Anyone got any rabit food they can lend me?

[Black Aeronaut]

Because my bunny's multiplied.
I've been working on an Amelia Goes to School segment when it occured to me: why not give Amelia some friends that can perform on her level?
Of course, the government would know about them all - in fact, they placed tham all in the same setting so as to keep a better eye on them.
Matilda Honey and her best friend, Lavender. Matilda is a moderate-to-high level telekinetic with extraordinary control over her abilities while her friend, Lavender, can somehow bend light around her in the manner of Active Camoflage.
Amanda Beal has an unusual talent that focuses entirely on paper. She is currently mentoring under Yomiko Readman.
Jeffery "Maniac" McGee is quite possibly the fastest human alive. He is capable of even outrunning a Manticore.
The Utonium Sisters were an accidental product of a metagene research program. They are currently under the care of Professor Utonium, one of the project's heads.
San Mononoke is the youngest known case of Lycanthropy. She is in the care of Moro Mononoke, a renown biologist who also has Lycanthropy.
Ashitaka is a boy who suffers from a strange disease that he calls a Demon's Curse. While it seems to pose no real threat to his well being, his condition does flare up in times of great anger, endowing him with inhuman strength that is only rivaled by a Spartan or a Manticore.
Lain Iwakura is, quite possibly, the most powerful AI ever created - so powerful in fact that she is in an all new class of her own: an Evolving AI. At this time, she makes use of a remodeled Manticore prototype body and is under the care of her creator, Yasuro Iwakura.
Dairine Callahan is one of several "passengers" picked up at one point who claims to be a Wizard. While the Officials find that difficult to believe, they do not dispute her abilities and have placed her in the same group.
Lenore is the most unusual person in this group because she is already dead. Even though she is border-line psychotic, she has been responding well to therapy and is allowed to attend school only under strict supervision.
These children are inelligable for the Spartan/Manticore program for one reason or another. It is the hope of the Government that these children will grow to work together so that they may become useful in another capacity altogether.
So, does it sound too over the top?

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[robkelk]

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Because my bunny's multiplied.

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They do that...

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Amanda Beal has an unusual talent that focuses entirely on paper. She is currently mentoring under Yomiko Readman.

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Any reason why you're not using Anita King here? (I've got a really nifty theory about Anita that I posted to Usenet back in January, which I'm willing to share...)

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So, does it sound too over the top?

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Nah - you're still a few crossovers short of being "over the top", in my humble opinion. You don't have any incarnate deities yet, for instance...

-Rob Kelk
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Sirrocco]

It is a *bit* over-the-top. Is it *too* over-the-top?
some thoughts to consider...
- Your basic setting is Science Fiction With Some Weird Stuff. You want to have a reasonably coherent backstory for Why Weird Stuff Happens.
-- Anything that can be explained by aliens and superscience (Lain, for example, along with the Spartans and Manticores themselves) is fine under the Generic Sci-Fi License (though in Lain's case, AI software overtech is going to require AI hardware overtech to run on, and both need to have appropriate overtech-type sources - basically an explanation of why we've got one, but don't have someone out there cranking them out in job lots.).
-- Aside from that, though, you probably want to have your Weird Stuff come from the same place, or at least a relatively simple and coherent backstory. Don't play the UF game. ("And Jedi! We should have Jedi!). It only works for them because, if you read the first story of Core carefully, Gryphon *recreates the universe*. *Twice*. Once based on the contents of the friendly neighborhood Anime FTP directory, once based on the contents of his own twisted grey matter while going mad with grief and sleep-dep. Oh, and then he carries write privs to the basic assumptions of reality around in his head with him for the rest of time.
-- *cough* *cough*
-- excuse me. Anyway, my point is, you should have a single, coherent worldview that explains all of the Weird Stuff that happens, and why it doesn't happen but so often. The characters may not *know* the backstory, but you should, and dropping enough hints every once in a while for the readers to see that it all *does* fit together (even if they can't necessarily see *how*) is a good thing.
Actually, that would be an excellent second reason for the school. They're trying to turn these superpowered kids into Something Useful, and they're also trying to figure out the conceptual underpinnings of all of this Weird Stuff. Remember, the explanation does not have to be all that detailed, but it does have to include both why it works and why it is so very rare.
Oh - and no, the Utonium sisters do *not* fit under the Generic Sci-Fi license. Those girls are strictly Superhero Comic Book Tech, which is a different kettle of fish *entirely*.
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Once you've got it worked out how these kids exist in the first place, I think it makes perfect sense for the authorities to stick them all together in the same place. Of course, if you want that place to be Concordia, you're going to have to figure out why said authorities would pick it. Is this school just the local branch? Then it's the obvious place - but if not, then I suspect that the higher-ups would pick somewhere with a gravity well, and you're going to have to deal with moving day.
So...errr... not so much rabbit food as a hutch with a locking door.

