diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 969b150..07b2190 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -5,3 +5,15 @@ plots in the AO3 novel *To The Stars*. The battle symbology is derived from NATO Joint Military Symbols and is augmented to ensure full compatibility. + +## Format + +The symbology used in battle diagrams is given in `references.tex`. To cite a +passage, use the format `(VOL CH LINE)`, e.g. `(I.1.123)` refers to line `123` +of volume I chapter 1 (A Wish). The line number is the unfolded line number +which can be extracted in Emacs via `nov.el` and +``` emacs-lisp +(setq nov-text-width t) +(add-hook 'nov-mode-hook 'visual-line-mode) +``` + diff --git a/magica-common.sty b/magica-common.sty index 36e679c..6516682 100644 --- a/magica-common.sty +++ b/magica-common.sty @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ \newfontfamily\Raleway[Ligatures=TeX]{Raleway} \newfontfamily\Lato[Ligatures=TeX]{Lato} -\colorlet{CCore}{ForestGreen!50!black} +\colorlet{CCore}{green!50!black} \setbeamercolor{titlelike}{fg=CCore} \setbeamercolor{frametitle}{fg=CCore} \setbeamercolor{section in head/foot}{bg=CCore} @@ -23,5 +23,4 @@ \setbeamerfont{caption}{size=\small} \setbeamerfont{footline}{family=\Raleway,size=\normalsize} - \usepackage{magica} diff --git a/magica.sty b/magica.sty index 67722c1..56ccb2b 100644 --- a/magica.sty +++ b/magica.sty @@ -1,6 +1,5 @@ \ProvidesPackage{magica}[2023/07/06 Magica] -\usepackage[dvipsnames]{xcolor} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{xparse} \usepackage{milsymb} @@ -18,15 +17,30 @@ minimum size=15pt, fill=#1 }, + Char/.default={white}, % civilian colour MilSymb land/magica/demon/.pic={ - \node [fill=MilSymb@fill, \MilSymb@line] {\bigstar}; + \node [fill=MilSymb@fill, \MilSymb@line, + star, star points=5, star point height=6px, draw=black, scale=0.6, rotate=180] {}; }, /MilSymb/.cd, main/demon/.style={/MilSymb/.cd, SymbC=land/magica/demon}, } -\NewDocumentCommand\Magica{ d() g}{ - \node[Char=Dandelion] (c) at (#1) {}; - \node[right=5pt] at (c) {#2}; +\colorlet{TomoeM}{Dandelion} +\colorlet{SakuraY}{Rhodamine} +\colorlet{AkemiH}{Black} +\colorlet{ShizukiR}{LimeGreen} +\colorlet{Sayaka}{CornflowerBlue} + +\NewDocumentCommand\Magica{ o d() g}{ + \node[Char=#1] (c) at (#2) {}; + \IfNoValueTF{#3}{}{ \node[right=5pt] at (c) {#3}; } +} +\NewDocumentCommand\Civilian{ d() g}{ + \node[Char] (c) at (#1) {}; + \IfNoValueTF{#2}{}{ \node[right=5pt] at (c) {#2}; } +} +\NewDocumentCommand\Demon{ d() }{ + \node[Char=red!50!white] (c) at (#1) {}; } diff --git a/notes.org b/notes.org deleted file mode 100644 index 95c41f1..0000000 --- a/notes.org +++ /dev/null @@ -1,340 +0,0 @@ -#+title: To The Stars - -Up to [v1/p37] - -* History - -** Volume I - -Allocs were cut (/Recommendation by the Production and Allocation Machine -(PAL)/) [v1/p4]. - -At some point in the past the "current war" started, which caused extra allocs -from voluntary work to increase and the basic allocs to decrease. [v1/p16]. -Due to a special conscription act enacted 20 years ago, all new magic girls owe -the military 30 years of service [v1/p20]. The minimum age of combat was dropped to 13. -Magic girls enter the military not as privates but 2nd lieutenants. - -A defect in the Cult of Hope's computers caused random drops with grief cubes -for squads on the front line [v1/p33]. The occurrence seems random. This was -counterintuitive since computers are not supposed to make such mistakes. Secret -examination squads sent by Kyouko could not spot problems [v1/p33]. Similar -defects caused girls to be sent behind the lines or home and never came back. - -When Kyouko was visiting Wolf 359, a platoon of infantry dragged Saya-chan's -body and soul gem back to safety, but lost her. They broke down in front of -Kyouko demanding that she finds the missing