717
Is your SC the type to ever get impulsive?

Impulse control is important in the military so most of my crew aren't very impulsive at least not on duty outside it looks a bit different.
Mondira coming from an Rim world that is very different from the Union joined planets has a very loose control at times, something she shares with Arkham (MC), Chief engineer Trawella has a bit of a short temper and loose impulse control in the heat of something going sideways and he is in the middle of the heat, which is understandable I think.
Dr Kaiden has a very good impulse control against Kira because he on occasion would really like to ground her back to the reality that she isn't part of the machine but a person with needs herself, especially at the topic of eating and recharging her batteries (no she doesn have batteries but you know like your social batteries, or your spoons).
Especially if is rest to heal.

#PennedPossibilities 717 #StarRyde #MondiraRamann #DrKaiden #writing #SciFi #WIP

718. If they were looking back on their past choices, would your MC feel as though they made the right ones in life?

Mostly yes.

#PennedPossibilities 718 #StarRyde #writing #SciFi #WIP

719
Does your antagonist (or villain) have a weapon of choice?

1/2
Antagonists
AI, intelligence, pulling strings in the background, elaborate schemes, They seems to gain something out of all it's moves.
Whoever they are they know how to use time to their advantage as they do with mystery. You can't be sure if it is all smoke & mirrors or actual leverage and force. They seem to have a lot of reach into almost every government not excluding the Union or several Rim worlds.
In short it could all be subterfuge for goals nobody realizes yet.

AJ is way more grounded, the weapon of choice is an Onga Technologies sidearm heavily modified, probably from the Problem Solver or One Solutions product line. Ariaene is a functional soldier they gets a mission parameter & they gets it done, no matter if it is brokering a deal or threat neutralisation.

Villains
The Eltaryn use

#PennedPossibilities 719 #StarRyde #AntagonistInfernale #AntagonistJunior #AJ #AJohnsen #AriaeneJohnsen #SciFi #WIP

719 2/2

brute force strategies, the "Rillaz" use crude weapons that look like some one rammed a garbage freighter into a weapon manufacturing company and ran with it.

The "Roaches" use biological weapons like acid myst/spray, parasitic ammunition, that looks like tiny insect's them self or parts of bones that have a high impact not only physical bit also psychological.

Both are using brute force and mass deployment of troops and they clearly work together against everyone else.

#PennedPossibilities 719 #StarRyde #TheEltaryn #Eltayn #SciFi #WIP

720
MC POV: In your own opinion, what’s the worst thing you’ve ever done?

Kira pulled open the asymmetrical zipper on her uniform, opened her shirt & sliped out of it, turned around & lifted her short hair to revel her neck. Scars covered her shoulder area & especially her left blade. A list of names was visible centered in the middle.

"I failed everyone of them. Take a look, these where soldiers, friends, family."

The first 4 names read Knox as family name, typical Somwhar names, Terrans, Talithi, Asza'ni, Trellwa'ni, Bethosian ones, some others. Kira spoke every single one.
The last red Anika Johanson, "my beloved sister, friend, twin soul." Her voice broke.

Mondira felt like an intruder, the list was long & reached to the middle of her spine.

"If I ever reach one hundred I stop fighting..."

"How many are these?"

"63, Anika isn't even a round number" she hissed, "pray or hope that you never end up on this list."

#PennedPossibilities 720 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #MondiraRamann #WIP

721
What do you hope readers will take away from your book?

Memories

#PennedPossibilities 721 #writing

Ketchup 718.1
Bonus Question (Courtesy of @ignova): What role does the rumour mill play in your story?

In a galactic level or local.
Local people don't give much of a crap about it in a galactic level there are planets that do not have the abilities to communicate outside their systems or even with other planets. On this worlds facts are often less precise and people need to figure stuff out themself which often leads to widespread misinformation and such stuff.
The Union does its best to prevent auch isolated bubbles and tries to break them up as soon a species is capable of Interstellar/interplanetary travel.

The Eltaryn are sadly more mysts than fact despite being fought back regularly.

