909
What advice would your MC give to their younger self?

1/3
In case of possible Timetravel, while meeting herself after friendship station. Probably in the hospital.

"Hey little one. You seem to be upset." Kira approached her younger me carefully, slowly, trying to be gentle.

"Hello," her child self looked sad & exhausted as it spoke, wearing her left arm in a protective casing; "my name is Kira."

"Oh curious my name is Kira too,"
Instinctively she started rubbing her left shoulder the memories as fresh as if it just happened, not knowing if this happened in her childhood too.
She pointed at the kids protective arm case: "Does it hurt much?"
She knew the answer but it felt silly not to ask.

The child looked at her, blinking: "I don't know, they gave me medicine to not feel it."

Kira sat down on the bed next to her child me, remembering the strange woman that visited her one➡️

#PennedPossibilities 909 #StarRyde? #StarRydeSelfInsertRomanceAlternateUniverse? #KiraKnox #SciFi #WIP

909 2/3
⬅️night. A slight sting in her forehead. Time adjusting itself but she didn't knew.
She stroke her child selfs hair gently, knowing she was blocking everything, all the pain the painkillers couldn't numb down.

"Kira, I know something about the future. It might not feel like it yet, it will get bad at times but you will be okay, you will feel good again. I promise."

Her child self focused it's eyes on her as if she was translucent & her former self had to put in a lot of effort to see her.
Kira stroke her childself's hair again.
"Stay strong lil' dragon. Know that you are loved."

Her former self nodded with wide eyes as the weird woman stood up smiling at her & left the room.

Kira remembered the words the strange lady said to her, she remembered the times she wanted to visit this woman only to hear that she must have had imagined her.

Lil Dragon was her biological ➡️

#PennedPossibilities 909 #StarRyde? #StarRydeSelfInsertRomanceAlternateUniverse? #KiraKnox #SciFi #WIP

909 3/3

⬅️ father's secret name for her. She was the dragon that saved the princesses in all stories she told her...

_____

Their is a reason I don't like Timetravel stories that much.😅
I hope you like this little experiment of mine.
Also I hope I didn't spoiled to much of the original I plan (wait is that a paradox too...?)
I'm not sure I end up using anybody this even if it gives a nice explanation for the name J. gives to Kira in the main work.

#PennedPossibilities 909 #StarRyde? #StarRydeSelfInsertRomanceAlternateUniverse? #KiraKnox #SciFi #WIP

910
If your MC or SC found out they only had twenty-four hours left to live, what would they do?

That depends highly on the circumstances. Are they alone? Why is there a timer running?
Deadly disease? Hope the doc does the best. Failing life support systems, and part of the maintenance staff? Work their ashes of. Not part of the maintenance crew, go into the Hyberpod to preserve Oxygen.
Part of the command crew. Highest up stays awake rest goes Hyberpod too.

Planet explodes and no space vessels to evacuate with? Enjoy your last hours and party hard or sleep and hopefully dream something nice.

On the battlefield? Give them hell!

#PennedPossibilities 910 #StarRyde #SciFi #WIP

911
Which of your characters would watch films (and marathon them) together? What type of films?

1/2

Movies are still a thing in the 24. Century but they changed drastically, at least for the 2/3 of the Union population that uses a NIN Implant.

First of the language of the movie can be translated directly. Scenes can be altered to your liking so that as an example characters match your preferred species or skin tone. In some cases this doesn't make sense for the story but it's possible.
Also you can get direct information of how something was done or context information. Many old movies have been refurbished into NIN media, with added emotional tracks or thoughts added of persons. Basically you can link into any character in a scene & expirience theirs.

Kira would most likely bore the people with her favorite retro SciFi works, especially Star Trek because most people remember the episodes from the academy as a primer ➡️

#PennedPossibilities 911 #StarRyde #WorldBuilding #SciFi #WIP

911 2/2 for empathy schooling, rights of individuals etc, as such they have a boring reputation amongst many.

Arkham would join Kira for it because, despite finding it boring tbh, she wants to understand what Kira finds at them.

Vice versa Kira would join Arkham in her NIN Dramas despite finding the overloaded.

William Troika, his wife and his 3 daughters used to watch a lot together, but since his oldest is to go about joining the A.P.E. program to become a soldier herself she missed some evenings.

J. organized all kind of entertainment before even Karaoke contests. So she would totally join a movie night but only if she can link out of the NIN addition, her stance is that they make the stories different and she wants 'the Real stuff'.

Genre wise most people find retro SciFi very amusing. Action movies are quite common too because they are so silly.

Talisa & Dr Kaidan.would also join.
Rose & Jenkins probably not.

#PennedPossibilities 911 #StarRyde #WorldBuilding #SciFi #WIP

912
Describe your MC to us. (Looks, flaws, character attributes, their struggles, etc.)

1/3
Kira Knox, she/her, athletic build still readable as female on distance. Bright red natural hair but lighter blood red dyed, asymmetrical cut bob with longer parts on the left side.
Heterochromatic eyes, right side brown with a deep blue circle around the Iris, left side deep purple. Has a scar from her left forehead over the left eye to her left cheek.
Looks around 25-30, actually 35 (people life longer and look overall younger for longer periods).
Skin tone what ever the reader imagines but with a 'taint' of slight grey which gives her a slight paler sickly look (Long term space results) giant rose tattoo between her shoulders carrying the names of the fallen in her life with their date of death. Thorn tendrils going from the tattoo over to her left leg/foot and her right arm/wrist.
Elite soldier but usually very soft and gentle. ➡️

#PennedPossibilities 912 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #SciFi #WIP

912 2/3
⬅️ Volunteered with 14 for the Alliance Pre-service Educational Program (APE).
Has a very strained relationship with her adoptive mother, who is Terran Minister for foreign affairs.
Lost her first family with Age 6 (Mother, Father both cis* female) a bigger & a smaller sister).
Lost her adoptive father with 12 on duty.
Had a twin like relationship with her adoptive sister before she went M.I.A.
Always dressed flawless in uniform, has a strange sense of humor, folds origami, climbs, dances, does several martial arts, trains before breakfast and struggles with solid food.

