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I have no idea what that meant, but ok.

Space is big, but SG small.

You can’t find the country on a map.

It's about 750 light-years away, so even at Starwisp speeds, you'd take... ooh, factor in the acceleration period and you're going to be well up above 4000 years. You'd have relativistic time dilation to help you along, but the trip would only feel about a century shorter.

Space Is Big^TM.

As for me, I'm not an astronomer - I'm a chemist - but I think it's cool, and I did take an introductory astronomy course a few years back. Because space is cool (as well as big) and it's fun to think about.

(Germany has some excellent names to choose from; I'm particularly fond of the idea of naming their system Rose Red and Snow White, even though that wouldn't really allow for expansion. A lot of places are using indigenous names, which is a) very nice, but b) doesn't give me anything much to talk about, because I don't know any of them.)

hS

Coincidentally, we’re near the equator, so it’s very warm and sunny.

We’re also too small to built a launch shuttle. We need to deal with our housing and education and other infrastructure stuff. We really need more land, but I’ve heard that the government is considering making underground structures to supplement our ever diminishing plot of land.

Also Huinesoron, are you an astronomer?

It's an F-type star, which makes it 'yellow-white', or just a bit hotter than our sun. Looks like it's roughly the same size, too.

WASP-32 b, the planet, is another 'dense Jupiter', and definitely a Hot Jupiter too - it races around its sun in a blistering two and a half days!

Sadly it doesn't look like Singapore is all that into the project; their Astronomy.sg website doesn't even mention it. Also said website seems to be at least 4 years out of date, which is probably why. :) (Possibly they're just annoyed that their star isn't visible from Earth, which must be a bit of a downer...)

hS

Never mind, I found the system. It’s called WASP-32.

I can’t seem to find out how to search for designated systems with the link. Where’s Singapore?

D'you remember back in 2015 the IAU had a thing where they asked the world to name some exoplanets? That's actually why we have the likes of Hypatia, Poltergeist, and Dagon out there.

Well, it's back! Every country has its own designated planetary system, and (to greater or lesser extent) its own submission/suggestion setup.

For the UK, our system is WASP 13, a sunlike star in Lynx, and its sole planet is a sort of less-dense Jupiter. Naming submissions are closed, but there's a vote coming soon (this month, in theory). The planet was discovered in 2009 by a British team, so that's charming.

Over the pond, the US has HD 17156, a yellow subgiant in Cassiopeia that's in dire need of a new name. Its planet is actually smaller than the UK's, but six times denser (over 3x Jovian mass). It also has an unconfirmed second planet (looks like the claim is based on orbital resonance), so the name could take that into account. Voting is ongoing until, um.... today, in fact, and all except one pair of names is based on something native to the US (the exception is Yellowstone and Old Faithful).

Other countries can be found on the website, so pick out your own and - if still possible - have your say!

hS

I haven't even finished writing up the fourth Interplanetary Gathering yet! And now you're sending me interstellar?

...

The geekiest named exoplanet is probably Hypatia, aka Iota Draconis b, and (obviously) named after a PPC resident. Of course it's nowt but a hot Jupiter; a better choice might be the four planets of Mu Arae, or rather, Cervantes and its worlds Dulcinea, Rocinante, Quijote, and Sancho. Quijote is a habitable-zone Jovian, so it could plausibly have habitable moons. Dulcinae might juuuust about be a rocky planet in its own right, though it's still about 10 Earth masses.

Or there's always the Bureau's favourite Zombie Star, because who doesn't want to stand on Poltergeist and look up at Draugr passing in front of Lich?

EDIT: Oh, or Dagon. Which isn't particularly geeky in and of itself, but does orbit around the Eye of Sauron.

hS

祝你生日快乐！祝你生日快乐！

生日快乐，CodeCom，祝你生日快乐!

Translation: Happy birthday, to you! Happy birthday, to you! Happy birthday, CodeCom, happy birthday to you!)

