#ugsf

[ranmagender]

I have several hyperfixations and I must scream

[hexedbug]

sometimes i think about UGSF and how the entire ace combat lore leads into fucking dig dug

[apreciadoradeartes]

meh, im going to talk about my ugsf lore in my main account

[carionto]

Ignition

Once the Galactic Coalition had (without other realistic options) given Humanity an equal position among the governing bodies, despite the fact they were a single planet race, the initial dread of what they would do eased. A little. When they showed how they powered their impossibly massive vessels, the fears of our ancestors who deemed the Responsibility Barrier a necessity reemerged a thousandfold.

The Humans, with a slight grin, said "Solar power, of course."

They took a delegation within the bowels of one of their smaller, civilian research craft, which was still bulkier, better armored, and more worryingly - better armed than most flagships of the other predator-races. Were we not able to see with our own eyes their actual, what they aptly call, Dreadnoughts, from distances you would normally need a telescope, we would have assumed this was their mightiest warship. Yet it was just one of hundreds.

As we passed through the ludicrously thick and seemingly excessive number of bulkheads and shielded and compartmentalized hallways, the ever present hum of raw power beneath our feet gradually became nerve-wracking. What is that? It reminded us of stories told by those who traveled near Black Holes - of the sheer vastness and infinite apathy they felt from the all consuming entities.

A dozen or so biometric gates later, we were greeted by a gigantic sphere, easily a hundred and fifty meters in diameter, an abomination of reinforced panels, wiring, heat pumps, and countless tubes, hanging from numerous power conduits in the middle of an even more massive chamber from behind our observation platform. A true, pure fusion reactor. And there were Humans, in full protective suits at least, working directly next to it within the ominous chamber.

"We wanted to give you a demonstration of our advances in the past millennia, so please observe as we turn on this one."

This one? As in... the power we were feeling was not from this monstrosity? We had to ask.

"Oh, of course not, this ship has three such reactors, we recently performed a full maintenance on this and decided to delay reactivating it for you to see."

The delegates' mouths (or equivalents) were agape. Sure, nuclear fusion is known far and wide, but due to it's high potential for cataclysmic failure, or worse, deliberate destruction, the vast majority of such reactors were mostly found in deep space stations where solar radiation was scarce. Background radiation converters, while efficient at what they do, were nowhere sufficient enough for anything more than as passive emergency battery chargers. And no civilization kept fusion reactors anywhere near populated or colonizeable planets.

Yet here they were, looking at one nearly five times larger than any other known or attempted. And there were three on this ship alone. They counted hundreds of similar size, a few dozen of their Dreadnoughts, thousands of smaller vessels ferrying between the stations, the surface, and other larger ships. Countless world ending bombs-in-waiting right around the Humans' only home.

"Yeah, us science ships get the biggest ones, kinda need the extra oomph for our projects. The military kids like their redundancies, so theirs are smaller."

A slight relief.

"I think their newest capital ship, the UGSF Caliban of York, has fifteen, each about half ours."

A few delegates passed out. Their attendants rushed to salvage some dignity, but Captain Knoslark of this vessel, The Radiant Dusk at Everest, didn't seem surprised or offended and simply waited for the delegation to regain composure before continuing.

"This is my favorite part."

He said quietly with a glint in his eyes, then his tone changed to a more formal and authoritative one.

"Chief Engineer Ira Tameki, status of Reactor 2."

"All green, Captain. She's ready to purr to life at your command."

"Good. Then," his tone shifted once again, to a far more theatrical one as he took a pose, half turning his body and extending his right hand towards the reactor, index finger pointing dramatically. As he pronounced every syllable of the next word, there was a silent resigned sigh from his crew:

"ignition!"

Outwardly, nothing of significance changed. The engineers clicked at their consoles, bars slowly rose and everyone was deliberately doing their best to make it clear they were ignoring the fact that the captain was still in the same pose.

There was a muffled thump from the chamber, then the hum beneath their feet became a rumble for a few moments before steadying back to a now slightly more intense almost-buzz. Physically, nothing all that noteworthy. Mentally, everyone in the delegation was in true shock as they fully understood what they had just witnessed done all too casually:

The birth of a star.

[possessedscholar]

But the part of Ace Combat lore you aren’t prepared for is the part where it all leads into Galaga.