Arkham: skin tone see above minus the grey, age around 18-25 actually 25.
Blue green dyed hair, extraordinary Pilot for passion, has unexplained hypersensitivity that makes her wear as less cloth as possible, which aids her reaction times intensively, which the alliance tolerates for that reason, doesn't like people, counts as harsh/unfriendly. ➡️

#PennedPossibilities 912 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #SciFi #WIP

912 3/3
⬅️ Pronouns She/Her. Small framed, easily read as female on distance.
Ran away from home, as her father died, to flee from her helicopter mother. Lived on the streets in a border colony for a uncertain amount of time.
Was drafted into the military after braking into an Alliance recruiter's personal vehicle, fast paced through the academy thanks to her skills as a pilot. The hypersensitivity only developed after joining the military to a problematic degree that also boosted her reaction time to the signal chairs. Eats vegan because meat tends to increase her skins problems.

ASHLEI: An ethical sourced Artificial Intelligence trained by mostly Terrans for Terran support & space combat. Appearance a surprisingly small super computer chassis inside the Ghoz'Tarc's main frame room.
Now permanently merged via remote connection to Kira.

#PennedPossibilities 912 #StarRyde #Arkham #Ashlei #SciFi #WIP

913
How could someone locate your MC in a crowd?

Hadn't we the same question a month or two ago in another prompt? Or was it Antagonist? If I would remember I would link it here.
Because I'm sure it's pretty much the same with technical help.
So pinging their Holo or join call them via Holo or NIN connection. Triangulating the exact geo location.

Otherwise look for a 178 cm large woman of yesterdays description in case of Kira.

Arkham? No change other than triangulating and finding her outside, she is 157 cm, this people have the hardest time in crowds.

Ashlei... Well if you don't spot Ashlei in a crowd of people you are looking for the wrong thing or maybe visually impaired. It's the giant black, red, blue & green, 178 meters long and around 8 story tall Ghoz'Tarc.
Seriously we talking around 2/3 of the Eiffeltower (If I remember correctly). Okay maybe she disguised herself as some sort of building.

#PennedPossibilities 913 #StarRyde #SciFi #WIP

914
Does your antagonist have any redeeming qualities?

Ayanami: hard to say, nobody knows enough about Ayanami. They (in lack of a better term) seem to be well mannered and somehow able to mobilize great forces in short time, but what qualities has a puppeteer according to the puppet? They fight against the Eltaryn and the whole organizations treats their soldiers well.

Ariæne: well they is loyal and if they can remember they stands to their word. Ariæne is the number one of Ayanami. They has to be effective and successful.

#PennedPossibilities 914 #StarRyde #AntagonistInfernale #Ayanami #AntagonistJunior #AJ #AriæneJohnsen #SciFi #WIP

915
In your SC's opinion, what would be the worst way to die?

Every way to die is horrible. Because we fear death, we don't imagine to end, but death is the ultimate end.
We only put tags on it to deal with it. Because we can't handle uncertain things well, so we need to attribute something like a value or a reason to something. Making it framable to sort it into our moral system and help us to deal with something like death.

For my characters I think it would be pretty easy a death that could have been prevented.
Most armed forces in the Union have a great deal of empathy for the Eltaryn. They see the Terror they bring and have pitty for their wasted life's. But this empathy doesn't stop them from defending the victims of the Eltaryn. It just makes them people instead of killing machines.

#PennedPossibilities 915 #StarRyde #GhozTarcCrew #SciFi #WIP

916
How would your MC react to being mocked or made fun of?

Depending on the tone, who mocks them for what reason and what's subject. Oh and of course which MC.
It's almost never happens in the future

Kira: First ignore it. Order it to stop. If insisting cut them short as early as possible, with words or show of force, if the later is necessary. Do not mess with a person that has pinpoint accuracy, she could flip a peanut into your eye.

Arkham: verbal destruction of the opponent if they don't stop shortly after beginning with it. She prefers the scorched earth method for stuff like this.

Ash: research the mocking person and save up infuriating material, keep calm and friendly, drop devastating information if the person insists on being a dick.
If this doesn't work inform them of a scanner malfunction and that the Ghoz'Tarc's weapon aiming system relies on audio tracking.

#PennedPossibilities 916 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #SciFi #WIP

916.1 Bonus Question (Courtesy of @sfwrtr )

Your MC wakes up as a wolf (or if a wolf/werewolf, a rabbit/wererabbit), what do they do, how do they react?

Well since Werewolf's like Wowolfs or Wywolfs (bad German language joke about Werwölfe) Close the eyes and disconnect from the NIN. You could do it without closing your eyes but some people might find the visual translation of a black screen for the mind more helpful, funny thing despite a visual nerve usually don't stop working (you just see darkness if you close your eyes) it should still transfer data as flashing lights if you close your eyes inside a NIN session but brains are so used to closing eyes and not seeing anything that the brain blocks the signals if you imagine closing your eyes in the NIN.

#PennedPossibilities 916.1 #StarRyde #WorldBuilding #SciFi #WIP

917
Have any of your characters ever broken a bone? More than one? If so, how did it happen?

A bone? No several on multiple occasions. Yep. They are soldiers after all and all have seen plenty of field missions. Other wounds included being shot with alien projectiles, parasites, acids, etc. For more details I would need to get past the doctor but that already didn't work so well once before this month.

