1001. Is your MC confident or not? Tell us why.

That is highly dependent on the character and the situation/topic.

Kira has to be seen as confident in her decisions, which is to a degree toxic but as the acting captain it is necessary.
That said she knows that she doesn't know everything & is always open for discussions if the time allows it. In a life or death situation with no time to react she is non negotiable in her commands.
In interpersonal things she knows what she wants & knows what she has to offer, still it's not all the time easy or simple.

Arkham as Flight Commander is in a similar position. It's her decision making that can make the difference between life & death even if she doesn't agree with orders. On a professional level that's no problem on a inter personal level she would often appreciate a cloaking device.

Ashlei calculates probabilities & knows facts, that's what she is build for.

#PennedPossibilities 1001 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Aahlei #SciFi #WIP

1002
Tell us a random fact (of any kind) about your WIP.

StarRyde
It's meant to challenge established Franchises like Star Trek, Star Wars and Stargate (and others) in scale, scope and size* but with a different approach to Utopia in the world we will leave our children.
And almost all stories that exist in our universe exist in the canon too, obviously the ones that will come after I'm gone only if people pick it up.
So good change your favorite story or your work can be found in that universe too. :)

*Call me a megalomaniac.😅

#PennedPossibilities 1002 #StarRyde #SciFi #WIP

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MC POV: Were you born to shine in one special way? What makes you really stand out?

Kira: "For swex sake...
I finished the A.P.E.-Program as one of the best do to extraordinary circumstances & my own work together with Anika. I was chosen to start directly into the S.H.A.D.E. program. I survived the deaths of my biological family at Friendship Station, I survived the time afterwards only thanks to my second family. I lost dad to the military, Anika saved my ass three! Three forking times. We joined the military, we survived the circumstances that led to our recommendations.
I survived my first incredible command fork up & saved almost 100 civilians by sacrificing seven!
Seven of the best soldiers I had the chance to work with...
I survived the day Anika went M.I.A....
Now I'm am a cyborg with a freaking A.I. merged into my brain, no offense Ash.
I can not tell how many times I started to feel the ship like my own body...
So tell me what do you think?
Am I special? Am I chosen to 'shine'?!
Or I am simply 'LUCKY' enough?
Lucky enough to survive all this shit in this Galaxy, thanks to the people around me or some idiotic 'higher force' messing with us??.
You probably didn't know but never, never aks me such a question ever again. Please & THANKS!"

Ashlei: "Non offensive statements registered captain. As the ships A.I. I was created to support & defend the crew. Thus one could argue that I am indeed created for this role, since I was not born."

Arkham: "Na fork that Swex, not gonna answer that, it sounds incredibly toxic like my birth giver...
'You need to be the best.', 'I will forge you to be a success.', 'You will fulfill my destiny.'
Sorry you probably didn't mean harm but... Yeah..."

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Author_ity Disclaimer: I like the prompt and this is not my statement to such questions, it's the characters POV. Just to be clear. 💚

#PennedPossibilities 1003 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #SciFi #WIP

1005
What type of clothing does your SC typically wear?

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# Penned Possibilities 1005

1004 Ketchup
If they have any, tell us about your MC’s philosophical beliefs.

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# Penned Possibilities 1004

1006
How would your characters describe their community or communities?

- Union worlds: multi species cultures.
Unified by necessity, mildly enlightened, compassionate, the positive outweighs the negative, a force for the right thing to do.
More than the sum of its parts.
Near Utopian, yes that's a statement many people on the inside would use, outsiders would say pretentious, arrogant, elitist, expansionist, especially Terrans. Which are views Mondira tries to change.

- Rim worlds:
Free, diverse, personal, self sufficient, progressive but cautious about 'traditional values' and their replacements. The proof of resilience.

For outsiders it's more like an unorganized, chaotic patchwork of individualist focused groups, that cling to the worst tendencies multiple species came up with.
A mostly unshackled capitalism driven, unstable conglomerate of nightmares, including Kingdoms, 'Free Democratic Republics', Autocratic states, might makes right societies.

Something Mondira has to deal with regularly, after all one of this 'nightmares' is her homeworld (Eodin).

- The Union's Alliance.
The active protection of Union and non Union worlds alike.
The active force on fighting back the Eltaryn. Peace makers.
Something Mondira supports wholeheartedly & in good faith.

For Outsiders? Expansionist, Military indoctrination forces, colonial invaders & wannabe missionaries.
That's what Mondira's mother would say, her father just hopes she returns safe, sane and healthy.

