To-The-Stars/notes/settings.org

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Settings

Tools

  • Chronometer: Some type of clock (I.1.717)
  • [v2/p63] A nomenclator describes the identity of an individual.

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.2.9)
  • All magical girls upon enlistment becomes emancipated (I.2.377) and movement concealed from their parents (I.2.855).
  • Fingernail mark (I.2.137)
  • Emergency mode is mostly useless to magical girls (I.2.261)

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. Sakura K. and Tomoe M. 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).

Recruiting

Recruits were rushed through their contracts (I.2.37). The one-time offer is probably a lie (I.2.43) to aid recruitment.

Life on the Frontlines

  • Many magical girls choose other girls as partners (I.2.543).

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)