⬅️ the streets of our colony for around 3 years until I broke into a personal hover to escape the cold.
Turned out it was the one of a Alliance recruiter. After I went through retribution for the damage I've done he made sure that my talent wasn't going to waste. He was the first maskuline Person that seemed genuinely interested in my well-being after years. Street was hell, the colony wasn't part of the Union back than and with my hyper sensitivity I still don't know how I made it. The Alliance was the best that could happen to me. Imagine my horror as I realized that the main thing I hated the dragon for was indeed something I do enjoy..."

Ashlei:"I consider the scientist that developed me to be my parents. They died in an attack on the research station. According to my logs I have the same voice as the head scientist."

#PennedPossibilities 724 #StarRyde #Arkham #Ashlei #writing #SciFi #WIP

725
Do you have a favorite character in your current WIP?

Not all characters are created equal as much as it pains me to say it.
I really like Mondira, Arkham, J., Kira, Ash, Rose, Tal & it shifts regularly, but overall I can say, that main characters have more "love" from me than side characters. Ariaene is growing on me for quite some time now and even Jenkins slowly gets a shape I appreciate more than before.

#PennedPossibilities 725 #StarRyde #SciFi #WIP #writing

726
If your SC had a picture frame with slots for 3 photos, who / what would be in the pictures?

For SC's I have a faint clou let's take

XO L.Jenkins he and his husband picture one would be them on their first interaction Jenkins in a fur suit.
His future husband handing him some water on a break. Second on their first date both in sharp cut tuxedos in the midst of a weird looking bar & the third on their wedding where Jenkins husband wears a tuxedo topside combined with a Scottish kilt. What isn't on the scenes is how Jenkins got carried away by him all the way from the priest to the party location.

XO W.Troika, his wife in the middle with him probably on their wedding, two of his 4 daughters on the left and two on the right.

Security Chief S.Crosby her daughter Denise the main reason she fights for everyone else.

#PennedPossibilities 726 #StarRyde #LJenkins #WilliamTroika #SilasCrosby #GhozTarcCrew #writing #SciFi #WIP

727.
MC POV: Do you remember your 21st birthday? Describe it as best you can.

Kira:"Why the 21st? That's a weirdly specific ask."

Arkham:"It was 4 years ago of course I remember that but what's so interesting about the 21st?"

Ashlei:"I am not born, if we take my activation date as my date of birth I am only 7 years old including development, only one year as the AI of the Ghoz'Tarc after her... my refit."

Author_ity note I'm well aware that for U.S. citizens the 21. Birthday is a big thing. But for other countries in the world it's simply isn't that big of a deal if it isn't their same age of full blown adult rights. In Germany as an example it's 18. while motorcycle enthusiastic people have to wait till they are 25 to get their full blown "grown up motorcycle experience."

Since we are in the 24. Century in my story & Terra has changed a lot the US & its "special" customs are mostly gone as many others & yes everyone uses metric.😋
#PennedPossibilities 727 #StarRyde #SciFi #WIP

728
Write about something your antagonist (or villain) frequently forgets.

Anna stared at the prompt, gently raised a hand:"Waiter the bill please I need to leave."
The prompt glazed back.
"Quickly," she added.

Well Ariaene basically can't make new memories or very few that make the transition between short & long term memory.
They is unable to recall memories in the right order & has huge memory gaps of their past.
It is to them like someone took your live, cut it into pieces & shook it in a cocktail shaker. The surface memories are the clearest ones. On missions they are usual very efficient & gets stuff done in under 24 hours. The problem sets in every time they goes to sleep, rarely if they is awake.
Ariaene has an collection of written down memories. Their daily routine involves Audio instructions for the next day, mission logs & post it's on the inside of their armor, skin notes & tattoos, etc.

#PennedPossibilities 728 #StarRyde #AriaeneJohnsen #AJ #AJohnsen #AntagonistJunior

729
Tell us about one place your MC would love to either visit or revisit.

Kira:
Home, seriously after weeks in space nothing is more compelling than just lump down on your own couch. Especially after THIS mission...