#PennedPossibilities 1006 #StarRyde #Worldbuilding #MondiraRamann #TheUnion #RimWorlds #Eodin #SciFi #WIP

1007
What is your SC’s earliest memory?

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1008
Have you ever had someone translate a story of yours (into another language)?

No I write in German or English and in some cases, I translate myself between both languages. However, since I rarely do that it takes hours.
I only let translation software help if I am absolutely incapable of finding the meaning myself (can happen at times thanks to a roughly 20/22 hours awake to 4/2 hours sleep cycle...

I have an easier way switching between the Languages for longer periods and communicating in one as switching back and for like in translation.

I am not aware if someone ever tried to translate my stuff in other languages, for themself or for others and I wouldn't ask someone until I can at least pay them some money.

Of course Human work only, if I wanted my stuff gobbled up by a f*cking CO² farm/climate grinder also called LLM or AI I could do it myself, but other than that 'I have a plank of wood in front of my head' (see above) I try to not even use Google translate or other shit like that because, it's SHIT.

#PennedPossibilities⁩ 1007 & 1008

1008¹⁵
@floofpaldi has called a pause for today, time for me to sneak in my imposter toots.

One or more of your characters, of your choice, are about to sneak into 'something'.

Why are they sneaking and what are they sneaking into, are they successful?

#PennedPossibilities 1008¹⁵ #PennedPossibilitiesImposterToot

1008¹⁵
To answer my own imposter toot. A high stakes stealth mission or even more dramatic.
The Cargo bay.
Because of a birthday party for some of the crew members from which one is scheduled on said cargo bay. So it's a time-sensitive, short notice, mission probably sanctioned by the captain herself.

Rose, Talisa & J.
They are not only good soldiers but also a bunch of lovely trouble makers.
They are probably 'sneaking' and 'smuggling' stuff into the main cargo bay for a party set up.
They could use the chameleon skin technology for their amors but this is usually restricted to combat or expected combative encounters and no fisticuffs while drunk on a party don't count, unless the party gets attacked by a hostile force.

Rose has probably the easiest time because she always tinkers with some systems on account and in cooperation with Chief Trawella's engineering teams.
Increasing the flow capacity of a supra conduit, as an example. So she probably smuggles in the decorations inside a box of official looking stuff.

Talisa and Rose have an incredibly good synergy to get stuff done and nobody bets an eye if marriage partners go to see each other, as long both are not scheduled at the same time.
So she is probably going to get stuff placed under the pretense to help her wife, while she, herself, is off duty.
Placing the party balloons inside a hatch, hiding a dancer (people on board of a small starship can get very creative with 'gifts').

J. Is not known for sneaking or being good in being unseen so it's distracting the target(s).
J. would probably go up to who ever is or are the recipient/s of the surprise and just casually talk them into some discussion or tell them about something something weird on deck 4 or so, probably even preparing something weird on deck 4. Or maybe it's a secret meeting of J.'s cuddle club but that's something we don't speak about. Or simply blocking line of sight...

#PennedPossibilities 1008¹⁵ #PennedPossibilitiesImposterToot

1009
Do any of your characters wear glasses?

Not really, glasses, other than sunglasses or smart glasses like solutions for augmented reality, have become more rare in the future do to technologies and medical procedures have changed a lot.
As an example you can use eye drops to temporary get rid of near or farsightedness.
However like with all disabilities the consent in the Union is to not push any treatments upon citizens.
This is also true for other disabilities.
It's usual that children with non lethal disabilities are not treated in that way, until they reach their earlier teenager years and can consent to treatment by their own choice.
However if a kid has emotional or physical pain do to it's disability it will be treated as soon as possible.
Still it is common to see kids with disabilities all over the Union and they are integrated as everyone else, cared for and loved. A not to small percentage of people decides to stay with their disabilities into their adulthood, to make live more diverse and easier for the kids.
Some even take great pride in their ability to be different and make their solutions a piece of art, like with ornate prosthetics as an example.
It's just not very common in the Unions Alliance military.
However glasses are more commonly seen in the Unions Military and in the Rim, where a bunch societies have a very late 20./ early 21. Century earth capitalist system or even earlier systems...
Honestly now that I'm thinking about this Mondira could have some.

#PennedPossibilities 1009 #StarRyde #MondiraRamann #WorldBuilding #SciFi #WIP

1010
What are any of your characters hiding? (A fantasy, fear, strength, talent, an unpopular or controversial opinion, prejudice, etc.) Why are they hiding it?

