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* CourtroomAntics: {{Averted}} and {{Lampshaded}}. Laura goes through a legal battle in Sufficiently Advanced Technology, but it's only one paragraph long.
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* ThinkTwins: Laura has a lot of practical experience, while Natalie understands a lot of the theoretical basis that Laura tends to skip. Put together, they're capable of feats of magic rivaling their mother's.
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* [[spoiler: AndIMustScream: Benj Clarke, Nick Laughon, and by implication possibly Kazuya Tanako are trapped in Tanako's World, an active nightmare, while (in the former two cases) Ra puppets their bodies.]]
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* [[spoiler: DemonicPossession: Natalie Ferno describes Ra's puppeting of Nick Laughon as this.]]
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* [[spoiler: WetwareBody: Benj Clarke and Nick Laughon are bodily taken over by Ra.]]
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* LikeThatShowButWithMecha: Similar to ''Literature/FineStructure'', but with a much greater focus on the FunctionalMagic of the setting.
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* MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness: 4, "One Big Lie" - based entirely around a fictitious field of physics, namely [[spoiler:nonlocality technology -- the ability to transport "arbitrary quantities of mass, energy, momentum, spin and electrical charge" from any location to any other at the speed of light -- which allows the eponymous AI to display near-godlike powers, including simulating the existence of an entire fake field of physics, i.e. magic.]]
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''Ra'' is a science fiction story that was completed on December 13, 2014, written by Sam Hughes, creator of ''Literature/FineStructure'' and the other works at Website/ThingsOfInterest. It is a distinct reworked story from Sam's excursions during the 2010 UsefulNotes/NaNoWriMo.
The story centres around Laura Ferno, an extremely talented [[strike:mage in training]] university student majoring in [[{{Magitek}} Thaumic Engineering]].
The story centres around Laura Ferno, an extremely talented [[strike:mage in training]] university student majoring in [[{{Magitek}} Thaumic Engineering]].
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''Ra'' is a science fiction ScienceFantasy story that was completed on December 13, 2014, written by Sam Hughes, creator of ''Literature/FineStructure'' and the other works at Website/ThingsOfInterest. It is a distinct reworked story from Sam's excursions during the 2010 UsefulNotes/NaNoWriMo.
The storycentres centers around Laura Ferno, an extremely talented [[strike:mage in training]] university student majoring in [[{{Magitek}} Thaumic Engineering]].
The story
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* MagicalIncantation: Required, though it's not clear to the reader what the syntax is (the mages themselves seem to know). It's possible to save up long incantations into quick-castable "macros".
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* MagicalIncantation: Required, though it's not clear to the reader what the syntax is (the mages themselves seem to know). It's possible to save up long incantations into quick-castable "macros".
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* AlternateHistory: Magic is a new field of science and engineering in the past half century from the modern day. This leads to obvious changes in technological development, but also more subtle things: For example, in ''Ra'', Space Shuttle Atlantis, not Challenger, was lost with all hands. [[NeverWasThisUniverse There's more to it than a simple point of divergence when magic is discovered, though.]]
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* AlternateHistory: AlienSpaceBats: Magic is a new field of science and engineering in the past half century from the modern day. This leads to obvious changes in technological development, but also more subtle things: For example, in ''Ra'', Space Shuttle Atlantis, not Challenger, was lost with all hands. [[NeverWasThisUniverse There's more to it than a simple point of divergence when magic is discovered, though.]]
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** For the Wheel Group: [[spoiler:They eventually lost the Abstract War and can't save even their recreated earth. They evacuate to Sirius, where some humans left after the first war for a brand new start, but they aren't welcome there. They are stored as data indefinitely unless someone more forgiving happens to release them someday.]]
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* EarthShatteringKaboom: [[spoiler:The Abstract War starts with about 60 thousand hollow Earth replicas being destroyed.]]
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* YearInsideHourOutside: Time flows differently in Tanako's World. You could spend an arbitary amount of time in it during a fraction of a second in real time.
