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User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress

2024-03-10T01:00:49Z

RandomDSdevel: Add an in-line to-do note/notice block.

'''TO-DO:'''

* This list and the subpages they refer to are all quite out of date! I need to update them.
* I may well want to consider hosting at least some of this content somewhere else? I could maybe mirror it back later, though?

--- 19:00, 9 March 2024 (CST)

== [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Projects|Projects]] ==

* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Projects/Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…|Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…]]

== [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Outlines|Outlines]] ==

=== By Story ===

* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Outlines/All's Quiet on the Midwestern Front|''All's Quiet on the Midwestern Front'']]

== [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories|Stories]] ==

=== By Project ===

==== [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Projects/Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…|Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…]] ====

* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/All's Quiet on the Midwestern Front|''All's Quiet on the Midwestern Front'']]
* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']]
* [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!195&authkey=!AGHU9jtalJwZRoo&ithint=file%2cdocx ''Displacement'']
* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/When Worlds Collide?!?|''When Worlds Collide?!?'']]

== [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Songs|Songs]] ==

=== By Setting ===

==== [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|''FreeRIDErs'']] ====

* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Songs/''FreeRIDErs'' Theme Song|''FreeRIDErs'' Theme Song]]

== [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Documentation|Documentation]] ==

Preliminary documentation for the works that I currently have in progress can be found [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Documentation|here]].

User:RandomDSdevel

2024-03-10T00:55:20Z

RandomDSdevel: /* About Me */ Added an in-line to-do item.

== About Me ==
{{my stories|name=WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly}}

'''TO-DO:''' Refer to my [https://indieweb.org/h-card h-card] here once I have one.

Pen Name: WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly

== Works in Progress ==

For those who are interested, a list of my current projects can be found [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress|here]].

User:RandomDSdevel

2024-03-10T00:51:00Z

RandomDSdevel: /* Things I Like */ Delete the section; it's out of date, plus I've decided I'd prefer to maintain any such list elsewhere, anyway.

== About Me ==
{{my stories|name=WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly}}

Pen Name: WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly

== Works in Progress ==

For those who are interested, a list of my current projects can be found [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress|here]].

Talk:You Could Go Home Again

2017-05-17T21:18:30Z

RandomDSdevel: Replied to thread.

== Name Games ==

Hey, [[User:Trismegistus Shandy|Shandy]], did you have anything in mind when you named one of Katie's siblings '[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailor_Moon_(character) Usagi]…?'

— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 15:30, 3 April 2017 (CDT)

:Usagi is Japanese for "rabbit". I figure it was a popular baby name in the Raleigh change-region for a few years after the Divergence. It's also possible that one or more of Katie and Usage's parents are Sailor Moon fans, or fans of some other Japanese media with a character named Usagi. -- [[User:Trismegistus Shandy|Trismegistus Shandy]] ([[User talk:Trismegistus Shandy|talk]]) 07:51, 7 April 2017 (CDT)
::OK, so nothing worthy of referencing/using series memes or anything. That's cool. — [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 16:18, 17 May 2017 (CDT)

Talk:You Could Go Home Again

2017-04-03T20:30:24Z

RandomDSdevel: Created this page and added a thread to it.

User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Projects/Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…

2016-08-22T21:54:29Z

RandomDSdevel: /* {{replace|Origins|…}} */ Fixed a small grammatical error.

{{Universe|FreeRIDErs}}{{Universe|MORFS}}
{{WIP}}{{editing requested}}{{Critique requested}}{{Comment tag}}

{{byline|author=WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly|user=RandomDSdevel}}

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{{note|I'm working to turning this section into more of a timeline, so bear with me here… — [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]]/[[:Category:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]])}}

=== {{replace|Inspiration|…}} ===

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=== {{replace|Project History|…}} ===

{{note|I'm also working on splitting this section's contents into a format that's easier to read. — [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]]/[[:Category:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]])}}

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==== {{replace|Content History|…}} ====

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== Stories ==

As of this writing, the 'Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…' story arc contains the following stories:

* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/All's Quiet on the Midwestern Front|''All's Quiet on the Midwestern Front'']]
* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']]
* [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!195&authkey=!AGHU9jtalJwZRoo&ithint=file%2cdocx ''Displacement'']
* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/When Worlds Collide?!?|''When Worlds Collide?!?'']]

== Documentation ==

Documentation on topics related to this story arc can currently be found [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Documentation/Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…|here]], but the information now stored there may be merged or transcluded into this section at a later date.

[[Category:FreeRIDErs]][[Category:MORFS]]

User talk:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Projects/Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…

2016-08-22T21:52:13Z

RandomDSdevel: /* Future Edits */ Moved a word to increase this thread's first post's readability.

== Other Related Discussions ==

=== [http://morfs.yuku.com/ MORFS Forums] ===

* [http://morfs.yuku.com/topic/61/Possible-FreeRIDErs-CrossOver Possible FreeRIDErs Cross-Over] (Status: '''Pending Closure…''')

=== Shifti ===

==== User Talk Pages ====

===== [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]]'s =====

* [[User talk:Jetfire#What Will Arka's Future Hold?|'What Will Arka's Future Hold?']] (Status: '''In Progress; Awaiting Feedback…''')

==== [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|''FreeRIDErs'']] [[Talk:FreeRIDErs (setting)|talk page]] ====

* [[Talk:FreeRIDErs (setting)#Possibility of Stonegate Ancestry and Military Heritage?|Possibility of Stonegate Ancestry and Military Heritage?]] (Status: '''In Progress; Awaiting Feedback…''')
* [[Talk:FreeRIDErs (setting)#Pre-'Post–Oil-Age 'Dark Ages'' Political Situation?|Pre-'Post–Oil-Age 'Dark Ages'' Political Situation?]] (Status: '''In Progress; Awaiting Feedback…''')
* [[Talk:FreeRIDErs (setting)#On the Nature of Qubitite|On the Nature of Qubitite]] (Status: '''In Progress; Awaiting Feedback…''')
* [[Talk:FreeRIDErs (setting)#Good Location for Shared FreeRIDErs Projects?|Good Location for Shared FreeRIDErs Projects?]] (Status: '''In Progress; Awaiting Feedback…''')

=== [http://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/ Worldbuilding StackExchange] ===

* [http://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/3979/medical-conditions-and-copying-rumplestiltskin Medical Conditions and Copying RumleStiltskin] (Status: '''Complete.''')

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== Local Discussions ==

=== Disussion On the 'Possibility of [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|''FreeRIDErs'']] Cross-Over Stories' ===

Hello, fellow FreeRIDErs! I've read pretty much all of the stories here and like them a ''lot'', but I was wondering if there might be any chance that any of you would be interested in helping me hash out this idea that I had about the possibility that we as a community might be able to confirm (at least in this story universe) the hunch that Madison Brubeck had about the possibility that the 'Many Worlds' theory might actually be ''real'' near the end of '[[User:Robotech Master/Spotted Stowaway|Madison Brubeck and the Spotted Stowaway]]' by coming together to write some stories about characters from other story universes getting transported to this one somehow and having an impact on its history. The universes that I think I might like to involve in this story arc are currently the [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org 'MORFS' universe] and the MAU ('Morphic Adaptation Unit') universe. I've already started discussing how I might bring somebody from the 'MORFS' universe into this one [http://morfs.yuku.com/topic/61/master/1/?page=1#.VBnGI0smTnc here], so you guys are quite welcome to go on over there if you want to help me hash out the details of such a story as I start writing it.

Since it's rather ambitious of me to undertake such a large endeavor as my first published story, I also have one other idea that could fall back on if the one that I discussed above doesn't pan out (although I really hope that it will work out well!) I was thinking about how somebody who has elected to have their body preserved with [[wikipedia:Cryonics|cryonic]] freezing on Earth today might still be alive enough to be revived by Zharusian cryotechnologists if they could get their hands on his or her now–cryonically-frozen body and if this body had gone through cryonic freezing soon enough after its owner had died, hopefully in accident of some kind (I know that it does sound kind of sick for me to be wishing somebody in this story universe's past bad luck, but such bad luck would actually turn out all right in the end since whoever originally owned the body found by Zharus cryo-techs could be revived as somebody relatively young.)

The reason that I'm suggesting this is because of how I think that it might be useful to have somebody with technological knowledge similar to that of the Totalians and cultural knowledge of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries similar to that of people from Zharus along during the trip to Totalia which the [[User:Robotech Master/Totalia Prelude|prelude]] of the 'Return to Totalia' story arc of ''FreeRIDErs'', among other stories in the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe, says is going to happen in the next part of its 'Return to Totalia' arc in order to help smooth relations between Zharus and Totalia over somewhat. As such, I might write a story about somebody from modern-day Earth whose frozen body is obtained by Zharusian cryo-techs somehow either if my other idea from earlier doesn't pan out or after it does if it does. All in all, what do you guys think?
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 14:47, 17 September 2014 (EDT)

:Hey, [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]]! I'm really glad our stories moved you enough to want to consider adding to them. Not to brag or anything, but I've always thought that one of the things that made a great story great is how much it catches the imagination of its readers and makes them want to come up with stories of their own.

:Crossovers are a fun idea in general. Back when I was writing for Superguy Listserv, I wrote a series called "The Grand Tour" which took characters from my Superguy stories into several other Internet fiction universes of the day. It was a lot of fun. However, I don't think FreeRIDErs is really the kind of comic-book setting that lends itself to that kind of crossover. Well, it's still definitely comic booky, but in a different way.

:That being said, there's no reason you couldn't write them anyway. There's a lot of fun to be had in non-canonical "What If" stories. I've written a couple of them myself, a couple of far-future stories in the Chakona Space and Paradise settings that took ongoing trends in the series and extrapolated them to their logical conclusions. In fact, the ones I did for Paradise, [[User:Robotech Master/The_Future_is_Paradise|"The Future is Paradise"]] and [[User:Robotech Master/Paradise_Forever|"Paradise Forever"]] impressed Jon enough that he invited me to work on FreeRIDErs with him, and the rest is history. (In fact, part of the idea behind "Paradise Forever" was to provide a sort of "Riverworld" style space where characters from different settings might meet and cross over with each other.)

:The 20th century cryonic freezing idea is interesting. I'd even considered it myself, and sort of used elements of the idea in my "Slightly Foxed" story, though Chuck/Charlene is from a couple centuries further along than the 20th. But it's a little bit of a cliché, and it feels a little hard to justify scientifically in the setting. (It's not clear that anybody being cryonically frozen now will ''ever'' be revivable.) Anyway, the concept has already been done so well in novels like [http://www.amazon.com/World-Out-Time-Larry-Niven-ebook/dp/B005EOZBAG/terrania-20|''A World out of Time'' by Larry Niven] that doing it in FreeRIDErs feels like gilding the lily. Not to say I couldn't be convinced if someone came up with a plausible enough treatment of it.

:In any event, I'm so busy lately I barely have time to write on any of Jon's and my stories, let alone crossovers with settings I'm not familiar with. If you were to write such a thing, I'd be happy to read it, though. Good luck! And no matter what, I hope you keep enjoying our stories.

:P.S. About the date thing, you might want to click on "Preferences" up at the top left, then "Date and Time," and select the city closest to you in your time zone setting. Though it turns out even that may not affect the date set when you post something with the tilde signature...

:—[[User:Robotech Master|Robotech Master]] ([[User talk:Robotech Master|talk]]) 17:24, 19 September 2014 (EDT)
::Sorry that I haven't responded to this thread in quite a while, but I've had my reasons. First of all, I'm kind of ashamed to admit that I've lately been somewhat sidetracked by watching [[wikipedia:Transformers Prime|''Transformers Prime'']] due to the facts that, for one, I thought that watching the series might inspire me to come up with a cool vehicle mode for one or more of the RIDEs that I intend to involve in my story and that, for another, I wanted to get a little more familiar with some of the ideas from the source material that helped to inspire ''FreeRIDErs''. Now, though, I'm starting to think that it wasn't such a good idea; after all, it's distracted me quite a lot from what I should really be doing — that is, writing my story! Second of all, the fact that you responded to my original post relatively quickly in such a friendly manner while also revealing how you got started writing stories (wow, you've been doing it for ''over 20 years?'' That's amazing!) sort of made me develop even more respect for you and your efforts than I had already acquired by reading the latter, so it kind of took me a little while to work up the nerve to reply to you; sorry about that. Thirdly, I ''have'' been doing ''some'' work on my story by transcribing some older attempts at something like it from college-ruled notebook paper to Word documents like I [http://morfs.yuku.com/reply/304/Possible-FreeRIDErs-CrossOver#reply-304 mentioned] I was doing over on the [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org/ ''MORFS'' universe] [http://morfs.yuku.com/topic/61/Possible-FreeRIDErs-CrossOver#.VDbvwb4mTAM thread] dedicated to discussing this effort of mine. I'm about to update [http://morfs.yuku.com/topic/61/Possible-FreeRIDErs-CrossOver#.VDbvwb4mTAM that thread] with a notice that I've finished importing the first of my many previous attempts into Word in preparation for merging the best parts of all of them into the Word document that I've set up as a target destination for my final story [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!187&authkey=!AMtxCe1uQ_xxrYM&ithint=file%2cdocx here], so I ''am'' moving things along, albeit slowly.
::When I'm done piecing the beginning of this cross-over together, I wouldn't mind at all if you checked on its progress every once in a while. I know that you haven't had much time to work on your literary pursuits lately, but please feel free to make small corrective edits and leave suggestions (either in this thread or as comments in the Word document once I've finished collecting my thoughts) on the plot, characters, and whatever else that you feel needs improvement. Again, though, I know that you're busy, so please try not to spend too much of your free time helping me with my endeavors and get at least a ''little'' work done on ''Return to Totalia'', all right? I look forward to reading a lot more of it! I'll be sure to keep you and whichever other FreeRIDErs are interested in my efforts updated on ''my'' progress either here or on [http://morfs.yuku.com/topic/61/Possible-FreeRIDErs-CrossOver#.VDbvwb4mTAM the ''MORFS'' thread], so check back often for reports on it, 'cause I'll be looking for some from you! I don't want to impose on you ''too'' much, though, so I thought I'd stop bugging you and ask [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]] if I could borrow some of the context from his story [[User:Jetfire/Spies Among Us|'Spies Among Us']] for part of the beginning of my story. I was thinking that maybe I could have my story's main character, a [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org/ MORFS] survivor, accidentally use her subspace abilities while fleeing from some people who would like to kidnap her and coerce her to work for them and pull a ship that was originally on its way to resupply Zharus's friends in the Martian resistance with, among other things, either a new DINcom or the means, namely those provided by a gabber, to make another one that [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]]'s spies-in-training could then pair with one back on Zharus in order to keep in touch with their contact in the Marshal Corps. Here's the thing, though: can a DINcom be paired with another after it has been constructed, or, if not, would I be free to mention the development of a DINcom with these capabilities in the part of my story in which the supply ship plays a part, or would I have to wait for you, [[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]], [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]], or someone else to write a story in which such a device is developed?
::If the last case is true, then there's still plenty of time left for that to happen since this work of fiction might take me some time both to start in earnest after gathering my materials and to finish, but would I be able to mention the creation of such an important invention before somebody else retconned it back into the main ''FreeRIDErs'' chronology if I had to? I'm asking this because I know from [[User:Jetfire/Spies Among Us|'Spies Among Us']] that it's highly unlikely that a preconfigured DINcom would survive a trip through subspace (but why is that, anyway? Maybe that's something I should ask [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]] instead, though…) Anyway, that's all I have for you on my crossover story for now, but I do have a few comments on your reaction to my idea about a cryonically-frozen person from the early 21st century, before the invention of what 26th-century Zharusians would consider to be 'modern' cryotechnology, might be revived by Zharusian cryotechnologists. I understand both your concern that such a scenario would be scientifically untenable even in the context of the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe and your worry that a story narrating such circumstances would be too redundant to add much to the chronology. But I've been thinking…: would the cryonic preservation of an entire body really be necessary for the successful resurrection of a quinquagenarian individual? Wouldn't all you need to revive such a person be data describing his or her bodily and mental composition?
::The former could be obtained today with a DNA sample, and the latter could be had by scanning really thin slices of a brain that's undergone treatment with [[wikipedia:CLARITY|CLARITY]] created with a [[wikipedia:Microtome|microtome]] into a computer using an [[wikipedia:Electron microscope|electron microscope]]. Zharus already has data from the 21st century and before, so wouldn't it be a relatively simple task to retrieve this data and use it to reconstruct a person using Zharusian nanotechnology if it were to have been preserved by the merit of being input into an archive of data maintained by, say, a major hospital or medical research institution after being collected from a victim of some accident? (As unappetizing as that may be to both you and myself, taking the data required to resurrect a human who would be ancient by the time of his recovery from an accident victim would allow the patient to be somebody young and healthy, and that creates many more opportunities for adventure than the revival of an old geezer — not that some veterans of the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe haven't gotten themselves into some crazy situations, mind you… — , don't you think? Granted, creating such a story isn't right up front up on my to-do list given that I'm already working on something else major, but I think that such a story might be pretty good if the main character doesn't run away from the problems of being 'woken up' after a 'long sleep' like I read the main character of Larry Niven's ''A World Out of Time'' did. What do you think?
::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 17:46, 9 October 2014 (EDT)
:::Okay, I've asked [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]] [[User talk:Jetfire#What Will Arka's Future Hold?|here]] about the possibility of collaborating with him/her (which is he/she, anyway…?) on this project as well. On another note, this sub-topic is getting rather big, so should I maybe move it to its own page? I'm seriously considering setting up a staging area for the project which I've been discussing here with you, so I'm assuming that it would be a good idea to group this together with that?
:::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 14:28, 30 October 2014 (EDT)

My take on a crossover is like R_M's. If you want to write such a crossover as fanfiction, that's okay. But as an ''official'' part of the FreeRIDERs setting, I wouldn't consider it part of canon. There's too much potential for major conflict with our plans for the setting, for one. For two, much of this would be in prequel territory, which makes retcons all too likely. We have tried to keep things set in the 100-160 After Landing era as free from tangles as we can, but even we three main writers have conflicts sometimes.

Don't get me wrong. I'm glad to see someone so enthusiastic, but I've been long in responding because I'm a little bowled over here. I really don't know anything about MORFs or if it would really fit with the ideas we have for FreeRIDErs. But again, you're free to write whatever you want as fan fiction. --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] ([[User talk:JonBuck|talk]]) 21:30, 27 April 2015 (CDT)
:That's perfectly fine by me! I do have ''one'' question, though: could I make the MORFS cross-over part of this project into fan fiction based on something else from this project that I've started writing with [[User:Fahzyr|Fahzyr]] just for ''FreeRIDErs''? It's inspired in part by [[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]]'s story [[User:Robotech_Master/Slightly Foxed|'Barely Fused, Slightly Foxed']] but revives somebody from farther back in the past. In particular, the individual in question dies relatively closely to the beginning of the post-oil 'dark ages.' That's why I wanted to know what happened in-universe back then, at least according to the history books, and I apologize for being so insistent on working with you and the others to figure that out. I simply don't want to cause too many issues with ''FreeRIDErs'''s overall plot by introducing any holes with ''that'', either.
:— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 15:56, 28 April 2015 (EDT)

=== Does Another Setting 'Category' Apply? ===

Should I also categorize this project as belonging to the 'Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations' story universe ported to Shifti by [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]] since it's a cross-over of that magnitude? 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 20:31, 29 November 2014 (EST)

=== Future Edits ===

I just wanted to put a note to myself that I eventually plan to restore [http://shifti.org/index.php?title=User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works_in_Progress/Projects/Once_More_Into_the_Breach,_My_Friends…&oldid=18224#Current_Status_and_Plans the 'Current Status and Plans' section] last seen in [http://shifti.org/index.php?title=User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works_in_Progress/Projects/Once_More_Into_the_Breach,_My_Friends…&oldid=18224 an older revision of this page] and also copied/archived to [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Archives/Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…/Documentation|this other page]] to this page here.

User talk:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Projects/Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…

2016-08-22T21:51:25Z

RandomDSdevel: /* Future Edits */ Corrected a small grammatical/syntactic omission

== Other Related Discussions ==

=== [http://morfs.yuku.com/ MORFS Forums] ===

* [http://morfs.yuku.com/topic/61/Possible-FreeRIDErs-CrossOver Possible FreeRIDErs Cross-Over] (Status: '''Pending Closure…''')

=== Shifti ===

==== User Talk Pages ====

===== [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]]'s =====

* [[User talk:Jetfire#What Will Arka's Future Hold?|'What Will Arka's Future Hold?']] (Status: '''In Progress; Awaiting Feedback…''')

==== [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|''FreeRIDErs'']] [[Talk:FreeRIDErs (setting)|talk page]] ====

* [[Talk:FreeRIDErs (setting)#Possibility of Stonegate Ancestry and Military Heritage?|Possibility of Stonegate Ancestry and Military Heritage?]] (Status: '''In Progress; Awaiting Feedback…''')
* [[Talk:FreeRIDErs (setting)#Pre-'Post–Oil-Age 'Dark Ages'' Political Situation?|Pre-'Post–Oil-Age 'Dark Ages'' Political Situation?]] (Status: '''In Progress; Awaiting Feedback…''')
* [[Talk:FreeRIDErs (setting)#On the Nature of Qubitite|On the Nature of Qubitite]] (Status: '''In Progress; Awaiting Feedback…''')
* [[Talk:FreeRIDErs (setting)#Good Location for Shared FreeRIDErs Projects?|Good Location for Shared FreeRIDErs Projects?]] (Status: '''In Progress; Awaiting Feedback…''')

=== [http://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/ Worldbuilding StackExchange] ===

* [http://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/3979/medical-conditions-and-copying-rumplestiltskin Medical Conditions and Copying RumleStiltskin] (Status: '''Complete.''')

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== Local Discussions ==

=== Disussion On the 'Possibility of [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|''FreeRIDErs'']] Cross-Over Stories' ===

Hello, fellow FreeRIDErs! I've read pretty much all of the stories here and like them a ''lot'', but I was wondering if there might be any chance that any of you would be interested in helping me hash out this idea that I had about the possibility that we as a community might be able to confirm (at least in this story universe) the hunch that Madison Brubeck had about the possibility that the 'Many Worlds' theory might actually be ''real'' near the end of '[[User:Robotech Master/Spotted Stowaway|Madison Brubeck and the Spotted Stowaway]]' by coming together to write some stories about characters from other story universes getting transported to this one somehow and having an impact on its history. The universes that I think I might like to involve in this story arc are currently the [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org 'MORFS' universe] and the MAU ('Morphic Adaptation Unit') universe. I've already started discussing how I might bring somebody from the 'MORFS' universe into this one [http://morfs.yuku.com/topic/61/master/1/?page=1#.VBnGI0smTnc here], so you guys are quite welcome to go on over there if you want to help me hash out the details of such a story as I start writing it.

Since it's rather ambitious of me to undertake such a large endeavor as my first published story, I also have one other idea that could fall back on if the one that I discussed above doesn't pan out (although I really hope that it will work out well!) I was thinking about how somebody who has elected to have their body preserved with [[wikipedia:Cryonics|cryonic]] freezing on Earth today might still be alive enough to be revived by Zharusian cryotechnologists if they could get their hands on his or her now–cryonically-frozen body and if this body had gone through cryonic freezing soon enough after its owner had died, hopefully in accident of some kind (I know that it does sound kind of sick for me to be wishing somebody in this story universe's past bad luck, but such bad luck would actually turn out all right in the end since whoever originally owned the body found by Zharus cryo-techs could be revived as somebody relatively young.)

The reason that I'm suggesting this is because of how I think that it might be useful to have somebody with technological knowledge similar to that of the Totalians and cultural knowledge of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries similar to that of people from Zharus along during the trip to Totalia which the [[User:Robotech Master/Totalia Prelude|prelude]] of the 'Return to Totalia' story arc of ''FreeRIDErs'', among other stories in the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe, says is going to happen in the next part of its 'Return to Totalia' arc in order to help smooth relations between Zharus and Totalia over somewhat. As such, I might write a story about somebody from modern-day Earth whose frozen body is obtained by Zharusian cryo-techs somehow either if my other idea from earlier doesn't pan out or after it does if it does. All in all, what do you guys think?
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 14:47, 17 September 2014 (EDT)

:Hey, [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]]! I'm really glad our stories moved you enough to want to consider adding to them. Not to brag or anything, but I've always thought that one of the things that made a great story great is how much it catches the imagination of its readers and makes them want to come up with stories of their own.

:Crossovers are a fun idea in general. Back when I was writing for Superguy Listserv, I wrote a series called "The Grand Tour" which took characters from my Superguy stories into several other Internet fiction universes of the day. It was a lot of fun. However, I don't think FreeRIDErs is really the kind of comic-book setting that lends itself to that kind of crossover. Well, it's still definitely comic booky, but in a different way.

:That being said, there's no reason you couldn't write them anyway. There's a lot of fun to be had in non-canonical "What If" stories. I've written a couple of them myself, a couple of far-future stories in the Chakona Space and Paradise settings that took ongoing trends in the series and extrapolated them to their logical conclusions. In fact, the ones I did for Paradise, [[User:Robotech Master/The_Future_is_Paradise|"The Future is Paradise"]] and [[User:Robotech Master/Paradise_Forever|"Paradise Forever"]] impressed Jon enough that he invited me to work on FreeRIDErs with him, and the rest is history. (In fact, part of the idea behind "Paradise Forever" was to provide a sort of "Riverworld" style space where characters from different settings might meet and cross over with each other.)

:The 20th century cryonic freezing idea is interesting. I'd even considered it myself, and sort of used elements of the idea in my "Slightly Foxed" story, though Chuck/Charlene is from a couple centuries further along than the 20th. But it's a little bit of a cliché, and it feels a little hard to justify scientifically in the setting. (It's not clear that anybody being cryonically frozen now will ''ever'' be revivable.) Anyway, the concept has already been done so well in novels like [http://www.amazon.com/World-Out-Time-Larry-Niven-ebook/dp/B005EOZBAG/terrania-20|''A World out of Time'' by Larry Niven] that doing it in FreeRIDErs feels like gilding the lily. Not to say I couldn't be convinced if someone came up with a plausible enough treatment of it.

:In any event, I'm so busy lately I barely have time to write on any of Jon's and my stories, let alone crossovers with settings I'm not familiar with. If you were to write such a thing, I'd be happy to read it, though. Good luck! And no matter what, I hope you keep enjoying our stories.

:P.S. About the date thing, you might want to click on "Preferences" up at the top left, then "Date and Time," and select the city closest to you in your time zone setting. Though it turns out even that may not affect the date set when you post something with the tilde signature...

:—[[User:Robotech Master|Robotech Master]] ([[User talk:Robotech Master|talk]]) 17:24, 19 September 2014 (EDT)
::Sorry that I haven't responded to this thread in quite a while, but I've had my reasons. First of all, I'm kind of ashamed to admit that I've lately been somewhat sidetracked by watching [[wikipedia:Transformers Prime|''Transformers Prime'']] due to the facts that, for one, I thought that watching the series might inspire me to come up with a cool vehicle mode for one or more of the RIDEs that I intend to involve in my story and that, for another, I wanted to get a little more familiar with some of the ideas from the source material that helped to inspire ''FreeRIDErs''. Now, though, I'm starting to think that it wasn't such a good idea; after all, it's distracted me quite a lot from what I should really be doing — that is, writing my story! Second of all, the fact that you responded to my original post relatively quickly in such a friendly manner while also revealing how you got started writing stories (wow, you've been doing it for ''over 20 years?'' That's amazing!) sort of made me develop even more respect for you and your efforts than I had already acquired by reading the latter, so it kind of took me a little while to work up the nerve to reply to you; sorry about that. Thirdly, I ''have'' been doing ''some'' work on my story by transcribing some older attempts at something like it from college-ruled notebook paper to Word documents like I [http://morfs.yuku.com/reply/304/Possible-FreeRIDErs-CrossOver#reply-304 mentioned] I was doing over on the [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org/ ''MORFS'' universe] [http://morfs.yuku.com/topic/61/Possible-FreeRIDErs-CrossOver#.VDbvwb4mTAM thread] dedicated to discussing this effort of mine. I'm about to update [http://morfs.yuku.com/topic/61/Possible-FreeRIDErs-CrossOver#.VDbvwb4mTAM that thread] with a notice that I've finished importing the first of my many previous attempts into Word in preparation for merging the best parts of all of them into the Word document that I've set up as a target destination for my final story [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!187&authkey=!AMtxCe1uQ_xxrYM&ithint=file%2cdocx here], so I ''am'' moving things along, albeit slowly.
::When I'm done piecing the beginning of this cross-over together, I wouldn't mind at all if you checked on its progress every once in a while. I know that you haven't had much time to work on your literary pursuits lately, but please feel free to make small corrective edits and leave suggestions (either in this thread or as comments in the Word document once I've finished collecting my thoughts) on the plot, characters, and whatever else that you feel needs improvement. Again, though, I know that you're busy, so please try not to spend too much of your free time helping me with my endeavors and get at least a ''little'' work done on ''Return to Totalia'', all right? I look forward to reading a lot more of it! I'll be sure to keep you and whichever other FreeRIDErs are interested in my efforts updated on ''my'' progress either here or on [http://morfs.yuku.com/topic/61/Possible-FreeRIDErs-CrossOver#.VDbvwb4mTAM the ''MORFS'' thread], so check back often for reports on it, 'cause I'll be looking for some from you! I don't want to impose on you ''too'' much, though, so I thought I'd stop bugging you and ask [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]] if I could borrow some of the context from his story [[User:Jetfire/Spies Among Us|'Spies Among Us']] for part of the beginning of my story. I was thinking that maybe I could have my story's main character, a [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org/ MORFS] survivor, accidentally use her subspace abilities while fleeing from some people who would like to kidnap her and coerce her to work for them and pull a ship that was originally on its way to resupply Zharus's friends in the Martian resistance with, among other things, either a new DINcom or the means, namely those provided by a gabber, to make another one that [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]]'s spies-in-training could then pair with one back on Zharus in order to keep in touch with their contact in the Marshal Corps. Here's the thing, though: can a DINcom be paired with another after it has been constructed, or, if not, would I be free to mention the development of a DINcom with these capabilities in the part of my story in which the supply ship plays a part, or would I have to wait for you, [[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]], [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]], or someone else to write a story in which such a device is developed?
::If the last case is true, then there's still plenty of time left for that to happen since this work of fiction might take me some time both to start in earnest after gathering my materials and to finish, but would I be able to mention the creation of such an important invention before somebody else retconned it back into the main ''FreeRIDErs'' chronology if I had to? I'm asking this because I know from [[User:Jetfire/Spies Among Us|'Spies Among Us']] that it's highly unlikely that a preconfigured DINcom would survive a trip through subspace (but why is that, anyway? Maybe that's something I should ask [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]] instead, though…) Anyway, that's all I have for you on my crossover story for now, but I do have a few comments on your reaction to my idea about a cryonically-frozen person from the early 21st century, before the invention of what 26th-century Zharusians would consider to be 'modern' cryotechnology, might be revived by Zharusian cryotechnologists. I understand both your concern that such a scenario would be scientifically untenable even in the context of the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe and your worry that a story narrating such circumstances would be too redundant to add much to the chronology. But I've been thinking…: would the cryonic preservation of an entire body really be necessary for the successful resurrection of a quinquagenarian individual? Wouldn't all you need to revive such a person be data describing his or her bodily and mental composition?
::The former could be obtained today with a DNA sample, and the latter could be had by scanning really thin slices of a brain that's undergone treatment with [[wikipedia:CLARITY|CLARITY]] created with a [[wikipedia:Microtome|microtome]] into a computer using an [[wikipedia:Electron microscope|electron microscope]]. Zharus already has data from the 21st century and before, so wouldn't it be a relatively simple task to retrieve this data and use it to reconstruct a person using Zharusian nanotechnology if it were to have been preserved by the merit of being input into an archive of data maintained by, say, a major hospital or medical research institution after being collected from a victim of some accident? (As unappetizing as that may be to both you and myself, taking the data required to resurrect a human who would be ancient by the time of his recovery from an accident victim would allow the patient to be somebody young and healthy, and that creates many more opportunities for adventure than the revival of an old geezer — not that some veterans of the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe haven't gotten themselves into some crazy situations, mind you… — , don't you think? Granted, creating such a story isn't right up front up on my to-do list given that I'm already working on something else major, but I think that such a story might be pretty good if the main character doesn't run away from the problems of being 'woken up' after a 'long sleep' like I read the main character of Larry Niven's ''A World Out of Time'' did. What do you think?
::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 17:46, 9 October 2014 (EDT)
:::Okay, I've asked [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]] [[User talk:Jetfire#What Will Arka's Future Hold?|here]] about the possibility of collaborating with him/her (which is he/she, anyway…?) on this project as well. On another note, this sub-topic is getting rather big, so should I maybe move it to its own page? I'm seriously considering setting up a staging area for the project which I've been discussing here with you, so I'm assuming that it would be a good idea to group this together with that?
:::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 14:28, 30 October 2014 (EDT)

My take on a crossover is like R_M's. If you want to write such a crossover as fanfiction, that's okay. But as an ''official'' part of the FreeRIDERs setting, I wouldn't consider it part of canon. There's too much potential for major conflict with our plans for the setting, for one. For two, much of this would be in prequel territory, which makes retcons all too likely. We have tried to keep things set in the 100-160 After Landing era as free from tangles as we can, but even we three main writers have conflicts sometimes.

Don't get me wrong. I'm glad to see someone so enthusiastic, but I've been long in responding because I'm a little bowled over here. I really don't know anything about MORFs or if it would really fit with the ideas we have for FreeRIDErs. But again, you're free to write whatever you want as fan fiction. --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] ([[User talk:JonBuck|talk]]) 21:30, 27 April 2015 (CDT)
:That's perfectly fine by me! I do have ''one'' question, though: could I make the MORFS cross-over part of this project into fan fiction based on something else from this project that I've started writing with [[User:Fahzyr|Fahzyr]] just for ''FreeRIDErs''? It's inspired in part by [[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]]'s story [[User:Robotech_Master/Slightly Foxed|'Barely Fused, Slightly Foxed']] but revives somebody from farther back in the past. In particular, the individual in question dies relatively closely to the beginning of the post-oil 'dark ages.' That's why I wanted to know what happened in-universe back then, at least according to the history books, and I apologize for being so insistent on working with you and the others to figure that out. I simply don't want to cause too many issues with ''FreeRIDErs'''s overall plot by introducing any holes with ''that'', either.
:— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 15:56, 28 April 2015 (EDT)

=== Does Another Setting 'Category' Apply? ===

Should I also categorize this project as belonging to the 'Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations' story universe ported to Shifti by [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]] since it's a cross-over of that magnitude? 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 20:31, 29 November 2014 (EST)

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=== Disussion On the 'Possibility of [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|''FreeRIDErs'']] Cross-Over Stories' ===

Hello, fellow FreeRIDErs! I've read pretty much all of the stories here and like them a ''lot'', but I was wondering if there might be any chance that any of you would be interested in helping me hash out this idea that I had about the possibility that we as a community might be able to confirm (at least in this story universe) the hunch that Madison Brubeck had about the possibility that the 'Many Worlds' theory might actually be ''real'' near the end of '[[User:Robotech Master/Spotted Stowaway|Madison Brubeck and the Spotted Stowaway]]' by coming together to write some stories about characters from other story universes getting transported to this one somehow and having an impact on its history. The universes that I think I might like to involve in this story arc are currently the [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org 'MORFS' universe] and the MAU ('Morphic Adaptation Unit') universe. I've already started discussing how I might bring somebody from the 'MORFS' universe into this one [http://morfs.yuku.com/topic/61/master/1/?page=1#.VBnGI0smTnc here], so you guys are quite welcome to go on over there if you want to help me hash out the details of such a story as I start writing it.

Since it's rather ambitious of me to undertake such a large endeavor as my first published story, I also have one other idea that could fall back on if the one that I discussed above doesn't pan out (although I really hope that it will work out well!) I was thinking about how somebody who has elected to have their body preserved with [[wikipedia:Cryonics|cryonic]] freezing on Earth today might still be alive enough to be revived by Zharusian cryotechnologists if they could get their hands on his or her now–cryonically-frozen body and if this body had gone through cryonic freezing soon enough after its owner had died, hopefully in accident of some kind (I know that it does sound kind of sick for me to be wishing somebody in this story universe's past bad luck, but such bad luck would actually turn out all right in the end since whoever originally owned the body found by Zharus cryo-techs could be revived as somebody relatively young.)

The reason that I'm suggesting this is because of how I think that it might be useful to have somebody with technological knowledge similar to that of the Totalians and cultural knowledge of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries similar to that of people from Zharus along during the trip to Totalia which the [[User:Robotech Master/Totalia Prelude|prelude]] of the 'Return to Totalia' story arc of ''FreeRIDErs'', among other stories in the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe, says is going to happen in the next part of its 'Return to Totalia' arc in order to help smooth relations between Zharus and Totalia over somewhat. As such, I might write a story about somebody from modern-day Earth whose frozen body is obtained by Zharusian cryo-techs somehow either if my other idea from earlier doesn't pan out or after it does if it does. All in all, what do you guys think?
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 14:47, 17 September 2014 (EDT)

:Hey, [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]]! I'm really glad our stories moved you enough to want to consider adding to them. Not to brag or anything, but I've always thought that one of the things that made a great story great is how much it catches the imagination of its readers and makes them want to come up with stories of their own.

:Crossovers are a fun idea in general. Back when I was writing for Superguy Listserv, I wrote a series called "The Grand Tour" which took characters from my Superguy stories into several other Internet fiction universes of the day. It was a lot of fun. However, I don't think FreeRIDErs is really the kind of comic-book setting that lends itself to that kind of crossover. Well, it's still definitely comic booky, but in a different way.

:That being said, there's no reason you couldn't write them anyway. There's a lot of fun to be had in non-canonical "What If" stories. I've written a couple of them myself, a couple of far-future stories in the Chakona Space and Paradise settings that took ongoing trends in the series and extrapolated them to their logical conclusions. In fact, the ones I did for Paradise, [[User:Robotech Master/The_Future_is_Paradise|"The Future is Paradise"]] and [[User:Robotech Master/Paradise_Forever|"Paradise Forever"]] impressed Jon enough that he invited me to work on FreeRIDErs with him, and the rest is history. (In fact, part of the idea behind "Paradise Forever" was to provide a sort of "Riverworld" style space where characters from different settings might meet and cross over with each other.)

:The 20th century cryonic freezing idea is interesting. I'd even considered it myself, and sort of used elements of the idea in my "Slightly Foxed" story, though Chuck/Charlene is from a couple centuries further along than the 20th. But it's a little bit of a cliché, and it feels a little hard to justify scientifically in the setting. (It's not clear that anybody being cryonically frozen now will ''ever'' be revivable.) Anyway, the concept has already been done so well in novels like [http://www.amazon.com/World-Out-Time-Larry-Niven-ebook/dp/B005EOZBAG/terrania-20|''A World out of Time'' by Larry Niven] that doing it in FreeRIDErs feels like gilding the lily. Not to say I couldn't be convinced if someone came up with a plausible enough treatment of it.

:In any event, I'm so busy lately I barely have time to write on any of Jon's and my stories, let alone crossovers with settings I'm not familiar with. If you were to write such a thing, I'd be happy to read it, though. Good luck! And no matter what, I hope you keep enjoying our stories.

:P.S. About the date thing, you might want to click on "Preferences" up at the top left, then "Date and Time," and select the city closest to you in your time zone setting. Though it turns out even that may not affect the date set when you post something with the tilde signature...