The Ice Queen J.Ripley Johanson:
Terran Foreign Minister, hides from Kira & Anika why she acts so cold.
The history of both families, Kira's biological & her adoptive Family (Ripley's & Anika's) have a long lasting connections.
In her views, she protects the Union (galactic), Terra Unika & her family. She also does not openly speaks about her own time in the Rim as an young adult.

Ayanami: The 'antagonist infernale' is for all intense & purposes a Ghost, a disembodied voice for all that work for them or against them. Nobody knows, who is behind the name, is it if a person, a group or even an AI, which species, gender identity or how they required enough power to control a, seemingly, Union friendly Army.
Ayanami is one of the most common first, family & cooperation names in the galaxy not limited to Terrans/Humans.
No one knows, who they really are, even the pronoun they is simply used to have a pronoun at all.
Even their 'henches' don't know who pays their income & protects their identities. Only Ariæne is rumored to have learned this secret, but Ariæne also has severe memory issues.
The level of technology that went into the Nethrazier, Ayanamis rumored Flagship exceeds even more advanced Union prototypes according to eye witnesses. It's far to big for the attributed capabilities & it's rumored to have stopper large attack fleets of the Eltaryn alone.
It's a ghost ship that appears out of nothing (FTL probably), that spills black armored troups, not unlike Alliance soldiers, onto the battlefields wherever Eltaryn are encountered & evaporates into the void as soon they are beaten.

#PennedPossibilities 1010 #StarRyde #RipleyJohanson #Ayanami #Nethrazier #AriæneJohnsen #WorldBuilding #SciFi #WIP

1011
Do you have a favorite song? What is it, and has it ever inspired anything you’ve written?

No, yes, it's complicated.

How am I supposed, to drink all of the ocean and tell you which drop of water is the one that I enjoyed the most?

#PennedPossibilities 1011 #writing #music

@floofpaldi seems to be distracted or hopefully sleeping very well.

Time for a creative fun prompt.
Replace something in your story with something completely silly. As an example smithing with knitting. Or magic with beurocracy. Or switch the protagonist and their uncle. What ever tickles you fancy and sounds funny to you.

#PennedPossibilities 10⁷11 #PennedPossibilitiesImposterToot

My answer to my own silly prompt.

I replace Starships with Animals/insects and all people with tiny versions of them self.

So the Ghoz'Tarc would be a humble bumble bee of course her name would be Ashlei. And in between her tiny fluffy für/hair the tiny Kira, Arkham and all the others would live.
Arkham would control her by using a lot of tiny strings similar to the scenes in Ratatouille

In comparison the Phoenix, the Unions Flagship would be a goose. Beautiful to look at but a nasty surprise if you anger her. The tiny universe variant people would live on the feathers I guess.

Alternatively I replace a stories cars with banana peels. So people would slide on Banana peels to work like they are a sort of ice skater. Busses would be several people figure skating in a row holding hands.

#PennedPossibilities 10⁷11 #PennedPossibilitiesImposterToot
#StarRyde #StarRydeMicroCosmosUniverse :D

1012
How do your characters feel about seeing doctors or anyone in the medical field?

Kira is your typical overworked leadership person.
She is in constant treatment for her scars from her childhood (physical and psychological) and has a relatively relaxed stance about it, but she also does this thing of pushing herself harder as doctors would say is healthy. Her eating disorder is also a point of friction. Since the meld Kira is a constant visitor in the Sickbay, mostly for monitoring.

Since universal healthcare is an basic sentient right in the Union, it's free & a lot of conditions, we only can treat symptoms nowadays, are just another thing that can be healed if wished for.
Lost limbs or dysfunctional organs can be treated and healed if wished for. With technical implants, cloned replacement or, in very rare cases, with nanites. But nanites are a sort of last resort because you are never sure that they leave your body, that's why there are strict rules for nanite treatment patients and diseased nanite patient's bodies. If used correctly they are harmless for everyone but it's not very easy.

One of the reasons Mondira joined the Alliance, despite being a Rim Wolrdler is that Eodin's healthcare system pretty much equals the today's US healthcare if people like Trump and coconspirators run unchecked.
She cares deeply for her family and their health. The Alliance offers Family members off non Union members treatment with Union standards, for free in Union facilities or payments for outer institutions. Her father has used this service, her little brother rejected it several times and her mother would not even accept it, if her life would depend on it. One does not betray the Rim from her perspective. Not even if it costs ones life. At least she doesn't holds it against her family that they used the alliance offer. Well her family other than Mondira.