Arkham:
Same here maybe both lump down on the same couch? So it would be either the colony in which Kira has the house she inherited or Arkham's apartment in London.

Ashlei:
Drydock I guess it's as much couch as it gets for a space ship.

And yes call me lazy but seriously if you travel for several month you can't tell me your couch at home isn't where you want to be or your bed but some where else. Now multiply this with an tuna can of a space craft. I mean ~180 meters are long for a vehicle but subtract the hull and everything that isn't livable area shared by ~40 persons and you take every chance of isolation.
That's why they installed private space cargo containers.

#PennedPossibilities 729 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #writing #SciFi #WIP

730
2nd Anniversary Edition: Share a blurb, summary, or tiny snippet explaining your WIP to everyone in the hashtag.

Happy birthday or well anniversary. 🥳🎊

Take 1:
Scout space ship full of queer and not so queer soldiers is on a secret mission, deep into uncharted/enemy/hostile territory with a shot trans*humanism × romance VS drama × comedy.

Take 2:
What if Star Trek & Mass Effect had a child that is bullied by Warhammer 40K.

Take 3:
Remember Mimic?
Mimic × King Kong army vs the Space UN.

Take 4
That time a complete noob tried to create the SciFi equivalent to LOTR
...
(note to myself: more original like take one ?/

Take 5
What does it mean, to keep ones decency & humanity in a universe where humans see themself as a failed species, despite being a defending force against total annihilation?
What does it mean, to discover that humanity means more than we thought?
What does it take to lead a crew on a uncertain & deadly mission?

#PennedPossibilities 730 #StarRyde #SciFi #WIP

731
MC POV: Tell us about the last time you felt guilty.

Kira Made a hm sound, more through her nose than her mouth:
"You Know what's funny like in a cynical 'Haha, I could laugh til I die' way? Survivors guilt doesn't stop... It never ends it just fades, but it stays like this vulture looming over you in the desert. You get used to it over time especially if it's comes up so swexing often."

Arkham looked erplexed:
"Thanks for letting me know in advance before I try to waste my life running from it, I guess I never pilot a shuttle again."

Ash's voice crackled through the speaker as if she tried to swallow without a throat: "I am not programmed to feel guilt, however like Captain Knox & FC Pakthi, the resent loss of Captain Johanson...
bothers... me, the uplink between the captain & myself let's me 'expirience' things differently as before. It is like reading about a color & seeing it for the 1. time.

#PennedPossibilities 731 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #writing #SciFi #WIP

732

Is your WIP a singular novel, a series of books, serial fiction, comics, or fanfiction? (Or something else entirely? Explain.)

Yes.
No, not again.
Answer can be found, in German, under last month Phantastik Prompts for 05.06.2025
and others that I didn't look up rn.

https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/114630092695246082

#PennedPossibilities 732 #StarRyde #StarRydeSelfInsertRomanceAlternateUniverse #SRSIRAU #writing mostly #SciFi #WIP's

733

Tell us what your MC’s home is like.
1/2
Kira owns a house on a colony planet of the Union. It's a not so dense populated world so the homes tend to be on the bigger side also it was planned to to Hause her parents, her sisters and herself.
She only lives in a small portion of the house around 55 square feet with 2 rooms, a batch, toilet and a brought window front to a coastal area. The colony is known for their agriculture on our today's earth it would most like resemble Schleswig-Holstein or Denmark. The colony produces a lot of different crops for not so easily farmable worlds.

Arkham lives on Terra in London in an small apartment over a closed, cir er restaurant, she owns the Apartment and the Restaurant room but not the whole complex building.

