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#+title: To The Stars
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* Characters
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*** Shizuki Ryouko 静樹 良子
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Main protagonist
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- Diminutive stature but does not want to be perceived as a child (I.1.27)
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- Begins as 14 years old (I.1.33)
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- Thinks "nothing is worth rushing for" (I.1.39)
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- Lives on the 42nd story, in Mitakihara city (I.1.43)
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- Has a automatic telescope from grandmother which receives instructions from
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cortical implants. (I.1.63)
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- Could not find a hobby (I.1.73)
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- Wants to be a space traveler (I.1.239)
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- Wants to be a magic girls despite knowing the risks since the life has
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contrast with the "sterile, prosaic life" (I.1.399).
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*** Simona
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Friend of Ryouko and foreign exchange student (I.1.209)
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- Wants to be a violinist (I.1.255)
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- Exchange student but not very interested in learning languages. She embarked
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on an exchange to get away from family (I.1.835)
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- Describes Earth as same people everywhere (I.1.871)
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- May have romantic feelings towards Ryouko (I.1.895) (I.2.543)
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*** Chiaki 智晶
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Friend of Ryouko (I.1.209)
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- Long-haired (I.1.209)
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*** Ruiko 瑠衣子
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Friend of Ryouko (I.1.209)
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- Pig-tailed (I.1.209)
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- Wanted to learn nanoengineering or theoretical physics (dropped) (I.1.223)
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*** Ryouko's father
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- Over 100 years old but looks around 30 (I.1.79)
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*** Ryouko's mother
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*** Ryouko's (paternal) grandfather
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- Join the military on Monday next week [relative to reference] (I.1.161)
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*** Ryouko's (paternal) grandmother
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- Joined the military for 12 years (I.1.133)
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- Stopped writing to her family but she is not dead. (I.1.133)
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*** Tomoe Mami 巴 麻美
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- Looked to be 19-20yo despite being hundreds of years old. (I.1.307)
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- Can converse while holding a motionless face (I.1.351)
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- Body is enhanced as for every magical girl (I.1.423)
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- Field Marshall (I.1.689)
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- Hated recruiting because of the innocence of the girls (I.2.19)
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*** Sakura Kyouko 桜 香子
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- Chooses to remain 14 (I.1.471)
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- Looks to be 14 and lives in the Catholic-style church in Mitakihara (I.1.429)
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- Calls Mami "Marshal" (I.1.477)
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- Calls MSY the "Union" (I.1.589)
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*** Akemi Homura 暁美 ほむら
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- "Left" with no more news (I.1.517)
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- Believs in "Goddess of Hope" (I.1.539)
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- 20 years ago she leveraged the Goddess of Hope and her charisma to start a
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religion (I.1.573). This became the Cult of Hope which was the only living
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religion which gained members (I.1.577).
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- Had presentations and statistics when she was spearheading MSY (I.1.611)
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- Vanished after saving Epsilon Eridani (I.1.581)
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*** Yuma
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Involved in MSY (I.1.613)
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- In government (I.1.623)
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*** some french magical girl
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Does not trust the government (I.1.625)
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*** Kyubey
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- Says Akemi Homura has disappeared due to the exhaustion of her soul gem (I.1.907)
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*** Fleet Admiral Xing
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Has some feud with General Blackwell [v2/p80]
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*** General Blackwell
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Has some feud with Fleet Admiral Xing [v2/p80]
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* In-Book Items
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** Books/Documentaries
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*** /Universal Guidelines for Middle School Instructors (12th revision)/
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- Mentioned in (I.1.11)
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*** /Daughters of the Contract: A Documentary/
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- Mentioned in (I.2.7)
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*** /Mahou Shoujo: Their World, Their History (Julian Bradshaw)/
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- Mentioned in (I.2.15)
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** Laws/Edicts
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*** /Special Conscription Act/ (I.1.381)
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Due to a special conscription act enacted 20 years ago, all new magic girls owe
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the military 30 years of service. The minimum age of combat was dropped to 13.