#PennedPossibilities 1012 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #MondiraRamann #RimWorlds #Eodin #SciFi #WIP

1013
MC POV: Have you ever lived in another country / place besides where you were born? Would you want to?

1: https://youtu.be/g1Sq1Nr58hM&t=8s
2: ✅

#PennedPossibilities 1013 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #SciFi #WIP

1014
If it came down to it, would your SC choose to protect the MC in a dangerous situation?

Yes and vice versa.
That's part of the job description

They are soldiers and bound by an oath to protect others.

#PennedPossibilities⁩ 1014 #StarRyde #SciFi forever #WIP

1015
Were any of the scenes in your WIP inspired by your own experiences?

All of them.
Even the space scenes?

https://youtu.be/t02v9EUHs30

#PennedPossibilities 1015

1016
MC POV: Tell us about a time that you found a “skeleton in the closet,” but it doesn’t matter whose it was. It didn’t need to be yours.

Kira blinked in confusion:
"Did I miss something in history class? Since when could humans replace their bones or do they mean relative's skeletons? Is that a weird death cult ritual from the past? Poor history scholars and archeologists must have find terrible things ...
Humans where really weird."

Arkham had a similar reaction.
Ashlei started with listing all encounters in her database that mentioned a literal skeleton outside a grave like structure.
Number of all entries: 3.947.321.409.871.648

#PennedPossibilities 1016 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #SciFi #WIP

1017
Reveal a source of misery for your MC.

For Mario Luigi the Younger of the Luigi Brothers, his draconic Brother, who is kinda scumbag but does mostly the right things, if he just would pay Mario on time...

Or Yoshi's hyper sexualized Cyberbody and that this guy has no filter in telling everyone about his sexual preferences of adult entertainment preferences.

The damn super Mushrooms. They make you feel like a giant but you feel tiny, shrunken and empty afterwards.

Robert K. Bowser racist children book author, industrial powerhouse and criminal overlord that tries to buy the Mushroom where Mario's ex peach works and lives.

Toad the 150 year old pervert uncle of Daisy and Peach that you have to keep in line to not harass the customers...

The Ganja Idiots and their consumption of Pizza Hawaii and Fireflowers.

Neon Donk City overall is a shit show for a half way honest plumper.

#PennedPossibilities 1017
#CyBOARpunk #CyBOARpunk1993
#FanfictionMashup #FanfictionReimagination
#Cyberpunk #CyberpunkGenre #SuperMarioBrothers #TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles

1018
MC POV: Tell us about the first time you felt shame.

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# Penned Possibilities

1019
Has your SC ever been bullied? By who, and for what reason?

I don't shy away from portraying bad behavior against people who have done nothing wrong, but since I was bullied for my whole childhood & teenage time and still have to deal with idiots having idiot takes on things they aren't even an inch of a mile qualifying to even think about it (or seemingly thinking in general) I don't like writing this stuff. I rather go back to my cannibal who is iced since I left Fallout 76.

#PennedPossibilities 1019

1020
Does your MC consider themselves to be outdoorsy or do they prefer to stay inside?

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# Penned Possibilities 1020

1021
Have you ever co-written a story before?

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# Penned Possibilities⁩ 1021

1022
How would your MC like to be remembered after their death? What sort of legacy would they want to leave?

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# Penned Possibilities 1022

1024
MC POV: Name a time where you cried your eyes out?

Still no answer but funny* sidenote the idiom exists in German as well to cry your eyes out - sich die Augen rausheulen and the slight variation 'ausheulen' which means to cry until your eyes are empty (of tears).

And because German doesn't translate well syntax wise, into English (& vice versa), I try to translate this with German Syntax into English: 'one/itself the eyes (to) out cry.'

*Funny like huh I didn't need to know this but who knows what it's Worth in the future but seriously why even?

More funny side note the word funny translates into komisch into German which funnily enough has the same exact usage like in English.

The clown is a funny guy. (like HAHA!)
Der Clown ist ein komischer Typ.
Vs
The clown is a funny guy. (like dude WTF?)
Der Clown ist ein komischer Typ.

Welcome to unnecessary knowledge.

#PennedPossibilities 1024

1025
Would you or have you ever killed off a member of the main cast? How would or how did you feel afterward?

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# Penned Possibilities 1025

1026
What is your MC’s biggest priority?

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# Penned Possibilities 1026

1027
SC POV: If you could master any skill, what would it be? How would you use it?

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1028
MC POV: Do you feel like you belong somewhere?

