#starlight au lore

[chasing-your-starlight]

Datadex: Mivus

Planetary Data:

Orbital Distance: 1.2 AU Orbital Period: 1.33 Earth Years Day Length: 30 Earth Hours Radius: 6,276 km Surface Gravity: 0.85 g Surface Temperature: 26 °C No. of Moons: 1

Category: Homeworld Species: Velumian and Quvian Capital: Camionira Population: 5.1 billion

Mivus is a planet of extremes. Its mountainous surface has spots of greenery that range from lush jungles to sparse desert shrub-land, all surrounding its relatively small, but bounteous oceans. These green patches are interrupted in some areas by stretches of blackened and somewhat muddy-looking terrain from the planet’s semi-annual eruptions. Many of its beaches have dark, volcanic sand, as Mivus has continuously been actively volcanic since its formation.

As the birthplace of both the velumian and quvian races, once again the planet showcases extremes. The velumians were guided into the upper elevations of the world via evolution, and at present numerous clans make their homes in the caves that snake through mountains and cliff faces or in cities sitting atop the plateaus. Quvians evolved in the lower elevations and have remained there for the most part. Their tribes live in the valleys and underpasses, relying on the bounties of foothills and beaches for their livelihoods. The two races have peaceful relations and communal settlements are not unheard of.

In addition to being home to the velumians and quvians, Mivus is also home to a host of other smaller, but no less significant organisms. Soot frogs come out to play after eruptions, commonly found at the edges of lava flows where they hide amongst the fresh rock. The vibrant kazui firebirds roost in canopies all over the planet, providing early warning calls before eruptions. The most well known creature from the planet, however, is the flamewalker salamander. A well-loved snack of velumians, the little critters are abundant on Mivus’ surface and have been brought to many neighboring systems due to sheer demand.

Aside from its fascinating range of fauna, the planet is well known for its volcanic and tectonic activity, making it a popular spot of study for geologists, volcanologists and the like. Mivus’ governing body is usually courteous of such requests, but they have always reserved the right to deny or restrict access to areas of their planet if said areas are of cultural, environmental, and/or historical significance. Some governments and even entire races have been barred from sending scientists to Mivus due to violations of these rules.

It should probably be said that for the reckless and inconsiderate, Mivus is a near endless supply of bureaucratic red tape. As the homeworld of not one, but two, non-allied races, its governing body takes protection of both their people and assets very seriously. Visitors to Mivus can expect a thorough but efficient background check of their person, transport, and cargo, but the planets’ denizens are well-versed in making other races feel incredibly welcomed once they pass these check-ins. 

Once one manages to get past the mild tedium of arrival, Mivus quickly becomes a wonderful place to explore. Its capital, Camionira, is a beautiful city with even more stunning views. With the bulk of the settlement built atop a plateau and numerous sub-levels carved into the rock below, Camionira is a prime example of its inhabitants’ ingenuity and collaborative natures. Host to the planet’s primary spaceport, the capital has been designed with ease of access in mind to account for the hundreds of visitors it receives on a daily basis. Finding where one needs to go is almost never a problem, especially because its citizens are typically willing to offer assistance. 

This friendliness and willingness to interact with and support others is often credited to come from lessons learned during a troubled period in Mivus’ history. Roughly 300 years ago, the majority of the planet’s velumian clans were at war with each other for reasons no one can quite remember. These velumians suffered for the grudges of their ancestors and some only made it worse by enlisting their quvian neighbors as assassins and spies. When all was said and done - treaties made, the dead honored, and repentance performed to the planet itself - the clans and tribes involved agreed that in order to coexist with each other and their planet, they would never again take up arms against each other without due cause.

It is this agreement and how it carried over to dealings with other races once they became space-faring that has proved most interesting. Mivus is a truly neutral party that will not take part or choose to support any particular side in interplanetary or galactic conflicts unless they have truly no other choice. This pacifistic attitude doesn’t make either of its races very popular amongst more war-mongering races or their governments, least of all the Alliance. They have tried on numerous occasions to hound at least one of the two native races into supporting their conflicts, but these attempts are always met with a well-rehearsed list of reasons why it isn’t possible. With their home system so close to the edge of Alliance space, the Mivans cannot afford to not be prepared for such situations.

