From ea92c65349f0b5c029dcf294ccd789b723dc945d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Madison Scott-Clary <mscottclary@nvidia.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2021 14:40:15 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] update from sparkleup

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 <h1 id="notes">Notes</h1>
 <ul>
 <li class="done4"> The ships (identical) are similar to from <em>Accelerando</em> combined with a scissors mechanism a la Ilium and a rail gun. There&rsquo;s a small version of the System (plenty of room for folks to fork, etc), an RTG for power, some external physical manipulators and materials (like 1-2 tons) for repair along the way if needed, a few attitude jets, and a light sail once it&rsquo;s launched on each. Thin scaffold type thing about 10k kilometers long spun around the middle. In the scaffold is a rail gun to assist in propulsion as the ships are flung out into space by angular momentum, each in opposite directions.</li>
-<li class="done1"> The launch process is the first time the sys-side and phys-side have worked together in any notable capacity since secession.</li>
+<li class="done4"> The launch process is the first time the sys-side and phys-side have worked together in any notable capacity since secession.</li>
 <li class="done0"> Release should take the form of an ARG similar to the original Qoheleth.</li>
 <li class="done4"> The creators of the system tried to come up with better communication than just text, and could when just one was in the system via dream-reading scans, but when multiple dreamers interacted, it quickly lost focus. Can communicate at any time via text through perisystem or view one individual&rsquo;s dream if they fork into a reserved spot in the perisystem(though that instance can&rsquo;t merge back, just as waiting room instances can&rsquo;t merge), so it&rsquo;s only really good for presentations</li>
-<li class="done1"> Difference between conservatives and liberals is that the conservatives play with need on a very grand scale, liberals on a very small/individual scale. Ioan struggles with May after learning a lot of this about the Clade, because even if she&rsquo;s earnestly in love with em, it&rsquo;s like learning your inlaws are illuminati. Ey comes acround because a) she explains need for control as trauma response, and b) tells myth in progress, about how the gods created the world in an attempt to shape it to their will, but instead became impersonal forces in the face of absolute independence </li>
-<li class="done1"> Quote: <em>She stood from her chair and walked up to where ey remained stubbornly seated. &ldquo;If you do not wish to be unhappy with the answers to difficult questions, Ioan,&rdquo; she said, tousling eir hair. &ldquo;Then you do not need to ask them.&rdquo;</em> / <em>She smiled down to em, and in that smaile was kindness, and in that kindness was a hatred ey could not fathom, and then she quit.</em></li>
+<li class="done4"> Difference between conservatives and liberals is that the conservatives play with need on a very grand scale, liberals on a very small/individual scale. Ioan struggles with May after learning a lot of this about the Clade, because even if she&rsquo;s earnestly in love with em, it&rsquo;s like learning your inlaws are illuminati. Ey comes acround because a) she explains need for control as trauma response, and b) tells myth in progress, about how the gods created the world in an attempt to shape it to their will, but instead became impersonal forces in the face of absolute independence </li>
+<li class="done4"> Quote: <em>She stood from her chair and walked up to where ey remained stubbornly seated. &ldquo;If you do not wish to be unhappy with the answers to difficult questions, Ioan,&rdquo; she said, tousling eir hair. &ldquo;Then you do not need to ask them.&rdquo;</em> / <em>She smiled down to em, and in that smaile was kindness, and in that kindness was a hatred ey could not fathom, and then she quit.</em></li>
 <li class="done4"> Dear says in Qoheleth that it uploaded in the 2130s after the L5 station had been set up, have to address this incongruence (either shift dates, or give it a reason to lie; probably the latter, to downplay stuff to one it does not yet trust)</li>
-<li class="done1"> True Name and Jonas begin wielding more and more power within the council despite the promise that forks will not influence balance of power, leads to Debarre and user11824 leaving council</li>