#PennedPossibilities 718.1 #StarRyde #TheUnion #TheEltaryn #writing #SciFi #WIP

722
Which one of your characters surprised you the most with the decisions they made?

Well basically no one because most stuff I wrote exist in more than 3 different decision states in my head long before I write it, so I have something like a "existing Profile" in my head to most of them.

But I love it if something like with Anika happens, long before I played Mass Effect & created Kira as the commander Shepard (the Players personalized Character it's always Commander Shepard but you decide about Gender, history and leadership style + look/visuals to a degree).
She was named Anna (that was way before I used that name online) & she was ment to be a sort of Star Trek Voyagers 7 of 9. Than came Kira as a replacement & stood their for half a decade. In which Anna turned into Anika Johanson
Than as i tarted writing the actual story last November she fought her way back into the Spotlight for some time.

#PennedPossibilities 722 #StarRyde #MCHistory #AnikaJohanson #writing #SciFi #WIP

723
Intelligence: Is your antagonist (or villain) self-taught, or did they acquire most of their knowledge in school? Are they street smart or book smart?

1/2

Antagonists:

AI - nothing is known, they seem at least on the level of an average citizen of the Union with a seemingly focus on psychology, ethics and politics, this is only known to us thanks to some people that stand in contact with them somehow.

AJ - demonstrates regularly high knowledge of Union and general military tactics and strategies, can dismantle a weapon in 28 Seconds and get it back in working condition in the same time, they wears an outdated Union's Alliance uniform and fights similar to other troops of the Alliance, thus it is possible that Ariaene Johnsen is indeed a former soldier of the Alliance (they also claimed on occasion to be a S.H.A.D.E and highly educated, but without any ➡️

#PennedPossibilities 723 #StarRyde #AntagonistInfernale #AntagonistJunior #AriaeneJohnsen #AJohnsen #AJ #writing #SciFi #WIP

⬅️ 723 2/2
consistent knowledge about their own past it's all speculation, that said Ariaene has come up with a own System to archive important memories they are unable to keep long term, that isn't reliant on computers.

Villains
The Eltaryn
Seemingly 2 Species, one that has the capacity of creating crude looking armor and weapons and the other seems completely engineered towards combat with symbiotic weaponry and body armor. Both capable of faster than light spaceflight in partly biological ships, both species & their tech dissolve into dust if defeated or heavily wounded.
They seem not interested in speaking and are incredibly hostile, dangerous and ruthless, without any respect for their own lives, It seems logical that they have some sort of education to maintain this level of "Culture."

#PennedPossibilities 723 #StarRyde #AntagonistJunior #AriaeneJohnsen #AJohnsen #AJ #Villains #TheEltaryn #writing #SciFi #WIP

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725
Do you have a favorite character in your current WIP?

Not all characters are created equal as much as it pains me to say it.
I really like Mondira, Arkham, J., Kira, Ash, Rose, Tal & it shifts regularly, but overall I can say, that main characters have more "love" from me than side characters. Ariaene is growing on me for quite some time now and even Jenkins slowly gets a shape I appreciate more than before.

#PennedPossibilities 725 #StarRyde #SciFi #WIP #writing

726
If your SC had a picture frame with slots for 3 photos, who / what would be in the pictures?

For SC's I have a faint clou let's take

XO L.Jenkins he and his husband picture one would be them on their first interaction Jenkins in a fur suit.
His future husband handing him some water on a break. Second on their first date both in sharp cut tuxedos in the midst of a weird looking bar & the third on their wedding where Jenkins husband wears a tuxedo topside combined with a Scottish kilt. What isn't on the scenes is how Jenkins got carried away by him all the way from the priest to the party location.

XO W.Troika, his wife in the middle with him probably on their wedding, two of his 4 daughters on the left and two on the right.

Security Chief S.Crosby her daughter Denise the main reason she fights for everyone else.

#PennedPossibilities 726 #StarRyde #LJenkins #WilliamTroika #SilasCrosby #GhozTarcCrew #writing #SciFi #WIP

727.
MC POV: Do you remember your 21st birthday? Describe it as best you can.

Kira:"Why the 21st? That's a weirdly specific ask."