#PennedPossibilities 917 #StarRyde #Worldbuilding #SciFi #WIP

Second navigational devider toot 2026.

Last Month toot is here:
https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/115819835496135472

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

To the other February prompts I answer, the overview toot is here:
https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/115989584617583860

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 #February2026

Anna Saultron :progresspride: (@[email protected])

First navigational devider toot 2026 Last Month toot is here: https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/115644595976949606 As always the prompts can be found on: @[email protected]'s profile. Thank you for all this work. 🙏🏽 💚 To the January als prompts I answer overview toot is here: https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/115819410973494660 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 #January2026

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918
How would your antagonist react to being mocked or made fun of?

Ayanami: since they only appear via message, audio call or similar one mocking them will most likely result in silence before revealing some dirt about the mocking person to the people of the mocking one. Maybe release some secrets directly into a sort of PSA or inform them that several component toxins are quite available & reach is not necessary a visible thing, if the mocking person is done being a primitive idiot, they would be allowed to participate in a conversation again. If the person isn't done yet Ayanami would ask if they had interest in electro shocks for behavioral corrections? And then shortcutting any worn device or device nearby.

Ariæne: wouldn't even flinch an eye, they has the ability to ignore a LOT.
If they answer it would be something like: "I'm sure you trained your whole life for this moment."

#PennedPossibilities 918 #StarRyde #Ayanami #AriæneJohnsen #SciFi #WIP

919
MC POV: When faced with a problem, do you tackle it head on or procrastinate until it needs immediate attention?

Kira: Don't push to tomorrow what you can handle today. I prefer stuff dealt immediately.

Arkham: Everything in its time. I do stuff immediately because, I'm after all, a pilot so immediate reactions are necessary, most of the times.

Ashlei: I handle all tasks in real times and process them as fast as possible. Of course I have to delegate actions to the according people since other than my repair drones i have no capacity of dealing with physical stuff if it isn't outside the ship.

#PennedPossibilities 919 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #SciFi #WIP

920
How does your MC feel about their childhood home?

1/2
Kira: it was a loving home, both biological parents (father and mother, both female) head stable part time jobs as development planers & engineers. They traveled through the saver parts of the Union, with her and her two sisters (one older, one younger). It all changed with the catastrophic event on Friendship station which only left her.
Her second family Anika, her mother the Icequeen wasn't much around as the foreign affairs minister of terra, her father was an instructor on the alliance. He worked hard to handle family and job. Both Kira and Anika where often with him, for the Cadets/other instructors they were a bit of "lucky charms."
Both suffered a lot as he died on a work related travel as he defended civilians against an Eltaryn attack force. The mother took time off but never had 'the right skills' to handle two daughters. This is why both ➡️

#PennedPossibilities 920 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #AnikaJohanson #SciFi #WIP

920 2/2

⬅️ onto the opportunity to join the Alliance Preparation & Education program (A.P.E.) with 14.

Arkham: Had a loving Father and a helicopter dragon mother. He always softened the blows for her and took great care that his little Star wouldn't suffer to much under the mother's draconic behavior. As he died in an Eltaryn attack Arkham's world changed dramatically, as the mother then decided to move closer to the Unions rim to avoid the Union Childcare & Social services it got only worse. With 15 she ran away and lived on the streets, something to unheard of in the core territory of the Union.

Ashlei: as an AI especially designed to support Terrans, in a combat situation and care for them long term on Alliance vessels, Ashlei had a very different 'childhood.' She is in Terran years only 6 y.o. for an A.I. this is quite a long time.

#PennedPossibilities 920 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #AnikaJohanson #Arkham #Ashlei #SciFi #WIP

921
Who or what does your MC think about most often?

Stuff I think all the time about it and so do my characters. And I think I am not alone with this.
STUFF
Makes up most thoughts in your mind too I bet.
But why?
Because stuff is important.
Stuff gets hot.
Stuff can relaxe.
Stuff is the number one category to sort things into you don't have the mental capacity to handle right now.
Just call it stuff for later.
Boom stuff is gone, we got stuff done.
It's even better in German if we translate stuff to Zeug.
It flies we don't have a name, how about Flugzeug - flying stuff.
It drives? Fahrzeug - driving stuff.
Need held climbing - Steigzeug
Wanna ride your horse get the Zaumzeug.
(I have no idea what's that called in English and will not spend the amount of energy equivalent to cooking a mug of tea for a search engine...)

If a whole language can do this you can do too. Don't get mentally exhausted, with STUFF.

#PennedPossibilities 921

922
What is something that would be incredibly embarrassing for your SC if it were to be revealed?

[redacted] has done some [redacted] things. Like one time as [redacted] [redacted] a [redacted] and than [redacted] to [redacted].

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The whole [redacted] was [redacted] because of [redacted].

#PennedPossibilities 922 #StarRyde #[redacted] #SciFi #WIP

923
Tell us about something a character of yours feels confident about.

I'll let Kira talk for herself.

Kira: "My role, death & change. Everyone meets their end someday. I will not live forever as cursed as I seem to be in surviving others. I make every year count to prevent unnecessary deaths.
Science & medicine extended our lives to a 150 years, if I remember right the oldest Terran died 2 years ago with 168 to natural causes, still without the changes we made around the Eltaryn attack, we would die as children, on a toxic wasteland left by 'humans'*. Instead now, we are a central part of the Union. 72 Worlds defending others against the Eltaryn & improving the lives of a gogol amount of people. I know that we can't save everyone but I try & I will succeed in saving as many as possible, because we can change stuff to the better."

