[RFC][Story] Project Stargazer

[robkelk]

Nope! But keep guessing; it's amusing.

http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?title=Lain_Drakken]My first guess... but I have a history of guessing wrong.
--
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

[HRogge]

The Big D would happen to be a reference to the 1980's fantasy movie, Legend, would it?

No... *G*

http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?title=Lain_Drakken]My first guess... but I have a history of guessing wrong.

Interesting Fenwiki page... *go reading it the first time*

[Foxboy]

My guess. >:3
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

[HRogge]

My guess. >:3

Like I said, I have to reword the joke a little bit and move it to the trivia section... too obvious this way.

[HRogge]

And here is the third part, the text about Cathy...

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Name: Carthy

Nationality: Fenspace Convention

Ethnicity: Catgirl

Haircolor: Similar to a red tabby

Height: 172 cm

Weight: 60 kg

Ship: Stargazer



»Yes, we could do a tour to the Saturn area within this time and there are lot of things to see there. Let us look on the map again, we could move out and make a stop at the Floating Island or on Mars, but we have to skip one of them to make it to Saturn, have some fun there and get back in time again. So it is Mars and Saturn ? Fine... here is your spacesuit, maybe you should try it on... yes, you need it. The Stargazer has no airlock, so if we have to get out of the ship in flight, you might want to have something keep you breathing... why we would want to go outside ? Maybe someone will have an emergency and we have to help them... yes, that is not negotiable, if you hear someone needing help you help them.«

Cathy, at the beginning of a tour to the moons of Saturn talking with a customer



History (up to ~2012):

Cathy was “born” by an accidental Biomod during the construction of her ship Stargazer, imitating the form of a fictional Shadowrun catgirl changeling. The contact with small amounts of Handwavium over the timeframe of more than a month triggered the transformation into a catgirl. Cathy has never talked about her history before her lift into orbit.

Cathy began working on the Stargazer on New Year 2010, but instead of just starting to apply Handwavium she decided to build a computer model of the car first with the help of Cortana (the AI emerging in her waved computer) and beginning to handwave the parts of the car in mid February.



After arriving in orbit and touring through the solar system for a month or two, she started a small business as a tour guide for persons looking for a custom tour through Fenspace. Cathy is known to do tours from Venus up to Jupiter and Saturn, depending on the wishes of her passenger and available time. At least one of her tours have been derailed by a received emergency call.



Mundane Abilities:

* Computer Scientist. Cathy knows a lot about computers and digital communication, but much of her knowledge is outdated because of all the AIs in Fenspace. Cortana admits she learned a lot of the basics of networking and routing from Cathy.

* Stargazing. Cathy is a hobby astronomer with a lot of knowledge about all the basics of planets, stars and galaxies.

* Multilingual. Cathy speaks English and German and is trying to learn Japanese.



Handwavium Abilities/Quirks:

* I am a cat. Cathy has similar abilities like a normal cat, including lowlight vision, better hearing and quick reflexes. Her tail often helps her to keep balance.

* Purr! When enjoying herself Cathy starts purring like a normal cat. This makes her unwilling to leave her current place, in some cases to the point she is not able to leave at all.



Trivia:

* Cathy considered purring always a purely positive Quirk until an ‘accident’ with an assassination team of ninjas after CrystalCon. The team were hitting her roommate and decided to go for a few bonus points by smuggling in a warming massage blanket into Cathys bed. It took Cathy more than 16 hours to be able to leave the bed to get something to drink.

* Cathy believes in using special strains of Handwavium for certain jobs. She still has a box with multiple strains used in the construction of the Stargazer for reinforced structure, live support, communication and several other ones.

* There is a complete computer model of the Stargazer in its computers and Cathy and Cortana are constantly talking about small changes they want to make as soon as they have the money and a place to work on the Stargazer.

* Need more Bandwidth! Cortana is constantly bugging Cathy about buying another USRP2 and try building a small FTL radio, she doesn’t like the delay when surfing the Interwave during flight.

* Where no car has gone before. Cathy and Cortana love the idea to be one of the first people to do an interstellar voyage with a small spacecraft like the Stargazer. But experiments outside the limit have been put on hold until an upgrade of the radio system.