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Magic girls enter the military not as privates but 2nd lieutenants.
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*** /Information Restriction Act/ (I.1.391)
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Restricts information about Magica from the populace.
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Impossible to enforce.
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** Tools
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- Chronometer: Some type of clock (I.1.717)
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* Settings
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** Magica
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- Discouragement from parents is illegal but practiced (I.1.377)
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- Not bound by travel restrictions (I.1.379)
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- Many magic girls died in their first combat assignments or before their first
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leaves or received psychological damage (I.1.395).
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- Incubator selection is rare and depends on "potential" which is an innate
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quality irrespective of wishes (I.1.403)
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All chosen by incubators have a deep personal wish worthy of their soul, but
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this is not a sufficient condition.
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- Magic girls compose a part of the military and their primary representative is
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Mami.
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- Operating alone is a violation of regulations (I.1.955)
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- Mentorship and team systems between magic girls existed before MSY (I.2.9)
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- All magical girls upon enlistment becomes emancipated (I.2.377)
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- Fingernail mark (I.2.137)
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- Emergency mode is mostly useless to magical girls (I.2.261)
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*** Mahou Shoujo Youkai (MSY) 魔法少女妖怪
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An organisation spearheaded by Homura which collects data about battles, grief
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cube collections, grief cube usage. Members resisted Homura on insisting
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forcefully. (I.1.611)
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This organisation caused the number of deaths in battle to drop and a grief cube
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surplus. Kyouko and Mami are still executive heads of MSY but leaves
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the day-to-day handling to their legates. (I.1.617)
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This organisation was called Union implying that the incubators are the bosses
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of magica (I.1.591).
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Grief Cube Audit tallies the grief cubes in reserve (I.1.605).
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*** Cult of Hope
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Uses its infrastructure to handle all data collection for grief cube logistics
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(I.1.633).
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*** Recruiting
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Recruits were rushed through their contracts (I.2.37). The one-time offer is
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probably a lie (I.2.43) to aid recruitment.
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** Demons and Miasmae
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A miasma is a patch of localised thing which can be cleaned up (I.1.931). Signals
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have a hard time moving through miasma (I.1.991). It also interferes with biology
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enhancement systems (I.1.1049). It also blocks visible light (I.1.993).
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Demons seem to co-exist with miasmae.
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- "A white-robed figure loomed over them, tall as three men" (I.1.983)
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- Demons can release intense beams of light to destroy things (I.1.1045)
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Miasmae and demons occur in industrial districts where populations are sparse
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(I.1.1113). Being able to see demons outside of miasma is the smoking gun of a
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magical girl (I.1.1213).
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** Timeframe
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- The incubator system still exists. Instructors cannot divulge information
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about incubator system until the pupils are at age 20. (I.1.9)
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- At Ryuoko's grandmother's time an automatic telescope and cortical implants
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were possible (I.1.63)
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- Clothes are self-cleaning (I.1.29) and robots can do the dressing (I.1.29),
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both require money. Bedsheets are self folding (I.1.85)
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- Sleep-suppressing regimen cause people to sleep 0-3h a day for adults.
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Considered unsafe for 14-year-olds (I.1.33).
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- People can talk without moving lips (I.1.35)
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- Hair can maintain at constant length (I.1.43)
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- Species diversity preserve (*SDP*) (I.1.51) presumably some sort of park
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- Space station can deflect major asteroids or wipe out continents (I.1.65) and
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constantly being upgraded, added to, or replaced. (I.1.65) Maybe redundant
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(I.1.67).
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- Knowledge is directly injected into consciousness (I.1.23), but has
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speed limits (I.1.213).
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- Can live eternally (I.1.141).
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- Food synthesizer produces food (I.1.167)
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- Images can be called up from optical implants which highlights interest
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regions and can take pictures (I.1.287).
