[OOC][PLOT] Planning for Arc 2 - Crisis on Infinite Earths

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Huh, I didn't see this plan coming. I thought we were going to do something with RWBY villians? Either way, it puts a whole new spin on the term "flyover states".

I think the idea was to protect cities from the RWBY villains by moving them into space – which merely exposes them to interstellar dangers instead. Oops.

In real life, a defining characteristic of major metros is that they import almost all of their food.  This represents a Problem.

Yeah. Ottawa is unusual in that it has vast tracts of agricultural land within its metropolitan boundaries, substantially more than other major cities in Ontario. If we were to rely on only what we produce, nearly half the population would starve. And we'd be one of the least-affected cities.

If our cities in flight are going anywhere away from Earth, they'll need "agro ships" along the lines of original Battlestar Galactica but substantially larger. If they're staying nearby, they'll need fleets of transport spacecraft dedicated to moving food.

On the other hand, if coastal California fell into the sky instead of the sea along the San Andreas, there'd be more than enough land to support the population -- especially if you did the whole slice from the SF zoo to Cabo San Lucas.  My "three Californias" plan may be a little different lol.

In the long term, Sakura Kinomoto will be the anchor of my group.  I mean, c'mon, at age 10 in canon she's slinging the equivalent of 9th level D&D spells.  Not to mention the divine spells like HOPE and "everything will be ok".  And then there's Tomoyo Daidouji, who's so ridiculously perceptive that as she gets older, she'll see through just about everyone.  (She'll be able to remake the world, so that everyone on Earth knows the true magnitude of Sakura's cuteness, ho ho ho ho!)  Akari has some sort of fey magic, which shouldn't be too surprising as she's an undine.  <spoiler> will be important too, as she can handle low-level youma or mind-control plots, or dance-fighting (in case that comes up).

Yeah, Sakura's definitely at or near the "semi-divine" level of the power meter, along with Usagi.

And I can see Akari having water magic... or maybe mind magic (she does make friends easily, after all), or both.

I haven't given too much thought to relationships, beyond SI/Tomo/Yomi and Sakaki/Kaorin (this will take Tomoyo a lot of cupiding).  Sakura/Shaoran, of course.  Sonomi seemed pretty tsundere for Fujitaka, but you may have noticed I did include Nadeshiko on my cast list, so not sure where that would head.  I've got a lot of girls; would Tenchi like any extra?  I've also only filled half of my complex as of yet, which means I probably got a bit more work to do in Arc 1.

If you go with Sonomi/Fujitaka, that would make Tomoyo and Sakura stepsisters. I could see Tomoyo accepting that as second-best to what she really wanted but knows she won't get (Tomoyo/Sakura)... so, Shipper On Deck?

And there's no question those empty rooms will be filled eventually.

As far as Jurai recognizing the claim of the House of Serenity: Dance of Shiva has drifted towards headcanon for me on a number of things.  I think it's more likely that Jurai has never withdrawn its recognition of the lunar house's monarchy.  Ipso facto, she's already the monarch.  I guess that only makes sense if those particular fictions crossed paths in the past.  But either way, because of various multicanon space-trees, I think Tsunami would consider Usagi to be queen as soon as she wanted the job.

Sounds good to me, even if we're trying to avoid influences from other fanfic.