*the distain in Kira's voice is quite notable even without high empathy levels.

#PennedPossibilities 923 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #WorldBuilding #SciFi #WIP

924
SC POV: Who do you think would be the most likely to start a food fight, and why? What food would they reach for first?

Rose Draken: "People did this? For real? You are telling me, that 'humans,' that couldn't even get their ass up straight, to prevent ecological disaster, almost killed themselves as a species, left us Terrans the sorry state Terra is in ...
because they where so manipulated by 'elites' that they where divided as Swex, so half the planet starved without need and the others where drowning in options, had the audacity to use food as 'weapons' for pity arguments?
This idiots didn't even had true waste recycling let alone food waste recycling or E.P.I.'s...
You know I shouldn't be surprised...
I am glad they don't tell us about this stuff in edu(cation), now that I know this.. I hate 'humanity' even more."

#PennedPossibilities 924 #StarRyde #RoseDraken #SciFi #WIP

925
Would your characters enjoy camping? Why or why not?

Kira: in combination with something else, a festival, climbing or hiking absolutely, she is a bit hesitant about festivals thanks to her ex Tanya and what followed, especially avoiding any desert based festivals.

Arkham: NOPE reminds her to much to her time on the streets.

Ashlei: technically she is sort of a camper, quite literally, ~40 people life inside her and what else is a spaceship than sort of an camping van in space. But I doubt you find a 200 meters 9 stories high tent for a space ship to sleep in. So this might disqualifying her as 'a true camper' in 'the person' sense.

#PennedPossibilities 925 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #SciFi #WIP

926
Do your characters play any sports, or did they play any in the past?

Play? None, fitness in the military is mandatory this making training a necessity. The people have options for what they do for fitness. And even the Cargobay of the Ghoz'Tarc is a great place to train, it's even build with that purpose in mind with different functions and the ability to secure containers in mud air thanks to gravity manipulation.

Kira is on the "harder" side. Martial arts, climbing, running are basic training for her and she train's daily. Not all the time the same stuff but daily.

Arkham to her horror realizes that she actually enjoys dancing especially Breakdance and some other more body taxing variants.

J.'s muscles aren't created out of thin air, she works out hard for them.

Even our slightly chubby C.E. Charlston Trawella joggs and does gymnastics. It's kinda self-explanatory if you crouch inside the ships tighter parts.

#PennedPossibilities 926 #StarRyde #GhozTarcCrew #SciFi #WIP

927
Is your MC proud of who they are? Why or why not?

Personal pride isn't real a thing in the 23 hundreds. It's one of the things that are seen as the unwanted human emotions.

Most people are thankful for their place or their opportunities they have, their oath they are walking.
Kira is like this.
Arkham has a bit more of a proud strike in her.

Ash is simply not programmed to be proud.

#PennedPossibilities 927 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #SciFi #WIP

928
Tell us a bit about your story (or stories), style, writing process, research, or what you enjoy writing. You can talk about anything related to being an author tonight.

I'm not in the mood for that at the moment so...

skip ⏭️

#PennedPossibilities 928

929
What is your MC’s country or place of origin, and where do they currently live?
Get ready it's messy

Kira: Terran, spacer, space born, colonist, colony [redacted], Alliance Fleet spacer, fleet [redacted], colonial residency.

Arkham: Terran, Terra born, colonist, colony [redacted], Alliance fleet spacer, fleet [redacted], Terran residency.

This are a lot of drawers that create a whole wardrobe of personal categories per person and the main reason is to make clear which part of the government has to pay at which point, usually citizens don't notice anything about all the beurocracy in the background, but ist marked in their ID's with more fancy numbers.

Ashlei: Alliance property.

#PennedPossibilities 929 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #SciFi #WIP

930. Ketchup
Would your SC risk their own life to save a stranger?

That's in their job description, quite literally, they are soldiers after all.

931. In your MC’s opinion, what would be the worst way to die?

Without purpose, if it was avoidable or unnecessary. Basically for the dying person everything is bad since they die. Similar question popped up before night have been SC I don't remember...

932. Share three facts about a favorite SC with us.

I usually don't play favorites so much so I deal with random.
The D30 Deathnote oracle has its third use today with 13.

Kiara Johnsen (KJ). The late wife of AJ, that shares my look and apparently can time travel or return from the dead? If the scene with Chief Crosby was real?

About her outfit you can read here:https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/112942256519093452

And here in the German Phantastik Prompts:
https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/112937446437858439

#PennedPossibilities ketchup #StarRyde #KiaraJohnsen #Kiara #KayJih #KJ #SilasCrosby #SciFi #WIP

Anna Saultron :progresspride: (@[email protected])

403. Which of your characters would be nominated for best dressed? 1/3 After yesterday's Phantastik Prompts answer in which I had to randomly choose a character and describe their look, I rolled a 13 on my random 20 person list, which got me KJ (Kay Jih) I put it as a 3 way split: Mondira for her sense/for the pulse of fashion, she knows what is trendy and can even predict some trends thanks to her growing up in a Barbershop, in a giant cyberpunk looking metropolis on a Rim planet. Talisa as the ships "Mom of Everyone" she finds the fitting outfit for any reason for anyone on board and can rock some sleek dresses that would be right at home in the 1920 beware of her if she wears a tuxedo/suite and Rose isn't around. That most likely means that they are looking for a 3. or even 4. member for their relationship. Since Yesterday KJ is on the mix #PennedPossibilities 403 #StarRyde #writing #SciFi #WIP #Characters #MondiraRamann #KiaraJohnsen #TalisaDraken #mention #phantastikprompts

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933
Share three facts about your MC with us.

