Space Opera
In the Icewall setting, there's a TARDIS-like spiral galaxy. This galaxy is perhaps 100,000 miles across from without, but holds all of the outer space one could ask for within. This is where you'll find Tie Fighters, Red Dwarf, and so forth. The stories here occur within and nearby to the Galactic Disc world-pond.
The Icewall neighborhood map should give you a feeling of what's where in the stories.
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Ranulf, immortal, looks back across the gulf of eternity, knowing now that what has been can never be again.
Technically, this story presumably occurs on an Earth variant within the Galactic Disc world-pond, to the southeast of Earth One in the Icewall universe map.
I read, appreciate, and reply to all of your comments — they're always welcome!
𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆, 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒖𝒃𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒆! ❤️
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Megamechs 101: the Mona Lisa metaphor (illustrated) by Charles_Rockafellor
Fandoms: Original Work, Mecha - Fandom
26 May 2020
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We join Professor Hilbert as he lectures freshman inductees on higher-dimensional space and the freedoms and constraints that attend these, the practical considerations, psychological effects (can one ever truly go home?), and the subtler geometric and topological quirks of ordinal (not cardinal) physical dimensions (e.g.: how while an n-1 boundary manifold could be viewed as having two distinguishable faces w.r.t. the n-body, the same isn't arbitrarily true when considered from the perspective of n+1 dimensional rotations). A fair bit of hyperdimensional terminology is introduced, and Flatland and Planiverse references are made in the analogies.
Some of it is certainly true of n-dimensional geometry for a given set of axioms, some of it (the physics in particular) is peculiar to the story setting. Except where noted otherwise, the illustrations herein are my own work entirely (please let me know if they miss their mark in visualizing the relevant material).
I read, appreciate, and reply to all of your comments — they're always welcome!
𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆, 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒖𝒃𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒆! ❤️
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Join Avery D'Arc, “Space Orc” [Human], as he wrestles with the mysteries of the universe, Cat-girls with no conception of personal space, and the slings and arrows of outrageous vacation destinations.
The deuteragonist (Avery's “girlfriend”) is a shape-shifting alien Genomorph, hence the pronoun “zer”. When you get to UWP AL6500031, you might wish to consult the Traveller UWP charts (RPG planetary data). For those of you just walking into the story, this is in a series, occurring right after a story that forked into another series; please see the header-notes section for background.
Ch. 1 is Dr. Who-ish (with Cthulhu overtones); for the crazy Space Cat-girl shenanigans, jump ahead to chapter two. 🙂
NB 27 Sep 2021: 4th [short] story in series, added yesterday! (Happy almost-anniversary [17 Oct] to the first 2 Space Orcs stories in the series!)
I read, appreciate, and reply to all of your comments (they are always welcome)!
𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆, 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒖𝒃𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒆! ❤️
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- Part 3 of Tell me more about this Earth-thing
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As Holly attempts new maneuvers, the holiday season gets to everyone. Lister sinks to a new low: wine, actual wine, the expensive stuff in a real live glass bottle and everything! In his drunken state, he lurches around the corridors of Z Deck and finds a new playmate: a female Cat.
Meanwhile, the infinite number of Hollies that caused this forgot to carry a one somewhere, and yet another zany grade-B monster is now on the loose. The crew must catch it if they've any hope of putting the colour back in their cheeks.
>S02E06 (“Parallel universe”), and <S06E01 (“Psirens”); i.e.: S03-S05. Intended to be canon-compliant: I portray Hols as v. 1, hence the masculine, but this isn't crucial, she can easily be v. 2 .
N.B.: The physics equations are valid, but the Treknobabble scenario is just pure pulp sci-fi in classic RD fashion. The equations might be fun for any physics geeks reading this, but no more necessary to enjoy the unfolding tale than they are for any Dwarf episode; same for the Esperanto.
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𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆, 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒖𝒃𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒆! ❤️
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- Part 1 of The boys from the Dwarf
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Gears within gears: there's always a bigger fish in the sea.
Technically, this story presumably occurs someplace within the Galactic Disc world-pond, to the southeast of Earth One in the Icewall universe map.
I read and appreciate (and try to reply to) all of your comments (they are always welcome)!
𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆, 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒖𝒃𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒆! ❤️