771
Can you share a snippet of your antagonist’s backstory with us?

Since AJ aka Antagonist Junior or Ariaene Johnson has plenty of development history let us shad some light onto the "Antagonist Infernale" or short AI.

AI is an unknown actor in the Universe. No one knows exactly who is behind a galaxy wide reaching network of spies, soldiers, puppeted officials, tendrils in the military and only communicating through electronic devices, messages or their personal currier & Groundhog AJ.
AJ always gets resources allocated to support their mission, this includes at least one fleet of dozens of ships, soldiers & even for the highly advanced species in Star Ryde advanced, alien tech.
No one has managed to pinpoint AI because it's always ends with AJ, an escape of AJ or dead ends.
Only one thing seems clear where AI is involved its most likely not a good thing. So far it only seems to be to stop the Eltaryn invasions but who knows.

#PennedPossibilities 771 #StarRyde #AntagonistInfernale

772
Write about a recent decision that your SC has made.

Well not very recent basically in the past on this network and in the future of the story.

Dr. Waberi and Dr. Kaiden and the third unexplored doctor, decided to save Kira's live with an frowned upon practice. Setting a new untested and self modified Neural Interface Network Snail into a damaged Brain to connect her to the ships Artificial Intelligence, before removing the old one and giving the damaged parts the recovery needed according to medical procedures. That said the situation would have been dire. The Ghoz'Tarc only has minor medical facilities, since it's usually a ship that would not operate so far outside of Union territory or for more than 3 weeks. Loosing the Captain and it's XO1/First officer would have dealt a bad blow to their secret mission and the morals of the crew. It's already bad enough even if command said they will face trial afterwards, as Kira will have.

#PennedPossibilities 772 #StarRyde #SciFi #WIP

773
SC POV: Describe your first kiss.

1/3
Mondira talking to Arkham after Arkham talked a bit about her and Kira's relationship.

Mon: "And you haven't kissed each other yet?"

Ark: "No I simply haven't used to being so close to another person that I think of putting my food supply and taste buds on and into another person."

"If you phrase it like this it's sounds horrible. Aren't you burning for that incredible sensation."

"No I never have kissed someone because I wanted too, most times they kissed me and I don't like the feeling."

"Your first kiss must have been horrible," Mondira looked pityful.

"Before you give me that look what about your kissing expirience, what was your first kiss like."

"Very mechanical and educational."

Arkham looked very puzzled about the answer: "How so and why do you call it incredible if it was like that?"

"Well on Eodin some people get introduced to sexuality in a very

#PennedPossibilities 773 #StarRyde #MondiraRamann #Arkham #writing #SciFi #WIP

773 2/3
...very different way. You see my parents are supporting the unbound education, that means we mostly learn practices and theoretics at the same time."

"What does that have to do with sexuality and romance?"

"We get introduced to sexuality by an educated Person to prevent us from having bad experiences. They teach us to respect consent and stand for our consequences. They offer courses and only few educational Persons are even allowed to give such courses."

"So on the world of unbound capitalism people care enough to give their children sexual/romantic education? And they 'train' you? Honestly, I don't think I like the sound of that... It sounds like grooming to me."

"It may appear to you like this but 1. every act is consensual. 2. Their is no expectation forced upon trainees.
3. Psychological Personal is available at all time in unbound educational facilities. And we openly talk about our pers-

#PennedPossibilities 773 #StarRyde #MondiraRamann #Arkham #writing #SciFi #WIP

773 3/3

...nal interests & things we would like to expirience.
4. The trainees can stop a lesson at every moment if they feel uncomfortable.
I kissed for the first time with a very gentle & careful older female. My first sexual lesson was with carrying same age male. Both took great care of my wishes & my feelings.
The kiss felt welcoming & she was gentle, we talked about it & tried different styles afterwards.
I was 14 & fully educated on all things sex & romance at this point. She even asked if I wanted some specific taste & so my first kiss really tasted like roses & strawberries. Not the Epi generated but she organized real ones. I was lucky enough that I could expirience a stress free & safe situation to test around, it was pleasant & I used the skills I learned successfully in my first relationship with 16. Why would I have it any other way?"

