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#+title: To The Stars
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Up to [v1/p37]
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* History
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** Volume I
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Allocs were cut (/Recommendation by the Production and Allocation Machine
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(PAL)/) [v1/p4].
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At some point in the past the "current war" started, which caused extra allocs
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from voluntary work to increase and the basic allocs to decrease. [v1/p16].
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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 [v1/p20]. 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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A defect in the Cult of Hope's computers caused random drops with grief cubes
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for squads on the front line [v1/p33]. The occurrence seems random. This was
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counterintuitive since computers are not supposed to make such mistakes. Secret
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examination squads sent by Kyouko could not spot problems [v1/p33]. Similar
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defects caused girls to be sent behind the lines or home and never came back.
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When Kyouko was visiting Wolf 359, a platoon of infantry dragged Saya-chan's
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body and soul gem back to safety, but lost her. They broke down in front of
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Kyouko demanding that she finds the missing Saya-chan.
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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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Mentor: Sakura Kyouko
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- Diminutive stature [v1/p5] but does not want to be perceived as a child.
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- Begins as 14 years old
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- Thinks "nothing is worth rushing for" [v1/p6]
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- Lives on the 42nd story [v1/p6], in Mitakihara city [v1/p6]
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- Has a automatic telescope from grandmother which receives instructions from
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cortical implants. [v1/p7]
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- Could not find a hobby [v1/p8]
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- Wants to be a space traveler [v1/p15]
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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" [v1/p22]. It was granted after an
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encounter with demons and miasmae [v2/p57].
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- Her weapon as a magical girl is a arbalest (crossbow) and can teleport [v2/p67,68]
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- Can teleport up to 200km, but cannot telekinesis or teleport objects without
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teleporting self [v1/p70]. 200km is much greater than the standing record of 63km.
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*** Simona
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Friend of Ryouko and foreign exchange student [v1/p13]
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- Wants to be a violinist [v1/p15]
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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 [v1/p40]
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- Describes Earth as same people everywhere [v1/p41]
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- May have romantic feelings towards Ryouko [v2/p77]
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*** Chiaki 智晶
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Friend of Ryouko [p1/v14]
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- Long-haired [p1/v14]
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*** Ruiko 瑠衣子
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Friend of Ryouko [v1/p14]
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- Pig-tailed
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- Wanted to learn nanoengineering or theoretical physics (dropped) [v1/p14]
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*** Ryouko's father
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- Over 100 years old but looks around 30 [v1/p8]
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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 (rel. [v1/p12])
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*** Ryouko's (paternal) grandmother
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- Joined the military for 12 years [v1/p10]
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- Stopped writing to her family but she is not dead. [v1/p10]
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- Want to see something other than Earth by her own accounts [v1/p41]
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*** Tomoe Mami 巴 麻美
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- Looked to be 19-20yo despite being hundreds of years old. [v1/p18]
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- Can converse while holding a motionless face
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- Body is enhanced
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- Field Marshall [v1/p35]
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*** Sakura Kyouko 桜 香子
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- Looks to be 14 and lives in the Catholic-style church in Mitakihara [v1/p25]
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- Calls Mami "Marshal" [v1/p26]
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- Calls MSY the "Union" [v1/p30]
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*** Akemi Homura 暁美 ほむら
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- "Left" with no more news [v1/p27]
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- Believs in "Goddess of Hope" [v1/p28]
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- 20 years ago she leveraged the Goddess of Hope and her charisma to start a
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religion [v1/p29]. This became the Cult of Hope which was the only living
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religion which gained members.
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- Had presentations and statistics when she was spearheading MSY
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- Vanished after saving Epsilon Eridani [v1/p30]
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*** Yuma
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Involved in MSY
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- In government [v1/p36]
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*** some french magical girl
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Does not trust the government [v1/p32]
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*** Kyubey
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- Says Akemi Homura has disappeared due to the exhaustion of her soul gem [v1/p43]
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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
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*** /Universal Guidelines for Middle School Instructors (12th revision)/
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- Mentioned in [v1/p4]
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*** /Daughters of the Contract: A Documentary/
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- Mentioned in [v2/p59]
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*** /Mahou Shoujo: Their World, Their History (Julian Bradshaw)/
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- Mentioned in [v2/p60]
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** Laws/Edicts
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*** /Special Conscription Act/ [v1/p20]
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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 [v1/p20]. 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/ [v1/p21]
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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 [v1/p5]
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* Settings
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** Magica
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- Magic girls are integrated into society [v1/p19]
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- Discouragement from parents is illegal but practiced [v1/p20]
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- Not bound by travel restrictions [v1/p20]
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- Many magic girls died in their first combat assignments or before their first
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leaves [v1/p21] or received psychological damage [v1/p22].
