What are they? Significance?

Found them mentioned in the imperial library but couldn't find a specfic entry.

I found a document that recalls them briefly at the end of it.http://www.imperial-library.info/obscure_text/census_daedra.shtml. The meaning of mananaut I believe is "magic sailor".

Thank you.

That was the document that I was referring to.

"Visits to Aetherius occur even less frequently than to Oblivion, for the void is a long expanse and only the stars offer portal for aetherial travel, or the judicious use of magic. The expeditions of the Reman Dynasty and the Sun Birds of Alinor are the most famous attempts in our histories, and it is a cosmic irony that both of them were eventually dissolved for the same reason: the untenable expenditures required to reach magic by magicka. Their only legacy is the Royal Imperial Mananauts of the Elder Council and the great Orrery at Firsthold, whose spheres are made up of genuine celestial mineral gathered by travelers during the Merethic Era." (from Pocket Guide to Empire 3rd, http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Pocket_Guide_to_the_Empire,_3rd_Edition/Arena_Supermundus
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"Belief-engines, properly called the �Auxiliary Semi-Shockpoint Nilgularity�, provide energy for short dream-sleeve jumps in case a Vehkship�s main ego is damaged, allowing the C0DA Paravant to potentially get to the safety of a voidyard orbital.

"By creating the equivalent of an Nu-class Mnemolic, shrinking it instantaneously via a creatia tesseract array, and then projecting the resulting moth-talk well to a nil-point just outside the ego�s hull, an ASSN can slingshot the Paravant into era-streams without the needed energies of nearby aetheric bodies or shockpoint application.

"The ASSN is strictly Last Ditch technology, however. It�s often deemed as too dangerous for its own good, because it works on the rarified principles of Phynaster�s Inversion, a set of mathematics that doesn�t exist in our own dimension. Vehkships have vanished in nil-space trying to make an ASSN jump�indeed, the celestial irregularity known as the M4bV Legerity, in which the C0DA Oblivion Vanquisher appears and implodes in perpetuity, is the belief system�s most famous cautionary tale."

(MK, in the "Made Up Word Roundup" thread quoted in http://lorannarp.pbwiki.com/f/Made_up_word_roundup.htm --- I'm assuming the Mananauts used Vekhships.) Proweler and others, please correct this as necessary.

Yeah I would have gave more information if I understood it myself. It referred to them as being help to the Elder Council, but I'm not sure of their significance.

They seem to have been astronauts travelling through the Void and to Aetherius. As I'm not a loremaster, others will have to confirm this.

Edit: On second thought, the Vekhships seem to be reserved for future eras, so they might not be related to the mananaut expeditions.

Christ, mananaut is a portmanteau of mana and astronaut. :rolleyes:

Thanks .

But as is evident.. we don't all know that :cookie:

I wasn't totally right with it being a combination when -naut means traveler or sailor. Doesn't matter. It's travelling to the stars anyway.

But, keep the cookie anyway. I don't have a problem perceiving obvious clues.

Hah!
I always thought it was a portmanteau of man and astronaut (or kosmonaut, or whatever words for space-sailors there is), and the a between was just there to give a nice ring to it.
Mana makes much more sense though. :foodndrink:

:lol:

Everytime somebody brings this up, I can't help but remember the 80's when 2nd edition D&D had the whole spelljammer thing about planar travel achieved through aether currents and space-travel. Mananauts indeed.

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Ha ha, yeah that struck my mind as well!