849
SC POV: Do you worry about what the future will bring?

Resist! Do not take any of the newly added 9 single chapters characters, it's a waste...,...

Silas Crosby: "Of course I do why would I otherwise reenter
military service? Our galaxy is on the brink of an full blown invasion through an enemy that doesn't even care to communicate with us. They just kill, someone has to stop them."

#PennedPossibilities 849 #StarRyde #SilasCrosby #SciFi #WIP

850
What is your least favorite part of being a writer?

1. Companies...
Especially AI companies that are unwilling to even care an nano meter to give the illusion of decency or ask if someone would like to help develop an AI, in a fair level eye to eye base & instead just consume everything they can stick their greedy hands on. To such companies, enlighten me, please tell me, again, why I have to pay you for all the stuff you're stealing from others? I think your corporate propaganda bullshit's effect is waning off again.

2. My own inconsistencies and insecurities with writing.

#PennedPossibilities 850

851
MC POV: Is there a secret spot you like to retreat to? If there is, why that spot?

Kira: "Oh that's easy
N 54° 19' 42.547'' E 10° 8' 5.787'' but you need to figure out the planet for yourself, otherwise it wouldn't be a secret spot anymore right?
I give you a hint it's a planet I already visited several times &no I haven't seen all the planets in the Union or the Rim, so if you ever meet me there you can say high."

Arkham: "On board? The captain's quarter & the pilot seat. I'm glad she is willing to share her bed with me. I wouldn't share the pilot seat with a non pilot, I mean she has piloting skills but she clearly isn't as skilled as anyone of our dedicated pilot team."

A.S.H.L.E.I.: "From Sagittarius A* 8 kiloparsecs/26,000 lightyears, vectral 43°, rimwards, rotational. Biological entities might find the view breathtaking, especially if they are dependent on lungs.
The last part was a joke. Did I succeed?"

#PennedPossibilities 851 #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei

852
Tell us something you’ve always wanted to share about your story with readers.

"What are those readers?"😅

That would mean I have a finished story/parts of it that I share.
All Prompt answers are beta Canon.
In cases where lore contradicts itself the book has priority.
Until I state otherwise.
If you are interested in Fan art feel free as long it's made by you & not by AI/algorithm/LLM/etc by feeding my work into it & giving it a prompt.

For A.I. scraping*. Feeding anything of my thoughts into your system is your agreement to send me half the money your company makes with your service before taxes or other costs are deducted, you agree that you are accountable for your users/workers. If you don't want that don't scrap my stuff.

*Every act that inbeds my thoughts/work, written, spoken, reed, drawn, danced, scanned from paper or pictures, videos etc, into your systems is scraping, typos, renaming it to training or something else still makes you accountable.

#PennedPossibilities

853
Antagonist POV: Which do you prefer, sunrise or sunset?

AI: "My dear Terran friend why would I talk about such a trivial thing? Have you seen space? It's the eternal night it doesn't matter what verbal inadequacy I prefer."

Ariaene reed the text on the screen as the letters slowly popped into existence, bright green on dark grey to black, they looked suspiciously: "Haven't we talked about that exact same question already?" Their eyes narrowed down "What is going on? Are you trying to spy on me? Who send you?" Their hand slides to the place where they usually kept their sidearm, while simultaneously looking around in the room.They doesn't find it, the room seems perfectly fine. Something in their mind just actually seemed to remember. But it's gone again. AJ slumped down on their bed knowing that they lost something. Eyes staring into the void of their memory.

#PennedPossibilities 853 #StarRyde #AntagonistInfernale #AntagonistJunior #AriaeneJohnsen #AJ #AJohnsen

854
What genres might you try outside of your chosen one(s)? Is there anything specific you would like to work on?

More like specific not to work on...
Generic Fantasy. Don't get ne wrong I can get joy out of elves, vampires, zombies and Orks and there are some good fantasy stories out there. But only few Fantasy stories captured my interest.
Nintendo's Zelda series, the Record of the Lodoss Wars, Terry Pratchett's Discworld, Pirates of the Caribbean, The least Battle of the Orks, a weird story where doomed Orks discover a military stash of the US army through a dragons lair... Which turns their loosing battle into a victories campaign. The Witcher series to a part the Elder scrolls.
The old Tolkien formula only works in very specific circumstances for me. I also really like medival stories or old folklore but as soon something like Tolkien is referenced as similar... I just loose most of my interest.😅
Thus I probably wouldn't write such a story.

