01.12.2024 Pitch the setting of your story as if you’re a travel agent trying to convince a tourist to visit.

Come with us to the magical world between the stars, follow in the footsteps of great heroes in Zero G, to a world so beautiful and various as your homeworld, the great and peaceful blue gem of sol. See how humans and non humans unites as Terrans made a plagued and tortured, wartorn world a new into the paradise it is today. Travel along with the fastest ship the Union has to offer to see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars. See all the 6 core member worlds in their strive for perfection, the 66 associated member worlds and all the various species they provide. Test the exquisite food.* Enjoy the fascinating weather.* Beautiful Nature.* And a universe full of joy.**

*Please check local Flora, fauna, food, air and ground composition for your safety before.
**The current size of the universe is unknown. Joy is relative.
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02.12.2024 What are the 3 most important things for a traveler to take to the setting of your story?

Military: your weapon, your armor, your Holo.

Civilian: your Holo, a backpack, interspecies travel Pharmacy.
There are 72 species in the Union and their home planets/colonies, if they are not outright intoxicating to your species, they can start allergic reactions, you may not stand their food. Believe me travel diarrhea is even worse if your body waste could kill an alien ecosystem.

Holo are like mobile phones today, if you add all your IDs, licenses, a local cluster communication device, environmental scanner, micro forge and and Swiss army tool box into it. So yeah you should keep it on you.

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03.12.2024 What are the three most important things for a traveller to know if they visit your setting?

The Terran Travel handbook helps out.

If alarm goes of follow the people to the nearest shelters. Police service forces take the lead.

If people are around, that have scales that are referd to as Talithi/Talith, wear your mask, that is provided in your travel Pharmacy.
They are our closest allies we had & have. They breath in Carbon dioxide & breath out Oxygen, however we are both intoxicating to each other, thanks to nanoparticles we breath out. It's a code of conduct. Other species don't struggle with that but we do.

If you behave inappropriate, people will most likely correct you, in a friendly manor & openly communicate missteps, this serves the purpose of handling complex social differences in the most efficient way. No bad blood as long everyone is nice.

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04.12.2024 MC POV: What about your daily life would surprise a stranger?

Kira Knox:"Pick what you think is strange, that I sleep 6 hours average, have an 16 hour shift including and on top ready time, that my quarter is my office, that I don't see natural daylight for weeks, that I have to visit the doctors daily, that I train constantly and if it is only by pumping my muscles, that I run 5 rounds over every deck daily before my breakfast, that I rarely eat solid food, that I am constantly linked to the ships system, tell me what would you find surprising about all that not to mention that I have an relationship with a crew member maybe? Or that I can do 'the paperwork' while doing everything else?"

Arkham:"That I sit for most of the time? That I date the captain? Hedgehog on the fuzz what do I know."

Ashlei:" Most Likely that I am constantly linked to the captain & can access her memories."
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05.12.2024 Who truly understands your MC?

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Ash & Kira. Not to a 100% but Ash now knows most of Kira's Memories while Kira can access all of Ashlei's Data & Memory banks. Thanks to that Ash improved the Strawberries from the EPI, mad the light on board more natural & has the knowledge how menstrual pain feels like. The catch for Ash is that she needs to regulate Data flow from Kira to herself otherwise the cheer amount of Data & it's structure may over stress her ability to handle it, in addition to keep the ship running smoothly.
Kira is, in theory able to control the ship via her thoughts, if Ash would allow it. Both agree that it is better to keep this a secret from the crew until Kira has prepared them enough, even Arkham doesn't know the full scale.
The communication of Kira & Ash has become instinctively, often just with feelings or pictures instead of words, Kira's brain easily adopted to

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2/2 to the "new resource." It has begun to incorporate Ash's sensor readings into Kira's body feeling. As an example if the Ghoz'Tarc's engine vibrates incorrectly Kira feels an itch at her leg. For that reason Ash has created an buffer instance that regulates Kira's instinctive reflex driven attempts to enter the system and Kira's knowingly requests and the answers to them.

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06.12.2024 Share a description of unusual or interesting clothes in your story.

Sorry no answer today. I just got headaches while writing the other prompts and realizing something with my hashtags is off. So I don't feel like going into more detailed texts right now.

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07.12.2024 What were the smells in the last scene you wrote.

I haven't described any scent or smell in particular but it's a dusk scene on a local Alliance Campus.
Especially in the local canteen. So the scent of the night strengthens as the day passes. Together with different food types, the scent of clean human and alien adolescents (no "service" without "shower" after the last training), sparkling water, hot chocolate and scratched ceramics as Anika almost cracked her cup of hot chocolate in anger.