:—[[User:Robotech Master|Robotech Master]] ([[User talk:Robotech Master|talk]]) 17:24, 19 September 2014 (EDT)
::Sorry that I haven't responded to this thread in quite a while, but I've had my reasons. First of all, I'm kind of ashamed to admit that I've lately been somewhat sidetracked by watching [[wikipedia:Transformers Prime|''Transformers Prime'']] due to the facts that, for one, I thought that watching the series might inspire me to come up with a cool vehicle mode for one or more of the RIDEs that I intend to involve in my story and that, for another, I wanted to get a little more familiar with some of the ideas from the source material that helped to inspire ''FreeRIDErs''. Now, though, I'm starting to think that it wasn't such a good idea; after all, it's distracted me quite a lot from what I should really be doing — that is, writing my story! Second of all, the fact that you responded to my original post relatively quickly in such a friendly manner while also revealing how you got started writing stories (wow, you've been doing it for ''over 20 years?'' That's amazing!) sort of made me develop even more respect for you and your efforts than I had already acquired by reading the latter, so it kind of took me a little while to work up the nerve to reply to you; sorry about that. Thirdly, I ''have'' been doing ''some'' work on my story by transcribing some older attempts at something like it from college-ruled notebook paper to Word documents like I [http://morfs.yuku.com/reply/304/Possible-FreeRIDErs-CrossOver#reply-304 mentioned] I was doing over on the [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org/ ''MORFS'' universe] [http://morfs.yuku.com/topic/61/Possible-FreeRIDErs-CrossOver#.VDbvwb4mTAM thread] dedicated to discussing this effort of mine. I'm about to update [http://morfs.yuku.com/topic/61/Possible-FreeRIDErs-CrossOver#.VDbvwb4mTAM that thread] with a notice that I've finished importing the first of my many previous attempts into Word in preparation for merging the best parts of all of them into the Word document that I've set up as a target destination for my final story [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!187&authkey=!AMtxCe1uQ_xxrYM&ithint=file%2cdocx here], so I ''am'' moving things along, albeit slowly.
::When I'm done piecing the beginning of this cross-over together, I wouldn't mind at all if you checked on its progress every once in a while. I know that you haven't had much time to work on your literary pursuits lately, but please feel free to make small corrective edits and leave suggestions (either in this thread or as comments in the Word document once I've finished collecting my thoughts) on the plot, characters, and whatever else that you feel needs improvement. Again, though, I know that you're busy, so please try not to spend too much of your free time helping me with my endeavors and get at least a ''little'' work done on ''Return to Totalia'', all right? I look forward to reading a lot more of it! I'll be sure to keep you and whichever other FreeRIDErs are interested in my efforts updated on ''my'' progress either here or on [http://morfs.yuku.com/topic/61/Possible-FreeRIDErs-CrossOver#.VDbvwb4mTAM the ''MORFS'' thread], so check back often for reports on it, 'cause I'll be looking for some from you! I don't want to impose on you ''too'' much, though, so I thought I'd stop bugging you and ask [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]] if I could borrow some of the context from his story [[User:Jetfire/Spies Among Us|'Spies Among Us']] for part of the beginning of my story. I was thinking that maybe I could have my story's main character, a [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org/ MORFS] survivor, accidentally use her subspace abilities while fleeing from some people who would like to kidnap her and coerce her to work for them and pull a ship that was originally on its way to resupply Zharus's friends in the Martian resistance with, among other things, either a new DINcom or the means, namely those provided by a gabber, to make another one that [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]]'s spies-in-training could then pair with one back on Zharus in order to keep in touch with their contact in the Marshal Corps. Here's the thing, though: can a DINcom be paired with another after it has been constructed, or, if not, would I be free to mention the development of a DINcom with these capabilities in the part of my story in which the supply ship plays a part, or would I have to wait for you, [[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]], [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]], or someone else to write a story in which such a device is developed?
::If the last case is true, then there's still plenty of time left for that to happen since this work of fiction might take me some time both to start in earnest after gathering my materials and to finish, but would I be able to mention the creation of such an important invention before somebody else retconned it back into the main ''FreeRIDErs'' chronology if I had to? I'm asking this because I know from [[User:Jetfire/Spies Among Us|'Spies Among Us']] that it's highly unlikely that a preconfigured DINcom would survive a trip through subspace (but why is that, anyway? Maybe that's something I should ask [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]] instead, though…) Anyway, that's all I have for you on my crossover story for now, but I do have a few comments on your reaction to my idea about a cryonically-frozen person from the early 21st century, before the invention of what 26th-century Zharusians would consider to be 'modern' cryotechnology, might be revived by Zharusian cryotechnologists. I understand both your concern that such a scenario would be scientifically untenable even in the context of the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe and your worry that a story narrating such circumstances would be too redundant to add much to the chronology. But I've been thinking…: would the cryonic preservation of an entire body really be necessary for the successful resurrection of a quinquagenarian individual? Wouldn't all you need to revive such a person be data describing his or her bodily and mental composition?
::The former could be obtained today with a DNA sample, and the latter could be had by scanning really thin slices of a brain that's undergone treatment with [[wikipedia:CLARITY|CLARITY]] created with a [[wikipedia:Microtome|microtome]] into a computer using an [[wikipedia:Electron microscope|electron microscope]]. Zharus already has data from the 21st century and before, so wouldn't it be a relatively simple task to retrieve this data and use it to reconstruct a person using Zharusian nanotechnology if it were to have been preserved by the merit of being input into an archive of data maintained by, say, a major hospital or medical research institution after being collected from a victim of some accident? (As unappetizing as that may be to both you and myself, taking the data required to resurrect a human who would be ancient by the time of his recovery from an accident victim would allow the patient to be somebody young and healthy, and that creates many more opportunities for adventure than the revival of an old geezer — not that some veterans of the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe haven't gotten themselves into some crazy situations, mind you… — , don't you think? Granted, creating such a story isn't right up front up on my to-do list given that I'm already working on something else major, but I think that such a story might be pretty good if the main character doesn't run away from the problems of being 'woken up' after a 'long sleep' like I read the main character of Larry Niven's ''A World Out of Time'' did. What do you think?
::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 17:46, 9 October 2014 (EDT)
:::Okay, I've asked [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]] [[User talk:Jetfire#What Will Arka's Future Hold?|here]] about the possibility of collaborating with him/her (which is he/she, anyway…?) on this project as well. On another note, this sub-topic is getting rather big, so should I maybe move it to its own page? I'm seriously considering setting up a staging area for the project which I've been discussing here with you, so I'm assuming that it would be a good idea to group this together with that?
:::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 14:28, 30 October 2014 (EDT)

My take on a crossover is like R_M's. If you want to write such a crossover as fanfiction, that's okay. But as an ''official'' part of the FreeRIDERs setting, I wouldn't consider it part of canon. There's too much potential for major conflict with our plans for the setting, for one. For two, much of this would be in prequel territory, which makes retcons all too likely. We have tried to keep things set in the 100-160 After Landing era as free from tangles as we can, but even we three main writers have conflicts sometimes.

Don't get me wrong. I'm glad to see someone so enthusiastic, but I've been long in responding because I'm a little bowled over here. I really don't know anything about MORFs or if it would really fit with the ideas we have for FreeRIDErs. But again, you're free to write whatever you want as fan fiction. --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] ([[User talk:JonBuck|talk]]) 21:30, 27 April 2015 (CDT)
:That's perfectly fine by me! I do have ''one'' question, though: could I make the MORFS cross-over part of this project into fan fiction based on something else from this project that I've started writing with [[User:Fahzyr|Fahzyr]] just for ''FreeRIDErs''? It's inspired in part by [[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]]'s story [[User:Robotech_Master/Slightly Foxed|'Barely Fused, Slightly Foxed']] but revives somebody from farther back in the past. In particular, the individual in question dies relatively closely to the beginning of the post-oil 'dark ages.' That's why I wanted to know what happened in-universe back then, at least according to the history books, and I apologize for being so insistent on working with you and the others to figure that out. I simply don't want to cause too many issues with ''FreeRIDErs'''s overall plot by introducing any holes with ''that'', either.
:— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 15:56, 28 April 2015 (EDT)

=== Does Another Setting 'Category' Apply? ===

Should I also categorize this project as belonging to the 'Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations' story universe ported to Shifti by [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]] since it's a cross-over of that magnitude? 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 20:31, 29 November 2014 (EST)

=== Future Edits ===

I just wanted to put a note to myself that I plan to restore [http://shifti.org/index.php?title=User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works_in_Progress/Projects/Once_More_Into_the_Breach,_My_Friends…&oldid=18224#Current_Status_and_Plans the 'Current Status and Plans' section] last seen in [http://shifti.org/index.php?title=User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works_in_Progress/Projects/Once_More_Into_the_Breach,_My_Friends…&oldid=18224 an older revision of this page] and also copied/archived to [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Archives/Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…/Documentation|this other page]] to this page eventually.

User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted

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== Notices ==
=== Older Revision ===

Prior to the removal of [http://shifti.org/index.php?title=User:RandomDSdevel/Uprooted&oldid=18203#Prologue this story's prologue] to [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/All's Quiet on the Midwestern Front|''All Quiet on the Midwestern Front'']], it was stored in [http://shifti.org/index.php?title=User:RandomDSdevel/Uprooted&oldid=18203 an older revision] of ''this'' story.

== Story ==
=== Part One: Discovery ===

{{replace|…|An account of the unexpected rediscovery of [[User:RandomDSdevel/Carter Hawkinson|Carter Hawkinson]]'s medical records during the summer or fall of 2506. }}

:'''Author's Note'''

:''I have a few different reasons for why I want [[User:RandomDSdevel/Carter Hawkinson|Carter]] to have been reawakened by the time mentioned in the main text. First of all, I want him to have been awake for long enough to have already gotten used to living on the Earth of the future before he leaves for Zharus. Second, I intend for [[User:RandomDSdevel/Carter Hawkinson|young Mr. Hawkinson]] to be at the 'furry' convention that [[User:Robotech Master|Robotech Master]]'s story [[User:Robotech Master/Final Countdown|'The Final Countdown']] mentions as an event that will have been held on November 12th, 2506, in Springfield, Missouri, so that he can bear witness to the flight taken from there by Lubyanka the Sturmhaven she-wolf RIDE and her companions. Third, I was thinking of having Carter established as an employee of the Springfield—Greene County Library by the time that Lubyanka goes there to get the specifications for IPv8 from one of his co-workers. ''

User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Archives/Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…

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== Sub-Pages ==

* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Archives/Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…/Documentation|Documentation]]

User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted

2016-08-22T21:16:54Z

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== Part One: Discovery ==

{{replace|…|An account of the unexpected rediscovery of [[User:RandomDSdevel/Carter Hawkinson|Carter Hawkinson]]'s medical records during the summer or fall of 2506. }}

:'''Author's Note'''

:''I have a few different reasons for why I want [[User:RandomDSdevel/Carter Hawkinson|Carter]] to have been reawakened by the time mentioned in the main text. First of all, I want him to have been awake for long enough to have already gotten used to living on the Earth of the future before he leaves for Zharus. Second, I intend for [[User:RandomDSdevel/Carter Hawkinson|young Mr. Hawkinson]] to be at the 'furry' convention that [[User:Robotech Master|Robotech Master]]'s story [[User:Robotech Master/Final Countdown|'The Final Countdown']] mentions as an event that will have been held on November 12th, 2506, in Springfield, Missouri, so that he can bear witness to the flight taken from there by Lubyanka the Sturmhaven she-wolf RIDE and her companions. Third, I was thinking of having Carter established as an employee of the Springfield—Greene County Library by the time that Lubyanka goes there to get the specifications for IPv8 from one of his co-workers. ''

User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox

2016-08-22T21:05:13Z

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== Sub-Pages ==

* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Archives|Archives]]
* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress|Works in Progress]]

User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Songs/FreeRIDErs Theme Song

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== Inspirations ==

=== Musical ===

==== From [[wikipedia:Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U|''Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS'' and ''Super Smash Bros. for Wii U'']] ====

* 'Mega Man 2 Medley'
* 'Air Man Stage'
* 'Spark Man Stage'
* 'Gear Plain'
* 'You Will Know Our Names'
* 'Mechanical Rhythm'

==== From [[wikipedia:1080° Avalanche|''1080° Avalanche'']] ====

* 'Choke' from [[wikipedia:Cauterize (band)|Cauterize]]'s album [[wikipedia:So Far From Real|''So Far From Real'']]

==== From the [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pokémon_anime Pokémon Anime] ====

* [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/This_Dream 'This Dream'] (theme song to [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/S07 ''Pokémon: Advanced Challenge''])
* [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Unbeatable 'Unbeatable'] (theme song to [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/S08 ''Pokémon: Advanced Battle''])
* [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Battle_Frontier_(dub) 'Battle Frontier'] (theme song to [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/S09 ''Pokémon: Battle Frontier''])

== Tune ==

Not yet finalized/digitized.

== Lyrics ==

They think they've won, 
{{5nbsp}}But they ain't goin' nowhere fast. 
No matter how hard they try, 
{{5nbsp}}This stand won't be our last! 
 
⋮ 
 
Because we're RIDE-ing free! 
Off into the sunset, 
{{5nbsp}}Without any regrets. 
⋮

== Possible Additions ==

* Some lyrics from [[wikipedia:Free Ride (song)|'Free Ride']] in acknowledgement of its influence on and relevance to the [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|''FreeRIDErs'']] universe

User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Songs/FreeRIDErs Theme Song

2016-08-18T22:53:12Z

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{{DISPLAYTITLE:User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Songs/''FreeRIDErs'' Theme Song}}

{{Universe|FreeRIDErs}}

{{WIP}}{{editing requested}}{{Critique requested}}{{Comment tag}}

== Inspirations ==

=== Musical ===

==== From [[wikipedia:Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U|''Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS'' and ''Super Smash Bros. for Wii U'']] ====

* 'Mega Man 2 Medley'
* 'Air Man Stage'
* 'Spark Man Stage'
* 'Gear Plain'
* 'You Will Know Our Names'
* 'Mechanical Rhythm'

==== From [[wikipedia:1080° Avalanche|''1080° Avalanche'']] ====

* 'Choke' from [[wikipedia:Cauterize (band)|Cauterize]]'s album [[wikipedia:So Far From Real|''So Far From Real'']]

==== From the [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pokémon_anime Pokémon Anime] ====

* [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/This_Dream 'This Dream'] (theme song to [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/S07 ''Pokémon: Advanced Challenge''])
* [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Unbeatable 'Unbeatable'] (theme song to [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/S08 ''Pokémon: Advanced Battle''])
* [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Battle_Frontier_(dub) 'Battle Frontier'] (theme song to [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/S09 ''Pokémon: Battle Frontier''])

== Tune ==

Not yet finalized/digitized.

== Lyrics ==

They think they've won, 
{{5nbsp}}But they ain't goin' nowhere fast. 
No matter how hard they try, 
{{5nbsp}}This stand won't be our last! 
 
⋮ 
 
Because we're RIDE-ing free! 
Off into the sunset, 
{{5nbsp}}Without any regrets. 
⋮

== Possible Additions ==

* Some lyrics from [[wikipedia:Free Ride (song)|'Free Ride']] in acknowledgement of its influence on and relevance to the [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|''FreeRIDErs'']] universe

User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Songs/''FreeRIDErs'' Theme Song

2016-08-18T22:51:28Z

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User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Songs/FreeRIDErs Theme Song

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{{Universe|FreeRIDErs}}

{{WIP}}{{editing requested}}{{Critique requested}}{{Comment tag}}

== Inspirations ==

=== Musical ===

==== From [[wikipedia:Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U|''Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS'' and ''Super Smash Bros. for Wii U'']] ====

* 'Mega Man 2 Medley'
* 'Air Man Stage'
* 'Spark Man Stage'
* 'Gear Plain'
* 'You Will Know Our Names'
* 'Mechanical Rhythm'

==== From [[wikipedia:1080° Avalanche|''1080° Avalanche'']] ====

* 'Choke' from [[wikipedia:Cauterize (band)|Cauterize]]'s album [[wikipedia:So Far From Real|''So Far From Real'']]

==== From the [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pokémon_anime Pokémon Anime] ====

* [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/This_Dream 'This Dream'] (theme song to [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/S07 ''Pokémon: Advanced Challenge''])
* [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Unbeatable 'Unbeatable'] (theme song to [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/S08 ''Pokémon: Advanced Battle''])
* [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Battle_Frontier_(dub) 'Battle Frontier'] (theme song to [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/S09 ''Pokémon: Battle Frontier''])

== Tune ==

Not yet finalized/digitized.

== Lyrics ==

They think they've won, 
{{5nbsp}}But they ain't goin' nowhere fast. 
No matter how hard they try, 
{{5nbsp}}This stand won't be our last! 
 
⋮ 
 
Because we're RIDE-ing free! 
Off into the sunset, 
{{5nbsp}}Without any regrets. 
⋮

== Possible Additions ==

* Some lyrics from [[wikipedia:Free Ride (song)|'Free Ride']] in acknowledgement of its influence on and relevance to the [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|''FreeRIDErs'']] universe

User talk:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Projects/Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…

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{{note|I'm working to turning this section into more of timeline, so bear with me here… — [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]]/[[:Category:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]])}}

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{{note|I'm also working on splitting this section's contents into a format that's easier to read. — [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]]/[[:Category:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]])}}

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==== {{replace|Content History|…}} ====

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== Stories ==

As of this writing, the 'Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…' story arc contains the following stories:

* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/All's Quiet on the Midwestern Front|''All's Quiet on the Midwestern Front'']]
* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']]
* [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!195&authkey=!AGHU9jtalJwZRoo&ithint=file%2cdocx ''Displacement'']
* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/When Worlds Collide?!?|''When Worlds Collide?!?'']]

== Documentation ==

Documentation on topics related to this story arc can currently be found [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Documentation/Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…|here]], but the information now stored there may be merged or transcluded into this section at a later date.

[[Category:FreeRIDErs]][[Category:MORFS]]

Category:RandomDSdevel

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The following is a list of pages authored by [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]]/WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly:

FreeRIDErs (setting)

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=={{separator|f|Setting Overview}}==
[[Image:CatGirls.jpg|thumb|300px|Kaylee and Uncia in battle dress, by Marty Salsman (http://martysalsman.deviantart.com)]]In the 25th century, scientists and technicians on the distant colony world of Zharus make a startling breakthrough in energy storage and artificial intelligence, with the aid of "qubitite," a naturally-occurring metamaterial with remarkable quantum properties. The creation of true AI springs from quantum simulations of neural networks based on animals' genetic material that expand to take on true sapience.

Matching these "Reticulated Intelligence" (RI) neural networks with nanotech-composite "Drive Extender" (DE) transforming robotic bodies produces the RIDE: a metallic animal that can transform itself into a vehicle such as a hover-motorcycle (or hover-car or even plane for larger animals), or into an environmentally sealed suit of anthropomorphic-animal body armor to survive the extreme environments of Zharus's deserts, undersea, or even outer space. (Because combining with such a suit goes beyond merely putting it on and involves elements of physical and neural linkage, the act of merging with a RIDE in armor mode is called "Fusing.") Thanks to "hardlight" technology, RIDEs can even be covered with solid holographic fur that feels real to the touch, and even to the RIDE itself.

However, due to their animal basis, Fusing with a RIDE can have consequences for the pilot. In order for them to be neurologically compatible, the pilot has to have similar physical features to the RIDE itself—and the RIDE's nanotech innards are designed to grant those changes. This means that Fusing with RIDEs based on ordinary land mammals will grant the rider their ears and tail (and sometimes more extreme additions such as nose, eyes, or fur).

RIDEs based on further different animals, such as reptiles, birds, or undersea mammals, can produce much extreme changes in their riders that restrict their ability to change back or combine with a different RIDE. And likewise, if the pilot is the wrong gender, the RIDE's nanites will adjust that, too. In most cases of gender or other extreme change, the changed human is unable to safely change back for at least three years.

These RIDEs are used in taming the huge continent of Gondwana, a harsh and often lawless frontier that, unlike the more sedate and longer-settled continent of Laurasia, has many rich resources there for the taking, and a number of city-states occupying the ring of fertile land around the great central desert. In the desert, RIDEs are necessary to live. In the cities, they are urban transportation and playthings of the wealthy and middle-class alike. But even as they are considered mere "equipment" by many, those who know and love them know they are more than that—they are ''people'' too. Will the world come to realize and acknowledge this?

[[Image:Uncia-Harlan-Stein.jpg|thumb|150px|Uncia in battle dress, by Diana Harlan Stein (http://naiadstudios.com)]]In recent years, rumors of a new form of change have been circulating—a combining of rider and RIDE that goes far beyond Fusing. Called "Integration," this combines man and machine into a single gestalt being who can no longer separate—and who are rumored to possess powers far beyond those of mere mortals or RIDEs. It is as yet unclear whether these "Integrates" are to be welcomed or feared—and, indeed, many would place them in the same category as Bigfoot, the Yeti, or the Loch Ness Monster. But these Integrates may be growing tired of keeping to themselves.

And the latest potential threat may very well be the old home world of Earth itself. For fifty years, it has scoffed at the idea that a distant, backward world like Zharus could be the home of so many major technological breakthroughs. But Earth's mind may be changing on that score—and it has long been known for its willingness to reach out and take what it wants.

Welcome to the world of Zharus—and to its denizens. Colonists. Bandits. Miners. Mechanics. ''FreeRIDErs.''

=={{separator|f|Suggested Reading Order}}==

===Robotech_Master's Take===
As this is a shared universe, there could be plenty of jumping-on points. '''The very best way to read it would probably be by publication order,''' since that would give you the same effect as the people who were reading it in real time from the beginning. '''There's a list available [[FreeRIDErs (publication order)|here]].'''

Otherwise, I suggest reading "Deserted", "Merging Traffic", "Rochelle & Rufia: R&R", then "FreeRIDErs", then the first few chapters of "Integration" (and my "Foxed" tales), as those were all written earliest and have most of the earliest setting building in them. Then you can read Jetfire's and the other authors' stories in chronological order, and continue reading "Integration" after that. (Probably should leave "Second-Hand Lioness" until after Integration #21, otherwise some events in the main story could be spoiled.)

I'd suggest to have all of Jetfire's chronologically-earlier stuff read before you get to Integration #14, since that's where some of his characters merge into the storyline. That being said, you could probably just as easily read everything in straight chronological order without missing ''too'' much. Or just pick one writer at random and read his or her works through in order, then pick another one. Once you've read enough, it all starts to make sense together.

Either way, you should read at least some of the stories before you try to dig into the setting background material below the story list on this page. It was mainly written for our own reference and amusement while we built the setting overall, and can be kind of confusing if you come to it without a grounding from the stories in how the world works.

===Claude LeChat's two cents ===

I went a different way myself. ''Deserted'' and ''Merging Traffic'' are of course the mandatory first two, since they introduce the setting and all the most important characters. Then you're free to read e.g. the first three ''Inspecteur Hollins'' stories. But not the fourth, not yet!

Before jumping into the pivotal novel ''Integration'', you'll probably want to read ''FreeRIDErs'', since it provides a crucial bit of background, and possibly ''All Spark Bulletin'', since it's a good introduction to the Munns. But you can't go wrong with any of Jetfire's prequel stories. Fibio's ''Turnover'' will give you a good idea of the spaceship tech in the series, as well as being an emotional story in itself.

Last but not least, ''Barely Fused, Slightly Foxed'' and ''Longer Fused, More Foxed'' fill in a couple of holes in the aforementioned ''Integration'', but you can safely read them afterwards since they're unrelated but for the characters. As for ''Wolves in the Fold, Part One: A Wolf at the Door'', it makes for a nice "outboard epilogue" to the novel.

Stories that can stand on their own, for readers who aren't familiar with the franchise:

* ''Madison Brubeck and the Spotted Stowaway'', but it arguably cheats because it's a spin-off;
* ''As a Woman I RIDE'';
* My own ''Alpha Camp'', if you don't mind minor spoilers for how the conflict of ''Integration'' unfolds.

=={{separator|f|Stories in Chronological Order}}==

[[Image:Faught_kaylee_uncia.jpg|thumb|300px|Kaylee and Uncia in battle gear as depicted by David Faught - https://www.facebook.com/DavidFaughtArtist]]Authors may add links to their stories as they happen in chronological order in story time. ("AL" stands for "After Landing," representing the number of years after the colony ships landed in 2350 AD.) For a complete listing of all FreeRIDErs stories, since this list may be updated sporadically, see [[:Category:FreeRIDErs|the FreeRIDErs Category]].

Stories that have been updated to the "Director's Cut" second draft edition are indicated with a '''(DC)''' afterward.

'''66 AL (2416 AD)'''
* [[User:Robotech Master/The General|The General]] ''([[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])''

'''108 AL'''
*[[User:Jetfire/Aloha|Aloha]] ''([[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]])''

'''112 AL to 113 AL'''
*[[User:Robotech Master/Greatest Show|The Greatest Show]] ''([[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]]'' with ''[[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])''

'''121 AL to 123 AL'''
*[[User:Robotech_Master/GI_Joe|G.I. Joe]] ''([[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]]'' and ''[[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]])''

'''122 AL'''

*[[User:Jetfire/Broken_Crown|Broken Crown]] ''([[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]])''

'''128 AL'''
*Marshals: Beginnings
**[[User:Robotech_Master/Ride_Sally|Episode One: Ride, Sally]] ''([[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]]'' and ''[[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])''
**[[User:Robotech_Master/Reaping_the_Whirlwind|Episode Two: Reaping the Whirlwind]] ''([[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]]'' and ''[[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])''

'''129 AL'''
*[[User:Jetfire/Splashdown|Splashdown]] ''([[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]])''

'''131 AL'''
*[[User:Jetfire/Astra-naught|Astra-naught]] ''([[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]])''

'''132 AL'''
*[[User:Robotech_Master/Where_Everybody_Knows_Your_Name|Where Everybody Knows Your Name]] ''([[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]]'' and ''[[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])''

'''134 AL'''
*[[User:Jetfire/The_Lady_of_the_Tiger|The Lady of the Tiger]] ''([[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]])''

'''133 AL to 138 AL'''
*[[User:Jetfire/Cave_of_Wonders|Cave of Wonders]] ''([[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]])''

'''138 AL to 152 AL'''
*[[User:Jetfire/Sum of Their Parts|Sum of Their Parts]] ''([[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]])''

'''140 to 141 AL'''
*[[User:JonBuck/Fly With Me|Fly With Me]] ''([[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]]'')

'''142 to 150 AL'''
*[[User:Hawl/Simon Of Cape Nord|Simon Of Cape Nord]] ''([[User:Hawl|HawlSera]])''

'''143 AL'''
*[[User:Hawl/Bob's Origin|Bob's Origin]] ''([[User:Hawl|HawlSera]])''

'''144 AL'''
*[[User:Robotech_Master/A_Fritzmas_Carol|A Fritzmas Carol]] ''([[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]]'' and ''[[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])''

'''146 AL'''
*[[User:Hawl/Aloha666|Aloha 666]] ''([[User:Hawl|HawlSera]]))''

'''147 AL'''
*[[User:JonBuck/FADE IN|FADE IN]] ''([[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]])''

'''147 AL to 154 AL'''
*[[User:Jetfire/Spice Girls|Spice Girls]] ''([[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]])''

[[Image:Zane-Harlan-Stein.jpg|thumb|300px|Zane, and the Zane Cane, by Diana Harlan Stein (http://naiadstudios.com)]]'''148 AL'''
*[[User:Hawl/As A Woman I RIDE|As A Woman I RIDE]] ''([[User:Hawl|HawlSera]])''
*[[User:Hawl/At Ace, We RIDE|At ACE, We RIDE]] ''([[User:Hawl|HawlSera]])''
*[[User:Hawl/To Dream, We RIDE|To Dream, We RIDE]] ''([[User:Hawl|HawlSera]])''
*[[User:Hawl/We live to RIDE, We RIDE to Live|We live to RIDE, We RIDE to Live]]''([[User:Hawl|HawlSera]])''
*[[User:Hawl/Nearing The End Of Our RIDE|Nearing The End Of Our RIDE]] ''([[User:Hawl|HawlSera]]''
*[[User:Hawl/For Victory, For Venars, Together We RIDE!|For Victory, For Venars, Together We RIDE]]'' ''([[User:Hawl|HawlSera]])''
*[[User:Hawl/TWREpilogue:We'll RIDE Again Someday|TWREpilogue:We'll RIDE Again Someday]]

'''149 AL'''
* [[User:Jetfire/In_Space|In Space...]] (149 to 156 AL) ''([[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]]'' with ''[[User:JonBuck|Jon Buck]])''

'''152 AL'''
*[[User:Robotech_Master/Pride_Lioness|Pride of Lioness]] ''([[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])''

'''152 to 153 AL'''
*[[User:Jetfire/Walkabout|Walkabout]] ''([[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]])''
*[[User:Jetfire/All_Spark_Bulletin|All Spark Bulletin]] ''([[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]])''
*[[User:Jetfire/The_Touch|The Touch]] ''([[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]])''

'''153 AL'''
*[[User:Hawl/An_Integrate's_Guide_To_Love|Integrate's Guide To Love]] ''([[User:Hawl|HawlSera]])''

'''155 to 156 AL'''
*[[User:JonBuck/Marshals|Marshals]] ''([[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]]'' with ''[[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])''

[[Image:Blackmon-KayleeUncia-lines-01.jpg|thumb|300px|Uncia and Kaylee in battle as depicted by Jacob Blackmon - http://prodigyduck.deviantart.com/]]'''156 AL'''
*[[User:Robotech_Master/jeanette-lioness|Jeanette & Tamarind: The Second-Hand Lioness]] ''([[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])'' (begins before "Deserted" and covers all the way through Integration #21)
*[[User:Robotech_Master/Deserted|Deserted]] ''([[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])'' '''(DC)'''
*[[User:Hawl/Crossrider's Dream|CrossRIDEr's Dream]] ''([[User:Hawl|HawlSera]])'' (Takes place one week after Chapter 5 of Desserted, but is not a story in the Integration Storyline)
*[[User:Robotech_Master/Merging_Traffic|Merging Traffic]] ''([[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])'' '''(DC)'''
*[[User:Robotech Master/Rochelle Rufia|Rochelle & Rufia: R&R]] ''([[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])''
*[[User:Robotech_Master/FreeRIDErs_dircut|FreeRIDErs]] ''([[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]])'' '''(DC)'''
*[[Turnover]] '' ([[User:Fibio|Fibio]])''
*Integration
**[[User:Robotech_Master/All Nighter|Part 1: All Nighter]] ''([[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]]'' and ''[[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])'' '''(DC)'''
**[[User:Robotech_Master/Integrates|Part 2: Integrates]] ''([[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]]'' and ''[[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])'' '''(DC)'''
**[[User:Robotech Master/RIDEgirls Day Out|Part 3: RIDEgirls' Day Out]] ''([[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]]'' and ''[[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])'' '''(DC)'''
**[[User:Robotech Master/Dating Games|Part 4: Dating Games]] ''([[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]]'' and ''[[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])'' '''(DC)'''
**[[User:Robotech Master/N00bs|Part 5: N00bs]] ''([[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]]'' and ''[[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])''
**[[User:Robotech Master/All Aboard|Part 6: All Aboard!]] ''([[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]]'' and ''[[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])''
**[[User:Robotech Master/A Meating of the Board|Part 7: A Meating of the Board]] ''([[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]]'' and ''[[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])''
**[[User:Robotech Master/Meat the Press|Part 8: Meat, the Press]] ''([[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]]'' and ''[[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])''
**[[User:Robotech Master/Stockholm Vacation|Part 9: Stockholm Vacation]] ''([[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]]'' and ''[[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])''
**[[User:Robotech Master/Spaceflight of Fancy|Part 10: Spaceflight of Fancy]] ''([[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]]'' and ''[[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])''
**[[User:Robotech Master/Citizen Katie|Part 11: Citizen Katie]] ''([[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]]'' and ''[[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])''
**[[User:Robotech Master/The Crew|Part 12: The Crew]] ''([[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]]'' and ''[[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])''
**[[User:Robotech Master/Kaylee Anny|Part 13: Kaylee & Anny]] ''([[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]]'' and ''[[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])''
**[[User:Robotech Master/Assault Batteries|Part 14: Assault and Batteries]] ''([[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]]'', ''[[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]]'', and ''[[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]])''
**[[User:Robotech Master/Task of Amontillado|Part 15: The Task of Amontillado]] ''([[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]]'', ''[[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]]'', and ''[[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]])''
**[[User:Robotech Master/Integrate Raids|Part 16: The Integrate Raids]] ''([[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]]'' and ''[[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])''
**[[User:Robotech Master/Family Matters|Part 17: Family Matters]] ''([[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]]'' and ''[[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])''
**[[User:Robotech Master/Many Meetings|Part 18: Many Meetings]] ''([[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]]'' and ''[[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])''
**[[User:Robotech Master/Meetings Completing|Part 19: Meetings Completing]] ''([[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]]'', ''[[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]]'', and ''[[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]])''
**[[User:Robotech Master/Prodigals|Part 20: Prodigals]] ''([[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]]'' and ''[[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])''
**[[User:Robotech Master/Enemy Lines|Part 21: Enemy Lines]] ''([[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]]'' and ''[[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])''
**[[User:Robotech Master/Alpha Strike|Part 22: Alpha Strike]] ''([[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]]'' and ''[[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])''
**[[User:Robotech Master/Universe of Battle|Part 23: Universe of Battle]] ''([[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]]'' and ''[[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])''
**[[User:Robotech Master/What Happened Mouse|Part 24: What Happened to the Mouse?]] ''([[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]]'' and ''[[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])''
**[[User:Robotech Master/The Big Date|Part 25 (Epilogue): The Big Date]] ''([[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]]'' and ''[[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])''
*[[User:Robotech_Master/Slightly Foxed|Barely Fused, Slightly Foxed]] ''([[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])'' (takes place between Part 5 and Part 6 of Integration)
*[[User:Robotech_Master/More Foxed|Longer Fused, More Foxed]] ''([[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])'' (takes place between Part 5 and Part 14 of Integration)
*Cores of Sarium
**[[User:Hawl/Buttercup's Heist|Part 1:Buttercup's Heist]] ''([[User:Hawl|HawlSera]])'' (Takes place during the two days before Part 8 of Integration)
**[[User:Hawl/Ruby Withdrawal|Part 2:Ruby Withdrawal]] ''([[User:Hawl|HawlSera]])''
**[[User:Hawl/Making a Man Out Of Jamie|Part 3:Making a Man Out Of Jamie]] ''([[User:Hawl|HawlSera]])''
*Omniverse OverRIDE
**[[User:Hawl/GoKARTers|Part 1:GoKARTers]] ''([[User:Hawl|HawlSera]])'' (Starts in 150 AL, Ends around May 156 AL, about a week or so after FreeRIDErs ends)
**[[User:Hawl/DayOfTheDin|Part 2:Day Of The Din]] ''([[User:Hawl|HawlSera]])''
**[[User:Hawl/Serve In Hell, Rule In Heaven|Part 3:Serve In Hell, Rule In Heaven]] ''([[User:Hawl|HawlSera]])''
**[[User:Hawl/In Need Of A Mother|Part 4:In Need Of A mother]] ''([[User:Hawl|HawlSera]])''
*[[User:Claude_LeChat/Alpha Camp|Alpha Camp]] ''([[User:Claude_LeChat|Claude LeChat]])'' (begins in Part 8 of Integration)
*[[Taking the Plunge]] ''([[User:Kris|Kris]])'' (takes place after Part 8 of Integration)
*[[Inspecteur Hollins and The Cat's Paw]] ''([[User:Fibio|Fibio]])'' (takes place during parts 9-11 of Integration)
*[[Inspecteur Hollins and The Viral Thief]] ''([[User:Fibio|Fibio]])'' (takes place sometime after part 12 of Integration)
*[[Inspecteur Hollins and The Multimillion Vault]] ''([[User:Fibio|Fibio]])'' (takes place after part 12 of Integration)
*[[User:Robotech_Master/Kandace Jenni Friendship|Kandace and Jenni: A Beautiful Friendship]] ''([[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])'' (takes place during/after the end of Part 15 of Integration)
* [[User:Robotech_Master/Rochelle Rufia Redux|Rochelle & Rufia Redux: Foxing About]] ''([[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]]'' and ''[[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]])'' (takes place after the end of Part 17 of Integration)
*[[Inspecteur Hollins and The Integral Assassin]] ''([[User:Fibio|Fibio]])'' (takes place during part 23 of Integration)
* [[User:Jetfire/Spacer_Oddity| A Spacer Oddity]] ''([[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]])''
*[[User:Robotech Master/Final Countdown|The Final Countdown]] (''[[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]]'' with ''[[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]]'')

'''156 to 157 AL'''
* [[User:Robotech Master/Spotted Stowaway|Madison Brubeck and the Spotted Stowaway]] ''([[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])'' (starts before "Deserted"; concludes after "Integration" and the "Stonegates" stories)
* [[User:Robotech Master/Yield Ahead|Merging Traffic II: Yield Ahead]] ''([[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]]'' and ''[[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]])''

[[Image:Cybercats001color.jpg|thumb|300px|Rochelle and Kaylee as interpreted by William Levy (http://williamlevy.deviantart.com/)]]'''157 AL'''
* [[User:Robotech Master/A Wolf at the Door|Wolves in the Fold, Part One: A Wolf at the Door]] ''([[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])'' (with ''([[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]]''))
* [[User:Robotech Master/A_Wolf_in_Sheep's_Clothing|Wolves in the Fold, Part Two: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing]] ''([[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]]'' and ''[[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]])''
* [[User:Claude_LeChat/Return to Alpha Camp|Return to Alpha Camp]] ''([[User:Claude_LeChat|Claude LeChat]])'' (position in timeline is approximate)
* [[User:Robotech Master/Impossible Things|Impossible Things]] ''([[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]]'' and ''[[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])''
* [[User:Robotech Master/Aloha Stonegates|Aloha, Stonegates!]] ''([[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]]'', ''[[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]]'', and ''[[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]])''
* [[User:Robotech Master/Skunked|Skunked!]] ''([[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]]'' and ''[[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])''
* [[User:Robotech Master/Paws Up|Paws Up!]] ''([[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]]'' and ''[[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])''
* [[User:Robotech Master/Kevin De-Claude|Kevin, De-Claude]] ''([[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])''
* [[User:Robotech Master/youngguns|Jeanette & Tamarind: The Young Guns]] ''([[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])''
*[[User:Robotech_Master/Joseph_Life|Joseph Steader, This is Your Life!]] ''([[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]]'' and ''[[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]])''
* The Gondwana Grand Tour ''([[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]]'' and ''[[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]])''
** [[User:Robotech_Master/shell_game|Prologue: Shell Game]]
** [[User:Robotech_Master/ggt_uplift|Chapter One: Uplift and the Tunnel]]
* [[User:Robotech Master/Good Bad Fritzy|The Good, the Bad, and the Fritzy]] ''([[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])''
* [[User:Robotech Master/Saints Marching|The Saints Go Marching In]] ''([[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])''
* [[User:Robotech Master/Family Lynx|Family Lynx]] (''[[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]]'' and ''[[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]]'')
* [[User:Robotech Master/Dog Day Morning|Dog Day Morning]] (''[[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]]'' and ''[[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]]'')
* [[User:Robotech Master/When the Lady Smiles|Merging Traffic III: When the Lady Smiles]] (''[[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]]'')

'''157 to 158 AL'''
* [[User:Robotech Master/Totalia Prelude|Return to Totalia, Part One: Prelude]] (''[[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]]'' and ''[[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]]'')
* [[User:Jetfire/DragonRIDEr_of_Pharos|DragonRIDEr of Pharos]] ''([[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]])'' (Date fuzzy, sometime after Inties are revealed)

'''158 AL'''
*[[User:Robotech_Master/Tick Tock Tick|Tick Tock Tick]] ''([[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]])''
*[[User:Jetfire/Spies_Among_Us|Spies Among Us]] ''([[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]])''
*[[User:Jetfire/Cat_Scratch_Fever|Cat Scratch Fever]] ''([[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]])'' (Starts in 157 AL)
*[[User:Jetfire/Rescue_911|Rescue 911]] ''([[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]])''
* [[User:Jetfire/United_Way|United Way]] ''([[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]])''
* Return to Totalia, Part Two: Parallels
** [[User:Robotech Master/Parallels Visitors|Part One: Visitors]] (''[[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]]'', ''[[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]],'' and ''[[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]]'')
** [[User:Robotech Master/Parallels Clementine|Part Two: Clementine]] (''[[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]]'', ''[[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]],'' and ''[[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]]'')
**[[User:Robotech Master/Parallels Fleet|Part Three: The Fleet]] (''[[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]]'', ''[[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]],'' and ''[[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]]'')

*[[User:Jetfire/The_Power|The Power]] ''([[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]])''
* ''[[User:Claude LeChat/The Wolf and the Father|The Wolf and the Father]]'' (''[[User:Claude LeChat|Claude LeChat]]'') (takes place after ''Young Guns'')

=={{separator|f|FreeRIDErs First Drafts}}==

Since we've started going back and revising the early portions of the story to bring the into line with what we wrote later, we have decided to preserve early drafts when they are changed sufficiently to merit a separate presentation. For most of these (but not "FreeRIDErs"), you can also use the "History" function to see what changed.