Saya-chan. - - - -* Characters - -*** Shizuki Ryouko 静樹　良子 - -Main protagonist -Mentor: Sakura Kyouko - -- Diminutive stature [v1/p5] but does not want to be perceived as a child. -- Begins as 14 years old -- Thinks "nothing is worth rushing for" [v1/p6] -- Lives on the 42nd story [v1/p6], in Mitakihara city [v1/p6] -- Has a automatic telescope from grandmother which receives instructions from - cortical implants. [v1/p7] -- Could not find a hobby [v1/p8] -- Wants to be a space traveler [v1/p15] -- Wants to be a magic girls despite knowing the risks since the life has - contrast with the "sterile, prosaic life" [v1/p22]. It was granted after an - encounter with demons and miasmae [v2/p57]. -- Her weapon as a magical girl is a arbalest (crossbow) and can teleport [v2/p67,68] -- Can teleport up to 200km, but cannot telekinesis or teleport objects without - teleporting self [v1/p70]. 200km is much greater than the standing record of 63km. - -*** Simona - -Friend of Ryouko and foreign exchange student [v1/p13] - -- Wants to be a violinist [v1/p15] -- Exchange student but not very interested in learning languages. She embarked - on an exchange to get away from family [v1/p40] -- Describes Earth as same people everywhere [v1/p41] -- May have romantic feelings towards Ryouko [v2/p77] - -*** Chiaki 智晶 - -Friend of Ryouko [p1/v14] -- Long-haired [p1/v14] - -*** Ruiko 瑠衣子 - -Friend of Ryouko [v1/p14] -- Pig-tailed -- Wanted to learn nanoengineering or theoretical physics (dropped) [v1/p14] - -*** Ryouko's father - -- Over 100 years old but looks around 30 [v1/p8] - -*** Ryouko's mother - -*** Ryouko's (paternal) grandfather - -- Join the military on Monday next week (rel. [v1/p12]) - -*** Ryouko's (paternal) grandmother - -- Joined the military for 12 years [v1/p10] -- Stopped writing to her family but she is not dead. [v1/p10] -- Want to see something other than Earth by her own accounts [v1/p41] - -*** Tomoe Mami 巴　麻美 - -- Looked to be 19-20yo despite being hundreds of years old. [v1/p18] -- Can converse while holding a motionless face -- Body is enhanced -- Field Marshall [v1/p35] - -*** Sakura Kyouko 桜　香子 - -- Looks to be 14 and lives in the Catholic-style church in Mitakihara [v1/p25] -- Calls Mami "Marshal" [v1/p26] -- Calls MSY the "Union" [v1/p30] - -*** Akemi Homura 暁美　ほむら - -- "Left" with no more news [v1/p27] -- Believs in "Goddess of Hope" [v1/p28] -- 20 years ago she leveraged the Goddess of Hope and her charisma to start a - religion [v1/p29]. This became the Cult of Hope which was the only living - religion which gained members. -- Had presentations and statistics when she was spearheading MSY -- Vanished after saving Epsilon Eridani [v1/p30] - -*** Yuma - -Involved in MSY - -- In government [v1/p36] - -*** some french magical girl - -Does not trust the government [v1/p32] - -*** Kyubey - -- Says Akemi Homura has disappeared due to the exhaustion of her soul gem [v1/p43] - -*** Fleet Admiral Xing -Has some feud with General Blackwell [v2/p80] -*** General Blackwell -Has some feud with Fleet Admiral Xing [v2/p80] - - - -* In-Book Items - -** Books - -*** /Universal Guidelines for Middle School Instructors (12th revision)/ -- Mentioned in [v1/p4] -*** /Daughters of the Contract: A Documentary/ -- Mentioned in [v2/p59] -*** /Mahou Shoujo: Their World, Their History (Julian Bradshaw)/ -- Mentioned in [v2/p60] - -** Laws/Edicts - -*** /Special Conscription Act/ [v1/p20] -Due to a special conscription act enacted 20 years ago, all new magic girls owe -the military 30 years of service [v1/p20]. The minimum age of combat was dropped to 13. -Magic girls enter the military not as privates but 2nd lieutenants. -*** /Information Restriction Act/ [v1/p21] - -Restricts information about Magica from the populace. - -Impossible to enforce. - - -** Tools - -- Chronometer: Some type of clock [v1/p5] - -* Settings - -** Magica - -- Magic girls are integrated into society [v1/p19] -- Discouragement from parents is illegal but practiced [v1/p20] -- Not bound by travel restrictions [v1/p20] -- Many magic girls died in their first combat assignments or before their first - leaves [v1/p21] or received psychological damage [v1/p22]. -- Incubator selection is rare and depends on "potential" which is an innate - quality irrespective of wishes [v1/p22] - - All chosen by incubators have a deep personal wish worthy of their soul, but - this is not a sufficient condition. -- Grief Cube Audit [v1/p31] -- Magic girls compose a part of the military and their primary representative is - Mami. -- Operating alone is a violation of regulations [v1/p44] -- Mentorship and team systems between magic girls existed before MSY [v2/p59] -- All magical girls upon enlistment becomes emancipated [v2/p73] - -*** Mahou Shoujo Youkai (MSY) 魔法少女妖怪 - -An organisation spearheaded by Homura which collects data about battles, grief -cube collections, grief cube usage [v1/p31]. Members resisted Homura on -insisting forcefully. - -This organisation caused the number of deaths in battle to drop and a grief cube -surplus [v1/p32]. Kyouko and Mami are still executive heads of MSY but leaves -the day-to-day handling to their legates. - -This organisation was called Union implying that the incubators are the bosses -of magica [v1/p30]. - -*** Cult of Hope - -Uses its infrastructure to handle all data collection for grief cube logistics [v1/p32] - -** Demons and Miasmae - -A miasma is a patch of localised thing which can be cleaned up [v1/p44]. Signals -have a hard time moving through miasma [v1/p45]. It also interferes with biology -enhancement systems [v1/p47]. It also blocks visible light [v1/p48]. - -Demons seem to co-exist with miasmae. -- "A white-robed figure loomed over them, tall as three men" [v1/p45] -- Demons can release intense beams of light to destroy things [v1/p48] - -Miasmae and demons occur in industrial districts where populations are sparse -[v1/p51]. Being able to see demons outside of miasma is the smoking gun of a -magical girl [v1/p55]. - -** Timeframe - -- The incubator system still exists. Instructors cannot divulge information - about incubator system until the pupils are at age 20. [v1/p4] -- At Ryuoko's grandmother's time an automatic telescope and cortical implants - were possible [v1/p7]. - - -- Clothes are self-cleaning [v1/p5] and robots can do the dressing [v1/p5], both - require money. Bedsheets are self folding [v1/p8] -- Sleep-suppressing regimen cause people to sleep 0-3h a day for adults. - Considered unsafe for 14-year-olds -- People can talk without moving lips [v1/p6] -- Hair can maintain at constant length [v1/p6] -- Species diversity preserve (SDP) [v1/p6] -- Space station can deflect major asteroids or wipe out continents [v1/p7] and - constantly being upgraded, added to, or replaced. Maybe redundant [v1/p7] -- Knowledge is directly injected into consciousness [v1/p5] and [v1/p9], but has - speed limits [v1/p14]. -- Can live eternally [v1/p11]. -- Food synthesizer produces food [v1/p12] [v1/p13]. -- Images can be called up from optical implants which highlights interest - regions [v1/p17] and can take pictures [v1/p19]. -- Aliens [v1/p27] - -*** Emergency Packages - -The packages operate by assisting with motion and thought. The civilian-issue -version is weaker than the military version. Emergency mode turns on when there is a life-or-death situation. [v1/p53] - -Exiting emergency mode causes /recoil/ which is traumatic. Some soldiers turn -emergency mode on for weeks at a time and exiting is very difficult [v2/p53]. - -** Economics - -The economy operates on a /eudaemonic/ model rather than capitalistic. [v1/p9] - -- Resources are allocated in units of /Alloc/ [v1/p4] which were cut by - /Recommendations by the PAL/. -- All productive works are voluntary. [v1/p8] -- No one wants to live outside a city because it is expensive and boring - [v1/p9]. Flats are government-allocated [v1/p9] and citizens spend - government-distributed incomes. -- Goods are more expensive away from centres of production, which are in cities [v1/p9] - -*** Travel - -- Solution to congestion was to go 3D via traffic tubes [v1/p6] [v1/p13] (Just - one more lane bro!!!) -- People can use personal auto-transports [v1/p12] which can be self-driven or - magnetically driven. -- Public transport tunnels are guarded by sentries to protect falling but they - ignore magic girls [v1/p24]. Public transport channels are surveilled [v1/p24] - -Space flight is still a scarcity. Pleasure flights were priced to absurd levels -to restrict civilians. It had not always been like this but changed for -colonists and military [v1/p7] - -Military veterans can have unlimited travel on earth or colonies and the right -to settle anywhere. - - -** Culture - -- Governance stress having each generation of children experience a little of - human conditions [v1/p5] -- Governance placed restrictions on direct mental communication and VR [v1/p6] -- Nothing worth rushing for [v1/p6] -- Story of human history was all about escape in the past and has reached the - end for perfect society [v1/p6] -- Residents of Earth spend time on their hobbies. [v1/p8] -- People with /ennui/ (unable to fit into society), divorced after 60 years of - matrimony, who are more than 100 years old, can join the military and then be - discharged in the colonies. [v1/p11] -- Human Standard (a internationalised and mutated form of English) is the Earth - lingua franca. - -*** Education - -- School is about socialising with peers and figuring out what you wanted to - learn. [v1/p13] -- Primary School Civics [v1/p16] -- /Mandatory sessions/ are a civic duty [v1/p15] - - Such sessions are for preparing the citizenry in a scarcity situation when the - economy has to be switched from eudaimonic to scarcity mode (family Allocs - tied to productivity), or even capitalistic. [v1/] -- Spaceflight Engineering [v1/] - -** Places - -Earth has defense stations orbiting [v1/p7] - -*** Mitakihara City - -Mitakihara has a major starport which is particularly important and busy [v1/p7] - -The city is crammed and most families in tight flats. [v1/p8] - -School is at the 30th floor [v1/p13] - -Buildings -- Shizuki Consumer Goods [v1/p23] -- Hephaestus Nanotechnology [v1/p23] -- Chronos Biologics [v1/p23] -- Zeus and Prometheus Research Centres (unique to Mitakihara) [v1/p23] - - The two research centres face each other over a narrow causeway between them. -- Headquarter of Cult of Hope (Catholic-style church) [v1/p23] - - Church has a small bedroom for one - -*** Space Stations - -Bucky Model space stations are shaped like football [v1/] - -*** Epsilon Eridani - -A human colony; Akemi Homura helped to save it [v1/p30]. - - -* Divergence - -In /To The Stars/, there are some divergences of meanings of words from common usage. These could also reflect on the author's misunderstanding. - -- [v1/p41] "A scramjet lifted into the air, using an antigrav assist": Scramjets - cannot start from standstill or subsonic conditions. -- [v2/p63] A nomenclator describes the identity of an individual. diff --git a/notes/char-ryouko.org b/notes/char-ryouko.org new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0304e1c --- /dev/null +++ b/notes/char-ryouko.org @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +#+title: Shizuki Ryouko + +* Volume I + +** Chapter 1 + +Her wish of being a magical girl was granted after a near-death encounter with +demons and miasma (I.1.1285). + +Her weapon as a magical girl is a arbalest (crossbow) and can teleport up to +200km, but cannot telekinesis or teleport