No, I’m not kidding, Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere (the chronologically last entry in the Ace Combat series) officially marks the beginning of Namco’s UGSF Timeline, which Galaga is a part of.

[silvaelectronics]

Episode 1 comes from SE founding @michel-claus !

IG: www.instagram.com/mikec187/ SC: @michael-claus

Can you introduce yourself, tell us where you're from and/or currently based, and what it is you do? How you would describe your sound.

My name is Michael Claus. I'm a music producer / DJ (among other things) and the founder of Silva Electronics. In terms of my sound, I’d say it has quite a bit of range that can go from left field and ambient leaning to heavy and distorted. Each release is a little bit different, but overall my music seems to retain a lightness and fun aspect to it. I'm originally from the Bay Area and spent the past 13 years in San Francisco, but recently relocated to Brooklyn, where I'm now based. Although I’ve been making music in some form for most of my life, I started Silva Electronics in 2017 and have been having a blast with it since. Thanks for tuning in and for your support.

Tell us about the mix you've recorded for us.

This mix is a special one. I recorded it in January 2024, prepping for a series of memorial club nights for my dear friend and San Francisco legend, Gregory Anthony Clarke aka Woo, who passed away in December 2023. Gregory and I DJ’d together as residents of the Outpost Party series in San Francisco (~2011-2016), organized by CM-4 (Cassidy Martin) & Nackt (Johnny Igaz).

For Woo’s events, I wanted to include tracks I loved playing at Outpost parties with him back in the day, whether we were DJing together or he was working the bar at UGSF. So the first half of the mix features recent digs, while the second half includes some old favorites from the Outpost era. It was amazing to relive those nights through these sounds while getting these playlists together. Huge shout out to Jimmy B of WERD SF for helping put those together.

I hope you enjoy it! Rest in Power, Woo! ❤️

What are your upcoming projects or collaborations?

Silva Electronics has a series of releases coming out over the next few months, including some from friends and a couple from me, which I'm very excited about! I'm also thrilled to start this new podcast series and get back to DJing and digging, alongside my music production. Keeping busy! 😁

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[ninjastar107]

DISCLAIMER: The usual Rules go for things that I may have posted and forgotten about. This file's been in use since may of last year, so we've got a lot to pick through. That being said, All art presented is sfw as usual, and under the cut!

made a UGSF timeline au for Taizo and Co. I dont remember if I posted any of it.

Tumblr nettizens I have 400 layers in my art file and most have not seen the light of day. Most of these are going to the shadow realm, but I will share some of the ones I like.

[jiessicas]

07.17.23 -- 07.23.23

07.23.23 (sun) picnic @ little farm

picnic at little farm, the ride there and back with s&s <3

cannot escape cliche / that day is not this year

dreaming of small glowing object timer 

i think i better understand hinging and unhinging / realities are malleable etc etc 

i’m told i bring good vibes to the function

mathematical transformations; the object of study didn’t change but what you noticed did; was that a transformation or did you find a new point of entry?

gods favorite (kiosk order #1 at matcha cafe maiko, japantown edition)

looking for a new social media (listening to podcasts again)

learned of diplomatic immunity

07.22.23 (sat) japanese tea garden; prose & pals; n's bday <3

new newjeans ep in the car! i want to hear "super shy" in the club

remaining soft is how i get here / remaining flinty is how i preserve my softness, my ability to get there 

learned that the casio is the "terrorist watch"

i turned the corner and there you were; an altar, an arrow, a shrine in real-time, a monument for today;

remaining soft is how i get here; remaining flinty is how i preserve my softness, my ability to continue to get there

i am so happy for friends who are happier / so much i want to talk to p about

celebrating n's bday! he said "the future is short" and i felt the room tilt for a moment (and change color, as the lamps were set to due on a timed basis hehe)

07.21.23 (fri) picking poetry books; shuggie's

strategic scatterings, diligent dilettantes

trip to dogeared; saw a tiny puppy right next to a tiny baby in the bookstore

thinking about aunthood (buying a tiny bucket hat and the sundae school puppy fleece for someone else's dog)

the green light at shuggie's trash pies reminds me of the green in "all about lily chou chou"

asking people often "how did you feel about that" in part because of the lil kid in me that had to monitor the feelings of adults around me, but also because it seems really good for encouraging pause/listening to oneself in times we don't always remember to pause for

"we sound like war veterans"