Arkham:"It was 4 years ago of course I remember that but what's so interesting about the 21st?"

Ashlei:"I am not born, if we take my activation date as my date of birth I am only 7 years old including development, only one year as the AI of the Ghoz'Tarc after her... my refit."

Author_ity note I'm well aware that for U.S. citizens the 21. Birthday is a big thing. But for other countries in the world it's simply isn't that big of a deal if it isn't their same age of full blown adult rights. In Germany as an example it's 18. while motorcycle enthusiastic people have to wait till they are 25 to get their full blown "grown up motorcycle experience."

Since we are in the 24. Century in my story & Terra has changed a lot the US & its "special" customs are mostly gone as many others & yes everyone uses metric.😋
#PennedPossibilities 727 #StarRyde #SciFi #WIP

728
Write about something your antagonist (or villain) frequently forgets.

Anna stared at the prompt, gently raised a hand:"Waiter the bill please I need to leave."
The prompt glazed back.
"Quickly," she added.

Well Ariaene basically can't make new memories or very few that make the transition between short & long term memory.
They is unable to recall memories in the right order & has huge memory gaps of their past.
It is to them like someone took your live, cut it into pieces & shook it in a cocktail shaker. The surface memories are the clearest ones. On missions they are usual very efficient & gets stuff done in under 24 hours. The problem sets in every time they goes to sleep, rarely if they is awake.
Ariaene has an collection of written down memories. Their daily routine involves Audio instructions for the next day, mission logs & post it's on the inside of their armor, skin notes & tattoos, etc.

#PennedPossibilities 728 #StarRyde #AriaeneJohnsen #AJ #AJohnsen #AntagonistJunior

729
Tell us about one place your MC would love to either visit or revisit.

Kira:
Home, seriously after weeks in space nothing is more compelling than just lump down on your own couch. Especially after THIS mission...

Arkham:
Same here maybe both lump down on the same couch? So it would be either the colony in which Kira has the house she inherited or Arkham's apartment in London.

Ashlei:
Drydock I guess it's as much couch as it gets for a space ship.

And yes call me lazy but seriously if you travel for several month you can't tell me your couch at home isn't where you want to be or your bed but some where else. Now multiply this with an tuna can of a space craft. I mean ~180 meters are long for a vehicle but subtract the hull and everything that isn't livable area shared by ~40 persons and you take every chance of isolation.
That's why they installed private space cargo containers.

#PennedPossibilities 729 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #writing #SciFi #WIP

730
2nd Anniversary Edition: Share a blurb, summary, or tiny snippet explaining your WIP to everyone in the hashtag.

Happy birthday or well anniversary. 🥳🎊

Take 1:
Scout space ship full of queer and not so queer soldiers is on a secret mission, deep into uncharted/enemy/hostile territory with a shot trans*humanism × romance VS drama × comedy.

Take 2:
What if Star Trek & Mass Effect had a child that is bullied by Warhammer 40K.

Take 3:
Remember Mimic?
Mimic × King Kong army vs the Space UN.

Take 4
That time a complete noob tried to create the SciFi equivalent to LOTR
...
(note to myself: more original like take one ?/

Take 5
What does it mean, to keep ones decency & humanity in a universe where humans see themself as a failed species, despite being a defending force against total annihilation?
What does it mean, to discover that humanity means more than we thought?
What does it take to lead a crew on a uncertain & deadly mission?

#PennedPossibilities 730 #StarRyde #SciFi #WIP

731
MC POV: Tell us about the last time you felt guilty.

Kira Made a hm sound, more through her nose than her mouth:
"You Know what's funny like in a cynical 'Haha, I could laugh til I die' way? Survivors guilt doesn't stop... It never ends it just fades, but it stays like this vulture looming over you in the desert. You get used to it over time especially if it's comes up so swexing often."

Arkham looked erplexed:
"Thanks for letting me know in advance before I try to waste my life running from it, I guess I never pilot a shuttle again."