objects without teleporting self. +200km is much greater than the standing record of 63km. (I.2) diff --git a/notes/history.org b/notes/history.org new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b0f7aed --- /dev/null +++ b/notes/history.org @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +#+title: History + +* Volume I + +** Chapter 1: A wish + +Allocs were cut (/Recommendation by the Production and Allocation Machine +(PAL)/) (I.1.15) + +At some point in the past the "current war" started, which caused extra allocs +from voluntary work to increase and the basic allocs to decrease. (I.1.261) +Due to a special conscription act enacted 20 years ago, all new magic girls owe +the military 30 years of service. The minimum age of combat was dropped to 13 +(I.1.381). Magic girls enter the military not as privates but 2nd lieutenants +(I.1.385). + +A defect in the Cult of Hope's computers caused random drops with grief cubes +for squads on the front line (I.1.653). The occurrence seems random. This was +counterintuitive since computers are not supposed to make such mistakes. Secret +examination squads sent by Kyouko could not spot problems (I.1.657). Similar +defects caused girls to be sent behind the lines or home and never came back. +(I.1.665). + +When Kyouko was visiting Wolf 359, a platoon of infantry dragged Saya-chan's +body and soul gem back to safety, but lost her. They broke down in front of +Kyouko demanding that she finds the missing Saya-chan (I.1.359). diff --git a/notes/settings.org b/notes/settings.org new file mode 100644 index 0000000..152e3ea --- /dev/null +++ b/notes/settings.org @@ -0,0 +1,312 @@ +#+title: To The Stars + +* Characters + +*** Shizuki Ryouko 静樹　良子 + +Main protagonist + +- Diminutive stature but does not want to be perceived as a child (I.1.27) +- Begins as 14 years old (I.1.33) +- Thinks "nothing is worth rushing for" (I.1.39) +- Lives on the 42nd story, in Mitakihara city (I.1.43) +- Has a automatic telescope from grandmother which receives instructions from + cortical implants. (I.1.63) +- Could not find a hobby (I.1.73) +- Wants to be a space traveler (I.1.239) +- Wants to be a magic girls despite knowing the risks since the life has + contrast with the "sterile, prosaic life" (I.1.399). + +*** Simona + +Friend of Ryouko and foreign exchange student (I.1.209) + +- Wants to be a violinist (I.1.255) +- Exchange student but not very interested in learning languages. She embarked + on an exchange to get away from family (I.1.835) +- Describes Earth as same people everywhere (I.1.871) +- May have romantic feelings towards Ryouko (I.1.895) (I.2) + +*** Chiaki 智晶 + +Friend of Ryouko (I.1.209) +- Long-haired (I.1.209) + +*** Ruiko 瑠衣子 + +Friend of Ryouko (I.1.209) +- Pig-tailed (I.1.209) +- Wanted to learn nanoengineering or theoretical physics (dropped) (I.1.223) + +*** Ryouko's father + +- Over 100 years old but looks around 30 (I.1.79) + +*** Ryouko's mother + +*** Ryouko's (paternal) grandfather + +- Join the military on Monday next week [relative to reference] (I.1.161) + +*** Ryouko's (paternal) grandmother + +- Joined the military for 12 years (I.1.133) +- Stopped writing to her family but she is not dead. (I.1.133) + +*** Tomoe Mami 巴　麻美 + +- Looked to be 19-20yo despite being hundreds of years old. (I.1.307) +- Can converse while holding a motionless face (I.1.351) +- Body is enhanced as for every magical girl (I.1.423) +- Field Marshall (I.1.689) + +*** Sakura Kyouko 桜　香子 + +- Chooses to remain 14 (I.1.471) +- Looks to be 14 and lives in the Catholic-style church in Mitakihara (I.1.429) +- Calls Mami "Marshal" (I.1.477) +- Calls MSY the "Union" (I.1.589) + +*** Akemi Homura 暁美　ほむら + +- "Left" with no more news (I.1.517) +- Believs in "Goddess of Hope" (I.1.539) +- 20 years ago she leveraged the Goddess of Hope and her charisma to start