#PennedPossibilities 854

855
MC POV: Who is one person you would never want to see again? Why?

Kira: "Space is vast and we are still in a war ... It doesn't seem so bad in the core but you stop thinking about such things really quickly and focus on the people that you want to see again... Or maybe it's just me and the recent loss of Anika..."

Arkham: "The one person that earned that spot died recently. Thanks for nothing mom..."

A.S.H.L.E.I.: I haven't had the pleasure yet to meet a truly despicable person. Some not so sophisticated artificial intelligences make me feel ... angry? Sad? I am not sure that this is enough to not want to meet them again.

#PennedPossibilities 855 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #SciFi #WIP

856
Tell us about the area where your characters live.

1/2
Kira has multiple areas, with her mom on Terra around London. Which is the same rough Area Arkham has an apartment.
London is one of the main Alliance recruiting & education centers and a lot of Union and Alliance Departments/Facilities are located in the English region. As a politician "the ice queen" has a small house and some security around for her small garden. Since the biggest parts of west London are drowned in the northern sea and the city "moved" land inside it doesn't look like anything you would find today. London has long sandy beaches and palm trees, toxic water and the fog that doesn't want to leave at all, some city centers buildings look like being ripped from New York but that's a very few, unlike Vegas or New York no one ever tried to establish a second level to the city. Which kept it at least nicely livable.
Arkham lives over➡️

#PennedPossibilities 856 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #WorldBuilding #SciFi #WIP

856 2/2
⬅️ an closed restaurant. By law she owns the restaurant but she never wanted to have one in the first place. She helped it's former owner financially but he didn't last long before going back home in his birth colony. Since he wasn't a Union citizen he underestimated what a society that cares for everyone might 'cost' on the other hand, as he left his restaurant went to Arkham since she was the one with the Unions Citizenship and invested in the place. The house is a pretty cozy one with its triangle form and cherry trees all around. It would be the perfect spot for a cafe.

Kira's own home that she inherited from her biological family is a big house on a mostly farming colony. It was ment for 5 people and their families as a generation home, she only uses a small apartment sized area of 2 rooms one of it looks a bit like a loft.

Ash lives inside a tiny box onboard the Ghoz'Tarc...

#PennedPossibilities 856 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #WorldBuilding #SciFi #WIP

857
Does your universe have any autumnal traditions?

As I mentioned on the German Phantastik Prompts yesterday* autumn and spring aren't the same like we know today. The period is barely two weeks in which the weather rapidly swaps between hot summer and cold winter with very little in between.
Other planets have more luck and a lot of colonies still have their own festivals but it's not as big as on Terra in our time.

Since the global unification, similar celebrations have been collectively celebrated on different days.

Death celebrations or Ghost repellent celebrations, gift givings etc.

Since Gaia Unika doesn't forbid other religions since it's more of a philosophical religion, believing in the spirit of Gaia in all Terran life it's not uncommon to have other religions as well, but rarely are this religions celebrating our today known celebrations in the form we do today.

*https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/115613394391215282

#PennedPossibilities 857 #StarRyde #WorldBuilding #SciFi #WIP

857.a
One of your characters yells, "Turkey!" What happens next?