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08.12.2024 Antagonist POV: If you could have 5 minutes to speak to the MC without interruption, what would you say?

AJ to Kira:
"I would rather like to not point that weapon at you. Please stay aside from my mission. You are a capable enemy for sure but you lack the inside I have... had, you reminding me to someone very dear to me, so for the sake of both of us, this has not to end in violence, remember the Unions goals, communication, cooperation, believe me when I say, you can't trust my 'acquaintance' but me."

"Says the person that can't remember most of anything, will you even remember if I agree or shoot me the moment you blink, because you forgot your words? That gun stays in place, as you do, you will answer yourself in court trial & if I have to hurt you, to get you there, I do it."

"Don't be stubborn, lower the weapon, let US talk."

"No, as granted by the Union, as a Shade, I arrest you!"

"As a Shade, I deny that order."

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09.12.2024 If the character from your last scene closed her eyes, what would be the first three things she'd notice?

We are still in the same scene in which Anika talks to Rose.

It's darker than before.🤪

The temperature drop, day night shift is quite drastic we talk about 5-15° Celsius in general.

The change in the smell. Thanks to the drop in temperature, night bloomers open up while day bloomers close, etc Terran night has a different smell than day.

How many others are truly around, all their noises are usually reduced to a background soundscape but if listen closely, you can make out single voices, like the gutteral & rough Somehar, the slight, roaring hissing Talithi, Bethosians Melodic patterns & tonal shifts, an Asza'ni talking mother tongue with a Trellwa'ni, same language different vibes, Asza'ni more sung, Trellwa'ni more screeching, the room has at least 30 people of different origin in it right now.

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10.12.2024 What kind of stories do you like telling?

Weird ones, fantastic ones, perspective changing ones, stories unheard of, stories often heard ones but with a twist.

Why does the Santa Claus needs to wear red (of cause Coka Cola I know) why not blue green or yellow?
What if Santa whas a Power Ranger team.

Inhumane Stories, stories from the eyes of an non human like entity, dirty ones, rollercoaster ones that punch your guts between joy and despair. What ever story seems to tickle me fancy. But for all time I prefer unfinished ones. Open ends. Because as long time goes on this stories will mix into others like the history of a family which each child a new story begins. I would love to tell a lovecraftian romance in a similar way Terry Pratchett told fantasy. A post Apocalypse in a way Edgar Allan Poe told it's tell tale heart. Detailed ones, deep ones, shallow ones...

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is in chronological order.
Anika's name is still missing, still she speaks her name every time & pleas to whatever force in the universe might listen to find her well... Or her body...

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12.12.2024 Your MC is going on a picnic. Who and what do they bring?

It depends on which occasion and plan this happens.
A romantic Picnic?
Kira would bring Arkham and her possible other partners.
J. Talissa and Rose would be invited to. Kira was in a relationship with Rose and Talisa in her teenage years and she doesn't mind showing emotions around them. If any she might be even more relaxed knowing she is with friends who know her.
Since Ashlei has become part of Kira & vice versa they would bring her in somehow. I pointed that out in a German answer lately, bringing a warship with you is kinda difficult.

For a professional picnic it would be the whole crew & maybe some brass that Kira knows well, affiliated folks that helped in the past.

Food: whatever one wants, the enzyme printer is well programmed.
Maybe some nature grown food after all it's an special occasion.

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13.12.2024 What would the opposite of a common celebration in your world look like (e.g. the opposite of Halloween, anti-birthday, etc.)?

Hm birthday celebrations are common in my universe and so is Union Founding. So anti birthday seems easy, instead of a cake and a nice meal the food contains entirely out of emergency rations and the horrible survival chocolate. No matter the universe or time an equivalent of this stuff seems to exist everywhere. Stuff that make you survive but question if you really want to eat it.
Most people will have an angry hang over attitude, no one's talking.

Unions founding opposite what could that be?🤔

A one day thing where everyone has to do their paperwork. Like US Taxes are portrait in media. Everyone is unnerved by the circumstances and of course it's cold raining outside.
People just nodding to each other instead of greeting properly. The food seems dry & boring despite the high air humidity.

