@desdemonarose
Queer, Aro, Agender, ND, creator of Talitha Harbor. A speculative eco-future world. Any Pronoun. Writing a 4 novel series and happily info-dumping on: https://www.worldanvil.com/w/talitha-harbor-desdemonarose
I am glad today seems to be going better.
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I have sort of derailed my progress by deciding to put a second novella in my series, between two novels. But I think the series will be better, in the long run, with that change.
I am going to stream and edit a short story in about an hour., 😁
Working out with the ZRX app aka Zombies, Run!. I have a random playlist in the background.
Song: Tell me that you can hear me.
Zombies: Gahhhk!
The timing was perfect and I cackled.
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Miners would be in a pretty safe environment and mostly run machines that do the actual mining. Mining, processing, and other more hands on work would be done by Tier-I and Tier-II workers. Tier-III are managers and trainers.
Tier-IIs have been there at least 7 sols and they get paid more.
In a society where all basic needs are met, you can't treat your employees like trash if you want them to stay. No one is going to starve to death or lack medical care because they quit.
Their society will collapse without workers, so there is motivation to work.
The workers are treated well.
Each Vocation is a mini-government. They extract the resources, make the goods in their area of responsibility, and make the laws for the wider population around them. There are checks and balances to make sure they are not unreasonable (by TH standards).
They are also the employeer. 2/
#Marchistics
This is probably going to be the easiest prompt for me.
The Vocation of Essentials is in charge of non-food related raw materials. They also make some basic use items, like utensils.
The x-ray tubes would also be their wheelhouse along with the raw materials needed to build them. 1/
Oooo, I realized I hadn't seen any of your posts for this prompt and had to look, especially after the prompt 6 answer.
I am going to check them all out sometime today. There's a lot of differences, of course, but also a few parallels with my world building. Which also makes it interesting to read.
Machines are a hell of a lot more efficient and safer when it comes to mining. Something that would be fun to design at some point.
Still have to work out processing. They'll minimize byproducts as much as possible. I'll have to see if I can come up with a way for them to recycle them.
I don't have an exact percentage at the moment, but a good chunk of their recycled tungsten would have originated from the colony ship
There will mining, but only as needed. I have not figured out where the mine is yet.
For tools, they'll use machine power, not human. 2/3
#Marchistics
Tungsten
The Talithans recycle and reuse extensively, but still mine. The colony ship they traveled to T.H. in was massive, built in space level of huge. The early Talithans harvested as much as they could off the ship.
Given it's strength, tungsten would have been used in a lot. 1/3
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I might have to rename it, but their fortress is about protection, not military. It's where the early Talithans lived until they outgrew it. Protection against unknown wildlife and weather.
Each new city builds one, and they're all unique, but serve the same purpose.
The Anunitum Fortress is part of the old ship parked in a gutted extinct volcano. They've directed all of the thermal activity into energy production and forges. Since they also produce everyone's ore, Anunitum would be the sole producer of x-ray tubes.
The tube's glass is silicon strengthen with boron.
Another very important piece is creating the vacuum. It requires high heat and a vacuum pump to pull the air out.
Most manufacturing that requires high levels of heat happen in Anunitum. There's a lot of thermal activity below their surface.🧵
#Marchistics
X-ray tubes: a glass housing and various metals inside, steel, lead, tungsten, and sometimes aluminum. There's an x-ray port which in T.H. will have to be beryllium since their bio-degradable plastics probably wouldn't last long having x-rays shot through them.
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Mammography uses something with an intermediate atomic number while Tungsten has a high atomic number.
The first x-ray was taken in the late 1800s, so I don't think it will be too much of a stretch for my people to have them, even with their limits.
#Marchistics
A key component in x-ray machines is the x-ray tube, which is a vacuum tube.
Random fact, the anode is the metallic element in the tube that produces the x-rays. Most x-ray machines use tungsten. But, for mammography they use a different element so the x-rays behave differently. 🧵
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Reposting for the evening crowd!
Talitha Harbor's evolution
- bucket list ✔️
- I should write a 2nd novel
- too long w/no ending, #3
- that plot needs it's own novel...the new 2
- still not the right, maybe a novella.. 2.5
- This needs to happen sooner... novella 1.5?
- now I need a 3.5 so there's a pattern
- or an intervention
They don't really have a good way to test. Especially since he's exposed whike they're still trying to figure out what it is. They don't have a huge test group either. Just like the original, any treatment is experimental, but it's that or no treatment.
If you've seen the movie or read the book Awakenings, that's the illness, Encephalitis lethargica. Different cause IRL.
Anyway, Therin was an asymptomatic carrier and could possibly develop lethargica for some time. He gets to double dose the vaccine (twice a sol) as a hypothetical prevention.
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Yes. The third novel is named, "Hidden Scars," for a reason. There are physical scars as well as mental.
Unrelated to that. When I made the parasite that is part of Sacred Ecology's plot, I also added in the possibility of it forming a form of lethargica. 🧵
I don't know why it wouldn't, it's in the DSM V. Especially if it's clinical.
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The entire planet population is only 1.4 mil split between three cities each in its own giant island. They don't have massive continents. They're islands larger than what we consider islands, but smaller than say Australia.
It's another planet, far in the future, but they have limited resources and population. They're cut off from any humans that might still exist. Though their lore is that they're probably the last since the Earth bound humans have probably self destructed by now.
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