Ash's voice crackled through the speaker as if she tried to swallow without a throat: "I am not programmed to feel guilt, however like Captain Knox & FC Pakthi, the resent loss of Captain Johanson...
bothers... me, the uplink between the captain & myself let's me 'expirience' things differently as before. It is like reading about a color & seeing it for the 1. time.

#PennedPossibilities 731 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #writing #SciFi #WIP

732

Is your WIP a singular novel, a series of books, serial fiction, comics, or fanfiction? (Or something else entirely? Explain.)

Yes.
No, not again.
Answer can be found, in German, under last month Phantastik Prompts for 05.06.2025
and others that I didn't look up rn.

nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/1…

#PennedPossibilities 732 #StarRyde #StarRydeSelfInsertRomanceAlternateUniverse #SRSIRAU #writing mostly #SciFi #WIP's

733

Tell us what your MC’s home is like.
1/2
Kira owns a house on a colony planet of the Union. It's a not so dense populated world so the homes tend to be on the bigger side also it was planned to to Hause her parents, her sisters and herself.
She only lives in a small portion of the house around 55 square feet with 2 rooms, a batch, toilet and a brought window front to a coastal area. The colony is known for their agriculture on our today's earth it would most like resemble Schleswig-Holstein or Denmark. The colony produces a lot of different crops for not so easily farmable worlds.

Arkham lives on Terra in London in an small apartment over a closed, cir er restaurant, she owns the Apartment and the Restaurant room but not the whole complex building.

London in the 24. Century lays directly on the northern ocean and even has sand strands and palm trees in a thick as it gets fog.
Big Ben sits➡️

#PennedPossibilities 733 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #Home #SciFi #WIP #writing

733 2/2

⬅️ In the ground surrounded by water barriers & they desperately try to get it's foundation dry enough to start relocating it. London has a broad beach area with fine sand but only small portions are usable as swimming areas, they have a extra barrier against the highly toxic see water. London is the center of the Terra based education facilities of the Union & the alliance. So it's has a lot of interplanetary flair and yes big parts of London we would know today where swallowed by the north Sea as it expanded into an real ocean. At least the new city parts are immison positive.

Ash is either at home onboard of the Ghoz'Tarc or as the AI of the Ship in space. She clearly prefers Union space because it's more dense populated and rarely attacked.

#PennedPossibilities 733 #StarRyde #London #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #Home #SciFi #WIP #writing

734
Have you ever written fanfiction? If so, for which fandom?

Mass Effect, Star Trek, Fallout 4, Fallout 76, Cyberpunk 2077, DND, Zelda, Star Trek Online, Star Trek the trading card game (while playing I developed a narrative), I can lead very political discussions while playing Magic the Gathering and describe scenes that happen in a incredible narrative way and I'm working on the Star Ryde Self Insert Romance Alternate Universe which is basically unhinged Fanfiction of my y own work Star Ryde... Which grew out of two fanfictions mainly Mass Effect and Star Trek.
Did I ever share something? Nope not really, I now have an AO3 account but at the moment that's it. Haven't set up mobile usage for me so far & haven't uploaded anything because I am picky as fork, have a slower pace than others & lost most Fanfictions as my external HDD died earlier this year.

#PennedPossibilities 734 #writing #FanFiction

735
What books or magazines do you read regularly, and which ones would you recommend to aspiring writers?

in short none if you consider regularly more than once a quarter of a year. I post pone it way to often to a specific day only to realize I passed that day three times in a row ...

Most reading I do nowadays is digital media also thanks to my eyesight and Problems with black text on white ground (dark mode forever).

#PennedPossibilities 735 #reading

736
MC POV: Do you or did you once admire your parents? Who do you admire today?

1/2

Arkham read the question out loud.

Kira pulled on her uniform to reveal her neck and spine tattoo as good as possible. Holding up her hair.
"What do they think why I'm carrying their names under or more precise in my skin?
They are always with me in my mind even if I only knew them for 6 years.
They are with me like my sisters and Dad and now Anika, she deserves a closer spot to my mind but this list is in timely order... I will get another one closer to my heart only for family members."

Arkham grabbed her hand, sliding her fingers between Kira's, folding their arms in, being as close as possible.The Panda tattoos on their hands formed a small heart.