Kira: "Of course?! Weird question???"

Arkham: "Yes. Why??"

Ashlei: "It seems that this question created a bit of confusion among the crew.
The confusional element might come from the fact, that this is an closed question, that does not actively encourage sharing of more information, sapient sentience often expects a follow up question, or interpret this as an invitation to talk about this feelings, while most of this ships crew simply saw it as the question itself and answered strictly to the context of the asked question.

The distribution is as following, around 93% answering yes, around 4% did not answer and around 3% answered with no.
This might be an indication that some crew members are in a psychological struggle. I would recommend a gentle probing of the subject matter and see if we can increase this individuals feeling of connection."

Kira: "Thanks Ash for bringing this to my attention."

#PennedPossibilities 1028 #StarRyde #Ashlei #SciFi #WIP

1029
Name something your MC has always wanted to learn.

Kira: "Don't laugh. After I lost my family, my genetic one...
I wanted to play cello.
Never did...
I imagined myself, like in that one surviving pre climate disaster video.

Sitting on the edge of a cliff playing against the wild ocean waves, a full moon on the dark violet sky, stars in the background. Putting my pain into the music.

Dad bought one for me, he wanted to teach me, how to play when he was to become a teacher instead of a soldier...
Well we know how that turned out.

The Alliance gave me something new. Martials and the ability to defend others.
Maybe in another life, I would have been a musician, playing for people on star cruisers...
Who knows, maybe Anika could have been my manager or captain of that cruiser.
Setting up gigs with Srockbands(*) or stuff like that, seeing me falling in love with a professional dancer named Abbishek Pakthi.
I don't believe there is any universe in which Arkham isn't a pilot of sorts. Probably she would be steering the cruiser. Funny thought.

Maybe mum would have been happy sitting with dad in the audience after retiring from politics.
Away from all the war against the Eltaryn.

That said, in that universe, I may haven't been on Friendship Station to begin with. Never loosing my family, not living through hell.
Never getting closer to the Johanson's.

Not mourning as a constant.
But war is war, it doesn't change, it changes everything."

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* Srockbands - a pi** poor translation from Union Standard describing genre bands we would call space rockbands today.

Hm maybe Star Tyde is Kira's fictional retreat? 🤔
I could incorporate that into Star Ryde's main story.

#PennedPossibilities 1029 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #AbbishekPakthi #SciFi #StarTyde #WIP

1030
What assumptions did you make about one of your characters when you first created them?

They often develop far deeper than I expect them to.
As an example 'Good Boy Jack' a dog like humanoid was meant as a throw away NPC in a DND session.

Since than, he has become a throw away character with a background story, mayor of a dimensional and time shifted Ferun Underdark village, built on the ruins of a once mighty Drow city.

Arkham, at the beginning I just wanted a pilot, that hangs around in the cockpit all day & is to lazy to do anything else. Instead she has become one of my favorites.

Kira was ment to just be a Commander Shepard, from my Mass Effect runs (Videogame Playthroughs).
Well now she is commander of her own ship, in my own universe & has a backstory that reads like the epitome of cranked up bad character motivations...
Iy was, indeed, just ment as a gag trope for the run as an unwritten backstory.

Anika was ment to be just a nod in that backstory, to a character I love from Star Trek and now, in the WIP she is a full character.

The Icequeen also was just ment to be a cold hearted birch of a adoptive mum, but now is a almost fully fledged out person with her own dark history & the role of Terran Foreign Minister, with nebulous ties to Kira's family next to her husband...

The whole family story of the Knoxs & Johansons reads like an blown out of proportion KPop meets Lord Of The Rings family drama by itself...

AJ aka Antagonist Junior or Ariæne Johnsen was ment to be a non evil antagonist that simply occupied the adversary role to Kira...

Assumption, I can not write simple characters, not if they need to stay in my mind for longer than the time I need writing on a text in a given moment.

#PennedPossibilities 1030 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #AnikaJohanson #RipleyJohanson #Arkham #AbbishekPakthi #AntagonistJunior #AJ #AriæneJohnsen #SciFi #WIP

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6. Monthly devider & navigational toot 2026
- Last month divider toot:
https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/116498736596466284

- The other June prompts, I answer, overview toot is here:
https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/116674313426871722

- 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
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#PennedPossibilities #June2026

1031
Are you satisfied with the genre(s) that you write?

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# Penned Possibilities 1031

1032
MC POV: Tell us about the first time you felt shame.

As pointed out by others copy of 1018 which you can find here (or scroll up to 1018)
https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/116601017401496657

And if you felt trolled. It came up on
Phantastik Prompts (in German) on the 29.05.2026 and I answered it there. Obviously in German.
https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/116655529608293188

It rarely shows up in my writing and I don't shame my characters in general because I dislike that feeling and yeah see further explanations in the linked toots.