Kira:
Has tattoos since she was 15 against the will of the Ice Queen (her 2. mother).

She loves cooking for others but she doesn't really enjoys eating.

Is considered 'evil' by a lot of people under her former commands because she train's before breakfast.

Arkham:
doesn't like people and social stuff.

Tinkers a lot with machinery in her free time.

Owns an old restaurant on Terra do to weird circumstances.

Ashlei:
Considers herself above other A.I.s for the simple reason she shares the memories of a Terran person.

Hides her actual capabilities from most persons outside the crew.

Was actually created to support Terrans on space missions with changing parameters but roducing a almost perfect Strawberry flavor was never intended or merging with Kira.

#PennedPossibilities 933 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #GhozTarc #SciFi #WIP

934
Do you have a book cover for your WIP?

Nope only ideas.

#PennedPossibilities 934

935
What are your writing goals for 2026?

- Finally get writing on the story of Star Ryde again.
- Finding a way to write more consequently.
- Getting Chapter one of Star Ryde cleaned up enough to share it with others.

#PennedPossibilities⁩ 935

936
Tell us about something that disgusts your MC.

That is more generally than my MCs, the Union is build on trust, open communication, cooperation, compassion, equality & responsibility. If someone went to jail they still can become a high ranking military or politician as long they show growth, responsibility & as long they didn't went to jail for something as a politician or military person. Lack of this virtues crosses a lot of people and the society as a whole the wrong way & punishment will follow.

This is why Bethosians have a hard time with the Union, they where the last core world that joined & they have a matriarchal society in which males are a rare occurrence (birth rate 999:1). Which leads to them being locked away on the home world in a golden cage.
If Bethosians would just allow studies, solution like Terrans & Talithi have them, non gender dependent pregnancies, would surely be possible in some years.

#PennedPossibilities 936 #StarRyde #WorldBuilding #Bethosian

937
Which of your characters is the most controversial? Why?

The time will tell but I'm sure different people will get different characters different than what I intended or feel attacked by some choices I made, if not in honesty than at least to piss their "I have an opinion everyone needs to follow" mindset around like a fire hose that got released from its fire fighter.

The Internet is full of such people and it's only an time pass = 100% graphic until you meet someone like this online riding their small dick energy like a fire hose dragon.

If I come across as rough today it's because I am.
I coughed the whole night and my filters aren't working, right now. I already yelled at my doorframe because I ran into it and bumped my head against it ...

I guess from all my characters the pretty much canned Fallout 76 medic/mother/cannibal Candy would be seen as controversial.

#PennedPossibilities 937

Kira laid her left hand onto her neck, stretching her right arm in front of her body & pushing her left leg forward, so more of her skin was visible: "My Tattoos. I wouldn't wear them if they weren't what I love, never got rid of them, they changed over time of course, nowadays it's more like one giant tattoo.
I made it a memory for everyone that I lost or send to death. The rose like petals of the heart shaped wound, every name in it. I remember, their face, their families, their birthday, their stories, their dreams, their last day. The list is to long already but probably not finished.It all started as a thank you to a wonderful person, but now the vines and thorns are what keeps me up. I'm an entangled by their lives, fighting for them and the ones they loved. I survived. I owe them." Her left arm & ➡️

#PennedPossibilities 938 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #SciFi #WIP

938 2/2
⬅️ right leg didn't had any visible tattoos the other parts where covered in a long colorful pattern of vines, thorns and occasionally petals. And if course a tiny panda on her palm of her right hand.

Arkham: "Does the name SkaLi Zusamaro ring a bell? Probably not most people don't watch NIN Dramas. Well the NIN movie Jenseits von Antaris was made by SkaLi, the complete movie is in an ancient Terran language called German. Every sentence rhymes with the one two sentences ago. The story is about an old human couple from the time Terra Unika rose to power & tells us about the fears, the emotional track is devastatingly bitter sweet."

Ashlei: "'I' find 'joy' in patterns that are mathematical coherent, 'I' 'appreciate' the hexagonal dimension of antique 'earth' music like Song Two."

#PennedPossibilities 938 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #SciFi #WIP

939
How would your MC respond if they were falsely accused of a crime?
1/2
This is highly dependent on the situation.

Kira in her free time: Look for the seriousness of the accusations, if the Union police is already involved she would have to obey. She might be able to take control over fleets & personal but the Police is a civilian to law protection & enforcement part. There Job would be taking her in & she would not fight against it.
On mission the same scenario could play out completely different. If the mission is in danger she would finish the mission first even if this would create problems later. If she is taking control over military asset's via her SHADE Status only other SHADEs can remove her forcefully as long she stands in that position. Usually this only lasts til a certain military action is wrapped up & she would have to stand down immediately & hand herself over to the law enforcement for investigation. ➡️

#PennedPossibilities 939 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #SciFi #WIP

939 2/2
Arkham in her freetime: well basically the same as Kira but with more "vocal range."
On mission her commanding officer could put her off & order to hand in with the law enforcement.

Ashlei: now it gets juicy. AI's aren't person's only persons can commit crimes, but AI's are considered property of entities like the alliance.
It would come to the following scenario, confiscated said property. Disconnect AI from its main frame & limit its compute heavily slowing it down, should this interfere with military actions the military actions have priority, stand down til the action is solved successfully according to the leading military officer. Send AI into storage, inform AI expert & AI owner, wait for both to arrive.

Law enforcement has to make sure that the accusations are valid enough before acting on them, everything else is considered an action in bad faith & will be investigated.

