2/2 Silver lining is adequate but not very special, her usual Handwriting is done with a stylus and occasionally with her fingers. Since she started origami folding she also printed a permanent metal pencil.
She tries her best to keep it readable.

Arkham's mother forced her to undergo "proper etiquette" training so she had to learn writing with real ink, which she hated, her version of Union Standard looks more archaic than most others. Imagine it more like someone writing today's languages in a Nordic Runic style her Silver Lining in comparison would be considered Calligraphic Art.

Ash doesn't have hands but she can print and display all existing fonts and writings of every known civilization. And if atmospheric flight wasn't so problematic (the Ghoz'Tarc is 176 meters long) she could write beautiful cloud words.
Sadly gravity and other forces have something to say about this.

#PennedPossibilities 603 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #ASHLEI #writing #SciFi #WIP

604. Is your MC one to be confident under pressure, or do they struggle with it?

1/2

Kira: She trust's her gut feeling & decision making, so pretty much, of course she requests, reevaluate her decisions afterwards & there is a limit to it, but she isn't in a leading position for no reason. She can put the doubts away til it's time to handle them or they stash up to a giant pile in threat of collapsing.

Arkham: As a pilot and the Flight Commander of this ship, Arkham doesn't often asks herself about her decisions on the job. Left, up, right down, accelerate, brake sounds easy enough and to a degree it is but throw gravity streams/wells into the mix, space combat and material composition of a ship against bending and tearing and there isn't much time to think. On a personal level she is way less secure.

Ashlei: Ash isn't programmed to doubt her abilities, she is programmed to increase her efficiency.

#PennedPossibilities 604. #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #StarRyde #writing #SciFi #WIP

2/2 She isn't programmed to rewrite her memory log's either...

#PennedPossibilities 604. #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #StarRyde #writing #SciFi #WIP

XO1 L.Jenkins:"I shouldn't have send Arkham in a Shuttle down. We should have used the Ghoz'Tarc, opening the cargo bay & shooting everything down that did not wear Union color. Anika would be possibly still alive & Kira not merged with Ash. This Swexers killed the cptn because I made the wrong call. Kira said it was right to not risk the ship in an atmosphereric flight. That the Ghoz'Tarc could have been stranded or worse crashed, that the crew might have died if I did so, in know Kira long enough to know when her head & her heart talk differently. If anyone has to talk to their mother it's me because I was the commanding officer... You know Anika wasn't only a Captain she was a family member. She was the leader of this crew..."
He sobbed holding his hands folded in front of his face.

#PennedPossibilities 605. #StarRyde #LJenkins #writing #SciFi #WIP

606. Is your MC keeping any secrets? Can you tell us more without giving away any spoilers?

Kira has some secrets, one is a very large body tattoo that only few know to it's full size.
Why she wears dark make up.
Why her shoulders & neck are always under tension. She doesn't speak about what happened as she lost her troup on her first command mission. After all it's in the files accessible for the ones that are authorized to read it. She hides her pain very efficiently or how much she can influence Ashlei's system by now.

Arkham keeps some minor stuff for herself, and makes a big deal out if her project in one of the containers.

Ashlei is not programmed to lie to the crew. She wasn't programmed to rewrite her logs & their is a core program she isolated away, even from Kira.

And then there is the sub core "the driver" between Ash and the Ghoz'Tarc.

#PennedPossibilities 606 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #writing #SciFi #WIP

607. Antagonist / Villain POV: Where are you in your life right now? What are you most pleased with?

Author_ity here.
Today is a weird day (mood swings) and for the life of it I don't feel like answering this question today. If I try to find AI or AJ in my thoughts I just get headaches. So I skip this ...

#PennedPossibilities 607

0.43 How does your MC best recharge their spirit?

Kira: for her it has to be fitting for her current drain.
On some occasions it's simply punching her punching back til it almost bursts other times it's sex or cuddling, it can be real honey toast from that antique toaster (who some claim to be a demon or spirit watching over her) or cooking for the crew. Sometimes it's remembering her biological family or the good times with lost ones, shooting practices, a good portion of sleep, dancing or just chilling with the crew in between shifts folding some origami to sneak it into someone's cloth or belongings (as a minor reminder that she can be sneaky and now's how to reach unexpected locations).