*[[User:JonBuck/FreeRIDErs|FreeRIDErs]] ''([[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]])''

=={{separator|f|Background Material}}==

Due to the huge amount of material, we have moved this to its own page:

[[FreeRIDErs (background material)]]

[[Category:FreeRIDErs]]

User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Outlines/All's Quiet on the Midwestern Front

2015-11-18T21:02:50Z

RandomDSdevel: /* Things To Incorporate Into the Story */ Fixed a small issue regarding grammatical style.

{{Universe|FreeRIDErs}}
{{WIP}}{{editing requested}}{{Critique requested}}{{Comment tag}}

== Characters ==

=== Primary ===

* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Characters/Dr. Richard G. Hawkinson, Ph. D.|Dr. Richard G. Hawkinson, Ph. D.]]
* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Characters/Carter Hawkinson|Carter Hawkinson]]
* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Characters/Jennifer Hawkinson|Jennifer Hawkinson]]

=== Mentioned ===

* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Characters/Mariel Hawkinson|Mariel Hawkinson]] (Killed while on duty somewhere.)

== Setting ==

''Some time before the beginning of the post–Oil Age 'Dark Ages' in 2048 (Tentatively: Fall 2037 or 2047….)'' 
''Kokomo, IN, USA'' 
''Earth, <nowiki>'</nowiki>Sol<nowiki>'</nowiki> System'' 
[[FreeRIDErs (setting)|FreeRIDErs ''Universe'']]

== Plot ==

(NOTE: The order of events in the final story has not yet been set in silicon!)

* Carter does some of his homework.
* He remembers that he has some library books that are due.

* He leaves his house and walks to the library with Brisingr, his dog.
* After returning his books, Carter runs into his friend Craig on his way out of the library.
* Craig tells Carter that he wants to show him something in the part of the library that has been turned into a hackrrspace.
* Craig shows Carter a wheelchair, explaining that he can use some of its motors to upgrade his prosthetic leg armor.
* Carter makes the necessary modifications to the exoskeleton he uses to walk (he's paraplegic due to a [[wikipedia:Motor neuron disease|motor neuron disease.)
* Carter finishes up his tinkering at the hackrrspace and heads home.
* Somebody visiting from a local, but widely influential, technology company notices either Carter's skill and/or Craig's and writes either one or both of them down as a potential hire.
** (Carter is later hired to work in an entry-level position here, but I'm not sure exactly when…)
* … (Other events to be decided upon later…)
* The next day at school, someone invites Carter to a get-together of some sort. (He says he'll consider the offer and, sooner or later, decides to attend it when it inevitably occurs some time between the middle and the end of this story.)
* … (Other events to be decided upon later…)
* When he gets home, he sees that his old friend's family is moving back into their old house.
** Strangely, they have a young woman with them.
** Carter guesses (incorrectly) that she might be one of his friend's cousins or something.
** This individual and her family will take advantage of this assumption to help ease the girl, who is really an old friend of Carter's, back into living in their old house.
* Carter starts picking up on some odd details about his 'new' friend's behavior as he gets to know her and eventually figures out the truth.
* … (Other events to be decided upon later…)
* Carter's condition deteriorates.
* The technology company that hired either Carter and/or Craig earlier during the story offers to scan a copy of his genome and a complete map of his brain scanned into a computer server using the best technology they can come up with, some of which (an MRI powerful, precise, and accurate enough to show individual neurons in very fine detail) they were already developing as part of a contract with a medical institution.

== Things To Incorporate Into the Story ==

* The [http://www.lyrics.com/kokomo-lyrics-the-beach-boys.html lyrics] to the Beach Boys' song 'Kokomo' (probably as part of a clock's pre-set alarm.)
* The name 'Thunderblaze ARC (Advanced Research Cooperative), LLC,' for the company that hires either Carter or Craig. {{note|I may use the name if I ever start a technology company of my own, but, hey, ''FreeRIDErs'' is set in an alternate universe anyway, so what the heck? }}

User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Outlines/All's Quiet on the Midwestern Front

2015-11-18T20:45:11Z

RandomDSdevel: /* Things To Incorporate Into the Story */ Changed the parenthetical statement to a Template:note.

{{Universe|FreeRIDErs}}
{{WIP}}{{editing requested}}{{Critique requested}}{{Comment tag}}

== Characters ==

=== Primary ===

* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Characters/Dr. Richard G. Hawkinson, Ph. D.|Dr. Richard G. Hawkinson, Ph. D.]]
* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Characters/Carter Hawkinson|Carter Hawkinson]]
* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Characters/Jennifer Hawkinson|Jennifer Hawkinson]]

=== Mentioned ===

* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Characters/Mariel Hawkinson|Mariel Hawkinson]] (Killed while on duty somewhere.)

== Setting ==

''Some time before the beginning of the post–Oil Age 'Dark Ages' in 2048 (Tentatively: Fall 2037 or 2047….)'' 
''Kokomo, IN, USA'' 
''Earth, <nowiki>'</nowiki>Sol<nowiki>'</nowiki> System'' 
[[FreeRIDErs (setting)|FreeRIDErs ''Universe'']]

== Plot ==

(NOTE: The order of events in the final story has not yet been set in silicon!)

* Carter does some of his homework.
* He remembers that he has some library books that are due.

* He leaves his house and walks to the library with Brisingr, his dog.
* After returning his books, Carter runs into his friend Craig on his way out of the library.
* Craig tells Carter that he wants to show him something in the part of the library that has been turned into a hackrrspace.
* Craig shows Carter a wheelchair, explaining that he can use some of its motors to upgrade his prosthetic leg armor.
* Carter makes the necessary modifications to the exoskeleton he uses to walk (he's paraplegic due to a [[wikipedia:Motor neuron disease|motor neuron disease.)
* Carter finishes up his tinkering at the hackrrspace and heads home.
* Somebody visiting from a local, but widely influential, technology company notices either Carter's skill and/or Craig's and writes either one or both of them down as a potential hire.
** (Carter is later hired to work in an entry-level position here, but I'm not sure exactly when…)
* … (Other events to be decided upon later…)
* The next day at school, someone invites Carter to a get-together of some sort. (He says he'll consider the offer and, sooner or later, decides to attend it when it inevitably occurs some time between the middle and the end of this story.)
* … (Other events to be decided upon later…)
* When he gets home, he sees that his old friend's family is moving back into their old house.
** Strangely, they have a young woman with them.
** Carter guesses (incorrectly) that she might be one of his friend's cousins or something.
** This individual and her family will take advantage of this assumption to help ease the girl, who is really an old friend of Carter's, back into living in their old house.
* Carter starts picking up on some odd details about his 'new' friend's behavior as he gets to know her and eventually figures out the truth.
* … (Other events to be decided upon later…)
* Carter's condition deteriorates.
* The technology company that hired either Carter and/or Craig earlier during the story offers to scan a copy of his genome and a complete map of his brain scanned into a computer server using the best technology they can come up with, some of which (an MRI powerful, precise, and accurate enough to show individual neurons in very fine detail) they were already developing as part of a contract with a medical institution.

== Things To Incorporate Into the Story ==

* The [http://www.lyrics.com/kokomo-lyrics-the-beach-boys.html lyrics] to the Beach Boys' song 'Kokomo' (probably as part of a clock's pre-set alarm.)
* The name 'Thunderblaze ARC (Advanced Research Cooperative), LLC' for the company that hires either Carter or Craig. {{note|I may use the name if I ever start a technology company of my own, but, hey, ''FreeRIDErs'' is set in an alternate universe anyway, so what the heck? }}

User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Outlines/All's Quiet on the Midwestern Front

2015-11-18T20:44:07Z

RandomDSdevel: /* Things To Incorporate Into the Story */ Changed the possible name of the company which will hire either Carter or Craig.

{{Universe|FreeRIDErs}}
{{WIP}}{{editing requested}}{{Critique requested}}{{Comment tag}}

== Characters ==

=== Primary ===

* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Characters/Dr. Richard G. Hawkinson, Ph. D.|Dr. Richard G. Hawkinson, Ph. D.]]
* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Characters/Carter Hawkinson|Carter Hawkinson]]
* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Characters/Jennifer Hawkinson|Jennifer Hawkinson]]

=== Mentioned ===

* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Characters/Mariel Hawkinson|Mariel Hawkinson]] (Killed while on duty somewhere.)

== Setting ==

''Some time before the beginning of the post–Oil Age 'Dark Ages' in 2048 (Tentatively: Fall 2037 or 2047….)'' 
''Kokomo, IN, USA'' 
''Earth, <nowiki>'</nowiki>Sol<nowiki>'</nowiki> System'' 
[[FreeRIDErs (setting)|FreeRIDErs ''Universe'']]

== Plot ==

(NOTE: The order of events in the final story has not yet been set in silicon!)

* Carter does some of his homework.
* He remembers that he has some library books that are due.

* He leaves his house and walks to the library with Brisingr, his dog.
* After returning his books, Carter runs into his friend Craig on his way out of the library.
* Craig tells Carter that he wants to show him something in the part of the library that has been turned into a hackrrspace.
* Craig shows Carter a wheelchair, explaining that he can use some of its motors to upgrade his prosthetic leg armor.
* Carter makes the necessary modifications to the exoskeleton he uses to walk (he's paraplegic due to a [[wikipedia:Motor neuron disease|motor neuron disease.)
* Carter finishes up his tinkering at the hackrrspace and heads home.
* Somebody visiting from a local, but widely influential, technology company notices either Carter's skill and/or Craig's and writes either one or both of them down as a potential hire.
** (Carter is later hired to work in an entry-level position here, but I'm not sure exactly when…)
* … (Other events to be decided upon later…)
* The next day at school, someone invites Carter to a get-together of some sort. (He says he'll consider the offer and, sooner or later, decides to attend it when it inevitably occurs some time between the middle and the end of this story.)
* … (Other events to be decided upon later…)
* When he gets home, he sees that his old friend's family is moving back into their old house.
** Strangely, they have a young woman with them.
** Carter guesses (incorrectly) that she might be one of his friend's cousins or something.
** This individual and her family will take advantage of this assumption to help ease the girl, who is really an old friend of Carter's, back into living in their old house.
* Carter starts picking up on some odd details about his 'new' friend's behavior as he gets to know her and eventually figures out the truth.
* … (Other events to be decided upon later…)
* Carter's condition deteriorates.
* The technology company that hired either Carter and/or Craig earlier during the story offers to scan a copy of his genome and a complete map of his brain scanned into a computer server using the best technology they can come up with, some of which (an MRI powerful, precise, and accurate enough to show individual neurons in very fine detail) they were already developing as part of a contract with a medical institution.

== Things To Incorporate Into the Story ==

* The [http://www.lyrics.com/kokomo-lyrics-the-beach-boys.html lyrics] to the Beach Boys' song 'Kokomo' (probably as part of a clock's pre-set alarm.)
* The name 'Thunderblaze ARC (Advanced Research Cooperative), LLC' for the company that hires either Carter or Craig (I may use the name if I ever start a technology company of my own, but, hey, ''FreeRIDErs'' is set in an alternate universe anyway, so what the heck?)

User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Outlines/All's Quiet on the Midwestern Front

2015-11-18T20:42:12Z

RandomDSdevel: /* Things To Incorporate Into the Story */ Updated this section's bullet point concerning the company that hires Carter Hawkinson to reflect the fact that that company might also or might ''only'' hire Craig Simon.

{{Universe|FreeRIDErs}}
{{WIP}}{{editing requested}}{{Critique requested}}{{Comment tag}}

== Characters ==

=== Primary ===

* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Characters/Dr. Richard G. Hawkinson, Ph. D.|Dr. Richard G. Hawkinson, Ph. D.]]
* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Characters/Carter Hawkinson|Carter Hawkinson]]
* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Characters/Jennifer Hawkinson|Jennifer Hawkinson]]

=== Mentioned ===

* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Characters/Mariel Hawkinson|Mariel Hawkinson]] (Killed while on duty somewhere.)

== Setting ==

''Some time before the beginning of the post–Oil Age 'Dark Ages' in 2048 (Tentatively: Fall 2037 or 2047….)'' 
''Kokomo, IN, USA'' 
''Earth, <nowiki>'</nowiki>Sol<nowiki>'</nowiki> System'' 
[[FreeRIDErs (setting)|FreeRIDErs ''Universe'']]

== Plot ==

(NOTE: The order of events in the final story has not yet been set in silicon!)

* Carter does some of his homework.
* He remembers that he has some library books that are due.

* He leaves his house and walks to the library with Brisingr, his dog.
* After returning his books, Carter runs into his friend Craig on his way out of the library.
* Craig tells Carter that he wants to show him something in the part of the library that has been turned into a hackrrspace.
* Craig shows Carter a wheelchair, explaining that he can use some of its motors to upgrade his prosthetic leg armor.
* Carter makes the necessary modifications to the exoskeleton he uses to walk (he's paraplegic due to a [[wikipedia:Motor neuron disease|motor neuron disease.)
* Carter finishes up his tinkering at the hackrrspace and heads home.
* Somebody visiting from a local, but widely influential, technology company notices either Carter's skill and/or Craig's and writes either one or both of them down as a potential hire.
** (Carter is later hired to work in an entry-level position here, but I'm not sure exactly when…)
* … (Other events to be decided upon later…)
* The next day at school, someone invites Carter to a get-together of some sort. (He says he'll consider the offer and, sooner or later, decides to attend it when it inevitably occurs some time between the middle and the end of this story.)
* … (Other events to be decided upon later…)
* When he gets home, he sees that his old friend's family is moving back into their old house.
** Strangely, they have a young woman with them.
** Carter guesses (incorrectly) that she might be one of his friend's cousins or something.
** This individual and her family will take advantage of this assumption to help ease the girl, who is really an old friend of Carter's, back into living in their old house.
* Carter starts picking up on some odd details about his 'new' friend's behavior as he gets to know her and eventually figures out the truth.
* … (Other events to be decided upon later…)
* Carter's condition deteriorates.
* The technology company that hired either Carter and/or Craig earlier during the story offers to scan a copy of his genome and a complete map of his brain scanned into a computer server using the best technology they can come up with, some of which (an MRI powerful, precise, and accurate enough to show individual neurons in very fine detail) they were already developing as part of a contract with a medical institution.

== Things To Incorporate Into the Story ==

* The [http://www.lyrics.com/kokomo-lyrics-the-beach-boys.html lyrics] to the Beach Boys' song 'Kokomo' (probably as part of a clock's pre-set alarm.)
* The name 'Thunderblaze Innovations, LLC' for the company that hires either Carter or Craig (I may use the name if I ever start a technology company of my own, but, hey, ''FreeRIDErs'' is set in an alternate universe anyway, so what the heck?)

User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Outlines/All's Quiet on the Midwestern Front

2015-11-18T20:39:16Z

RandomDSdevel: /* Plot */ Reworked some plot details.

{{Universe|FreeRIDErs}}
{{WIP}}{{editing requested}}{{Critique requested}}{{Comment tag}}

== Characters ==

=== Primary ===

* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Characters/Dr. Richard G. Hawkinson, Ph. D.|Dr. Richard G. Hawkinson, Ph. D.]]
* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Characters/Carter Hawkinson|Carter Hawkinson]]
* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Characters/Jennifer Hawkinson|Jennifer Hawkinson]]

=== Mentioned ===

* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Characters/Mariel Hawkinson|Mariel Hawkinson]] (Killed while on duty somewhere.)

== Setting ==

''Some time before the beginning of the post–Oil Age 'Dark Ages' in 2048 (Tentatively: Fall 2037 or 2047….)'' 
''Kokomo, IN, USA'' 
''Earth, <nowiki>'</nowiki>Sol<nowiki>'</nowiki> System'' 
[[FreeRIDErs (setting)|FreeRIDErs ''Universe'']]

== Plot ==

(NOTE: The order of events in the final story has not yet been set in silicon!)

* Carter does some of his homework.
* He remembers that he has some library books that are due.

* He leaves his house and walks to the library with Brisingr, his dog.
* After returning his books, Carter runs into his friend Craig on his way out of the library.
* Craig tells Carter that he wants to show him something in the part of the library that has been turned into a hackrrspace.
* Craig shows Carter a wheelchair, explaining that he can use some of its motors to upgrade his prosthetic leg armor.
* Carter makes the necessary modifications to the exoskeleton he uses to walk (he's paraplegic due to a [[wikipedia:Motor neuron disease|motor neuron disease.)
* Carter finishes up his tinkering at the hackrrspace and heads home.
* Somebody visiting from a local, but widely influential, technology company notices either Carter's skill and/or Craig's and writes either one or both of them down as a potential hire.
** (Carter is later hired to work in an entry-level position here, but I'm not sure exactly when…)
* … (Other events to be decided upon later…)
* The next day at school, someone invites Carter to a get-together of some sort. (He says he'll consider the offer and, sooner or later, decides to attend it when it inevitably occurs some time between the middle and the end of this story.)
* … (Other events to be decided upon later…)
* When he gets home, he sees that his old friend's family is moving back into their old house.
** Strangely, they have a young woman with them.
** Carter guesses (incorrectly) that she might be one of his friend's cousins or something.
** This individual and her family will take advantage of this assumption to help ease the girl, who is really an old friend of Carter's, back into living in their old house.
* Carter starts picking up on some odd details about his 'new' friend's behavior as he gets to know her and eventually figures out the truth.
* … (Other events to be decided upon later…)
* Carter's condition deteriorates.
* The technology company that hired either Carter and/or Craig earlier during the story offers to scan a copy of his genome and a complete map of his brain scanned into a computer server using the best technology they can come up with, some of which (an MRI powerful, precise, and accurate enough to show individual neurons in very fine detail) they were already developing as part of a contract with a medical institution.

== Things To Incorporate Into the Story ==

* The [http://www.lyrics.com/kokomo-lyrics-the-beach-boys.html lyrics] to the Beach Boys' song 'Kokomo' (probably as part of a clock's pre-set alarm.)
* The name 'Thunderblaze Innovations, LLC' for the company that hires Carter (I may use the name if I ever start a technology company of my own, but, hey, ''FreeRIDErs'' is set in an alternate universe anyway, so what the heck?)

User talk:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Projects/Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…

2015-11-18T20:16:10Z

RandomDSdevel: /* Worldbuilding StackExchange */ ''Really'' fixed this heading's nesting level.

== Other Related Discussions ==

=== [http://morfs.yuku.com/ MORFS Forums] ===

* [http://morfs.yuku.com/topic/61/Possible-FreeRIDErs-CrossOver Possible FreeRIDErs CrossOver] (Status: '''Pending Closure…''')

=== Shifti ===

==== User Talk Pages ====

===== [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]]'s =====

* [[User talk:Jetfire#What Will Arka's Future Hold?|'What Will Arka's Future Hold?']] (Status: '''In Progress; Awaiting Feedback…''')

==== [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|''FreeRIDErs'']] [[Talk:FreeRIDErs (setting)|talk page]] ====

* [[Talk:FreeRIDErs (setting)#Possibility of Stonegate Ancestry and Military Heritage?|Possibility of Stonegate Ancestry and Military Heritage?]] (Status: '''In Progress; Awaiting Feedback…''')
* [[Talk:FreeRIDErs (setting)#Pre-'Post–Oil-Age 'Dark Ages'' Political Situation?|Pre-'Post–Oil-Age 'Dark Ages'' Political Situation?]] (Status: '''In Progress; Awaiting Feedback…''')
* [[Talk:FreeRIDErs (setting)#On the Nature of Qubitite|On the Nature of Qubitite]] (Status: '''In Progress; Awaiting Feedback…''')
* [[Talk:FreeRIDErs (setting)#Good Location for Shared FreeRIDErs Projects?|Good Location for Shared FreeRIDErs Projects?]] (Status: '''In Progress; Awaiting Feedback…''')

=== [http://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/ Worldbuilding StackExchange] ===

* [http://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/3979/medical-conditions-and-copying-rumplestiltskin Medical Conditions and Copying RumleStiltskin] (Status: '''Complete.''')

<hr />

== Local Discussions ==

=== Disussion On the 'Possibility of [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|''FreeRIDErs'']] Cross-Over Stories' ===

Hello, fellow FreeRIDErs! I've read pretty much all of the stories here and like them a ''lot'', but I was wondering if there might be any chance that any of you would be interested in helping me hash out this idea that I had about the possibility that we as a community might be able to confirm (at least in this story universe) the hunch that Madison Brubeck had about the possibility that the 'Many Worlds' theory might actually be ''real'' near the end of '[[User:Robotech Master/Spotted Stowaway|Madison Brubeck and the Spotted Stowaway]]' by coming together to write some stories about characters from other story universes getting transported to this one somehow and having an impact on its history. The universes that I think I might like to involve in this story arc are currently the [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org 'MORFS' universe] and the MAU ('Morphic Adaptation Unit') universe. I've already started discussing how I might bring somebody from the 'MORFS' universe into this one [http://morfs.yuku.com/topic/61/master/1/?page=1#.VBnGI0smTnc here], so you guys are quite welcome to go on over there if you want to help me hash out the details of such a story as I start writing it.

Since it's rather ambitious of me to undertake such a large endeavor as my first published story, I also have one other idea that could fall back on if the one that I discussed above doesn't pan out (although I really hope that it will work out well!) I was thinking about how somebody who has elected to have their body preserved with [[wikipedia:Cryonics|cryonic]] freezing on Earth today might still be alive enough to be revived by Zharusian cryotechnologists if they could get their hands on his or her now–cryonically-frozen body and if this body had gone through cryonic freezing soon enough after its owner had died, hopefully in accident of some kind (I know that it does sound kind of sick for me to be wishing somebody in this story universe's past bad luck, but such bad luck would actually turn out all right in the end since whoever originally owned the body found by Zharus cryo-techs could be revived as somebody relatively young.)

The reason that I'm suggesting this is because of how I think that it might be useful to have somebody with technological knowledge similar to that of the Totalians and cultural knowledge of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries similar to that of people from Zharus along during the trip to Totalia which the [[User:Robotech Master/Totalia Prelude|prelude]] of the 'Return to Totalia' story arc of ''FreeRIDErs'', among other stories in the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe, says is going to happen in the next part of its 'Return to Totalia' arc in order to help smooth relations between Zharus and Totalia over somewhat. As such, I might write a story about somebody from modern-day Earth whose frozen body is obtained by Zharusian cryo-techs somehow either if my other idea from earlier doesn't pan out or after it does if it does. All in all, what do you guys think?
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 14:47, 17 September 2014 (EDT)

:Hey, [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]]! I'm really glad our stories moved you enough to want to consider adding to them. Not to brag or anything, but I've always thought that one of the things that made a great story great is how much it catches the imagination of its readers and makes them want to come up with stories of their own.

:Crossovers are a fun idea in general. Back when I was writing for Superguy Listserv, I wrote a series called "The Grand Tour" which took characters from my Superguy stories into several other Internet fiction universes of the day. It was a lot of fun. However, I don't think FreeRIDErs is really the kind of comic-book setting that lends itself to that kind of crossover. Well, it's still definitely comic booky, but in a different way.

:That being said, there's no reason you couldn't write them anyway. There's a lot of fun to be had in non-canonical "What If" stories. I've written a couple of them myself, a couple of far-future stories in the Chakona Space and Paradise settings that took ongoing trends in the series and extrapolated them to their logical conclusions. In fact, the ones I did for Paradise, [[User:Robotech Master/The_Future_is_Paradise|"The Future is Paradise"]] and [[User:Robotech Master/Paradise_Forever|"Paradise Forever"]] impressed Jon enough that he invited me to work on FreeRIDErs with him, and the rest is history. (In fact, part of the idea behind "Paradise Forever" was to provide a sort of "Riverworld" style space where characters from different settings might meet and cross over with each other.)

:The 20th century cryonic freezing idea is interesting. I'd even considered it myself, and sort of used elements of the idea in my "Slightly Foxed" story, though Chuck/Charlene is from a couple centuries further along than the 20th. But it's a little bit of a cliché, and it feels a little hard to justify scientifically in the setting. (It's not clear that anybody being cryonically frozen now will ''ever'' be revivable.) Anyway, the concept has already been done so well in novels like [http://www.amazon.com/World-Out-Time-Larry-Niven-ebook/dp/B005EOZBAG/terrania-20|''A World out of Time'' by Larry Niven] that doing it in FreeRIDErs feels like gilding the lily. Not to say I couldn't be convinced if someone came up with a plausible enough treatment of it.

:In any event, I'm so busy lately I barely have time to write on any of Jon's and my stories, let alone crossovers with settings I'm not familiar with. If you were to write such a thing, I'd be happy to read it, though. Good luck! And no matter what, I hope you keep enjoying our stories.

:P.S. About the date thing, you might want to click on "Preferences" up at the top left, then "Date and Time," and select the city closest to you in your time zone setting. Though it turns out even that may not affect the date set when you post something with the tilde signature...

:—[[User:Robotech Master|Robotech Master]] ([[User talk:Robotech Master|talk]]) 17:24, 19 September 2014 (EDT)
::Sorry that I haven't responded to this thread in quite a while, but I've had my reasons. First of all, I'm kind of ashamed to admit that I've lately been somewhat sidetracked by watching [[wikipedia:Transformers Prime|''Transformers Prime'']] due to the facts that, for one, I thought that watching the series might inspire me to come up with a cool vehicle mode for one or more of the RIDEs that I intend to involve in my story and that, for another, I wanted to get a little more familiar with some of the ideas from the source material that helped to inspire ''FreeRIDErs''. Now, though, I'm starting to think that it wasn't such a good idea; after all, it's distracted me quite a lot from what I should really be doing — that is, writing my story! Second of all, the fact that you responded to my original post relatively quickly in such a friendly manner while also revealing how you got started writing stories (wow, you've been doing it for ''over 20 years?'' That's amazing!) sort of made me develop even more respect for you and your efforts than I had already acquired by reading the latter, so it kind of took me a little while to work up the nerve to reply to you; sorry about that. Thirdly, I ''have'' been doing ''some'' work on my story by transcribing some older attempts at something like it from college-ruled notebook paper to Word documents like I [http://morfs.yuku.com/reply/304/Possible-FreeRIDErs-CrossOver#reply-304 mentioned] I was doing over on the [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org/ ''MORFS'' universe] [http://morfs.yuku.com/topic/61/Possible-FreeRIDErs-CrossOver#.VDbvwb4mTAM thread] dedicated to discussing this effort of mine. I'm about to update [http://morfs.yuku.com/topic/61/Possible-FreeRIDErs-CrossOver#.VDbvwb4mTAM that thread] with a notice that I've finished importing the first of my many previous attempts into Word in preparation for merging the best parts of all of them into the Word document that I've set up as a target destination for my final story [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!187&authkey=!AMtxCe1uQ_xxrYM&ithint=file%2cdocx here], so I ''am'' moving things along, albeit slowly.
::When I'm done piecing the beginning of this cross-over together, I wouldn't mind at all if you checked on its progress every once in a while. I know that you haven't had much time to work on your literary pursuits lately, but please feel free to make small corrective edits and leave suggestions (either in this thread or as comments in the Word document once I've finished collecting my thoughts) on the plot, characters, and whatever else that you feel needs improvement. Again, though, I know that you're busy, so please try not to spend too much of your free time helping me with my endeavors and get at least a ''little'' work done on ''Return to Totalia'', all right? I look forward to reading a lot more of it! I'll be sure to keep you and whichever other FreeRIDErs are interested in my efforts updated on ''my'' progress either here or on [http://morfs.yuku.com/topic/61/Possible-FreeRIDErs-CrossOver#.VDbvwb4mTAM the ''MORFS'' thread], so check back often for reports on it, 'cause I'll be looking for some from you! I don't want to impose on you ''too'' much, though, so I thought I'd stop bugging you and ask [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]] if I could borrow some of the context from his story [[User:Jetfire/Spies Among Us|'Spies Among Us']] for part of the beginning of my story. I was thinking that maybe I could have my story's main character, a [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org/ MORFS] survivor, accidentally use her subspace abilities while fleeing from some people who would like to kidnap her and coerce her to work for them and pull a ship that was originally on its way to resupply Zharus's friends in the Martian resistance with, among other things, either a new DINcom or the means, namely those provided by a gabber, to make another one that [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]]'s spies-in-training could then pair with one back on Zharus in order to keep in touch with their contact in the Marshal Corps. Here's the thing, though: can a DINcom be paired with another after it has been constructed, or, if not, would I be free to mention the development of a DINcom with these capabilities in the part of my story in which the supply ship plays a part, or would I have to wait for you, [[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]], [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]], or someone else to write a story in which such a device is developed?
::If the last case is true, then there's still plenty of time left for that to happen since this work of fiction might take me some time both to start in earnest after gathering my materials and to finish, but would I be able to mention the creation of such an important invention before somebody else retconned it back into the main ''FreeRIDErs'' chronology if I had to? I'm asking this because I know from [[User:Jetfire/Spies Among Us|'Spies Among Us']] that it's highly unlikely that a preconfigured DINcom would survive a trip through subspace (but why is that, anyway? Maybe that's something I should ask [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]] instead, though…) Anyway, that's all I have for you on my crossover story for now, but I do have a few comments on your reaction to my idea about a cryonically-frozen person from the early 21st century, before the invention of what 26th-century Zharusians would consider to be 'modern' cryotechnology, might be revived by Zharusian cryotechnologists. I understand both your concern that such a scenario would be scientifically untenable even in the context of the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe and your worry that a story narrating such circumstances would be too redundant to add much to the chronology. But I've been thinking…: would the cryonic preservation of an entire body really be necessary for the successful resurrection of a quinquagenarian individual? Wouldn't all you need to revive such a person be data describing his or her bodily and mental composition?
::The former could be obtained today with a DNA sample, and the latter could be had by scanning really thin slices of a brain that's undergone treatment with [[wikipedia:CLARITY|CLARITY]] created with a [[wikipedia:Microtome|microtome]] into a computer using an [[wikipedia:Electron microscope|electron microscope]]. Zharus already has data from the 21st century and before, so wouldn't it be a relatively simple task to retrieve this data and use it to reconstruct a person using Zharusian nanotechnology if it were to have been preserved by the merit of being input into an archive of data maintained by, say, a major hospital or medical research institution after being collected from a victim of some accident? (As unappetizing as that may be to both you and myself, taking the data required to resurrect a human who would be ancient by the time of his recovery from an accident victim would allow the patient to be somebody young and healthy, and that creates many more opportunities for adventure than the revival of an old geezer — not that some veterans of the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe haven't gotten themselves into some crazy situations, mind you… — , don't you think? Granted, creating such a story isn't right up front up on my to-do list given that I'm already working on something else major, but I think that such a story might be pretty good if the main character doesn't run away from the problems of being 'woken up' after a 'long sleep' like I read the main character of Larry Niven's ''A World Out of Time'' did. What do you think?
::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 17:46, 9 October 2014 (EDT)
:::Okay, I've asked [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]] [[User talk:Jetfire#What Will Arka's Future Hold?|here]] about the possibility of collaborating with him/her (which is he/she, anyway…?) on this project as well. On another note, this sub-topic is getting rather big, so should I maybe move it to its own page? I'm seriously considering setting up a staging area for the project which I've been discussing here with you, so I'm assuming that it would be a good idea to group this together with that?
:::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 14:28, 30 October 2014 (EDT)

My take on a crossover is like R_M's. If you want to write such a crossover as fanfiction, that's okay. But as an ''official'' part of the FreeRIDERs setting, I wouldn't consider it part of canon. There's too much potential for major conflict with our plans for the setting, for one. For two, much of this would be in prequel territory, which makes retcons all too likely. We have tried to keep things set in the 100-160 After Landing era as free from tangles as we can, but even we three main writers have conflicts sometimes.

Don't get me wrong. I'm glad to see someone so enthusiastic, but I've been long in responding because I'm a little bowled over here. I really don't know anything about MORFs or if it would really fit with the ideas we have for FreeRIDErs. But again, you're free to write whatever you want as fan fiction. --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] ([[User talk:JonBuck|talk]]) 21:30, 27 April 2015 (CDT)
:That's perfectly fine by me! I do have ''one'' question, though: could I make the MORFS cross-over part of this project into fan fiction based on something else from this project that I've started writing with [[User:Fahzyr|Fahzyr]] just for ''FreeRIDErs''? It's inspired in part by [[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]]'s story [[User:Robotech_Master/Slightly Foxed|'Barely Fused, Slightly Foxed']] but revives somebody from farther back in the past. In particular, the individual in question dies relatively closely to the beginning of the post-oil 'dark ages.' That's why I wanted to know what happened in-universe back then, at least according to the history books, and I apologize for being so insistent on working with you and the others to figure that out. I simply don't want to cause too many issues with ''FreeRIDErs'''s overall plot by introducing any holes with ''that'', either.
:— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 15:56, 28 April 2015 (EDT)

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Should I also categorize this project as belonging to the 'Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations' story universe ported to Shifti by [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]] since it's a cross-over of that magnitude? 
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=== Disussion On the 'Possibility of [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|''FreeRIDErs'']] Cross-Over Stories' ===

Hello, fellow FreeRIDErs! I've read pretty much all of the stories here and like them a ''lot'', but I was wondering if there might be any chance that any of you would be interested in helping me hash out this idea that I had about the possibility that we as a community might be able to confirm (at least in this story universe) the hunch that Madison Brubeck had about the possibility that the 'Many Worlds' theory might actually be ''real'' near the end of '[[User:Robotech Master/Spotted Stowaway|Madison Brubeck and the Spotted Stowaway]]' by coming together to write some stories about characters from other story universes getting transported to this one somehow and having an impact on its history. The universes that I think I might like to involve in this story arc are currently the [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org 'MORFS' universe] and the MAU ('Morphic Adaptation Unit') universe. I've already started discussing how I might bring somebody from the 'MORFS' universe into this one [http://morfs.yuku.com/topic/61/master/1/?page=1#.VBnGI0smTnc here], so you guys are quite welcome to go on over there if you want to help me hash out the details of such a story as I start writing it.

Since it's rather ambitious of me to undertake such a large endeavor as my first published story, I also have one other idea that could fall back on if the one that I discussed above doesn't pan out (although I really hope that it will work out well!) I was thinking about how somebody who has elected to have their body preserved with [[wikipedia:Cryonics|cryonic]] freezing on Earth today might still be alive enough to be revived by Zharusian cryotechnologists if they could get their hands on his or her now–cryonically-frozen body and if this body had gone through cryonic freezing soon enough after its owner had died, hopefully in accident of some kind (I know that it does sound kind of sick for me to be wishing somebody in this story universe's past bad luck, but such bad luck would actually turn out all right in the end since whoever originally owned the body found by Zharus cryo-techs could be revived as somebody relatively young.)

The reason that I'm suggesting this is because of how I think that it might be useful to have somebody with technological knowledge similar to that of the Totalians and cultural knowledge of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries similar to that of people from Zharus along during the trip to Totalia which the [[User:Robotech Master/Totalia Prelude|prelude]] of the 'Return to Totalia' story arc of ''FreeRIDErs'', among other stories in the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe, says is going to happen in the next part of its 'Return to Totalia' arc in order to help smooth relations between Zharus and Totalia over somewhat. As such, I might write a story about somebody from modern-day Earth whose frozen body is obtained by Zharusian cryo-techs somehow either if my other idea from earlier doesn't pan out or after it does if it does. All in all, what do you guys think?
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 14:47, 17 September 2014 (EDT)

:Hey, [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]]! I'm really glad our stories moved you enough to want to consider adding to them. Not to brag or anything, but I've always thought that one of the things that made a great story great is how much it catches the imagination of its readers and makes them want to come up with stories of their own.

:Crossovers are a fun idea in general. Back when I was writing for Superguy Listserv, I wrote a series called "The Grand Tour" which took characters from my Superguy stories into several other Internet fiction universes of the day. It was a lot of fun. However, I don't think FreeRIDErs is really the kind of comic-book setting that lends itself to that kind of crossover. Well, it's still definitely comic booky, but in a different way.

:That being said, there's no reason you couldn't write them anyway. There's a lot of fun to be had in non-canonical "What If" stories. I've written a couple of them myself, a couple of far-future stories in the Chakona Space and Paradise settings that took ongoing trends in the series and extrapolated them to their logical conclusions. In fact, the ones I did for Paradise, [[User:Robotech Master/The_Future_is_Paradise|"The Future is Paradise"]] and [[User:Robotech Master/Paradise_Forever|"Paradise Forever"]] impressed Jon enough that he invited me to work on FreeRIDErs with him, and the rest is history. (In fact, part of the idea behind "Paradise Forever" was to provide a sort of "Riverworld" style space where characters from different settings might meet and cross over with each other.)

:The 20th century cryonic freezing idea is interesting. I'd even considered it myself, and sort of used elements of the idea in my "Slightly Foxed" story, though Chuck/Charlene is from a couple centuries further along than the 20th. But it's a little bit of a cliché, and it feels a little hard to justify scientifically in the setting. (It's not clear that anybody being cryonically frozen now will ''ever'' be revivable.) Anyway, the concept has already been done so well in novels like [http://www.amazon.com/World-Out-Time-Larry-Niven-ebook/dp/B005EOZBAG/terrania-20|''A World out of Time'' by Larry Niven] that doing it in FreeRIDErs feels like gilding the lily. Not to say I couldn't be convinced if someone came up with a plausible enough treatment of it.

:In any event, I'm so busy lately I barely have time to write on any of Jon's and my stories, let alone crossovers with settings I'm not familiar with. If you were to write such a thing, I'd be happy to read it, though. Good luck! And no matter what, I hope you keep enjoying our stories.

:P.S. About the date thing, you might want to click on "Preferences" up at the top left, then "Date and Time," and select the city closest to you in your time zone setting. Though it turns out even that may not affect the date set when you post something with the tilde signature...