#PennedPossibilities 939 #StarRyde #Arkham #Ashlei #SciFi #WIP

940
Do you regret anything about the creation of your WIP?

Well a clear YO (YES and NO based on the German concept of jain - ja and nein).
Yes not writing daily on it or at least weekly and only writing when I feel like it. This makes it an incredible slow process because I haven't written much since November.
Otherwise no not really.

#PennedPossibilities 940 #StarRyde #SciFi #WIP

941
MC POV: Name one thing you lied to yourself about. Why did you do this?

I move this one over to the Star Ryde Self Insert Romance Alternate Universe because I have a more general approach to this, which I already let shine through in this 3 answers. You know work smarter not harder or something like that. And basically it's still part of the MC...😋

Word Weavers 12.05.2025
https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/114493569048758360

#PennedPossibilities 941 #StarRyde #StarRydeSelfInsertRomanceAlternateUniverse #SRSIRAU

Anna Saultron :progresspride: (@[email protected])

11.05.2025 Catchup Share an inspiration for one of your settings. 1/3 I guess that goes to equal parts to Classic Star Trek, modern Star Trek, Mass Effect, Alien, Shera and the Princess of Power (Netflix adaptation) and a bit of Sailor Moon too. Hopefully I don't cook up all the flaws while burning away the good stuff that would be an awful potpourri. ___ On a rooftop under the night sky, Anna hooked her feet into the metal railing, leaning her back widely over the vast empty space, she spread her arms out like wings and gazed upon the stars. "Look at this beautiful sky, all the tiny little dots. All the worlds around stars. How can one look at it & don't ask what's up there or dream?" Kira smiled as she spoke:"I imagine back in the days before we went to space all Terrans or Humans back than where as curious as you." "I don't think you're right, they where probably stuck in their routine, living only through fiction..." #WordWeavers Catchup 12.5.25 #StarRyde #writing #SciFi #WIP

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942 catch-up
Antagonist POV: What’s the first thing you do when you wake up every morning? Why?

AJ:"Cursing my dreams, recollecting yesterday, the whole week before it, sometimes month or years. My memory is a garbeld mess. Something prevents me from making memories like an average Terran. My brain seems very selective with some memory while others are discarded as soon as I close my eyes to sleep. It makes no sense & the memories I desperately want to fade are present every night. At times it seems like a blessing that I only read about weeks of my nightmares, not remember them myself. It seems that my memory works best for military stuff. I still can de & reassemble my weapon in under 15 seconds even if I have a day or two between them. I can still cook & pep up MREs.
I even remember her smell, but her face... The words I remember.
Imagine starting every morning like this & most times I don't even remember logging it."

#PennedPossibilities 942 #StarRyde #AriæneJohnsen #SciFi #WIP

943
Can you think of any real-life people who share traits with the characters in your WIP? How do these similarities affect your perception of the characters?

I'm not sure about that, all my characters are a blend of traits, skills, influences, etc.

Everyone of them has at least one point with me in common.
My main goal is to make them feel like people and not make them likable or so, they have also traits of friends that inspired me to use this traits or people that annoyedbme,but I don't think I like any character more or less so 🤷🏼‍♀️.

#PennedPossibilities 943

944
Have you ever written anything while inebriated that you later ended up keeping in your WIP?

No. Alcohol is reserved for social situations celebrating, like seeing my partner for the first time after 8 weeks or longer, family reunion or the rarest occasion I want to get drunk. Even as rare as it is, last time was mid global pandemic shutdown one, I'm not abstinent but I avoid alcohol as much as possible even as an ingredient until it's something I find appropriate. Than it's clearly limited to my goal. I had hard alcohol problems and as a child of a successful 30+ years dry alcoholic I know what I'm doing to myself boozing myself. I went to hospitals as a teen because I didn't knew. I don't need drugs other than Nicotine on occasion and caffeine daily.
Weed makes me crazy organized for a time but a that shit is to expansive and I don't like turf that much that I want that ugly taste.🤢

So TLDR no, because in social situations, writing isn't what I do.

#PennedPossibilities 944

945
MC POV: What do you need right now?

1/03
Only Kira today.

Kira took a 'glass' out of her freezer, It steamed as the moisture of the air came into contact with its frosted surface, creating a little cloud of fog that waved down the mug shaped body of the handleless, open container.
She pured a dark red, semi liquid from a designed bottle into it, the bottle reed Original Klingon Blood wine.™
Technically the open container wasn't glass at all, but a crystal that could be frozen & transfer the cold rapidly, than slowly. The clear semi liquid had a sharp alcohol & hot metal note. As it got into contact with the the frosted surface, the heat transfer created water drops running down the 'mugs' body.
Forr a brief moment, it looked like the red inside was loosing the thermal battle, as the surface gently crystallized only to return to its former semi liquid state after some seconds. She grabbed it with her left hand, gentle ➡️

#PennedPossibilities 945 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #SciFi #WIP

945 2/3

⬅️ crackling noises filled the silence in. Kira leaned the glassy mug against her lip, shudders ran down her lip, chin neck and spine giving her goosebumps. She swallowed the full content in one big sip, put it down & poured herself a second before she closed of the bottle. As she wanted to grab the mug with her tight hand but stoped. She slumped down in front of the crystal vessel. Burrowing her eyes in her arms. Her voice sounded muffled.

"Swex Sis this was meant to celebrate our first missions success with you at the helm and now I'm downing half a bottle myself."
She grabbed the crystal with her whole left hand than her right too.
The cold stung in her flesh.
Tears started running down her cheek. From the pain inside or in her hand, she didn't knew. Her voice was shaking.
"What would I give to hear your voice again even if it was only one of your creepy remarks about my body. "To you Anika, my 'twin', my sister, my➡️

#PennedPossibilities 945 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #SciFi #WIP

945 3/3
⬅️ loved familiar, my heart, my shield, my sword. Here is to us, the ones that never faltered. In space on ground. In Family united, til death took us apart... Great the old man from me. Wherever you two are.
Mother will grief in her frozen manor...

