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** Late in the story; we encounter Earl, one of the astronauts from the first-shift crew of the ''Courageous'', who just happens to refer to himself in the third person.
* UnnecessarilyLargeVessel: The Courageous is very, very large for its intended20-man 21-person crew, for redundancy; to avoid the crew feeling crowded during the decades of the voyager; and because it's intended to double as a colony base once it actually ''gets'' to Hylara.
** Late in the story; we encounter Earl, one of the astronauts from the first-shift crew of the ''Courageous'', who just happens to refer to himself in the third person.
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* YouAreNumberSix: The Public Universal Friends do not have names, but they will agree to numbers for record keeping. The ''Courageous'' had six Friends on board; board at launch; of which whom we meet Friend 2 and Friend 6 ([[spoiler: Friend 6 dies during the voyage, voyage as part of a murder-suicide]]). murder-suicide, while some of the other Friends were in ejected Chronostatis rings]]). If and when the Friends would be are renumbered is unclear.
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* CryonicsFailure: Horrifically common on the ''Courageous'', due to the length of the voyage and [[spoiler: the unsanctioned experimentation on a large fraction of the colonists]]. This is relevant to the plot from the very beginning of the story: Aspen was selected to be revived because their genetics made them the most likely to survive the procedure. Many later attempted revivals do not succeed or lead to severe health impacts, and the surviving crew spends a long time figuring out why.
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* YouAreNumberSix: The Public Universal Friends do not have names, but they will agree to numbers for record keeping. The ''Courageous'' had six Friends on board; of which we meet Friend 2 and Friend 6 ([[spoiler: Friend 6 dies during the voyage, as part of a murder-suicide]]). If and when the Friends would be renumbered is unclear.
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* YouWakeUpInARoom: How the story begins.
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* WhamEpisode: Vault. [[spoiler: Hylara has a FTL teleporter that allows them to receive supplies directly from Earth; the entire purpose of the colony is to be a link in a teleportation shipping network.]]
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* UnReveal: The crew spend many chapters speculating about how Dor Delphin might be involved in the conspiracies surrounding the ''Courageous''. They finally decide the time has come to wake him up and ask him. He dies immediately.
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* RaisedByRobots: [[spoiler: The ''other'' colonists were sent through space as modified embryos, to be decanted and raised by AI.]]
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* {{Zeerust}}: Invoked by the zeelite and cyberlite cultures, which deliberately dress and act in ways that evoke 1960s RaygunGothic and 2000s {{Cyberpunk}}, respectively.respectively.
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** Aspen and Arborean culture in general seem to have discarded gender self-perception entirely and all go by gender-neutral terms -- though not all of them are gender-neutral to us readers, as Aspen describes "dad" as being "a fancy word for a mother who is a man".
** Most of the future runs on a gender ternary of male, female, and "brennan", a gender that goes by ke/kem pronouns. Non-ternary genders are acknowledged to exist but tend to get lumped together into an "other" category.
** Aspen and Arborean culture in general seem to have discarded gender self-perception entirely and all go by gender-neutral terms -- though not all of them are gender-neutral to us readers, as Aspen describes "dad" as being "a fancy word for a mother who is a man".
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**SpeculativeFictionLGBT: Most of the future runs on a gender ternary of male, female, and "brennan", a gender that goes by ke/kem pronouns. Non-ternary genders are acknowledged to exist but tend to get lumped together into an "other" category.
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** Aspen and Arborean culture in general seem to have discarded gender self-perception entirely and all go by gender-neutral terms -- though not all of them are gender-neutral to us readers, as Aspen describes "dad" as being "a fancy word for a mother who is a man".
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** The United States of America is remembered as the "Nameless Nation", due to the people of the future misinterpreting its name as a description and believing the true name to be lost. The same thing has also happened to ''WesternAnimation/BeeMovie''.
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* EyeScream: A discharge of toxic gas destroys [[spoiler: Aspen's right eye when an old boobytrap is accidentally triggered.]]
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Aspen is famous for his books about the Exodus Phenomenon and is credited with kick-starting the entire Javelin project, but he hates talking about it, and says that he never should have been chosen as a colonist. It takes a very long time before he explains why.
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* GambitPileup: The situation on the ship was ultimately caused by factions back on Earth who had secret plans for the ship. Several more problems on the ship happened as a result of crew trying to sabotage or counter-sabotage these plans. Aspen and their crew spend most of the story trying to figure out what happened.
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* MotorMouth: Tal tends to ramble and get off topic. Ke says that ke likes talking to the AI because it doesn't interrupt kem.
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** Aspen manages to break several bones falling off a ladder.
** After all the insanity with the AI, the conspiracies, and the sabotage, what finally finished off the crew in the front half of the ship? [[spoiler: Pneumonia.]] It's so mundane that Aspen almost doesn't believe it.
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** Aspen manages to break several bones falling off a ladder.
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* OlderIsBetter: Many of the Courageous's systems were designed to use older technology that would be much easier to repair if it broke. Taken to extremes when [[spoiler: they have to disable the AI and start manually operating the ship's systems.]]
-->'''Denish:''' Do not worry. We will arrive in pressurised box with big rocket on one end like pre-Neocambrian astronauts.
-->'''Adin:''' It is so depressing that that’s reassuring.
-->'''Denish:''' Do not worry. We will arrive in pressurised box with big rocket on one end like pre-Neocambrian astronauts.