London in the 24. Century lays directly on the northern ocean and even has sand strands and palm trees in a thick as it gets fog.
Big Ben sits➡️

#PennedPossibilities 733 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #Home #SciFi #WIP #writing

733 2/2

⬅️ In the ground surrounded by water barriers & they desperately try to get it's foundation dry enough to start relocating it. London has a broad beach area with fine sand but only small portions are usable as swimming areas, they have a extra barrier against the highly toxic see water. London is the center of the Terra based education facilities of the Union & the alliance. So it's has a lot of interplanetary flair and yes big parts of London we would know today where swallowed by the north Sea as it expanded into an real ocean. At least the new city parts are immison positive.

Ash is either at home onboard of the Ghoz'Tarc or as the AI of the Ship in space. She clearly prefers Union space because it's more dense populated and rarely attacked.

#PennedPossibilities 733 #StarRyde #London #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #Home #SciFi #WIP #writing

734
Have you ever written fanfiction? If so, for which fandom?

Mass Effect, Star Trek, Fallout 4, Fallout 76, Cyberpunk 2077, DND, Zelda, Star Trek Online, Star Trek the trading card game (while playing I developed a narrative), I can lead very political discussions while playing Magic the Gathering and describe scenes that happen in a incredible narrative way and I'm working on the Star Ryde Self Insert Romance Alternate Universe which is basically unhinged Fanfiction of my y own work Star Ryde... Which grew out of two fanfictions mainly Mass Effect and Star Trek.
Did I ever share something? Nope not really, I now have an AO3 account but at the moment that's it. Haven't set up mobile usage for me so far & haven't uploaded anything because I am picky as fork, have a slower pace than others & lost most Fanfictions as my external HDD died earlier this year.

#PennedPossibilities 734 #writing #FanFiction

735
What books or magazines do you read regularly, and which ones would you recommend to aspiring writers?

in short none if you consider regularly more than once a quarter of a year. I post pone it way to often to a specific day only to realize I passed that day three times in a row ...

Most reading I do nowadays is digital media also thanks to my eyesight and Problems with black text on white ground (dark mode forever).

#PennedPossibilities 735 #reading

736
MC POV: Do you or did you once admire your parents? Who do you admire today?

1/2

Arkham read the question out loud.

Kira pulled on her uniform to reveal her neck and spine tattoo as good as possible. Holding up her hair.
"What do they think why I'm carrying their names under or more precise in my skin?
They are always with me in my mind even if I only knew them for 6 years.
They are with me like my sisters and Dad and now Anika, she deserves a closer spot to my mind but this list is in timely order... I will get another one closer to my heart only for family members."

Arkham grabbed her hand, sliding her fingers between Kira's, folding their arms in, being as close as possible.The Panda tattoos on their hands formed a small heart.

"I can't understand how you have to feel. I can only imagine, based on my own loss of Dad. Mum was a dragon always pushing me til I ran away. I wanted to show her 'I'm better➡️

#PennedPossibilities 736 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #writing #SciFi #WIP

2/2 736
⬅️ without you, I never needed you, I hate you, see how far I have come without your manipulation.' And than she died & here I am, angry.
I want to scream, not because I'm sorry for that I couldn't say goodbye but because I am pissed that I couldn't rub it in her face & than I found you.
I realized I love dancing, the one thing this Swexer forced onto me. And I actually like it now, knowing she is dead. Listen to me, whining.
Why do you even like me? I'm an awful person."
Arkham swallowed trying to keep her inner storm calm.

"we are both awful persons, I'm a paid killer & so are you."
Arkham chuckled:"Natural Born Killers than?"

"Nothing natural in space war...
As you opened up to me, as I saw your progress I knew you where fighting, we all need something to fight for. I can't promise that I'm your fix but right now I wish I could be.
I love you for what you are. A person with a heart where it belongs."

#PennedPossibilities 736 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #writing #SciFi #WIP

737
Is there a character in your repertoire that you regret creating?

Credit: @ aperfectsong

At this point in my Author_ity life not really.
I have some hard time bringing down all the Trauma that some carry, like Candiece my cannibal in Fallout 76, luckily I don't play the game anymore so I don't have to come up with new reasons why she does what she does & keep her frozen in time til I am able to write her like she deserves.

