Paizo Paizo Blog Tags Starfinder. The countdown to Starfinder is on, and to celebrate, were continuing to delve into the backstories of the iconic characters that appear in illustrations throughout the Starfinder line. Today we meet Altronus, the iconic solarian Illustration by Remko Troost. Altronus Barasul Dovenayan was born into House Holdare, a traditional and respected family on the kasatha generation ship turned homeland Idari. Published continually since 1998, NEWS YOU CAN USE was a Blog before Blog was even a word Its intention has been to help inform the football coach and the. BPL philosophy of practice Jyotisha is an Eye. It is an organ eye of psychospiritual study, designed to improve focus, clarity of awareness, and discrimination. On Military matters stocks books on military history, wargames, wargame rules and periodicals covering all of recorded history. At The Races The definitive online destination for horse racing. The Holdare trace their lineage to Great Families already well respected when the Idari left Kasath for their centuries long trip to the Pact Worlds, and have maintained strong connections with both the houses that rose to prominence on the ship while crew functions were paramount, and younger houses risen to prominence since the Idari became an enormous space station. Much of the influence of House Holdare comes from their renown for producing skilled adatascholar priests who oversee the removal and preservation of thin slices of the brains of deceased kasatha in technomagical temples called adats. Even in times when ships officers, pilots, and navigators find their social relevance waning, the adata remain highly respected in kasatha society. The eldest living member of House Holdare, Barasul Naedarin Allar of Clan Allar, Keeper of Ten Million Thoughts and doyen of the ships adata, took a special interest in Altronus shortly after his birth, though he was but a distant nephew to her. Of course the attention of so great a clan elder comes with more responsibility and expectation than comfort, and though Altronus was raised with significant prestige and resources as a youth, he was also pushed to begin adata training very early, his family even going so far as to name him after famous adata doyens. While Altronus did not excel at his studies the way his family had hoped, neither did he do poorly, and most people chalked his merely adequate results up to his relative youth. In truth, Altronus was indeed an excellent scholar, simply one who had trouble focusing on a single topic for long. Inevitably, some interesting fact in his studies would pique his interest and draw his research off into unrelated sidetracks. This broad, self directed education made him adept at making connections between disparate fields, yet earned him little love from traditionalist teachers who saw his scattered studies as a failure to focus and a deliberate rejection of tried and true scholarly practices. Though his close family were dedicated worshipers of Talavet, the Storyteller deity, one of Altronuss more sympathetic teachers felt his wandering focus could be better brought into line with training in the philosophy of the Cycle, which teaches that existence is an endless, connected series of events as stars are born, die, and born again. Wuthering Heights. pdf Ebook download as PDF File. pdf, Text File. txt or read book online. Hardworking seafarers are seen here proudly displaying their catch after a successful day deep sea fishing. Photo contributor Chris Platt reckons this was in Pago. Though the Cycle is the guiding philosophy of the solarians, contemplative warriors with a tradition stretching far back into the history of Kasath, its also seen as a useful tool for training body and mind in preparation for the rigors of other vocations. Altronus was accepted as a student into a prestigious cosmonastery on the Idari, and taught to focus his thoughts on the forces of the universe around him, to draw strength and guidance from the endless repetition of celestial creation and destruction. He took to the training immediately, and soon was among the most advanced students, most of whom sought not just to understand the lessons of the Cycle, but to embody them in the path of the solarian. Altronus, however, was still slated for a career as an adata. This preordained path didnt bother himas he approached adulthood and the yearlong ritual walkabout of the Tempering, he was allowed to take on guard shifts at the ships famed Sholar Adat. There he watched over rooms of stasis pods where adata connected to the Sensorium, the technomagical temple archive where flashes of memories from archived kasatha brains could be experienced, sorted, and analyzed. On rare occasions, he was even allowed to experience ancient Sensorium memories himself, and it was these glimpses of lives and secrets long lost that most drove Altronus to complete his studies and become a full adata. During one of his last scheduled shifts as an adata student, Altronus was assigned to an inactive Sensorium access nodeone rarely used, but like all Sensorium access points still important enough to be protected by force fields and a round the clock guard. Though most such shifts were uneventful, on that night Altronus was surprised by the appearance of a fully cloaked and apparently rushed senior adata, Remura Esolla Kaiban of Clan Senthen, flashing a warrant to allow unscheduled access to the memory of a recently deceased citizen. Thanks to his tendency to collect trivia, Altronus knew Remura was scheduled to be giving a lecture at the far end of the Idari. What, he wondered, could be of such great importance that the revered adat would end the lecture early, not to mention need an emergency Sensorium warrant Altronus knew he should mind his own business, but again curiosity overrode his training. Altronus contacted a friend at the far end of the ship, who informed him that not only had Adata Kaiban not left the lecture earlyshe was still on the stage. Immediately Altronus sounded an intruder alert, and rushed into the Sensorium access node to confront the false adata. To his surprise, Altronus discovered not a kasatha, but a small, sickly gray humanoid standing in a pile of robes and strange machinery, with long wires and humming crystals latched onto the Sensorium feed and hundreds of images flashing from the access node to the gray creatures alien devices. Altronus leapt to activate the Sensorium emergency disconnect, but the bulbous creature struck him with a taclash, ripping the pulsecaster from his grip, then shot him with a pistol that fired a searing green ray. Through the resulting haze of pain, Altronus managed to seal the access nodes security force fields, trapping himself and the gray intruder inside. With a shock, Altronus realized the severity of the situation. Any response to his alarm would take precious moments to arrive, and still more to disable the force field. Unarmed, Altronus had little chance of holding the intruder at bay. He had no way of healing the wound from the creatures pistol. For the first time in his life, Altronus truly confronted the fact that he was going to die. Like the stars themselves, he too would be extinguished, his body breaking down and eventually being reincorporated over millennia into new entities, new worlds, new stars. At last, he truly understood the Cycle. With his final moments, he reached out to the universe, embracing it. And the universe answered. Altronus was as surprised as the strange gray alien to find a long, shining golden blade suddenly sprouting from his lower right forearm. Yet he had seen enough of solarian training to recognize the blade of stellar energy for what it was, and leapt to put it to use, placing himself between the creature and the nodes access panels. The two fought in grim silence, and though it was clear the gray invader was the more skilled, Altronus stood his ground, putting to use every scrap of training hed gained. He didnt need to winonly buy time, keeping the creature from finishing its infiltration of the Sensorium until help arrived. How to Write Sheet Music 1. Steps with PicturesThe time signature is the two numbers you find after the key signature. It tells you how many beats there are in the measure bottom number and which note gets the beat top number. Just in case you dont know, a quarter note or crotchet, if you are a Brit is one beat, a half note minim is two beats, a dotted half note dotted minim is 3 beats, and a whole note semibreve is four beats. For instance, if the time signature is 44, then there are 4 beats in the measure, and a whole note gets the beat. This is the general idea of it, but as you progress in the musical world, you will learn time signatures such as 54, 24, 22, 68, and 98.