"Eodin really is weird."

"So is the Union to me."

#PennedPossibilities 773 #StarRyde #MondiraRamann #Arkham #writing #SciFi #WIP

Disclaimer same age in the Star Ryde universe means something else since people get a good bit older, live longer and have longer time to be not adults that said the trainer at "the same age" would be probably around 17-25 so more a similar age than the exactly same age. Blame it to the translation from Union Standard to our current English.

Which fits a bit to today answered Word Weavers about constructed languages from the 31.08.2025.

#PennedPossibilities 773 #StarRyde #MondiraRamann #Arkham #WorldBuilding #PlanetEodin #Eodim #writing #SciFi #WIP

774
Would you say your WIP is primarily character-driven or plot-driven, or is there an effective combination of the two?

Character driven but at times plot driven.

#PennedPossibilities 774 #writing

775
MC or SC POV: What do you do for a living? Are you self-employed, or do you work for someone else?

1/2
The crew of the Ghoz'Tarc took the Psychological Survey Questions for this day. After reading it they give it a second and a third read. Approximately 80 Confused single Eyebrows poped up everywhere.

Around 40 requests where addressed to A.S.H.L.E.I.: "What does this mean do FOR A living?"

Ash collected her answer & sended it to everyone: "Prior to the Commonwealth act of the 2200 human civilization, the precursor to what we today call Terrans, was riddled with Billionaires and their market manipulation of capitalism, capitalism in its unshackled form treats a life as a resource to farm for value, if you are not able to farm enough resources to survey you where simply discarded and few other helped out. This made the phrasing "do for a living" a common phrase empathizing that you need to do... ➡️

#PennedPossibilities 775 #StarRyde #Ashlei #GhozTarcCrew #writing #SciFi #WIP

2/2 775

⬅️... Something, to get paid for, so you can afford to survive. If you have further questions please ask."

Around 80 single eyebrows narrowed to the middle of their forheads they occupied, in pure and utter disgust. That was not how money should be used putting the tool over the crafts person...
Luckily the Commonwealth Union, from which the Galactic Union partly emerged from, got rid of such perversion for Terra and others.

#PennedPossibilities 775 #StarRyde #Ashlei #GhozTarcCrew #writing #SciFi #WIP

776
Is there a particular scene or passage that you’re incredibly proud of (and maybe even want to share)?

TLDR: No

NTLDR (Not to long do reading):

Not really at this point I kinda like my erotic scene between Arkham and Kira which exists as a three patter in the answers here. So I will probably copy it into the WIP and maybe bolster it up a bit.
I quite like another scene with AJ and their memory not working at all at that moment, I cried tears of sorrow while writing it, which means I'm on to something or simply well to easily moved to tears. (evidence suggest otherwise). But as it is with slow burning, low energy stuff meets a WIP I can't show all... yet... Because otherwise I have even less to present and surprise possible future readers.

#PennedPossibilities 776 #Writing #StarRyde #WIP

777
SC POV: Describe a recent dream.

Not many scenes of a dream of any SC are planned. Basically zero.
So I skip this one simply because I don't know who to take and what the content would be...

Having a freaking crew of 40 sometimes comes down badly with my inability to decide on too much to choose from. I guess I should trim down the crew but a realistic 4-6 rotation on a starship needs at least 40 people...

Maybe someone had a bad dream that an attack halfed the crew only to wake up and being reliefed that it only was a dream...

The Knox family chili packs a punch my friends don't eat too much.

Actually that would make a good scene to mix in after cooking, a sudden tonal shift going from cozy family dinner to full blown space horror.🤔

(note to my self "full blown" and "chili" aren't the best choice of words...
Great now I have the chest burster scene from Alien in my mind... Waaaa brain stop🛑)

#PennedPossibilities 777 #StarRyde #ChiliNightmare #KiraKnox

778
Does your antagonist enjoy reading? Tell us about the material they would choose to read.

Ariaene (AJ) has no other option if they wants to remember any stuff. They has an elaborate system of diaries, tattooed notes, writing on their skin and post it like notes inside their armor.