1/2
The hallway towards the engineering section of the Ghoz'Tarc seemed strange, longer than usual, bathed in slowly pulsing, red light, covered with thick smoke or fog, the angle seemed off, as if the world had a slight tilt to the right. A humanoide figure leaned against the wall while walking down the corridor, slowly, as if the gravity was also tilted towards the wall. A mag lock fell & slid half rolling over the ground with the typical sound of metal cylinders towards the right side. The figure held one hand pressed to her belly.
The ship was eerily silent, no other sounds, no other people just the gentle his of the cloud coming out of somewhere with pressure. The figure hissed while breathing. Suddenly something stepped into the hallway. The figure tensed and tried to move faster, fighting against the tilted gravity, the mag lock shot
through the corridor➡️
#PennedPossibilities 857.a #StarRyde #GhozTarc #SciFi #WIP

857.a 2/2 ⬅️ only some cm away from the humanoides head. A low, scratching unsettling voice spoke, more gargling than speaking but still understandable:
"It that does not exist can not happen."

The figure stumbled.
J. stood in the good lid corridor to engineering, she stood there questioning what she actually wanted, it felt as if she just had forgotten something. Something important. She spotted a mag lock on the ground. She bent down and grabbed it from the ground.
"You shouldn't be out here, I better bring you back to engineering."
She didn't noticed the pulsing red light coming out under one door in the corridor as she walked towards the engine room.

#PennedPossibilities 857.a #StarRyde #GhozTarc #JHarveyGladstone #SciFi #WIP

... The figure bowed down as she tried to grab the mag lock, she couldn't hold it any longer and her stomach released all the gas that was collected inside. The red pulsing got more intense as she finally reached the toilet on this deck.
6 other crew members stand in front of it...
She groaned painfully as her stomach protested.
"It may have looked like a turkey but clearly wasn't..."
Her fellow comrades moaned in painful agreement.

#PennedPossibilities 857.a #StarRyde #GhozTarc #SciFi #WIP

858
MC POV: Is it easy for you to forgive others? (Truly?)

1/2
Kira sat in her quarters in one of the few chairs inside, going through the psychological evaluation questions. She layed down her pad and walked over to a wall leaning against it and putting her forehead against the cool material. Every loss running through her had, every time she felt betrayed by others... Which where losses in their own way. Tears started running.
She mumbled to herself.
"I wish it would be, I wish I could be an easy forgiving person... I'm not much better than average humans all this Terran mindset is good it is something to strive for... But I have so hard times sometimes remembering all this pain..."

Ash voice came from the speakers in a soft nuanced way Kira learned to appreciate deeply but Ash rarely used as far as she knew.
"Kira, do you wish for my assistance?"
"I don't know Ash..." She tried to pull herself together.
I wish I was a better person.➡️

#PennedPossibilities 858 #StarRyde #KiraKnox

858 2/2
⬅️ than maybe people would longer stick around and don't leave me so often."

"Kira you are a beloved friend and commanding officer, that earned her crews loyalty. Your friends love you in a romantic and/or non romantic way to a point that they are ready to jump into action without any questions. This doesn't happens to people that aren't worth it."

"Yeah but for what cost? Have you seen the death trail I leave behind... ?"

"I am aware of the ones you lost... And since I share your memories I understand how bad it feels. Have you ever thought about how many lives you saved?"

"Not enough."

"Not enough thought about it or not enough lives?"

"Tell me since you can read my mind... I can't forgive them for leaving me alone... Yes they died but swex I was 6... How the fuck can I?
Tanya surely had some good reasons to leave me in the desert... Not even Arkham is sure about me. I lost Anika...
I don't want to loose anyone ever again..."
#PennedPossibilities 858 #StarRyde #KiraKnox

859
Do you have a preference for the age of your characters or do you include characters of all ages in your work? Explain why.

Teen to young adults and up to my own age slightly above. As long as I remember enough from my own live I don't think that it will change drastically. Since I have the 'spleen' to let my characters suffer but also expirience sexuality, personal growth, romance etc for all of my stories, it's a given that I act with species equivalents of Teens. If ideas shift to other projects, I my get lower but as far as everything with sexuality goes, 16 humans years is the youngest I get and that's is for the arkward first experiences with another body in close proximity.
My oldest characters from my not further developed Vampire Corn Story was 895 but I prefer it to be around my age which feels the most natural to me.

#PennedPossibilities 859

Last devider toot 2025
From here on following it's December 2025.