:—[[User:Robotech Master|Robotech Master]] ([[User talk:Robotech Master|talk]]) 17:24, 19 September 2014 (EDT)
::Sorry that I haven't responded to this thread in quite a while, but I've had my reasons. First of all, I'm kind of ashamed to admit that I've lately been somewhat sidetracked by watching [[wikipedia:Transformers Prime|''Transformers Prime'']] due to the facts that, for one, I thought that watching the series might inspire me to come up with a cool vehicle mode for one or more of the RIDEs that I intend to involve in my story and that, for another, I wanted to get a little more familiar with some of the ideas from the source material that helped to inspire ''FreeRIDErs''. Now, though, I'm starting to think that it wasn't such a good idea; after all, it's distracted me quite a lot from what I should really be doing — that is, writing my story! Second of all, the fact that you responded to my original post relatively quickly in such a friendly manner while also revealing how you got started writing stories (wow, you've been doing it for ''over 20 years?'' That's amazing!) sort of made me develop even more respect for you and your efforts than I had already acquired by reading the latter, so it kind of took me a little while to work up the nerve to reply to you; sorry about that. Thirdly, I ''have'' been doing ''some'' work on my story by transcribing some older attempts at something like it from college-ruled notebook paper to Word documents like I [http://morfs.yuku.com/reply/304/Possible-FreeRIDErs-CrossOver#reply-304 mentioned] I was doing over on the [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org/ ''MORFS'' universe] [http://morfs.yuku.com/topic/61/Possible-FreeRIDErs-CrossOver#.VDbvwb4mTAM thread] dedicated to discussing this effort of mine. I'm about to update [http://morfs.yuku.com/topic/61/Possible-FreeRIDErs-CrossOver#.VDbvwb4mTAM that thread] with a notice that I've finished importing the first of my many previous attempts into Word in preparation for merging the best parts of all of them into the Word document that I've set up as a target destination for my final story [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!187&authkey=!AMtxCe1uQ_xxrYM&ithint=file%2cdocx here], so I ''am'' moving things along, albeit slowly.
::When I'm done piecing the beginning of this cross-over together, I wouldn't mind at all if you checked on its progress every once in a while. I know that you haven't had much time to work on your literary pursuits lately, but please feel free to make small corrective edits and leave suggestions (either in this thread or as comments in the Word document once I've finished collecting my thoughts) on the plot, characters, and whatever else that you feel needs improvement. Again, though, I know that you're busy, so please try not to spend too much of your free time helping me with my endeavors and get at least a ''little'' work done on ''Return to Totalia'', all right? I look forward to reading a lot more of it! I'll be sure to keep you and whichever other FreeRIDErs are interested in my efforts updated on ''my'' progress either here or on [http://morfs.yuku.com/topic/61/Possible-FreeRIDErs-CrossOver#.VDbvwb4mTAM the ''MORFS'' thread], so check back often for reports on it, 'cause I'll be looking for some from you! I don't want to impose on you ''too'' much, though, so I thought I'd stop bugging you and ask [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]] if I could borrow some of the context from his story [[User:Jetfire/Spies Among Us|'Spies Among Us']] for part of the beginning of my story. I was thinking that maybe I could have my story's main character, a [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org/ MORFS] survivor, accidentally use her subspace abilities while fleeing from some people who would like to kidnap her and coerce her to work for them and pull a ship that was originally on its way to resupply Zharus's friends in the Martian resistance with, among other things, either a new DINcom or the means, namely those provided by a gabber, to make another one that [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]]'s spies-in-training could then pair with one back on Zharus in order to keep in touch with their contact in the Marshal Corps. Here's the thing, though: can a DINcom be paired with another after it has been constructed, or, if not, would I be free to mention the development of a DINcom with these capabilities in the part of my story in which the supply ship plays a part, or would I have to wait for you, [[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]], [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]], or someone else to write a story in which such a device is developed?
::If the last case is true, then there's still plenty of time left for that to happen since this work of fiction might take me some time both to start in earnest after gathering my materials and to finish, but would I be able to mention the creation of such an important invention before somebody else retconned it back into the main ''FreeRIDErs'' chronology if I had to? I'm asking this because I know from [[User:Jetfire/Spies Among Us|'Spies Among Us']] that it's highly unlikely that a preconfigured DINcom would survive a trip through subspace (but why is that, anyway? Maybe that's something I should ask [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]] instead, though…) Anyway, that's all I have for you on my crossover story for now, but I do have a few comments on your reaction to my idea about a cryonically-frozen person from the early 21st century, before the invention of what 26th-century Zharusians would consider to be 'modern' cryotechnology, might be revived by Zharusian cryotechnologists. I understand both your concern that such a scenario would be scientifically untenable even in the context of the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe and your worry that a story narrating such circumstances would be too redundant to add much to the chronology. But I've been thinking…: would the cryonic preservation of an entire body really be necessary for the successful resurrection of a quinquagenarian individual? Wouldn't all you need to revive such a person be data describing his or her bodily and mental composition?
::The former could be obtained today with a DNA sample, and the latter could be had by scanning really thin slices of a brain that's undergone treatment with [[wikipedia:CLARITY|CLARITY]] created with a [[wikipedia:Microtome|microtome]] into a computer using an [[wikipedia:Electron microscope|electron microscope]]. Zharus already has data from the 21st century and before, so wouldn't it be a relatively simple task to retrieve this data and use it to reconstruct a person using Zharusian nanotechnology if it were to have been preserved by the merit of being input into an archive of data maintained by, say, a major hospital or medical research institution after being collected from a victim of some accident? (As unappetizing as that may be to both you and myself, taking the data required to resurrect a human who would be ancient by the time of his recovery from an accident victim would allow the patient to be somebody young and healthy, and that creates many more opportunities for adventure than the revival of an old geezer — not that some veterans of the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe haven't gotten themselves into some crazy situations, mind you… — , don't you think? Granted, creating such a story isn't right up front up on my to-do list given that I'm already working on something else major, but I think that such a story might be pretty good if the main character doesn't run away from the problems of being 'woken up' after a 'long sleep' like I read the main character of Larry Niven's ''A World Out of Time'' did. What do you think?
::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 17:46, 9 October 2014 (EDT)
:::Okay, I've asked [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]] [[User talk:Jetfire#What Will Arka's Future Hold?|here]] about the possibility of collaborating with him/her (which is he/she, anyway…?) on this project as well. On another note, this sub-topic is getting rather big, so should I maybe move it to its own page? I'm seriously considering setting up a staging area for the project which I've been discussing here with you, so I'm assuming that it would be a good idea to group this together with that?
:::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 14:28, 30 October 2014 (EDT)

My take on a crossover is like R_M's. If you want to write such a crossover as fanfiction, that's okay. But as an ''official'' part of the FreeRIDERs setting, I wouldn't consider it part of canon. There's too much potential for major conflict with our plans for the setting, for one. For two, much of this would be in prequel territory, which makes retcons all too likely. We have tried to keep things set in the 100-160 After Landing era as free from tangles as we can, but even we three main writers have conflicts sometimes.

Don't get me wrong. I'm glad to see someone so enthusiastic, but I've been long in responding because I'm a little bowled over here. I really don't know anything about MORFs or if it would really fit with the ideas we have for FreeRIDErs. But again, you're free to write whatever you want as fan fiction. --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] ([[User talk:JonBuck|talk]]) 21:30, 27 April 2015 (CDT)
:That's perfectly fine by me! I do have ''one'' question, though: could I make the MORFS cross-over part of this project into fan fiction based on something else from this project that I've started writing with [[User:Fahzyr|Fahzyr]] just for ''FreeRIDErs''? It's inspired in part by [[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]]'s story [[User:Robotech_Master/Slightly Foxed|'Barely Fused, Slightly Foxed']] but revives somebody from farther back in the past. In particular, the individual in question dies relatively closely to the beginning of the post-oil 'dark ages.' That's why I wanted to know what happened in-universe back then, at least according to the history books, and I apologize for being so insistent on working with you and the others to figure that out. I simply don't want to cause too many issues with ''FreeRIDErs'''s overall plot by introducing any holes with ''that'', either.
:— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 15:56, 28 April 2015 (EDT)

=== Does Another Setting 'Category' Apply? ===

Should I also categorize this project as belonging to the 'Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations' story universe ported to Shifti by [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]] since it's a cross-over of that magnitude? 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 20:31, 29 November 2014 (EST)

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=== Disussion On the 'Possibility of [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|''FreeRIDErs'']] Cross-Over Stories' ===

Hello, fellow FreeRIDErs! I've read pretty much all of the stories here and like them a ''lot'', but I was wondering if there might be any chance that any of you would be interested in helping me hash out this idea that I had about the possibility that we as a community might be able to confirm (at least in this story universe) the hunch that Madison Brubeck had about the possibility that the 'Many Worlds' theory might actually be ''real'' near the end of '[[User:Robotech Master/Spotted Stowaway|Madison Brubeck and the Spotted Stowaway]]' by coming together to write some stories about characters from other story universes getting transported to this one somehow and having an impact on its history. The universes that I think I might like to involve in this story arc are currently the [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org 'MORFS' universe] and the MAU ('Morphic Adaptation Unit') universe. I've already started discussing how I might bring somebody from the 'MORFS' universe into this one [http://morfs.yuku.com/topic/61/master/1/?page=1#.VBnGI0smTnc here], so you guys are quite welcome to go on over there if you want to help me hash out the details of such a story as I start writing it.

Since it's rather ambitious of me to undertake such a large endeavor as my first published story, I also have one other idea that could fall back on if the one that I discussed above doesn't pan out (although I really hope that it will work out well!) I was thinking about how somebody who has elected to have their body preserved with [[wikipedia:Cryonics|cryonic]] freezing on Earth today might still be alive enough to be revived by Zharusian cryotechnologists if they could get their hands on his or her now–cryonically-frozen body and if this body had gone through cryonic freezing soon enough after its owner had died, hopefully in accident of some kind (I know that it does sound kind of sick for me to be wishing somebody in this story universe's past bad luck, but such bad luck would actually turn out all right in the end since whoever originally owned the body found by Zharus cryo-techs could be revived as somebody relatively young.)

The reason that I'm suggesting this is because of how I think that it might be useful to have somebody with technological knowledge similar to that of the Totalians and cultural knowledge of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries similar to that of people from Zharus along during the trip to Totalia which the [[User:Robotech Master/Totalia Prelude|prelude]] of the 'Return to Totalia' story arc of ''FreeRIDErs'', among other stories in the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe, says is going to happen in the next part of its 'Return to Totalia' arc in order to help smooth relations between Zharus and Totalia over somewhat. As such, I might write a story about somebody from modern-day Earth whose frozen body is obtained by Zharusian cryo-techs somehow either if my other idea from earlier doesn't pan out or after it does if it does. All in all, what do you guys think?
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 14:47, 17 September 2014 (EDT)

:Hey, [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]]! I'm really glad our stories moved you enough to want to consider adding to them. Not to brag or anything, but I've always thought that one of the things that made a great story great is how much it catches the imagination of its readers and makes them want to come up with stories of their own.

:Crossovers are a fun idea in general. Back when I was writing for Superguy Listserv, I wrote a series called "The Grand Tour" which took characters from my Superguy stories into several other Internet fiction universes of the day. It was a lot of fun. However, I don't think FreeRIDErs is really the kind of comic-book setting that lends itself to that kind of crossover. Well, it's still definitely comic booky, but in a different way.

:That being said, there's no reason you couldn't write them anyway. There's a lot of fun to be had in non-canonical "What If" stories. I've written a couple of them myself, a couple of far-future stories in the Chakona Space and Paradise settings that took ongoing trends in the series and extrapolated them to their logical conclusions. In fact, the ones I did for Paradise, [[User:Robotech Master/The_Future_is_Paradise|"The Future is Paradise"]] and [[User:Robotech Master/Paradise_Forever|"Paradise Forever"]] impressed Jon enough that he invited me to work on FreeRIDErs with him, and the rest is history. (In fact, part of the idea behind "Paradise Forever" was to provide a sort of "Riverworld" style space where characters from different settings might meet and cross over with each other.)

:The 20th century cryonic freezing idea is interesting. I'd even considered it myself, and sort of used elements of the idea in my "Slightly Foxed" story, though Chuck/Charlene is from a couple centuries further along than the 20th. But it's a little bit of a cliché, and it feels a little hard to justify scientifically in the setting. (It's not clear that anybody being cryonically frozen now will ''ever'' be revivable.) Anyway, the concept has already been done so well in novels like [http://www.amazon.com/World-Out-Time-Larry-Niven-ebook/dp/B005EOZBAG/terrania-20|''A World out of Time'' by Larry Niven] that doing it in FreeRIDErs feels like gilding the lily. Not to say I couldn't be convinced if someone came up with a plausible enough treatment of it.

:In any event, I'm so busy lately I barely have time to write on any of Jon's and my stories, let alone crossovers with settings I'm not familiar with. If you were to write such a thing, I'd be happy to read it, though. Good luck! And no matter what, I hope you keep enjoying our stories.

:P.S. About the date thing, you might want to click on "Preferences" up at the top left, then "Date and Time," and select the city closest to you in your time zone setting. Though it turns out even that may not affect the date set when you post something with the tilde signature...

:—[[User:Robotech Master|Robotech Master]] ([[User talk:Robotech Master|talk]]) 17:24, 19 September 2014 (EDT)
::Sorry that I haven't responded to this thread in quite a while, but I've had my reasons. First of all, I'm kind of ashamed to admit that I've lately been somewhat sidetracked by watching [[wikipedia:Transformers Prime|''Transformers Prime'']] due to the facts that, for one, I thought that watching the series might inspire me to come up with a cool vehicle mode for one or more of the RIDEs that I intend to involve in my story and that, for another, I wanted to get a little more familiar with some of the ideas from the source material that helped to inspire ''FreeRIDErs''. Now, though, I'm starting to think that it wasn't such a good idea; after all, it's distracted me quite a lot from what I should really be doing — that is, writing my story! Second of all, the fact that you responded to my original post relatively quickly in such a friendly manner while also revealing how you got started writing stories (wow, you've been doing it for ''over 20 years?'' That's amazing!) sort of made me develop even more respect for you and your efforts than I had already acquired by reading the latter, so it kind of took me a little while to work up the nerve to reply to you; sorry about that. Thirdly, I ''have'' been doing ''some'' work on my story by transcribing some older attempts at something like it from college-ruled notebook paper to Word documents like I [http://morfs.yuku.com/reply/304/Possible-FreeRIDErs-CrossOver#reply-304 mentioned] I was doing over on the [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org/ ''MORFS'' universe] [http://morfs.yuku.com/topic/61/Possible-FreeRIDErs-CrossOver#.VDbvwb4mTAM thread] dedicated to discussing this effort of mine. I'm about to update [http://morfs.yuku.com/topic/61/Possible-FreeRIDErs-CrossOver#.VDbvwb4mTAM that thread] with a notice that I've finished importing the first of my many previous attempts into Word in preparation for merging the best parts of all of them into the Word document that I've set up as a target destination for my final story [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!187&authkey=!AMtxCe1uQ_xxrYM&ithint=file%2cdocx here], so I ''am'' moving things along, albeit slowly.
::When I'm done piecing the beginning of this cross-over together, I wouldn't mind at all if you checked on its progress every once in a while. I know that you haven't had much time to work on your literary pursuits lately, but please feel free to make small corrective edits and leave suggestions (either in this thread or as comments in the Word document once I've finished collecting my thoughts) on the plot, characters, and whatever else that you feel needs improvement. Again, though, I know that you're busy, so please try not to spend too much of your free time helping me with my endeavors and get at least a ''little'' work done on ''Return to Totalia'', all right? I look forward to reading a lot more of it! I'll be sure to keep you and whichever other FreeRIDErs are interested in my efforts updated on ''my'' progress either here or on [http://morfs.yuku.com/topic/61/Possible-FreeRIDErs-CrossOver#.VDbvwb4mTAM the ''MORFS'' thread], so check back often for reports on it, 'cause I'll be looking for some from you! I don't want to impose on you ''too'' much, though, so I thought I'd stop bugging you and ask [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]] if I could borrow some of the context from his story [[User:Jetfire/Spies Among Us|'Spies Among Us']] for part of the beginning of my story. I was thinking that maybe I could have my story's main character, a [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org/ MORFS] survivor, accidentally use her subspace abilities while fleeing from some people who would like to kidnap her and coerce her to work for them and pull a ship that was originally on its way to resupply Zharus's friends in the Martian resistance with, among other things, either a new DINcom or the means, namely those provided by a gabber, to make another one that [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]]'s spies-in-training could then pair with one back on Zharus in order to keep in touch with their contact in the Marshal Corps. Here's the thing, though: can a DINcom be paired with another after it has been constructed, or, if not, would I be free to mention the development of a DINcom with these capabilities in the part of my story in which the supply ship plays a part, or would I have to wait for you, [[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]], [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]], or someone else to write a story in which such a device is developed?
::If the last case is true, then there's still plenty of time left for that to happen since this work of fiction might take me some time both to start in earnest after gathering my materials and to finish, but would I be able to mention the creation of such an important invention before somebody else retconned it back into the main ''FreeRIDErs'' chronology if I had to? I'm asking this because I know from [[User:Jetfire/Spies Among Us|'Spies Among Us']] that it's highly unlikely that a preconfigured DINcom would survive a trip through subspace (but why is that, anyway? Maybe that's something I should ask [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]] instead, though…) Anyway, that's all I have for you on my crossover story for now, but I do have a few comments on your reaction to my idea about a cryonically-frozen person from the early 21st century, before the invention of what 26th-century Zharusians would consider to be 'modern' cryotechnology, might be revived by Zharusian cryotechnologists. I understand both your concern that such a scenario would be scientifically untenable even in the context of the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe and your worry that a story narrating such circumstances would be too redundant to add much to the chronology. But I've been thinking…: would the cryonic preservation of an entire body really be necessary for the successful resurrection of a quinquagenarian individual? Wouldn't all you need to revive such a person be data describing his or her bodily and mental composition?
::The former could be obtained today with a DNA sample, and the latter could be had by scanning really thin slices of a brain that's undergone treatment with [[wikipedia:CLARITY|CLARITY]] created with a [[wikipedia:Microtome|microtome]] into a computer using an [[wikipedia:Electron microscope|electron microscope]]. Zharus already has data from the 21st century and before, so wouldn't it be a relatively simple task to retrieve this data and use it to reconstruct a person using Zharusian nanotechnology if it were to have been preserved by the merit of being input into an archive of data maintained by, say, a major hospital or medical research institution after being collected from a victim of some accident? (As unappetizing as that may be to both you and myself, taking the data required to resurrect a human who would be ancient by the time of his recovery from an accident victim would allow the patient to be somebody young and healthy, and that creates many more opportunities for adventure than the revival of an old geezer — not that some veterans of the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe haven't gotten themselves into some crazy situations, mind you… — , don't you think? Granted, creating such a story isn't right up front up on my to-do list given that I'm already working on something else major, but I think that such a story might be pretty good if the main character doesn't run away from the problems of being 'woken up' after a 'long sleep' like I read the main character of Larry Niven's ''A World Out of Time'' did. What do you think?
::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 17:46, 9 October 2014 (EDT)
:::Okay, I've asked [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]] [[User talk:Jetfire#What Will Arka's Future Hold?|here]] about the possibility of collaborating with him/her (which is he/she, anyway…?) on this project as well. On another note, this sub-topic is getting rather big, so should I maybe move it to its own page? I'm seriously considering setting up a staging area for the project which I've been discussing here with you, so I'm assuming that it would be a good idea to group this together with that?
:::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 14:28, 30 October 2014 (EDT)

My take on a crossover is like R_M's. If you want to write such a crossover as fanfiction, that's okay. But as an ''official'' part of the FreeRIDERs setting, I wouldn't consider it part of canon. There's too much potential for major conflict with our plans for the setting, for one. For two, much of this would be in prequel territory, which makes retcons all too likely. We have tried to keep things set in the 100-160 After Landing era as free from tangles as we can, but even we three main writers have conflicts sometimes.

Don't get me wrong. I'm glad to see someone so enthusiastic, but I've been long in responding because I'm a little bowled over here. I really don't know anything about MORFs or if it would really fit with the ideas we have for FreeRIDErs. But again, you're free to write whatever you want as fan fiction. --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] ([[User talk:JonBuck|talk]]) 21:30, 27 April 2015 (CDT)
:That's perfectly fine by me! I do have ''one'' question, though: could I make the MORFS cross-over part of this project into fan fiction based on something else from this project that I've started writing with [[User:Fahzyr|Fahzyr]] just for ''FreeRIDErs''? It's inspired in part by [[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]]'s story [[User:Robotech_Master/Slightly Foxed|'Barely Fused, Slightly Foxed']] but revives somebody from farther back in the past. In particular, the individual in question dies relatively closely to the beginning of the post-oil 'dark ages.' That's why I wanted to know what happened in-universe back then, at least according to the history books, and I apologize for being so insistent on working with you and the others to figure that out. I simply don't want to cause too many issues with ''FreeRIDErs'''s overall plot by introducing any holes with ''that'', either.
:— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 15:56, 28 April 2015 (EDT)

=== Does Another Setting 'Category' Apply? ===

Should I also categorize this project as belonging to the 'Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations' story universe ported to Shifti by [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]] since it's a cross-over of that magnitude? 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 20:31, 29 November 2014 (EST)

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== Local Discussions ==

=== Disussion On the 'Possibility of [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|''FreeRIDErs'']] Cross-Over Stories' ===

Hello, fellow FreeRIDErs! I've read pretty much all of the stories here and like them a ''lot'', but I was wondering if there might be any chance that any of you would be interested in helping me hash out this idea that I had about the possibility that we as a community might be able to confirm (at least in this story universe) the hunch that Madison Brubeck had about the possibility that the 'Many Worlds' theory might actually be ''real'' near the end of '[[User:Robotech Master/Spotted Stowaway|Madison Brubeck and the Spotted Stowaway]]' by coming together to write some stories about characters from other story universes getting transported to this one somehow and having an impact on its history. The universes that I think I might like to involve in this story arc are currently the [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org 'MORFS' universe] and the MAU ('Morphic Adaptation Unit') universe. I've already started discussing how I might bring somebody from the 'MORFS' universe into this one [http://morfs.yuku.com/topic/61/master/1/?page=1#.VBnGI0smTnc here], so you guys are quite welcome to go on over there if you want to help me hash out the details of such a story as I start writing it.

Since it's rather ambitious of me to undertake such a large endeavor as my first published story, I also have one other idea that could fall back on if the one that I discussed above doesn't pan out (although I really hope that it will work out well!) I was thinking about how somebody who has elected to have their body preserved with [[wikipedia:Cryonics|cryonic]] freezing on Earth today might still be alive enough to be revived by Zharusian cryotechnologists if they could get their hands on his or her now–cryonically-frozen body and if this body had gone through cryonic freezing soon enough after its owner had died, hopefully in accident of some kind (I know that it does sound kind of sick for me to be wishing somebody in this story universe's past bad luck, but such bad luck would actually turn out all right in the end since whoever originally owned the body found by Zharus cryo-techs could be revived as somebody relatively young.)

The reason that I'm suggesting this is because of how I think that it might be useful to have somebody with technological knowledge similar to that of the Totalians and cultural knowledge of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries similar to that of people from Zharus along during the trip to Totalia which the [[User:Robotech Master/Totalia Prelude|prelude]] of the 'Return to Totalia' story arc of ''FreeRIDErs'', among other stories in the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe, says is going to happen in the next part of its 'Return to Totalia' arc in order to help smooth relations between Zharus and Totalia over somewhat. As such, I might write a story about somebody from modern-day Earth whose frozen body is obtained by Zharusian cryo-techs somehow either if my other idea from earlier doesn't pan out or after it does if it does. All in all, what do you guys think?
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 14:47, 17 September 2014 (EDT)

:Hey, [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]]! I'm really glad our stories moved you enough to want to consider adding to them. Not to brag or anything, but I've always thought that one of the things that made a great story great is how much it catches the imagination of its readers and makes them want to come up with stories of their own.

:Crossovers are a fun idea in general. Back when I was writing for Superguy Listserv, I wrote a series called "The Grand Tour" which took characters from my Superguy stories into several other Internet fiction universes of the day. It was a lot of fun. However, I don't think FreeRIDErs is really the kind of comic-book setting that lends itself to that kind of crossover. Well, it's still definitely comic booky, but in a different way.

:That being said, there's no reason you couldn't write them anyway. There's a lot of fun to be had in non-canonical "What If" stories. I've written a couple of them myself, a couple of far-future stories in the Chakona Space and Paradise settings that took ongoing trends in the series and extrapolated them to their logical conclusions. In fact, the ones I did for Paradise, [[User:Robotech Master/The_Future_is_Paradise|"The Future is Paradise"]] and [[User:Robotech Master/Paradise_Forever|"Paradise Forever"]] impressed Jon enough that he invited me to work on FreeRIDErs with him, and the rest is history. (In fact, part of the idea behind "Paradise Forever" was to provide a sort of "Riverworld" style space where characters from different settings might meet and cross over with each other.)

:The 20th century cryonic freezing idea is interesting. I'd even considered it myself, and sort of used elements of the idea in my "Slightly Foxed" story, though Chuck/Charlene is from a couple centuries further along than the 20th. But it's a little bit of a cliché, and it feels a little hard to justify scientifically in the setting. (It's not clear that anybody being cryonically frozen now will ''ever'' be revivable.) Anyway, the concept has already been done so well in novels like [http://www.amazon.com/World-Out-Time-Larry-Niven-ebook/dp/B005EOZBAG/terrania-20|''A World out of Time'' by Larry Niven] that doing it in FreeRIDErs feels like gilding the lily. Not to say I couldn't be convinced if someone came up with a plausible enough treatment of it.

:In any event, I'm so busy lately I barely have time to write on any of Jon's and my stories, let alone crossovers with settings I'm not familiar with. If you were to write such a thing, I'd be happy to read it, though. Good luck! And no matter what, I hope you keep enjoying our stories.

:P.S. About the date thing, you might want to click on "Preferences" up at the top left, then "Date and Time," and select the city closest to you in your time zone setting. Though it turns out even that may not affect the date set when you post something with the tilde signature...

:—[[User:Robotech Master|Robotech Master]] ([[User talk:Robotech Master|talk]]) 17:24, 19 September 2014 (EDT)
::Sorry that I haven't responded to this thread in quite a while, but I've had my reasons. First of all, I'm kind of ashamed to admit that I've lately been somewhat sidetracked by watching [[wikipedia:Transformers Prime|''Transformers Prime'']] due to the facts that, for one, I thought that watching the series might inspire me to come up with a cool vehicle mode for one or more of the RIDEs that I intend to involve in my story and that, for another, I wanted to get a little more familiar with some of the ideas from the source material that helped to inspire ''FreeRIDErs''. Now, though, I'm starting to think that it wasn't such a good idea; after all, it's distracted me quite a lot from what I should really be doing — that is, writing my story! Second of all, the fact that you responded to my original post relatively quickly in such a friendly manner while also revealing how you got started writing stories (wow, you've been doing it for ''over 20 years?'' That's amazing!) sort of made me develop even more respect for you and your efforts than I had already acquired by reading the latter, so it kind of took me a little while to work up the nerve to reply to you; sorry about that. Thirdly, I ''have'' been doing ''some'' work on my story by transcribing some older attempts at something like it from college-ruled notebook paper to Word documents like I [http://morfs.yuku.com/reply/304/Possible-FreeRIDErs-CrossOver#reply-304 mentioned] I was doing over on the [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org/ ''MORFS'' universe] [http://morfs.yuku.com/topic/61/Possible-FreeRIDErs-CrossOver#.VDbvwb4mTAM thread] dedicated to discussing this effort of mine. I'm about to update [http://morfs.yuku.com/topic/61/Possible-FreeRIDErs-CrossOver#.VDbvwb4mTAM that thread] with a notice that I've finished importing the first of my many previous attempts into Word in preparation for merging the best parts of all of them into the Word document that I've set up as a target destination for my final story [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!187&authkey=!AMtxCe1uQ_xxrYM&ithint=file%2cdocx here], so I ''am'' moving things along, albeit slowly.
::When I'm done piecing the beginning of this cross-over together, I wouldn't mind at all if you checked on its progress every once in a while. I know that you haven't had much time to work on your literary pursuits lately, but please feel free to make small corrective edits and leave suggestions (either in this thread or as comments in the Word document once I've finished collecting my thoughts) on the plot, characters, and whatever else that you feel needs improvement. Again, though, I know that you're busy, so please try not to spend too much of your free time helping me with my endeavors and get at least a ''little'' work done on ''Return to Totalia'', all right? I look forward to reading a lot more of it! I'll be sure to keep you and whichever other FreeRIDErs are interested in my efforts updated on ''my'' progress either here or on [http://morfs.yuku.com/topic/61/Possible-FreeRIDErs-CrossOver#.VDbvwb4mTAM the ''MORFS'' thread], so check back often for reports on it, 'cause I'll be looking for some from you! I don't want to impose on you ''too'' much, though, so I thought I'd stop bugging you and ask [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]] if I could borrow some of the context from his story [[User:Jetfire/Spies Among Us|'Spies Among Us']] for part of the beginning of my story. I was thinking that maybe I could have my story's main character, a [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org/ MORFS] survivor, accidentally use her subspace abilities while fleeing from some people who would like to kidnap her and coerce her to work for them and pull a ship that was originally on its way to resupply Zharus's friends in the Martian resistance with, among other things, either a new DINcom or the means, namely those provided by a gabber, to make another one that [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]]'s spies-in-training could then pair with one back on Zharus in order to keep in touch with their contact in the Marshal Corps. Here's the thing, though: can a DINcom be paired with another after it has been constructed, or, if not, would I be free to mention the development of a DINcom with these capabilities in the part of my story in which the supply ship plays a part, or would I have to wait for you, [[User:JonBuck|JonBuck]], [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]], or someone else to write a story in which such a device is developed?
::If the last case is true, then there's still plenty of time left for that to happen since this work of fiction might take me some time both to start in earnest after gathering my materials and to finish, but would I be able to mention the creation of such an important invention before somebody else retconned it back into the main ''FreeRIDErs'' chronology if I had to? I'm asking this because I know from [[User:Jetfire/Spies Among Us|'Spies Among Us']] that it's highly unlikely that a preconfigured DINcom would survive a trip through subspace (but why is that, anyway? Maybe that's something I should ask [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]] instead, though…) Anyway, that's all I have for you on my crossover story for now, but I do have a few comments on your reaction to my idea about a cryonically-frozen person from the early 21st century, before the invention of what 26th-century Zharusians would consider to be 'modern' cryotechnology, might be revived by Zharusian cryotechnologists. I understand both your concern that such a scenario would be scientifically untenable even in the context of the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe and your worry that a story narrating such circumstances would be too redundant to add much to the chronology. But I've been thinking…: would the cryonic preservation of an entire body really be necessary for the successful resurrection of a quinquagenarian individual? Wouldn't all you need to revive such a person be data describing his or her bodily and mental composition?
::The former could be obtained today with a DNA sample, and the latter could be had by scanning really thin slices of a brain that's undergone treatment with [[wikipedia:CLARITY|CLARITY]] created with a [[wikipedia:Microtome|microtome]] into a computer using an [[wikipedia:Electron microscope|electron microscope]]. Zharus already has data from the 21st century and before, so wouldn't it be a relatively simple task to retrieve this data and use it to reconstruct a person using Zharusian nanotechnology if it were to have been preserved by the merit of being input into an archive of data maintained by, say, a major hospital or medical research institution after being collected from a victim of some accident? (As unappetizing as that may be to both you and myself, taking the data required to resurrect a human who would be ancient by the time of his recovery from an accident victim would allow the patient to be somebody young and healthy, and that creates many more opportunities for adventure than the revival of an old geezer — not that some veterans of the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe haven't gotten themselves into some crazy situations, mind you… — , don't you think? Granted, creating such a story isn't right up front up on my to-do list given that I'm already working on something else major, but I think that such a story might be pretty good if the main character doesn't run away from the problems of being 'woken up' after a 'long sleep' like I read the main character of Larry Niven's ''A World Out of Time'' did. What do you think?
::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 17:46, 9 October 2014 (EDT)
:::Okay, I've asked [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]] [[User talk:Jetfire#What Will Arka's Future Hold?|here]] about the possibility of collaborating with him/her (which is he/she, anyway…?) on this project as well. On another note, this sub-topic is getting rather big, so should I maybe move it to its own page? I'm seriously considering setting up a staging area for the project which I've been discussing here with you, so I'm assuming that it would be a good idea to group this together with that?
:::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 14:28, 30 October 2014 (EDT)

My take on a crossover is like R_M's. If you want to write such a crossover as fanfiction, that's okay. But as an ''official'' part of the FreeRIDERs setting, I wouldn't consider it part of canon. There's too much potential for major conflict with our plans for the setting, for one. For two, much of this would be in prequel territory, which makes retcons all too likely. We have tried to keep things set in the 100-160 After Landing era as free from tangles as we can, but even we three main writers have conflicts sometimes.

Don't get me wrong. I'm glad to see someone so enthusiastic, but I've been long in responding because I'm a little bowled over here. I really don't know anything about MORFs or if it would really fit with the ideas we have for FreeRIDErs. But again, you're free to write whatever you want as fan fiction. --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] ([[User talk:JonBuck|talk]]) 21:30, 27 April 2015 (CDT)
:That's perfectly fine by me! I do have ''one'' question, though: could I make the MORFS cross-over part of this project into fan fiction based on something else from this project that I've started writing with [[User:Fahzyr|Fahzyr]] just for ''FreeRIDErs''? It's inspired in part by [[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]]'s story [[User:Robotech_Master/Slightly Foxed|'Barely Fused, Slightly Foxed']] but revives somebody from farther back in the past. In particular, the individual in question dies relatively closely to the beginning of the post-oil 'dark ages.' That's why I wanted to know what happened in-universe back then, at least according to the history books, and I apologize for being so insistent on working with you and the others to figure that out. I simply don't want to cause too many issues with ''FreeRIDErs'''s overall plot by introducing any holes with ''that'', either.
:— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 15:56, 28 April 2015 (EDT)

=== Does Another Setting 'Category' Apply? ===

Should I also categorize this project as belonging to the 'Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations' story universe ported to Shifti by [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]] since it's a cross-over of that magnitude? 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 20:31, 29 November 2014 (EST)

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* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']]
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* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/When Worlds Collide?!?|''When Worlds Collide?!?'']]

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== Stories ==

As of this writing, the 'Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…' story arc contains the following stories:

* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/All's Quiet on the Midwestern Front|''All's Quiet on the Midwestern Front'']]
* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']]
* [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!195&authkey=!AGHU9jtalJwZRoo&ithint=file%2cdocx ''Displacement'']
* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/When Worlds Collide?!?|''When Worlds Collide?!?'']]

== Documentation ==

Documentation on topics related to this story arc can currently be found [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Documentation/Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…|here]], but the information now stored there may be merged or transcluded into this section at a later date.

[[Category:FreeRIDErs]][[Category:MORFS]]

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== Project Details ==

==== Etymological History ====

[[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] was initially going to title this story arc ''When Worlds Collide'', which was also [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!195&authkey=!AGHU9jtalJwZRoo&ithint=file%2cdocx ''Displacement'']'s original title since that story was, at first, going to be the first one in this arc. He then decided that work hadn't progressed far enough for this project to have been given even a preliminary title, so he replaced this with the code name 'Project 'Crash Course',' a moniker which comes from the facts that this is [[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]]'s first serious attempt at writing transformation fiction and that this story arc's characters are all going to run into each other at some point. The current overarching title, 'Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…,' reflects both how dim [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|Uprooted]]'s main character's father's hopes that his son will be brought back to life some day are given the technology of his day and how this set of stories opens up a 'breach' in the metaphorical dam separating the two story universes involved.

==== Content History ====

[[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] began tentative work on the stories in this sub-series on October 12th, 2014. He started with a story, currently titled [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!195&authkey=!AGHU9jtalJwZRoo&ithint=file%2cdocx ''Displacement''], about how an individual from [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org/ the 'MORFS' universe] lived his life before, while, and after she went through MORFS; how she developed her abilities to access, interpret, and manipulate what is known as 'subspace' in [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]] once she obtained them; and how she eventually used her powers to jump across to [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]]. Work on that story had stalled by November 14th, 2014, and was interrupted by another story project that same day. [[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] originally intended for this story, currently called [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']] and which is about how a person living in the early- to mid-21th century might come to find himself put into some kind of medical stasis only to be woken up in the mid-26th century of [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]], to be unrelated to this story arc but eventually included it when he realized how interesting it might be to convey to his readers how this person might react when faced when [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!195&authkey=!AGHU9jtalJwZRoo&ithint=file%2cdocx ''Displacement'']'s protagonist upon her arrival in [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]]. A measured revision to [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']] was made on November 19th, 2014, and was followed up by a slightly more extensive rewrite five days later on November 24th. Minor maintenance was done on [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories /Uprooted|''Uprooted'']] between November 29th and December 19th as well. On January 10th of 2015, [[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] formalized a decision to move details about what happened to [[User:RandomDSdevel/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']]'s main character out of [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']] into a separate, prequel story by stating his intentions to do so in [[User:RandomDSdevel//Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']]'s markup.

== Stories ==

As of this writing, the 'Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…' story arc contains the following stories:

* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/All's Quiet on the Midwestern Front|''All's Quiet on the Midwestern Front'']]
* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']]
* [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!195&authkey=!AGHU9jtalJwZRoo&ithint=file%2cdocx ''Displacement'']
* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/When Worlds Collide?!?|''When Worlds Collide?!?'']]

== Documentation ==

Documentation on topics related to this story arc can currently be found [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Documentation/Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…|here]], but the information now stored there may be merged or transcluded into this section at a later date.

[[Category:FreeRIDErs]][[Category:MORFS]]

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2015-11-18T19:51:37Z

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== Project Details ==

==== {{replace|Etymological History|…}} ====

{{replace|[[User:RandomDSdevel{{!}}WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] was initially going to title this story arc ''When Worlds Collide'', which was also [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!195&authkey=!AGHU9jtalJwZRoo&ithint=file%2cdocx ''Displacement'']'s original title since that story was, at first, going to be the first one in this arc. He then decided that work hadn't progressed far enough for this project to have been given even a preliminary title, so he replaced this with the code name 'Project 'Crash Course',' a moniker which comes from the facts that this is [[User:RandomDSdevel{{!}}WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]]'s first serious attempt at writing transformation fiction and that this story arc's characters are all going to run into each other at some point. The current overarching title, 'Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…,' reflects both how dim [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted{{!}}Uprooted]]'s main character's father's hopes that his son will be brought back to life some day are given the technology of his day and how this set of stories opens up a 'breach' in the metaphorical dam separating the two story universes involved. |…}}

==== {{replace|Content History|…}} ====

{{replace|[[User:RandomDSdevel{{!}}WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] began tentative work on the stories in this sub-series on October 12th, 2014. He started with a story, currently titled [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!195&authkey=!AGHU9jtalJwZRoo&ithint=file%2cdocx ''Displacement''], about how an individual from [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org/ the 'MORFS' universe] lived his life before, while, and after she went through MORFS; how she developed her abilities to access, interpret, and manipulate what is known as 'subspace' in [[FreeRIDErs (setting){{!}}the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]] once she obtained them; and how she eventually used her powers to jump across to [[FreeRIDErs (setting){{!}}the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]]. Work on that story had stalled by November 14th, 2014, and was interrupted by another story project that same day. [[User:RandomDSdevel{{!}}WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] originally intended for this story, currently called [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted{{!}}''Uprooted'']] and which is about how a person living in the early- to mid-21th century might come to find himself put into some kind of medical stasis only to be woken up in the mid-26th century of [[FreeRIDErs (setting){{!}}the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]], to be unrelated to this story arc but eventually included it when he realized how interesting it might be to convey to his readers how this person might react when faced when [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!195&authkey=!AGHU9jtalJwZRoo&ithint=file%2cdocx ''Displacement'']'s protagonist upon her arrival in [[FreeRIDErs (setting){{!}}the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]]. A measured revision to [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted{{!}}''Uprooted'']] was made on November 19th, 2014, and was followed up by a slightly more extensive rewrite five days later on November 24th. Minor maintenance was done on [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories /Uprooted{{!}}''Uprooted'']] between November 29th and December 19th as well. On January 10th of 2015, [[User:RandomDSdevel{{!}}WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] formalized a decision to move details about what happened to [[User:RandomDSdevel/Uprooted{{!}}''Uprooted'']]'s main character out of [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted{{!}}''Uprooted'']] into a separate, prequel story by stating his intentions to do so in [[User:RandomDSdevel//Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted{{!}}''Uprooted'']]'s markup. |…}}

== Stories ==

As of this writing, the 'Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…' story arc contains the following stories:

* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/All's Quiet on the Midwestern Front|''All's Quiet on the Midwestern Front'']]
* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']]
* [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!195&authkey=!AGHU9jtalJwZRoo&ithint=file%2cdocx ''Displacement'']
* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/When Worlds Collide?!?|''When Worlds Collide?!?'']]

== Documentation ==

Documentation on topics related to this story arc can currently be found [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Documentation/Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…|here]], but the information now stored there may be merged or transcluded into this section at a later date.

[[Category:FreeRIDErs]][[Category:MORFS]]

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== Project Details ==

==== Etymological History ====

[[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] was initially going to title this story arc ''When Worlds Collide'', which was also [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!195&authkey=!AGHU9jtalJwZRoo&ithint=file%2cdocx ''Displacement'']'s original title since that story was, at first, going to be the first one in this arc. He then decided that work hadn't progressed far enough for this project to have been given even a preliminary title, so he replaced this with the code name 'Project 'Crash Course',' a moniker which comes from the facts that this is [[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]]'s first serious attempt at writing transformation fiction and that this story arc's characters are all going to run into each other at some point. The current overarching title, 'Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…,' reflects both how dim [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|Uprooted]]'s main character's father's hopes that his son will be brought back to life some day are given the technology of his day and how this set of stories opens up a 'breach' in the metaphorical dam separating the two story universes involved.

