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Waiting in the dark
Nov. 22nd, 2012 01:29 amI dreamed I was a weekend warrior on FTL ships. It was kind of like being a reservist now, but sending you on training missions involved relativistic effects. The main difference between that and full time armed service is that you and your friends were at least initially planning on coming back down. After the first few times you skipped a year just to get to somewhere that needed extra hands you either quit or developed a unique relationship to local time. You skim the years, your continuous relationships all to others who work with you, while time skips out from under you whenever you go to work. Planet side people are rapidly foreign, yet people who choose to live that way seem to prefer it.
I was autistic spectrum. People are always foreign. I could cope with the time skips the same usual way I cope with everything. Not rapidly enough for combat, but with plenty of useful skills for the rest of the time.
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So all that makes an excellent setup for a space horror story, or just exploring civilisations where travel between stars really seriously depends on people caring about each other. Cold physics can get you out, but empathic navigation gets you home.
I'd need a bunch of characters and a specific plot though. And an autistic spectrum point of view character, which would make it difficult to introduce said other characters, since they'd all be pretty baffling to her.
In the dream I had to share a dorm with a hyper religious person and someone who accused all the others of being stoned or drunk. They'd put all the, er, interesting people in together. What would a space ship do with their crazies, if they knew they pulled them out off course? But what would be good to do, if a major danger was all thinking the same so long they stop being able to do anything else? Too many crazies scatter the ship focus, maybe get them lost out in the Dark. But there would be such a thing as too few.
Possibilities.
I was autistic spectrum. People are always foreign. I could cope with the time skips the same usual way I cope with everything. Not rapidly enough for combat, but with plenty of useful skills for the rest of the time.
( Read more... )
So all that makes an excellent setup for a space horror story, or just exploring civilisations where travel between stars really seriously depends on people caring about each other. Cold physics can get you out, but empathic navigation gets you home.
I'd need a bunch of characters and a specific plot though. And an autistic spectrum point of view character, which would make it difficult to introduce said other characters, since they'd all be pretty baffling to her.
In the dream I had to share a dorm with a hyper religious person and someone who accused all the others of being stoned or drunk. They'd put all the, er, interesting people in together. What would a space ship do with their crazies, if they knew they pulled them out off course? But what would be good to do, if a major danger was all thinking the same so long they stop being able to do anything else? Too many crazies scatter the ship focus, maybe get them lost out in the Dark. But there would be such a thing as too few.
Possibilities.