To access all of this information, they uses a combination of short writing they remembers like they just graduated in that field, their Holos extraordinary Scanner and officially mostly illegal Nanotech.

AJ's Holo is able to trace the position of ink particles on a page and determine the the text or drawing without the need of touching the media. This level of accuracy is still in the beginning otherwise and often only seen in much bigger contraption like satellites. Thanks to the nanites AJ can access this knowledge but the nanites aren't able to repair the damage that is responsible for the memory issues and it doesn't survive long.

#PennedPossibilities 778 #StarRyde #AriaeneJohnsen #SciFi #WIP

779 1/2
MC POV: Do you think you have any idiosyncrasies?

Conversation between Kira & Arkham.

Kira:"I don't think so."

Ark:"Oh you surely have, your sneaky, constantly pulsing & you love to surprise people by shadowing them only to slurp loudly from your disgusting little "brew" of unrefined Eqil. I get it your efficient & I don't love you less for that but one needs to get used to that."

"I'm sure that doesn't count."

"What's about your sleep schedule of 6 hours max, you are one of the few that have a real freaking bed, I wouldn't leave that in days if I wasn't on schedule."

"In my current state I don't need more than 6 hours this will change sooner rather than later by itself & wait til we get to my house."

"What if I want to go home for my first shore after 6 months?"

"Well than we go to your place? We probably won't be scheduled for such a long mission again."

"And if I don't want you➡️

#PennedPossibilities 779 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei
#writing #SciFi #WIP

779 2/2
⬅️ to come over to my place?"

Kira:"Than I stay with the ice queen? I have to face her even if we go to my Home."

"What if I don't want you anymore after this mission...?" Arkham swallowed, tears in her eyes.

Kira looked at her sorting things in her head, even resorting to use Ashlei's system for faster computation what just happened.
She swallowed & gently spoke:"Are you scared? That I am just a fling? Your first flirt? That sticks to you? Like old chewing?
... Well I don't like the the sound of that or the idea ... But if that will be the case we can part as grown up persons..."

Arkham choked than swallowed:
"What if I can't serve you right? What can I offer you? I'm just realizing that I have sexual & romantic tendencies. What if your just the ignition spark not the flame?"

Kira smiled awkwardly:"Than let me be your spark and burn bright without me."

Ash noted this as important for later.

#PennedPossibilities 779 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei
#writing #SciFi #WIP

780
Do you have any favorite tropes (not clichés) that you enjoy writing?

Tell me where the picture starts when the first line is drawn, tell me when matching parts become a letter a letter a word and words a sentence, tell me where a page is split between its two sides, in German it even gets more complicated because the page you draw on with both sides is called eine Seite, but as every piece of paper eine Seite has zwei Seiten (two sides)...

We had this question similar in last month Phantastik Prompts (German) and Fantastic Prompts English (no that weren't in German). So I just Link to it here:
German tropes: https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/115098044868901309
German Cliche:
https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/115072566058961429
English tropes: And I realized I forgot to answer the prompt of the 27. August so I sadly have to stick to the German answer about the tropes alone... Just hit translate if your interested.
English Cliche:
https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/115072664878529170

#PennedPossibilities 780

781
Antagonist POV: If you had a “do-over” button, what one event in your life would you like to have a second chance at?

AI voice was crisp & sharp, coming through a speaker that seemed more menacing every second:"If I had such a hypothetical button, I would keep it locked away, hidden in the deepest lair, cover it in layers of silence, maybe even spread rumors of such a device at the other end of the Galaxy & I suggest that you should do so as well, spoken hypothetically. Because such a divice would be a highly immoral technology, its usage massively devastating, you should know, after all Terra has this history of all this Time Travel stories & not a single one had a good end.
Imagine pushing this button & everything you achieved would be gone. Of course we only speak hypothetically. So we do not need to fear such a device, right?"
The atmosphere was slightly off. Like a tiny tilt to the left.

#PennedPossibilities 781 #StarRyde #AntagonistInfernale #wriring #SciFi #WIP

Panda has a quest (a guest but I keep that Typo 😬 ) & is busy, so here is the PPIT again.