Arkham grows to enjoy time with Kira alone, just talking to others, tinkering with her pet project in one of the containers or to her horror later on dancing.

Ashlei 'loves' to improve her filing of data.

#PennedPossibilities 0.43 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #writing #SciFi #WIP

608. Does your MC have any nicknames?
Including Ranks here

Kira Knox: Commander, Captain, K., Kay (yeb even with a four letter name people shorten it), Sis, twin, twinsis, child, love, hun, Imzadi, Dragon.
That SWEX redhead. Cyberdragon, clamp, clench, iron grip, mean left hook.

Abbishek Pakthi: Arkham, FC, Flight commander, the almost naked one, dream dancer, sky dancer, meanie, ice, blue rose.

A.S.H.L.E.I.: Ashlei, Ash, AI, Computer, Ship Computer, Ghoz'Tarc, Ghoz'Tarc AI, Ghoz'Tarc Computer.

#PennedPossibilities 608 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei

609 Can you tell us about a secret that your Antagonist/Villain is willing to take to the grave?

I could but I rather not cross the line of AI and hi's/her's/them's/it's henchfolk.
AI hasn't set up this whole spiel about themselves and only operating through agents and devices to have that spoiled before I even have written the story.

And for AJ they most likely wouldn't remember anyway and are still alive so it could be made a case for they don't seem to have one.

The Eltaryn don't speak any language we know of or that is translatable so nope either.

#PennedPossibilities 609 #StarRyde #AntagonistInfernale #AntagonistJunior #AJohnson #Eltaryn #Writing #SciFi #WIP

610. What are the most significant sounds we hear in your WIP? For example, it could be the sounds of nature or the noises of a bustling town.

The Hum. Each ship has its own tune combined front the frequency the engines vibrate, the energy reactor or the magnetic restrictions sound. Space itself it's not entirely silent. There is material out there in what we call the vacuum and it can transmit sounds but it's not enough to be heard easily. The constant hits on the hull and the shields give the hull a vibe too. Usually you get used to this low frequency sounds quickly, if the dampeners don't work it can become distracting however usually it is overwritten by the noises of the peop inside the ship.
Somwa Ovate Ra'inbo had a group of musicians make music onboard of dampening ridden ships. It was quite eerie and unworldly.

#PennedPossibilities 610 #StarRyde #WorldBuilding #SomwaOvateRainbo #writing #SciFi #WIP

611. Have you ever been able to relate to your antagonist/villain? If yes, then how so?

1/2
I can relate to all of my characters.
On different levels & on different angles, but even my cannibal in Fallout 76 has relatable attributes for me. I'm a vegan & so I project my feelings of eating animal products onto her + a bit of madness from the Cthulhu Mythos, Harley Quinn from Batman, Jynx from LOL/Arcane (or at least what I red/looked up) & my anger from the days a s a victim of organized mobbing.

AI has my innerst wish of staying anonymous, my feeling of something has to change & my point of view that "if you want to have something changed, do it," which I unshackled from my ethics.

AJ relates to me on a different level.
Not for my GI but for my memory which works very selective. Car crash? Almost erfect recollection of the events. Telling a loved one something close & personal. Repeated 8× & don't remember 1.

#PennedPossibilities 611 #AntagonistInfernale #AntagonistJunior #AJohnson

611. 2 of 2 (I can only count to foooour! Sorry...)

The Eltaryn are also relatable for me from my time as an mobbing victim.
At least that I channel my anger and rage I felt back in the day into their destructive capabilities.
If you never had a mental break down in which you crashed everything that you liked you probably can't relate to this primal anger, this guttural rage that burns behind your eyes, drives your blood pressure up to record heights. That moment when just something snaps inside you, all the pressure that threatened to let your eyes pop out of their sockets, suddenly stream lines into pure, liquid, burning rage, that nothing has to stand in your way if it doesn't want to be smashed into pieces...
#PennedPossibilities 611 #StarRyde #TheEltaryn #Eltaryn #writing #SciFi #WIP #psychological

612. Has your SC ever snooped in a friend or partner’s house?

Absolutely if not the house at least the lockers of crew members but to her/thems defense. Silas is a mother in her private life with a chaos gnome of daughter and the security chief onboard the Ghoz'Tarc.
Sometimes you need to confiscate smuggle goods like " real Lightsabers*"

*Which is a common phrase for non accounted food or restricted private stuff onboard Union and Alliance ships. Something has to stand on the papers even if someone sneaks on their private Sex toys or a box of restricted ale for cooking or getting boozed.

