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DeputyJones Wrote:Also, any alien animals will only be permitted if they are Alternate-Mars animals. Which applies to the banth I mentioned in the story - the presence of the Barsoom Fen in Helium "drew" the Barsoomian animals to the area, but only the ones that would be appropriate for that latitude.
(Although I'm still not sure whether it's a banth or a lion - just because somebody said it's a banth doesn't mean it really is a banth. Decision to be made later depending on what works better for the story.)
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Since it appears Dakota's about to dock with counter-Earth's station Freedom...
Megan Anderson, station commander, Freedom
Born July 7, 1964. Brown hair, going gray, worn in a "pageboy" cut; Hazel eyes (wears glasses). Left leg missing from the knee down, right leg missing altogether; otherwise in good physical shape. Bears a striking resemblance to Fenspace's Noah Scott.
Public information: Megan was born and raised in the "eastern seaboard" area of the USA, and has an address-of-record in Hartford, Connecticut. She was in NASA's astronaut program in 1995 when she suffered a training accident which cost her her legs. After five months of rehab, she was assigned to Freedom as a mission specialist, specializing in hydroponics and zero-g botany. By the time prosthetics technology had advanced to the point where functional artificial legs could be made for Megan, she was completely acclimatized to living in zero-g. Megan was named station commander in 2013.
Not in the official online bio, but discoverable from rumors (or just asking Megan): She's an excellent cook, capable of making ration-pack food taste good. (She'll invite the crew of the Lunar Fox to dinner, and will probably be as surprised by their biomods as they will by her missing legs.) Megan's father (Peter) and brothers (twin brother Noah, younger brother Gerald) are all involved in the defense industry - all three of them pulled strings to keep her in the space program back in '95. Megan's the only one of her family to ever leave Earth.
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Quote:robkelk wrote:
Since it appears Dakota's about to dock with counter-Earth's station Freedom...
Megan Anderson, station commander, Freedom
Born July 7, 1964. Brown hair, going gray, worn in a "pageboy" cut; Hazel eyes (wears glasses). Left leg missing from the knee down, right leg missing altogether; otherwise in good physical shape. Bears a striking resemblance to Fenspace's Noah Scott.
Public information: Megan was born and raised in the "eastern seaboard" area of the USA, and has an address-of-record in Hartford, Connecticut. She was in NASA's astronaut program in 1995 when she suffered a training accident which cost her her legs. After five months of rehab, she was assigned to Freedom as a mission specialist, specializing in hydroponics and zero-g botany. By the time prosthetics technology had advanced to the point where functional artificial legs could be made for Megan, she was completely acclimatized to living in zero-g. Megan was named station commander in 2013.
Not in the official online bio, but discoverable from rumors (or just asking Megan): She's an excellent cook, capable of making ration-pack food taste good. (She'll invite the crew of the Lunar Fox to dinner, and will probably be as surprised by their biomods as they will by her missing legs.) Megan's father (Peter) and brothers (twin brother Noah, younger brother Gerald) are all involved in the defense industry - all three of them pulled strings to keep her in the space program back in '95. Megan's the only one of her family to ever leave Earth.
Well, I'd not had a solid idea of what to do afterwards, I'll work a docking with Freedom into it.
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Like what you put in earlier today, Dakota.
It isn't going to even come up for quite a few episodes, but I thought I'd post some decisions I'd made for magic - especially Western magic - in the Counter-Earth setting.