However, despite this, Mivus has entered into alliances with other non-allied races before. In these treaties, it has been clearly established that neither of its races wishes to be ammunition for any conflicts their allies get involved in. As they see things, upholding peace and cooperation is extremely important and those who wish to work with them must understand that. When sufficiently motivated to a cause, however, the people of Mivus are a force to be reckoned with.

Back to the Datadex Datadex Entry: Velumians Datadex Entry: Quvians

[midgetmoth]

"Star Trail"

".. where we.. go, fwind?"

[shadows-coffeebeans]

Does Starlight like Astronomy or anything related to the stars, planets, or galaxies?

in a way

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Starlight masterpost

[ask-mobile-iterator-project]

Asking all what are your opinions on the Ancients?

[BROADCAST HANDLED BY ADMIN AND OVERSEERS]

admin notes

firstly: thank you @cloverlady and @charlottenanachi for helping me with coloring!! and @fauxbia for helping with the writing :D

This is ask #30, wowie!! I've made a couple (3) Activation Logs I'll be posting in the next few days!! There was a comic I was working on, too, but idk when that'll be done, sorry...

I don't have Activation logs for all of them on the Askblog because I feel the first three explore what I want to share right now well enough. Hopefully you guys like LOF, PU, and SLS

In the meantime, I've also updated ToyHouse bios slightly, mostly surrounding relationships.

Also, I plan to open a Discord Server focused on my OC AU very soon!! It'll be 16+, though, due to subject matter. That being said, here is another reminder to check the content warnings!! The more lorestuff I post, the more I'll be getting into sensitive and upsetting subject matter...

and once again, "architect" is just the in-universe term for "ancient."

[gazlineart]

Star faerie (bisexual panic alien edition) au johnshi that broke sai every time I saved so I had to call it good here

Bonus: there's not a single brain cell behind those eyes and Johnny is failing upwards with high ranking aliens (he has priorities)

[askdrunksally]

Flashbacks

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Ayyy look! A re-draw, isn't that swell? :]

↑ (the original)

I forgot I used to draw her like that lol

[get-rammed]

Testing Project Starlight's ability to taste is very serious work

[mewguca]

i drew sls in this color palette i found on twitter

it was fun :)

[delightfullyodd]

Fun thought on Moondancer & Stralight Glimmer (which makes a super fun A.U.)

A textwall below!

So when look at Moon Dancer I can't help but wonder: why isn't she a sister of Twilight Sparkle?

How in the name of Luna are they not sisters?! I mean look at these nerd queens!

Okay, original Moon Dancer has white coat. However, there is a version from Greece on the left that has pink-lilac-blue mane&tail and white body.

Hmmm... So the left one works best from genetical point of view if we place her as Twi's sister. So on the other hand no-one ever said that all children must inherit delute genes.

Okay now how Starlight Glimmer fits in? Well, She can easily be their third sister. Triplets. An extremely rare case for horses. But why not? After Flurry Heart anything is possible.

Since we don't know what Twi's other relatives look like, let's speculate!

Say, the maternal grandma looked like G1 Galaxy. While grandpa on mom's side will be an ugly ass groom Raincurl (who is a male unicorn here because I said so).

And, say, a somebody who would look like G1 Glory as parental grandma + gradpa Sunbeam on the side of Night Light.

Note that both grandpas carry genes responsible for yellow colour.

Now a minute of genetic madness.

So mum is very pale dusty lilac with purple- white mane and light blue eyes.

Dad is blue with dark blue mane& tail with amber eyes.

Twi's brother Shining Armor is white with mane and tail that are several shades of blue. His eyes are blue.

Now, Twilight has purple eyes, lilac body and dark blue mane& tail with purple and dark pink locks.

