
| Inquisition                 | House of pure-gene fanatics considering any transhumanist drift as impious                                                               |
| MR-GL-201                   | One of the two AI that led to the Singularity, unbridled and aspiring only to the proliferation and expansion of the human race          |
| Algocracy of MR-GL-201      | The super-nation centered around MR-GL-201                                                                                               |
| Assimilated                 | The subjects of the algocracy of MR-GL-201                                                                                               |
| Immortals                   | The assimilated elite fully inhabiting their mecha                                                                                       |
| Night of the Rising Stars   | The night when the MechaChain network was launched by sending thousands of satellites simultaneously from Earth and neighboring colonies |
| Frag                        | Also called "kill" in video games, a Frag represents the destruction of an opposing mecha by a player                                    |