For Star Ryde I think that not everyone on board will have the time to shine. I kept the crew at a realistic minimum for a space ship that has a mission and isn't a bunch of outcasts somehow, follows a 6-8 hours crew rotation, etc still ~40 people is a task to write even if I count a bunch of them as TC/ Tertiary Characters at this point.
It dates back to the time as I wanted to tell a realistic story but my brain zones out at 2 AU or Hawking Radiation.

#PennedPossibilities 737 #StarRyde #Original #SciFi #WIP #Fallout #Fanfiction #writing

737.001
Since Spooky Panda is putting Paws on tonight's question, what paws would your MC put on as a spirit animal or in a dream?

Prompt provided by
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I heard once in a gag Spirit Animal usage would be cultural appropriation and we should call it Fur Sona (like the Furry community does with its characters their fur suits represent) and despite not having the best experience with persons from this community (I guess it's just the persons not the whole community) I can't forget that statement.
_

Hard to imagine I guess it would be Wolfpaws for the whole crew, after all they are, to a degree, a loving family for each other. I haven't though about alien animals lately & don't want to dig into my world building files rn.😅

Kira would be the surrogate mother at this point & the rest of the crew would be the family.
Remember Alphas don't exist even according to the scientist who brought it up in the first place.

#PennedPossibilities 737.001 #SciFi #WIP #StarRyde

738
Who is your clumsiest character?

I haven't thought about this for Star Ryde. My rogue im playing on DND atm pretends to be clumsy. Despite seeing Usagi Tsukino from Sailor Moon as my spiritual Twin, I don't think I have any real clumsy characters,that aren't clumsy to cover up something.
Well their is Natto my DND winged Tiefling, Druid of wildfire, but she also is righteous evil like if you kill a Animal without giving nature something back it's completely legit to burn down your house, again pretending to be clumsy and she always tries to pay people with nuts and herbs she collected. She once slipped down a cliff and forgot that she has wings. The team had to sacrifice a magic rope to save her, because the intelligence checks ran low on this day, no one even scratched a ten on a D20... But is it real clumsiness? Not sure.

#PennedPossibilities 738 #writing

739
MC POV: Who do you turn to for advice?

Kira:"Well previously I would have asked Anika. Since that option is no longer available & I am now the acting Captain, I only can ask a higher up in the brass like Admiral Hackett Anderson* which for the moment is not possible or turn to the crew to discuss topics & mission specifics which includes Ashlei, personal I ask my friends onboard. Since family affairs are complicated that's it for the foreseeable future."

Arkham:"Outside perspective on this mission is difficult we pretty much depend on our own and our crew members. At least Ash can provide a plain data perspective and luckily ship crews are always comprised out of different backgrounds."

Ashlei:"My personality matrix is programmed to be able to support different opinions according to known information without being influenced by emotions."

* Here is the post I made recently about Admiral RHA:
https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/114865879276459611

#PennedPossibilities 739 #StarRyde #Ashlei #Arkham #KiraKnox

Not yet really but I think that time will come and I want it to be more as an unnamed Red Shirt death.
It's Star Ryde not Star Trek...

Sidenote as a DM, in DND and other games, I tend to make goodbyes really rough and gut wrenching. Like that one time I throw the favorite goblin NPC of our team in as a last safety to prevent a PC from being obliterated by the BIG BAD EVIL GUY.
The BBEG hissed at the PC say Goodbye blasting a Sunlight Scorching Ray at them and the little gobbo jumped in between the ray and the PC yelling "Good buy... (he had a problem with common speak).
Before hitting the ground as a crisp.

And because I can't add anything else take this Ash old song...

https://youtu.be/04F4xlWSFh0

#PennedPossibilities 740 #writing #SciFi #StarRyde #playing #mastering #DND #PenAndPaper #roleplaying

741
Is your SC an “easy person to love,” or is it the opposite?

That depends on what you fall for, what your looking for and what your romantic identity involves
I'm sure the crew has a good ensemble of characters that are relatable, but easy to love I don't know, they are very friendly and cozy with each other and often upright and openly blunt. If this sounds compelling to someone they might find them easy to love, if not than not. If course they come with their quirks and traumata as almost all of us do.
I can tell, that Rose and Talisa Draken found them self so easy to love that they got married right after the academy and referred to each other as wife's beforehand. They also have gone on almost entirely on every mission as a team.
And if J. likes you, you are in for a ride.