"I can't understand how you have to feel. I can only imagine, based on my own loss of Dad. Mum was a dragon always pushing me til I ran away. I wanted to show her 'I'm better➡️

#PennedPossibilities 736 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #writing #SciFi #WIP

2/2 736
⬅️ without you, I never needed you, I hate you, see how far I have come without your manipulation.' And than she died & here I am, angry.
I want to scream, not because I'm sorry for that I couldn't say goodbye but because I am pissed that I couldn't rub it in her face & than I found you.
I realized I love dancing, the one thing this Swexer forced onto me. And I actually like it now, knowing she is dead. Listen to me, whining.
Why do you even like me? I'm an awful person."
Arkham swallowed trying to keep her inner storm calm.

"we are both awful persons, I'm a paid killer & so are you."
Arkham chuckled:"Natural Born Killers than?"

"Nothing natural in space war...
As you opened up to me, as I saw your progress I knew you where fighting, we all need something to fight for. I can't promise that I'm your fix but right now I wish I could be.
I love you for what you are. A person with a heart where it belongs."

#PennedPossibilities 736 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #writing #SciFi #WIP

737
Is there a character in your repertoire that you regret creating?

Credit: @ aperfectsong

At this point in my Author_ity life not really.
I have some hard time bringing down all the Trauma that some carry, like Candiece my cannibal in Fallout 76, luckily I don't play the game anymore so I don't have to come up with new reasons why she does what she does & keep her frozen in time til I am able to write her like she deserves.

For Star Ryde I think that not everyone on board will have the time to shine. I kept the crew at a realistic minimum for a space ship that has a mission and isn't a bunch of outcasts somehow, follows a 6-8 hours crew rotation, etc still ~40 people is a task to write even if I count a bunch of them as TC/ Tertiary Characters at this point.
It dates back to the time as I wanted to tell a realistic story but my brain zones out at 2 AU or Hawking Radiation.

#PennedPossibilities 737 #StarRyde #Original #SciFi #WIP #Fallout #Fanfiction #writing

737.001
Since Spooky Panda is putting Paws on tonight's question, what paws would your MC put on as a spirit animal or in a dream?

Prompt provided by
@ sfwrtr@eldritch.cafe

I heard once in a gag Spirit Animal usage would be cultural appropriation and we should call it Fur Sona (like the Furry community does with its characters their fur suits represent) and despite not having the best experience with persons from this community (I guess it's just the persons not the whole community) I can't forget that statement.
_

Hard to imagine I guess it would be Wolfpaws for the whole crew, after all they are, to a degree, a loving family for each other. I haven't though about alien animals lately & don't want to dig into my world building files rn.😅

Kira would be the surrogate mother at this point & the rest of the crew would be the family.
Remember Alphas don't exist even according to the scientist who brought it up in the first place.

#PennedPossibilities 737.001 #SciFi #WIP #StarRyde

738
Who is your clumsiest character?

I haven't thought about this for Star Ryde. My rogue im playing on DND atm pretends to be clumsy. Despite seeing Usagi Tsukino from Sailor Moon as my spiritual Twin I don't think I have any real clumsy characters that aren't clumsy to cover up something well their is Narrow my DND winged Tiefling of Wildfire Druid but she also is righteous evil like if you kill a Animal without giving nature something back it's completely legit to burn down your house and she always tries to pay people with nuts and herbs she collected. She once slipped down a cliff and forgot that she has wings. The team had to sacrifice a magic rope to save her, because the intelligence checks ran low on this day, no one even scratched a ten on a D20... But is it real clumsiness? Not sure.

#PennedPossibilities 738 #writing

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741
Is your SC an “easy person to love,” or is it the opposite?

That depends on what you fall for, what your looking for and what your romantic identity involves
I'm sure the crew has a good ensemble of characters that are relatable, but easy to love I don't know, they are very friendly and cozy with each other and often upright and openly blunt. If this sounds compelling to someone they might find them easy to love, if not than not. If course they come with their quirks and traumata as almost all of us do.
I can tell, that Rose and Talisa Draken found them self so easy to love that they got married right after the academy and referred to each other as wife's beforehand. They also have gone on almost entirely on missions as a team.
And if J. likes you, you are in for a ride.