+<li class="done4"> True Name and Jonas begin wielding more and more power within the council despite the promise that forks will not influence balance of power, leads to Debarre and user11824 leaving council</li>
 <li class="done0"> Normalize &ldquo;LVs&rdquo;, capitalizing Secession, launch arms vs struts (struts at base, arms at tips), Council of Eight only exists in Secession (now viewed as i.e: founding fathers), Ioan/Codrin&rsquo;s pronouns</li>
-<li class="done0"> Easy to cut people off, build enclaves, isolate (thus &ldquo;System freeze&rdquo;); w/o shortages, leads to complacency, easy to govern/steer w/o big deal</li>
-<li class="done0"> Add timestamps to extramural conversations</li>
+<li class="done4"> Easy to cut people off, build enclaves, isolate (thus &ldquo;System freeze&rdquo;); w/o shortages, leads to complacency, easy to govern/steer w/o big deal</li>
+<li class="done0"> Add timestamps to extramural conversations?</li>
+<li class="done0"> Need more &ldquo;there is no going and there is no back&rdquo; throughout</li>
 </ul>
 <h2 id="cover-ideas">Cover Ideas</h2>
 <p>Would be nice to keep the isometric view from Qoheleth, plus the title as the foundation of the landscape. As before, probably want one from each time period.</p>
@@ -200,33 +201,33 @@
 <h1 id="older-stuff">Older stuff</h1>
 <h2 id="chapter-ideas">Chapter ideas</h2>
 <ul>
-<li class="done1"> Ioan actually gets with May, discusses irreversibility of decision b/c no earlier fork like w/ Codrin</li>
+<li class="done4"> Ioan actually gets with May, discusses irreversibility of decision b/c no earlier fork like w/ Codrin</li>
 <li class="done4"> Both threads should start around/after the event, so Yared&rsquo;s first chapter should be of him uploading on Secession Day</li>
-<li class="done1"> Interviews (not all interview style, some probably get interviewed more than once, interleaved):<ul>
-<li class="done1"> Launch-side:<ul>
-<li class="done1"> (Castor) Aside 1: Depressed astronomer who knows this is as close as he&rsquo;ll ever get, but studies all the same through text (how we learn why that limitation is there, learn more about Dreamer Module)</li>
-<li class="done1"> (Pollux) Aside 2: Zeke, who has gone a bit sideways, now the prophet Ezekiel, having a hard time reconciling two launches</li>
-<li class="done2"> Aside 3: Author who wrote an outline for a book, has been writing them independently on launches and sending them back to an editor sys-side who is compiling them</li>
-<li class="done1"> (Castor) True Name: Tasked as political side of launch, first time sys and phys have worked together in any meaningful way in ages, tickled to see Douglas in the candidates</li>
-<li class="done1"> (Pollux) Why Ask Questions Here At The End Of All Things (All Things): Tasked by True Name and Jonas to meddle with sys-side politics to increase support for secession</li>
-<li class="done1"> (Castor/Pollux) No and Ne Jonas: Reveal just how much bigger a political influence sys-side had on phys-side even after secession to keep the System going and growing, not all savory, what&rsquo;s best for System at all costs, humanity has become a resource/crop to be tended by the System.</li>
+<li class="done3"> Interviews (not all interview style, some probably get interviewed more than once, interleaved):<ul>
+<li class="done3"> Launch-side:<ul>
+<li class="done4"> (Castor) Aside 1: Depressed astronomer who knows this is as close as he&rsquo;ll ever get, but studies all the same through text (how we learn why that limitation is there, learn more about Dreamer Module)</li>
+<li class="done4"> (Pollux) Aside 2: Zeke, who has gone a bit sideways, now the prophet Ezekiel, having a hard time reconciling two launches</li>
+<li class="done4"> Aside 3: Author who wrote an outline for a book, has been writing them independently on launches and sending them back to an editor sys-side who is compiling them</li>
+<li class="done4"> (Castor) True Name: Tasked as political side of launch, first time sys and phys have worked together in any meaningful way in ages, tickled to see Douglas in the candidates</li>
+<li class="done4"> (Pollux) Why Ask Questions Here At The End Of All Things (All Things): Tasked by True Name and Jonas to meddle with sys-side politics to increase support for secession</li>