==== Content History ====

[[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] began tentative work on the stories in this sub-series on October 12th, 2014. He started with a story, currently titled [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!195&authkey=!AGHU9jtalJwZRoo&ithint=file%2cdocx ''Displacement''], about how an individual from [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org/ the 'MORFS' universe] lived his life before, while, and after she went through MORFS; how she developed her abilities to access, interpret, and manipulate what is known as 'subspace' in [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]] once she obtained them; and how she eventually used her powers to jump across to [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]]. Work on that story had stalled by November 14th, 2014, and was interrupted by another story project that same day. [[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] originally intended for this story, currently called [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']] and which is about how a person living in the early- to mid-21th century might come to find himself put into some kind of medical stasis only to be woken up in the mid-26th century of [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]], to be unrelated to this story arc but eventually included it when he realized how interesting it might be to convey to his readers how this person might react when faced when [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!195&authkey=!AGHU9jtalJwZRoo&ithint=file%2cdocx ''Displacement'']'s protagonist upon her arrival in [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]]. A measured revision to [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']] was made on November 19th, 2014, and was followed up by a slightly more extensive rewrite five days later on November 24th. Minor maintenance was done on [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories /Uprooted|''Uprooted'']] between November 29th and December 19th as well. On January 10th of 2015, [[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] formalized a decision to move details about what happened to [[User:RandomDSdevel/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']]'s main character out of [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']] into a separate, prequel story by stating his intentions to do so in [[User:RandomDSdevel//Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']]'s markup.

== Stories ==

As of this writing, the 'Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…' story arc contains the following stories:

* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/All's Quiet on the Midwestern Front|''All's Quiet on the Midwestern Front'']]
* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']]
* [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!195&authkey=!AGHU9jtalJwZRoo&ithint=file%2cdocx ''Displacement'']
* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/When Worlds Collide?!?|''When Worlds Collide?!?'']]

== Documentation ==

Documentation on topics related to this story arc can currently be found [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Documentation/Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…|here]], but the information now stored there may be merged or transcluded into this section at a later date.

[[Category:FreeRIDErs]][[Category:MORFS]]

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== Project Details ==

=== {{replace|Origins|…}} ===

{{replace|This story arc was created by [[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] after he noticed some interesting connections, described on this page in [[#Inspiration|the section 'Inspiration,']] between [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]], [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org the 'MORFS' universe], and [http://www.instantkingdom.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1336&post=32074 'Catgirl'], a story by a user named Zombie on [http://www.instantkingdom.com/ Instant Kingdom]. |…}}

=== {{replace|Inspiration|…}} ===

{{replace|A few different details prompted [[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] to begin production of this work. First of all, the main characters of [http://www.instantkingdom.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1336&post=32074 'Catgirl'] flee from a battle in space and escape to what they know as 'Old Earth,' supposedly because a '''New'' Earth' also exists in this story's setting. Once there, these characters hide themselves and their spacecraft inside an old Japanese space station. [[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] noticed how the existence of a Japanese orbital facility in [http://www.instantkingdom.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1336&post=32074 'Catgirl'] mirrors the existence of [http://morfs.wikidot.com/tenkei Tenkei], or 'Heaven's Blessing,' in [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org/ the 'MORFS' universe]. Second of all, the author of [http://www.instantkingdom.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1336&post=32074 'Catgirl'] mentions that its main characters are aware of rumors that artificial intelligences of some sort might exist on the planet below their feet. [[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] also noted that this gossip runs parallel to the speculation of Earthers as to the reality of RIDEs' existence in [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]]. When he put these facts together, he conceived of the possibility that individuals from [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]] might travel to [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org/ the 'MORFS' universe] some time before the beginning of [http://www.instantkingdom.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1336&post=32074 'Catgirl']. |…}}

=== Project History ===

==== {{replace|Etymological History|…}} ====

{{replace|[[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] was initially going to title this story arc ''When Worlds Collide'', which was also [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!195&authkey=!AGHU9jtalJwZRoo&ithint=file%2cdocx ''Displacement'']'s original title since that story was, at first, going to be the first one in this arc. He then decided that work hadn't progressed far enough for this project to have been given even a preliminary title, so he replaced this with the code name 'Project 'Crash Course',' a moniker which comes from the facts that this is [[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]]'s first serious attempt at writing transformation fiction and that this story arc's characters are all going to run into each other at some point. The current overarching title, 'Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…,' reflects both how dim [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|Uprooted]]'s main character's father's hopes that his son will be brought back to life some day are given the technology of his day and how this set of stories opens up a 'breach' in the metaphorical dam separating the two story universes involved. |…}}

==== {{replace|Content History|…}} ====

{{replace|[[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] began tentative work on the stories in this sub-series on October 12th, 2014. He started with a story, currently titled [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!195&authkey=!AGHU9jtalJwZRoo&ithint=file%2cdocx ''Displacement''], about how an individual from [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org/ the 'MORFS' universe] lived his life before, while, and after she went through MORFS; how she developed her abilities to access, interpret, and manipulate what is known as 'subspace' in [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]] once she obtained them; and how she eventually used her powers to jump across to [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]]. Work on that story had stalled by November 14th, 2014, and was interrupted by another story project that same day. [[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] originally intended for this story, currently called [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']] and which is about how a person living in the early- to mid-21th century might come to find himself put into some kind of medical stasis only to be woken up in the mid-26th century of [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]], to be unrelated to this story arc but eventually included it when he realized how interesting it might be to convey to his readers how this person might react when faced when [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!195&authkey=!AGHU9jtalJwZRoo&ithint=file%2cdocx ''Displacement'']'s protagonist upon her arrival in [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]]. A measured revision to [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']] was made on November 19th, 2014, and was followed up by a slightly more extensive rewrite five days later on November 24th. Minor maintenance was done on [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories /Uprooted|''Uprooted'']] between November 29th and December 19th as well. On January 10th of 2015, [[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] formalized a decision to move details about what happened to [[User:RandomDSdevel/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']]'s main character out of [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']] into a separate, prequel story by stating his intentions to do so in [[User:RandomDSdevel//Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']]'s markup.|…}}{{note|I intend to turn these sections into more of timeline, so bear with me here…}}

== Stories ==

As of this writing, the 'Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…' story arc contains the following stories:

* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/All's Quiet on the Midwestern Front|''All's Quiet on the Midwestern Front'']]
* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']]
* [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!195&authkey=!AGHU9jtalJwZRoo&ithint=file%2cdocx ''Displacement'']
* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/When Worlds Collide?!?|''When Worlds Collide?!?'']]

== Documentation ==

Documentation on topics related to this story arc can currently be found [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Documentation/Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…|here]], but the information now stored there may be merged or transcluded into this section at a later date.

[[Category:FreeRIDErs]][[Category:MORFS]]

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2015-11-18T00:23:09Z

RandomDSdevel: Undo revision 18800 by RandomDSdevel (talk) (Reason: Syntax error correction attempt failed.)

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{{byline|author=WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly|user=RandomDSdevel}}

== Project Details ==

=== {{replace|Origins|…}} ===

{{replace|This story arc was created by [[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] after he noticed some interesting connections, described on this page in [[#Inspiration|the section 'Inspiration,']] between [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]], [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org the 'MORFS' universe], and [http://www.instantkingdom.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1336&post=32074 'Catgirl'], a story by a user named Zombie on [http://www.instantkingdom.com/ Instant Kingdom]. |…}}

=== {{replace|Inspiration|…}} ===

{{replace|A few different details prompted [[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] to begin production of this work. First of all, the main characters of [http://www.instantkingdom.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1336&post=32074 'Catgirl'] flee from a battle in space and escape to what they know as 'Old Earth,' supposedly because a '''New'' Earth' also exists in this story's setting. Once there, these characters hide themselves and their spacecraft inside an old Japanese space station. [[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] noticed how the existence of a Japanese orbital facility in [http://www.instantkingdom.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1336&post=32074 'Catgirl'] mirrors the existence of [http://morfs.wikidot.com/tenkei Tenkei], or 'Heaven's Blessing,' in [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org/ the 'MORFS' universe]. Second of all, the author of [http://www.instantkingdom.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1336&post=32074 'Catgirl'] mentions that its main characters are aware of rumors that artificial intelligences of some sort might exist on the planet below their feet. [[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] also noted that this gossip runs parallel to the speculation of Earthers as to the reality of RIDEs' existence in [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]]. When he put these facts together, he conceived of the possibility that individuals from [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]] might travel to [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org/ the 'MORFS' universe] some time before the beginning of [http://www.instantkingdom.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1336&post=32074 'Catgirl']. |…}}

=== Project History ===

==== {{replace|Etymological History|…}} ====

{{replace|[[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] was initially going to title this story arc ''When Worlds Collide'', which was also [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!195&authkey=!AGHU9jtalJwZRoo&ithint=file%2cdocx ''Displacement'']'s original title since that story was, at first, going to be the first one in this arc. He then decided that work hadn't progressed far enough for this project to have been given even a preliminary title, so he replaced this with the code name 'Project 'Crash Course',' a moniker which comes from the facts that this is [[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]]'s first serious attempt at writing transformation fiction and that this story arc's characters are all going to run into each other at some point. The current overarching title, 'Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…,' reflects both how dim [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|Uprooted]]'s main character's father's hopes that his son will be brought back to life some day are given the technology of his day and how this set of stories opens up a 'breach' in the metaphorical dam separating the two story universes involved. |…}}

==== {{replace|Content History|…}} ====

{{replace|[[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] began tentative work on the stories in this sub-series on October 12th, 2014. He started with a story, currently titled [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!195&authkey=!AGHU9jtalJwZRoo&ithint=file%2cdocx ''Displacement''], about how an individual from [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org/ the 'MORFS' universe] lived his life before, while, and after she went through MORFS; how she developed her abilities to access, interpret, and manipulate what is known as 'subspace' in [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]] once she obtained them; and how she eventually used her powers to jump across to [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]]. Work on that story had stalled by November 14th, 2014, and was interrupted by another story project that same day. [[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] originally intended for this story, currently called [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']] and which is about how a person living in the early- to mid-21th century might come to find himself put into some kind of medical stasis only to be woken up in the mid-26th century of [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]], to be unrelated to this story arc but eventually included it when he realized how interesting it might be to convey to his readers how this person might react when faced when [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!195&authkey=!AGHU9jtalJwZRoo&ithint=file%2cdocx ''Displacement'']'s protagonist upon her arrival in [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]]. A measured revision to [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']] was made on November 19th, 2014, and was followed up by a slightly more extensive rewrite five days later on November 24th. Minor maintenance was done on [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories /Uprooted|''Uprooted'']] between November 29th and December 19th as well. On January 10th of 2015, [[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] formalized a decision to move details about what happened to [[User:RandomDSdevel/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']]'s main character out of [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']] into a separate, prequel story by stating his intentions to do so in [[User:RandomDSdevel//Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']]'s markup. |…}} {{note|I intend to turn these sections into more of timeline, so bear with me here…}}

== Stories ==

As of this writing, the 'Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…' story arc contains the following stories:

* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/All's Quiet on the Midwestern Front|''All's Quiet on the Midwestern Front'']]
* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']]
* [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!195&authkey=!AGHU9jtalJwZRoo&ithint=file%2cdocx ''Displacement'']
* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/When Worlds Collide?!?|''When Worlds Collide?!?'']]

== Documentation ==

Documentation on topics related to this story arc can currently be found [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Documentation/Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…|here]], but the information now stored there may be merged or transcluded into this section at a later date.

[[Category:FreeRIDErs]][[Category:MORFS]]

User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Projects/Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…

2015-11-18T00:15:54Z

RandomDSdevel: Made another aattmpet to fix some syntax errors, this time by escaping some pipes.

{{Universe|FreeRIDErs}}{{Universe|MORFS}}
{{WIP}}{{editing requested}}{{Critique requested}}{{Comment tag}}

{{byline|author=WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly|user=RandomDSdevel}}

== Project Details ==

=== {{replace|Origins|…}} ===

{{replace|This story arc was created by [[User:RandomDSdevel{{!}}WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] after he noticed some interesting connections, described on this page in [[#Inspiration{{!}}the section 'Inspiration,']] between [[FreeRIDErs (setting){{!}}the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]], [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org the 'MORFS' universe], and [http://www.instantkingdom.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1336&post=32074 'Catgirl'], a story by a user named Zombie on [http://www.instantkingdom.com/ Instant Kingdom]. |…}}

=== {{replace|Inspiration|…}} ===

{{replace|A few different details prompted [[User:RandomDSdevel{{!}}WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] to begin production of this work. First of all, the main characters of [http://www.instantkingdom.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1336&post=32074 'Catgirl'] flee from a battle in space and escape to what they know as 'Old Earth,' supposedly because a '''New'' Earth' also exists in this story's setting. Once there, these characters hide themselves and their spacecraft inside an old Japanese space station. [[User:RandomDSdevel{{!}}WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] noticed how the existence of a Japanese orbital facility in [http://www.instantkingdom.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1336&post=32074 'Catgirl'] mirrors the existence of [http://morfs.wikidot.com/tenkei Tenkei], or 'Heaven's Blessing,' in [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org/ the 'MORFS' universe]. Second of all, the author of [http://www.instantkingdom.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1336&post=32074 'Catgirl'] mentions that its main characters are aware of rumors that artificial intelligences of some sort might exist on the planet below their feet. [[User:RandomDSdevel{{!}}WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] also noted that this gossip runs parallel to the speculation of Earthers as to the reality of RIDEs' existence in [[FreeRIDErs (setting){{!}}the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]]. When he put these facts together, he conceived of the possibility that individuals from [[FreeRIDErs (setting){{!}}the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]] might travel to [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org/ the 'MORFS' universe] some time before the beginning of [http://www.instantkingdom.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1336&post=32074 'Catgirl']. |…}}

=== Project History ===

==== {{replace|Etymological History|…}} ====

{{replace|[[User:RandomDSdevel{{!}}WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] was initially going to title this story arc ''When Worlds Collide'', which was also [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!195&authkey=!AGHU9jtalJwZRoo&ithint=file%2cdocx ''Displacement'']'s original title since that story was, at first, going to be the first one in this arc. He then decided that work hadn't progressed far enough for this project to have been given even a preliminary title, so he replaced this with the code name 'Project 'Crash Course',' a moniker which comes from the facts that this is [[User:RandomDSdevel{{!}}WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]]'s first serious attempt at writing transformation fiction and that this story arc's characters are all going to run into each other at some point. The current overarching title, 'Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…,' reflects both how dim [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted{{!}}Uprooted]]'s main character's father's hopes that his son will be brought back to life some day are given the technology of his day and how this set of stories opens up a 'breach' in the metaphorical dam separating the two story universes involved. |…}}

==== {{replace|Content History|…}} ====

{{replace|[[User:RandomDSdevel{{!}}WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] began tentative work on the stories in this sub-series on October 12th, 2014. He started with a story, currently titled [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!195&authkey=!AGHU9jtalJwZRoo&ithint=file%2cdocx ''Displacement''], about how an individual from [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org/ the 'MORFS' universe] lived his life before, while, and after she went through MORFS; how she developed her abilities to access, interpret, and manipulate what is known as 'subspace' in [[FreeRIDErs (setting){{!}}the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]] once she obtained them; and how she eventually used her powers to jump across to [[FreeRIDErs (setting){{!}}the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]]. Work on that story had stalled by November 14th, 2014, and was interrupted by another story project that same day. [[User:RandomDSdevel{{!}}WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] originally intended for this story, currently called [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted{{!}}''Uprooted'']] and which is about how a person living in the early- to mid-21th century might come to find himself put into some kind of medical stasis only to be woken up in the mid-26th century of [[FreeRIDErs (setting){{!}}the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]], to be unrelated to this story arc but eventually included it when he realized how interesting it might be to convey to his readers how this person might react when faced when [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!195&authkey=!AGHU9jtalJwZRoo&ithint=file%2cdocx ''Displacement'']'s protagonist upon her arrival in [[FreeRIDErs (setting){{!}}the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]]. A measured revision to [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted{{!}}''Uprooted'']] was made on November 19th, 2014, and was followed up by a slightly more extensive rewrite five days later on November 24th. Minor maintenance was done on [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories /Uprooted{{!}}''Uprooted'']] between November 29th and December 19th as well. On January 10th of 2015, [[User:RandomDSdevel{{!}}WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] formalized a decision to move details about what happened to [[User:RandomDSdevel/Uprooted{{!}}''Uprooted'']]'s main character out of [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted{{!}}''Uprooted'']] into a separate, prequel story by stating his intentions to do so in [[User:RandomDSdevel//Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted{{!}}''Uprooted'']]'s markup. |…}} {{note|I intend to turn these sections into more of timeline, so bear with me here…}}

== Stories ==

As of this writing, the 'Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…' story arc contains the following stories:

* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/All's Quiet on the Midwestern Front|''All's Quiet on the Midwestern Front'']]
* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']]
* [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!195&authkey=!AGHU9jtalJwZRoo&ithint=file%2cdocx ''Displacement'']
* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/When Worlds Collide?!?|''When Worlds Collide?!?'']]

== Documentation ==

Documentation on topics related to this story arc can currently be found [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Documentation/Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…|here]], but the information now stored there may be merged or transcluded into this section at a later date.

[[Category:FreeRIDErs]][[Category:MORFS]]

User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Projects/Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…

2015-11-18T00:04:24Z

RandomDSdevel: /* Project Details */ Attempted to fix some syntax errors.

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{{WIP}}{{editing requested}}{{Critique requested}}{{Comment tag}}

{{byline|author=WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly|user=RandomDSdevel}}

== Project Details ==

=== {{replace|Origins|…}} ===

{{replace|This story arc was created by [[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] after he noticed some interesting connections, described on this page in [[#Inspiration|the section 'Inspiration,']] between [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]], [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org the 'MORFS' universe], and [http://www.instantkingdom.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1336&post=32074 'Catgirl'], a story by a user named Zombie on [http://www.instantkingdom.com/ Instant Kingdom]. |…}}

=== {{replace|Inspiration|…}} ===

{{replace|A few different details prompted [[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] to begin production of this work. First of all, the main characters of [http://www.instantkingdom.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1336&post=32074 'Catgirl'] flee from a battle in space and escape to what they know as 'Old Earth,' supposedly because a '''New'' Earth' also exists in this story's setting. Once there, these characters hide themselves and their spacecraft inside an old Japanese space station. [[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] noticed how the existence of a Japanese orbital facility in [http://www.instantkingdom.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1336&post=32074 'Catgirl'] mirrors the existence of [http://morfs.wikidot.com/tenkei Tenkei], or 'Heaven's Blessing,' in [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org/ the 'MORFS' universe]. Second of all, the author of [http://www.instantkingdom.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1336&post=32074 'Catgirl'] mentions that its main characters are aware of rumors that artificial intelligences of some sort might exist on the planet below their feet. [[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] also noted that this gossip runs parallel to the speculation of Earthers as to the reality of RIDEs' existence in [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]]. When he put these facts together, he conceived of the possibility that individuals from [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]] might travel to [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org/ the 'MORFS' universe] some time before the beginning of [http://www.instantkingdom.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1336&post=32074 'Catgirl']. |…}}

=== Project History ===

==== {{replace|Etymological History|…}} ====

{{replace|[[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] was initially going to title this story arc ''When Worlds Collide'', which was also [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!195&authkey=!AGHU9jtalJwZRoo&ithint=file%2cdocx ''Displacement'']'s original title since that story was, at first, going to be the first one in this arc. He then decided that work hadn't progressed far enough for this project to have been given even a preliminary title, so he replaced this with the code name 'Project 'Crash Course',' a moniker which comes from the facts that this is [[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]]'s first serious attempt at writing transformation fiction and that this story arc's characters are all going to run into each other at some point. The current overarching title, 'Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…,' reflects both how dim [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|Uprooted]]'s main character's father's hopes that his son will be brought back to life some day are given the technology of his day and how this set of stories opens up a 'breach' in the metaphorical dam separating the two story universes involved. |…}}

==== {{replace|Content History|…}} ====

{{replace|[[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] began tentative work on the stories in this sub-series on October 12th, 2014. He started with a story, currently titled [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!195&authkey=!AGHU9jtalJwZRoo&ithint=file%2cdocx ''Displacement''], about how an individual from [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org/ the 'MORFS' universe] lived his life before, while, and after she went through MORFS; how she developed her abilities to access, interpret, and manipulate what is known as 'subspace' in [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]] once she obtained them; and how she eventually used her powers to jump across to [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]]. Work on that story had stalled by November 14th, 2014, and was interrupted by another story project that same day. [[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] originally intended for this story, currently called [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']] and which is about how a person living in the early- to mid-21th century might come to find himself put into some kind of medical stasis only to be woken up in the mid-26th century of [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]], to be unrelated to this story arc but eventually included it when he realized how interesting it might be to convey to his readers how this person might react when faced when [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!195&authkey=!AGHU9jtalJwZRoo&ithint=file%2cdocx ''Displacement'']'s protagonist upon her arrival in [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]]. A measured revision to [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']] was made on November 19th, 2014, and was followed up by a slightly more extensive rewrite five days later on November 24th. Minor maintenance was done on [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories /Uprooted|''Uprooted'']] between November 29th and December 19th as well. On January 10th of 2015, [[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] formalized a decision to move details about what happened to [[User:RandomDSdevel/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']]'s main character out of [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']] into a separate, prequel story by stating his intentions to do so in [[User:RandomDSdevel//Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']]'s markup. |…}} {{note|I intend to turn these sections into more of timeline, so bear with me here…}}

== Stories ==

As of this writing, the 'Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…' story arc contains the following stories:

* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/All's Quiet on the Midwestern Front|''All's Quiet on the Midwestern Front'']]
* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']]
* [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!195&authkey=!AGHU9jtalJwZRoo&ithint=file%2cdocx ''Displacement'']
* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/When Worlds Collide?!?|''When Worlds Collide?!?'']]

== Documentation ==

Documentation on topics related to this story arc can currently be found [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Documentation/Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…|here]], but the information now stored there may be merged or transcluded into this section at a later date.

[[Category:FreeRIDErs]][[Category:MORFS]]

User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Projects/Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…

2015-11-17T23:59:59Z

RandomDSdevel: Crossed out some text and added a note explaining why I did so.

{{Universe|FreeRIDErs}}{{Universe|MORFS}}
{{WIP}}{{editing requested}}{{Critique requested}}{{Comment tag}}

{{byline|author=WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly|user=RandomDSdevel}}

== Project Details ==

=== {{replace|Origins|…}} ===

{{replace|This story arc was created by [[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] after he noticed some interesting connections, described on this page in [[#Inspiration|the section 'Inspiration,']] between [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]], [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org the 'MORFS' universe], and [http://www.instantkingdom.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1336&post=32074 'Catgirl'], a story by a user named Zombie on [http://www.instantkingdom.com/ Instant Kingdom]. |…}}

=== {{replace|Inspiration|…}} ===

{{replace|A few different details prompted [[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] to begin production of this work. First of all, the main characters of [http://www.instantkingdom.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1336&post=32074 'Catgirl'] flee from a battle in space and escape to what they know as 'Old Earth,' supposedly because a '''New'' Earth' also exists in this story's setting. Once there, these characters hide themselves and their spacecraft inside an old Japanese space station. [[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] noticed how the existence of a Japanese orbital facility in [http://www.instantkingdom.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1336&post=32074 'Catgirl'] mirrors the existence of [http://morfs.wikidot.com/tenkei Tenkei], or 'Heaven's Blessing,' in [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org/ the 'MORFS' universe]. Second of all, the author of [http://www.instantkingdom.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1336&post=32074 'Catgirl'] mentions that its main characters are aware of rumors that artificial intelligences of some sort might exist on the planet below their feet. [[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] also noted that this gossip runs parallel to the speculation of Earthers as to the reality of RIDEs' existence in [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]]. When he put these facts together, he conceived of the possibility that individuals from [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]] might travel to [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org/ the 'MORFS' universe] some time before the beginning of [http://www.instantkingdom.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1336&post=32074 'Catgirl']. |…}}

=== Project History ===

==== {{replace|Etymological History|…}} ====

{{replace|[[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] was initially going to title this story arc ''When Worlds Collide'', which was also [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!195&authkey=!AGHU9jtalJwZRoo&ithint=file%2cdocx ''Displacement'']'s original title since that story was, at first, going to be the first one in this arc. He then decided that work hadn't progressed far enough for this project to have been given even a preliminary title, so he replaced this with the code name 'Project 'Crash Course',' a moniker which comes from the facts that this is [[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]]'s first serious attempt at writing transformation fiction and that this story arc's characters are all going to run into each other at some point. The current overarching title, 'Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…,' reflects both how dim [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|Uprooted]]'s main character's father's hopes that his son will be brought back to life some day are given the technology of his day and how this set of stories opens up a 'breach' in the metaphorical dam separating the two story universes involved. |…}}

==== {{replace|Content History|…}} ====

{{replace|[[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] began tentative work on the stories in this sub-series on October 12th, 2014. He started with a story, currently titled [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!195&authkey=!AGHU9jtalJwZRoo&ithint=file%2cdocx ''Displacement''], about how an individual from [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org/ the 'MORFS' universe] lived his life before, while, and after she went through MORFS; how she developed her abilities to access, interpret, and manipulate what is known as 'subspace' in [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]] once she obtained them; and how she eventually used her powers to jump across to [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]]. Work on that story had stalled by November 14th, 2014, and was interrupted by another story project that same day. [[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] originally intended for this story, currently called [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']] and which is about how a person living in the early- to mid-21th century might come to find himself put into some kind of medical stasis only to be woken up in the mid-26th century of [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]], to be unrelated to this story arc but eventually included it when he realized how interesting it might be to convey to his readers how this person might react when faced when [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!195&authkey=!AGHU9jtalJwZRoo&ithint=file%2cdocx ''Displacement'']'s protagonist upon her arrival in [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]]. A measured revision to [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']] was made on November 19th, 2014, and was followed up by a slightly more extensive rewrite five days later on November 24th. Minor maintenance was done on [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories /Uprooted|''Uprooted'']] between November 29th and December 19th as well. On January 10th of 2015, [[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] formalized a decision to move details about what happened to [[User:RandomDSdevel/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']]'s main character out of [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']] into a separate, prequel story by stating his intentions to do so in [[User:RandomDSdevel//Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']]'s markup.|…}}{{note|I intend to turn these sections into more of timeline, so bear with me here…}}

== Stories ==

As of this writing, the 'Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…' story arc contains the following stories:

* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/All's Quiet on the Midwestern Front|''All's Quiet on the Midwestern Front'']]
* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']]
* [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!195&authkey=!AGHU9jtalJwZRoo&ithint=file%2cdocx ''Displacement'']
* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/When Worlds Collide?!?|''When Worlds Collide?!?'']]

== Documentation ==

Documentation on topics related to this story arc can currently be found [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Documentation/Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…|here]], but the information now stored there may be merged or transcluded into this section at a later date.

[[Category:FreeRIDErs]][[Category:MORFS]]

User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Projects/Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…

2015-11-17T23:56:08Z

RandomDSdevel: Undo revision 18796 by RandomDSdevel (talk) (Reason: Instead of commenting this out with HTML comment syntax, I'm going to use Template:replace and Template:note.)

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{{WIP}}{{editing requested}}{{Critique requested}}{{Comment tag}}

{{byline|author=WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly|user=RandomDSdevel}}

== Project Details ==

==== Etymological History ====

[[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] was initially going to title this story arc ''When Worlds Collide'', which was also [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!195&authkey=!AGHU9jtalJwZRoo&ithint=file%2cdocx ''Displacement'']'s original title since that story was, at first, going to be the first one in this arc. He then decided that work hadn't progressed far enough for this project to have been given even a preliminary title, so he replaced this with the code name 'Project 'Crash Course',' a moniker which comes from the facts that this is [[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]]'s first serious attempt at writing transformation fiction and that this story arc's characters are all going to run into each other at some point. The current overarching title, 'Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…,' reflects both how dim [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|Uprooted]]'s main character's father's hopes that his son will be brought back to life some day are given the technology of his day and how this set of stories opens up a 'breach' in the metaphorical dam separating the two story universes involved.

==== Content History ====

[[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] began tentative work on the stories in this sub-series on October 12th, 2014. He started with a story, currently titled [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!195&authkey=!AGHU9jtalJwZRoo&ithint=file%2cdocx ''Displacement''], about how an individual from [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org/ the 'MORFS' universe] lived his life before, while, and after she went through MORFS; how she developed her abilities to access, interpret, and manipulate what is known as 'subspace' in [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]] once she obtained them; and how she eventually used her powers to jump across to [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]]. Work on that story had stalled by November 14th, 2014, and was interrupted by another story project that same day. [[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] originally intended for this story, currently called [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']] and which is about how a person living in the early- to mid-21th century might come to find himself put into some kind of medical stasis only to be woken up in the mid-26th century of [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]], to be unrelated to this story arc but eventually included it when he realized how interesting it might be to convey to his readers how this person might react when faced when [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!195&authkey=!AGHU9jtalJwZRoo&ithint=file%2cdocx ''Displacement'']'s protagonist upon her arrival in [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe]]. A measured revision to [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']] was made on November 19th, 2014, and was followed up by a slightly more extensive rewrite five days later on November 24th. Minor maintenance was done on [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories /Uprooted|''Uprooted'']] between November 29th and December 19th as well. On January 10th of 2015, [[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] formalized a decision to move details about what happened to [[User:RandomDSdevel/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']]'s main character out of [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']] into a separate, prequel story by stating his intentions to do so in [[User:RandomDSdevel//Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']]'s markup.

== Stories ==

As of this writing, the 'Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…' story arc contains the following stories:

* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/All's Quiet on the Midwestern Front|''All's Quiet on the Midwestern Front'']]
* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']]
* [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!195&authkey=!AGHU9jtalJwZRoo&ithint=file%2cdocx ''Displacement'']
* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/When Worlds Collide?!?|''When Worlds Collide?!?'']]

== Documentation ==

Documentation on topics related to this story arc can currently be found [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Documentation/Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…|here]], but the information now stored there may be merged or transcluded into this section at a later date.

[[Category:FreeRIDErs]][[Category:MORFS]]

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2015-11-17T23:52:18Z

RandomDSdevel: Commented some sections I'm going to rework out.

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== Project Details ==

=== Project History ===

== Stories ==

As of this writing, the 'Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…' story arc contains the following stories:

* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/All's Quiet on the Midwestern Front|''All's Quiet on the Midwestern Front'']]
* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']]
* [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!195&authkey=!AGHU9jtalJwZRoo&ithint=file%2cdocx ''Displacement'']
* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/When Worlds Collide?!?|''When Worlds Collide?!?'']]

== Documentation ==

Documentation on topics related to this story arc can currently be found [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Documentation/Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…|here]], but the information now stored there may be merged or transcluded into this section at a later date.

[[Category:FreeRIDErs]][[Category:MORFS]]

Talk:FreeRIDErs (setting)

2015-11-17T23:49:29Z

RandomDSdevel: /* On the Nature of Qubitite */ Fixed my latest reply's time stamp.

== Old Discussion on the Future of [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|''FreeRIDErs'']] and the Upcoming 'Earth-Zharus War' Story Arc Previously in Page Header ==

Are there any plans to let writers stray into the Earth-Zharus War scene? I've got a story idea or two that I'd love to set in that period, but I'm short on the context that Jon, RM and the others have in mind. That is, I don't really have any idea how you intend the war to play out. Although my idea wouldn't actually involve much in the actual frontlines/war, it would be good to have some idea of the kind of materiel and hardware and general strategy and social climate and the such, because nothing concrete seems to have actually been laid out so far for that period (or have I missed something?). Which is why I thought I'd ask your permission before getting started. If needed, I'd be more than pleased could draft out the general idea. Thanks in advance! --[[User:Wayward Coyote|Wayward Coyote]] ([[User talk:Wayward Coyote|talk]]) 18:05, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

:Thanks for your interest here, but there's a lot of ground to cover between the present and that future in the setting before we get there. We can't guarantee that anything you'd write taking place during that period would remain canon. --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] ([[User talk:JonBuck|talk]]) 19:01, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

:Yeah, what Jon said. Our ideas for the war are very very nebulous at this point, more possibilities than anything else. There are things we don't even know quite yet about how we're going to end "Integration", let alone what comes ''between'' that and the war. Any number of things could change between now and then. So just be patient, or else think on how to adapt your ideas to the setting's "present". —[[User:Robotech Master|Robotech Master]] ([[User talk:Robotech Master|talk]]) 23:23, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

::Ah, I understand. I might just follow the main series for now and wait until it hits that time period; I'm quite keen to see where it's going anyway. Or maybe I'll see what I can do with some other ideas I have lying around. Either way, though, thank you for your replies! --[[User:Wayward Coyote|Wayward Coyote]] ([[User talk:Wayward Coyote|talk]]) 07:38, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

== Possiblity of FreeRIDErs Cross-Over Stories ==

'''''This discussion thread has been moved to [[Talk:Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…#Discussion on the 'Possibility of FreeRIDErs Cross-Over Stories'|Talk:Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…]].''''' 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) (Originally posted at 7:22 PM EST on November 4th, 2014 and last edited at approximately 5:34:30 PM EST on January 10th, 2015)
:There are still replies waiting to be read over there, though, so come on down!
:— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 14:09, 14 November 2014 (EST)

== Possibility of Stonegate Ancestry and Military Heritage? ==

I was wondering if I could possibly give the extended Stonegate family some ancestors, at least one of whom I'd like to use to set a precedent for Socah Gates's involvement in military affairs, starting with [[User:RandomDSdevel/Carter's Last Stand?|''Once More Into the Breach, My Friend…: Carter's Last Stand?'']]? 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 17:41, 10 January 2015 (EST)
:If you're wondering why I asked, then it's because I thought it'd be kinda funny if [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Documentation/Carter Hawkinson|Carter Hawkinson]], the character who I made up to put in a data-based, copse-sicle–like situation, decided to visit Rhianna at the FreeRIDErs' Garage before attending one or more of the classes she teaches at Roberto Martinez Memorial University in Uplift to see if he'd like her as a teacher only to be interrupted mid-conversation by Charlene McClaren when she rushes in to tell Rhi about his resurrection and its relevance to her? Imagine the look at Charlene's face when she sees him standing there talking to Rhi, especially if she'd met him earlier before she knew about his significance!
:— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 19:46, 27 February 2015 (EST)
::You know, on second thought, maybe it would be better for Carter to wait until ''after'' Rhi gets back from Totalia to introduce himself to her? He could still hob-nob with Charlene, but it would probably be a good idea not to let Carter's resurrection cause too much of a stir.
::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 20:01, 21 May 2015 (EDT)
:::Wait a minute…: ''Rhianna'' (and I think maybe Ivy, too,) will have left, but…well, the ''rest'' of the Stonegate family is still going to be on Zharus. Hmmm…this could get interesting…
:::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 18:24, 13 November 2015 (EST)

== Pre-'Post–Oil-Age 'Dark Ages<nowiki>'</nowiki>' Political Situation? ==

What would you guys imagine the political situation just prior to the beginning of the post–Oil-Age 'Dark Ages' to be like? Or is it too early to dive into that yet? 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 18:08, 14 January 2015 (EST)
:Are you guys still thinking about this?  — [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 14:37, 29 January 2015 (EST)
::It's kind of important to me that you guys work on helping me figure this out for my story [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Carter's Last Stand?|''Carter's Last Stand?'']], so please let me know if you've thought about this yet and how far along you are in formulating an answer. If you'd like my input on this, then please either respond here or tell me where, if at all, you've been discussing this so that I can join in.
::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 19:23, 27 February 2015 (EST)

:::As no stories have been written in this era there really hasn't been any need to into it in detail, nor are any planned for this era. This is the nature of writing fiction. If no detail is needed, no detail is written. I know what happened in broad strokes, but that's all I need. Look, calm down a bit, okay? My time is limited. And you're not exactly asking us nicely here. --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] ([[User talk:JonBuck|talk]]) 21:11, 24 April 2015 (CDT)
::::I'm sorry we got off to such a bad start; that ''probably'' wasn't exactly the ''best'' way to ask that question, ''was'' it? Can you forgive me for being too eager to write my own story during the time period we're discussing? I didn't intend to sound like I wanted you to drop everything and dive into this; I was just afraid that you might get even ''more'' mad at me if I went out on a limb and did something timeline-breaking since I want my story to be canon, if you'll have it when it's finished. ''That's'' why I would ''greatly'' appreciate it if you could give me the few details you ''do'' have about the time just before the end of the Oil Age.
::::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 15:46, 25 April 2015 (EDT)

== On the Nature of Qubitite ==

What exactly is qubitite made out of? Is it some kind of [[en:Wikipedia:Photonic molecule|photonic molecular]] mesh prevented from dissipating by the presence of ordinary, baryonic matter inside? If so, then could it be synthesized in-universe and how difficult would doing so have to be in order to prevent the possibility of qubitite synthesis from being widely known by the time of the latest story in the current [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|''FreeRIDErs'']] chronology? 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 19:19, 27 February 2015 (EST)

:This is something we have to leave intentionally vague. The setting is more inspired by anime than hard scifi. Suffice to say that synthetic qubitite will only be introduced when we're ready, and we're ''far'' from ready. --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] ([[User talk:JonBuck|talk]]) 13:26, 13 April 2015 (CDT)
::Doggone it, I was going to have enough of it made available for some qubitite-based implants like the ones Jeannette Leroq has to make the reconstruction of a human being out of approximately–five-hundred-year-old records of that individual's DNA and brain state possible! Guess those involved in the project will just have to get some from a smuggler even though synthesizing the stuff would have made things a lot easier for my characters by allowing them to get around Zharus's export laws. About how far in the current chronology's future do you and the others intend to introduce synthetic Q, exactly, anyway? I was going to have somebody give a materials scientist whom he or she is friends with give him a hunk of rubidium salt or alloy that started sprouting weird blue specks on its surface after it had been lying around on a hard light surface for a while so that said materials scientist could study it and figure out exactly what it is. Obviously, tons of papers would likely come out of such efforts, but maybe their publication on Earth could be prevented or delayed by some small part of Earth's government that is actually knowledgeable and embracing of the truth behind what's going on on Zharus? And I was thinking that the procedures described by these papers would take months or even years to produce anywhere near a practical amount of qubitite so that they wouldn't really matter any more when they finally get declassified several years later because a much more efficient method of synthesizing Q had been discovered by then. My hope is that the significance and consequences of such a discovery would either turn out to be minimized in the grand scheme of things or forgotten about during the Earth-Zharus war. But I suppose the ability to synthesize qubitite would make Zharus's political situation a lot more tenuous, wouldn't it? So I guess now might not be the greatest time to let it factor into too many stories just yet.
::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 17:20, 13 April 2015 (EDT)

:::Longer term, we have plans for a war with Earth. The exact circumstances of which are still up in the air. So, have patience. :) --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] ([[User talk:JonBuck|talk]]) 23:29, 21 April 2015 (CDT)
::::Is this just between you, [[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]], and [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]], or can anybody contribute some ideas to these plans? If so, then where would I go to do so?
::::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 17:20, 26 April 2015 (EDT)
:::::We have a number of things that have to happen ''before'' we get there. I can see how enthusiastic about this setting you are, but Major Plot Points like this are the purview of the three of us. Once again, you'll have to be patient. --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] ([[User talk:JonBuck|talk]]) 21:07, 27 April 2015 (CDT)
::::::Roger, wilco. Guess I'll just have to rework this, then, won't I?
::::::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 17:20, 9 June 2015 (EDT)
:::::::Unless…hmm, what are the odds that a chunk of Zharus that got blasted off by the impact that created the Dry Ocean's huge supply of qubitite in the first place could make it the fifty light years to Earth by the time I need it there? I'm assuming 'next to none' on this front, though, so I'll probably just have some character smuggle some qubitite back to Earth instead.
:::::::—&thsinsp;[[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 18:49, 17 November 2015 (EST)

== On the State of This Setting's Documentation ==

Hey, I've noticed that, while you've got some great pieces of in-universe documentation and source text for [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|''FreeRIDErs'']], it could be expanded and complimented by some documentation from the point of view of our universe. Is it okay if I help you guys with that while I'm still in the early planning stages of my project [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Projects/Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…|''Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…'']]? 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 19:51, 27 February 2015 (EST)
:In particular, I was wondering if, once I have enough programming experience, I could put some kind of calendar program tailored solving to this setting's interstellar date problems up on GitHub so that we can start decoupling the other planets' calendars from Zharus's.
:— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 20:05, 21 May 2015 (EDT)
::Actually, I suppose that's more like calendrical housekeeping, isn't it? I'll still do that when I get to it, but I think that what I originally meant by 'documentation' was the [[FreeRIDErs (Setting Timeline)|timeline]] and the [[FreeRIDErs (background material)|background materials]]. I suppose that's housekeeping, too, in a way, so maybe we should just lump it all together, rename this thread 'Housekeeping Discussion,' and call it a day?
::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 17:57, 9 June 2015 (EDT)

== On the compilation of an eBook ==

Hi all.
I am planning on embarking on a project of compiling and updating an eBook of the entirety of the FreeRIDErs universe. I expect this to be a reasonably large undertaking, and I would like the permission of as many of the authors involved before I begin. If you don't want your stories in the compilation, then I will be... well, I won't be happy, but I will to leave them out. I do realise that eBooks are already available for some of the stories, but I am attempting to compile as many stories as possible in a few volumes.

