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Time to Orbit: Unknown
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Aspen Greaves was expecting to wake up from chronostasis in orbit around their new planet, to be checked over by medical staff on a crowded ship, and to be sent straight down to their new, permanent home. They were not expecting to wake up alone on a damaged ship in the dark, five years away from their destination, with only the universe's least helpful AI to advise them on what went wrong and how to fix it. But with almost five thousand sleeping colonists in their care and the crew mysteriously dead, Aspen needs to figure out what went wrong and how to actually make it to Hylara.If only they knew anything at all about being an astronaut.Time To Orbit: Unknown is a science fiction web serial written by Derin Edala which began publication in 2022. | |
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City on the Water | |
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City on the Water: Aspen is from Arborea, one of several ocean countries on the future Earth that are based around floating cities grown using biotechnology. | |
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Short-Lived Organism | |
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Short-Lived Organism: The Hylarans were genetically engineered to grow and mature quickly; so that Antarctica could use them to operate the Vault. They live only half of a normal human lifespan as a result. | |
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Older Is Better | |
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Older Is Better: Many of the Courageous's systems were designed to use older technology that would be much easier to repair if it broke. Taken to extremes when they have to disable the AI and start manually operating the ship's systems. | |
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Unnecessarily Large Vessel | |
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Unnecessarily Large Vessel: The Courageous is very, very large for its intended 21-person crew, for redundancy; to avoid the crew feeling crowded during the decades of the voyage; and because it's intended to double as a colony base once it actually gets to Hylara. | |
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Lightspeed Leapfrog | |
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Lightspeed Leapfrog: There is already a group of people at Hylara when the Courageous gets there, who launched later and arrived first. | |
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Prisoner's Work | |
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Prisoner's Work: A lot of prisons, particularly in the Republic of Texas or Luna, make extensive use of convict labor. And a high proportion of the colonists are convicts, intended as a disposable labor force. | |
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Uplifted Animal | |
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Uplifted Animal: Referenced, although not present in the series: apparently Arborea has genetically engineered more-intelligent dolphins. Apparently, they are pink. | |
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Foreign Cuss Word | |
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Foreign Cuss Word: The characters who were born and lived the Moon apparently know a particularly evocative collection of Lunari curse words; which they use even when speaing Interlingua or Texan. | |
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Zeerust | |
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Zeerust: Invoked by the zeelite and cyberlite cultures, which deliberately dress and act in ways that evoke 1960s Raygun Gothic and 2000s Cyberpunk, respectively. | |
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot | |
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot: A very complicated situation! The ship's AI isn't exactly evil, but it is often unhelpful. Its function is somewhat based on 2022-era large language models, and getting information out of it can vary based on exactly how you asked the question and what context you forced it to consider. The AI has also been convinced by previous users to hide certain information, and occasionally takes action on its own to fulfil what it sees as its primary goals. Those goals do include trying to keep as many colonists alive as possible, so it's not too murderous, but it will make sacrifices if it thinks they're necessary to protect others. And then there's the issues of the colonists' brains... | |
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Fantastic Radiation Shielding | |
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Fantastic Radiation Shielding: The Javelins have electromagnetic radiation shielding generated by a framework of outriggers a few meters from the hull. At the beginning of the story; Aspen uses the framework to bypass blocked internal airlocks and get to one end of the Courageous to activate the engines so that it can stop at Hylara. This is very uncomfortable for them because of the electromagnetic interference with their spacesuit and nerves; an effect that is later exploited to disable the convict colonists' kill switches. | |
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Raised by Robots | |
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Raised by Robots: The other colonists were sent through space as modified embryos, to be decanted and raised by AI. | |
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Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke | |
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Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke: Nearly all of the characters have some amount of genetic engineering in their pasts; from tougher nails and better color vision through Aspen's dive-adaptation genetics that also made them more likely to survive suspended animation to the genetic engineering done on about a third of the colonists to make them live longer and have their brains be more easily taken over by the ship's AI. | |
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You Wake Up in a Room | |
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You Wake Up in a Room: How the story begins. | |
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Mundangerous | |
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Mundangerous: Aspen manages to break several bones falling off a ladder. After all the insanity with the AI, the conspiracies, and the sabotage, what finally finished off the crew in the front half of the ship? Pneumonia. It's so mundane that Aspen almost doesn't believe it. | |
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Motor Mouth | |
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Motor Mouth: Tal tends to ramble and get off topic. Ke says that ke likes talking to the AI because it doesn't interrupt kem. | |
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Third-Person Person | |
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Third-Person Person: Public Universal Friends have given up their individuality and so never refer to themselves in first-person. Instead, the Friends use phrases such as "this Friend". Late in the story; we encounter Earl, one of the astronauts from the first-shift crew of the Courageous, who just happens to refer to himself in the third person. | |
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Wham Episode | |
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Wham Episode: Vault. Hylara has a FTL teleporter that allows them to receive supplies directly from Earth; the entire purpose of the colony is to be a link in a teleportation shipping network. | |
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Blunt Metaphors Trauma | |
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Blunt Metaphors Trauma: Shows up repeatedly; particularly when Aspen uses Arborean expressions in Interlingua and when they are learning Texan. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: When trying to describe in the first chapter how low standards actually are to be a colonist in the Javelin program, Aspen cites the fact that they were let in without question. This isn't simple self-deprecation — as we eventually learn, there are reasons why Aspen in particular should have been filtered out. | |