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14.12.2024Follow-up to yesterday: Describe what the real celebration looks like.
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Birthdays are very similar to our times for some species it's more accurate calling it Hatchingday and for some even Sproutingday.
It's a celebration in which the general consensus is to thank the parents (if the emotional connection to them is "good") but it's also normal to just let that slip (it's an ongoing discussion in the society).
Than everyone does relaxing stuff, joyful stuff. Terrans still love a celebration with friends, family members or whoever is around and wants to enjoy with them. Talith have taken a very similar approach and well a lot of cross Spezies cobtermination Hangover or problems stem from drunken Talithi and Terrans getting boozed up even more because they didn't used masks or deactivated the filtration.

Union Founding has become the biggest celebration inside the Union and even some Rimworlds celebrate them, which is

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2/2 kinda complicated in terms of politics "inside" the Rim.
For our average citizens the 6 days are a flurry of colors, it's a quite fast celebration that, on a street levels would look a lot like a themed costume festival in which every day has another topic.
On bigger worlds the cities are filled with market stands that praise their foods & jewelry, music, fabrics, crafts, arts.
Students get a vacation to join the celebration. Parades take place. Every day focused on one core member of the Union. Especially dedicated people even speak the standard language of that days member, or at least try it. Some associated member worlds also started celebrating this by adding their own culture to it, which makes the inofficial festival even more of a flurry, now ~13 days long. The celebration isn't set on a date, but it is rolled around & sometimes dependent on the planet that holds the main celebration.

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15.12.2024 Do your characters give gifts to others for no reason or only on special occasions?

Birthdays are a special occasion but generally people give smaller mostly digital gifts at least in the military. Kira has a house which is a bit extraordinary. Not that people can't afford them but most military folks only rent apartments in between missions. Because of that their physical possessions are more likely sparse, houses only start getting a thing later or if a family is planned.
Still Kira prefers smaller subtle gifts on occasion. She folds origami figures, something she learned from Anika as a child & she can bring up quite impressive variations. Only problem is physical paper, if she folds an Origami figure she often ada a text to it, a letter, etc, digital mix tapes are also a thing but don't ask anyone what the Tape part means they assume it has something to do with the icon 📼you know like that ancient 3D printed icon of saving.💾
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The most common explanation why it's called a tape is because you tape music to the icon. Or you tab it and that tape is just a sloppy spoken thing that just got used because it's phonetics sound better.

Similar we all know that the save icon is just that a prehistoric 3D printed safe before they invented keys. It has a heavy lid to prevent people from casually stealing stuff...,
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16.12.2024 Does charity exist in your world and do any characters participate in it or support it?

Charity is not necessary on Core worlds thanks to everyone having a ground income plus on top what they work for and the fact that being rich is frowned upon, redistribution of wealth over a certain level and money that looses its value completely once a year.
On associated worlds they work towards the same goals so most charity goes there or cooperate participate Worlds in the Rim.
And yes almost the whole crew does a bit to support certain endeavors for ironing out the unfair distribution of wealth that is unnecessary in the 24. Century in a multinational bond.

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17.12.2024 Has your MC ever given a gift to a stranger? If not, what could it be?

The gift of saving someones life, at least 20 people for sure, the gift of supporting a stranger or lighten up their day, can't count.
Physical gifts on occasion like buying a random child on a Rim world something to eat, give them closing. Care is a central theme in the Union. A bond of 72 species scattered around the known galaxy doesn't work without compassion. Care is an obvious way of showing it. The only problem with the gifts for strangers is that "the rules of gifting" state that a gift should rather be useful, emotionally valuable or delightful (which in itself is an emotional value) a stranger wouldn't need anything that reminds them to the gifting Person.
So it happens rather rarely. Lifting a person from a Rim world could be seen as such especially because ether Union treats them as equals but leaving their families & known life behind is hard.

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18.12.2024 A stranger gives your SC their dream gift, what is it & how does your SC react?

The problem with gifts for most of my SC is that they all come from a collection of very similar societies, are in the same boat (ship) & have similar views about gifts.

So for this I switch to the backround SC Somwhar Ovate R'Einbo. Ovate is a Somwhar musician who lives on Terra. He makes Reggae inspired music, loves bad jokes, puns, music & Terran cats. Somwhar themself are a feline looking species of warriors & hunters. Ovate sticks out of this bunch pretty drastically.* No "true Somwhar" would ever want to be seen with a Terran cat or acknowledge their existence. Ovate on the other hand loves them & loves to freak out strangers. So whoever would gift him a physical media with Bob Marley's Complete Discography & Remixes would be "paid" with a 110Kg, 199cm, bipedal tailless, catlike person, sitting on their lap "purring."
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