Here, have a cone hat that is adorned with a question mark pattern.

eeeee hS liked my story eeeeee!

I, uh, completely forgot about people living on-network. So, potential solutions:

1. Folks like Holo-Acacia probably have their long-term memory on a disk somewhere, and those were untouched. So, worst case, they've forgotten the pile of infovore-related panic and possible a few minutes previous to that, and thus woke up afterwards going "Wha' happened?"

2. Chase scene? Chase scene! Especially the sort where the monster is behind most of the doors you open and you're desperately trying to get away from the thing. The background is inevitably somehow Yakety Sax [microsecond remix].

3. A miracle occurs, and everyone safely made it to the lab before getting munched on.

4. Massive piles of handwave, up to and including "it was all just a dream"

Reminds me of a mix of Spanish and Turkish. The grammar and system of pronouns is very Turkish but some of the consonant sounds are very Spanish. It has four genders, multiple declension and eight cases so I cannot guarantee that I have got the grammar perfect, but it would probably be intelligible even if unidiomatic.

It looks amazing in that font!

Elcalion, language geek

The Bureau will sure come in handy when it comes time for the Board to plan its first intragalactic Gathering. ^_^

~Neshomeh

Even if it wasn't deliberate in the original, it certainly works very well as such. Just one more reason I was happy to keep that symbol in place. I actually thought about making it a literal reference if I had to (we have the vocabulary to say "clan/family tree" or "child tree").

I'm pleased it works so well as is. ^_^

And yes, the language was very much designed to be sung and chanted by deep, gravelly voices, as in the Skyrim theme (lyrics shown there). It's glorious.

~Neshomeh

Been a bit late to that, but it is nice to see other missions for the Persona fandom! I also like the little jab about MC potentially buying and hoarding everything (although my money was rather spent on Social Stats boosts and Personae myself). The way the canon were enlisted was interesting too.

I hope you can find the opportunities to write more missions in the future.

I don't know how it sounds in the show, but reading it gives me a fairly Russian feel (check out that 'mazverdili' at the end). Despite hitting the same harsh consonants as Nesh's Dragon Speech, it feels very different.

Now, this next is a bit of a cheat, because technically High Valyrian is only seen written in the Latin alphabet in the show. But, it's written in a lovely old style which there just happens to be a free font available for, and so:

With the flowing tails, I think it looks sufficiently 'un-English' to count. ^_^

hS

Here's my best crack, although far from idiomatic I'm sure

īlon riñari vȳhoti naenȳti iksi. īlon qrīdropatre aerēptiti, yn īlon pontālī sīr rhaenti . īlon ondossi raquiroti imazumbili, īlon gieri ondossi vȳs arlio mazverdili .

Elcalion, subject object verbing

Weird fun, but fun all the same.

But...

... but the Ghost in the Machine and Holo-Acacia are (were?) both living on the network at the time of the crash. They're confirmed 'alive' a year or so later (during Talk Like 15 Pirates), but I can't imagine this was easy on them. Of course, versions of the Ghost have lived through multiple network crashes and wipes before, but I don't think this one has... I think I'll file that under Points To Ponder.

hS

Thanks for complimenting the work Huinesoron, but I have a feeling that I created another plot hole by assuming that Kylo is weak minded:(

Nice job working it into the canon scene.

hS

Those posters on other planets are actually pretty cool.

Just in case you thought NASA was particularly sane... the Exoplanet Travel Bureau consists of travel posters for nine of the most distinctive extra-solar planets we've detected. From Kepler 16-b (Where Your Shadow Always Has Company) to the storm-wracked HD 189733 b (It's DEATH by a MILLION CUTS on this SLASHER PLANET!), there's guaranteed to be something for everyone, provided everyone is fond of hot Jupiters.

Hmm... browsing the index of Star Trek's star charts, I see that we finally discovered Vulcan last year. Perhaps it's time for a new poster?

hS