Last months devider toot is here:
https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/115473533449714225

As always the prompts can be found on: @floofpaldi's profile. Thank you for all this work. 🙏🏽 💚

To the December overview toot you can follow this link:
https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/115644277450285375

The start of this mega thread is here:
https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/110763385183712440

And the first prompts answer is here:
https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/110723765145059262

and all what followed is here:
https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/110763385183712440

#PennedPossibilities #December2025

860
What would bring your SC to tears?

Death of a loved one, cruelty, this are what makes most side characters shed tears. In the 24. Century terrans have a lot more compassion. It's not unusual for one to cry because something sad happens.

I have way to many SCs as that I will go into detail for everyone...😅

#PennedPossibilities 860 #StarRyde

861
Has your MC ever committed a crime? If so, what have they done?

Kira has murdered a lot. No that nots right. She has killed a lot of sentient beings. It's theorized that the Eltaryn are sentient. It's only murder if other creatures are sapient enough at least for most humans, as long that humans don't think that other humans aren't sapient enough. Luckily non of my characters are human besides Mondira.
Kiras has ended threats. To Union citizen, to Terrans, to Talithi, Asza'ni, Trellwa'ni, Somwhar and Bethosians. To Humans from the Rim. It is hard to think about 4 meter tall cockroach spiders as sentient less alone sapient if they trying to end you, or with chicken sized bugs hunting you... The gorilla like they use visible armor and weapons, that could count as tools.

She was charged with insubordination and reckless endangerment of Union citizens.
The court spoke her free.
Still people died.

#PennedPossibilities 861 #StarRyde #KiraKnox

861 2/2
Arkham, ran away from her intrusive mother and broke into a car out of desperatiin as a teen. It landed her a place in the Alliance she most likely, as a child of a 'Union exiter', wouldn't have get 'easily', it wasn't at all, because she first had to go through an Emanzipation process, to get the Union to dismiss her mother as the caregiver. And she didn't even thought about that in the first place it was the Men who's car she cracked who had empathy with her and arranged a lot for that poor freezing terran in his broken car (yes cars exits in some locations even in the 24. century).

Ashlei isn't recognized as a person, thus it is technically not possible for her to commit a crime. Because she lacks the agency (according to the law in its current state).

#PennedPossibilities 861 #StarRyde #Arkham #Ashlei

862
If your MC hasn’t committed a crime, what would motivate them to do so

Well they have, at occasions, it's important to say that different worlds have different laws.

The Union punishes unnecessary wealth accumulation harshly. Citizen have to spend their upper income limit excess in social endeavors for Union associated worlds or Rim worlds that strife to join the Union otherwise it's cut & confiscated.

On Eodin, Mondira Ramann's homeworld, capitalism still runs unshackled still even they have social systems & rules that are in place to keep peace & justice running, because nothing is more deadly to wanted to be called 'elites' as if the others feel trampled upon.

On some Rim worlds society is in the middle ages.

For all crew members it would be very easy to get in trouble with the law enforcement on such worlds. Which could make it really awkward for the Union.
For Kira & Arkham it's definitely unequal treatment.

#PennedPossibilities 862 #StarRyde #WorldBuilding #SciFi #WIP

863
Has your SC ever quit a job? What were the circumstances?

In most cases there is no need for that in the Union, people only have to work 2-3 days in an 8 hour shift or 4-5 days on fewer hours, there are people that work 40-50 hours but only out of passion. Since universal income & upper income limits exists people do not take jobs to exist but to participate in society & thrive.

Silas Crosby left the Alliance active service do to having a child. But she didn't stoped working for them.

Mondira possibly could have, on Eodin, since Eodin isn't in the Union & has a capitalist society like we do today (a bit better, they aren't completely idiots in Eodins Government) but Mondira is simply to young to have had any job, she went from school to military service for "an hostile" force how Mondira's "proud Rim" Mother would say. As a child she helped cleaning the Barber shop of her parents. But that wasn't a real job.

#PennedPossibilities 863 #StarRyde #SilasCrosby #MondiraRamann #WIP

864
What is something your MC is objectively bad at but does, anyway?

Kira: lying but at times it's part of the work.