I will be giving full credit to the appropriate authors, and expect my own tiny, infinitesimally small contribution to this amazing universe that you have created to be noted by a small footnote at the start of the book that says "Compiled and Edited by F.L. Dragon".

I expect it to be completed within a month or two, maybe four if I get held up, as there is a lot of story to go through, proof-read to get any mistakes that may have been missed, and to make sure the formatting is consistent. I will also be doing this on my own, although any help would be appreciated. After completion, I expect to maintain the compilation on a monthly to bimonthly basis. This may be adjusted later to a quarterly update, but it will still be available and maintained.

Finally, I don't expect to make any monetary units from this project. At all. Zero Dollars.

And so, I humbly ask your permission to begin work on this project. I will be more than happy to provide progress updates every now and then, and I hope to complete it to your satisfaction.

Thank you for your time and consideration.
--[[User:FlyLowDragon|F.L. Dragon]] ([[User talk:FlyLowDragon|talk]]) 08:22, 8 April 2015 (CDT)
:You know, some of the stories in this setting already have e-book versions; I can't remember exactly which ones they are, but I ''do'' recall that those that do have a notice at the top. Could this help you with your project? Anyway, I think it's cool that you're compiling all of the ''FreeRDIErs'' stories into one collection. I ''do'', however, have one thought about this effort: wouldn't it be a ''lot'' easier to create an automated solution to do this for you rather than updating it manually?
:— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 16:12, 9 April 2015 (EDT)
::I do realise that, but they are: 1) all in separate e-books, and 2) not the Director's Cut versions. I think. I haven't actually looked at them, to be honest. Also, to create an e-book, all you need is the text, so going to pre-existing e-books that may or may not let you copy the text, depending on what software you use to read them, is not very helpful. Although seeing how the formatting is done in them might give me a standard to aim towards.
::Setting up an automated process for it... It can be semi-automated, but I'd still need to go through and make sure that all of the formatting is correct and consistent, and start it. Compare, for example, Aloha, by Jetfire, and Marshals, by JonBuck with Robotech_Master, paying attention to the dates given in story. In Aloha, they are bolded, while they are italicised in Marshals. It is very difficult to account for small things like that in the formatting, and so it is preferable to do it manually.
::Also, automation isn't that simple. When a new story is posted, I would still need to put the text into a word processor, make sure it is formatted properly in the word processor, give it another go-over for spelling and punctuation errors, use file conversion tools to convert the file into an e-book file, and then make sure that the file conversion tools didn't mangle the formatting, before giving it another go over for anything I missed, and then going back to step 2 if there is something I missed. And then send a version back to the author without the spelling mistakes. This process can only be reliably done by a human, and trying to automate it... well, I think the strip at https://xkcd.com/1319/ shows what I'm talking about. I'd end up spending more time working on the automation than I'd save by using the automation.
::Once the bulk of the work is done (got all pre-existing stories in the e-book), then it might only take me as long as it takes me to read the story to fix any new stories up and get them fully formatted. That is, if it doesn't get to me all mangled, badly formatted, and/or full of spelling and punctuation errors. And if I get to read it at the same time, well, bonus! So, no automation, although I would create a few templates to help reduce the time spent on it.
::Still, by the end of it all, I think I might end up reading each story however many times anyway, so win-win! :P
::--[[User:FlyLowDragon|F.L. Dragon]] ([[User talk:FlyLowDragon|talk]]) 21:45, 9 April 2015 (CDT)
:::Ah, of course! Maybe you could put your work up in a central place — say, either here on Shfiti or maybe in a repository hosted somewhere like [https://github.com/ GitHub] — so that others could contribute if they wanted and when they had the time? I've been thinking about going back through the stories and proofreading them anyway, so I'll probably chip in some work even though I'm currently working on my own mini-arc of stories at the moment since those are still just in the early planning/brainstorming/writing stages. Anyway, good luck, and I'll probably see you around!
:::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 12:59, 12 April 2015 (EDT)
:::Actually, the only works with Directors Cut versions so far ''do'' have e-books. The e-books of "Deserted" and "Merging Traffic" both incorporate the DirCut revisions, and the DirCut version of the original "FreeRIDErs" is incorporated along with the DirCuts of the chapters of "Integration" we have done so far as an "Integration" e-book, which will grow as we crank out more DirCuts. We haven't really had time to focus on that lately, because the next Totalia story has been kicking our asses for months now. But we're almost done with that, and should be able to bang out a few more after that (we hope).
:::Also, I question the necessity of a FreeRIDErs e-book that collects ''everything.'' People only read one story at a time, after all. A single e-book with all the stories in it could be kind of large and unwieldy, like the 75 megabyte version of all 15 ''Wheel of Time'' e-books that was included with last year's Hugo Nominations packet. For now, if you wanted to e-bookerize things, it would probably be best if you concentrated on creating single e-books of stories that don't have them yet, like all of Jetfire's stuff—though I'd suggest getting permission from him first, since that's only polite.
:::Apart from that, I suppose I wouldn't have any objection to an e-book of everything, provided that the stories were presented in publication order insofar as is possible. It just seems less useful right now than having individual e-books of everything.
:::—[[User:Robotech Master|Robotech Master]] ([[User talk:Robotech Master|talk]]) 01:14, 15 April 2015 (CDT)
:::Yeah, when I suggested this, I didn't think of how unwieldy it could be. I do still want to create a collection of the stories, but it is now more likely to be in the form of multiple e-books. The original plan was to split everything into different volumes, maybe 3 or 4, but even then it would still be a bit big. A quick word count of Jetfire's work up to All Spark Bulletin got a word count of over 180'000. This might not be a door-stopper, but it is still a decent length, and is only a fraction of the total writing, and more recent works (like the Totalia series) are probably longer than that in their own right. So, the aim now will be to create an e-book of each story that doesn't already have one, and compiling them in the one location for easy access. I may still decide to combine some stories that are in the same arc but one or some of the stories is a bit shorter (like the Foxed duology), with the author's permission of course. I'll probably try to make each e-book at least 40'000 words in length, which is about the size of a small novel, or a large novella. This will mean I may combine a few of the early Aloha stories, if I get Jetfire's permission, as Aloha on its own is only about 11'000 words.
:::I'll probably keep the standard of formatting similar to the pre-existing e-books, so I'll definitely look at them. I probably should have gone through them before suggesting stuff, though. GitHub does look like a good place to store everything, and it would allow me to make revisions reasonably easily, as well as create to-do lists for any broken formatting and spelling errors. Still, I'll look into it a bit more before coming to a final decision.
:::So, I guess I'm still waiting on permission from Jetfire, Fibio, HawlSera, Kris, and Claude LeChat, assuming that you speak for JonBuck as well, Robotech_Master. I am also curious as to the status and canonicity of Oddoneout's two stories that are sitting in the Category page, but not in the setting page, as well as Jetfire's Rescue 911, in the same situation.
:::--[[User:FlyLowDragon|F.L. Dragon]] ([[User talk:FlyLowDragon|talk]]) 15:52, 15 April 2015 (CDT)
::::You know, now that I think about it, GitHub might actually ''not'' be the best place to store the results of this project. After all, we ''already'' have a version-control system on-wiki in the form of edit tracking, right? I'd be perfectly fine with using that instead if it weren't for the permissions issues inherent in the fact that a lot of the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe's stories are hosted on their authors' Shifti user pages, but I think this problem could be solved if we got something like [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevs the 'FlaggedRevs' extension] set up here on Shifti and we moved all of the stories into the 'Article' namespace. Then all we'd need is something like one of the page-exporting extensions listed [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Publishing_from_MediaWiki#Extensions_to_help_with_exporting_data here], and then we'd automatically be in business. Or maybe we could still use GitHub, but only as a way to store automated dumps of individual stories to different formats (or maybe even an automated compilation?) Anyway, that's what I've come to realize.
::::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 18:57, 13 November 2015 (EST)

== Good Location for Shared ''FreeRIDErs'' Projects? ==

Hey, I just wanted to know if there might be a good location on Shifti from which to share incomplete ''FreeRIDErs'' projects with other users. I've got some stuff that I'm working on with [[User:Fahzyr|Fahzyr]] in my user space, but I want him to be able to edit it, too. Should I just move this content out of my user space and into a new page on Shifti, or should such content be categorized/filed under this setting page?
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 14:16, 30 April 2015 (EDT)

== ''FreeRIDErs'' Theme Song! ==

I was inspired to start writing a [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Songs/''FreeRIDErs'' Theme Song|theme song]], so now I guess we'll be ready if the series ever becomes a TV show, not that that'll happen in our lifetimes or anything. Anyway, I hope you guys like what I've got so far, and I'll see what I can do about adding/uploading the tune to Shifti. (I'd do it sooner rather than later if my sister's synthesizer keyboard were closer to the computer; then maybe the MIDI-to-USB cable would reach!) 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 15:01, 5 May 2015 (EDT)

Talk:FreeRIDErs (setting)

2015-11-17T23:49:01Z

RandomDSdevel: /* On the Nature of Qubitite */ Replied to thread.

== Old Discussion on the Future of [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|''FreeRIDErs'']] and the Upcoming 'Earth-Zharus War' Story Arc Previously in Page Header ==

Are there any plans to let writers stray into the Earth-Zharus War scene? I've got a story idea or two that I'd love to set in that period, but I'm short on the context that Jon, RM and the others have in mind. That is, I don't really have any idea how you intend the war to play out. Although my idea wouldn't actually involve much in the actual frontlines/war, it would be good to have some idea of the kind of materiel and hardware and general strategy and social climate and the such, because nothing concrete seems to have actually been laid out so far for that period (or have I missed something?). Which is why I thought I'd ask your permission before getting started. If needed, I'd be more than pleased could draft out the general idea. Thanks in advance! --[[User:Wayward Coyote|Wayward Coyote]] ([[User talk:Wayward Coyote|talk]]) 18:05, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

:Thanks for your interest here, but there's a lot of ground to cover between the present and that future in the setting before we get there. We can't guarantee that anything you'd write taking place during that period would remain canon. --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] ([[User talk:JonBuck|talk]]) 19:01, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

:Yeah, what Jon said. Our ideas for the war are very very nebulous at this point, more possibilities than anything else. There are things we don't even know quite yet about how we're going to end "Integration", let alone what comes ''between'' that and the war. Any number of things could change between now and then. So just be patient, or else think on how to adapt your ideas to the setting's "present". —[[User:Robotech Master|Robotech Master]] ([[User talk:Robotech Master|talk]]) 23:23, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

::Ah, I understand. I might just follow the main series for now and wait until it hits that time period; I'm quite keen to see where it's going anyway. Or maybe I'll see what I can do with some other ideas I have lying around. Either way, though, thank you for your replies! --[[User:Wayward Coyote|Wayward Coyote]] ([[User talk:Wayward Coyote|talk]]) 07:38, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

== Possiblity of FreeRIDErs Cross-Over Stories ==

'''''This discussion thread has been moved to [[Talk:Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…#Discussion on the 'Possibility of FreeRIDErs Cross-Over Stories'|Talk:Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…]].''''' 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) (Originally posted at 7:22 PM EST on November 4th, 2014 and last edited at approximately 5:34:30 PM EST on January 10th, 2015)
:There are still replies waiting to be read over there, though, so come on down!
:— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 14:09, 14 November 2014 (EST)

== Possibility of Stonegate Ancestry and Military Heritage? ==

I was wondering if I could possibly give the extended Stonegate family some ancestors, at least one of whom I'd like to use to set a precedent for Socah Gates's involvement in military affairs, starting with [[User:RandomDSdevel/Carter's Last Stand?|''Once More Into the Breach, My Friend…: Carter's Last Stand?'']]? 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 17:41, 10 January 2015 (EST)
:If you're wondering why I asked, then it's because I thought it'd be kinda funny if [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Documentation/Carter Hawkinson|Carter Hawkinson]], the character who I made up to put in a data-based, copse-sicle–like situation, decided to visit Rhianna at the FreeRIDErs' Garage before attending one or more of the classes she teaches at Roberto Martinez Memorial University in Uplift to see if he'd like her as a teacher only to be interrupted mid-conversation by Charlene McClaren when she rushes in to tell Rhi about his resurrection and its relevance to her? Imagine the look at Charlene's face when she sees him standing there talking to Rhi, especially if she'd met him earlier before she knew about his significance!
:— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 19:46, 27 February 2015 (EST)
::You know, on second thought, maybe it would be better for Carter to wait until ''after'' Rhi gets back from Totalia to introduce himself to her? He could still hob-nob with Charlene, but it would probably be a good idea not to let Carter's resurrection cause too much of a stir.
::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 20:01, 21 May 2015 (EDT)
:::Wait a minute…: ''Rhianna'' (and I think maybe Ivy, too,) will have left, but…well, the ''rest'' of the Stonegate family is still going to be on Zharus. Hmmm…this could get interesting…
:::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 18:24, 13 November 2015 (EST)

== Pre-'Post–Oil-Age 'Dark Ages<nowiki>'</nowiki>' Political Situation? ==

What would you guys imagine the political situation just prior to the beginning of the post–Oil-Age 'Dark Ages' to be like? Or is it too early to dive into that yet? 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 18:08, 14 January 2015 (EST)
:Are you guys still thinking about this?  — [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 14:37, 29 January 2015 (EST)
::It's kind of important to me that you guys work on helping me figure this out for my story [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Carter's Last Stand?|''Carter's Last Stand?'']], so please let me know if you've thought about this yet and how far along you are in formulating an answer. If you'd like my input on this, then please either respond here or tell me where, if at all, you've been discussing this so that I can join in.
::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 19:23, 27 February 2015 (EST)

:::As no stories have been written in this era there really hasn't been any need to into it in detail, nor are any planned for this era. This is the nature of writing fiction. If no detail is needed, no detail is written. I know what happened in broad strokes, but that's all I need. Look, calm down a bit, okay? My time is limited. And you're not exactly asking us nicely here. --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] ([[User talk:JonBuck|talk]]) 21:11, 24 April 2015 (CDT)
::::I'm sorry we got off to such a bad start; that ''probably'' wasn't exactly the ''best'' way to ask that question, ''was'' it? Can you forgive me for being too eager to write my own story during the time period we're discussing? I didn't intend to sound like I wanted you to drop everything and dive into this; I was just afraid that you might get even ''more'' mad at me if I went out on a limb and did something timeline-breaking since I want my story to be canon, if you'll have it when it's finished. ''That's'' why I would ''greatly'' appreciate it if you could give me the few details you ''do'' have about the time just before the end of the Oil Age.
::::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 15:46, 25 April 2015 (EDT)

== On the Nature of Qubitite ==

What exactly is qubitite made out of? Is it some kind of [[en:Wikipedia:Photonic molecule|photonic molecular]] mesh prevented from dissipating by the presence of ordinary, baryonic matter inside? If so, then could it be synthesized in-universe and how difficult would doing so have to be in order to prevent the possibility of qubitite synthesis from being widely known by the time of the latest story in the current [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|''FreeRIDErs'']] chronology? 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 19:19, 27 February 2015 (EST)

:This is something we have to leave intentionally vague. The setting is more inspired by anime than hard scifi. Suffice to say that synthetic qubitite will only be introduced when we're ready, and we're ''far'' from ready. --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] ([[User talk:JonBuck|talk]]) 13:26, 13 April 2015 (CDT)
::Doggone it, I was going to have enough of it made available for some qubitite-based implants like the ones Jeannette Leroq has to make the reconstruction of a human being out of approximately–five-hundred-year-old records of that individual's DNA and brain state possible! Guess those involved in the project will just have to get some from a smuggler even though synthesizing the stuff would have made things a lot easier for my characters by allowing them to get around Zharus's export laws. About how far in the current chronology's future do you and the others intend to introduce synthetic Q, exactly, anyway? I was going to have somebody give a materials scientist whom he or she is friends with give him a hunk of rubidium salt or alloy that started sprouting weird blue specks on its surface after it had been lying around on a hard light surface for a while so that said materials scientist could study it and figure out exactly what it is. Obviously, tons of papers would likely come out of such efforts, but maybe their publication on Earth could be prevented or delayed by some small part of Earth's government that is actually knowledgeable and embracing of the truth behind what's going on on Zharus? And I was thinking that the procedures described by these papers would take months or even years to produce anywhere near a practical amount of qubitite so that they wouldn't really matter any more when they finally get declassified several years later because a much more efficient method of synthesizing Q had been discovered by then. My hope is that the significance and consequences of such a discovery would either turn out to be minimized in the grand scheme of things or forgotten about during the Earth-Zharus war. But I suppose the ability to synthesize qubitite would make Zharus's political situation a lot more tenuous, wouldn't it? So I guess now might not be the greatest time to let it factor into too many stories just yet.
::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 17:20, 13 April 2015 (EDT)

:::Longer term, we have plans for a war with Earth. The exact circumstances of which are still up in the air. So, have patience. :) --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] ([[User talk:JonBuck|talk]]) 23:29, 21 April 2015 (CDT)
::::Is this just between you, [[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]], and [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]], or can anybody contribute some ideas to these plans? If so, then where would I go to do so?
::::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 17:20, 26 April 2015 (EDT)
:::::We have a number of things that have to happen ''before'' we get there. I can see how enthusiastic about this setting you are, but Major Plot Points like this are the purview of the three of us. Once again, you'll have to be patient. --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] ([[User talk:JonBuck|talk]]) 21:07, 27 April 2015 (CDT)
::::::Roger, wilco. Guess I'll just have to rework this, then, won't I?
::::::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 17:20, 9 June 2015 (EDT)
:::::::Unless…hmm, what are the odds that a chunk of Zharus that got blasted off by the impact that created the Dry Ocean's huge supply of qubitite in the first place could make it the fifty light years to Earth by the time I need it there? I'm assuming 'next to none' on this front, though, so I'll probably just have some character smuggle some qubitite back to Earth instead.
:::::::—&thsinsp;[[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 17:49, 17 November 2015 (CST)

== On the State of This Setting's Documentation ==

Hey, I've noticed that, while you've got some great pieces of in-universe documentation and source text for [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|''FreeRIDErs'']], it could be expanded and complimented by some documentation from the point of view of our universe. Is it okay if I help you guys with that while I'm still in the early planning stages of my project [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Projects/Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…|''Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…'']]? 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 19:51, 27 February 2015 (EST)
:In particular, I was wondering if, once I have enough programming experience, I could put some kind of calendar program tailored solving to this setting's interstellar date problems up on GitHub so that we can start decoupling the other planets' calendars from Zharus's.
:— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 20:05, 21 May 2015 (EDT)
::Actually, I suppose that's more like calendrical housekeeping, isn't it? I'll still do that when I get to it, but I think that what I originally meant by 'documentation' was the [[FreeRIDErs (Setting Timeline)|timeline]] and the [[FreeRIDErs (background material)|background materials]]. I suppose that's housekeeping, too, in a way, so maybe we should just lump it all together, rename this thread 'Housekeeping Discussion,' and call it a day?
::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 17:57, 9 June 2015 (EDT)

== On the compilation of an eBook ==

Hi all.
I am planning on embarking on a project of compiling and updating an eBook of the entirety of the FreeRIDErs universe. I expect this to be a reasonably large undertaking, and I would like the permission of as many of the authors involved before I begin. If you don't want your stories in the compilation, then I will be... well, I won't be happy, but I will to leave them out. I do realise that eBooks are already available for some of the stories, but I am attempting to compile as many stories as possible in a few volumes.

I will be giving full credit to the appropriate authors, and expect my own tiny, infinitesimally small contribution to this amazing universe that you have created to be noted by a small footnote at the start of the book that says "Compiled and Edited by F.L. Dragon".

I expect it to be completed within a month or two, maybe four if I get held up, as there is a lot of story to go through, proof-read to get any mistakes that may have been missed, and to make sure the formatting is consistent. I will also be doing this on my own, although any help would be appreciated. After completion, I expect to maintain the compilation on a monthly to bimonthly basis. This may be adjusted later to a quarterly update, but it will still be available and maintained.

Finally, I don't expect to make any monetary units from this project. At all. Zero Dollars.

And so, I humbly ask your permission to begin work on this project. I will be more than happy to provide progress updates every now and then, and I hope to complete it to your satisfaction.

Thank you for your time and consideration.
--[[User:FlyLowDragon|F.L. Dragon]] ([[User talk:FlyLowDragon|talk]]) 08:22, 8 April 2015 (CDT)
:You know, some of the stories in this setting already have e-book versions; I can't remember exactly which ones they are, but I ''do'' recall that those that do have a notice at the top. Could this help you with your project? Anyway, I think it's cool that you're compiling all of the ''FreeRDIErs'' stories into one collection. I ''do'', however, have one thought about this effort: wouldn't it be a ''lot'' easier to create an automated solution to do this for you rather than updating it manually?
:— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 16:12, 9 April 2015 (EDT)
::I do realise that, but they are: 1) all in separate e-books, and 2) not the Director's Cut versions. I think. I haven't actually looked at them, to be honest. Also, to create an e-book, all you need is the text, so going to pre-existing e-books that may or may not let you copy the text, depending on what software you use to read them, is not very helpful. Although seeing how the formatting is done in them might give me a standard to aim towards.
::Setting up an automated process for it... It can be semi-automated, but I'd still need to go through and make sure that all of the formatting is correct and consistent, and start it. Compare, for example, Aloha, by Jetfire, and Marshals, by JonBuck with Robotech_Master, paying attention to the dates given in story. In Aloha, they are bolded, while they are italicised in Marshals. It is very difficult to account for small things like that in the formatting, and so it is preferable to do it manually.
::Also, automation isn't that simple. When a new story is posted, I would still need to put the text into a word processor, make sure it is formatted properly in the word processor, give it another go-over for spelling and punctuation errors, use file conversion tools to convert the file into an e-book file, and then make sure that the file conversion tools didn't mangle the formatting, before giving it another go over for anything I missed, and then going back to step 2 if there is something I missed. And then send a version back to the author without the spelling mistakes. This process can only be reliably done by a human, and trying to automate it... well, I think the strip at https://xkcd.com/1319/ shows what I'm talking about. I'd end up spending more time working on the automation than I'd save by using the automation.
::Once the bulk of the work is done (got all pre-existing stories in the e-book), then it might only take me as long as it takes me to read the story to fix any new stories up and get them fully formatted. That is, if it doesn't get to me all mangled, badly formatted, and/or full of spelling and punctuation errors. And if I get to read it at the same time, well, bonus! So, no automation, although I would create a few templates to help reduce the time spent on it.
::Still, by the end of it all, I think I might end up reading each story however many times anyway, so win-win! :P
::--[[User:FlyLowDragon|F.L. Dragon]] ([[User talk:FlyLowDragon|talk]]) 21:45, 9 April 2015 (CDT)
:::Ah, of course! Maybe you could put your work up in a central place — say, either here on Shfiti or maybe in a repository hosted somewhere like [https://github.com/ GitHub] — so that others could contribute if they wanted and when they had the time? I've been thinking about going back through the stories and proofreading them anyway, so I'll probably chip in some work even though I'm currently working on my own mini-arc of stories at the moment since those are still just in the early planning/brainstorming/writing stages. Anyway, good luck, and I'll probably see you around!
:::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 12:59, 12 April 2015 (EDT)
:::Actually, the only works with Directors Cut versions so far ''do'' have e-books. The e-books of "Deserted" and "Merging Traffic" both incorporate the DirCut revisions, and the DirCut version of the original "FreeRIDErs" is incorporated along with the DirCuts of the chapters of "Integration" we have done so far as an "Integration" e-book, which will grow as we crank out more DirCuts. We haven't really had time to focus on that lately, because the next Totalia story has been kicking our asses for months now. But we're almost done with that, and should be able to bang out a few more after that (we hope).
:::Also, I question the necessity of a FreeRIDErs e-book that collects ''everything.'' People only read one story at a time, after all. A single e-book with all the stories in it could be kind of large and unwieldy, like the 75 megabyte version of all 15 ''Wheel of Time'' e-books that was included with last year's Hugo Nominations packet. For now, if you wanted to e-bookerize things, it would probably be best if you concentrated on creating single e-books of stories that don't have them yet, like all of Jetfire's stuff—though I'd suggest getting permission from him first, since that's only polite.
:::Apart from that, I suppose I wouldn't have any objection to an e-book of everything, provided that the stories were presented in publication order insofar as is possible. It just seems less useful right now than having individual e-books of everything.
:::—[[User:Robotech Master|Robotech Master]] ([[User talk:Robotech Master|talk]]) 01:14, 15 April 2015 (CDT)
:::Yeah, when I suggested this, I didn't think of how unwieldy it could be. I do still want to create a collection of the stories, but it is now more likely to be in the form of multiple e-books. The original plan was to split everything into different volumes, maybe 3 or 4, but even then it would still be a bit big. A quick word count of Jetfire's work up to All Spark Bulletin got a word count of over 180'000. This might not be a door-stopper, but it is still a decent length, and is only a fraction of the total writing, and more recent works (like the Totalia series) are probably longer than that in their own right. So, the aim now will be to create an e-book of each story that doesn't already have one, and compiling them in the one location for easy access. I may still decide to combine some stories that are in the same arc but one or some of the stories is a bit shorter (like the Foxed duology), with the author's permission of course. I'll probably try to make each e-book at least 40'000 words in length, which is about the size of a small novel, or a large novella. This will mean I may combine a few of the early Aloha stories, if I get Jetfire's permission, as Aloha on its own is only about 11'000 words.
:::I'll probably keep the standard of formatting similar to the pre-existing e-books, so I'll definitely look at them. I probably should have gone through them before suggesting stuff, though. GitHub does look like a good place to store everything, and it would allow me to make revisions reasonably easily, as well as create to-do lists for any broken formatting and spelling errors. Still, I'll look into it a bit more before coming to a final decision.
:::So, I guess I'm still waiting on permission from Jetfire, Fibio, HawlSera, Kris, and Claude LeChat, assuming that you speak for JonBuck as well, Robotech_Master. I am also curious as to the status and canonicity of Oddoneout's two stories that are sitting in the Category page, but not in the setting page, as well as Jetfire's Rescue 911, in the same situation.
:::--[[User:FlyLowDragon|F.L. Dragon]] ([[User talk:FlyLowDragon|talk]]) 15:52, 15 April 2015 (CDT)
::::You know, now that I think about it, GitHub might actually ''not'' be the best place to store the results of this project. After all, we ''already'' have a version-control system on-wiki in the form of edit tracking, right? I'd be perfectly fine with using that instead if it weren't for the permissions issues inherent in the fact that a lot of the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe's stories are hosted on their authors' Shifti user pages, but I think this problem could be solved if we got something like [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevs the 'FlaggedRevs' extension] set up here on Shifti and we moved all of the stories into the 'Article' namespace. Then all we'd need is something like one of the page-exporting extensions listed [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Publishing_from_MediaWiki#Extensions_to_help_with_exporting_data here], and then we'd automatically be in business. Or maybe we could still use GitHub, but only as a way to store automated dumps of individual stories to different formats (or maybe even an automated compilation?) Anyway, that's what I've come to realize.
::::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 18:57, 13 November 2015 (EST)

== Good Location for Shared ''FreeRIDErs'' Projects? ==

Hey, I just wanted to know if there might be a good location on Shifti from which to share incomplete ''FreeRIDErs'' projects with other users. I've got some stuff that I'm working on with [[User:Fahzyr|Fahzyr]] in my user space, but I want him to be able to edit it, too. Should I just move this content out of my user space and into a new page on Shifti, or should such content be categorized/filed under this setting page?
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 14:16, 30 April 2015 (EDT)

== ''FreeRIDErs'' Theme Song! ==

I was inspired to start writing a [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Songs/''FreeRIDErs'' Theme Song|theme song]], so now I guess we'll be ready if the series ever becomes a TV show, not that that'll happen in our lifetimes or anything. Anyway, I hope you guys like what I've got so far, and I'll see what I can do about adding/uploading the tune to Shifti. (I'd do it sooner rather than later if my sister's synthesizer keyboard were closer to the computer; then maybe the MIDI-to-USB cable would reach!) 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 15:01, 5 May 2015 (EDT)

Talk:FreeRIDErs (setting)

2015-11-17T23:45:01Z

RandomDSdevel: /* Possibility of Stonegate Ancestry and Military Heritage? */ Fixed a syntax error.

== Old Discussion on the Future of [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|''FreeRIDErs'']] and the Upcoming 'Earth-Zharus War' Story Arc Previously in Page Header ==

Are there any plans to let writers stray into the Earth-Zharus War scene? I've got a story idea or two that I'd love to set in that period, but I'm short on the context that Jon, RM and the others have in mind. That is, I don't really have any idea how you intend the war to play out. Although my idea wouldn't actually involve much in the actual frontlines/war, it would be good to have some idea of the kind of materiel and hardware and general strategy and social climate and the such, because nothing concrete seems to have actually been laid out so far for that period (or have I missed something?). Which is why I thought I'd ask your permission before getting started. If needed, I'd be more than pleased could draft out the general idea. Thanks in advance! --[[User:Wayward Coyote|Wayward Coyote]] ([[User talk:Wayward Coyote|talk]]) 18:05, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

:Thanks for your interest here, but there's a lot of ground to cover between the present and that future in the setting before we get there. We can't guarantee that anything you'd write taking place during that period would remain canon. --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] ([[User talk:JonBuck|talk]]) 19:01, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

:Yeah, what Jon said. Our ideas for the war are very very nebulous at this point, more possibilities than anything else. There are things we don't even know quite yet about how we're going to end "Integration", let alone what comes ''between'' that and the war. Any number of things could change between now and then. So just be patient, or else think on how to adapt your ideas to the setting's "present". —[[User:Robotech Master|Robotech Master]] ([[User talk:Robotech Master|talk]]) 23:23, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

::Ah, I understand. I might just follow the main series for now and wait until it hits that time period; I'm quite keen to see where it's going anyway. Or maybe I'll see what I can do with some other ideas I have lying around. Either way, though, thank you for your replies! --[[User:Wayward Coyote|Wayward Coyote]] ([[User talk:Wayward Coyote|talk]]) 07:38, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

== Possiblity of FreeRIDErs Cross-Over Stories ==

'''''This discussion thread has been moved to [[Talk:Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…#Discussion on the 'Possibility of FreeRIDErs Cross-Over Stories'|Talk:Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…]].''''' 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) (Originally posted at 7:22 PM EST on November 4th, 2014 and last edited at approximately 5:34:30 PM EST on January 10th, 2015)
:There are still replies waiting to be read over there, though, so come on down!
:— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 14:09, 14 November 2014 (EST)

== Possibility of Stonegate Ancestry and Military Heritage? ==

I was wondering if I could possibly give the extended Stonegate family some ancestors, at least one of whom I'd like to use to set a precedent for Socah Gates's involvement in military affairs, starting with [[User:RandomDSdevel/Carter's Last Stand?|''Once More Into the Breach, My Friend…: Carter's Last Stand?'']]? 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 17:41, 10 January 2015 (EST)
:If you're wondering why I asked, then it's because I thought it'd be kinda funny if [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Documentation/Carter Hawkinson|Carter Hawkinson]], the character who I made up to put in a data-based, copse-sicle–like situation, decided to visit Rhianna at the FreeRIDErs' Garage before attending one or more of the classes she teaches at Roberto Martinez Memorial University in Uplift to see if he'd like her as a teacher only to be interrupted mid-conversation by Charlene McClaren when she rushes in to tell Rhi about his resurrection and its relevance to her? Imagine the look at Charlene's face when she sees him standing there talking to Rhi, especially if she'd met him earlier before she knew about his significance!
:— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 19:46, 27 February 2015 (EST)
::You know, on second thought, maybe it would be better for Carter to wait until ''after'' Rhi gets back from Totalia to introduce himself to her? He could still hob-nob with Charlene, but it would probably be a good idea not to let Carter's resurrection cause too much of a stir.
::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 20:01, 21 May 2015 (EDT)
:::Wait a minute…: ''Rhianna'' (and I think maybe Ivy, too,) will have left, but…well, the ''rest'' of the Stonegate family is still going to be on Zharus. Hmmm…this could get interesting…
:::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 18:24, 13 November 2015 (EST)

== Pre-'Post–Oil-Age 'Dark Ages<nowiki>'</nowiki>' Political Situation? ==

What would you guys imagine the political situation just prior to the beginning of the post–Oil-Age 'Dark Ages' to be like? Or is it too early to dive into that yet? 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 18:08, 14 January 2015 (EST)
:Are you guys still thinking about this?  — [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 14:37, 29 January 2015 (EST)
::It's kind of important to me that you guys work on helping me figure this out for my story [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Carter's Last Stand?|''Carter's Last Stand?'']], so please let me know if you've thought about this yet and how far along you are in formulating an answer. If you'd like my input on this, then please either respond here or tell me where, if at all, you've been discussing this so that I can join in.
::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 19:23, 27 February 2015 (EST)

:::As no stories have been written in this era there really hasn't been any need to into it in detail, nor are any planned for this era. This is the nature of writing fiction. If no detail is needed, no detail is written. I know what happened in broad strokes, but that's all I need. Look, calm down a bit, okay? My time is limited. And you're not exactly asking us nicely here. --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] ([[User talk:JonBuck|talk]]) 21:11, 24 April 2015 (CDT)
::::I'm sorry we got off to such a bad start; that ''probably'' wasn't exactly the ''best'' way to ask that question, ''was'' it? Can you forgive me for being too eager to write my own story during the time period we're discussing? I didn't intend to sound like I wanted you to drop everything and dive into this; I was just afraid that you might get even ''more'' mad at me if I went out on a limb and did something timeline-breaking since I want my story to be canon, if you'll have it when it's finished. ''That's'' why I would ''greatly'' appreciate it if you could give me the few details you ''do'' have about the time just before the end of the Oil Age.
::::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 15:46, 25 April 2015 (EDT)

== On the Nature of Qubitite ==

What exactly is qubitite made out of? Is it some kind of [[en:Wikipedia:Photonic molecule|photonic molecular]] mesh prevented from dissipating by the presence of ordinary, baryonic matter inside? If so, then could it be synthesized in-universe and how difficult would doing so have to be in order to prevent the possibility of qubitite synthesis from being widely known by the time of the latest story in the current [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|''FreeRIDErs'']] chronology? 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 19:19, 27 February 2015 (EST)

:This is something we have to leave intentionally vague. The setting is more inspired by anime than hard scifi. Suffice to say that synthetic qubitite will only be introduced when we're ready, and we're ''far'' from ready. --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] ([[User talk:JonBuck|talk]]) 13:26, 13 April 2015 (CDT)
::Doggone it, I was going to have enough of it made available for some qubitite-based implants like the ones Jeannette Leroq has to make the reconstruction of a human being out of approximately–five-hundred-year-old records of that individual's DNA and brain state possible! Guess those involved in the project will just have to get some from a smuggler even though synthesizing the stuff would have made things a lot easier for my characters by allowing them to get around Zharus's export laws. About how far in the current chronology's future do you and the others intend to introduce synthetic Q, exactly, anyway? I was going to have somebody give a materials scientist whom he or she is friends with give him a hunk of rubidium salt or alloy that started sprouting weird blue specks on its surface after it had been lying around on a hard light surface for a while so that said materials scientist could study it and figure out exactly what it is. Obviously, tons of papers would likely come out of such efforts, but maybe their publication on Earth could be prevented or delayed by some small part of Earth's government that is actually knowledgeable and embracing of the truth behind what's going on on Zharus? And I was thinking that the procedures described by these papers would take months or even years to produce anywhere near a practical amount of qubitite so that they wouldn't really matter any more when they finally get declassified several years later because a much more efficient method of synthesizing Q had been discovered by then. My hope is that the significance and consequences of such a discovery would either turn out to be minimized in the grand scheme of things or forgotten about during the Earth-Zharus war. But I suppose the ability to synthesize qubitite would make Zharus's political situation a lot more tenuous, wouldn't it? So I guess now might not be the greatest time to let it factor into too many stories just yet.
::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 17:20, 13 April 2015 (EDT)

:::Longer term, we have plans for a war with Earth. The exact circumstances of which are still up in the air. So, have patience. :) --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] ([[User talk:JonBuck|talk]]) 23:29, 21 April 2015 (CDT)
::::Is this just between you, [[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]], and [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]], or can anybody contribute some ideas to these plans? If so, then where would I go to do so?
::::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 17:20, 26 April 2015 (EDT)
:::::We have a number of things that have to happen ''before'' we get there. I can see how enthusiastic about this setting you are, but Major Plot Points like this are the purview of the three of us. Once again, you'll have to be patient. --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] ([[User talk:JonBuck|talk]]) 21:07, 27 April 2015 (CDT)
::::::Roger, wilco. Guess I'll just have to rework this, then, won't I?
::::::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 17:20, 9 June 2015 (EDT)

== On the State of This Setting's Documentation ==

Hey, I've noticed that, while you've got some great pieces of in-universe documentation and source text for [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|''FreeRIDErs'']], it could be expanded and complimented by some documentation from the point of view of our universe. Is it okay if I help you guys with that while I'm still in the early planning stages of my project [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Projects/Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…|''Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…'']]? 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 19:51, 27 February 2015 (EST)
:In particular, I was wondering if, once I have enough programming experience, I could put some kind of calendar program tailored solving to this setting's interstellar date problems up on GitHub so that we can start decoupling the other planets' calendars from Zharus's.
:— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 20:05, 21 May 2015 (EDT)
::Actually, I suppose that's more like calendrical housekeeping, isn't it? I'll still do that when I get to it, but I think that what I originally meant by 'documentation' was the [[FreeRIDErs (Setting Timeline)|timeline]] and the [[FreeRIDErs (background material)|background materials]]. I suppose that's housekeeping, too, in a way, so maybe we should just lump it all together, rename this thread 'Housekeeping Discussion,' and call it a day?
::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 17:57, 9 June 2015 (EDT)

== On the compilation of an eBook ==

Hi all.
I am planning on embarking on a project of compiling and updating an eBook of the entirety of the FreeRIDErs universe. I expect this to be a reasonably large undertaking, and I would like the permission of as many of the authors involved before I begin. If you don't want your stories in the compilation, then I will be... well, I won't be happy, but I will to leave them out. I do realise that eBooks are already available for some of the stories, but I am attempting to compile as many stories as possible in a few volumes.

I will be giving full credit to the appropriate authors, and expect my own tiny, infinitesimally small contribution to this amazing universe that you have created to be noted by a small footnote at the start of the book that says "Compiled and Edited by F.L. Dragon".

I expect it to be completed within a month or two, maybe four if I get held up, as there is a lot of story to go through, proof-read to get any mistakes that may have been missed, and to make sure the formatting is consistent. I will also be doing this on my own, although any help would be appreciated. After completion, I expect to maintain the compilation on a monthly to bimonthly basis. This may be adjusted later to a quarterly update, but it will still be available and maintained.

Finally, I don't expect to make any monetary units from this project. At all. Zero Dollars.

And so, I humbly ask your permission to begin work on this project. I will be more than happy to provide progress updates every now and then, and I hope to complete it to your satisfaction.

