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

753. Where do your SCs feel the happiest?

Most with their Families and loved ones at home or doing the job they feel "called for" this is a remaining artifact concept from the German Beruf.
Work you do or "a job" but comes from "die Berufung" which means "call to be a" _____ literally the same like in "call to be an epic mage that safes the world" "call to be the fates chosen one" etc.
Yes German work culture was and in sadly only parts is way more than the stuff you do to survive or make money to survive. But the concept was taken on by terrans and other union species.

754. SC POV: Do you have children? If not, do you want to have children someday?

Security Chief Silas Crosby: "A daughter her name is Denise she and her families are the reasons I am still a soldier despite surpassing my 50."

XO Jenkins: "No childrens are not part of my or my husband's plan."

XO Troika: "3 daughters."

#PennedPossibillities Ketchup game #StarRyde #LJenkins #SilasCrosby #WilliamTroika #SciFi #WIP

755
Does your antagonist have any unusual or advanced skills?

Ariaene has the uncanny ability to get away or infiltrate almost any environment.
They is a skilled infiltrator able to blend in also some very out of place abilities, some claim even see them shape shifting but that might be really swex and over exaggerating do to miss understood usage of technologies that are not broadly known to the public.

AI is absolutely unknown I would say that's a special skill. Pulling the strings from somewhere somehow.

#PennedPossibillities 755 Ketchup Game #StarRyde #AntahonistInfernale #AntagonistJunior #AJ #AJohnson #AriaeneJohnsen #writing #SciFi #WIP

756.
Describe your WIP in one sentence.

Star Ryde the uncanny salad of your favorite SciFi stories in a military LGBTQIA+ dressing.

#PennedPossibilities 756 Ketchup #StarRyde #Writing #SciFi #WIP

Ketchup
757. MC POV: Would you rather have a night in, or one spent in the company of friends?

Author_ity language skill fails to extract meaning.
Is it ment a night spent alone or the opposite a night spent with friends?

758. Is there any sort of “lie” at the core of your MC’s worldview or how they see things? (However you might interpret the prompt, explain your answer.)

Every explanation made up, by an entity that is restricted, to its own expirience of reality, is a lie created to keep the vast & incomprehensible nature of the universe in the compounds of its creators realm of understanding. So if you ask for any lie the answer is yes, every lie humans tell them self to understand the universe.

759. Are there any topics or plot points that you refuse to write?

NON CONSENT BDSM or SEX.
That is simply RAPE.

I try not to be to detailed with stuff like cannibalism or torture, because I can go into pretty much every detail, thats get disgusting quickly.

#PennedPossibilities

Addendum per definition Non consent BDSM can't exist. BDSM is a practice build upon consent.
The parts that are in BDSM that content "acted out non consent" are part of the consent given by any participant prior to the act.
If this is not the case it's rape.
Any form of sex that is not consensual it is rape and consent is something only the parties involved can decide on, but only for their own part, if one does not give consent while the other gives it's non consensual, if any party acts out sexual deeds in a non consensual frame it is rape.

Felt I had to add this for reasons.

#PennedPossibilities

760
MC POV: Describe who you are in your group of friends. Tell is if you’re the motherly/fatherly type, the funny friend, the serious one, etc.

Kira sat in the messhall with a decorative glass of colorful liquid on the table: "You know the funny tragedy with some soldiers? Especially Spacers? We tend to make friends for a mission but rarely do we see them again. If possible we stick to mail as long as we can send them," her right middle finger ran around the glass edges, gently,
"than you go on a mission like this." Her eyes went smaller: "I thought this might be the best mission ever, because Tal is here, Rose, J. and Anika as our captain. I thought it will be like at the academy, but grown up." Her finger stopped. "Now I am the Captain. I thought I can pretend it's friends on a trip & nothing else. Everyone thinks she is dead." She paused, her eyes narrowed. "I guess, in our friends circle I'm the stupid, hopeful fool."

#PennedPossibilities 760 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #SciFi #WIP

760 2 of 3

Arkham sat in the pilot chair of the Ghoz'Tarc watching the screens, observing space through the pilot window. She read the question to Ash before taking a moment to think. Starring out into the distant stars. "I think I can't tell. I haven't made friends before or heck a romance... This is weird. I always been focused on work. I met Captain Johanson once before the mission & she was kinda different from my other Captains. She didn't asked why I wasn't wearing standard issued uniform that day. She asked if I need something. And it felt genuine. I guess she was curious why I was dressed in cut down uniform but she didn't burst, instead she simply asked if I need something and smiled. Some month later I was requested for this mission, than we went on this mission. And she still was genuinely interested in me and my well being. Now I have Kira, you," she gently broucher Ash's node, "the others, but who am I in this circle?"

#PennedPossibilities 760 #Arkham #StarRyde #WIP

760 3 of 3

Ashlei's node blinked: "Interesting, I haven't considered this before. Am 'I'", she used the I like an exclamation mark, "part of the social circles on board of the ship?" Her node blinked. It was more of a gesture for the biological entities around. It felt appropriate to her to do so. "I am," she paused, "a caregiver. I am," pause, "a servant. I am," shorter pause, "an integral part of the ship and it's functionality."
The node blinked faster before starting to pulse more slowly.
"There is no evidence that the crew depends on me in emotional ways."
The node pulsed more slowly before the light almost faded completely.
"Correction," a long pause, the node went bright, "Captain Knox showed me memories that are important to her," the node blinked quicker, "Arkham," another pause, "Arkham told me that I am her friend. Lt Commander Draken, Rose, told me that she respects my advice. Conclusion, for some I am a friend."