[Evil Midnight Lurker]

...if Dairine's there, she's there for a reason. Pardon me, I should say a Reason.
They should be worried about that. ^.^
--Sam
"My paw raised is Their paw on the neck of the Serpent, now and always."

[Evil Midnight Lurker]

Sirrocco: you're forgetting, I think, that interdimensional travel is one of the core assumptions of this setting. That excuses a lot, especially if they're not limited to a set of universes with identical laws of physics and drama.
--Sam
"It's starting to smell a little like danger in here, or heavily-fried food."

[Epsilon]

The only possible place for all those people to go to shcool together is Gunnerkrigg Court.
But they would all be overshadowed by Antimony, so why bother?
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Epsilon

[Black Aeronaut]

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Any reason why you're not using Anita King here?

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Simple: I haven't seen anything from ROD yet, but rest assured that when I do, you'll see her. ^_^; *Mentally makes a note to add that to his DL list for source materials.*

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Nah - you're still a few crossovers short of being "over the top", in my humble opinion. You don't have any incarnate deities yet, for instance...

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Well... There is gonna be appearances put in from the trinities seen in Tenchi Muyo and Ah! My Goddess, although what role these folks will be playing is yet to be decided (Skuld is gonna go nuts when she meets Rhodes). For certain, there will be appearances by The Powers That Be later on down the line, but that's going to be more along the lines of, "Okay, we need you to clean up this mess now," at which point, Rhodes is gonna start wondering if he killed a nun in a past life or something.
In regards to your post, Sirrocco:
There are reasons that these folks are here, though for some of them it departs from the original canon (Eyrie has done an excellent job in teaching me that, when done properly, a character's original canon hardly matters).
The overtech that powers Lain is something that is feasible - it's just disgustingly prohibitive. She was a one shot deal that the government would rather not waste any more resources on. Especially when you gotta wait for the results to, quite litterally, grow up.
That might sound like it would go good with the Spartan/Manticor project since they start with children anyways, but it wouldn't - an Evolving AI requires something at least as powerful as a full-blown positronic matrix (Dr. Soong's notes that Data provided were more than useful). Mjolnir armor won't support that, and a Manticor body can't either since there's already a human brain to worry about.

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Aside from that, though, you probably want to have your Weird Stuff come from the same place, or at least a relatively simple and coherent backstory. Don't play the UF game. ("And Jedi! We should have Jedi!). It only works for them because, if you read the first story of Core carefully, Gryphon *recreates the universe*. *Twice*. Once based on the contents of the friendly neighborhood Anime FTP directory, once based on the contents of his own twisted grey matter while going mad with grief and sleep-dep. Oh, and then he carries write privs to the basic assumptions of reality around in his head with him for the rest of time.