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MAGIC DETAILS ABOUT HARRY POTTER AND COUNTER-EARTH
The JKR of Counter-Earth was what her books label a muggleborn – a mage born from nonmage parents. She was not just accepted into the Royal Academy of Magic, but was actually required to attend because her ‘accidental magic’ was so frequent and powerful. The fictional Mr. Potter’s accidental turning of his teacher’s hair blue was something which actually happened to her.To a great degree, the JKR of C-E based her fictional world off of the actual world, with some changes made for story purposes (and to prevent herself from being arrested for breaking the real life version of the HP Secrecy Statutes).The books actually became a popular success before the hidden magic communities noticed just how accurate many of the details in them were. Many non-Brits actually find the fictionalized version of Magical Britain in them to be a hilarious dramatization of the actual elitist attitude possessed by many Brit mages due to theirs being the oldest surviving magical institution in Western Civilization.Terms: The terms muggle, pureblood, half-blood, mudblood, muggleborn, and squib were created by C-E JKR for the purposes of her story and are nonexistent in real life.UK Ministry of Magic: Nonexistent. The Royal Magic Society possesses a council and council chief composed of the heads of several dozen of the oldest magical families in the UK – which C-E JKR fictionalized into HP’s Wizengamot, Chief Warlock, and Ancient ad Most Noble Houses – which liaises with Her Majesty’s Government through the House of Lords. The RMS Council Chief is Sir Isaac Newton, who claims to have recreated the Flamels’ Philosopher’s Stone formulae (he actually stole it).Portkeys and the Floo: Both terms and methods of travel are nonexistent.Apparition: While the term does not exist, a spell for personal teleportation exists but requires one of two things. One: user to be a very high end in power terms mage. Or two: around five average level mages empowering a magic circle to teleport a sixth man. Experiments to improve the latter have led to ‘appearing inside solid object’ events being well documented.Other Magical Teleportation: It is possible to open a portal between Points A and B. The spell’s requirement for power increases with range, with two spellcasters of average power being required to open a portal – for example – between the northernmost point in Britain and the southernmost point in France for a period of 8 minutes. Being paid to be a ‘mana battery’ in an international portal spell is a common way of earning money among mages. Fans of Zero no Tsukaima will no doubt notice that the portal itself resembles the ‘World Door’ spell if they were to ever see one.Parseltongue/Parselmouth: The ability is a plot device created by for the books. No snake, magical or otherwise, has ever been determined to have the capacity for intelligent thought, let alone speech.Creatures and Races: Most of the magical animals and peoples of the HP world exist in the real world, though some are admittedly fake and some details were again altered for story purposes (and other reasons). Flobberworms and Blast-Ended Skrewts were created for the books.Magical Species: A number of magic animals in their background material are described as being artificially created by mages in antiquity. This is a complete fabrication. The most infamous of these is the chicken-egg-hatched-by-a-frog-birthing-a-basilisk story, which has mages the world over scratching their heads to this day wondering how the heck anyone thought that up. Admittedly, magical alteration of animals is possible – and a fairly common prank among mages involves putting wings on swine – but such magically given traits do not pass on to offspring.Goblins and Dwarves: The former do not run a bank. They did find the idea amusing, though. They live peacefully (mostly) alongside of dwarves, as they both possess a mostly subterranean culture.Centaurs and Giants: The former prefer their isolation from the rest of the world much as presented in the books. They do, however, possess mildly impressive magic capabilities of their own and their enclaves are often shared by giants, as the childlike in temper and mental faculties giants both for some reason see centaurs as a whole as parental figures and are in need of supervision to prevent them from wandering into the outside world.Unicorns and Other Magic Equines: Pretty much identical, except no parts of the unicorn are used in magic devices/potions. Its blood does not have healing properties, cursed or otherwise. The blood is actually not silver in color unless it believes itself in danger. This is because of its unique defense mechanism against predators. When threatened, the iron present in a unicorn’s blood is converted into mercury via a natural alchemical process which doesn’t harm the creature in the slightest. Pegasi (Abraxans, Aethonians, Thestrals, and Granians) are as presented in HP.Dementors: No one knows the origin of these blessedly-rare foul creatures. Historical accounts go back to Old Testament times, as records dating to the court of King Solomon describe an encounter by Israel’s army with a small collection of the things. They are believed to be somehow related to the Fae – which all Fae deny vehemently – as while they are extremely magically resistant, cold iron (i.e. steel) kills them quite easily, at which point they dissolve into a quickly evaporating, translucent sludge.Inferi and Other Undead: In most parts of the modern world, the various forms of necromancy are not only illegal, but in many cases punishable by death. The most famous exception is Haiti. Naturally occurring undead such as zombies and ghouls (inferi [singular inferius] are themselves zombies, but created artificially by a mage) are considered magical pests and exterminated as such. Ancient artificial undead such as mummies are treated much the same, except in those rare and still not understood cases in which they have somehow retained their minds.Dragons: Identical to the breeds presented in HP. Ancient legends, including records written by Ptolemy and the court sorcerers of China and Japan at that time, records of a race of intelligent dragons which left the world during their lifetimes.House Elves: Actually called brownies, but changed for the books and are rather uncommon.Nicolas and Perenelle Flamel and the Philosopher’s Stone: Nic Flamel is Director of the Board of Governors for the Academia Magi Roma (its patron is St. Lobelia of Tyrol, a Catholic mage martyred in 1288 and secretly canonized by the Vatican in 1306), a magical institution with various campuses spread through what was once the Holy Roman Empire and now serves the European Federation. He and his wife are currently two of only three “Philosopher Immortals” (some eastern alchemists have achieved immortality via a separate method).Other Psudohistorical Magic Folks: To be written as story requires.
