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== Project Overview ==
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I have decided to rename the project that this page is meant to serve as a means of coordinating from its previous, tentative title of ''When Worlds Collide'' to 'Project 'Crash Course<nowiki>''</nowiki> not only because of how it is about worlds colliding with each other but also because it will be a kind of crash course in writing things meant for publication here on Shifti for me.
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<!--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].  -->{{add|…}}
  
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=== Inspiration and Origins ===
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{{note|I'm working to turning this section into more of a timeline, so bear with me here…  —&thinsp;[[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]]/[[:Category:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]])}}
  
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I was inspired to write this story after reading both a story named [http://www.instantkingdom.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1336&post=32074#32074 'Catgirl'] by [http://www.instantkingdom.com/ Instant Kingdom] user Zombie and several stories set in the [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org 'MORFS'] and [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|''FreeRIDErs'']] universes.  In Zombie's [http://www.instantkingdom.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1336&post=32074#32074 'Catgirl'], the main characters hide from pursuers in an old Japanese space station orbiting what they call 'Old Earth' due to the fact that it is humanity's ancestral home (there ''is'', I believe, a '''New'' Earth' in this same setting,) on which it is rumored there exist artificial intelligences of some kind.  That got me thinking:  could that old Japanese space station be [http://morfs.wikidot.com/tenkei Tenkei], or 'Heaven's Blessing,' from the [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org/ 'MORFS' universe], and could the mentioned artificial intelligences be RIDEs from [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|''FreeRIDErs'']]?  If this were true, then I concluded that somebody might write another story, placed in the past of Zombie's [http://www.instantkingdom.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1336&post=32074#32074 'Catgirl'], in which characters from the [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org 'MORFS'] and [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|''FreeRIDErs'']] universe would meet somehow.  Since I'm the one who came up with the idea in the first place, I thought that ''I'' might flesh it out into a full-fledged story.  Even though I don't really have that much experience writing fiction, I'm going to give it my best shot! 
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<!--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'].  -->{{add|…}}
  
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My current plans involve relating to my readers the experiences that characters from both the [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org/ 'MORFS' universe] and the [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|''FreeRIDErs'' universe]] go through both before and after contact. 
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=== Characters ===
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{{note|I'm also working on splitting this section's contents into a format that's easier to read.  —&thinsp;[[User:RandomDSdevel|RandomDSdevel]]/[[:Category:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] ([[User talk:RandomDSdevel|talk]])}}
  
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==== [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org/ 'MORFS' Universe] ====
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<!--[[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.  -->{{add|…}}
  
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The main character from the [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org/ 'MORFS' universe] will initially be a hermaphrodite with the anatomical and physiological abilities necessary to hide certain parts of his (this character's identity is, at first, predominantly masculine) or her said anatomy and physiology in such a way that he or she can appear to others as being of whichever sex he or she so chooses.  However, the form which I mean for this character to take on after going through MORFS is that of a purely-female avian/feline/hominin/lupine/vulpine hybrid with the ability to manipulate the 'N-dimensional patterns' that constitute the subspace of her universe. 
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<!--[[User:RandomDSdevel|WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly]] began tentative work on the stories in this sub-series on October 12<sup>th</sup>, 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 14<sup>th</sup>, 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-21<sup>th</sup> century might come to find himself put into some kind of medical stasis only to be woken up in the mid-26<sup>th</sup> 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 19<sup>th</sup>, 2014, and was followed up by a slightly more extensive rewrite five days later on November 24<sup>th</sup>.  Minor maintenance was done on [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories /Uprooted|''Uprooted'']] between November 29<sup>th</sup> and December 19<sup>th</sup> as well.  On January 10<sup>th</sup> 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.  -->{{add|…}}
  
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This character chooses to die shortly after receiving a bullet right in his heart in order to have his DNA and nervous system preserved as computer data.  Terran scientists reconstruct him from this data approximately five hundred years later, waking him up to find himself in the [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|''FreeRIDErs'' universe]].
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* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/All's Quiet on the Midwestern Front|''All's Quiet on the Midwestern Front'']]
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* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/Uprooted|''Uprooted'']]
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* [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!195&authkey=!AGHU9jtalJwZRoo&ithint=file%2cdocx ''Displacement'']
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* [[User:RandomDSdevel/Sandbox/Works in Progress/Stories/When Worlds Collide?!?|''When Worlds Collide?!?'']]
  
