Quote:And there is nothing weak-sauce about being able to lift personnel into orbit. At this time there are only two nations in the world that does that and it is the USA and the Russian Federation.You have failed to convince me. Your in gibberish mode again... that coffin your putting nails in is your hand. Your setting this in a universe with alien expletives everywhere who have been in space for centuries if not millennium. Once they hear about a planet that will gladly buy up their entire stocks of lemon space ships... ones that can't get much farther than local planetary orbit.. stuff people won't buy for there stupid kids driving lessons... Used Space ship salesmen will descend in freighters like a biblical plague of locusts. Then move into their brand new, custom made islands off Saudi Arabia and live in luxury forever and ever.
The company in Rocket Girls is apparently canonically failing... because they can't pull off their mission of 'upgrading' '60s rocket tech and in fact make it less useful than the original while working from a higher tech base. It goes so horribly wrong they force through a deranged program.. that eventually probably kills off all their off sight personal, as part of a publicity stunt to get more funding. So yeah... how does this work in this fic when they try to either get funding for near worthless tech with competitors popping up with functional self launching, slef landing, orbital craft... or try to take a proven failure company and bring it up to speed with competent people just starting out.
Also this story contains Zeke. Zeke will risk his life on a dime, without thinking over it twice... literally because its the right thing to do. What do you think his reaction to a classmate or five explaining they were/are part of a company's program to force train little girls so they can be astronauts for a private company... do to tech issues. They have to go through some of the harshest training in the existence of mankind... at an accelerated pace. starting before puberty (or the pace is even more crushing)... AND possibly become master engineers so they can do the most hazardous noncombat job available to mankind... Space Walks. They'll be human Guinea pigs for the effects of zero G life on barely pubescent girls... for a job that lasts until they hit a growth spurt and weight a few ounces too much. This is a recipee to make kids that burn out at reentry level... in ways that make child actors look good.
Again... how do these series mesh without thrashing the tone of the story and going all dark fic? Zeke will find out eventually and he will tell his dad. This can only end in blood or lawyer descending like rain? Raven will make this happen on principle.