07.20.23 (th) "all about lily chou chou" / jialing @ ugsf

athleisure (appropriating tennis aesthetics to sit in the sun outside to read "greek lessons")

knew today was the day to resume wellbutrin when i watched a video of a puppy eating an ice cream cone and felt compelled to eat an ice cream cone, just like that puppy

sometimes being dysregulated is so nice yknow 

i’m just trying to live my american dream (eat a little edamame potato croquette w chili crisp and wash it down with some ito en black milk tea in peace)

A Grand Unified Theory Of Dog/Daughterhood, Being Baby, But Also An Older Sister, Probably, Also, “I Bet On Losing Dogs” (2016) 

knew today was the day to resume wellbutrin when i watched a video of a puppy eating an ice cream cone and felt compelled to eat an ice cream cone, just like that puppy -- ie, going through a moment in which i see any pup and think "it seems like it would be nice to be you" (it's There Are More Dogs Than Children In San Francisco x I'm Baby syndrome)

thinking tenderly of student journalism in light of the student journalist who got someone to resign over their reporting

watched "all about lily chou chou" my god

saw jialing at undergroundsf, what a treat! i bring a sort of nonverbal athleisurely vibe to the club that my brain cells thank me for when i get home at the end of the night 

07.19.23 (w) ucsf visit; japantown loitering

times i feel like a surrogate or stand in / times i feel nonfungible 

thinking of my parents as poets; not redemption but remembrance; not transcendence but immanence 

finished reading mckenzie wark's "raving"

felt flowers in the vase

called c; thinking about different kinds of love; the loves that help me stay grounded in the present and the loves that help me embrace the future as it arrives. a kind of love wherein i learn the joy is rooted in peace, in building together; pleasure, a necessity, and one i want to nourish me

with c, I talked about feeling useless in contexts, feeling powerful when I am with people, feeling out power, not for anyone’s use but our own; he talks about feeling useless in one context, getting better so as to be useful in a diff context; feels like we are on opposite sides of the same plane;

there’s a mole on the back of my left ear, he says; we say i love you through subtitles when i'm on the bus; this call and the day before makes me miss him very very much

pop pop pop ice cream… not in the Bible

"that’s either drama or a jess instagram post"

i admire moments of surface disagreement to recognize the shared root that could be grasped together; i haven’t transcended but i found immanence; i don’t believe in redemptive arcs but i do believe in remembrance

i am so grateful for ucsf; i sip on a little juice box; i am instructed to wiggle my toes to distract myself; got a photo of an ultrasound of my uterus (beautiful, perfect lol); i stand in front of the poetry plant tablets and cry a lil bit;

the joy/power i reach for is to stave off my existential dread

i walk along sutter in the sun and wander into a grocery store that has piroshki, potato salad, and i sit at their counter to eat

groceries from nijiya, noncommittally wander through daiso, pick up an eraser for lil and finally get pen refills / a pencil sharpener and eraser for myself

then i sit on a bench outside of marufuku ramen & Free Associate to k!!!! Gosh; so many thoughts about lorde and gordan in thanks to them

07.18.23 (tu) bart movie screening; tender media primers

read alina stefanescu's piece on abortion: "the author of the abortion is 'I': against redemptive forms and genres"

intimacy doesn't need a reason / gray area / learning i am most generative and feel most powerful when i am useless in through the lens of instrumentality

the craven desire to be an “intern” again; to be a puppy (cute and clueless; bark bark arf arf woof woof; etc)

essay texting with k; concern with people's imagination, the foreclosure of it; a human/political concern

how was today? media consumption day--

a primer for tenderness via n - "throw someone a pep rally" ask polly (hard work becomes joyful when we make a connection to the hidden abilities and talents inside us...making that connection to our buried abilities, our muted imaginations, and our blocked desires becomes easier when we recognize that every living being is filled with just as much potential as we are) -> think being a teaching artist would be incredible for this reason

the club is bumping // the ladies look good // the alcohol i flowing // there is much tenderness in the world, and in this room

angie kang's comic, "desire paths"

read "what it was like" by natasha rao sent to me via c

ran into v: joshua tree was a midpoint between phoenix and california; consulted on a drink choice and got a drink as the consultant fee B)

maybe i read it yesterday but today it feels present - “‘What happens to me next is inscribed without causation… I will be passing into myself’” - from angie sijun lou's story, motorcycle factory

i walked out the door listening to linda diaz's music; feeling like i had a lot of time in the world, which i did!

gifts for people - earplugs; felt flowers; the burrito that d held, that looked like a bouquet also

check out "tunnel vision: an unauthorized BART ride" !!