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* IWantMyJetpack: Tal says that this is the drive behind zeelite and cyberlite culture - wanting to live in an era where it was still possible to imagine a future with jetpacks or ray guns or [=AIs=] that are as smart as a person.
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* {{Zeerust}}: Invoked by the zeelite and cyberlite cultures, which deliberately dress and act in ways that evoke 1960s RaygunGothic and 2000s {{Cyberpunk}}, respectively.
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* ExplosiveLeash: [[spoiler: The convict colonists have all had killswitches implanted so that they can be instantly killed if they resist orders from the civilian population.]]
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* PrisonersWork: A lot of prisons, particularly in the Republic of Texas or Luna, make extensive use of convict labor. [[spoiler: And a high proportion of the colonists are convicts, intended as a disposable labor force.]]
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If only they knew anything at all about being an astronaut.
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-> Yeah, we’re in trouble.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: A very complicated situation! The ship's AI isn't exactly evil, but it is often ''unhelpful''. Its function is somewhat based on 2022-era large language models, and getting information out of it can vary based on exactly how you asked the question and what context you forced it to consider. The AI has also been convinced by previous users to hide certain information, ''and'' occasionally takes action on its own to fulfil what it sees as its primary goals. [[spoiler: Those goals do include trying to keep as many colonists alive as possible, so it's not ''too'' murderous, but it will make sacrifices if it thinks they're necessary to protect others.]]
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* AIIsACrapshoot: A very complicated situation! The ship's AI isn't exactly evil, but it is often ''unhelpful''. Its function is somewhat based on 2022-era large language models, and getting information out of it can vary based on exactly how you asked the question and what context you forced it to consider. The AI has also been convinced by previous users to hide certain information, ''and'' occasionally takes action on its own to fulfil what it sees as its primary goals. [[spoiler: Those goals do include trying to keep as many colonists alive as possible, so it's not ''too'' murderous, but it will make sacrifices if it thinks they're necessary to protect others. And then there's the issues of the colonists' brains...]]
* SleeperStarship: Most of the people on board the ship are held in near-suspended animation, a complex procedure that requires some artificial nerve structures to maintain the body's fitness during the long period of immobility. Most people will be incredibly ill for a while after waking, and a few will die. The process can only be undergone once with any degree of success, so once you're awake, you're awake.
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* WetwareCPU: [[spoiler: Some of the sleeping colonists's neural systems have been hijacked to serve as extra processing power for the computer. They can't be disconnected without killing them.]]
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* AIIsACrapshoot: A very complicated situation! The ship's AI isn't exactly evil, but it is often ''unhelpful''. Its function is somewhat based on 2022-era large language models, and getting information out of it can vary based on exactly how you asked the question and what context you forced it to consider. The AI has also been convinced by previous users to hide certain information, ''and'' occasionally takes action on its own to fulfil what it sees as its primary goals. [[spoiler: Those goals do include trying to keep as many colonists alive as possible, so it's not ''too'' murderous, but it will make sacrifices if it thinks they're necessary to protect others.]]
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* OneSteveLimit: Deliberately averted with the Public Universal Friends. Due to their nature and beliefs, it's forbidden to even give them nicknames, forcing other characters to use roundabout descriptions such as "the Friend who is a pilot" to differentiate them.
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Time To Orbit: Unknown is a web serial written by Derin.
It is a sci-fi story set on the colony ship Courageous. When colonist Aspen Greaves wakes from chronostasis five years early on a damaged ship with no crew in sight, they must figure out precisely what went wrong and what to do to get their fellow colonists safely to their destination. This is no easy task — on a rundown spaceship, the slightest bit of bad luck can kill you… and whatever claimed the lives of the previous crew might still be out there.
It is a sci-fi story set on the colony ship Courageous. When colonist Aspen Greaves wakes from chronostasis five years early on a damaged ship with no crew in sight, they must figure out precisely what went wrong and what to do to get their fellow colonists safely to their destination. This is no easy task — on a rundown spaceship, the slightest bit of bad luck can kill you… and whatever claimed the lives of the previous crew might still be out there.
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It is a sci-fi story set on the colony ship Courageous. When
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* ''Never Trust A Title'' - The time to orbit is one of the few things that IS known for sure.
* ''Unnecessarily Large Vessel'' - The Courageous is very, very large for its intended 20-man crew. Justified as the ship doubles as a colony base once it actually *gets* to Hylara.
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* ''Never Trust A Title'' - The time to orbit is one of the few things that IS known for sure.
* ''Unnecessarily Large Vessel'' - The Courageous is very, very large for its intended 20-man crew. Justified as the ship doubles as a colony base once it actually *gets* to Hylara.
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** The "''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' runs on everything" meme is remembered as a sacred ritual of technology consecration, and it is believed that pre-Neocambrian people (i.e. us) believed that something only became a computer once it had run ''Doom'' for the first time.
** The original ''Film/{{Dawn of the Dead|1978}}'' has become lost media in this setting, but an in-universe remake has been made based on other media's references to it. A
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** Most of the future runs on a gender ternary of male, female, and "brennan", a gender that goes by ke/kem pronouns. Non-ternary genders are acknowledged to exist but tend to get lumped together into an "other" category.
** Aspen and Arborean culture in general seem to have discarded gender self-perception entirely and all go by gender-neutral terms -- though not all of them are gender-neutral to us readers, as Aspen describes "dad" as being "a fancy word for a mother who is a man".
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