#PennedPossibilities 1032

1033
Would you or have ever considered writing a MC with mental illness? How would or did you approach the subject?

Yes and simply with the finest approach of finger and brain dexterity.
It doesn't matter if someone starts with a bad trope or similar as long as that person does enough to make a nuanced and facetted character and making sure the depiction is not insulting.

#PennedPossibilities 1033

1034
If one of your characters could visit any time period in the history of their world, which would they choose? Why is that?

None.

Temporal Mechanic is a field of the RYDE physics, time travel happens more accidentally while higher speeds are achieved however this is only forward in time, do to the fact that time acts differently for an enclosed system that is faster in relation to its surroundings.
Without the Garcia - Nirnquest system, every planet visited with Faster Than Light would bring the crew "forward" in time.

A theoretically possible RYDE usage back in time, could work but would mean the ship has to "cut its anchor" to our reality and "submerge" entirely in the sub dimension that is used for FTL travel. But there are more problems attached to that completely theoretical usage of the RYDE Propulsion next to the fact that no ship ever was registered as coming back after being submerged.

It's not as easy as throwing you around a star in an weird angle or move earth (Terra) backwards, you basically would need to enter the anti time stream but how that should be possible even the people in Star Ryde can't explain or achieve.

That said if they COULD manage most of them had elaborate discussions over Temporal Manipulation and why it is bad and has to be avoided.
Not even Ayanami would suggest time alterations, but they would probably try to secure possible working back travel time machines against usage by others.

#PennedPossibilities 1034 #StarRyde #AntagonistInfernale #Ayanami #SciFi #WIP

1035
How does your antagonist behave when they’re sick or injured?

Nobody ever has seen Ayanami as in a physical form. It's a disembodied set of voices, mails, etc.
They, in lack of a better term, are as mysterious as it gets, not a single call or contact 'in person' (in official meeting spaces where henches have to report in person to an empty room full of holographic projections for their mission) is answered in less then a minute. This is the main reason people expect them to be a group of people or an A.I.

For Ariæne it's every day since they lost the ability to form coherent memories. Waking up disoriented and confused, finding themselves, often after having the same horrible nightmare dream/only memory flash back they remember in all detail...
Finding an unfamiliar room, books over books, tablets and post it's notes scattered in an otherwise very empty room, besides two corners which seem to be work spaces in an unfamiliar complex.
It's stressful at least and without K. the one Hench that always seems to calm them down it can get nasty for everyone else.
AJ has shot people if they found their weapon, hurt people with pencils etc. still their services seem so valuable to Ayanami that they protect and support Ariæne with everything including K.
Rarely AJ seems to have anything that resembles a disease but the memory thing seems bad enough.
Without all the notes and files on tablets some days it would impossible to bring them to a functional state.

#PennedPossibilities 1035 #StarRyde #AntagonistInfernale #Ayanami #AntagonistJunior #AJ #AriæneJohnsen

1036
Tell us about a landmark in your world.

Well every today city on Terra is a special landmark if it survived into the 24. Century.

Vegas only exists do to an incredible stubbornness of the people that lived in its ruins. Today (2325 from our perspective) the highest point of the city reaches 700 meters into the air.

It's a multilayered city similar to cities we see depiction of in Star Wars, Cyberpunk or the Macropoles in Warhammer 40k but it's not as sinister and gigantic.

The every level of the city has an elaborate system of holograms and mirrors to let it look like the real sky is directly above.
The original Vegas didn't survived the Eltaryn Attack on Earth and it was rebuilt with alien Technologies and new discoveries in material production after the initial first contact with the Talithi people.

The lowest part is an living museum exhibition in which historical recreations of the city exist. Gambling and Neon lights are as dominant as today but people get their money back after they gambled it away plus they get a Holo/NIN creation what this would have ment in our time.

The layer in between show the change in Terran society as well and are seen as a time capsule or more like a time cake.

Vegas highest plain and it's surrounding are called New Vegas, they are a poster child of Solar Punk and the Terran spirit to make their world a paradise again, even if its pretty much a garbled/toxic mess. It is a metroplex in which all kinds of Terrans and Xeni Terrans live. It's also surrounded by lash green farms but still the desert has a hold on the area.

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