#PennedPossibilities 760 #Ashlei #StarRyde #WIP

760
breaking bad jokes extra answer

MC POV: Describe who you are in your group of friends. Tell is if you’re the motherly/fatherly type, the funny friend, the serious one, etc.

Kira smirking: "I'm the one who KNOX!"

#PennedPossibilities 760 breaking bad jokes extra answer #KiraKnox #StarRyde #WIP #BadJokes

760.001
Stand-in Question: Who within a group of friends, work associates, the brigade, class, etc., thinks they're a good friend but isn't. How do they fail?

I don't think it's a character but more a trait everyone could demonstrate at certain points. So I don't have a character to point at yet.

#PennedPossibilities 760.001

761
Tell us about your funniest character.

Funny like "haha" or funny like "ha?"

As with yesterday's prompt I don't think I have that one funny character. Some like J. are more easily cracking jokes but she isn't doing it for laughs alone. She doesn't take herself very serious if she can make other feel relax and she also likes to play a bit dumb sometimes. She prefers to be underestimated rather than sticking out as the sharp knife, it's hard enough with 198 cm as and a back that easily count's for two people.

#PennedPossibilities 761 #StarRyde #JHarveyGladstone #SciFi #WIP

762
How much does your MC value communication in their relationships and/or friendships? Are they prone to being misunderstood?

Kira values them highly, after all she is the XO/Captain and has to be understood correctly. She sometimes can be almost brutally blunt, upfront and open. While in her private communication she isn't that unsimilar for some parts she prefers a more closed off and interpretable language. She loves flirting with J. and J. With her but both know that this is not romantic but simply to make the other feel valued and appropriated, and J. is almost certainly not interested in anything more than close emotional bonds or not sexual body contact.

Arkham learns to communicate more openly.ejole on board even if she would prefer not communicating at all but even that is a sort of communication so being open is the lesser evil.

Ash: as the ships AI prefers clear cut and open communication.
#PennedPossibilities 762 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #SciFi #WIP #writing

763
What is your antagonist’s greatest fear? Explain.

Skip

#PennedPossibilities 763

764
Do you have any SCs who later become MCs in your WIP?

Not planned yet but I hope to give everyone at the crew enough space and time to shine.

It something that I really miss with current Star Trek other than SNW.
Discovery especially didn't do much outside a scene here and there which is incredibly wasted potential.

I'm writing a crew of around forty people which will be a challenge and next to SC's as secondary characters I will also have TC's tertiary characters and back round ones. Yes it's overly ambitious, I know. 😅

I want the characters to feel as real as possible we will see how I manage this one day in the hopefully not so far future.

#PennedPossibilities 764 #StarRyde #SciFi #WIP

765
Are there any words that you’re actively trying to use less often (or replace) in your writing?

A lot I try to not use ableist, sexiest or racist words. I try to not use insults based on looks or workfields, I try to not use our universe names for worlds that doesn't share our history... As a very easy example almost everyone understands what a Molotov Cocktail means or Guerilla Attacks. This are historical grown and fueled terms. In as an example Ferun the world of DND (at the moment) there never whas a man called Mololtov thus no one ever would understand the meaning of a Molotov Cocktail.
For swearing and insults I try to come up with my own terms.
That said I am very much limited to my own knowledge, upbringing and capabilities to unlearn things and recontextualize such concepts and words. The German insult that translates into son of a b**** is ment as an insult to female sex workers as a parent thus I almost eradicated its usage from my own words.

#PennedPossibilities 765

766
Has your MC ever had a guilty conscience?

Kira [insert green checkmark]
Arkham [insert 100% sign]
Ashlei: "Please evaluate your meaning of conscience."

Side note from a non native speaker

English makes no freaking sense.
Conscience... The science shown on a con? Or is it like betrayal covered as science? No it's your mental construction that regulates your morals.
Yes in German it's similar but in German it's knowledge all along Gewissen (conscience) Wissen (knowledge) Wissenschaft (science) okay and know I get angry because Wissenschaft is written with on f in German where I always understood it as a coming from schaffen (to create something) I guess Schaft is some sort of tonal shift movement (unlike searching for an explanation online which is total shit, thank you AI's)

#PennedPossibilities 766 #StarRyde

767
Tell us about your antagonist’s fashion. How do they dress?

1/2
AI no one knows how this "aloof" entity dresses if speaker or wall panels hiding speakers count I would say wall panel just for the gag.

Antagonist Junior (AJ or Ariaene Johnsen), has a very mission focused repertoire.
Usually it's the older Alliance Standard but Modified Protect Life Mark 4 series of armors patched up with some not so standard issued pieces and repairs not in a fallout style repair but indeed with different technologies crafted carefully into the armor. As an example they uses an energy shield that goes beyond the average Armor shielding of every Alliance Soldier and deploys from their left wrist. The standard issued helmet is replaced with a glass dome that unfolds from their left shoulders blade breaker. Ariaene is also good in infiltration missions with setting appropriate attire that hides a lot of tech and equipment. In unusual ➡️

#PennedPossibilities 767 #StarRyde #AriaeneJohnsen #SciFi #WIP

767 2/2

⬅️looking stuff greatly depicted in this piece by @art_of_goulwenr
https://mastodon.art/
We spun a complex set of events that led to the meeting of his characters with AJ and infiltration of a burlesque show for [redacted] clearly needs something extravagant.

So AJ went with Golden Latex or Vinyl looks. Lucky for them the tech of the 24. Century can provide all sort of looks without having to use the real material.

https://mastodon.art/@art_of_goulwenr/115071014806021350

#PennedPossibilities 767 #StarRyde #AriaeneJohnsen #SciFi #WIP