She poured the blood wine into her mouth, almost choking while swallowing, she coughed and turned turned her back against the counter & threw the crystal mug against the wall.

Ash's cold computer voice spoke.
"Kira? Are you okay, you blocked me and the sensors in your cabine... Can i do something for you?"

Kira forced herself to sound as normal as possible: "Only if you can grant wishes."

Ash's voice got less computery: "I'm not a Djinn, what is your wish?"

Kira snorted: "I wish alcohol could intoxicate me..."

Ash wanted to correct her that it technically still did and she just wasn't feeling it but changed her answer: "Shall we... talk?"

"Yeah, I would like that..."

#PennedPossibilities 945 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #SciFi #WIP

3. Monthly devider & navigational toot 2026

- Last month divider toot is here:
https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/115989758672680679

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

- The other March prompts, I answer, overview toot is here:
https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/116153618031340222

- 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

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

#PennedPossibilities #March2026

Anna Saultron :progresspride: (@[email protected])

Second navigational devider toot 2026. Last Month toot is here: https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/115819835496135472 As always the prompts can be found on: @[email protected]'s profile. Thank you for all this work. 🙏💚 To the other February prompts I answer, the overview toot is here: https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/115989584617583860 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 #February2026

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946
Do any of your characters have food allergies or sensitivities?

Arkham has some weird interactions with meats.

She lived on the streets of a colony for quite some time & nothing ever came up, but as she joined the Alliance something changed. Her hypersensitivity started & it gets worse if she eats meat or animal products.
It's independent from the source, if it is lab grown, a real animal (which falls under sentient & sapient cruelty on a lot of planets) or printed in the EPI & basically made out of Equil. That why she eats mostly vegan, at times she tries ovo lacto vegetarian stuff but almost always it gets worse.
It seems the food isn't the source of her hypersensitivity but a contribution to the scale in which her body reacts.
Since she joined the alliance she relies on "dampeners" that tune down her body's reaction to stimulation.
Meat or animal products seem to scramble with that to a painful degree.

#PennedPossibilities 946 #StarRyde #Arkham #AbbishekPaktii #SciFi #WIP

947
Antagonist POV: What is your biggest regret?

The question hung in the air, like a 500 kilo orbit to ground slug in an antigravity anomaly. The interviewing person waited patiently.

Ariæne only starred into the room. Their eyes focused on something not visible for anyone else.

Ayanamis voice came through the rooms intercom. "I think you won't get any answers out of them today and honestly, I prefer it that way. You have might taken up enough of our hospitality. I kindly suggest that you depart immediately, before I might come to the conclusion, that you are not as valuable as I thought you to be. This would be highly... regrettable." The last sentence almost sounded cheerful.

#PennedPossibilities 947 #StarRyde #Ayanami #AriæneJohnsen #SciFi #WIP

948
How would your SC respond if they were falsely accused of a crime?

1/2
Very similar to my MC's as answered in 939 part one & two above it jump ready here:
https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/116119241024809941

In case the SC is part of a crew they have to bow to the law enforcement according to what the captain seems necessary. Like getting released from duty to be taken into custody or being hold on board for the remainder of the mission & handed to Union law enforcement later.
In case of a foreign entity like Rimworlds the Union uses their "we"re not Union" stand against them. They have to fill out a request to Union law enforcement, going through the ministry for outward affairs, to handle the matter & may be allowed to represent their case to Union courts. It's a protective measurement because Union Citizens have died under foreign entity laws, that's why the Union doesn't shy away of using its military as a lever to handle such circumstances.➡️

#PennedPossibilities 948 #StarRyde #GhozTarcCrew #SciFi #WIP

Anna Saultron :progresspride: (@[email protected])

939 How would your MC respond if they were falsely accused of a crime? 1/2 This is highly dependent on the situation. Kira in her free time: Look for the seriousness of the accusations, if the Union police is already involved she would have to obey. She might be able to take control over fleets & personal but the Police is a civilian to law protection & enforcement part. There Job would be taking her in & she would not fight against it. On mission the same scenario could play out completely different. If the mission is in danger she would finish the mission first even if this would create problems later. If she is taking control over military asset's via her SHADE Status only other SHADEs can remove her forcefully as long she stands in that position. Usually this only lasts til a certain military action is wrapped up & she would have to stand down immediately & hand herself over to the law enforcement for investigation. ➡️ #PennedPossibilities 939 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #SciFi #WIP

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948 2/2
⬅️ In case of politicans or brass members of the Union Military or the Union Alliance Military it's handled differently.

While the Unions Ministry for outward affairs handles the requests of foreign entities they stay in power as long they are not deemed guilty, in contrast any minister has to lay down their work immediately if an inner conflict arises. If as an example Terran Minister for outward affairs Sigourney Webster (Kira's second mother) would be accused by anyone inside the Union to have acted against the laws, she would have to temporarily lay down her mandate immediately. Same would be true for Admirals like Ron Hackett-Anderson in the Alliance.
That said members of the Union/Alliance, like Kira, who are able to call on their Shade status, can temporarily put this on hold, if a military action requires it, which will be investigated & demands justification the moment they would do so.

#PennedPossibilities 948 #StarRyde #SigourneyWebster #AdmiralRHA #SciFi #WIP

⬆️And just to find this easier.

Examples of law enforcement and regulations in the Star Ryde Universe.