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- Incubator selection is rare and depends on "potential" which is an innate
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quality irrespective of wishes [v1/p22]
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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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- Grief Cube Audit [v1/p31]
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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 [v1/p44]
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- Mentorship and team systems between magic girls existed before MSY [v2/p59]
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- All magical girls upon enlistment becomes emancipated [v2/p73]
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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 [v1/p31]. Members resisted Homura on
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insisting forcefully.
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This organisation caused the number of deaths in battle to drop and a grief cube
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surplus [v1/p32]. Kyouko and Mami are still executive heads of MSY but leaves
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the day-to-day handling to their legates.
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This organisation was called Union implying that the incubators are the bosses
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of magica [v1/p30].
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*** Cult of Hope
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Uses its infrastructure to handle all data collection for grief cube logistics [v1/p32]
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** Demons and Miasmae
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A miasma is a patch of localised thing which can be cleaned up [v1/p44]. Signals
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have a hard time moving through miasma [v1/p45]. It also interferes with biology
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enhancement systems [v1/p47]. It also blocks visible light [v1/p48].
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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" [v1/p45]
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- Demons can release intense beams of light to destroy things [v1/p48]
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Miasmae and demons occur in industrial districts where populations are sparse
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[v1/p51]. Being able to see demons outside of miasma is the smoking gun of a
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magical girl [v1/p55].
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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. [v1/p4]
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- At Ryuoko's grandmother's time an automatic telescope and cortical implants
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were possible [v1/p7].
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- Clothes are self-cleaning [v1/p5] and robots can do the dressing [v1/p5], both
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require money. Bedsheets are self folding [v1/p8]
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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
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- People can talk without moving lips [v1/p6]
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- Hair can maintain at constant length [v1/p6]
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- Species diversity preserve (SDP) [v1/p6]
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- Space station can deflect major asteroids or wipe out continents [v1/p7] and
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constantly being upgraded, added to, or replaced. Maybe redundant [v1/p7]
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- Knowledge is directly injected into consciousness [v1/p5] and [v1/p9], but has
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speed limits [v1/p14].
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- Can live eternally [v1/p11].
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- Food synthesizer produces food [v1/p12] [v1/p13].
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- Images can be called up from optical implants which highlights interest
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regions [v1/p17] and can take pictures [v1/p19].
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- Aliens [v1/p27]
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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 is a life-or-death situation. [v1/p53]
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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 [v2/p53].
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** Economics
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The economy operates on a /eudaemonic/ model rather than capitalistic. [v1/p9]
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- Resources are allocated in units of /Alloc/ [v1/p4] which were cut by
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/Recommendations by the PAL/.
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- All productive works are voluntary. [v1/p8]
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- No one wants to live outside a city because it is expensive and boring
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[v1/p9]. Flats are government-allocated [v1/p9] and citizens spend
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government-distributed incomes.
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- Goods are more expensive away from centres of production, which are in cities [v1/p9]
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*** Travel
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- Solution to congestion was to go 3D via traffic tubes [v1/p6] [v1/p13] (Just
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one more lane bro!!!)
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- People can use personal auto-transports [v1/p12] which can be self-driven or
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magnetically driven.
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- Public transport tunnels are guarded by sentries to protect falling but they
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ignore magic girls [v1/p24]. Public transport channels are surveilled [v1/p24]
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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 [v1/p7]
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Military veterans can have unlimited travel on earth or colonies and the right
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to settle anywhere.
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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 [v1/p5]
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- Governance placed restrictions on direct mental communication and VR [v1/p6]
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- Nothing worth rushing for [v1/p6]
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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 [v1/p6]
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- Residents of Earth spend time on their hobbies. [v1/p8]
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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. [v1/p11]
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- Human Standard (a internationalised and mutated form of English) is the Earth
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lingua franca.
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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. [v1/p13]
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- Primary School Civics [v1/p16]
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- /Mandatory sessions/ are a civic duty [v1/p15]
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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. [v1/]
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- Spaceflight Engineering [v1/]
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** Places
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Earth has defense stations orbiting [v1/p7]
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*** Mitakihara City
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Mitakihara has a major starport which is particularly important and busy [v1/p7]
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The city is crammed and most families in tight flats. [v1/p8]
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School is at the 30th floor [v1/p13]
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Buildings
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- Shizuki Consumer Goods [v1/p23]
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- Hephaestus Nanotechnology [v1/p23]
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- Chronos Biologics [v1/p23]
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- Zeus and Prometheus Research Centres (unique to Mitakihara) [v1/p23]
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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) [v1/p23]
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Church has a small bedroom for one
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*** Space Stations
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Bucky Model space stations are shaped like football [v1/]
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*** Epsilon Eridani
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A human colony; Akemi Homura helped to save it [v1/p30].
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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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- [v1/p41] "A scramjet lifted into the air, using an antigrav assist": Scramjets
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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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