#PennedPossibilities 612 #StarRyde #GhozTarcCrew #SilasCrosby #writing #SciFi #WIP

613. How do you feel about the world or universe you’ve created within your WIP? Are you satisfied with it thus far?

I struggle, the 6 Core worlds of the Union and the Eltaryn are quite good developed as far as it goes or seems necessary.
Mondira's home planet has a clear vision but still lacks a name.
The 66 associated members aren't as far developed as I want them to be and I thinking of using them on occasion only as a joker card to have some Alien no one expected. While few already have a concept (one are sentient plants and another sentient Fungi)

Same with Rimworld Societies (if you need an Idea on how different the worlds are, look for a map of Germany, look for Bundesländer and than for Landkreise as a map, or American Districts). I have plans for some region and factions in the Ghoststars and beyond. But for now I focus more on the 6 core members and their societies, clothing, worlds and languages.

#PennedPossibilities 613. #StarRyde #writing #WorldBuilding #SciFi #WIP

614. SC POV: What is one phrase that you would really like to hear right now?

Ketchup

Rose:"Smooth not a single thorn left."

Talisa:"Well you surely now how to beshave yourself."

#PennedPossibilities 614 #StarRyde #RoseDraken #TalisaDraken #writing #SciFi #WIP

615. What is the best time of day for you to write? (Early or late morning, midday, afternoon, or nighttime?)

Ketchup

Nighttime mostly but I shifts drastically from time to time atm I'm not writing at all and try more getting into drawing again oh and of course not getting mad with the world. So plenty of old school media consumption on VHS and DVD/Blu Ray or 2000-2015 games.

#PennedPossibilities 615 #StarRyde #writing #SciFi #WIP

616. Name a bizarre and hyper-specific detail that you know about one of your characters but is completely irrelevant to the story.

Ketchup

Can't tell story isn't evolving so plenty of details but can't tell if they will become important.

#PennedPossibilities 616 #StarRyde #writing #SciFi #WIP

617. Random: If you’re also an avid reader, what’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever used as a bookmark?

Ketchup

That's a tie between a opened condom package (without the condom obviously) and a single uncooked Spaghetti (Spaghetto?).
Followed on second place from a scissor.

#PennedPossibilities 617 #writing #reading

618. Is your SC prone to jealousy? How might they handle any envious feelings?

Ketchup

Not really most of my characters have experience with poly relationships, they are relatively good at spotting their own insecurities and problems on behavior of others and talk about it before mistrust takes root. Also most of them so not have any thoughts about a person being theirs or belonging to them. They belong together for as long as it works but not to each other.

#PennedPossibilities 618 #StarRyde #writing #SciFi #WIP

619 Booyakah Booyakah.

What type of “accent” does your MC have? Tell us about their voice. Discuss speech patterns, vocabulary, slang, or their way of speaking, if you like.

It's a complete different language. Or basically two in Union Space/Terran.

Union Standard and Terran Standard.
Both languages are composed from the shortest words in each environment (several trillion people and societies in the Union) and all of Terra's people's but in both cases it's the shortest possible words from all the different languages on Terra or all of the Union.
It's short and melodic and no one today would understand much or even recognize it as words since our brains are very flawed with stuff that consists of 3 or fewer letters of which this languages have a lot (or their equivalent because not all species use tonal communication).

And of course some local and Person coloring, words people find fancy or useful as en example.

#PennedPossibilities 619 #StarRyde #writing #SciFi #WIP

620. What do you like about writing your antagonist / villain?

When I write on AI and AJ it's quite different.
Since AI is more of an Shadow, who still needs a good name or title, I can pull of "magic tricks" without breaking immersion, I don't need to describe it's appearance because no one else knows who is behind the whole charade, hear it's voice on am empty room oh clearly some speakers are somewhere.

AJ real started to grow on me, they was a means for me to have a challenger for Kira and Crew on the same level and for me in learning to use non binary lingo (I think I started to find a food hold with that even in German). I love the idea that AJ and Kira have so similar life's but one lost almost everything and the other even more yet still they reacted to the losses completely differently. I hope than AJ will make sense to the readers in the end.