Arkham: interacting with people but as it turns out even as the pilot you have too, you can't hide in that seat forever.

A.S.H.L.E.I.: Making delicious food. The E.P.I. produces an very average product, that satisfied the needs to stay healthy, if the recipe isn't refined.

#PennedPossibilities 864 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #ASHLEI #SciFi #WIP

865
How does your antagonist feel about surprises?

Skip

#PennedPossibilities 865

866
Do any of your characters use medical or assistive devices (including glasses)?

Yes partly. Kira is constantly connected to Ashlei partly out of necessity. At some point in her story she has to rely on a pacemaker and she carries a medical deposit under her skin.

Nanotech exists but is not widely used for to the inability to get rid of them after being used.
You can't filter them out entirely and a little leftover will always remain dormant.

Talithi and Terrans need respiratory filters or highly filtered air if deployed together do to them contaminating each other's breathable air with their exhaled air.
They basically react to each other like Terran life does to alcohol in its food sources.

It's not uncommon to see personal skimmers (hovering wheelchairs or similar) in the Union and in the Rim personal prosthetics exist to personalyze ones look and restoring functionality of missing or damaged bodyparts.

#PennedPossibilities 866 #StarRyde #WorldBuilding #KiraKnox #SciFi #WIP

867
What does your MC smell like?

1/3

That depends on the situation.
First of Terrans, like humans, smell differently throughout the activities they do. Any finer nosed species will tell you that they all smell very distinct (no chance of tricking a Somwhar or a Bethosian with your twin for long, if they know you).
Also space smells very different in different locations. In space Nobody asks you about your visit to Jupiter, people just put something above their nose and wait til you showered, trying not to p**e.

Kira on a stress-free day smells like whatever scent she used, in combat situations she smells like adrenaline sweat which gives her a sour note in dire situations she rapidly gets into the fat burning which comes with a swing of acetone, on an average day she smells a bit more grounded a gentle note of hazelnuts, a bit cheesy at the sweatier areas.

#PennedPossibilities 867 #KiraKnox #StarRyde #SciFi #WIP

867
2/3

Arkham is a curious case since her medicine, she uses to numb her hypersensitivity interacts with her body chemistry.
She barely sweats since she is always dressed incredibly lightly & works half naked so it's rare that her sweat even has time to interact with her bacterial layer & since she uses long time hair removal solutions (unlike Kira with her reddish/copper thin body hair) it's even less.
To get a taste of Arkham's smell you have to rub your nose on her skin which would probably end with you getting your nose..."corrected according to flight command regulations" (=broken) if you do it without consent. As we all now rubbing to fast on human (Terran) skin gives a smokey smell, so you really need to go gentle & ask her for permission. Than you can get a glimpse of something light, close to blue cherry blossoms with a small pinch of salted potatoes. Of course if she gets stressed or sick it's different.

#PennedPossibilities 867 #Arkham #StarRyde #SciFi #WIP

867
3/3

Ashlei herself has no smell if you take her personality, her casing is a metals, plastics, fungals & carbons mix which is incredible hard to detect via olfactory means for Terrans (or Humans).
If we take her body into complete account we have to differ between inside and outside. Different parts of the ship smell differently, her outside always has a burning, smoked metal odor since her biological chameleon skin is a living crystaline metal skin. It smells a bit similar to human blood with an Iron note, as long as she is docked planetside, almost like wielding fumes but way gentlier. Depending on the mission her smell gets altered by space residue (nobody wants a Ship land near them after a dive into a gas giant atmosphere see part 1). Inside Ash tried to keep a odor of lush green fieldsor the sea but that only works if everyone is relaxed & no new components are mounted inside.
Her fungals have an earthy smell.
#PennedPossibilities 867 #Ashlei #GhozTarc #StarRyde #SciFi #WIP

868
Name one of your MC’s happiest memories.

Kira: Being accepted into the A.P.E. program* (Alliance Academy Program for Personal Qualification and Education for future leading Officers but A.A.P.F.P.Q.a.E.f.f.l.O. is just a mouthful and to much to remember correctly) alongside Anika at the age of 13. Anika has a different happiest memory.

