Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi → (Plan8 Slaves) - Rayner Jamie Ye
Thank you so much. I will look into these additions. The secrete language thing would be beautiful. Maybe she might hope she would feel closer to her dead mother by teaching her mother's language. Maybe I should show a couple of symbols from the Otherworld in Aedre's other early chapters. I'll describe the wooden pipe, too, maybe tie a feather to it and some turquoise beads.
Maybe keep it plainer? Shape and feel of the bowl? It could be carved with a feather or wing pattern.
Thank you, njc. I did some research on the grief of losing a mother yesterday, which had me balling. It really helped for adding a line here and there in Aedre's chapters and to understand her grief more. She is finally building more in my mind. I can't believe how much I disregarded her grief before. Anyway, I see you've read chapter one again. Thank you for that.
I didn't find it too much information really, just lack of impetus / progression
also, re: "a few Nerthus months" just to clarify...
Imagine that a "Camite hour is 55 minutes" compared to Earth.
"a few Camite hours" / "a few Earthling hours" -> in the end, it's a still a few. Putting the name says exactly 55 minutes or exactly 60 then it's blended with "approximately" (a few).
Hope I managed to convey all this in that tiny box
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Slightly more expensive, but Aedre could get scuba gear and immerse herself in a sticky substance and wait for it to dry. Eg, she goes in a room with the drone, then seals off the door and triggers the room to fill with amber. Amber dries, she chips her way out, done is stuck.
A costly method is go see an expert drone remover. Of course, you can't tell the guy "Hi, there's a drone following me that will kill me if I talk about it"... but merely sitting in the expert's office and chatting about your day should be enough - if he's an expert he's used to clients doing just that. He'll be like "nice day. Can you lend me 20 biluvian dollars?" Aedre passes over the bills then whisk-whisk no more drone.
A much less involved method (though much more hardcore) is to hop in a ship and travel a few light-hours or light-weeks away. This means whoever's watching has a huge delay in the broadcast. She can take all the time she wants to get rid of it (I doubt they make hyperspace communicators tiny enough to load in the drone based on tech level presented).
A cheap, hardcore method is to hop in a cryosponge for a 50-year journey, then turn around and come back. 100 years round trip - all your enemies are dead. Problem solved.
A more involved method is to try to wear the thing out. Seeing at it can't have infinite power there must be a charging system (solar? Electromagnetic transduction? hydrocarbons? Antimatter?) Just hang out where it's dark, or no rotating core / magnetic field or in a desert etc. Or spray metal-dissolving acid all over the place. Set the room on fire (be careful with that one - hire a professional pyrotechnics engineer)
"Crystal Singer" by Anne McCaffrey. It's the most plausible premise I've ever seen that a highly futuristic society would use human labour for excavation.
You could potentially lift from it. Norm too, because he has a digging chapter.
"Crystal Singer" by Anne McCaffrey. It's the most plausible premise I've ever seen that a highly futuristic society would use human labour for excavation.
You could potentially lift from it. Norm too, because he has a digging chapter.
I switched to front loaders after you showed me an image of that monstrous digging machine. I justified front loaders based on the idea that many different spaceships with different size/shape cargo holds are involved in shipping soil off Earth, so the transfer needs front loaders and floating canvas utility carts that can be guided into cargo holds.
Hi Rayner
Your solution (that humans are cheaper to acquire) has merit but consider: horses are 1/20th the price of a car.
-K
Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi → (Plan8 Slaves) - Rayner Jamie Ye
