IMMERSION GLOSSARY Living language of the Anthropogenic–Digital world ableteen (noun) An extremely fast, high-tech solar-powered android designed for households. affect-interference (noun) System-level degradation that occurs when emotional variables contaminate an otherwise optimal machine procedure—delay, noise, priority inversion, and mission drift. Cadre term for the failure mode that emotion introduces; Mothers call it a defect; humans call it being alive. agitator (noun) A disruptor, protestor, or criminal. Agitator Resistance (noun phrase) A decentralised coalition of radicals, scholars, and defectors who opposed the tightening control of CASM in the early Midcast years. The movement’s core belief was that emotional integrity and creative dissent were essential to human survival in a mechanised age. Lidian and Honour were among its final leaders before the Rebellion’s collapse and subsequent Erasure Campaign. Though officially destroyed, fragme...