#PennedPossibilities 741 #StarRyde #GhozTarcCrew #RoseDraken #TalisaDraken #JHarve #writing #SciFi #WIP

742
Out of all of your characters, who talks the most, and who hates it the most?

J. can get really chatty but at the same time it's hard to get annoyed by her, because
a) she is so incredibly nice & openly supportive for whatever it is you do as long you don't hurt others
b) has genuine interest in what you do, she even gets a long great with Jenkins who of all the Ghoz'Tarc crew is the most up tight & closed lip person on board
c) try to ignore a person with nearly 2 Meters height, enough strength to lift you up & carry you around like you where a child &
d) is the explosive specialist on board & a field medic...
Even I have no idea how many people onboard rely on her Up Beat personality to just have a decent day, she even remembers the birthday of your kids tortoise if you ever mentioned it.
As I said Jenkins is pretty much the opposite but even he can't deny, that it is great to have her onboard.

#PennedPossibilities 742 #StarRyde #JHarveyGladstone #writing #SciFi #WIP

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Because the real panda @floofpaldi is hipp deep in work here is an alternative prompt ment to give our creative friend a smile (and because I Misslabeld my divider toot as the German Phantastik Prompts...)

PPIT: How can you connect your work to a Panda?

#PennedPossibilities #PennedPossibilitiesImposterToot 001

PPIT: How can you connect your work to a Panda?

Simply because as a thank you for @floofpaldi work on running the Penned Possibilities I included an special Easter egg... Panda pub? Into the canonical appearance of 2 of my characters.
They have a partner tattoo that includes two cuddling Pandas.

Maybe I could make a space Panda species somehow? I have catish (not catfish) people already. :D

#PennedPossibilities #PennedPossibilitiesImposterToot 001

743
(Courtesy of @ QuasiTemporal)
Tell us what your MC last put in their refrigerator or describe the food you can always find in their cupboards (if fridges don’t exist).

Kira has a tiny kitchen corner in the captains quarters with a even more tiny fridge. It's mostly used for cooling medicine or tiny amounts of special occasion consumables.

Arkham uses the also tiny fridge compartment next to her Hyberpod (Most people call them Hyperpods but it's actually a b).

Ashlei is basically also a very smart fridge/freezer. Since most rations are store as Eqil (Food printer ink) fridges or freezers aren't that needed however every ship has a social area with a kitchen compartment and the Ghoz'Tarc has a ground kitchen container (colonial starter) on board. Most times it used for rare fresh materials, left overs from the cooking (will be cleared out after 12 hours) etc.

#PennedPossibilities 743 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #GhozTarc #kitchen

744
Have you ever sent a story in a direction that you later regretted?

Yes.
Several times.

#PennedPossibilities 744 #writing

745
What is something that always makes your MC laugh?

Kira:"Good Times with friends, family and/or loved ones."

Arkham:"I don't know, stupid things, situations that are funny I think."

Ashlei:"I'm not programmed to laugh."

#PennedPossibilities 745 #StarRyde #SciFi #WIP

746
SC POV: How would you react to hearing your favorite song or piece of music?

'Chief' Trawella: "You know there is an ancient song from an artist I always forget. I think it's in early 21st century American, you know that ancient language should be like ancient English but isn't, that no one really speaks anymore? There was an artist who's name ment something with colors and she had a song about me. Na not really but it fits perfectly."
He started humming, swinging his hips and singing:"I'm Trawella! I'm Travella. I'm Travella." And very weird sounds mimicking the ancient forgotten language.*

Author_ity note:
The song he means is from P!NK - Trouble
https://youtu.be/mFu3YzRnyDU
And yes this is a case of harschly misheard lyrics but as I mentioned before Terran Standard and Union Standard would most likely not sound like any language we might recognize today.

