Because of popular request (okay, Ebony asked and I had something on the go already), here's a draft of a TSAB gazetteer entry. I didn't make up any of
this; it's all from posts to the original Plotbunny thread. I've already posted this as a placeholder over on the wiki, but it's easy to edit the
wiki... Comments, additions, suggestions as to how many corners to fold it into and where to shove it, anything?
One of NASA's scientific divisions, the Transrationality Scientific Analysis Bureau is
responsible for investigating the wonders of the 'wave; specifically, they obtain 'waved devices, take them apart, figure out how they work, duplicate
them with hardtech, and design their own variations on them. Their success rate on the first two clauses is substantially higher than that of the rest of their
remit, but one of their notable successes is the atmosphere recyclers installed by Rockhounds in all of their newer space habitats.
In Fenspace, they're sometimes called NASFans by Fen who like them, and
IPX by Fen that don't. Most Fendanes and a few oddballs in Rockhounds copy 'Daneside usage
and call them the TSAB.
The TSAB own and operate station Benjamin Franklin, located in Earth-Luna L4 orbit. Colonel Caldwell
(USAF), its commander, is the ranking United States military officer in Fenspace. The public face of the station is Amy O'Connell, a no-nonsense
Irish-American redhead.
-Rob Kelk
"Read Or Die: not so much a title as a way of life." - Justin Palmer, 6 June 2007
--
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
this; it's all from posts to the original Plotbunny thread. I've already posted this as a placeholder over on the wiki, but it's easy to edit the
wiki... Comments, additions, suggestions as to how many corners to fold it into and where to shove it, anything?
One of NASA's scientific divisions, the Transrationality Scientific Analysis Bureau is
responsible for investigating the wonders of the 'wave; specifically, they obtain 'waved devices, take them apart, figure out how they work, duplicate
them with hardtech, and design their own variations on them. Their success rate on the first two clauses is substantially higher than that of the rest of their
remit, but one of their notable successes is the atmosphere recyclers installed by Rockhounds in all of their newer space habitats.
In Fenspace, they're sometimes called NASFans by Fen who like them, and
IPX by Fen that don't. Most Fendanes and a few oddballs in Rockhounds copy 'Daneside usage
and call them the TSAB.
The TSAB own and operate station Benjamin Franklin, located in Earth-Luna L4 orbit. Colonel Caldwell
(USAF), its commander, is the ranking United States military officer in Fenspace. The public face of the station is Amy O'Connell, a no-nonsense
Irish-American redhead.
-Rob Kelk
"Read Or Die: not so much a title as a way of life." - Justin Palmer, 6 June 2007
--
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