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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. 
  
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* [https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=289534415E45234A!195&authkey=!AGHU9jtalJwZRoo&ithint=file%2cdocx ''Displacement''] (Title Tentative, Work in Progress)
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:The main character from the [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org/ 'MORFS' universe] is introduced, goes through his transformation into a complete girl, adjusts to this change, takes a while to figure out her powers, and then escapes from a group of people who want to use these powers to their own advantage by creating an N-dimensional pattern in order to catapult herself to s ship that she 'sees' with her powers in a nearby, parallel bubble of space-time.
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:Cameron Fletcherly is about to die after having been the target of an act of business terrorism and decides to have his genome sequenced and his entire central nervous system mapped in hopes that the resulting data might one day be used to resurrect him.  Terran scientists of the 27<sup>th</sup> century stumble upon this data while looking through medical archives, analyze it and some documentation provided alongside it only to find that Cameron's body and mental state are what it encodes, and revive the young man using nanotechnology, just as he desired.  The newly-resuscitated teenager takes up residence somewhere on Zharus either after or before learning about RIDEs.  Curious about the artificially-intelligent mechanoid robots, the young man decides to learn more about them by constructing a shell for one of his very own to call home.  In the process, he unwittingly creates a DE whose form is similar enough to my main character from the [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org/ 'MORFS' universe] that she will be able to use it as a target for what is known, in the [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|''FreeRIDErs'' universe]], as a subspace jump.  He does not, however, acquire an RI to go in his DE at this time. 
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:If the [[User talk:Jetfire#What Will Arka's Future Hold?|linked discussion]] is a success for all parties concerned, then, in this story, Cameron Fletcherly will finally receive an RI to go in the DE that he has made in the form of Arka from [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire's]] [[User:Jetfire/The Touch|'The Touch']], an EI who wants to become an RI, once she and her 'parents,' Farouk and Lucy Skye, learn that the DE in question is available for her use.  She and my main character from the [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|''FreeRIDErs'' universe]] will then fuse before  following in the footsteps of Yuri Shepard and Skyfire from [[User:Jetfire/The Touch|that same story]] by joining the Marshals.  This may take them on a mission to the Sol system to resupply Troy, Spot, and Helena from [[User:Jetfire|Jetfire]]'s story [[User:Jetfire/Spies Among Us|'Spies Among Us']] with the means of producing a new DINcom so that these latter individuals can stay in touch with the Marshals on Zharus.
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:My character from the [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org/ 'MORFS' universe] ends her subspace jump in the middle of the ship taken by my main character from the [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|''FreeRIDErs'' universe]] while it is either on its way to or on its way back from its mission to resupply the Martian Marshals mentioned above with a working DINcom in such a way that she either knocks it out of subspace or prevents it from entering it and either landing herself in the [[FreeRIDErs (setting)|''FreeRIDErs'' universe]] or her target ship in the [http://morfs.nowhere2go.org/ 'MORFS' universe]. 
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Project Details…

Origins…

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I'm working to turning this section into more of a timeline, so bear with me here… — RandomDSdevel/WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly (talk)

Inspiration…

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Project History…

I'm also working on splitting this section's contents into a format that's easier to read. — RandomDSdevel/WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly (talk)

Etymological History…

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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:

Documentation

Documentation on topics related to this story arc can currently be found here, but the information now stored there may be merged or transcluded into this section at a later date.

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