#PennedPossibilities 746 #StarRyde #CharlstonTrawella #CharlstonTuck #GhozTarcCrew #writing #SciFi #WIP

747
Who is your cleverest character?

They all shine in different fields.

#PennedPossibilities 747 #writing

748
How does your SC view the world: as a cruel and unforgiving place, a land full of wonders, or something in-between? (Reference their experiences, life lessons, etc.)

1/2
I stroll away from the exact prompt and skip the references completely instead giving the POV of most Terrans.

Terra is a Hellhole but it's also our home. It was ruined by the people of our past humans claimed to be humane sadly they where also a bunch of coward's not living up to their potential, more content on survival than keeping their home livable, incredibly ambitious but misguided and miss used by people who called them self elites, unfair, untrustworthy, not interested in living together in peace and harmony, depicting them selfs as some sort of hyper evolution.
They where parasites, this is why the Terran Manifest was written, this is why people started bounding and fighting back, corrupt leaders where hold accountable, billionaires where...

#PennedPossibilities 748 #StarRyde #SciFi #WIP #WorldBuilding

748 2/2
dismantled and if they where found guilty of acting against Terra, Terras inhabitants, active drivers of wars and/or the mass extinction, they where put to good use, like first test "pilots" for the renewed space programs, medical/psychological research in underdeveloped empathy.
The ones that where found guilty for the global warming contribution had to work their asses of planting trees and testing genetic engineering.

Humanity didn't survive the 23. century instead Gaia Unika and Terra Unikat gave birth to us Terrans as we exist today, thanks to the Terran Manifest and decent people doing the right thing en mass.
Than the first message from our friends the Talithi, thanks to them we where able to reverse many damages done by this brain damaged back in the day.
Warning us against the Eltaryn.
We barely managed to defend us thanks to the Talithi's warnings.
Today we are defending everyone as we always should have.
#PennedPossibilities 748 #StarRyde #SciFi #WIP #WorldBuilding

749
MC POV: What is the goal you’re trying to achieve?

I skip for the day.

#PennedPossibilities 749

750
Is your SC aware of what the MC wants out of life, and are they willing to help them acquire it?

They better are because it's one mission, one ship, one crew.

#PennedPossibilities 750 #StarRyde #SciFi #WIP

751
Check-In: Share a snippet you’ve written recently that you’re proud of. (Doesn’t matter what it’s from, or if it’s edited or not.)

Not at the moment for several reasons. I am at a all time low with my energy barely scraping on daily stuff.
I simply don't have the energy to choose something, translate it from German, find a translator (which I really would like to support but financially can't) and I hate using translation tools to offten if I can avoid it because most of them also use AI or support AI and I don't like the way they "try to improve" anything with AI.

That said my progress is also very slow so I might have nothing to share at all which I didn't already shared it or nothing I fell comfortable sharing at all for the moment.

I like the idea and hope it helps everyone but I for the foreseeable future won't participate in it by posting.
Non the less I like the idea.

#PennedPossibilities 751 #writing

752
Tell us about something that will always make your antagonist laugh.

AJ (Ariaene) has a personal guard & assistant while not on mission.
She takes great care with them, on good days she tries her best to be an invisible supportive ghost.
She was ordered by AI to help out if necessary, but she clearly likes AJ as a person and does her best to keep them save on bad days too.
If AJ remembers her it's an instant smile and joy for them. On bad days she often manages to get through to AJ when others can't & calm them down. AJ likes her humor pretty much because ist very dry served. Otherwise it's more erratic on the battlefield if they manages to "push" big groups of opponents around like they are tiny wargame figurines.

AI (Antagonist Infernale) hasn't been seen yet and no one knows what they may find funny

#PennedPossibilities 752 #StarRyde
#AntagonistJunior #AJ #AriaeneJohnsen #AntagonistInfernale