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I Want My Jet Pack | |
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I Want My Jetpack: Tal says that this is the drive behind zeelite and cyberlite culture - wanting to live in an era where it was still possible to imagine a future with jetpacks or ray guns or AIs that are as smart as a person. | |
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Language Barrier | |
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Language Barrier: The crew and colonists on the Courageous all speak a language called Interlingua, with varying fluency; but many also speak Texan - which Aspen learns over the course of the story. There are also Arborean, Lunari, Martian (which is apparently derived mostly from Korean), and future Japanese. All of the languages are rendered as English in the story, but the characters' speech patterns change to reflect how well they know whichever language they are using at a given moment. | |
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Sleeper Starship | |
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Sleeper Starship: Most of the people on board the ship are held in near-suspended animation, a complex procedure that requires some artificial nerve structures to maintain the body's fitness during the long period of immobility. Most people will be incredibly ill for a while after waking, and a few will die. The process can only be undergone once with any degree of success, so once you're awake, you're awake. | |
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Future Imperfect | |
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Future Imperfect: The "Doom runs on everything" meme is remembered as a sacred ritual of technology consecration, and it is believed that pre-Neocambrian people (i.e. us) believed that something only became a computer once it had run Doom for the first time. The original Dawn of the Dead has become lost media in this setting, but an in-universe remake has been made based on other media's references to it. A plot point in this version involves the use of technology that hadn't yet existed in our time. The United States of America is remembered as the "Nameless Nation", due to the people of the future misinterpreting its name as a description and believing the true name to be lost. The same thing has also happened to Bee Movie. | |
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Colony Ship | |
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Colony Ship: The Courageous is fired off from Earth with the same goal as any other Javelin ship, to create a new colony on Hylara. | |
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Dramatis Personae | |
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Dramatis Personae: With each entry; Edala provides a link to a list of the current crew members and their roles; along with a map of the Courageous. | |
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Cryonics Failure | |
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Cryonics Failure: Horrifically common on the Courageous, due to the length of the voyage and the unsanctioned experimentation on a large fraction of the colonists. This is relevant to the plot from the very beginning of the story: Aspen was selected to be revived because their genetics made them the most likely to survive the procedure. Many later attempted revivals do not succeed or lead to severe health impacts, and the surviving crew spends a long time figuring out why. | |
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Drop Pod | |
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Drop Pod: The Javelins were designed to land the colonists and their supplies on their target planets and then be disposed of. Accordingly, landings on Hylara are one-way trips from orbit in drop pods. | |
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Wetware CPU | |
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Wetware CPU: Some of the sleeping colonists's neural systems have been hijacked to serve as extra processing power for the computer. They can't be disconnected without killing them. | |
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Playful Hacker | |
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Playful Hacker: Tal is the crew's computer expert, and the most comedic of the crew. Ke's a zeelite who dresses in colorful Raygun Gothic fashions, makes frequent pop culture references, and seems to have become a hacker for fun as much as for profit. Ke mentions that ke once hacked the lighting systems of an apartment block to play Doom. | |
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Gambit Pileup | |
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Gambit Pileup: The situation on the ship was ultimately caused by factions back on Earth who had secret plans for the ship. Several more problems on the ship happened as a result of crew trying to sabotage or counter-sabotage these plans. Aspen and their crew spend most of the story trying to figure out what happened. | |
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Speculative Fiction LGBT | |
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Speculative Fiction LGBT: Most of the future runs on a gender ternary of male, female, and "brennan", a gender that goes by ke/kem pronouns. Non-ternary genders are acknowledged to exist but tend to get lumped together into an "other" category. | |
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Closed Circle | |
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Closed Circle: Until the ship gets to Hylara. | |
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You Are Number 6 | |
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You Are Number 6: The Public Universal Friends do not have names, but they will agree to numbers for record keeping. The Courageous had six Friends on board at launch; of whom we meet Friend 2 and Friend 6 ( Friend 6 dies during the voyage as part of a murder-suicide, while some of the other Friends were in ejected Chronostatis rings). If and when Friends are renumbered is unclear. | |
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Space Elevator | |
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Space Elevator: The future Earth that the Javelins depart from has several. The orbital stations that they hang from are independent countries, called the Plateaus. | |
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One-Steve Limit | |
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One-Steve Limit: Deliberately averted with the Public Universal Friends. Due to their nature and beliefs, it's forbidden to even give them nicknames, forcing other characters to use roundabout descriptions such as "the Friend who is a pilot" to differentiate them. | |
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Explosive Leash | |
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Explosive Leash: The convict colonists have all had kill switches implanted so that they can be instantly killed if they resist orders from the civilian population. | |
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Never Trust a Title | |
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Never Trust a Title: The time to orbit is one of the few things that IS known for sure. | |
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Dark and Troubled Past: Aspen is famous for their books about the Exodus Phenomenon and is credited with kick-starting the entire Javelin project, but they hate talking about it, and say that they never should have been chosen as a colonist. It takes a very long time before they explain why. Aspen makes a policy of not asking the convict colonists what acts they were convicted for. Some are eventually revealed; ranging from sympathetic (stealing to feed family members) to very much not (killing cancer patients to harvest their organs). | |
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