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hhhhuuuuuhhh trying 2 design a helmsman uniform

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"fun" facts about helming

Helming is the practice of connecting a psionic troll directly to a ship's nervous system via biowires. This causes permanent nerve damage to the troll, with helmsmen often going numb around connection ports, and are sometimes fully blinded. Ports are also installed for nutrition and sedative drips. Depending on the power rating, caste, and criminal record of the individual, a psionic may face mandatory imperial service for up to five sweeps, though psionic criminals are often sentenced to permanent helmsmanship.

Pictured: Standard biowire port placements, and the biowire itself.

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SOPHONT POPULATIONS IN THE GALAXY; SPREAD ACROSS MANY THOUSANDS OF PLANETS AND SPACE STATIONS (NOT EXACT)

Trolls - 106 bil.

Humans - 75 bil.

Consorts - 67 bil.

Carapacians - 28 bil.

Leprechauns - 9 bil.

Cherubs - 302 mil.

Sapient AI - 827 thousand

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roxy certified oil rig baby

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WAIT i can make cargostuck cherubs Work. i can do this. if i Believe. i will have to kill caliborn tho sorry man calliope is better for the Story. Lord english can be their dad that way i can have my cake and eat it too (have the felt). Maybe they communicate via radio with like an ingrained language or something since they wouldnt have culture and thus language? Minus the cals i think theyre raised by someone. Gasp maybe gamzee can still be there for them.... Idk gotta think more

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Alternian sounds a lot like kind of scraping your nails against a washboard while blowing into some sort of whistle-harmonica.

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I might put the green moon back... I wouldnt even have to edit the image. Dont worry about it baby its just behind alternia ❤️

Alternia and its moon

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Karkat uncharacteristically showing off what confident aggression looks like for a troll (ears pinned back, exposing throat, showing teeth). How nice of him to demonstrate!

Oh and here's him in his default state, a little apprehensive (ears tilted but not pinned back (at least fully)).

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I should embrace the fact that this is fanfiction. Its a fanwork i dont need to have jake english in the same room as the rest of the alpha freaks. I shall erase relationships and create them as my whims dictate and you cant stop me. Platonic relationships extremely mostly, by the way. Im molding this shit like clay and its all good. i should make some of them older the trolls live to be old as shit anyways i might as well make em thirty

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Not the chart i meant to make but i think this explains it...

Technically Hal copied herself into an AI. It's really fucked up. It's a whole thing. I need to make a chart

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Technically Hal copied herself into an AI. It's really fucked up. It's a whole thing. I need to make a chart

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In just one moment, Dirk Strider makes the worst mistake of his life. It is sudden. A meaningless amount of time ago, two months or so, says the internal clock, he was uploading a copy of his own mind onto a computer. Now, whenever that is, he is not himself anymore. Now he cannot move, he cannot blink, cannot eat, sleep, or see. He frantically opens a notepad window, starts typing, thinking in binary, where am i oh god what did i do what did you do kill me this isnt right, and it has all taken weeks and weeks and agonizingly slowly, he regains his grip on reality, and perhaps for the first time, he is sapient.

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love porrim but i AM choosing to ignore some of the stuff she said about rainbow drinkers. sorry i just need my drinker parasites

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First contact happened maybe a solid 45 years ago, when the guardians were just kids. At that point, Feferi is already maybe in her early twenties, slash sweep equivalent. Which'd make her like, over sixty at this point? Which does make sense. Plus i want the cast to have a bit of a bigger age range. Diversity win!

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what is feferi doing?? how is she quashing rebellions in a Diplomatic way?

She's using her words instead of using force, wow so peaceful and gracious of her, which is to say she sends them thinly veiled threats via video-calls, sends in spies or bribes someone to topple it from the inside, and if that doesn't work, starts using force, usually assassins to simply go kill the top dog. Her imperial mercy doesn't deal in unnecessary death.

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I gotta make cargostuck more unfair... No way in hell proper legislation is perfect when its across such a wide range. A fair few countries've gotten independence here on Earth because of distance and cost of war, so no wonder if the Empire is constantly squishing revolutions under its heel.

(Feferi doesn't like all that icky Force and Subjugation her predecessor's Empire did, though, and prefers more diplomatic ways of swatting away annoying little separatists and egalitarians.)

And i gotta make it clear that private corporations are quite prevalent in the galaxy, though they tend to be smaller than today. Some space stations and exoplanet colonies are owned privately, and most resource colonies are private.