So my beta reader for the Big Fics is an astrophysicist, right. Who is currently also writing a hard sci-fi novel about the exploration of Phobos (more power to them, I cannot with the physics required for that, best I can do is soft sci-fi/fantasy and that reminds me I should finish that story).
Anyway I was bitching about how hard it is to come up with feasible planets in Star Wars because sometimes you need a new planet from scratch and sometimes you need to know more about a planet than the 'has jungles, is probably a moon technically' than Wookieepedia will give you, and they're like 'oh yeah I can do something about that'.
So they've written (in Matlab but they swear it will run as a .exe as well and I may be conscripted to embed it as a web tool at some point) a star system generator.
You input what you know about the planet (ecosystem, population, sun colour, does it have liquid water, does it have a moon or moons, is it a moon or moons, temperature averages, atmosphere, you get me) and it will give you the... everything else about the star system, in obedience to real-universe physics. And if you input nothing you get a randomly generated star system.
And I’m like oh I know people who will be into this with a vengeance, and they're not on Tumblr, so this is me seeing who exactly would be keen on, and I cannot stress this enough, a real-physics comprehensive star system generator.
It's still in the debugging phase (last error fixed: every planet wants to have a population of exactly 5000 regardless of other factors, turned out to be a missing equals sign somewhere), but I'm psyched for this and trying to gauge interest for how high a priority 'make this an accessible web tool' needs to be.
Reblogging to drag this project over here, this is killing my notes on main so I'm giving it its own URL. Follow over here for updates on the star system generator and only the star system generator, and not on my Star Wars bullshit.
Will go through and tag interested parties when things calm down below 100 notes an hour.
truly dads with new born babies v dads with children are two completely different people this man used to strap this child to his chest with a double chest wrap because he was terrified of giving her shaken baby syndrome and now he just kinda hucks her , I'll be sitting on the bed and all of a sudden my child just comes soaring towards me
Husband when child was newborn: you are my beautiful soft amazing little creature and I will be so gentle and lightly clean you softly and sing you sweet songs
Husband now that child is 4 years old: carries feral child upside down into the bathroom telling her she is a smelly little beast and she has to wash her butt while she sings him songs about spraying him with the shower head
Husband when child was newborn: "bath time and bed time is my special one on one time with my sweet baby angel where I tell her how special and soft and sweet she is and spend much needed time relaxing and getting her to relax and snuggling"
Husband now that child is 4 and "sturdy" (his words not mine): "bath time is my special time for hand to hand combat with my warrior princess where I teach her how to throw a punch and try to exhaust her enough that she passes out until tomorrow, and if that doesn't work I just start making deals like she's a mob boss and I am a desperate flunkie"
Husband when child was newborn: here is your hypoallergenic formula heated to the exact temperature that you need to have the thickening agent activate in a ulta double sterilized bottle my miracle NICU baby, it takes 25 -35 minutes to make but it is what we must do to keep you safe and healthy.
Husband now that child is 4: "I had to make her a breakfast snack of two eggs and toast before we go out to brunch because she was gnawing on the bars of her enclosure and I am frankly terrified of the small piranha she becomes when hangry."
Yikes. Yeah now I've seen the site that's a pretty big data breach, we should probably look into that. 😬
Though admittedly, if someone figured out who I was then finding info about me online probably wouldn't be excessively difficult if they knew where to look, what with everything I was doing pre-Spectrum. I know official records and what not were mostly scrubbed when I joined but the internet is forever, as they say.
Aside from the identities of the major Cloudbase Officers being up there, it’s mostly harmless. There’s a lot of inconsistent data on everyone’s personal information as well, which is interesting, but I wouldn’t complain about that.
Okay this is a long one. Took forever, got interrupted several times, but it's done.
TL;DR: Three middle names for stingray characters and that's it. Stingray: character focused biographies. Thunderbirds: super basic info as an image that's duplicated in a long video with clips from the series. CSatM: character ID cards. NCS: nothing :(
Stingray (2001 dvd box set)
Troy Tempest. Born 2038 in nyc, where he studied, when he joined WASP and got promoted, etc. Troy isn't given a current age, but was promoted to Captain and given command of stingray at age 22.
Phones | George Lee Sheridan. Born South Carolina, no year. He's 31 right now, and older than Troy. Short life story.
Marina. 19 years old. Gives the explanation on why Marina is silent as heard in the 'Marina speaks' audio adventure. In love with Troy.
Atlanta. 23 years old. Born California, has run the Shore household since the death of her mother. In love with Troy.
Commander Sam Shore. "Born in Kansas in 2015, Shore was christened Samuel Arthur. He ran away from home at an early age to join the navy." Outlines why he uses the hoverchair.
Sub lieutenant John Horatio Fisher. Born Oregon, age 22. Went from well regarded world navy cadet to Marineville relief controller. "He is a fully qualified WASP patrol boat captain".
Oink. Marina's pet seal.
Titan. 230 marine-years old. He's evil and here's all the reasons why, also keeps his god like a pet in a teeny tiny fish tank in his throne room.
X-2-Zero (title of biography and the back of the DVD boxes with the episode outlines) [alternatively X2-Zero (text of biography), or X20 (DVD subtitles) ]. 107 marine-years old, he's got a secret base at this location with this tech, and serves Titan.