Moon Dancer is pale yellow (maybe almost white or, more accurately, she would appear ivory) with mane and tail that are of cooler shade of red with purple and lilac locks. Her eyes are dark purple.

Glim is llilac-pink with with dark purple mane with cerulean locks and blue-lilac eyes.

So chances that Twilight might have sisters with such coloration are pretty high.

[lumatastic]

Sonic Starlight - A Reimagining of the Sonic Lore

HERE IT IS!!!! I've been chipping away for years at an AU, and I wanna roll out the characters and their designs with a few snippets of lore, starting with the Blue Blur

Not one to stay long in one place, the closest he has to a home is an abandoned car he found in a field between Station Square and Mystic Ruins, keeping what little belonging he has and sleeping in the back seats.

He may travel alone most of the time, but that earring made out of Longclaw's last portal ring serves as a reminder of the love he feels for the world and everyone in it.

[chasing-your-starlight]

Starlight Plot Overview

The following is an overview for the plotline behind Starlight. It will discuss what is effectively a genocide of a fictional alien race and the methods through which the equally fictional galactic government has covered it up. 

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For as long as most of us can remember, there have always been a select handful of species controlling the heart of the galactic government. The exact number of races, which races in particular, etc. have varied over the millennia, but they’ve always called themselves the Alliance. For the last several thousand years, that title has belonged to a triumvirate of races: the Falanmyr, Gohepi, and Thorismo. These races have proven themselves to be some of the most advanced in the galaxy, due in no part to them being some of the oldest. They hold great power over a majority of other races and it is them who decide what exactly constitutes galactic law.

What the Alliance doesn’t want you to know, however, is that there was once another race that held just as much, if not more, power and respect than they do. This race was called the Riukarans. They had been around longer than the majority of the current Alliance races and were perhaps the most technologically advanced at the time of the falanmyr and gohepi’s ascendance to their positions. The riukarans were, in their prime, a race of warriors and explorers. By the point we’re talking about though, they had seemingly contented themselves with the pursuit of knowledge. The galaxy’s younger races - including the Alliance themselves - often looked to them for wisdom.

It took a few hundred years, but the Alliance eventually came to see them as a threat to their governing power. Despite the riukarans’ lack of political power, the Alliance’s more paranoid members believed that if the opportunity presented itself, that they could be a very real threat to them as a governing body. After a couple more decades of debate, the conclusion was that this threatened unseating could never be allowed to happen. Thus began the conspiracy to simply remove the riukarans from the equation entirely. This began with numerous disappearances of riukaran leaders and scholars on visits to Alliance worlds. While to the rest of the galaxy, the Alliance claimed to be looking into these “vanishings”, in reality they used this coverup to slowly and systematically cut the riukarans’ major civilization centers off from the rest of the galaxy. With the isolation nearly complete, they then began to target ships and space stations. As the Alliance’s betrayal began to sink in, the riukarans pulled back to their worlds, desperate to defend themselves. By then, though, it was far, far too late. The Alliance had suspected the riukarans would retreat - they were a warrior race no longer, after all - and had already prepared the resources for planetary assaults. Hundreds of thousands of riukarans were massacred before the Alliance was even close to being satisfied. They crushed the riukaran worlds, in many cases leaving little behind but dust and death. Those few who survived fled into the outer reaches of the galaxy, knowing that if they remained, they too would face slaughter. The Alliance’s treatment of the riukarans was horrifically brutal and under any other circumstances would have been labeled as a gross violation of numerous treaties. Though, when speaking of the government, it’s too much to expect them to prosecute themselves, isn’t it? 

Following this, the Alliance had to put all their time and energy into controlling the narrative surrounding the riukarans, as they referred to it, ��abrupt disappearance”. Their official statement went somewhat like this: The riukarans were wiped out by a fast-spreading, deadly plague that only affected their kind due to vulnerabilities specific to their physiology. Due to their great wisdom, they understood that there was no way they could be helped, and thus, they gracefully accepted their unfortunate demise.