Choose one of your characters and spooky or frightening.
Your character finds itself in a costume in a spooky/frightening situation: who is this character, why is it there & is it a costume like lighthearted Halloween or something like "o crap H.R. Giger & Cthulhu tried a Donny Darko meets Dr. Who"?

#PennedPossibilities #PennedPossibilitiesImposterToot 002 @floofpaldi

Silas & frightening

Silas opened her eyes, something was very of. It felt like everything was slightly tilted to the side and gravity couldn't resist to tilt as well. She couldn't remember how she got here. In front of her was a eerily castle, no a house. It shifted its size got smaller Silas could have sworn. She realized that she wasn't in her uniform, it looked like a cheap Kigurumi or a animal costume, but it felt like standing up to the neck in warm worms or being surrounded by eels. She tried to get out of that costume but she couldn't. Her fingers where numb inside the gloves of the costume giving her paw like hands. She wanted to scream but their was a mask preventing her from it. It blocked her jaws from moving but... something in side the costume moved... It felt like a giant tongue.
Silas screamed.

#PennedPossibilities #PennedPossibilitiesImposterToot 002 #StarRyde #SilasCrosby #Writing #SciFi #WIP

782
SC POV: When was the last time you felt needed?

Charleston Trawella Chief Engineer aboard the Ghoz'Tarc:
"I'm needed all the time, chief engineer isn't something you don't want to need and even if ASHLEI is incredibly sofisticated in repairing her self but her drones have limitations and she only can maintain most systems. I constantly regulate and recalibrate Systems developing strategies and theories to improve the performance and output in case of combat. And of course I monitor the prototype stuff I installed on the refit.
But really needed, I felt as Arkham asked me for input on her little pet project inside one of the containers. I have a bit more insight into that than most others I guess and if it works it might be revolutionary for her and the Alliance/Union."

#PennedPossibilities 782 #StarRyde #CharlstonTrawella #writing #SciFi #WIP

783
Who should the readers be “rooting for” in your WIP?

The "good" folks and hopefully some background characters as much as parts of the antagonists team, writing faceless henches with recognizable characters... I already had better ideas ...
If people root for the BBE - Aliens I will have failed or not? Pro tip don't add tentacles to your Aliens in this DNAge if you want them to be disgusting, wayyyyyyyyyy to many things I have seen... (Not to kink shame but the Internet is a dwell of... Wonders). 💩😬😅

#PennedPossibilities 783 #writing

784
Is there a mistake your antagonist keeps repeatedly making in their life? Explain.

Several because no reliable short to long term memory transition after a certain point in their life. Usually AJ looses their memory as soon. As the brain begins to clean up, usually if they are asleep.

#PennedPossibilities 784 #StarRyde #AJ #AntagonistJunior #AJohnsen #AriaeneJohnsen #SciFi #WIP

785
If you could give a piece of advice to any of your characters, what would it be?

Do not shot at Anna.

#PennedPossibilities 785

786
How have your writing sessions been this month?

*Nervously laughing*... Well... If my writing was physical which it is even if it is only stored digitally, the device is physically. In theory it goes very well plot points resolve and ideas sprawling... In my physical brain.
Not so much on paper or it's digital equivalent their is a reason I gave my progress 4 snails.
Since it's all theoretically physical and all in my mind, I could call myself a theoretical physicist in the field of Star Ryde...
Wow, that doesn't sound convincing at all not even to me. But really my progress is very slow and only thing I can claim that I am at least write a bit every month.

I also post irregular updates as a pinned thread in my profile in which I pin the most recent toot.

Here it is including the 4 snails
https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/115178510142418523

#PennedPossibilities 786

787
How does your MC view the gentler, daintier things in life: as things worth preserving and caring for, or things only bound to wither and disappear?