+<li class="done4"> (Castor/Pollux) No and Ne Jonas: Reveal just how much bigger a political influence sys-side had on phys-side even after secession to keep the System going and growing, not all savory, what&rsquo;s best for System at all costs, humanity has become a resource/crop to be tended by the System.</li>
 <li class="done1"> (Pollux) Dear: Codrin interviews it about about just how much influence the Ode clade had/still has</li>
 </ul>
 </li>
-<li class="done1"> Sys-side:<ul>
-<li class="done1"> Aside 1: Historian keenly interested in staying close enough to Earth to keep cataloging, also keenly interested in Ioan, weaseled her way into the interview</li>
-<li class="done1"> Aside 2: Musician who set up transmission of music (via MIDI etc) between sys- and phys-side</li>
-<li class="done1"> Aside 3: Series of poor families (like where ey was phys-side, but much more recent): what they miss; what they were excited to see; first thing they did; what was disappointing (&ldquo;System freeze&rdquo; a la Seattle freeze); biggest regret</li>
-<li class="done1"> Yared Zerezghi: Never forked after growing paranoia that quitting = death, talks about Toledot Yeshu and Demma as Paul</li>
-<li class="done1"> Do I Know God After The End Waking (End Waking): Tasked by True Name and Jonas to meddle with finances back on Earth after secession to nudge them to decreasing the cost of uploading etc</li>
-<li class="done1"> Jonas Prime: Discusses how life wants to spread and multiply because that makes it stronger, reveals that this is the root of the launch - offsite backups, bitter, need for life to continue trumps morals; phys-side  (maybe also w/ True Name on launches?)</li>
-<li class="done1"> True Name: discovers that True Name is now on every System, still steering w/ Jonas clade (climax-ish)</li>
-<li class="done1"> May Then My Name: Ioan interviews about why her stanza really exists (political machinations), why Dear&rsquo;s exists (artistic machinations), why the clade exists (to explore need: each stanza deals with manipulating something, politics, emotions, etc, borne out of being created for political reasons a la taskers but kept long a la dispersionistas), May is freaked that she&rsquo;ll push Ioan away.</li>
+<li class="done4"> Sys-side:<ul>
+<li class="done4"> Aside 1: Historian keenly interested in staying close enough to Earth to keep cataloging, also keenly interested in Ioan, weaseled her way into the interview</li>
+<li class="done4"> Aside 2: Musician who set up transmission of music (via MIDI etc) between sys- and phys-side</li>
+<li class="done4"> Aside 3: Series of poor families (like where ey was phys-side, but much more recent): what they miss; what they were excited to see; first thing they did; what was disappointing (&ldquo;System freeze&rdquo; a la Seattle freeze); biggest regret</li>
+<li class="done4"> Yared Zerezghi: Never forked after growing paranoia that quitting = death, talks about Toledot Yeshu and Demma as Paul</li>
+<li class="done4"> Do I Know God After The End Waking (End Waking): Tasked by True Name and Jonas to meddle with finances back on Earth after secession to nudge them to decreasing the cost of uploading etc</li>
+<li class="done4"> Jonas Prime: Discusses how life wants to spread and multiply because that makes it stronger, reveals that this is the root of the launch - offsite backups, bitter, need for life to continue trumps morals; phys-side  (maybe also w/ True Name on launches?)</li>
+<li class="done4"> True Name: discovers that True Name is now on every System, still steering w/ Jonas clade (climax-ish)</li>
+<li class="done4"> May Then My Name: Ioan interviews about why her stanza really exists (political machinations), why Dear&rsquo;s exists (artistic machinations), why the clade exists (to explore need: each stanza deals with manipulating something, politics, emotions, etc, borne out of being created for political reasons a la taskers but kept long a la dispersionistas), May is freaked that she&rsquo;ll push Ioan away.</li>
 </ul>
 </li>
-<li class="done1"> Douglas:<ul>
-<li class="done1"> Sabotage attempts</li>
-<li class="done1"> Launch-era political machinations from phys-side</li>
+<li class="done4"> Douglas:<ul>
+<li class="done4"> Sabotage attempts</li>
+<li class="done4"> Launch-era political machinations from phys-side</li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 </ul>