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Well... UF on Eyrie is one thing. Lost In Lost Worlds (working title) on BlackAeronaut Studios is gonna be a different beast entirely. As EMLurker stated, dimension hopping excuses a lot of things. But not all of them. I plan to keep this as feasible as possible.
That said, the back story itself is something that still needs work. However recent suggestions frfom you guys has been extremely helpful. As far as an ultimate villain is concerned, I'm trying to keep in mind that one thing the kid-video-game-tester from the 101 Dalmations movie said: "It's not the villain, mate. It's the desire to annihilliate."
Heh-heh. The Utonium Sisters are a biogenics program gone awry. It was intended to create templates of a perfect human genome so that the information could be used to repair DNA damaged by radiation exposure. It was to be packed into a retrovirus that could be administered to the radiation poisening victims. The experiment was performed on flash-clones (the perfect little girls) because they always have inherent discrepancies in their genetic code. This retro virus was called Restore-0.
Then there was a terriffic blunder - like when that Mars probe was programmed in meters but the calculations were done in miles. Someone else on the team (A Professor Mojo Jojo) was working on a side project without authorization (always bending the rules, he is). He wanted to isolate the human metagene that had been encountered on another universe and pack it into a retrovirus called Retro-X. A batch of Restore-0 and Retro-X somehow got mixed together and both were administered to each flash-clone. *BOOM*
Mojo was stripped of his position and he is now in hiding, making trouble of himself whenever he turns up. Whenever he does, the Untonium Sisters are there to put him back in his place. They do other things as well - whenever the Event Horizon is directly attacked, they usually account for about fifty percent of the missiles intercepted.
*Grins* It is, in fact, due to the unswerving sense of duty the girls have that gave the Government the idea for this project.

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So...errr... not so much rabbit food as a hutch with a locking door.

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A few of those might help in their keeping, but I don't think the lock is gonna work.

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^_^;;...if Dairine's there, she's there for a reason. Pardon me, I should say a Reason.
They should be worried about that. ^.^

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Diarine is there, along with Kit and Nita, on loan from the Powers That Be to The Trinity. They certainly don't mind because one of the perks of the job is that they have a very big 'Wizardry Expense Account' from The Trinity, so making things happen when it's needed can actually get done. It's a nice stop-gap to have while The Trinity's Chosen are all in training. The Powers That Be benefit in that in return for Dairine, Nita, and Kit, they're gonna get to call on these Chosen when the shit hits the fan on their end.

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The only possible place for all those people to go to shcool together is Gunnerkrigg Court.

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Well, the school itself will be... Interesting.
It will serve all grades, K-12, and even have some college prep courses for the High School grads. In fact, the whole place is like a small, but fully featured, college campus. Classes themselves are handled in an unholy combination of Japanese and American styles - Each class will remain together throughout the day, but they will go from one part of the campus to the next as they change classes. To make sure that each class stays together, they have a general teacher that moves them from class to class and assists the specialist teacher in any way possible.

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[Bob Schroeck]

This sounds potentially very fun. I'm looking forward to the first installments of the actual story.
-- Bob
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...The President is on the line
As ninety-nine crab rangoons go by...

[Black Aeronaut]

Thanks, Bob. Coming from you, that's a huge compliment and a great deal of encouragement. ^_^

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[robkelk]

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Simple: I haven't seen anything from ROD yet, but rest assured that when I do, you'll see her. ^_^; *Mentally makes a note to add that to his DL list for source materials.*

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Oh, splurge on the DVDs - they come with some mighty pretty mini-pencilboards. (Except for one which is somewhat creepy...) If you liked the original, you'll like the TV series.
-Rob Kelk
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Black Aeronaut]

Whulp, as soon as I am able to pick up some employment, I'll go ahead and splurge as much as I can. ^_^;;

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[Black Aeronaut]

Another little tidbit I had just thought of... While Akio does think ahead and hire's out Mojo to make a distraction for the Utonium Sisters, he had no idea that Rhodes would have friends like Hino Rei and Aino Minako supervising/entertaining his young female guests. It's nice to have access to an interdimnsional transit center. ^_^
Why would they have something like this? Why, to enable transit of goods and personnel between the Event Horizon and her sister ships.
I've also decided that the system used to move from one Universe to the next will be the one from Sliders, only scalable from easy-to-use personnel units to the huge main unit of the Event Horizon and her sister ships.

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