1/2
Kira fights for them to the blood.
This is what the Union is all about preserving the most stress less, most gentle and fair way of living for every citizen and non citizens alike.
This is why the Union Fleet exist that is the pure defense fleet (defense means they react, not that they aren't deadly and devastating) this is why the Alliance exist (they are the attack fleet) this is why the shades exist (they are the scalpels or sledgehammers) what ever is needed to win against inner and outer enemies of the Union.
Never before have 6 species united against a intergalactic threat, never before have 66 other species joined such a Union, and keeping it alive, its core values of decency, freedom and existential rights defended, that is what Kira fights for.➡️

#PennedPossibilities 787 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #SciFi #WIP

⬅️ 2/2
Arkham is not as a steadfast believer in the Union as Kira, Kiras dedication is sometimes even a bit alienating for her. Arkham has seen the downside of the Unions efforts as she ran away from home & landed on a rim close world that struggled to keep the ideals & habits of the Union alive. She knows that the Union is the biggest political entity in galactic history & knows it's the very best for everyone to keep it alive, but she doesn't trust politicians to do that. She has seen that it depends on the creatures that live under the rule as much as the enforcer of that rules. That said, she will defend people & peoples rights.

Ashlei is the most pragmatic about this, she is programmed with the Unions core values, thus she doesn't doubt, that they are right & everything making live more livable is worth protecting, thus she supports the supporters/defenders & does what she can to protect them.

#PennedPossibilities 787 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #SciFi #WIP

788
Out of all of your characters, who would make a “plan,” who follows along, and who knows if the plan is going to fail?

1/2
In Star Ryde?
Plan: Anika VS Kira
they may be love each other like twins, despite being not even really related by genetics, but they are also often at opposite ends. Anika excels in Improvised & quickly assembled tactic missions while Kira is more in to long term strategies. That said both have more successes as they have failures & able to deal with the tides of a battlefield.

Following usually are Rose, Talisa and J.
The 3 Lady's are what is generally called "a Groundhog" infantry soldier's deployed from space ships for special missions, usually they get accompanied by a pilot and one or two Captain/XO/etc. Even if anyone of them is able to 'control' a whide range of smaller crafts regardless of the environment & knows how ➡️

#PennedPossibilities 788 #StarRyde #AnikaJohanson #KiraKnox #RoseDraken #TalisaDraken #GroundhogTeam #SciFi #WIP

788 2/2
to make command decisions.

The "one knows that it goes sideways."
Barely do things go really sideways, but that would be J.
People like J. exist in a lot of teams, the one with the explosive stuffs, that knows how to draw attention and to lay devastating traps.
Some people refer to people like her as Warthugs or Ramppigs (well at least that's a close translation) which aren't really flattering & may earn the speaking one a jab onto the jaw or 2.
It helps that she has 198 cm
(6 feet 5 61/64 inches*) of height & is build like the T800 models of the Terminator from the Terminator Franchise.
A lot of the crew is somehow connected to her. J. is their aromantic Soulmate, she will carry you on the field as she will carry you in live, cracking a joke or moderate creepy flirting with you while carrying your hurt butt through the mudd & as a certified field medic she makes sure you survive.

#PennedPossibilities 788 #StarRyde #JHarveyGladstone #GroundhogTeam #SciFi #WIP

789
Is there a food that reminds your MC of home?

Kira, the Knox Family Chili which has as many iterations as you can grab random ingredients at the location you're at. While on shore leaf Kira cooks sine after the original family recipe she remembers since she watched her mother & her father cooking it together. She later found a recipe in the inherited house as she moved in. From this fresh chili she takes a part of & dry "freezes" it, around a liter, it's her special ingredient for the local chilli while on mission & she keeps a block as a special emergency ration.

Arkham loves Terran street vendor food & enjoys traditional food from the Indian region basically because it doesn't reminds her to home.

One would think Ash wouldn't have a favorite food but indeed next to the reactor energy the Ghoz'Tarc creates Ash likes pure sunlight. Luckily the skin of the Ghoz'Tarc is basically & extremely advanced solar panel.

#PennedPossibilities 789 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei

790
Do you think about your audience or write primarily for yourself?

I mainly try to write stories that I myself find compelling that said, I also want LGBTQIA+, People of different skin tones, nonbinary, tech interested, disabled, abled and SciFi fans to feel welcome and trusted with a complex story. I don't want to invent the SciFi wheel new but maybe build the next version of a wheel something like a smart wheel.
What I don't want people that are pervertly rich assoles putting themselves above everyone else, I don't want them to feel welcome in my worlds, because they aren't.
Our global society has people that are hellbent on making life for others worse, such people I wish that they getting a very bad itching in places they can't scratch, for the rest of their existence and hopefully dispelled from even touching my work. Whatever that for a target audience would mean...