a + religion (I.1.573). This became the Cult of Hope which was the only living + religion which gained members (I.1.577). +- Had presentations and statistics when she was spearheading MSY (I.1.611) +- Vanished after saving Epsilon Eridani (I.1.581) + +*** Yuma + +Involved in MSY (I.1.613) + +- In government (I.1.623) + +*** some french magical girl + +Does not trust the government (I.1.625) + +*** Kyubey + +- Says Akemi Homura has disappeared due to the exhaustion of her soul gem (I.1.907) + +*** Fleet Admiral Xing +Has some feud with General Blackwell [v2/p80] +*** General Blackwell +Has some feud with Fleet Admiral Xing [v2/p80] + + + +* In-Book Items + +** Books + +*** /Universal Guidelines for Middle School Instructors (12th revision)/ +- Mentioned in (I.1.11) +*** /Daughters of the Contract: A Documentary/ +- Mentioned in [v2/p59] +*** /Mahou Shoujo: Their World, Their History (Julian Bradshaw)/ +- Mentioned in [v2/p60] + +** Laws/Edicts + +*** /Special Conscription Act/ (I.1.381) +Due to a special conscription act enacted 20 years ago, all new magic girls owe +the military 30 years of service. The minimum age of combat was dropped to 13. +Magic girls enter the military not as privates but 2nd lieutenants. +*** /Information Restriction Act/ (I.1.391) + +Restricts information about Magica from the populace. + +Impossible to enforce. + + +** Tools + +- Chronometer: Some type of clock (I.1.717) + +* Settings + +** Magica + +- Discouragement from parents is illegal but practiced (I.1.377) +- Not bound by travel restrictions (I.1.379) +- Many magic girls died in their first combat assignments or before their first + leaves or received psychological damage (I.1.395). +- Incubator selection is rare and depends on "potential" which is an innate + quality irrespective of wishes (I.1.403) + + All chosen by incubators have a deep personal wish worthy of their soul, but + this is not a sufficient condition. +- Magic girls compose a part of the military and their primary representative is + Mami. +- Operating alone is a violation of regulations (I.1.955) +- Mentorship and team systems between magic girls existed before MSY (I.2) +- All magical girls upon enlistment becomes emancipated (I.2) + +*** Mahou Shoujo Youkai (MSY) 魔法少女妖怪 + +An organisation spearheaded by Homura which collects data about battles, grief +cube collections, grief cube usage. Members resisted Homura on insisting +forcefully. (I.1.611) + +This organisation caused the number of deaths in battle to drop and a grief cube +surplus. Kyouko and Mami are still executive heads of MSY but leaves +the day-to-day handling to their legates. (I.1.617) + +This organisation was called Union implying that the incubators are the bosses +of magica (I.1.591). + +Grief Cube Audit tallies the grief cubes in reserve (I.1.605). + +*** Cult of Hope + +Uses its infrastructure to handle all data collection for grief cube logistics +(I.1.633). + +** Demons and Miasmae + +A miasma is a patch of localised thing which can be cleaned up (I.1.931). Signals +have a hard time moving through miasma (I.1.991). It also interferes with biology +enhancement systems (I.1.1049). It also blocks visible light (I.1.993). + +Demons seem to co-exist with miasmae. +- "A white-robed figure loomed over them, tall as three men" (I.1.983) +- Demons can release intense beams of light to destroy things (I.1.1045) + +Miasmae and demons occur in industrial districts where populations are sparse +(I.1.1113). Being able to see demons outside of miasma is the smoking gun of a +magical girl (I.1.1213). + +** Timeframe + +- The incubator system still exists. Instructors cannot divulge information + about incubator system until the pupils are at age 20. (I.1.9) +- At Ryuoko's grandmother's time an automatic telescope and cortical implants + were possible (I.1.63) +- Clothes are self-cleaning (I.1.29) and robots can do the dressing (I.1.29), both + require money. Bedsheets are self folding (I.1.85) +- Sleep-suppressing regimen cause people to sleep 0-3h a day for adults. + Considered unsafe for 14-year-olds (I.1.33). +- People can talk without moving lips (I.1.35) +- Hair can maintain at constant length (I.1.43) +- Species diversity preserve (*SDP*) (I.1.51) presumably some sort of park +- Space station can deflect major asteroids or wipe out continents (I.1.65) and + constantly being upgraded, added to, or replaced. (I.1.65) Maybe redundant + (I.1.67). +- Knowledge is directly injected into consciousness (I.1.23), but has + speed limits (I.1.213). +- Can live eternally (I.1.141). +- Food synthesizer produces food (I.1.167) +- Images can be called up from optical implants which highlights interest + regions and can take pictures (I.1.287). +- Aliens (I.1.529) + +*** Emergency Packages + +The packages operate by assisting with motion and thought. The civilian-issue +version is weaker than the military version. Emergency mode turns on when there +is a life-or-death situation (I.1.1063). + +Exiting emergency mode causes /recoil/ which is traumatic. Some soldiers turn +emergency mode on for weeks at a time and exiting is very difficult (I.1.1133). + +** Economics + +The economy operates on a /eudaemonic/ model rather than capitalistic. (I.1.261) + +- Resources are allocated in units of /Alloc/ which were cut by + /Recommendations by the PAL/ (I.1.13) +- All productive works are voluntary. (I.1.69) +- No one wants to live outside a city because it is expensive and boring + (I.1.89). Flats are government-allocated and citizens spend + government-distributed incomes (I.1.89). +- Goods are more expensive away from centres of production, which are in cities + (I.1.89) + +*** Travel + +- Solution to congestion was to go 3D via traffic tubes (I.1.189) (Just + one more lane bro!!!) +- People can use personal auto-transports (I.1.185) which can be self-driven or + magnetically driven (I.1.187). +- Public transport tunnels are guarded by sentries to protect falling but they + ignore magic girls (I.1.449). Public transport channels are under surveillance + (I.1.89). + +Space flight is still a scarcity. Pleasure flights were priced to absurd levels +to restrict civilians. It had not always been like this but changed for +colonists and military (I.1.59). + +Military veterans can have unlimited travel on earth or colonies and the right +to settle anywhere (I.1.383). + + +** Culture + +- Governance stress having each generation of children experience a little of + human conditions (I.1.33) +- Governance placed restrictions on direct mental communication and VR (I.1.35) +- Nothing worth rushing for for the general population (I.1.39). +- Story of human history was all about escape in the past and has reached the + end for perfect society (I.1.45). +- Residents of Earth spend time on their hobbies (I.1.69). +- People with /ennui/ (unable to fit into society), divorced after 60 years of + matrimony, who are more than 100 years old, can join the military and then be + discharged in the colonies. (I.1.141) +- Human Standard (a internationalised and mutated form of English) is the Earth + lingua franca (I.1.221). + +*** Education + +- School is about socialising with peers and figuring out what you wanted to + learn (I.1.197). +- Primary School Civics (I.1.273). +- /Mandatory sessions/ are a civic duty (I.1.255). + + Such sessions are for preparing the citizenry in a scarcity situation when the + economy has to be switched from eudaimonic to scarcity mode (family Allocs + tied to productivity), or even capitalistic. (I.1.261) + +** Places + + +*** Mitakihara City + +Mitakihara has a major starport which is particularly important and busy +(I.1.55). + +The city is crammed and most families in