Arkham: the moment she had her first off world flight and saw the stars thanks to the Alliance.

Ash: A.I.s like Ashlei are not programmed to feel anything. They are taught about this feelings and what an appropriate reaction is. She would never admit, it but as she shared Kira's perceptions for the first time. Feeling anything. Like the breath of a Terran body, or the pain as Kira stepped sleep drunken and barefoot onto something pointy.

*Enemies of this program say it's named ape because "they groom Union lackey dance monkeys."

#PennedPossibilities 868 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #SciFi #WIP

869
Choose one of your characters. Who has had the most influence or impact on their life?

Well for Kira and Ashlei it's simply each other. Being permanently linked to each other and having a sort of telepathic connection, thanks to the modification to Kiras Nin-snail implant. For Kira this was another chance of survival and being even able to move and breath without relying on machinery outside her body after that Eltaryn Attack, but also enlightening what it means to "be a spaceship."
For Ash it's feeling and breathing, understanding what it is like to have a body that isn't a spaceship even if it is only "second hand."
And as it progresses it becomes even closer.

#PennedPossibilities 869 #StarRyde #WIP #KiraKnox #Ashlei #SciFi #WIp

870
Name something your MC fears losing.

Kira has a lot of 'fears of loosing.'
Her mother the ice queen... It's the last family member left and even if the bonds aren't very strong she gave her a home, pulled the strings to get her the best education and future she could imagine. Kira respects that.
More crew and friends.
The values of the Union.
The soul of the Union.
The war against the Eltaryn.

Arkham the war, the Union, against others, the understanding of her leading officers. So far every single one of them dismissed the claims and complaints of her being inappropriate dressed (well she is but with a reason), bad for the morals or insubordinate to orders.
If you have a half naked pilot smashing the competition and falling under average performance if you force them to wear the correct uniform, why not keep them half naked?

Ashlei, anyone of the crew.

#PennedPossibilities 870 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #SciFi #WIP

871
What is the greatest extravagance your MC lets or would let themselves have?
1/2
There is a clear distinction to make between in duty and off duty. Usually n duty means 14 days of space deployment, off duty means 14 days not on duty. Well this mission is slotted for a 6 month on duty space deployment, which is why the Ghoz'Tarc has the cargo bay half full with extra modules/containers.

Kira has some glasses of real honey and some real hand made toast (what a bleak future for me as a German that toast is considered real bread...) and her antique Toaster with her (yes "the toaster" is not forgotten and still exists).
In her home colony she likes to go to local farmer markets, buy locally produced stuff liked to go to restaurants and concerts, etc.

Arkham in duty had only a tiny bit of space so sleeping in the captains quarters is considered a big extravaganza. At home in London she mostly orders food for her meals.➡️

#PennedPossibilities 871 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #SciFi #WIP

871 2/2
⬅️ A.S.H.L.E.I. basically, before the refit of the Ghoz'Tarc, wasn't really active, she only went permanently online as the ship was mostly finished and prepared for the new mission.

So it is a bit extra for her to even be online so long. At times she allows herself 'to listen' to music. It's something that only happens after the merge between Kira and her and in such moments she isolates a portion of herself in a virtual environment, in which she assigns herself a body and some devices that are able to produce sounds and than just listens to them.

#PennedPossibilities 871 #StarRyde #Ashlei #SciFi #WIP

872
How would your SC react to being mocked or made fun of?

Talisa & Rose where mocked at times. Terrans despite empathy training are still pretty much like humans in some regards & many people don't understand their early commitment to each other. In fact Talisa was 110% (which is a feat if 100% is the maximum possible) sure she would marry Rose one day & always referred to her as her future wife, even using her future wife's last name. Rose always called her her number one. Sure they had other partners in the same time but they always made it clear that they will marry each other. Both know each other since childhood & grew up next to each other. As the Draken company/family became an international & interplanetary name for progress, Talisa was often seen as wanting to take advantage of it.
Her own family didn't mind, that she married so early & they are married for almost 20 years with ~35.