Thank you for your time and consideration.
--[[User:FlyLowDragon|F.L. Dragon]] ([[User talk:FlyLowDragon|talk]]) 08:22, 8 April 2015 (CDT)
:You know, some of the stories in this setting already have e-book versions; I can't remember exactly which ones they are, but I ''do'' recall that those that do have a notice at the top. Could this help you with your project? Anyway, I think it's cool that you're compiling all of the ''FreeRDIErs'' stories into one collection. I ''do'', however, have one thought about this effort: wouldn't it be a ''lot'' easier to create an automated solution to do this for you rather than updating it manually?
:— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 16:12, 9 April 2015 (EDT)
::I do realise that, but they are: 1) all in separate e-books, and 2) not the Director's Cut versions. I think. I haven't actually looked at them, to be honest. Also, to create an e-book, all you need is the text, so going to pre-existing e-books that may or may not let you copy the text, depending on what software you use to read them, is not very helpful. Although seeing how the formatting is done in them might give me a standard to aim towards.
::Setting up an automated process for it... It can be semi-automated, but I'd still need to go through and make sure that all of the formatting is correct and consistent, and start it. Compare, for example, Aloha, by Jetfire, and Marshals, by JonBuck with Robotech_Master, paying attention to the dates given in story. In Aloha, they are bolded, while they are italicised in Marshals. It is very difficult to account for small things like that in the formatting, and so it is preferable to do it manually.
::Also, automation isn't that simple. When a new story is posted, I would still need to put the text into a word processor, make sure it is formatted properly in the word processor, give it another go-over for spelling and punctuation errors, use file conversion tools to convert the file into an e-book file, and then make sure that the file conversion tools didn't mangle the formatting, before giving it another go over for anything I missed, and then going back to step 2 if there is something I missed. And then send a version back to the author without the spelling mistakes. This process can only be reliably done by a human, and trying to automate it... well, I think the strip at https://xkcd.com/1319/ shows what I'm talking about. I'd end up spending more time working on the automation than I'd save by using the automation.
::Once the bulk of the work is done (got all pre-existing stories in the e-book), then it might only take me as long as it takes me to read the story to fix any new stories up and get them fully formatted. That is, if it doesn't get to me all mangled, badly formatted, and/or full of spelling and punctuation errors. And if I get to read it at the same time, well, bonus! So, no automation, although I would create a few templates to help reduce the time spent on it.
::Still, by the end of it all, I think I might end up reading each story however many times anyway, so win-win! :P
::--[[User:FlyLowDragon|F.L. Dragon]] ([[User talk:FlyLowDragon|talk]]) 21:45, 9 April 2015 (CDT)
:::Ah, of course! Maybe you could put your work up in a central place — say, either here on Shfiti or maybe in a repository hosted somewhere like [https://github.com/ GitHub] — so that others could contribute if they wanted and when they had the time? I've been thinking about going back through the stories and proofreading them anyway, so I'll probably chip in some work even though I'm currently working on my own mini-arc of stories at the moment since those are still just in the early planning/brainstorming/writing stages. Anyway, good luck, and I'll probably see you around!
:::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 12:59, 12 April 2015 (EDT)
:::Actually, the only works with Directors Cut versions so far ''do'' have e-books. The e-books of "Deserted" and "Merging Traffic" both incorporate the DirCut revisions, and the DirCut version of the original "FreeRIDErs" is incorporated along with the DirCuts of the chapters of "Integration" we have done so far as an "Integration" e-book, which will grow as we crank out more DirCuts. We haven't really had time to focus on that lately, because the next Totalia story has been kicking our asses for months now. But we're almost done with that, and should be able to bang out a few more after that (we hope).
:::Also, I question the necessity of a FreeRIDErs e-book that collects ''everything.'' People only read one story at a time, after all. A single e-book with all the stories in it could be kind of large and unwieldy, like the 75 megabyte version of all 15 ''Wheel of Time'' e-books that was included with last year's Hugo Nominations packet. For now, if you wanted to e-bookerize things, it would probably be best if you concentrated on creating single e-books of stories that don't have them yet, like all of Jetfire's stuff—though I'd suggest getting permission from him first, since that's only polite.
:::Apart from that, I suppose I wouldn't have any objection to an e-book of everything, provided that the stories were presented in publication order insofar as is possible. It just seems less useful right now than having individual e-books of everything.
:::—[[User:Robotech Master|Robotech Master]] ([[User talk:Robotech Master|talk]]) 01:14, 15 April 2015 (CDT)
:::Yeah, when I suggested this, I didn't think of how unwieldy it could be. I do still want to create a collection of the stories, but it is now more likely to be in the form of multiple e-books. The original plan was to split everything into different volumes, maybe 3 or 4, but even then it would still be a bit big. A quick word count of Jetfire's work up to All Spark Bulletin got a word count of over 180'000. This might not be a door-stopper, but it is still a decent length, and is only a fraction of the total writing, and more recent works (like the Totalia series) are probably longer than that in their own right. So, the aim now will be to create an e-book of each story that doesn't already have one, and compiling them in the one location for easy access. I may still decide to combine some stories that are in the same arc but one or some of the stories is a bit shorter (like the Foxed duology), with the author's permission of course. I'll probably try to make each e-book at least 40'000 words in length, which is about the size of a small novel, or a large novella. This will mean I may combine a few of the early Aloha stories, if I get Jetfire's permission, as Aloha on its own is only about 11'000 words.
:::I'll probably keep the standard of formatting similar to the pre-existing e-books, so I'll definitely look at them. I probably should have gone through them before suggesting stuff, though. GitHub does look like a good place to store everything, and it would allow me to make revisions reasonably easily, as well as create to-do lists for any broken formatting and spelling errors. Still, I'll look into it a bit more before coming to a final decision.
:::So, I guess I'm still waiting on permission from Jetfire, Fibio, HawlSera, Kris, and Claude LeChat, assuming that you speak for JonBuck as well, Robotech_Master. I am also curious as to the status and canonicity of Oddoneout's two stories that are sitting in the Category page, but not in the setting page, as well as Jetfire's Rescue 911, in the same situation.
:::--[[User:FlyLowDragon|F.L. Dragon]] ([[User talk:FlyLowDragon|talk]]) 15:52, 15 April 2015 (CDT)
::::You know, now that I think about it, GitHub might actually ''not'' be the best place to store the results of this project. After all, we ''already'' have a version-control system on-wiki in the form of edit tracking, right? I'd be perfectly fine with using that instead if it weren't for the permissions issues inherent in the fact that a lot of the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe's stories are hosted on their authors' Shifti user pages, but I think this problem could be solved if we got something like [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevs the 'FlaggedRevs' extension] set up here on Shifti and we moved all of the stories into the 'Article' namespace. Then all we'd need is something like one of the page-exporting extensions listed [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Publishing_from_MediaWiki#Extensions_to_help_with_exporting_data here], and then we'd automatically be in business. Or maybe we could still use GitHub, but only as a way to store automated dumps of individual stories to different formats (or maybe even an automated compilation?) Anyway, that's what I've come to realize.
::::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 18:57, 13 November 2015 (EST)

== Good Location for Shared ''FreeRIDErs'' Projects? ==

Hey, I just wanted to know if there might be a good location on Shifti from which to share incomplete ''FreeRIDErs'' projects with other users. I've got some stuff that I'm working on with [[User:Fahzyr|Fahzyr]] in my user space, but I want him to be able to edit it, too. Should I just move this content out of my user space and into a new page on Shifti, or should such content be categorized/filed under this setting page?
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 14:16, 30 April 2015 (EDT)

== ''FreeRIDErs'' Theme Song! ==

I was inspired to start writing a [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Songs/''FreeRIDErs'' Theme Song|theme song]], so now I guess we'll be ready if the series ever becomes a TV show, not that that'll happen in our lifetimes or anything. Anyway, I hope you guys like what I've got so far, and I'll see what I can do about adding/uploading the tune to Shifti. (I'd do it sooner rather than later if my sister's synthesizer keyboard were closer to the computer; then maybe the MIDI-to-USB cable would reach!) 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 15:01, 5 May 2015 (EDT)

Talk:FreeRIDErs (setting)

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RandomDSdevel: /* On the compilation of an eBook */ Fixed my latest reply's time stamp.

== Old Discussion on the Future of [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|''FreeRIDErs'']] and the Upcoming 'Earth-Zharus War' Story Arc Previously in Page Header ==

Are there any plans to let writers stray into the Earth-Zharus War scene? I've got a story idea or two that I'd love to set in that period, but I'm short on the context that Jon, RM and the others have in mind. That is, I don't really have any idea how you intend the war to play out. Although my idea wouldn't actually involve much in the actual frontlines/war, it would be good to have some idea of the kind of materiel and hardware and general strategy and social climate and the such, because nothing concrete seems to have actually been laid out so far for that period (or have I missed something?). Which is why I thought I'd ask your permission before getting started. If needed, I'd be more than pleased could draft out the general idea. Thanks in advance! --[[User:Wayward Coyote|Wayward Coyote]] ([[User talk:Wayward Coyote|talk]]) 18:05, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

:Thanks for your interest here, but there's a lot of ground to cover between the present and that future in the setting before we get there. We can't guarantee that anything you'd write taking place during that period would remain canon. --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] ([[User talk:JonBuck|talk]]) 19:01, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

:Yeah, what Jon said. Our ideas for the war are very very nebulous at this point, more possibilities than anything else. There are things we don't even know quite yet about how we're going to end "Integration", let alone what comes ''between'' that and the war. Any number of things could change between now and then. So just be patient, or else think on how to adapt your ideas to the setting's "present". —[[User:Robotech Master|Robotech Master]] ([[User talk:Robotech Master|talk]]) 23:23, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

::Ah, I understand. I might just follow the main series for now and wait until it hits that time period; I'm quite keen to see where it's going anyway. Or maybe I'll see what I can do with some other ideas I have lying around. Either way, though, thank you for your replies! --[[User:Wayward Coyote|Wayward Coyote]] ([[User talk:Wayward Coyote|talk]]) 07:38, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

== Possiblity of FreeRIDErs Cross-Over Stories ==

'''''This discussion thread has been moved to [[Talk:Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…#Discussion on the 'Possibility of FreeRIDErs Cross-Over Stories'|Talk:Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…]].''''' 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) (Originally posted at 7:22 PM EST on November 4th, 2014 and last edited at approximately 5:34:30 PM EST on January 10th, 2015)
:There are still replies waiting to be read over there, though, so come on down!
:— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 14:09, 14 November 2014 (EST)

== Possibility of Stonegate Ancestry and Military Heritage? ==

I was wondering if I could possibly give the extended Stonegate family some ancestors, at least one of whom I'd like to use to set a precedent for Socah Gates's involvement in military affairs, starting with [[User:RandomDSdevel/Carter's Last Stand?|''Once More Into the Breach, My Friend…: Carter's Last Stand?'']]? 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 17:41, 10 January 2015 (EST)
:If you're wondering why I asked, then it's because I thought it'd be kinda funny if [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Documentation/Carter Hawkinson|Carter Hawkinson]], the character who I made up to put in a data-based, copse-sicle–like situation, decided to visit Rhianna at the FreeRIDErs' Garage before attending one or more of the classes she teaches at Roberto Martinez Memorial University in Uplift to see if he'd like her as a teacher only to be interrupted mid-conversation by Charlene McClaren when she rushes in to tell Rhi about his resurrection and its relevance to her? Imagine the look at Charlene's face when she sees him standing there talking to Rhi, especially if she'd met him earlier before she knew about his significance!
:— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 19:46, 27 February 2015 (EST)
::You know, on second thought, maybe it would be better for Carter to wait until ''after'' Rhi gets back from Totalia to introduce himself to her? He could still hob-nob with Charlene, but it would probably be a good idea not to let Carter's resurrection cause too much of a stir.
::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 20:01, 21 May 2015 (EDT)
:::Wait a minute…: /Rhianna/ (and I think maybe Ivy, too,) will have left, but…well, the ''rest'' of the Stonegate family is still going to be on Zharus. Hmmm…this could get interesting…
:::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 18:24, 13 November 2015 (EST)

== Pre-'Post–Oil-Age 'Dark Ages<nowiki>'</nowiki>' Political Situation? ==

What would you guys imagine the political situation just prior to the beginning of the post–Oil-Age 'Dark Ages' to be like? Or is it too early to dive into that yet? 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 18:08, 14 January 2015 (EST)
:Are you guys still thinking about this?  — [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 14:37, 29 January 2015 (EST)
::It's kind of important to me that you guys work on helping me figure this out for my story [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Carter's Last Stand?|''Carter's Last Stand?'']], so please let me know if you've thought about this yet and how far along you are in formulating an answer. If you'd like my input on this, then please either respond here or tell me where, if at all, you've been discussing this so that I can join in.
::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 19:23, 27 February 2015 (EST)

:::As no stories have been written in this era there really hasn't been any need to into it in detail, nor are any planned for this era. This is the nature of writing fiction. If no detail is needed, no detail is written. I know what happened in broad strokes, but that's all I need. Look, calm down a bit, okay? My time is limited. And you're not exactly asking us nicely here. --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] ([[User talk:JonBuck|talk]]) 21:11, 24 April 2015 (CDT)
::::I'm sorry we got off to such a bad start; that ''probably'' wasn't exactly the ''best'' way to ask that question, ''was'' it? Can you forgive me for being too eager to write my own story during the time period we're discussing? I didn't intend to sound like I wanted you to drop everything and dive into this; I was just afraid that you might get even ''more'' mad at me if I went out on a limb and did something timeline-breaking since I want my story to be canon, if you'll have it when it's finished. ''That's'' why I would ''greatly'' appreciate it if you could give me the few details you ''do'' have about the time just before the end of the Oil Age.
::::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 15:46, 25 April 2015 (EDT)

== On the Nature of Qubitite ==

What exactly is qubitite made out of? Is it some kind of [[en:Wikipedia:Photonic molecule|photonic molecular]] mesh prevented from dissipating by the presence of ordinary, baryonic matter inside? If so, then could it be synthesized in-universe and how difficult would doing so have to be in order to prevent the possibility of qubitite synthesis from being widely known by the time of the latest story in the current [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|''FreeRIDErs'']] chronology? 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 19:19, 27 February 2015 (EST)

:This is something we have to leave intentionally vague. The setting is more inspired by anime than hard scifi. Suffice to say that synthetic qubitite will only be introduced when we're ready, and we're ''far'' from ready. --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] ([[User talk:JonBuck|talk]]) 13:26, 13 April 2015 (CDT)
::Doggone it, I was going to have enough of it made available for some qubitite-based implants like the ones Jeannette Leroq has to make the reconstruction of a human being out of approximately–five-hundred-year-old records of that individual's DNA and brain state possible! Guess those involved in the project will just have to get some from a smuggler even though synthesizing the stuff would have made things a lot easier for my characters by allowing them to get around Zharus's export laws. About how far in the current chronology's future do you and the others intend to introduce synthetic Q, exactly, anyway? I was going to have somebody give a materials scientist whom he or she is friends with give him a hunk of rubidium salt or alloy that started sprouting weird blue specks on its surface after it had been lying around on a hard light surface for a while so that said materials scientist could study it and figure out exactly what it is. Obviously, tons of papers would likely come out of such efforts, but maybe their publication on Earth could be prevented or delayed by some small part of Earth's government that is actually knowledgeable and embracing of the truth behind what's going on on Zharus? And I was thinking that the procedures described by these papers would take months or even years to produce anywhere near a practical amount of qubitite so that they wouldn't really matter any more when they finally get declassified several years later because a much more efficient method of synthesizing Q had been discovered by then. My hope is that the significance and consequences of such a discovery would either turn out to be minimized in the grand scheme of things or forgotten about during the Earth-Zharus war. But I suppose the ability to synthesize qubitite would make Zharus's political situation a lot more tenuous, wouldn't it? So I guess now might not be the greatest time to let it factor into too many stories just yet.
::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 17:20, 13 April 2015 (EDT)

:::Longer term, we have plans for a war with Earth. The exact circumstances of which are still up in the air. So, have patience. :) --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] ([[User talk:JonBuck|talk]]) 23:29, 21 April 2015 (CDT)
::::Is this just between you, [[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]], and [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]], or can anybody contribute some ideas to these plans? If so, then where would I go to do so?
::::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 17:20, 26 April 2015 (EDT)
:::::We have a number of things that have to happen ''before'' we get there. I can see how enthusiastic about this setting you are, but Major Plot Points like this are the purview of the three of us. Once again, you'll have to be patient. --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] ([[User talk:JonBuck|talk]]) 21:07, 27 April 2015 (CDT)
::::::Roger, wilco. Guess I'll just have to rework this, then, won't I?
::::::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 17:20, 9 June 2015 (EDT)

== On the State of This Setting's Documentation ==

Hey, I've noticed that, while you've got some great pieces of in-universe documentation and source text for [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|''FreeRIDErs'']], it could be expanded and complimented by some documentation from the point of view of our universe. Is it okay if I help you guys with that while I'm still in the early planning stages of my project [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Projects/Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…|''Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…'']]? 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 19:51, 27 February 2015 (EST)
:In particular, I was wondering if, once I have enough programming experience, I could put some kind of calendar program tailored solving to this setting's interstellar date problems up on GitHub so that we can start decoupling the other planets' calendars from Zharus's.
:— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 20:05, 21 May 2015 (EDT)
::Actually, I suppose that's more like calendrical housekeeping, isn't it? I'll still do that when I get to it, but I think that what I originally meant by 'documentation' was the [[FreeRIDErs (Setting Timeline)|timeline]] and the [[FreeRIDErs (background material)|background materials]]. I suppose that's housekeeping, too, in a way, so maybe we should just lump it all together, rename this thread 'Housekeeping Discussion,' and call it a day?
::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 17:57, 9 June 2015 (EDT)

== On the compilation of an eBook ==

Hi all.
I am planning on embarking on a project of compiling and updating an eBook of the entirety of the FreeRIDErs universe. I expect this to be a reasonably large undertaking, and I would like the permission of as many of the authors involved before I begin. If you don't want your stories in the compilation, then I will be... well, I won't be happy, but I will to leave them out. I do realise that eBooks are already available for some of the stories, but I am attempting to compile as many stories as possible in a few volumes.

I will be giving full credit to the appropriate authors, and expect my own tiny, infinitesimally small contribution to this amazing universe that you have created to be noted by a small footnote at the start of the book that says "Compiled and Edited by F.L. Dragon".

I expect it to be completed within a month or two, maybe four if I get held up, as there is a lot of story to go through, proof-read to get any mistakes that may have been missed, and to make sure the formatting is consistent. I will also be doing this on my own, although any help would be appreciated. After completion, I expect to maintain the compilation on a monthly to bimonthly basis. This may be adjusted later to a quarterly update, but it will still be available and maintained.

Finally, I don't expect to make any monetary units from this project. At all. Zero Dollars.

And so, I humbly ask your permission to begin work on this project. I will be more than happy to provide progress updates every now and then, and I hope to complete it to your satisfaction.

Thank you for your time and consideration.
--[[User:FlyLowDragon|F.L. Dragon]] ([[User talk:FlyLowDragon|talk]]) 08:22, 8 April 2015 (CDT)
:You know, some of the stories in this setting already have e-book versions; I can't remember exactly which ones they are, but I ''do'' recall that those that do have a notice at the top. Could this help you with your project? Anyway, I think it's cool that you're compiling all of the ''FreeRDIErs'' stories into one collection. I ''do'', however, have one thought about this effort: wouldn't it be a ''lot'' easier to create an automated solution to do this for you rather than updating it manually?
:— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 16:12, 9 April 2015 (EDT)
::I do realise that, but they are: 1) all in separate e-books, and 2) not the Director's Cut versions. I think. I haven't actually looked at them, to be honest. Also, to create an e-book, all you need is the text, so going to pre-existing e-books that may or may not let you copy the text, depending on what software you use to read them, is not very helpful. Although seeing how the formatting is done in them might give me a standard to aim towards.
::Setting up an automated process for it... It can be semi-automated, but I'd still need to go through and make sure that all of the formatting is correct and consistent, and start it. Compare, for example, Aloha, by Jetfire, and Marshals, by JonBuck with Robotech_Master, paying attention to the dates given in story. In Aloha, they are bolded, while they are italicised in Marshals. It is very difficult to account for small things like that in the formatting, and so it is preferable to do it manually.
::Also, automation isn't that simple. When a new story is posted, I would still need to put the text into a word processor, make sure it is formatted properly in the word processor, give it another go-over for spelling and punctuation errors, use file conversion tools to convert the file into an e-book file, and then make sure that the file conversion tools didn't mangle the formatting, before giving it another go over for anything I missed, and then going back to step 2 if there is something I missed. And then send a version back to the author without the spelling mistakes. This process can only be reliably done by a human, and trying to automate it... well, I think the strip at https://xkcd.com/1319/ shows what I'm talking about. I'd end up spending more time working on the automation than I'd save by using the automation.
::Once the bulk of the work is done (got all pre-existing stories in the e-book), then it might only take me as long as it takes me to read the story to fix any new stories up and get them fully formatted. That is, if it doesn't get to me all mangled, badly formatted, and/or full of spelling and punctuation errors. And if I get to read it at the same time, well, bonus! So, no automation, although I would create a few templates to help reduce the time spent on it.
::Still, by the end of it all, I think I might end up reading each story however many times anyway, so win-win! :P
::--[[User:FlyLowDragon|F.L. Dragon]] ([[User talk:FlyLowDragon|talk]]) 21:45, 9 April 2015 (CDT)
:::Ah, of course! Maybe you could put your work up in a central place — say, either here on Shfiti or maybe in a repository hosted somewhere like [https://github.com/ GitHub] — so that others could contribute if they wanted and when they had the time? I've been thinking about going back through the stories and proofreading them anyway, so I'll probably chip in some work even though I'm currently working on my own mini-arc of stories at the moment since those are still just in the early planning/brainstorming/writing stages. Anyway, good luck, and I'll probably see you around!
:::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 12:59, 12 April 2015 (EDT)
:::Actually, the only works with Directors Cut versions so far ''do'' have e-books. The e-books of "Deserted" and "Merging Traffic" both incorporate the DirCut revisions, and the DirCut version of the original "FreeRIDErs" is incorporated along with the DirCuts of the chapters of "Integration" we have done so far as an "Integration" e-book, which will grow as we crank out more DirCuts. We haven't really had time to focus on that lately, because the next Totalia story has been kicking our asses for months now. But we're almost done with that, and should be able to bang out a few more after that (we hope).
:::Also, I question the necessity of a FreeRIDErs e-book that collects ''everything.'' People only read one story at a time, after all. A single e-book with all the stories in it could be kind of large and unwieldy, like the 75 megabyte version of all 15 ''Wheel of Time'' e-books that was included with last year's Hugo Nominations packet. For now, if you wanted to e-bookerize things, it would probably be best if you concentrated on creating single e-books of stories that don't have them yet, like all of Jetfire's stuff—though I'd suggest getting permission from him first, since that's only polite.
:::Apart from that, I suppose I wouldn't have any objection to an e-book of everything, provided that the stories were presented in publication order insofar as is possible. It just seems less useful right now than having individual e-books of everything.
:::—[[User:Robotech Master|Robotech Master]] ([[User talk:Robotech Master|talk]]) 01:14, 15 April 2015 (CDT)
:::Yeah, when I suggested this, I didn't think of how unwieldy it could be. I do still want to create a collection of the stories, but it is now more likely to be in the form of multiple e-books. The original plan was to split everything into different volumes, maybe 3 or 4, but even then it would still be a bit big. A quick word count of Jetfire's work up to All Spark Bulletin got a word count of over 180'000. This might not be a door-stopper, but it is still a decent length, and is only a fraction of the total writing, and more recent works (like the Totalia series) are probably longer than that in their own right. So, the aim now will be to create an e-book of each story that doesn't already have one, and compiling them in the one location for easy access. I may still decide to combine some stories that are in the same arc but one or some of the stories is a bit shorter (like the Foxed duology), with the author's permission of course. I'll probably try to make each e-book at least 40'000 words in length, which is about the size of a small novel, or a large novella. This will mean I may combine a few of the early Aloha stories, if I get Jetfire's permission, as Aloha on its own is only about 11'000 words.
:::I'll probably keep the standard of formatting similar to the pre-existing e-books, so I'll definitely look at them. I probably should have gone through them before suggesting stuff, though. GitHub does look like a good place to store everything, and it would allow me to make revisions reasonably easily, as well as create to-do lists for any broken formatting and spelling errors. Still, I'll look into it a bit more before coming to a final decision.
:::So, I guess I'm still waiting on permission from Jetfire, Fibio, HawlSera, Kris, and Claude LeChat, assuming that you speak for JonBuck as well, Robotech_Master. I am also curious as to the status and canonicity of Oddoneout's two stories that are sitting in the Category page, but not in the setting page, as well as Jetfire's Rescue 911, in the same situation.
:::--[[User:FlyLowDragon|F.L. Dragon]] ([[User talk:FlyLowDragon|talk]]) 15:52, 15 April 2015 (CDT)
::::You know, now that I think about it, GitHub might actually ''not'' be the best place to store the results of this project. After all, we ''already'' have a version-control system on-wiki in the form of edit tracking, right? I'd be perfectly fine with using that instead if it weren't for the permissions issues inherent in the fact that a lot of the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe's stories are hosted on their authors' Shifti user pages, but I think this problem could be solved if we got something like [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevs the 'FlaggedRevs' extension] set up here on Shifti and we moved all of the stories into the 'Article' namespace. Then all we'd need is something like one of the page-exporting extensions listed [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Publishing_from_MediaWiki#Extensions_to_help_with_exporting_data here], and then we'd automatically be in business. Or maybe we could still use GitHub, but only as a way to store automated dumps of individual stories to different formats (or maybe even an automated compilation?) Anyway, that's what I've come to realize.
::::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 18:57, 13 November 2015 (EST)

== Good Location for Shared ''FreeRIDErs'' Projects? ==

Hey, I just wanted to know if there might be a good location on Shifti from which to share incomplete ''FreeRIDErs'' projects with other users. I've got some stuff that I'm working on with [[User:Fahzyr|Fahzyr]] in my user space, but I want him to be able to edit it, too. Should I just move this content out of my user space and into a new page on Shifti, or should such content be categorized/filed under this setting page?
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 14:16, 30 April 2015 (EDT)

== ''FreeRIDErs'' Theme Song! ==

I was inspired to start writing a [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Songs/''FreeRIDErs'' Theme Song|theme song]], so now I guess we'll be ready if the series ever becomes a TV show, not that that'll happen in our lifetimes or anything. Anyway, I hope you guys like what I've got so far, and I'll see what I can do about adding/uploading the tune to Shifti. (I'd do it sooner rather than later if my sister's synthesizer keyboard were closer to the computer; then maybe the MIDI-to-USB cable would reach!) 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 15:01, 5 May 2015 (EDT)

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RandomDSdevel: /* On the compilation of an eBook */ Replied to thread.

== Old Discussion on the Future of [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|''FreeRIDErs'']] and the Upcoming 'Earth-Zharus War' Story Arc Previously in Page Header ==

Are there any plans to let writers stray into the Earth-Zharus War scene? I've got a story idea or two that I'd love to set in that period, but I'm short on the context that Jon, RM and the others have in mind. That is, I don't really have any idea how you intend the war to play out. Although my idea wouldn't actually involve much in the actual frontlines/war, it would be good to have some idea of the kind of materiel and hardware and general strategy and social climate and the such, because nothing concrete seems to have actually been laid out so far for that period (or have I missed something?). Which is why I thought I'd ask your permission before getting started. If needed, I'd be more than pleased could draft out the general idea. Thanks in advance! --[[User:Wayward Coyote|Wayward Coyote]] ([[User talk:Wayward Coyote|talk]]) 18:05, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

:Thanks for your interest here, but there's a lot of ground to cover between the present and that future in the setting before we get there. We can't guarantee that anything you'd write taking place during that period would remain canon. --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] ([[User talk:JonBuck|talk]]) 19:01, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

:Yeah, what Jon said. Our ideas for the war are very very nebulous at this point, more possibilities than anything else. There are things we don't even know quite yet about how we're going to end "Integration", let alone what comes ''between'' that and the war. Any number of things could change between now and then. So just be patient, or else think on how to adapt your ideas to the setting's "present". —[[User:Robotech Master|Robotech Master]] ([[User talk:Robotech Master|talk]]) 23:23, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

::Ah, I understand. I might just follow the main series for now and wait until it hits that time period; I'm quite keen to see where it's going anyway. Or maybe I'll see what I can do with some other ideas I have lying around. Either way, though, thank you for your replies! --[[User:Wayward Coyote|Wayward Coyote]] ([[User talk:Wayward Coyote|talk]]) 07:38, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

== Possiblity of FreeRIDErs Cross-Over Stories ==

'''''This discussion thread has been moved to [[Talk:Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…#Discussion on the 'Possibility of FreeRIDErs Cross-Over Stories'|Talk:Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…]].''''' 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) (Originally posted at 7:22 PM EST on November 4th, 2014 and last edited at approximately 5:34:30 PM EST on January 10th, 2015)
:There are still replies waiting to be read over there, though, so come on down!
:— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 14:09, 14 November 2014 (EST)

== Possibility of Stonegate Ancestry and Military Heritage? ==

I was wondering if I could possibly give the extended Stonegate family some ancestors, at least one of whom I'd like to use to set a precedent for Socah Gates's involvement in military affairs, starting with [[User:RandomDSdevel/Carter's Last Stand?|''Once More Into the Breach, My Friend…: Carter's Last Stand?'']]? 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 17:41, 10 January 2015 (EST)
:If you're wondering why I asked, then it's because I thought it'd be kinda funny if [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Documentation/Carter Hawkinson|Carter Hawkinson]], the character who I made up to put in a data-based, copse-sicle–like situation, decided to visit Rhianna at the FreeRIDErs' Garage before attending one or more of the classes she teaches at Roberto Martinez Memorial University in Uplift to see if he'd like her as a teacher only to be interrupted mid-conversation by Charlene McClaren when she rushes in to tell Rhi about his resurrection and its relevance to her? Imagine the look at Charlene's face when she sees him standing there talking to Rhi, especially if she'd met him earlier before she knew about his significance!
:— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 19:46, 27 February 2015 (EST)
::You know, on second thought, maybe it would be better for Carter to wait until ''after'' Rhi gets back from Totalia to introduce himself to her? He could still hob-nob with Charlene, but it would probably be a good idea not to let Carter's resurrection cause too much of a stir.
::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 20:01, 21 May 2015 (EDT)
:::Wait a minute…: /Rhianna/ (and I think maybe Ivy, too,) will have left, but…well, the ''rest'' of the Stonegate family is still going to be on Zharus. Hmmm…this could get interesting…
:::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 18:24, 13 November 2015 (EST)

== Pre-'Post–Oil-Age 'Dark Ages<nowiki>'</nowiki>' Political Situation? ==

What would you guys imagine the political situation just prior to the beginning of the post–Oil-Age 'Dark Ages' to be like? Or is it too early to dive into that yet? 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 18:08, 14 January 2015 (EST)
:Are you guys still thinking about this?  — [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 14:37, 29 January 2015 (EST)
::It's kind of important to me that you guys work on helping me figure this out for my story [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Carter's Last Stand?|''Carter's Last Stand?'']], so please let me know if you've thought about this yet and how far along you are in formulating an answer. If you'd like my input on this, then please either respond here or tell me where, if at all, you've been discussing this so that I can join in.
::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 19:23, 27 February 2015 (EST)

:::As no stories have been written in this era there really hasn't been any need to into it in detail, nor are any planned for this era. This is the nature of writing fiction. If no detail is needed, no detail is written. I know what happened in broad strokes, but that's all I need. Look, calm down a bit, okay? My time is limited. And you're not exactly asking us nicely here. --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] ([[User talk:JonBuck|talk]]) 21:11, 24 April 2015 (CDT)
::::I'm sorry we got off to such a bad start; that ''probably'' wasn't exactly the ''best'' way to ask that question, ''was'' it? Can you forgive me for being too eager to write my own story during the time period we're discussing? I didn't intend to sound like I wanted you to drop everything and dive into this; I was just afraid that you might get even ''more'' mad at me if I went out on a limb and did something timeline-breaking since I want my story to be canon, if you'll have it when it's finished. ''That's'' why I would ''greatly'' appreciate it if you could give me the few details you ''do'' have about the time just before the end of the Oil Age.
::::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 15:46, 25 April 2015 (EDT)

== On the Nature of Qubitite ==

What exactly is qubitite made out of? Is it some kind of [[en:Wikipedia:Photonic molecule|photonic molecular]] mesh prevented from dissipating by the presence of ordinary, baryonic matter inside? If so, then could it be synthesized in-universe and how difficult would doing so have to be in order to prevent the possibility of qubitite synthesis from being widely known by the time of the latest story in the current [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|''FreeRIDErs'']] chronology? 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 19:19, 27 February 2015 (EST)

:This is something we have to leave intentionally vague. The setting is more inspired by anime than hard scifi. Suffice to say that synthetic qubitite will only be introduced when we're ready, and we're ''far'' from ready. --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] ([[User talk:JonBuck|talk]]) 13:26, 13 April 2015 (CDT)
::Doggone it, I was going to have enough of it made available for some qubitite-based implants like the ones Jeannette Leroq has to make the reconstruction of a human being out of approximately–five-hundred-year-old records of that individual's DNA and brain state possible! Guess those involved in the project will just have to get some from a smuggler even though synthesizing the stuff would have made things a lot easier for my characters by allowing them to get around Zharus's export laws. About how far in the current chronology's future do you and the others intend to introduce synthetic Q, exactly, anyway? I was going to have somebody give a materials scientist whom he or she is friends with give him a hunk of rubidium salt or alloy that started sprouting weird blue specks on its surface after it had been lying around on a hard light surface for a while so that said materials scientist could study it and figure out exactly what it is. Obviously, tons of papers would likely come out of such efforts, but maybe their publication on Earth could be prevented or delayed by some small part of Earth's government that is actually knowledgeable and embracing of the truth behind what's going on on Zharus? And I was thinking that the procedures described by these papers would take months or even years to produce anywhere near a practical amount of qubitite so that they wouldn't really matter any more when they finally get declassified several years later because a much more efficient method of synthesizing Q had been discovered by then. My hope is that the significance and consequences of such a discovery would either turn out to be minimized in the grand scheme of things or forgotten about during the Earth-Zharus war. But I suppose the ability to synthesize qubitite would make Zharus's political situation a lot more tenuous, wouldn't it? So I guess now might not be the greatest time to let it factor into too many stories just yet.
::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 17:20, 13 April 2015 (EDT)

:::Longer term, we have plans for a war with Earth. The exact circumstances of which are still up in the air. So, have patience. :) --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] ([[User talk:JonBuck|talk]]) 23:29, 21 April 2015 (CDT)
::::Is this just between you, [[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]], and [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]], or can anybody contribute some ideas to these plans? If so, then where would I go to do so?
::::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 17:20, 26 April 2015 (EDT)
:::::We have a number of things that have to happen ''before'' we get there. I can see how enthusiastic about this setting you are, but Major Plot Points like this are the purview of the three of us. Once again, you'll have to be patient. --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] ([[User talk:JonBuck|talk]]) 21:07, 27 April 2015 (CDT)
::::::Roger, wilco. Guess I'll just have to rework this, then, won't I?
::::::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 17:20, 9 June 2015 (EDT)

== On the State of This Setting's Documentation ==

Hey, I've noticed that, while you've got some great pieces of in-universe documentation and source text for [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|''FreeRIDErs'']], it could be expanded and complimented by some documentation from the point of view of our universe. Is it okay if I help you guys with that while I'm still in the early planning stages of my project [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Projects/Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…|''Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…'']]? 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 19:51, 27 February 2015 (EST)
:In particular, I was wondering if, once I have enough programming experience, I could put some kind of calendar program tailored solving to this setting's interstellar date problems up on GitHub so that we can start decoupling the other planets' calendars from Zharus's.
:— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 20:05, 21 May 2015 (EDT)
::Actually, I suppose that's more like calendrical housekeeping, isn't it? I'll still do that when I get to it, but I think that what I originally meant by 'documentation' was the [[FreeRIDErs (Setting Timeline)|timeline]] and the [[FreeRIDErs (background material)|background materials]]. I suppose that's housekeeping, too, in a way, so maybe we should just lump it all together, rename this thread 'Housekeeping Discussion,' and call it a day?
::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 17:57, 9 June 2015 (EDT)

== On the compilation of an eBook ==

Hi all.
I am planning on embarking on a project of compiling and updating an eBook of the entirety of the FreeRIDErs universe. I expect this to be a reasonably large undertaking, and I would like the permission of as many of the authors involved before I begin. If you don't want your stories in the compilation, then I will be... well, I won't be happy, but I will to leave them out. I do realise that eBooks are already available for some of the stories, but I am attempting to compile as many stories as possible in a few volumes.

I will be giving full credit to the appropriate authors, and expect my own tiny, infinitesimally small contribution to this amazing universe that you have created to be noted by a small footnote at the start of the book that says "Compiled and Edited by F.L. Dragon".

I expect it to be completed within a month or two, maybe four if I get held up, as there is a lot of story to go through, proof-read to get any mistakes that may have been missed, and to make sure the formatting is consistent. I will also be doing this on my own, although any help would be appreciated. After completion, I expect to maintain the compilation on a monthly to bimonthly basis. This may be adjusted later to a quarterly update, but it will still be available and maintained.

Finally, I don't expect to make any monetary units from this project. At all. Zero Dollars.

And so, I humbly ask your permission to begin work on this project. I will be more than happy to provide progress updates every now and then, and I hope to complete it to your satisfaction.