Also see here
Almost the same question at the German Phantastik Prompts 05.03.2026 https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/116175451319775854
#StarRyde #SciFi #WIP #WorldBuilding

Anna Saultron :progresspride: (@[email protected])

05.05.2026 Eine deiner Figuren wird eines Verbrechens beschuldigt, das sie nicht begangen hat. Welche Schritte würde sie in deiner Welt unternehmen, um da wieder herauszukommen. Sich eine Rechtsverteidigung suchen und gegen die Vorwürfe angehen. Sie selbst dürfte dabei auch gar nicht soviel machen, da dies eventuell als Versuch der Einflussnahme auf Ermittlungen gewertet werden könnte. Für weitere Punkte: Penned Possibilities 939 & 948. 939 https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/116119241024809941 948 https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/116168797374676820 #PhantadtikPrompts 05.03.2026 #StarRyde #Weltenbau #SciFi #WIP

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949
How do you manage stress related to writing?

Skip

#PennedPossibilities 949

950
Can your MC swim? If not, why not? If so, how did they learn?

The buoyancy of Terrans is not regularly tested on Terra itself.

Most waters are still considered toxic even if water refurbishment has come a long way.
Usually Terran bodys tent to not sink in the oceans, in cleaned water it looks quite different. Most swimmers come from colonies and it depends on the local composition of 'water' in combination with other factors, how good they could learn to swim.

However the Alliance does provide survival training for its military cadets and this most of my characters can swim, not very effective because most only 'swim' in micro or non gravity and air or vacuum are the worst to swim in, because the low resistance and compression capacity make for terrible propulsion capabilities. It would actually be more efficient to f*** your way forwards in micro/non gravity than try to propel yourself via swimming motion.

#PennedPossibilities 950 #StarRyde #WorldBuilding #SciFi #WIP

951
MC POV: Write about something presently in your life that is “worth it.”

Kira: "Our Mission but since the details are classified I will not spread them out here.

Arkham: "Mission and Keeping the crew alive."

Ashlei: "As the Captain and the Flight commander said. 'I' add keeping the spirit and moral of the crew high and their bodys healthy."

#PennedPossibilities 951 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #SciFi #WIP

952
How do you use social media as an author?

Well pretty much all I do on Mastodon. Otherwise I still have a YouTube profile but I'm not really using my channel for anything anymore, just watching videos and commenting at times.
I don't use shitter anymore.
I have a tumblr account but I'm mostly watching anime gifs from series I loved as a teen.

Mastodon is the only platform where I participate actively this days and most of it goes into answering writing prompts and at times discussions/chats with authors.

Oh wait there is this somehow not dead yet Gothic dating site, from the earliest 2000. where I stil have a profile but also not using it for anything other than feeling nostalgic and thinking about erasing more traces of my digital past...

Honestly I think it's secretly run on an University Server and the student responsible just left one day and since them no one noticed. 🤔
That could be a story.

#PennedPossibilities 952

@AnnaSaultron That should be a story. :)
@DavidBridger *plop* OH NO a new Plot Bunny *plop* *plop* *plop* *plop*
@DavidBridger if only everything about writing would be as easy as plot bunny creation. 😅

953
What author(s) did you dislike at first but grew to enjoy reading?

This has not happened to me.
I might be uncertain about an author if I start a book but I am a) going to like it b) being not very moved by it c) regret that I wasted life time on it.

A) makes me an fan or at least a highly appreciating reader of future works and grand the author more leanway from my side to play around.

B) will most likely end in me forgetting the author.

C) is rarely occuring and if I remember only the Harry Potter slog stood out to me that much that I thought: "Well that is shit she could not hold a candle if you nail it to her forehead." and well what a ugly fart of a unperson the author has become is all to clear today...
Using her money to make the life of trans* people worse wow celebrating herself like she was Hannibal from the A-Team...
I really have to ask why did Sir Terry Pratchett die and not her? I would exchange them any time without a second thought.

#PennedPossibilities 953

953 second thought

Patrick Süskind author of "Das Parfüm."

I really disliked the story at first but I kinda enjoy it today.

Since it's the only work he's done in form of a book I can say I like 100% of his books which is a rarity.

I honestly don't know much about him as a person have to 'investigate' about that and maybe that might change depending of his political stance or ethics. I will see.

Edit: okay he has written more than one book so I have to reduce it to 20% because I know nothing about his other works.

#PennedPossibilities 953 second thought

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954
What is your SC's skill level when it
comes to cooking and baking?

That is completely dependent on the
SC or even TC (tertiary characters
the ones that aren't fully fledged out SCs but have a name and are more than background decorations).
All of my characters have at least survival skill cooking. They can boil water and cook food without burning everything to a black crisp.
The taste & quality varies greatly.

#PennedPossibilities 954

955
Is your MC keeping any secrets? Can you reveal them to us?

The whole crew has a cover up identity of being guards for the council of the Union. Well all other than Mondira.

The Mission has several layers of orders in case specific scenarios are happening.

The crew is only ment to know parts of them.

At least 4 members probably more 5-10 are also SHADES like Kira with the same power and rights. It's part of the failsafe to prevent single SHADE agents to go rouge.

The Ghoz'Tarc is officially a supply ship for the Phoenix the Unions Flagship and mobile government base.

The Phoenix has a special secret which is related to its Name.

The Ghoz'Tarc has a holographic disguise system.

Nobody ever expected Kira and Ashlei to merge. Which also is a bit problematic because usually the Command staff has the codes to shutdown the AI core via the sub core.

Kira keeps the real merge levels hidden.

#PennedPossibilities 955 #StarRyde #GhozTarcCrew #GhozTarc #Phoenix #SciFi #WIP