Roughly 700 years on, the riukaran race was largely considered extinct. Any items or tech that could be said to be “of riukaran origin” were now historical artifacts. New discoveries that gave insight into what the riukarans may have been like were closely monitored by the Alliance, as they knew that anything that could shed light on their involvement in the riukaran ‘extinction’ could ruin the carefully crafted story they had fed the galaxy. And they were mostly successful in maintaining this cover for many years to come.

What is it they say about humanity… that they have an insatiable curiosity? 

Despite riukarans being long considered the stuff of history and legends by the time humans emerged onto the galactic playing field, that did very little to deter humanity’s fascination with the ancient race. In fact, humans were the ones responsible for the majority of expeditions and large-scale research projects concerning the riukarans in the last century. Their efforts and successes have fueled a great number of other historical and scientific endeavors into learning more about the history of this once great race. While much has been learned - a “safe” amount of information, if you will - it’s not nearly enough to satisfy those who have dedicated their lives to learning and understanding what came before. This… sudden spike in interest has resulted in more extreme efforts on the Alliance’s part to stem the galaxy’s flow of knowledge on the subject, lest their past sins finally come to light.

As with any attempts at censorship, however, the Alliance has not been able to silence the past entirely… and that is the point where our story begins.

See Datadex Entry: Server and Datadex Entry: The Kismet (link tba) for more on the matter.

[midgetmoth]

Fleeting Light TW: Horror.

For those who don't understand what's happening: Second is having a panic attack, so the world appears darker and fuzzy. They are not thinking and acting purely on fear. When the danger is removed, their vison returns to normal.

[somegirlontheinternet135]

☆AAEAOTT Sexuality + Pronouns☆

Pure Vanilla: Bi & Demiboy(he/they)

Hollyberry: Pan(she/her)

Dark Cacao: Bi + Ace(he/him)

Golden Cheese: Pan & Genderfluid(she/he/they)

White Lily: Bi + Ace & Demigirl(she/they)

Timekeeper: Pan & Nonbinary(she/they/it)

Made this to clarify pronouns in case people may get confused in future chapters of AAEAOTT. Which (small update); is about at the halfway point!

Another thing: After watching the new trailer for the beast yeast update; linking it (here), there was something that seriously stumped me, story wise that is. . . Originally I thought the Starlight Starbright was going to be an issue(given the faeries, fallen heroes, etc.) but those were pretty simple fixes, it was AAEAOTT I had trouble with

As you know, Anything and Everything, All Of The Time takes place after the war with Dark Enchantress, and as of now, I am genuinely proud of what I've created so far. So, just in case anything happens to the lore, I'll be sticking to the story I've already built. . !

[ask-mobile-iterator-project]

Intro Post

still on indefinite hiatus whoops.

This blog focuses on my Rain World OCs involved in the "Mobile Iterator Project" AU. ^_^

The “Mobile Iterator Project” (MIP) is a project created and directed by an Ancient named "No Cost Too Great" (NCTG) with the stated goal of supporting standard iterators in their productivity, maintenance, and longevity, so that they can operate at maximum efficiency, even after the inevitable mass ascension. ‘MIP Units’—iterators under the project—are created puppet-first in the "MIP Development Center" and later assigned to Local Groups, where their structures are built to support the Iterators around them. Uniquely, their personalities are heavily based around singular, specific Architects (Ancients) who donate their memories and qualia. The exception to this is TWR. In total, there are 99 MIP Units, with IDs ranging from 01 to 99.

(This AU strays pretty far from the themes and canon of both Vanilla Rain World and Downpour, so please keep that in mind!)

⚠️Importantly, here are some warnings for sensitive content that may appear in the posts:

depictions of trauma and mental illness

heavy themes of manipulation (including memory manipulation)

depictions of emotional abuse

dehumanization

depictions of dissociation

identity struggles

medical malpractice/abuse, experimentation

child endangerment

generally dark themes

violence, physical abuse

infrequent body horror

When sensitive content comes up, I will leave a warning before the cut and tag as "sensitive content"!