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- Aliens (I.1.529)
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*** Emergency Packages
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The packages operate by assisting with motion and thought. The civilian-issue
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version is weaker than the military version. Emergency mode turns on when there
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is a life-or-death situation (I.1.1063).
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Exiting emergency mode causes /recoil/ which is traumatic. Some soldiers turn
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emergency mode on for weeks at a time and exiting is very difficult (I.1.1133).
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** Economics
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The economy operates on a /eudaemonic/ model rather than capitalistic. (I.1.261)
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- Resources are allocated in units of /Alloc/ which were cut by
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/Recommendations by the PAL/ (I.1.13)
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- All productive works are voluntary. (I.1.69)
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- No one wants to live outside a city because it is expensive and boring
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(I.1.89). Flats are government-allocated and citizens spend
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government-distributed incomes (I.1.89).
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- Goods are more expensive away from centres of production, which are in cities
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(I.1.89)
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*** Travel
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- Solution to congestion was to go 3D via traffic tubes (I.1.189) (Just
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one more lane bro!!!)
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- People can use personal auto-transports (I.1.185) which can be self-driven or
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magnetically driven (I.1.187).
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- Public transport tunnels are guarded by sentries to protect falling but they
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ignore magic girls (I.1.449). Public transport channels are under surveillance
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(I.1.89).
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Space flight is still a scarcity. Pleasure flights were priced to absurd levels
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to restrict civilians. It had not always been like this but changed for
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colonists and military (I.1.59).
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Military veterans can have unlimited travel on earth or colonies and the right
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to settle anywhere (I.1.383).
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** Culture
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- Governance stress having each generation of children experience a little of
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human conditions (I.1.33)
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- Governance placed restrictions on direct mental communication and VR (I.1.35)
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- Nothing worth rushing for for the general population (I.1.39).
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- Story of human history was all about escape in the past and has reached the
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end for perfect society (I.1.45).
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- Residents of Earth spend time on their hobbies (I.1.69).
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- People with /ennui/ (unable to fit into society), divorced after 60 years of
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matrimony, who are more than 100 years old, can join the military and then be
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discharged in the colonies. (I.1.141)
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- Human Standard (a internationalised and mutated form of English) is the Earth
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lingua franca (I.1.221).
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*** Education
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- School is about socialising with peers and figuring out what you wanted to
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learn (I.1.197).
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- Primary School Civics (I.1.273).
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- /Mandatory sessions/ are a civic duty (I.1.255).
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Such sessions are for preparing the citizenry in a scarcity situation when the
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economy has to be switched from eudaimonic to scarcity mode (family Allocs
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tied to productivity), or even capitalistic. (I.1.261)
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** Places
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*** Mitakihara City
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Mitakihara has a major starport which is particularly important and busy
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(I.1.55).
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The city is crammed and most families in tight flats (I.1.89).
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School is at the 30th floor (I.1.193).
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Buildings
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- Shizuki Consumer Goods (I.1.417)
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- Hephaestus Nanotechnology (I.1.417)
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- Chronos Biologics (I.1.417)
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- Zeus and Prometheus Research Centres (unique to Mitakihara) (I.1.417)
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The two research centres face each other over a narrow causeway between them.
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- Headquarter of Cult of Hope (Catholic-style church) (I.1.429).
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Church has a small bedroom for one (I.1.467).
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*** Space Stations
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- Earth has defense stations orbiting (I.1.61)
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- Bucky Model space stations are shaped like football (I.1.65)
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*** Epsilon Eridani
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A human colony; Akemi Homura helped to save it (I.1.581).
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*** Wolf 359
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A human colony (I.1.675).
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* Divergence
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In /To The Stars/, there are some divergences of meanings of words from common usage. These could also reflect on the author's misunderstanding.
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- (I.1.853) "A scramjet lifted into the air, using an antigrav assist":
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Scramjets cannot start from standstill or subsonic conditions.
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- [v2/p63] A nomenclator describes the identity of an individual.
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