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Jitterbug ( Prototype )
The first wave built craft on Counter-Earth by a bunch of NASA Engineers with directions from Dakota. Nothing more then a steel tube with a simple cockpit, 'borrowed' airlock system at the other end, spring loaded landing skids, and a single engine pod between the skids. It is the K.I.S.S. principle taken to the extreme. It both showed that DYI spacecraft where quite possible with wavium and relative safe. It spawned the JB line of compact cargo flitters.
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Bounce! - Jitterbugs always bounce when landing on their skids. While alarming for those not use to it, it doesn't do any harm.
Swing Baby! - While some JBs prefer 1920s swing music. They all require some sort of music before they will start.
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Edit: Erased previous post as the idea behind the question therein has been abandoned by myself.
Okay, I've got about 10 or so rough episodes partly finished and I find myself in need of some help. What does anybody here think should be the effect of the two Martian moons on single Earth moon based lycanthropy?
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Oh, there's a tough one...
Phobos and Deimos are both much smaller than Luna, but there are the two of them, so I guess it depends on exactly what triggers the lycanthropic change. Does a werewolf change because of moonlight, or because the moon's in the sky, or because it's that time of the month (not to be confused with the other "that time of the month," although there are parallels), or for some other reason? Answer that question and you're halfway to answering your own.
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I'm toying with both willpower triggering and sufficient moonlight (both moons required, maybe?... and do Phobos and Deimos even get 'full' like Luna?) forcing the change and with Earth-norm sunlight forcing a reversal, but only a certain period of time after a transformation occurs.
And that's just for one strain of lycanthropy. I'm considering as many as three or four types of werewolves, and weretigers besides.
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Quote:both moons required, maybe?... and do Phobos and Deimos even get 'full' like Luna?
They really don't. Neither moon is quite big enough to have a proper disk, much less run through phases. At best they'd be fat points of light from the surface.
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Hmm.. maybe lycanthrope biological clocks follow the cycle of the moon as relative to the last place they weee present upon a single-moon planet that do possess lunar phases.
*pondering...pondering...*
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Just finishing up some midterms today and tomorrow, including papers on the Armenian Genocide, the Tuskegee Experiments, and my hometown from a geographical perspective. Give me a couple days and I'll have another ep. or two up.
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If you don't mind, I just want to mention:
While reading this thread, a particular thought struck me: what if, for whatever reason, either a place from Fenspace gets ISOTed into a different universe, or a place from a different universe were to be ISOTed into Fenspace? I mean, I recall the (aborted) storyline The South is Rising (Somebody Get a Hammer) and how it involved a fictional place being ISOTed into Fenspace. However, let's say we move an entire planet into the Fenspace solar system from some fictional universe. Imagine the chaos that might result (even more so depending on the planet in question)...
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Quote:Tennie wrote:
If you don't mind, I just want to mention:
While reading this thread, a particular thought struck me: what if, for whatever reason, either a place from Fenspace gets ISOTed into a different universe, or a place from a different universe were to be ISOTed into Fenspace? I mean, I recall the (aborted) storyline The South is Rising (Somebody Get a Hammer) and how it involved a fictional place being ISOTed into Fenspace. However, let's say we move an entire planet into the Fenspace solar system from some fictional universe. Imagine the chaos that might result (even more so depending on the planet in question)...
We sort of do that with the Candle in the dark ISOT story. Fenspace and a surrounding bubble of stars gets ISOT into the Battletech 'verse.
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Of course, to be honest I was thinking more along the lines of, "instead of ISOTing Fenspace to another 'verse, let's ISOT an alternate world into the Fenspace solar system" (and besides, from what I noticed Candle in the Dark also seems to be dead, at least currently). Imagine what would happen if, say, Alderaan gets ISOTed into the L4 Lagrange point of Earth's orbit right before it would've been blown up by the Death Star. Or perhaps Mid-Childa circa the first few episodes of Nanoha StrikerS is shunted into that same location. Now imagine that the inhabitants of that world discover that the universe that they've been moved into is one in which their own world is a fictional one. Imagine what kind of chaos could happen if such a move occurs while the story/series has not yet concluded...
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