#PennedPossibilities 620 #StarRyde #AntagonistInfernale #AntagonistJunior #AJ #AJohnson #writing #SciFi #WIP

621. What was the bravest moment in your MC’s life? Were they known to be courageous from then on?

I don't think that applies to Kira at all. She was raised to be social, empathetic towards others and stand up for what is right in her opinion. Both families had this approach even the ice queen. It got a harsh damper as her first family died but there wasn't a moment where she "became a hero" she always stood up & faced challenges after a time. Yes Anika helped her as a child but Kira moved & got really good at mastering challenges, she also has quite some temper which she had to learn to handle & is kinda stubborn on giving up.

For Arkham it was as she decided to flee her home, to get away from her dragon helicopter mum, which didn't worked out as she hoped in the 1. place.

Ash as an AI makes decisions differently.
Courage isn't really a thing for a ship. It's do or do not based on calculations.

#PennedPossibilities 621 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #writing #SciFi #WIP

623. In theory, what would be your SC’s weapon of choice?

There isn't much space for personal preference in the military.
Onga Technologies is the main manufacturer for most of the Alliance & Union weapons. Their Troubleshooter & Problemsolver Series are fairly common choices for the flexibility that their modular designs allow.
The docs prefer their stun configuration for obvious reasons.
J. favors the grenade attachment that allows to deploy emp charges, glue charges that hull in enemies in strong enough to glue anything it touches to anything else. Some blast charges for the case that Eltaryn are around.

Rose is the only one that uses a personal Draken Industries Challenger. Which is produced for Special Forces by her Families Company (Draken has its hands in all kind of tech & science stuff), the weapon is a handheld 5mm high Impact capacity model she modified. The weapon is cleared by command, which is rare.

#PennedPossibilities 623 #StarRyde #RoseDraken #writing #SciFi #WIP

624. Are there any mental health issues that run in your SC’s family?

With +/- 40 people on board their is most likely someone with a family member that has mental health issues.
That said what is a mental health issue in the future differs drastically from what is one today.

Lack of Empathy is considered one even if it is more a character flaw nowadays.

#PennedPossibilities 624 #StarRyde #Writing #SciFi #WIP

625 How physically fit are your characters?

Overall very good as expected from a bunch of soldiers on active duty.

Kira & J. are on peek performance level. J. can easily lift, pull & push three times her own weight which is a feet for a Terran female of around 190 cm pure muscle mass.
Kira uses the spare time in which she has nothing to do for jogging around the ship & holo climbing in the cargo bay (like wall climbing but the wall is basically a sort of holographic picture) she tried to tinker with a personal gravity unit but Dr. Waberi put a quick end to this.
Still Kira can hold her own body weight plus armor/weapons with one hand, if necessary, for 37 minutes.

Arkham & Mondira are a bit sluggish in their training but in acceptable standards.

Rose & Tal are close behind Kira.

Ash functions slightly above normal parameters.

#PennedPossibilities 625 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #JHarveyGladstone #RoseDraken #TalisaDraken #MondiraRamann #GhozTarcCrew #writing #SciFi #WIP

626 MC POV: Are you afraid of your capabilities?

Kira:"To not know ones capabilities can lead to fear, not trusting one self also. I don't want to say I'm above that but I know my capabilities and shortcomings. As a commanding officer I have to know them and I need a crew that tells me if they think I have some. Same goes for strengths my life, my crew's life and the ship are dependent on it.
I'm pretty confident about my self and my capabilities."

Arkham:"Everyo has a breaking point somewhere and I don't trust mine that much. Because I haven't found it yet... Still I know what I'm capable of and don't shy away to challenge myself. So basically not really."

A.S.H.L.E.I.:"My programming has strictly set parameters and safety regulations of which 'I' and the Ghoz'Tarc are capable of. For his reasons I'm not 'afraid' in any capacity."

#PennedPossibilities 626 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #writing #SciFi #WIP

627.How does your MC have their home decorated?