Characters:

Starlight Symphony (SLS) she/her, [bio]

Frosted Briar (FB) she/they, [bio]

Glimmering Seafoam In Sunlight (GSIS) she/her, [bio]

Thorns Without Roses (TWR) she/they, [bio]

Perpetual Umbra (PU) they/them, [bio]

Legacy Of Famine (LOF) she/any, [bio]

*These are not all of the characters, just the main 6 that are open to receiving asks.

How it works:

Please specify who you are asking the question to, for example: (to SLS), (to SLS and FB), (to any), (to all), (to admin)

If you don’t specify, I’ll just pick myself. Though, sometimes, I might have another character answer too, if I think it might be interesting.

For admin asks, my friend’s overseer might want to add stuff too, so don’t be surprised if she shows up. For simplicity's sake, assume all admin asks are addressed to potentially both of us.

Additionally, I might add commentary sometimes, which I’ll tag with #admin commentary. My friend might do that too sometimes, so #overseer commentary for her.

I’ll do my best to answer your asks, with varying art quality, though I won’t answer all of them. Jade might answer some of them too, primarily the ones regarding, FB, as she knows them way better than I do.

We will sign off at the end of each post, denoting who handled the “broadcast” (ask.)

[Broadcast handled by admin], [Broadcast handled by overseer], [Broadcast handled by admin and overseer]

There is a light roleplaying/interactive element: The in-universe framing device for the questions is broadcasts being sent to the iterators, hence the ask button’s title. There may also be some occasional meta shenanigans.

I will be answering some questions from curiouscat rather than tumblr, and I will crosspost to twitter, too. This is probably too much work, but whatever. The askblog will be the main source of my attention, though, so posts will come here first.

Boundaries/Rules:

Please don’t ask questions related to your own OCs, because I don’t know them.

Please try to break up multiple questions into separate asks.

Nothing NSFW or suggestive.

No “magic” asks (like turning the characters into different things)

You can send items if you want, though

Please keep in mind that Frosted Briar is, for all intents and purposes, basically a child.

Rules may change as things go along and we figure stuff out!

Non-Ask Posts:

Occasionally, I may post content related to backstories and worldbuilding and stuff unrelated to asks. This will be tagged with #mip logs.

Tags:

#silly: for silly stuff

#angst: for angsty stuff

#dubiously canon: usually used in tandem with silly, but for anything that has questionable characterization

#sensitive content: content that may be triggering or upsetting

#mip worldbuilding: asks/posts related to worldbuilding

#mip lore: asks/posts related to lore!

#mip ask: in-universe asks for the ocs.

#admin ask: asks directed towards the admin/overseers

#guest appearance: asks where characters outside of the main 6 appear.

#mip logs: non-ask posts that build upon the lore/worldbuilding

#ooc: update posts, rule posts, etc.

#meta: hehe

#admin commentary: commentary from the admin (luna)

#overseer commentary: commentary from the overseer (jade or clover)

#overseer assistance: for when the overseers help with the process

#fanart: reblogs of fanart!! :D

#admin art: reblogs of luna’s, jade's or clover's art of the characters

#luna art, #jade art, #clover art: self-explanatory

#old: from the sls ask blog, consider it non-canon

#mobile iterator project, #rw mip au: self-explanatory

post is tagged with most of these

Main Admin: Luna, @mewguca

Overseer: Jade, @fauxbia

Overseer: Clover, @cloverlady

Thank you for reading!

For additional information on my OC usage permissions, please read my carrd

[kalmeria]

now i'm curious if anyone has done a revue starlight au of enstars. i mostly mean weapon designs (and their names!), since enstars is unit-based in a way i don't think you can translate to the top star system without making it into a whole different story.

(for anyone who doesn't know: in revue starlight every character has their own unique weapon with a special gem in it and they each have names too. a character's weapon represents who they are and how they work towards their goals. there are also some meaningful moments when someone's weapon changes. it's cool and it's fun as a concept to play around with imo)

[askdrunksally]

Sally what happened!? Did Poppy decide to get revenge on you and brick you up!?

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