The Aquaphibians. "Physically monstrous", "green skinned", "used by their masters to aggravate the Stingray crew". They use the terror fish as a vessel, it's got weapons, and they speak gurgle language.
Thunderbirds (2025, 60th anniversary edition)
No basic biographies like other box sets :(
The closest thing is an episode guide book featuring these pages:
My phone has """AI photo enhancements""" that essentially just swirls the pixels around slightly, which I cannot disable 🫠, so that tiny text is illegible here, but it's only barely legible in person anyway (it's so tiny why would they print it like that??)
There's a video talking about each of the characters but it's very long.
It immediately outs the Tracy family as iR though, including who does what.
Talks about personalities and stuff each of the characters has done in episodes... by showing long clips from those episodes.
Brains talking about Scott: "I think it's fair to say he's inherited his father's cool head". Meanwhile TAG Scott is the complete opposite of that 😂
7 minutes to get through Jeff and Scott, I'm not watching the rest right now. I've got other series's to investigate.
New Captain Scarlet (2023 box set)
Despite getting it from the Anderson website and it being a recent release, this one doesn't have any biographies?? Neither on the first disk as an introduction style special feature (stingray, csatm), nor on the last disk with all the other special features (ncs, thunderbirds).
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (2015 dvd box set)
Turns out it's not the 2001 version apparently (according to the website I got it from). Still weird that it doesn't note down the release date anywhere on the box though, it only says copyright 1967, whereas others include the copyright for the original release (eg ncs is 2004) and copyright this version of the packaging (eg ncs is 2023).
The "character identities" look like this:
No middle names anywhere.
Wikipedia gives codename, real name, nationality. All match DVD.
Differences:
The captains are labelled as 'field officers' on DVD but 'senior staff officers' on HQ.
HQ birth place is generally either the same or more specific than DVD.
Scarlet's hair is listed as black on both spectrum HQ and fandom wiki, but dark brown on DVD.
Lieutenant Green has brown eyes according to wiki but hazel according to HQ and DVD.
Both websites say Ochre has dark brown hair, DVD says just brown.
DVD says Magenta is 6ft 1", 180 lbs, but HQ says 6ft, 173 lbs.
Wiki thinks Grey's eyes are blue, DVD and HQ say brown. DVD says 4 March 2035, 6ft 3", 190 lbs, but HQ says 4 March 2033, 5ft 11", 173 lbs. There's a note on HQ saying that their info doesn't match that from the 2001 DVD and the DVD doesn't align with other sources... yet the 2001 info matches mine, SO WHEN WAS MY DVD RELEASED? 2001 or 2015??? When I look up the 2001 version, the box looks completely different to what I've got...?
Dr Gold interlude - wiki states he was born 1983, yet the series is set in 2068, meaning he's 85 and still working??? HQ links to Skybase central for the NCS characters, where Gold is listed as 50 years old (no birth date) which is definitely more realistic.
Both websites give Fawn brown eyes and dark brown hair while DVD gives blue eyes and black hair, DVD says 5ft 9", 150 lbs, HQ says 5ft 8", 157 lbs.
Websites give Destiny brown eyes blonde hair, DVD says green eyes platinum blonde hair.
The websites disagree on Rhapsody's hair colour whilst one sides with the DVD; HQ says red hair, wiki and DVD say strawberry blonde.
Symphony is given green eyes by DVD, but brown by websites (despite wiki image showing eyes too light to be considered brown). Also websites say 6 January 2042, DVD says 6 January 2043.
Really weird how most info is identical but some is off. Were there multiple sources of varying ease of access so some info wasn't found and this made up for the DVD? But then getting the date right but both year wrong, how would you do that? Why would a source give the date but not the year?
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"Now I've shot so many Nazis, Daddy will have to buy me a sable coat." (From his Wikipedia article).
Neil Munro "Bunny" Roger
June 9, 1911-April 27, 1997.
Bunny Roger killed a bunch of Nazis and then invented Capri pants.
He was expelled from Oxford for his indiscrete gayness (discrete gayness being perfectly fine at Oxford and part of the curriculum until...today probably, at least like 1992?). Then, having been sent down to London, he started his own fashion business, and his first client was Vivien Leigh.
Bunny served in WWII, killing fascists in North Africa and Italy, and often wearing a mauve scarf in the field. Roger claimed that he had gone into a battle brandishing a rolled-up copy of VOGUE and commanding: "When in doubt, powder heavily!"
Roger was known in high society for his themed soirées; Diamond, Amethyst, and Flame Balls were held to celebrate his 60th, 70th, and 80th birthdays. He wore a curious plum colored catsuit with a feathered headdress at his 70th birthday ball in 1981. At his 80th, he made his entrance in a catsuit of scarlet sequins with a cape of orange organza, greeting his guests from behind a wall of fire. His parties were covered by the newspapers, including a New Year's Eve Fetish Ball where the proper upper class mixed with young guests in rubber S/M gear.
From an obituary: "Beneath his mauve mannerisms, Bunny was stalwart, frank, dependable and undeceived; to onlookers a passing peacock, to intimates, a life enhancer and exemplary friend."
Rejoice! For Kaja will be streaming again tonight on Twitch® at 6 PM PST. She plays games & talks about what's going on in the mighty Studio Foglio industrial complex, atelier, and petting-zoo.
Me: Fuck, the paper towels I want are on the top shelf.
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