#PennedPosibilities 741 #StarRyde #GhozTarcCrew #RoseDraken #TalisaDraken #JHarve #writing #SciFi #WIP

742
Out of all of your characters, who talks the most, and who hates it the most?

J. can get really chatty but at the same time it's hard to get annoyed by her, because
a) she is so incredibly nice & openly supportive for whatever it is you do as long you don't hurt others
b) has genuine interest in what you do, she even gets a long great with Jenkins who of all the Ghoz'Tarc crew is the most up tight & closed lip person on board
c) try to ignore a person with nearly 2 Meters height, enough strength to lift you up & carry you around like you where a child &
d) is the explosive specialist on board & a field medic...
Even I have no idea how many people onboard rely on her Up Beat personality to just have a decent day, she even remembers the birthday of your kids tortoise if you ever mentioned it.
As I said Jenkins is pretty much the opposite but even he can't deny, that it is great to have her onboard.

#PennedPossibilities 742 #StarRyde #JHarveyGladstone #writing #SciFi #WIP

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Because the real panda @floofpaldi is hipp deep in work here is an alternative prompt ment to give our creative friend a smile (and because I Misslabeld my divider toot as the German Phantastik Prompts...)

PPIT: How can you connect your work to a Panda?

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PPIT: How can you connect your work to a Panda?

Simply because as a thank you for @floofpaldi work on running the Penned Possibilities I included an special Easter egg... Panda pub? Into the canonical appearance of 2 of my characters.
They have a partner tattoo that includes two cuddling Pandas.

Maybe I could make a space Panda species somehow? I have catish (not catfish) people already. :D

#PennedPossibilities #PennedPossibilitiesImposterToot 001

743
(Courtesy of @ QuasiTemporal)
Tell us what your MC last put in their refrigerator or describe the food you can always find in their cupboards (if fridges don’t exist).

Kira has a tiny kitchen corner in the captains quarters with a even more tiny fridge. It's mostly used for cooling medicine or tiny amounts of special occasion consumables.

Arkham uses the also tiny fridge compartment next to her Hyberpod (Most people call them Hyperpods but it's actually a b).

Ashlei is basically also a very smart fridge/freezer. Since most rations are store as Eqil (Food printer ink) fridges or freezers aren't that needed however every ship has a social area with a kitchen compartment and the Ghoz'Tarc has a ground kitchen container (colonial starter) on board. Most times it used for rare fresh materials, left overs from the cooking (will be cleared out after 12 hours) etc.

#PennedPossibilities 743 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #GhozTarc #kitchen

744
Have you ever sent a story in a direction that you later regretted?

Yes.
Several times.

#PennedPossibilities 744 #writing

745
What is something that always makes your MC laugh?

Kira:"Good Times with friends, family and/or loved ones."

Arkham:"I don't know, stupid things, situations that are funny I think."

Ashlei:"I'm not programmed to laugh."

#PennedPossibilities 745 #StarRyde #SciFi #WIP

746
SC POV: How would you react to hearing your favorite song or piece of music?

'Chief' Trawella: "You know there is an ancient song from an artist I always forget. I think it's in early 21st century American, you know that ancient language should be like ancient English but isn't, that no one really speaks anymore? Their rad an artist who's name ment something with colors and she had a song about me. Na not really but it fits perfectly."
He started humming, swinging his hips and singing:"I'm Trawella! I'm Travella. I'm Travella." And very weird sounds mimicking the ancient forgotten language.*

Author_ity note:
The song he means is from P!NK - Trouble
youtu.be/mFu3YzRnyDU
And yes this is a case of harschly misheard lyrics but as I mentioned before Terran Standard and Union Standard would most likely not sound like any language we might recognize today.

#PennedPossibilities 746 #StarRyde #CharlstonTrawella #CharlstonTuck #GhozTarcCrew #writing #SciFi #WIP

747
Who is your cleverest character?

They all shine in different fields.