#PennedPossibilities 790 #StarRyde #WIP #writing

791
Tell us about something that will always make your SC laugh.

XO Jenkins is a person that has a lot of passion in his not on duty time. He & his husband have a costume tayloring workshop where they produce their own cosplays/costumes for themselves, the local theater/movie/NIN entertainment group & even produce on demand for people all over the union if their time allows it.
He smiles every morning on shore leave when he wakes up next to his husband. On missions he is very reserved & mostly enjoying his time alone, thinking of his husband & what crazy costumes they could come up with. That's the times he smiled the 2. most.

#PennedPossibilities 791 #StarRyde #LJenkins #GjozTarcCrew #writing #SciFi #WIP

792
Share art pieces or mood boards for your WIP, if you have any.

I don't really do mood boards they aren't providing me with anything helpful. It's more like a shopping list to me...😅

A very rough concept idea for the Ghoz'Tarc can be found here in my Erotic Musings answer. I usually don't draw much even less on digital media.

https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/114647720514024707

Ariaene was depicted by @art_of_goulwenr in his crossover picture here.
He did a really good job depicting them
https://mastodon.art/@art_of_goulwenr/115071014806021350

He also did this scetches to get a feeling for the character and basically his face drawing is the reason AJ has their first name in the first place, where a first name belongs. This i shared on Penned Possibilities 767 not so long ago.

https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/115106388934036818

#PennedPossibilities 792 #StarRyde #Visuals

793
SC POV: It has been said, “You are what you eat.” Rewrite the phrase. “You are what you ___.”

Chief of Security Silas Crosby: "support."
Dr. Kaiden: "give in to."
Dr. Waberi: "fight for."
Mondira Ramann: "buy."
J.: "care for."
Talisa Draken: "Scrap that. You are only as good as you are on your worst days."
Rose Draken: "'...'re coding."
XO2 William Troika: "believe in."
XO1 Learoy Jenkins: "put your bump for on the line."
Chief Engineer Charleston Trawella: "pour your heart into, my friend."

#PennedPossibilities 793 #StarRyde #GhozTarcCrew #SciFi #WIP

794
Describe a “happy life” according to your antagonist.

AI: Never talks about that but it's often talked about doing the right thing to preserve the Union etc it's questionable how much of this is real & how much just sound a good enough to convince others.

Ariaene Johnsen/AJ: For AJ it's their dream of going back to the life they lost. Together with their wife & soulmate Kiara. Running the backery & restaurant they dreamed of in their home colony after their service time. But life was different, now AJ seems to seek revenge or a cure for their shattered memory, in days where it isn't as bad, one of AI's henches often takes time & talks with them, otherwise acting like a personal assistant, in this conversations AJ often feels good enough to enjoy the moment. Sadly they isn't able to make a long lasting memory in print to remember this feeling in a regular basis.

#PennedPossibilities 794 #StarRyde #AntagonistInfernale #AntagonistJunior #AJ #AJohnsen #AriaeneJohnsen #SciFi #WIP

795
Tell us about your MC’s past or current jobs. What are their skills?

1/2

Kira: Alliance Military since her first Praktikum as a trainee with 14. She went through S.H.A.D.E.S. training a special forces training to develop leadershio skills on a galaxy wide level. Special training in several different melee combat variants (as far as application goes between different species), endurance training, weapon training, piloting different sized space vessels, climbing, infiltration, programming in 3 different languages, basics of space travel, ship maintenance & space walk, diplomacy (that one thanks to her adoptive mother).

Arkham was unemployed on the streets before she entered Alliance training with 18/19 and was fast tracked to Flight Command Officer do to her piloting skills and quick thinking. A lot of Kira's skill set is mirrored on Arkham training minus the special S.H.A.D.E.S. training & of course both don't ➡️

#PennedPossibilities 795 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #SciFi #WIP

2/2 ⬅️ have the same skill level. A lot of overlapping Skills sets exist inside a crew but this is mainly do to the fact that you never know what you need on board a space ship.