tight flats (I.1.89). + +School is at the 30th floor (I.1.193). + +Buildings +- Shizuki Consumer Goods (I.1.417) +- Hephaestus Nanotechnology (I.1.417) +- Chronos Biologics (I.1.417) +- Zeus and Prometheus Research Centres (unique to Mitakihara) (I.1.417) + + The two research centres face each other over a narrow causeway between them. +- Headquarter of Cult of Hope (Catholic-style church) (I.1.429). + + Church has a small bedroom for one (I.1.467). + +*** Space Stations + +- Earth has defense stations orbiting (I.1.61) +- Bucky Model space stations are shaped like football (I.1.65) + +*** Epsilon Eridani +A human colony; Akemi Homura helped to save it (I.1.581). +*** Wolf 359 +A human colony (I.1.675). + + +* Divergence + +In /To The Stars/, there are some divergences of meanings of words from common usage. These could also reflect on the author's misunderstanding. + +- (I.1.853) "A scramjet lifted into the air, using an antigrav assist": + Scramjets cannot start from standstill or subsonic conditions. +- [v2/p63] A nomenclator describes the identity of an individual. diff --git a/reference.tex b/reference.tex index a5e30e4..356c708 100644 --- a/reference.tex +++ b/reference.tex @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -\documentclass[12pt,article]{article} +\documentclass[12pt,dvipsnames,article]{article} \usepackage{magica} @@ -17,14 +17,15 @@ extensions. \begin{figure} \centering \begin{tikzpicture} - \Magica(0,0) {Tomoe M.}; - \Magica(4,0) {Sakura Y.}; + \Magica[TomoeM](0,0){Tomoe M.} + \Magica[SakuraY](4,0){Sakura Y.} + \Civilian(8,0){Simona} \MilLand[faction=hostile, main=demon, altitude={low}{}, - echelon=battalion] (8,0) {Battalion of demons flying at low altitude}; + echelon=battalion] (0,-2) {Battalion of demons flying at low altitude}; \end{tikzpicture} - \caption{Symbols for Tomoe Mami and Sakura Kyouko} + \caption{Symbols for some magical girls, civilian, and demons} \end{figure} \end{document} diff --git a/v1-a-wish.tex b/v1-a-wish.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2665f8d --- /dev/null +++ b/v1-a-wish.tex @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +\documentclass[dvipsnames,final]{beamer} + +\usepackage{magica-common} + +\title{To The Stars Battle Diagrams \\ I.1 A Wish} +\author{Leni Aniva} +\date{04 July 2023} + +\begin{document} + +\frame{\titlepage} + +\begin{frame} + \frametitle{I.1.931 - 1109} + + \begin{tikzpicture}[ + Turbine/.style={draw=black,star,star points=3,star point height=10pt,scale=1.5,fill=white}, + Solar/.style={Blue!80,draw=black}, + ] + \filldraw[black!20] (-5,-1) rectangle (5,1); + \node[Turbine] (turbine1) at (1,1.5) {}; + \draw (turbine1) circle (23pt); + \node[Turbine] (turbine2) at (-1,1.5) {}; + \draw (turbine2) circle (23pt); + \node[Turbine] (turbine3) at (-3,1.5) {}; + \draw (turbine3) circle (23pt); + + \filldraw[Solar] (2,1.1) rectangle (4,1.9); + \draw[black] (2,1.1) grid (4,1.9); + \Magica[ShizukiR](1,0){Shizuki R.} + \Civilian(0,1){Simona} + \Demon(2,1) + + \MilLand[faction=hostile, + main=demon, + echelon=squad] (0,-3) + \MilActivity[faction=hostile,main=explosion] (2,-1) + \MilAir[faction=hostile, + main=demon, + altitude={low}{}, + echelon=squad,speed leader={110}{1}] (3,-3) + \end{tikzpicture} +\end{frame} + +\end{document} diff --git a/v2-fantasma.tex b/v2-fantasma.tex index 3d83d3d..024d253 100644 --- a/v2-fantasma.tex +++ b/v2-fantasma.tex @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ \usepackage{magica-common} -\title{To The Stars Battle Diagrams \\ Vol 2. Fantasma} +\title{To The Stars Battle Diagrams \\ I.2 Fantasma} \author{Leni Aniva} \date{04 July 2023} @@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ \frame{\titlepage} \begin{frame} + \frametitle{Some Battle} + \begin{tikzpicture} \MilLand[faction=hostile, echelon=team, main=infantry, scale=2](0,0) \end{tikzpicture}