#PennedPossibilities 872 #StarRyde #RoseDraken #TalisaDraken #SciFi #WIP

873
What is your MC’s favorite meal or drink?

Kira Honey toast with 'real' toast the unrefined EQuil from the food printer (imagine it as food ink)

Arkham no headspace right now to decide or remember...

Ashlei: Energy favorite from a G type star like Sol but every source will do.

#PennedPossibilities 873 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #SciFi #WIP

874
What physical feature is your SC the most insecure about?

None.
The average Union citizen
does not expect others to adhere to their personal preferences.
If you have 71 other species around (from which one is a sentient plant & one a sentient fungus) plus their animal companions that also border the line of sentient & sapient, physical differences start to play a very different role, thus most persons have few reasons to feel insecure about anything.
If your body is abled no one bets an eye, if your disabled in any capacity people think that you tell them if you need/want support & if so what they need to do.
If someone has scars it's clear that something happened but no one would ask what, because it's non of their business. If people get to know each other they might get more information but asking or judging a stranger for that?
That would be like, sh*t*ng into the coffin, in front of the relatives at a funeral.

#PennedPossibilities 874 #StarRyde #WorldBuilding #SciFi #WIP

875
Does your SC feel like they fit in with their community or culture? Why or why not?

1/2
It's not a clash with their civilisation but with another that doesn't communicate, doesn't value life as equal still not all is shiny perfect fluff.

Yes some stick out at minor points like Talisa and Rose did, as teens because they knew they would marry.

J. has to deal with some prejudice because her parents eat traditional and if the topic comes up people that ate or still eat meat from other sentient creatures are seen as... Ash holes. Their is a reason they moved away.

Mondira as a Rim worlder has to put up with a lot on Eodin and especially with her Mom because she joined the Alliance. Which for most people of the working class is like treason at least if her mother's reaction is anything to go bye. Unless the Union supports Eodin in any capacity, than it's all great. She has to deal ➡️

#PennedPossibilities 875 #StarRyde #JHarveyGladstone #RoseDraken #TalisaDraken #SciFi #WIP

875 2/2
⬅️ with a bit of culture shock and with her mother and her special friends. Her brother and her Father support her without any limits.

Kiara & Ariaene had struggles too but AJ doesn't remember anymore.
Which is a blessing in all this shit show that's happened in their live.
Technically no one gets upset or cares if non biological related people get together even if they grew up as siblings.
Even with a biological relation, if the distance is big enough, the Union doesn't care.
Medicine has advanced far enough to repair almost every damage that could come out of a 'close relatives physical relationship' but it's still frowned upon.
People growing up like siblings & than date just doesn't sits right with many people, even if they aren't genetically related. This even extends to Alien relationships despite the fact that hybrids aren't possible yet.

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876
Does your MC like being the center of attention? Why or why not?

Kira: nope, she does the work she does in an half official way as an half official agent. More people look into that the more complicated it gets. As an open SHADE she has some power to balance but she rather not uses it. She just wants to make her job good and save people from the alien menace of the Eltaryn. Also using that power would bring another investigation.

Arkham: nope, being one of the best pilots and a bit competitive doesn't mean you automatically want the bright spot on top. For her it's the competition and the challenge to her skills. Also on mission she pretty much cares more about the mission than the prestige, as a good soldier should.

Ashlei: nope, would be a weirdly programmed intelligence if it would like to be the center of attention.

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877
Are any of your characters terrible with time management?

Well if the military education can get one thing really right it's waking up and managing time schedules.

Things on board the Ghoz'Tarc might be 'a bit lush' according to some brass but if your home is your working space too, it's only a matter of minutes to get around in the ship that said there are always people that over exercise punctuality and people with a not so established ability.
It's harder for Mondira, who came from Eodin, the probably most powerful Rim World (despite the lack of natural resources).
Eodin is almost completely unshackled capitalism as such it's common for it's citizens to have anxiety, depression & burn outs (in more than one way), despite its very different sexual education it's pretty much living in a giant today metropolitan area & if you know one thing about such areas punctuality becomes a fluid term for most people.

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