A.S.H.L.E.I.: The intelligence of the Ghoz'Tarc wasn't really existent before she was created for the main reason of creating the next level of artificial intelligence.
Unlike LLMs or limited intelligences Ash can learn from her own "thoughts", interactions and access her goals, the shear amount of raw data she can handle & repack into biological individuals digestible data would easily surpass today's existing data on the Internet. Most of this capacity is used to control the ship & run diagnostics, scanning etc.

The Ghoz'Tarc was retrofitted for stealth missions, her basic design is that if a short range patrol vessel but that only accounts for the space frame at this point. Everything else is completely new.

#PennedPossibilities 795 #StarRyde #Arkham #Ashlei #GhozTarcCrew #GhozTarcCrew #writing #SciFi #WIP

796
Have you had to cut anything significant from your WIP? (Either for plot, cleanliness, redundancy, over explanation, or pace and literary effect.)

Not at this point I'm aware that the most of my world building won't end up in my final version (but that's my own "fault" because I'm working on a multimedia franchise guide for far more than a SciFi book because if I grab for the stars why choose the nearest) and that I probably have to cut down some parts but that's a future me problem.

The current me has enough problems writing consistently and even getting surpassed by reality with my predictions...
Hahahaha... If j only have written this story earlier.😅

Or that other stuff seems proven to be impossible... Another reason I restrain from hard SciFi because more Sci we get the more it's decreases the fictional possibilities of space travel and vast space as the final frontier well no problem going Space Opera...☠️😅

#PennedPossibilities 796 #StarRyde #WIP

797
MC POV: Describe your favorite art piece (or photograph, if they exist).

1/2

Kira: "I love music the most, next to writing which in the end comes out as the same art material but not expression I would say. Dancing is another art expression I pretty much like, dancing has given me a lot of insight into my body's movement capabilities that influenced my martial arts abilities quite positive, Parcour is similar in its application of learned skill sets but most people don't think of it as art. It's like dancing on walls while climbing.
Musical wise I prefer the antique genres of the late 20. & early 21. century to the point of the earlier 2020 as people got this idea that their prediction algorithms where artificial intelligences. Sadly only a few songs of this times have survived the changes Terra went through.
Of current music I like pretty much everything Samara's Tears do.
Blue Jewel of Sol is a beautiful➡️

#PennedPossibilities 797 #StarRyde #Worldbuilding #KiraKnox #SciFi #WIP

797 2/2 ⬅️
symphonic ballade that's roots are in Spraggae. Owate did a great job of capturing Terras beautiful past views, the hope we feel while progressing on the renaturation project. I talked enough about the picture of my parents & sisters. I still hold it dear."

Arkham: "Music, dancing... I like crafting, I dipped into material design lately & especially the Somwhar crafts but nothing springs out as my favorite. Through Kira i found 20 century Jazz which has this volume that modern Spazz at least Terran made lacks somehow. I like good NIN dramas especially the emotional multi track variants where you can feel & relive the situations from more than one perspective simultaneously. I just love feeling the emotions of 2+ persons. It's a bit overwhelming to be true but i can manage that, even sped up."

Ash: "I was not programmed to value specific arts more than others, but music fascinates me."

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On average, how long are your writing sessions?

I only can say that answering and reading others answers to the hashtag prompt games I follow and participate takes around an hour a day.

For actual fiction writing I have not the slightest clue, the problem if I have an eye on the clock I act like a writing opposum...
Pretend to be dead in hope the hour passes telling myself it's okay that I have done so little in an hour (most times it ends up as research and some copied links into the frame works for worldbuilding).
I just write and if you ask yourself how I do this on my phone my mini clock next to the front camera is covered by a glued on camera cover to slide around. So I have to actively pull down the drop down menu to see my clock or return to the lock screen.

I always find my writing flow in more narrative conversations so im most productive if my mood is good. Which isn't a given with depressions and today's world.

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