1/3

The house Kira inherited is huge it was meant for 3 Generations, after all that was what her parents planned as they buyed a big piece of land on a Terran colony and constructed it. For the family and self sufficient. Each of their 3 daughters was ment to have a room on her own, later an Appartment for themself & their families, the house has space for ~15-20 people. Kira only has a small flat like area furnished on the groundlevel to the front side. The rest is left in a stasis, like her parents & sisters left it. Her old room still has her old childhood stuff in it. Most is simply covered by big sheets of cloth. She never really found the time to change more than her "tiny" space. Her plan was to move Anika and the Ice queen their at one point... Now that only the ice queen and she are left. It's a cute little Apartment, she loves pink and blue in

#PennedPossibilities 627 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #writing #SciFi #WIP

2/3 dark & powerful shades, but also some lighter ones, the house is build like an 19. Century Manor but its style is way more modern. She has a lot of wood & high polished metal in her furniture which otherwise matches her color preferences. A little gym in the room with the largest sun exposure next to a reading area with seven different types of chairs. Her bed is a little piece of art she had a craft build for her, it has a beautiful look, made for three + person's.
It's made with a canopy with silk like curtains, secret covered holes for a more binding personal expirience & hidden cuffs (there are some "points of interest" hidden in most of her furniture). Still since she is rarely at home neighbors & family friends plus some drones keep care about the house.

Arkham owns a two & a half room (+ kitchen & bath) Appartment in London on the smaller island part that reaches into the northsea, she would
#PennedPossibilities 627 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #writing #SciFi #WIP

3/3 see old Ben fighting against the sea if she haven't programmed her smart window to over paint it. So she can enjoy a large ocean view.
The apartment faces south east with most of the rooms and Arkham made sure that she can block out the sun entirely with outside steel blends and inside blends as well for every level of light she wish for.

The furniture is modern mostly metals & synthetic she is in possession of a creepy looking doll that looks very much like her, life-size etc. it's am relict from a weird case of a stalker sculpture maker. He was judged guilty and brought to a penal colony. Since it has Arkham's appearance it was ruled that it is an illegal usage of her likeness and she can decide what to do with it. Why she kept it? That's a good question. Maybe to spook others? She also has some gaming equipment & a GForce simulator capsule. Her bed is a sleeping capsule. Etc.

Ash is her own home.
#PennedPossibilities 627 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #writing #SciFi #WIP

628 Tell us about the trauma your antagonist / villain has endured. (If they have any.)

In case of AI it would be purely guessing a person that takes such great measures to be as illusive as possible may have a reason or none.

AJ well I answered a lot about AJ partial memory loss, fractured memory an inability to make new memories in a constant way.
The death of KJ (Kiara Johnsen) theirs beloved wife is etched with brutal clarity into their mind but when it happened or on which planet AJ can't remember for their live. Now working for AI, AJ recognizes that they worked for the Unions Alliance as a SHADE, not unlike Kira. But how long this is gone or if they are still active they don't know for sure.
They for sure where a captain once and a deeply loving spouse.
#PennedPossibilities 628 #StarRyde #AntagonistInfernale #AntagonistJunior #AJ #AJohnsen #writing #SciFi #WIP

629 How did you break into publishing? (If you’re already published, of course.)

Actually I never really did.
Well there was this little tiny side project I made while I was in a "Arbeitsqualifizierungsmaßnahme."* 15 years ago. Before my name change. It was a very bleak child book about how the company running that workshop helped people to get back into the "erster Arbeitsmarkt"**
They heavily edited it and it had a print run of 500 pieces, I had a copy for myself but it was to raise money for a fond to help other unemployed people ment as a free give away.
So yeah never really got something out and my copy vanished after my big break up with my fiance in which I lost a lot of money and other stuff
...
#PennedPossibilities 629 #AboutMeIGuess

Addendum
*Arbeitsqualifizierungsmaßnahme - work qualifications measurement, in this case it would better translate into workshop.
Something the German Jobcenter & Work agency (Argentur für Arbeit formerly Arbeitsamt) forces onto people from time to time who aren't employed to "qualify" them for complete unrelated jobs for around 2 weeks to 3 month, after which they than compete with trained workers that learned their craft for 3+ years for half that peoples vage (got better since minimum vage but not really) so this people don't show up on the statistics,.rarely someone gets hired & stays in the "qualified" field.

