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#+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.