Process notes from chatting with s

Times we have had solid working relationships?

When do we know it’s enough - having a story to tell, something to collapse the theory into 

Time is clear in the thread, what about the meta thread?

07.17.23 (mon) two wolves; parmesan soup; gathering; generative babies; southwest

sean (short for parmesan) would be a beautiful name for a baby girl ~ l made parmesan soup, and we added chicken sausage to it for the ultimate pizza soupppp

gathering deadlines; (categories here)

two wolves - raver that wants to be lightly eviscerated outside by some groovy tunes; writer that wants to cocoon inside under a bunch of blankies w a notebook

rhys - i had two longings & one was fighting the other. i wanted to be loved & i wanted to be always lone

i wish to indulge a little less so i can be a little more diligent !! or i wanna be more diligent about my indulgence

in what ways do i feel ready? in what ways do i wanna be able to choose something not as an escape? i wanna write and document today, then clean at home, want a functional workspace, less excess

readings: sour heart jenny zhang; closet space kming chang; obit victoria chang; franny choi

my lil sis' first day of work! she sent some generations of her as a baby via some app which kinda looked like me as a baby...

generative baby with fucked up hands but she's cute

i generated some of my own and sent to c; dislocation, seeing hugging face stuff, poorly rendered artifice, poorly utilized hyperrepresentation (dating apps, egg donations grotesque in their own way)

what is the feeling of dislocation? seeing yourself outside of yourself, any kind of familiarity that is defamiliarized is a dislocation, somthing you don't know how to place yet; the injury, when something is moved out of its usual or expected location

sat in the sun to journal

found a cool utility dress at o+f that makes me wanna sew

curled up in a corner at the commons to calendar; felt like calendar was in a good place in thanks to the franticness of last week // met v in passing who made me think of the southwest

technologies for the psyche, vs technologies for the ego

the fun of telling two people about one another

listened to music for 18 musicians

i’ve slept 7 + hours every day since wednesday and i’m reconfigured

i feel like i am on some hamster wheel hmm / or i feel scattered; it’s not bad i am just like “hm what shall propel me / what shall i propel myself with now”

from James Turrell - “Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.”

i want to work on computation that brings us closer to our bodies / technologies that get us closer to our selves

Affirmations: My Obsessions Nourish Me . They Do Not Destroy Me 💯💯

Affirmations: I Refrain From Losing Sleep Over My Obsessions (happy to report a week straight of sleeping ? 7+ hours ? i truly cannot recount the last time i did that was)

why did this just flip a switch in my brain

every person is a puzzle i guess; "If you ask too many why's you end up like 250k years in the past at the dawn of man"

there’s a meme where people are now like “not in the [reference text]” and ap styleguide is hilarious /// In Praise Of An Expansive Usage of “Situationship”: A Treatise

times i used notes app as twitter before i caved in to use twitter as twitter

RIP Dead Inside, Who Once Walked Into The Club (He's Not Dead Dead He's Just Lightly Immobilized From Dancing) ~ can still barely walk from dancing

return window passed and check's already cashed 

[babeybunny]

Like, 250 years have passed and Felix is still,,,a hopelessly in love bisexual 

[ranmagender]

[ID: drawing of a grey spaceship in a somemwhat retro style, next to it a boy in a pink and blue suit with hair sticking out of it END ID]

Cringetober 24/31 - Niche Interest

The UGSF Timeline is a particular niche interest of mine, its admittedly something that is sort of on and off again a thing thats acknowledged by bandai namco as its more to do with the namco portion of their name. the encompassing of games and series like mr driller, galaga, ace combat, dig dug, smash court tennis, tales of eternia, galaxian and so forth into a shared timeline detailing the rise of an organization and then world government, the UGSF.

I've talked about it at lengths in this blogpost here, where i even present a lovely chart of how the series connect. Something that was even acknowledged by one of the main scenario writers and proponent of the UGSF timeline Hisaharu Tago on twitter.