#PennedPossibilities 747 #writing

748
How does your SC view the world: as a cruel and unforgiving place, a land full of wonders, or something in-between? (Reference their experiences, life lessons, etc.)

1/2
I stroll away from the exact prompt and skip the references completely instead giving the POV of most Terrans.

Terra is a Hellhole but it's also our home. It was ruined by the people of our past humans claimed to be humane sadly they where also a bunch of coward's not living up to their potential, more content on survival than keeping their home livable, incredibly ambitious but misguided and miss used by people who called them self elites, unfair, untrustworthy, not interested in living together in peace and harmony, depicting them selfs as some sort of hyper evolution.
They where parasites, this is why the Terran Manifest was written, this is why people started bounding and fighting back, corrupt leaders where hold accountable, billionaires where...

#PennedPossibilities 748 #StarRyde #SciFi #WIP #WorldBuilding

748 2/2
dismantled and if they where found guilty of acting against Terra, Terras inhabitants, active drivers of wars and/or the mass extinction, they where put to good use, like first test "pilots" for the renewed space programs, medical/psychological research in underdeveloped empathy.
The ones that where found guilty for the global warming contribution had to work their asses of planting trees and testing genetic engineering.

Humanity didn't survive the 23. century instead Gaia Unika and Terra Unikat gave birth to us Terrans as we exist today, thanks to the Terran Manifest and decent people doing the right thing en mass.
Than the first message from our friends the Talithi, thanks to them we where able to reverse many damages done by this brain damaged back in the day.
Warning us against the Eltaryn.
We barely managed to defend us thanks to the Talithi's warnings.
Today we are defending everyone as we always should have.
#PennedPossibilities 748 #StarRyde #SciFi #WIP #WorldBuilding

749
MC POV: What is the goal you’re trying to achieve?

I skip for the day.

#PennedPossibilities 749

750
Is your SC aware of what the MC wants out of life, and are they willing to help them acquire it?

They better are because it's one mission, one ship, one crew.

#PennedPossibilities 750 #StarRyde #SciFi #WIP

751
Check-In: Share a snippet you’ve written recently that you’re proud of. (Doesn’t matter what it’s from, or if it’s edited or not.)

Not at the moment for several reasons. I am at a all time low with my energy barely scraping on daily stuff.
I simply don't have the energy to choose something, translate it from German, find a translator (which I really would like to support but financially can't) and I hate using translation tools to offten if I can avoid it because most of them also use AI or support AI and I don't like the way they "try to improve" anything with AI.

That said my progress is also very slow so I might have nothing to share at all which I didn't already shared it or nothing I fell comfortable sharing at all for the moment.

I like the idea and hope it helps everyone but I for the foreseeable future won't participate in it by posting.
Non the less I like the idea.

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Tell us about something that will always make your antagonist laugh.

AJ (Ariaene) has a personal guard & assistant while not on mission.
She takes great care with them, on good days she tries her best to be an invisible supportive ghost.
She was ordered by AI to help out if necessary, but she clearly likes AJ as a person and does her best to keep them save on bad days too.
If AJ remembers her it's an instant smile and joy for them. On bad days she often manages to get through to AJ when others can't & calm them down. AJ likes her humor pretty much because ist very dry served. Otherwise it's more erratic on the battlefield if they manages to "push" big groups of opponents around like they are tiny wargame figurines.

AI (Antagonist Infernale) hasn't been seen yet and no one knows what they may find funny

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753. Where do your SCs feel the happiest?

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

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

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

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

XO Troika: "3 daughters."

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Does your antagonist have any unusual or advanced skills?

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

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

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756.
Describe your WIP in one sentence.

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

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

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

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

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

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

NON CONSENT BDSM or SEX.
That is simply RAPE.

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

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

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

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

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

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breaking bad jokes extra answer

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

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

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

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

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761
Tell us about your funniest character.

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

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

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

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

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

Ash: as the ships AI prefers clear cut and open communication.
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763
What is your antagonist’s greatest fear? Explain.

Skip

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

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

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

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

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

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