Thank you for your time and consideration.
--[[User:FlyLowDragon|F.L. Dragon]] ([[User talk:FlyLowDragon|talk]]) 08:22, 8 April 2015 (CDT)
:You know, some of the stories in this setting already have e-book versions; I can't remember exactly which ones they are, but I ''do'' recall that those that do have a notice at the top. Could this help you with your project? Anyway, I think it's cool that you're compiling all of the ''FreeRDIErs'' stories into one collection. I ''do'', however, have one thought about this effort: wouldn't it be a ''lot'' easier to create an automated solution to do this for you rather than updating it manually?
:— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 16:12, 9 April 2015 (EDT)
::I do realise that, but they are: 1) all in separate e-books, and 2) not the Director's Cut versions. I think. I haven't actually looked at them, to be honest. Also, to create an e-book, all you need is the text, so going to pre-existing e-books that may or may not let you copy the text, depending on what software you use to read them, is not very helpful. Although seeing how the formatting is done in them might give me a standard to aim towards.
::Setting up an automated process for it... It can be semi-automated, but I'd still need to go through and make sure that all of the formatting is correct and consistent, and start it. Compare, for example, Aloha, by Jetfire, and Marshals, by JonBuck with Robotech_Master, paying attention to the dates given in story. In Aloha, they are bolded, while they are italicised in Marshals. It is very difficult to account for small things like that in the formatting, and so it is preferable to do it manually.
::Also, automation isn't that simple. When a new story is posted, I would still need to put the text into a word processor, make sure it is formatted properly in the word processor, give it another go-over for spelling and punctuation errors, use file conversion tools to convert the file into an e-book file, and then make sure that the file conversion tools didn't mangle the formatting, before giving it another go over for anything I missed, and then going back to step 2 if there is something I missed. And then send a version back to the author without the spelling mistakes. This process can only be reliably done by a human, and trying to automate it... well, I think the strip at https://xkcd.com/1319/ shows what I'm talking about. I'd end up spending more time working on the automation than I'd save by using the automation.
::Once the bulk of the work is done (got all pre-existing stories in the e-book), then it might only take me as long as it takes me to read the story to fix any new stories up and get them fully formatted. That is, if it doesn't get to me all mangled, badly formatted, and/or full of spelling and punctuation errors. And if I get to read it at the same time, well, bonus! So, no automation, although I would create a few templates to help reduce the time spent on it.
::Still, by the end of it all, I think I might end up reading each story however many times anyway, so win-win! :P
::--[[User:FlyLowDragon|F.L. Dragon]] ([[User talk:FlyLowDragon|talk]]) 21:45, 9 April 2015 (CDT)
:::Ah, of course! Maybe you could put your work up in a central place — say, either here on Shfiti or maybe in a repository hosted somewhere like [https://github.com/ GitHub] — so that others could contribute if they wanted and when they had the time? I've been thinking about going back through the stories and proofreading them anyway, so I'll probably chip in some work even though I'm currently working on my own mini-arc of stories at the moment since those are still just in the early planning/brainstorming/writing stages. Anyway, good luck, and I'll probably see you around!
:::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 12:59, 12 April 2015 (EDT)
:::Actually, the only works with Directors Cut versions so far ''do'' have e-books. The e-books of "Deserted" and "Merging Traffic" both incorporate the DirCut revisions, and the DirCut version of the original "FreeRIDErs" is incorporated along with the DirCuts of the chapters of "Integration" we have done so far as an "Integration" e-book, which will grow as we crank out more DirCuts. We haven't really had time to focus on that lately, because the next Totalia story has been kicking our asses for months now. But we're almost done with that, and should be able to bang out a few more after that (we hope).
:::Also, I question the necessity of a FreeRIDErs e-book that collects ''everything.'' People only read one story at a time, after all. A single e-book with all the stories in it could be kind of large and unwieldy, like the 75 megabyte version of all 15 ''Wheel of Time'' e-books that was included with last year's Hugo Nominations packet. For now, if you wanted to e-bookerize things, it would probably be best if you concentrated on creating single e-books of stories that don't have them yet, like all of Jetfire's stuff—though I'd suggest getting permission from him first, since that's only polite.
:::Apart from that, I suppose I wouldn't have any objection to an e-book of everything, provided that the stories were presented in publication order insofar as is possible. It just seems less useful right now than having individual e-books of everything.
:::—[[User:Robotech Master|Robotech Master]] ([[User talk:Robotech Master|talk]]) 01:14, 15 April 2015 (CDT)
:::Yeah, when I suggested this, I didn't think of how unwieldy it could be. I do still want to create a collection of the stories, but it is now more likely to be in the form of multiple e-books. The original plan was to split everything into different volumes, maybe 3 or 4, but even then it would still be a bit big. A quick word count of Jetfire's work up to All Spark Bulletin got a word count of over 180'000. This might not be a door-stopper, but it is still a decent length, and is only a fraction of the total writing, and more recent works (like the Totalia series) are probably longer than that in their own right. So, the aim now will be to create an e-book of each story that doesn't already have one, and compiling them in the one location for easy access. I may still decide to combine some stories that are in the same arc but one or some of the stories is a bit shorter (like the Foxed duology), with the author's permission of course. I'll probably try to make each e-book at least 40'000 words in length, which is about the size of a small novel, or a large novella. This will mean I may combine a few of the early Aloha stories, if I get Jetfire's permission, as Aloha on its own is only about 11'000 words.
:::I'll probably keep the standard of formatting similar to the pre-existing e-books, so I'll definitely look at them. I probably should have gone through them before suggesting stuff, though. GitHub does look like a good place to store everything, and it would allow me to make revisions reasonably easily, as well as create to-do lists for any broken formatting and spelling errors. Still, I'll look into it a bit more before coming to a final decision.
:::So, I guess I'm still waiting on permission from Jetfire, Fibio, HawlSera, Kris, and Claude LeChat, assuming that you speak for JonBuck as well, Robotech_Master. I am also curious as to the status and canonicity of Oddoneout's two stories that are sitting in the Category page, but not in the setting page, as well as Jetfire's Rescue 911, in the same situation.
:::--[[User:FlyLowDragon|F.L. Dragon]] ([[User talk:FlyLowDragon|talk]]) 15:52, 15 April 2015 (CDT)
::::You know, now that I think about it, GitHub might actually ''not'' be the best place to store the results of this project. After all, we ''already'' have a version-control system on-wiki in the form of edit tracking, right? I'd be perfectly fine with using that instead if it weren't for the permissions issues inherent in the fact that a lot of the ''FreeRIDErs'' universe's stories are hosted on their authors' Shifti user pages, but I think this problem could be solved if we got something like [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevs the 'FlaggedRevs' extension] set up here on Shifti and we moved all of the stories into the 'Article' namespace. Then all we'd need is something like one of the page-exporting extensions listed [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Publishing_from_MediaWiki#Extensions_to_help_with_exporting_data here], and then we'd automatically be in business. Or maybe we could still use GitHub, but only as a way to store automated dumps of individual stories to different formats (or maybe even an automated compilation?) Anyway, that's what I've come to realize.
::::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 17:57, 13 November 2015 (CST)

== Good Location for Shared ''FreeRIDErs'' Projects? ==

Hey, I just wanted to know if there might be a good location on Shifti from which to share incomplete ''FreeRIDErs'' projects with other users. I've got some stuff that I'm working on with [[User:Fahzyr|Fahzyr]] in my user space, but I want him to be able to edit it, too. Should I just move this content out of my user space and into a new page on Shifti, or should such content be categorized/filed under this setting page?
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 14:16, 30 April 2015 (EDT)

== ''FreeRIDErs'' Theme Song! ==

I was inspired to start writing a [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Songs/''FreeRIDErs'' Theme Song|theme song]], so now I guess we'll be ready if the series ever becomes a TV show, not that that'll happen in our lifetimes or anything. Anyway, I hope you guys like what I've got so far, and I'll see what I can do about adding/uploading the tune to Shifti. (I'd do it sooner rather than later if my sister's synthesizer keyboard were closer to the computer; then maybe the MIDI-to-USB cable would reach!) 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 15:01, 5 May 2015 (EDT)

Talk:FreeRIDErs (setting)

2015-11-13T23:26:33Z

RandomDSdevel: /* FreeRIDErs Theme Song! */ Fixed a grammatical error.

== Old Discussion on the Future of [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|''FreeRIDErs'']] and the Upcoming 'Earth-Zharus War' Story Arc Previously in Page Header ==

Are there any plans to let writers stray into the Earth-Zharus War scene? I've got a story idea or two that I'd love to set in that period, but I'm short on the context that Jon, RM and the others have in mind. That is, I don't really have any idea how you intend the war to play out. Although my idea wouldn't actually involve much in the actual frontlines/war, it would be good to have some idea of the kind of materiel and hardware and general strategy and social climate and the such, because nothing concrete seems to have actually been laid out so far for that period (or have I missed something?). Which is why I thought I'd ask your permission before getting started. If needed, I'd be more than pleased could draft out the general idea. Thanks in advance! --[[User:Wayward Coyote|Wayward Coyote]] ([[User talk:Wayward Coyote|talk]]) 18:05, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

:Thanks for your interest here, but there's a lot of ground to cover between the present and that future in the setting before we get there. We can't guarantee that anything you'd write taking place during that period would remain canon. --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] ([[User talk:JonBuck|talk]]) 19:01, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

:Yeah, what Jon said. Our ideas for the war are very very nebulous at this point, more possibilities than anything else. There are things we don't even know quite yet about how we're going to end "Integration", let alone what comes ''between'' that and the war. Any number of things could change between now and then. So just be patient, or else think on how to adapt your ideas to the setting's "present". —[[User:Robotech Master|Robotech Master]] ([[User talk:Robotech Master|talk]]) 23:23, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

::Ah, I understand. I might just follow the main series for now and wait until it hits that time period; I'm quite keen to see where it's going anyway. Or maybe I'll see what I can do with some other ideas I have lying around. Either way, though, thank you for your replies! --[[User:Wayward Coyote|Wayward Coyote]] ([[User talk:Wayward Coyote|talk]]) 07:38, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

== Possiblity of FreeRIDErs Cross-Over Stories ==

'''''This discussion thread has been moved to [[Talk:Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…#Discussion on the 'Possibility of FreeRIDErs Cross-Over Stories'|Talk:Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…]].''''' 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) (Originally posted at 7:22 PM EST on November 4th, 2014 and last edited at approximately 5:34:30 PM EST on January 10th, 2015)
:There are still replies waiting to be read over there, though, so come on down!
:— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 14:09, 14 November 2014 (EST)

== Possibility of Stonegate Ancestry and Military Heritage? ==

I was wondering if I could possibly give the extended Stonegate family some ancestors, at least one of whom I'd like to use to set a precedent for Socah Gates's involvement in military affairs, starting with [[User:RandomDSdevel/Carter's Last Stand?|''Once More Into the Breach, My Friend…: Carter's Last Stand?'']]? 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 17:41, 10 January 2015 (EST)
:If you're wondering why I asked, then it's because I thought it'd be kinda funny if [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Documentation/Carter Hawkinson|Carter Hawkinson]], the character who I made up to put in a data-based, copse-sicle–like situation, decided to visit Rhianna at the FreeRIDErs' Garage before attending one or more of the classes she teaches at Roberto Martinez Memorial University in Uplift to see if he'd like her as a teacher only to be interrupted mid-conversation by Charlene McClaren when she rushes in to tell Rhi about his resurrection and its relevance to her? Imagine the look at Charlene's face when she sees him standing there talking to Rhi, especially if she'd met him earlier before she knew about his significance!
:— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 19:46, 27 February 2015 (EST)
::You know, on second thought, maybe it would be better for Carter to wait until ''after'' Rhi gets back from Totalia to introduce himself to her? He could still hob-nob with Charlene, but it would probably be a good idea not to let Carter's resurrection cause too much of a stir.
::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 20:01, 21 May 2015 (EDT)
:::Wait a minute…: /Rhianna/ (and I think maybe Ivy, too,) will have left, but…well, the ''rest'' of the Stonegate family is still going to be on Zharus. Hmmm…this could get interesting…
:::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 18:24, 13 November 2015 (EST)

== Pre-'Post–Oil-Age 'Dark Ages<nowiki>'</nowiki>' Political Situation? ==

What would you guys imagine the political situation just prior to the beginning of the post–Oil-Age 'Dark Ages' to be like? Or is it too early to dive into that yet? 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 18:08, 14 January 2015 (EST)
:Are you guys still thinking about this?  — [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 14:37, 29 January 2015 (EST)
::It's kind of important to me that you guys work on helping me figure this out for my story [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Carter's Last Stand?|''Carter's Last Stand?'']], so please let me know if you've thought about this yet and how far along you are in formulating an answer. If you'd like my input on this, then please either respond here or tell me where, if at all, you've been discussing this so that I can join in.
::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 19:23, 27 February 2015 (EST)

:::As no stories have been written in this era there really hasn't been any need to into it in detail, nor are any planned for this era. This is the nature of writing fiction. If no detail is needed, no detail is written. I know what happened in broad strokes, but that's all I need. Look, calm down a bit, okay? My time is limited. And you're not exactly asking us nicely here. --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] ([[User talk:JonBuck|talk]]) 21:11, 24 April 2015 (CDT)
::::I'm sorry we got off to such a bad start; that ''probably'' wasn't exactly the ''best'' way to ask that question, ''was'' it? Can you forgive me for being too eager to write my own story during the time period we're discussing? I didn't intend to sound like I wanted you to drop everything and dive into this; I was just afraid that you might get even ''more'' mad at me if I went out on a limb and did something timeline-breaking since I want my story to be canon, if you'll have it when it's finished. ''That's'' why I would ''greatly'' appreciate it if you could give me the few details you ''do'' have about the time just before the end of the Oil Age.
::::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 15:46, 25 April 2015 (EDT)

== On the Nature of Qubitite ==

What exactly is qubitite made out of? Is it some kind of [[en:Wikipedia:Photonic molecule|photonic molecular]] mesh prevented from dissipating by the presence of ordinary, baryonic matter inside? If so, then could it be synthesized in-universe and how difficult would doing so have to be in order to prevent the possibility of qubitite synthesis from being widely known by the time of the latest story in the current [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|''FreeRIDErs'']] chronology? 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 19:19, 27 February 2015 (EST)

:This is something we have to leave intentionally vague. The setting is more inspired by anime than hard scifi. Suffice to say that synthetic qubitite will only be introduced when we're ready, and we're ''far'' from ready. --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] ([[User talk:JonBuck|talk]]) 13:26, 13 April 2015 (CDT)
::Doggone it, I was going to have enough of it made available for some qubitite-based implants like the ones Jeannette Leroq has to make the reconstruction of a human being out of approximately–five-hundred-year-old records of that individual's DNA and brain state possible! Guess those involved in the project will just have to get some from a smuggler even though synthesizing the stuff would have made things a lot easier for my characters by allowing them to get around Zharus's export laws. About how far in the current chronology's future do you and the others intend to introduce synthetic Q, exactly, anyway? I was going to have somebody give a materials scientist whom he or she is friends with give him a hunk of rubidium salt or alloy that started sprouting weird blue specks on its surface after it had been lying around on a hard light surface for a while so that said materials scientist could study it and figure out exactly what it is. Obviously, tons of papers would likely come out of such efforts, but maybe their publication on Earth could be prevented or delayed by some small part of Earth's government that is actually knowledgeable and embracing of the truth behind what's going on on Zharus? And I was thinking that the procedures described by these papers would take months or even years to produce anywhere near a practical amount of qubitite so that they wouldn't really matter any more when they finally get declassified several years later because a much more efficient method of synthesizing Q had been discovered by then. My hope is that the significance and consequences of such a discovery would either turn out to be minimized in the grand scheme of things or forgotten about during the Earth-Zharus war. But I suppose the ability to synthesize qubitite would make Zharus's political situation a lot more tenuous, wouldn't it? So I guess now might not be the greatest time to let it factor into too many stories just yet.
::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 17:20, 13 April 2015 (EDT)

:::Longer term, we have plans for a war with Earth. The exact circumstances of which are still up in the air. So, have patience. :) --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] ([[User talk:JonBuck|talk]]) 23:29, 21 April 2015 (CDT)
::::Is this just between you, [[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]], and [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]], or can anybody contribute some ideas to these plans? If so, then where would I go to do so?
::::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 17:20, 26 April 2015 (EDT)
:::::We have a number of things that have to happen ''before'' we get there. I can see how enthusiastic about this setting you are, but Major Plot Points like this are the purview of the three of us. Once again, you'll have to be patient. --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] ([[User talk:JonBuck|talk]]) 21:07, 27 April 2015 (CDT)
::::::Roger, wilco. Guess I'll just have to rework this, then, won't I?
::::::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 17:20, 9 June 2015 (EDT)

== On the State of This Setting's Documentation ==

Hey, I've noticed that, while you've got some great pieces of in-universe documentation and source text for [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|''FreeRIDErs'']], it could be expanded and complimented by some documentation from the point of view of our universe. Is it okay if I help you guys with that while I'm still in the early planning stages of my project [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Projects/Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…|''Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…'']]? 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 19:51, 27 February 2015 (EST)
:In particular, I was wondering if, once I have enough programming experience, I could put some kind of calendar program tailored solving to this setting's interstellar date problems up on GitHub so that we can start decoupling the other planets' calendars from Zharus's.
:— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 20:05, 21 May 2015 (EDT)
::Actually, I suppose that's more like calendrical housekeeping, isn't it? I'll still do that when I get to it, but I think that what I originally meant by 'documentation' was the [[FreeRIDErs (Setting Timeline)|timeline]] and the [[FreeRIDErs (background material)|background materials]]. I suppose that's housekeeping, too, in a way, so maybe we should just lump it all together, rename this thread 'Housekeeping Discussion,' and call it a day?
::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 17:57, 9 June 2015 (EDT)

== On the compilation of an eBook ==

Hi all.
I am planning on embarking on a project of compiling and updating an eBook of the entirety of the FreeRIDErs universe. I expect this to be a reasonably large undertaking, and I would like the permission of as many of the authors involved before I begin. If you don't want your stories in the compilation, then I will be... well, I won't be happy, but I will to leave them out. I do realise that eBooks are already available for some of the stories, but I am attempting to compile as many stories as possible in a few volumes.

I will be giving full credit to the appropriate authors, and expect my own tiny, infinitesimally small contribution to this amazing universe that you have created to be noted by a small footnote at the start of the book that says "Compiled and Edited by F.L. Dragon".

I expect it to be completed within a month or two, maybe four if I get held up, as there is a lot of story to go through, proof-read to get any mistakes that may have been missed, and to make sure the formatting is consistent. I will also be doing this on my own, although any help would be appreciated. After completion, I expect to maintain the compilation on a monthly to bimonthly basis. This may be adjusted later to a quarterly update, but it will still be available and maintained.

Finally, I don't expect to make any monetary units from this project. At all. Zero Dollars.

And so, I humbly ask your permission to begin work on this project. I will be more than happy to provide progress updates every now and then, and I hope to complete it to your satisfaction.

Thank you for your time and consideration.
--[[User:FlyLowDragon|F.L. Dragon]] ([[User talk:FlyLowDragon|talk]]) 08:22, 8 April 2015 (CDT)
:You know, some of the stories in this setting already have e-book versions; I can't remember exactly which ones they are, but I ''do'' recall that those that do have a notice at the top. Could this help you with your project? Anyway, I think it's cool that you're compiling all of the ''FreeRDIErs'' stories into one collection. I ''do'', however, have one thought about this effort: wouldn't it be a ''lot'' easier to create an automated solution to do this for you rather than updating it manually?
:— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 16:12, 9 April 2015 (EDT)
::I do realise that, but they are: 1) all in separate e-books, and 2) not the Director's Cut versions. I think. I haven't actually looked at them, to be honest. Also, to create an e-book, all you need is the text, so going to pre-existing e-books that may or may not let you copy the text, depending on what software you use to read them, is not very helpful. Although seeing how the formatting is done in them might give me a standard to aim towards.
::Setting up an automated process for it... It can be semi-automated, but I'd still need to go through and make sure that all of the formatting is correct and consistent, and start it. Compare, for example, Aloha, by Jetfire, and Marshals, by JonBuck with Robotech_Master, paying attention to the dates given in story. In Aloha, they are bolded, while they are italicised in Marshals. It is very difficult to account for small things like that in the formatting, and so it is preferable to do it manually.
::Also, automation isn't that simple. When a new story is posted, I would still need to put the text into a word processor, make sure it is formatted properly in the word processor, give it another go-over for spelling and punctuation errors, use file conversion tools to convert the file into an e-book file, and then make sure that the file conversion tools didn't mangle the formatting, before giving it another go over for anything I missed, and then going back to step 2 if there is something I missed. And then send a version back to the author without the spelling mistakes. This process can only be reliably done by a human, and trying to automate it... well, I think the strip at https://xkcd.com/1319/ shows what I'm talking about. I'd end up spending more time working on the automation than I'd save by using the automation.
::Once the bulk of the work is done (got all pre-existing stories in the e-book), then it might only take me as long as it takes me to read the story to fix any new stories up and get them fully formatted. That is, if it doesn't get to me all mangled, badly formatted, and/or full of spelling and punctuation errors. And if I get to read it at the same time, well, bonus! So, no automation, although I would create a few templates to help reduce the time spent on it.
::Still, by the end of it all, I think I might end up reading each story however many times anyway, so win-win! :P
::--[[User:FlyLowDragon|F.L. Dragon]] ([[User talk:FlyLowDragon|talk]]) 21:45, 9 April 2015 (CDT)
:::Ah, of course! Maybe you could put your work up in a central place — say, either here on Shfiti or maybe in a repository hosted somewhere like [https://github.com/ GitHub] — so that others could contribute if they wanted and when they had the time? I've been thinking about going back through the stories and proofreading them anyway, so I'll probably chip in some work even though I'm currently working on my own mini-arc of stories at the moment since those are still just in the early planning/brainstorming/writing stages. Anyway, good luck, and I'll probably see you around!
:::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 12:59, 12 April 2015 (EDT)
:::Actually, the only works with Directors Cut versions so far ''do'' have e-books. The e-books of "Deserted" and "Merging Traffic" both incorporate the DirCut revisions, and the DirCut version of the original "FreeRIDErs" is incorporated along with the DirCuts of the chapters of "Integration" we have done so far as an "Integration" e-book, which will grow as we crank out more DirCuts. We haven't really had time to focus on that lately, because the next Totalia story has been kicking our asses for months now. But we're almost done with that, and should be able to bang out a few more after that (we hope).
:::Also, I question the necessity of a FreeRIDErs e-book that collects ''everything.'' People only read one story at a time, after all. A single e-book with all the stories in it could be kind of large and unwieldy, like the 75 megabyte version of all 15 ''Wheel of Time'' e-books that was included with last year's Hugo Nominations packet. For now, if you wanted to e-bookerize things, it would probably be best if you concentrated on creating single e-books of stories that don't have them yet, like all of Jetfire's stuff—though I'd suggest getting permission from him first, since that's only polite.
:::Apart from that, I suppose I wouldn't have any objection to an e-book of everything, provided that the stories were presented in publication order insofar as is possible. It just seems less useful right now than having individual e-books of everything.
:::—[[User:Robotech Master|Robotech Master]] ([[User talk:Robotech Master|talk]]) 01:14, 15 April 2015 (CDT)
:::Yeah, when I suggested this, I didn't think of how unwieldy it could be. I do still want to create a collection of the stories, but it is now more likely to be in the form of multiple e-books. The original plan was to split everything into different volumes, maybe 3 or 4, but even then it would still be a bit big. A quick word count of Jetfire's work up to All Spark Bulletin got a word count of over 180'000. This might not be a door-stopper, but it is still a decent length, and is only a fraction of the total writing, and more recent works (like the Totalia series) are probably longer than that in their own right. So, the aim now will be to create an e-book of each story that doesn't already have one, and compiling them in the one location for easy access. I may still decide to combine some stories that are in the same arc but one or some of the stories is a bit shorter (like the Foxed duology), with the author's permission of course. I'll probably try to make each e-book at least 40'000 words in length, which is about the size of a small novel, or a large novella. This will mean I may combine a few of the early Aloha stories, if I get Jetfire's permission, as Aloha on its own is only about 11'000 words.
:::I'll probably keep the standard of formatting similar to the pre-existing e-books, so I'll definitely look at them. I probably should have gone through them before suggesting stuff, though. GitHub does look like a good place to store everything, and it would allow me to make revisions reasonably easily, as well as create to-do lists for any broken formatting and spelling errors. Still, I'll look into it a bit more before coming to a final decision.
:::So, I guess I'm still waiting on permission from Jetfire, Fibio, HawlSera, Kris, and Claude LeChat, assuming that you speak for JonBuck as well, Robotech_Master. I am also curious as to the status and canonicity of Oddoneout's two stories that are sitting in the Category page, but not in the setting page, as well as Jetfire's Rescue 911, in the same situation.
:::--[[User:FlyLowDragon|F.L. Dragon]] ([[User talk:FlyLowDragon|talk]]) 15:52, 15 April 2015 (CDT)

== Good Location for Shared ''FreeRIDErs'' Projects? ==

Hey, I just wanted to know if there might be a good location on Shifti from which to share incomplete ''FreeRIDErs'' projects with other users. I've got some stuff that I'm working on with [[User:Fahzyr|Fahzyr]] in my user space, but I want him to be able to edit it, too. Should I just move this content out of my user space and into a new page on Shifti, or should such content be categorized/filed under this setting page?
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 14:16, 30 April 2015 (EDT)

== ''FreeRIDErs'' Theme Song! ==

I was inspired to start writing a [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Songs/''FreeRIDErs'' Theme Song|theme song]], so now I guess we'll be ready if the series ever becomes a TV show, not that that'll happen in our lifetimes or anything. Anyway, I hope you guys like what I've got so far, and I'll see what I can do about adding/uploading the tune to Shifti. (I'd do it sooner rather than later if my sister's synthesizer keyboard were closer to the computer; then maybe the MIDI-to-USB cable would reach!) 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 15:01, 5 May 2015 (EDT)

Talk:FreeRIDErs (setting)

2015-11-13T23:25:25Z

RandomDSdevel: /* Possibility of Stonegate Ancestry and Military Heritage? */ Fixed my latest reply's time stamp.

== Old Discussion on the Future of [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|''FreeRIDErs'']] and the Upcoming 'Earth-Zharus War' Story Arc Previously in Page Header ==

Are there any plans to let writers stray into the Earth-Zharus War scene? I've got a story idea or two that I'd love to set in that period, but I'm short on the context that Jon, RM and the others have in mind. That is, I don't really have any idea how you intend the war to play out. Although my idea wouldn't actually involve much in the actual frontlines/war, it would be good to have some idea of the kind of materiel and hardware and general strategy and social climate and the such, because nothing concrete seems to have actually been laid out so far for that period (or have I missed something?). Which is why I thought I'd ask your permission before getting started. If needed, I'd be more than pleased could draft out the general idea. Thanks in advance! --[[User:Wayward Coyote|Wayward Coyote]] ([[User talk:Wayward Coyote|talk]]) 18:05, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

:Thanks for your interest here, but there's a lot of ground to cover between the present and that future in the setting before we get there. We can't guarantee that anything you'd write taking place during that period would remain canon. --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] ([[User talk:JonBuck|talk]]) 19:01, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

:Yeah, what Jon said. Our ideas for the war are very very nebulous at this point, more possibilities than anything else. There are things we don't even know quite yet about how we're going to end "Integration", let alone what comes ''between'' that and the war. Any number of things could change between now and then. So just be patient, or else think on how to adapt your ideas to the setting's "present". —[[User:Robotech Master|Robotech Master]] ([[User talk:Robotech Master|talk]]) 23:23, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

::Ah, I understand. I might just follow the main series for now and wait until it hits that time period; I'm quite keen to see where it's going anyway. Or maybe I'll see what I can do with some other ideas I have lying around. Either way, though, thank you for your replies! --[[User:Wayward Coyote|Wayward Coyote]] ([[User talk:Wayward Coyote|talk]]) 07:38, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

== Possiblity of FreeRIDErs Cross-Over Stories ==

'''''This discussion thread has been moved to [[Talk:Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…#Discussion on the 'Possibility of FreeRIDErs Cross-Over Stories'|Talk:Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…]].''''' 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) (Originally posted at 7:22 PM EST on November 4th, 2014 and last edited at approximately 5:34:30 PM EST on January 10th, 2015)
:There are still replies waiting to be read over there, though, so come on down!
:— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 14:09, 14 November 2014 (EST)

== Possibility of Stonegate Ancestry and Military Heritage? ==

I was wondering if I could possibly give the extended Stonegate family some ancestors, at least one of whom I'd like to use to set a precedent for Socah Gates's involvement in military affairs, starting with [[User:RandomDSdevel/Carter's Last Stand?|''Once More Into the Breach, My Friend…: Carter's Last Stand?'']]? 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 17:41, 10 January 2015 (EST)
:If you're wondering why I asked, then it's because I thought it'd be kinda funny if [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Documentation/Carter Hawkinson|Carter Hawkinson]], the character who I made up to put in a data-based, copse-sicle–like situation, decided to visit Rhianna at the FreeRIDErs' Garage before attending one or more of the classes she teaches at Roberto Martinez Memorial University in Uplift to see if he'd like her as a teacher only to be interrupted mid-conversation by Charlene McClaren when she rushes in to tell Rhi about his resurrection and its relevance to her? Imagine the look at Charlene's face when she sees him standing there talking to Rhi, especially if she'd met him earlier before she knew about his significance!
:— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 19:46, 27 February 2015 (EST)
::You know, on second thought, maybe it would be better for Carter to wait until ''after'' Rhi gets back from Totalia to introduce himself to her? He could still hob-nob with Charlene, but it would probably be a good idea not to let Carter's resurrection cause too much of a stir.
::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 20:01, 21 May 2015 (EDT)
:::Wait a minute…: /Rhianna/ (and I think maybe Ivy, too,) will have left, but…well, the ''rest'' of the Stonegate family is still going to be on Zharus. Hmmm…this could get interesting…
:::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 18:24, 13 November 2015 (EST)

== Pre-'Post–Oil-Age 'Dark Ages<nowiki>'</nowiki>' Political Situation? ==

What would you guys imagine the political situation just prior to the beginning of the post–Oil-Age 'Dark Ages' to be like? Or is it too early to dive into that yet? 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 18:08, 14 January 2015 (EST)
:Are you guys still thinking about this?  — [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 14:37, 29 January 2015 (EST)
::It's kind of important to me that you guys work on helping me figure this out for my story [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Carter's Last Stand?|''Carter's Last Stand?'']], so please let me know if you've thought about this yet and how far along you are in formulating an answer. If you'd like my input on this, then please either respond here or tell me where, if at all, you've been discussing this so that I can join in.
::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 19:23, 27 February 2015 (EST)

:::As no stories have been written in this era there really hasn't been any need to into it in detail, nor are any planned for this era. This is the nature of writing fiction. If no detail is needed, no detail is written. I know what happened in broad strokes, but that's all I need. Look, calm down a bit, okay? My time is limited. And you're not exactly asking us nicely here. --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] ([[User talk:JonBuck|talk]]) 21:11, 24 April 2015 (CDT)
::::I'm sorry we got off to such a bad start; that ''probably'' wasn't exactly the ''best'' way to ask that question, ''was'' it? Can you forgive me for being too eager to write my own story during the time period we're discussing? I didn't intend to sound like I wanted you to drop everything and dive into this; I was just afraid that you might get even ''more'' mad at me if I went out on a limb and did something timeline-breaking since I want my story to be canon, if you'll have it when it's finished. ''That's'' why I would ''greatly'' appreciate it if you could give me the few details you ''do'' have about the time just before the end of the Oil Age.
::::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 15:46, 25 April 2015 (EDT)

== On the Nature of Qubitite ==

What exactly is qubitite made out of? Is it some kind of [[en:Wikipedia:Photonic molecule|photonic molecular]] mesh prevented from dissipating by the presence of ordinary, baryonic matter inside? If so, then could it be synthesized in-universe and how difficult would doing so have to be in order to prevent the possibility of qubitite synthesis from being widely known by the time of the latest story in the current [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|''FreeRIDErs'']] chronology? 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 19:19, 27 February 2015 (EST)

:This is something we have to leave intentionally vague. The setting is more inspired by anime than hard scifi. Suffice to say that synthetic qubitite will only be introduced when we're ready, and we're ''far'' from ready. --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] ([[User talk:JonBuck|talk]]) 13:26, 13 April 2015 (CDT)
::Doggone it, I was going to have enough of it made available for some qubitite-based implants like the ones Jeannette Leroq has to make the reconstruction of a human being out of approximately–five-hundred-year-old records of that individual's DNA and brain state possible! Guess those involved in the project will just have to get some from a smuggler even though synthesizing the stuff would have made things a lot easier for my characters by allowing them to get around Zharus's export laws. About how far in the current chronology's future do you and the others intend to introduce synthetic Q, exactly, anyway? I was going to have somebody give a materials scientist whom he or she is friends with give him a hunk of rubidium salt or alloy that started sprouting weird blue specks on its surface after it had been lying around on a hard light surface for a while so that said materials scientist could study it and figure out exactly what it is. Obviously, tons of papers would likely come out of such efforts, but maybe their publication on Earth could be prevented or delayed by some small part of Earth's government that is actually knowledgeable and embracing of the truth behind what's going on on Zharus? And I was thinking that the procedures described by these papers would take months or even years to produce anywhere near a practical amount of qubitite so that they wouldn't really matter any more when they finally get declassified several years later because a much more efficient method of synthesizing Q had been discovered by then. My hope is that the significance and consequences of such a discovery would either turn out to be minimized in the grand scheme of things or forgotten about during the Earth-Zharus war. But I suppose the ability to synthesize qubitite would make Zharus's political situation a lot more tenuous, wouldn't it? So I guess now might not be the greatest time to let it factor into too many stories just yet.
::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 17:20, 13 April 2015 (EDT)

:::Longer term, we have plans for a war with Earth. The exact circumstances of which are still up in the air. So, have patience. :) --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] ([[User talk:JonBuck|talk]]) 23:29, 21 April 2015 (CDT)
::::Is this just between you, [[User:Robotech_Master|Robotech_Master]], and [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]], or can anybody contribute some ideas to these plans? If so, then where would I go to do so?
::::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 17:20, 26 April 2015 (EDT)
:::::We have a number of things that have to happen ''before'' we get there. I can see how enthusiastic about this setting you are, but Major Plot Points like this are the purview of the three of us. Once again, you'll have to be patient. --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] ([[User talk:JonBuck|talk]]) 21:07, 27 April 2015 (CDT)
::::::Roger, wilco. Guess I'll just have to rework this, then, won't I?
::::::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 17:20, 9 June 2015 (EDT)

== On the State of This Setting's Documentation ==

Hey, I've noticed that, while you've got some great pieces of in-universe documentation and source text for [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|''FreeRIDErs'']], it could be expanded and complimented by some documentation from the point of view of our universe. Is it okay if I help you guys with that while I'm still in the early planning stages of my project [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Projects/Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…|''Once More Into the Breach, My Friends…'']]? 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 19:51, 27 February 2015 (EST)
:In particular, I was wondering if, once I have enough programming experience, I could put some kind of calendar program tailored solving to this setting's interstellar date problems up on GitHub so that we can start decoupling the other planets' calendars from Zharus's.
:— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 20:05, 21 May 2015 (EDT)
::Actually, I suppose that's more like calendrical housekeeping, isn't it? I'll still do that when I get to it, but I think that what I originally meant by 'documentation' was the [[FreeRIDErs (Setting Timeline)|timeline]] and the [[FreeRIDErs (background material)|background materials]]. I suppose that's housekeeping, too, in a way, so maybe we should just lump it all together, rename this thread 'Housekeeping Discussion,' and call it a day?
::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 17:57, 9 June 2015 (EDT)

== On the compilation of an eBook ==

Hi all.
I am planning on embarking on a project of compiling and updating an eBook of the entirety of the FreeRIDErs universe. I expect this to be a reasonably large undertaking, and I would like the permission of as many of the authors involved before I begin. If you don't want your stories in the compilation, then I will be... well, I won't be happy, but I will to leave them out. I do realise that eBooks are already available for some of the stories, but I am attempting to compile as many stories as possible in a few volumes.

I will be giving full credit to the appropriate authors, and expect my own tiny, infinitesimally small contribution to this amazing universe that you have created to be noted by a small footnote at the start of the book that says "Compiled and Edited by F.L. Dragon".

I expect it to be completed within a month or two, maybe four if I get held up, as there is a lot of story to go through, proof-read to get any mistakes that may have been missed, and to make sure the formatting is consistent. I will also be doing this on my own, although any help would be appreciated. After completion, I expect to maintain the compilation on a monthly to bimonthly basis. This may be adjusted later to a quarterly update, but it will still be available and maintained.

Finally, I don't expect to make any monetary units from this project. At all. Zero Dollars.

And so, I humbly ask your permission to begin work on this project. I will be more than happy to provide progress updates every now and then, and I hope to complete it to your satisfaction.

Thank you for your time and consideration.
--[[User:FlyLowDragon|F.L. Dragon]] ([[User talk:FlyLowDragon|talk]]) 08:22, 8 April 2015 (CDT)
:You know, some of the stories in this setting already have e-book versions; I can't remember exactly which ones they are, but I ''do'' recall that those that do have a notice at the top. Could this help you with your project? Anyway, I think it's cool that you're compiling all of the ''FreeRDIErs'' stories into one collection. I ''do'', however, have one thought about this effort: wouldn't it be a ''lot'' easier to create an automated solution to do this for you rather than updating it manually?
:— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 16:12, 9 April 2015 (EDT)
::I do realise that, but they are: 1) all in separate e-books, and 2) not the Director's Cut versions. I think. I haven't actually looked at them, to be honest. Also, to create an e-book, all you need is the text, so going to pre-existing e-books that may or may not let you copy the text, depending on what software you use to read them, is not very helpful. Although seeing how the formatting is done in them might give me a standard to aim towards.
::Setting up an automated process for it... It can be semi-automated, but I'd still need to go through and make sure that all of the formatting is correct and consistent, and start it. Compare, for example, Aloha, by Jetfire, and Marshals, by JonBuck with Robotech_Master, paying attention to the dates given in story. In Aloha, they are bolded, while they are italicised in Marshals. It is very difficult to account for small things like that in the formatting, and so it is preferable to do it manually.
::Also, automation isn't that simple. When a new story is posted, I would still need to put the text into a word processor, make sure it is formatted properly in the word processor, give it another go-over for spelling and punctuation errors, use file conversion tools to convert the file into an e-book file, and then make sure that the file conversion tools didn't mangle the formatting, before giving it another go over for anything I missed, and then going back to step 2 if there is something I missed. And then send a version back to the author without the spelling mistakes. This process can only be reliably done by a human, and trying to automate it... well, I think the strip at https://xkcd.com/1319/ shows what I'm talking about. I'd end up spending more time working on the automation than I'd save by using the automation.
::Once the bulk of the work is done (got all pre-existing stories in the e-book), then it might only take me as long as it takes me to read the story to fix any new stories up and get them fully formatted. That is, if it doesn't get to me all mangled, badly formatted, and/or full of spelling and punctuation errors. And if I get to read it at the same time, well, bonus! So, no automation, although I would create a few templates to help reduce the time spent on it.
::Still, by the end of it all, I think I might end up reading each story however many times anyway, so win-win! :P
::--[[User:FlyLowDragon|F.L. Dragon]] ([[User talk:FlyLowDragon|talk]]) 21:45, 9 April 2015 (CDT)
:::Ah, of course! Maybe you could put your work up in a central place — say, either here on Shfiti or maybe in a repository hosted somewhere like [https://github.com/ GitHub] — so that others could contribute if they wanted and when they had the time? I've been thinking about going back through the stories and proofreading them anyway, so I'll probably chip in some work even though I'm currently working on my own mini-arc of stories at the moment since those are still just in the early planning/brainstorming/writing stages. Anyway, good luck, and I'll probably see you around!
:::— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 12:59, 12 April 2015 (EDT)
:::Actually, the only works with Directors Cut versions so far ''do'' have e-books. The e-books of "Deserted" and "Merging Traffic" both incorporate the DirCut revisions, and the DirCut version of the original "FreeRIDErs" is incorporated along with the DirCuts of the chapters of "Integration" we have done so far as an "Integration" e-book, which will grow as we crank out more DirCuts. We haven't really had time to focus on that lately, because the next Totalia story has been kicking our asses for months now. But we're almost done with that, and should be able to bang out a few more after that (we hope).
:::Also, I question the necessity of a FreeRIDErs e-book that collects ''everything.'' People only read one story at a time, after all. A single e-book with all the stories in it could be kind of large and unwieldy, like the 75 megabyte version of all 15 ''Wheel of Time'' e-books that was included with last year's Hugo Nominations packet. For now, if you wanted to e-bookerize things, it would probably be best if you concentrated on creating single e-books of stories that don't have them yet, like all of Jetfire's stuff—though I'd suggest getting permission from him first, since that's only polite.
:::Apart from that, I suppose I wouldn't have any objection to an e-book of everything, provided that the stories were presented in publication order insofar as is possible. It just seems less useful right now than having individual e-books of everything.
:::—[[User:Robotech Master|Robotech Master]] ([[User talk:Robotech Master|talk]]) 01:14, 15 April 2015 (CDT)
:::Yeah, when I suggested this, I didn't think of how unwieldy it could be. I do still want to create a collection of the stories, but it is now more likely to be in the form of multiple e-books. The original plan was to split everything into different volumes, maybe 3 or 4, but even then it would still be a bit big. A quick word count of Jetfire's work up to All Spark Bulletin got a word count of over 180'000. This might not be a door-stopper, but it is still a decent length, and is only a fraction of the total writing, and more recent works (like the Totalia series) are probably longer than that in their own right. So, the aim now will be to create an e-book of each story that doesn't already have one, and compiling them in the one location for easy access. I may still decide to combine some stories that are in the same arc but one or some of the stories is a bit shorter (like the Foxed duology), with the author's permission of course. I'll probably try to make each e-book at least 40'000 words in length, which is about the size of a small novel, or a large novella. This will mean I may combine a few of the early Aloha stories, if I get Jetfire's permission, as Aloha on its own is only about 11'000 words.
:::I'll probably keep the standard of formatting similar to the pre-existing e-books, so I'll definitely look at them. I probably should have gone through them before suggesting stuff, though. GitHub does look like a good place to store everything, and it would allow me to make revisions reasonably easily, as well as create to-do lists for any broken formatting and spelling errors. Still, I'll look into it a bit more before coming to a final decision.
:::So, I guess I'm still waiting on permission from Jetfire, Fibio, HawlSera, Kris, and Claude LeChat, assuming that you speak for JonBuck as well, Robotech_Master. I am also curious as to the status and canonicity of Oddoneout's two stories that are sitting in the Category page, but not in the setting page, as well as Jetfire's Rescue 911, in the same situation.
:::--[[User:FlyLowDragon|F.L. Dragon]] ([[User talk:FlyLowDragon|talk]]) 15:52, 15 April 2015 (CDT)

== Good Location for Shared ''FreeRIDErs'' Projects? ==

Hey, I just wanted to know if there might be a good location on Shifti from which to share incomplete ''FreeRIDErs'' projects with other users. I've got some stuff that I'm working on with [[User:Fahzyr|Fahzyr]] in my user space, but I want him to be able to edit it, too. Should I just move this content out of my user space and into a new page on Shifti, or should such content be categorized/filed under this setting page?
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 14:16, 30 April 2015 (EDT)

== ''FreeRIDErs'' Theme Song! ==

I was inspired to start writing a [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Songs/''FreeRIDErs'' Theme Song|theme song]], so now I guess we'll be ready if the series ever becomes a TV show, not that that'll happen in our lifetimes or anything. Anyway, I hope you guys like what I've got so far, and I'll see what I can do about adding uploading the tune to Shifti. (I'd do it sooner rather than later if my sister's synthesizer keyboard were closer to the computer; then maybe the MIDI-to-USB cable would reach!) 
— [[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]]) 15:01, 5 May 2015 (EDT)