[ID: screenshort from twitter: "Tagotch Retweeted your Tweet" afollowed by "xrosfan.blogspot.com/2023/02/namcov... article about the ugsf/namco universe #ugsf #namco" END ID]

Crossovers and Shared Universes are a special interest of mine so i enjoy the UGSF timeline, it makes me wide eyed like the tbh creature.

[mflensink-blog]

My workplace #hauteborne #cnrs #universitedelille #ugsf #spring #lille #villeneuvedascq #nord #hautsdefrance (at Parc Scientifique De La Haute Borne, Villeneuve D' Ascq)

[dogwatch05]

Master Post

Human: The Space Dog

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Fosh Designs

Tori Concept Art

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Human: The Space Dog Lore

There's A Happy Ending For Us...Right?

Bonus Lore 1

Conversations

Conversations 1

Conversations 2

Conversations 3

HSO Short Stories

Human Grooming Habits are Weird

Human Loyalty and Its Unexplainable Attributes

Human Music and Its Many Uses

Humans and Their War Games

Humans and Existential Crisis

Humans and Their Fascination With Fire

Humans are Space Orcs: response story

Humans and the Running of The Bulls

Humans and Their Food

Final Address of General Kodi III

Humans and Peeling Skin

Being Lonely is Bad for Your Health

SCP

Commencement Speech to UGSF Graduating Class of 2309

English Homographs, Homonyms, and Homophones

Humans and Tickling

The Humans That Sing

Monsters in the Dark

Cat long post

The Sheer Stupidity of Humanity

Other Short Stories

The Good Villain

Aesthetic Short Stories

1950s pov/aesthetic

Non-Stories

Competitions, Particularly of the Stupid Kind

First Post on Tumblr

Little Alchemist Two

Update

Writing Traumatic Injuries References Reblog

Update #2

Update #3

Update #4

Octopus Stinkhorn

Reddit Info

[twinkens-art]

So I recently found your Baraduke II comic with Takky and Hommy, and I'm interested in where you got the design for the latter of the two. I've never played the original game, but I know Takky's design was sourced from the game itself. Did Hommy's design also come from the game, or did you come up with it yourself?

I designed her myself! :-D There was nothing to really work with, other than a name, so I decided to give her a face

The concept I had brewing was that Kissy and Takky were working border patrol with an onboard alien biologist, Hommy, and after responding to the distress call from Paccet Planet in Baraduke, Kissy is called back to the UGSF base and has to leave Takky and Hommy behind (for Baraduke II). I'm chocking up Hommy's absence in the first game to her job first and foremost is not fighting, but she is trained to handle artillery. After the two of them are left behind to clean up any additional trouble left from the Octians, she has to step up and support Takky.

[possessedscholar]

The fact that the Ace Combat series is basically one long extended prologue to Galaga and Dig Dug (among other games in the UGSF Series) makes my head hurt sometimes. Supremely mind blowing.

[dspacefear]

ace combat 3 is at the start of the UGSF timeline, which includes Dig Dug

upcoming ace combat 7 dlc is a top gun one

therefore top gun takes place in the Dig Dug universe

[miloscat]

[Comic] Baraduke 2 promotional mini-manga

Here’s another scanlation for a short, obscure video game comic! This time it’s for Namco’s arcade space shooter Bakutotsu Kijuutei: Baraduke 2.

The original Baraduke was released in 1985, and its premise of a spacesuit-clad action hero who is revealed to be a woman predates Nintendo’s Metroid by a year. That hero, Kissy aka Toby Masuyo, does not appear in Baraduke 2 (although the UGSF timeline published later retcons that she did); instead the player 2 character Takky—named for designer Yukio Takahashi—graduates to player 1 status in the sequel, and she is accompanied by new character Hommy. This isn’t super relevant to this manga, but I thought I’d give you the background because the identity of the main character is left ambiguous in the text.

Anyway, this manga was published in Namco’s official PR magazine NG: Namco Community Magazine, in the September 1988 issue, to promote the release of the game. The credits for that issue list Jun’ichi Ishikura as illustrator, which I think means he drew the comic, and I have assumed that he also wrote it. His other works include a Bomberman gamebook and a series of instructional manga.

The manga is brief at 4 pages, acting as a prologue and setting up the context for the game’s events. Dialogue is sparse, leaving space for some cool, dramatic action panels. It’s intended to be read in standard Japanese right-to-left format. I’ve left sound effects intact in the art, with captions for approximate equivalents.

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