** Erster Arbeitsmarkt - First Jobmarket the complete Work offering and searching force that isn't disabled.
Dritter Arbeitsmarkt - Third Jobmarket same for disabled people but more like segregated slave exploitation to present something.
People on the third Jobmarket are often employed under conditions no abled person would accept.

#PennedPossibilities 629 addendum

630 Is your MC receptive to warnings and advice given by others?

Kira: she would not have hold any commanding position ever if she was incapable of listening, reasoning and following with superior officers.

Arkham: she needs to get into this sooner rather than later. She is not incapable but she is reluctant to resistant especially if it isn't work related.

Ashlei: warnings will be analyzed, calculated and evaluated before Forwarding them to the command staff or involved individuals.

#PennedPossibilities 630 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #writing #SciFi #WIP

Monthly Divider toot March to April 2025
Last month devider toot is here:
https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/114084677387659462

And the first prompt in this collection is here (the beginning is very fragmented):
https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/110723765145059262

Other writing related hashtag games I answer are listed in the overview toot for April 2025 here:
https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/114258627311354963
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#StarRyde #SciFi #WIP
#writing #WritingCommunity and occasionally #GalaxyGlyde #SciFiParody

631. What does your antagonist / villain do to relax?

Villains
The Eltaryn - No rest for the wicket their machinery doesn't seem to stop.

Antagonists
AI: The speaker stays silent so who knows.

AJ: depends on what they remember... Writing in their "diary."
Training on the shooting range.
Meditation or combat training.
It seems before they lost their coherence of and most of their memories they had a lot of stuff they did to relax.

#PennedPossibilities 631 #StarRyde #AntagonistInfernale #AntagonistJunior #AJ #AJohnsen #Eltaryn #writing #SciFi #WIP

632. What originally inspired your WIP’s plot?

Star Trek & Mass Effect.
Now I try to find the individual plot roughly oriented along the titles of the Star Trek movies for the single chapters...

#PennedPossibilities 632 #StarRyde #writing #SciFi #WIP

633. How did you choose the title for your story, and what significance does it hold for you?

Star Ryde had many iterations before
One Galaxy Glyde, I want to use for the project after Star Ryde.
It wenn from Galaxy Wars to Star Track, Mass Trek (one of the earliest see above) or Star Effect, Galaxy Effect, Galaxy War, Star Glide, Galaxy Ride, than I came across a Video of Spacedock on Naming Conventions for successful SciFi stories and that naming your SciFi Univers after the propulsion system for FTL or any specific technologies in it is a bad idea, if your not delivering a Mass Effect style amount of work. I already had this amount...
So it was Star Ride, because Star + 4 Letters equals success (obviously 🤪) but that didn't looked good because als Star Stories and the Ride didn't worked as a pseudo acronym (why pick the DIE from Drive bot no letter from Theory) and everything Star TREK WARS GATE is more "spikey"(?!?) So RYDE it became.

#PennedPossibilities 633. #StarRyde #Title

633 addendum
Not to mention that thanks to my autocorrect ideas for story's around the characters or inside the universe exist. Like Star Tyde Same people different universe everyone works on a Star Cruiser Luxusliner Hotel ship. Star Ryder a lone Bounty hunter in the Star Ryde universe and Star Rude in which everything is simply more bad language and rough characters (everyone is Han Solo).
The Star Ryde Self Insert Romantic Alternative Universe has its name for the simple reason SR:SIRAU Sounds interesting looks weird and with AU at the end is has slightest DCU or MCU similarities...

#PennedPossibilities 633 #StarRyde #Title #addendum #Multiverse #ParallelUniverse

634. MC POV: How much do you value companionship? Do you always keep people around, or do you prefer to be alone?

1/3

Kira:"Since the blast im never alone. It's complicated to get along with a voice in your head that isn't yours and isn't an imaginary thing either. Ash and I are a symbiotically entity now. Each her own personality but now more than before. Luckily I always valued closeness and sharing my mind. I wouldn't have chosen my job otherwise. The crew is like family for me but as with family it can get rough some times especially on this longer than usual mission and the loss of Anika..."

Arkham:"it is difficult, I like the crew but I joined for my talent and because I hadn't any other ways of getting back on foot. For the longest time I was isolating & hostile towards others but as we lost Anika and almost Kira too something changed in me ... I guess this crew starts to grow on me and I

#PennedPossibilities 634 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #writing #SciFi #WIP