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** In the backstory, [[spoiler:humanity separated into two distinct strains: Virtual Humanity, living entirely as brain uploads in virtual spaces, and Actual Humanity, which chose to remain in physical space.]]
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** In the backstory, [[spoiler:humanity separated into two distinct strains: Virtual Humanity, living entirely as brain uploads in virtual spaces, and Actual Humanity, which chose to remain in physical space. Actual Humanity still ''used'' brain upload technology, for things like {{Body Backup Drive}}s and interplanetary travel; they just chose not to ''live'' inside a computer.]]
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** [[spoiler:The Earth is physically destroyed. The people of Earth are saved, but the simulation in which they live could theoretically be halted or terminated at any time.]]
** [[spoiler:From Laura's perspective specifically, the ending is even worse: in addition to being directly responsible for the destruction of Earth, she lost her mother (a ''second'' time), her boyfriend, and her near-omnipotent power, and is now trapped in a toy universe with no way out.]]
** [[spoiler:From Laura's perspective specifically, the ending is even worse: in addition to being directly responsible for the destruction of Earth, she lost her mother (a ''second'' time), her boyfriend, and her near-omnipotent power, and is now trapped in a toy universe with no way out.]]
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** For the world in general: [[spoiler:The Earth is physically destroyed. The people of Earth are saved, but the simulation in which they live could theoretically be halted or terminated at any time.]]
**[[spoiler:From Laura's perspective specifically, the ending is even worse: in For Laura specifically: [[spoiler:In addition to being directly responsible for the destruction of Earth, she lost her mother (a ''second'' time), her boyfriend, and her near-omnipotent power, and is now trapped in a toy universe with no way out.]]
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* HollowWorld: [[spoiler:Tens of thousands of replica Earths, which were all destroyed in Abstract War. Ra supplied enough ArtificialGravity to make them feel like "filled-in" planets.]]
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* HollowWorld: [[spoiler:Tens of thousands of replica Earths, which were all destroyed in Abstract War. Ra ]] They were supplied with enough ArtificialGravity to make them feel like "filled-in" planets.]]
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* PastRightNow: [[spoiler:The entire Earth. The Wheel Group "rebooted" the planet to a historical reconstruction of 1970 (with magic added), when the ''real'' year was 19391 or 19392.]]
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* PastRightNow: [[spoiler:The entire Earth. ]] The Wheel Group "rebooted" the planet [[spoiler:the planet]] to a historical reconstruction of 1970 [[spoiler:1970 (with magic added), when the ''real'' year was 19391 or 19392.]]
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* PastRightNow: [[spoiler:The entire Earth. The Wheel Group "rebooted" the planet to a historical reconstruction of 1970 (with magic added), when the ''real'' year was 19391 or 19392.]]
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* EndangeredSpecies: [[spoiler:At the conclusion of Abstract War, there are only ''two hundred and fourteen'' humans left, out of a pre-War population that numbered at ''least'' in the quadrillions. {{Downplayed|Trope}} in that they can just ask the near-omnipotent supercomputer to procedurally generate some more humans, but there was a brief window where they hadn't yet taken control of said computer.]]
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* ApocalypseWow: [[spoiler:The destruction of Actual Humanity civilization in Abstract War. We're talking lasers the size of Mt. Everest, fragments of artificial worlds bombarding the Earth like asteroids, nanobots corrupting humans into {{Humanoid Abomination}}s, moons getting blown up...the works.]]
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* HumanoidAbomination: The monsters of Tanako's World are made of human ''parts'', but they're not quite...''arranged'' in the right way. And their teeth are much, much sharper.
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** Computer science terms also abound (the Wheel Group, Abstract Types, and one piece of minor equipment is compared to a USB key). [[spoiler:And the world was "rebooted" to the start of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time Unix time]]
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** Computer science terms also abound (the Wheel Group, Abstract Types, and one piece of minor equipment is compared to a USB key). [[spoiler:And the world was "rebooted" to the start of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time Unix time]]time]].]]
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** Computer science terms also abound (the Wheel Group, Abstract Types, and one piece of minor equipment is compared to a USB key).
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** Computer science terms also abound (the Wheel Group, Abstract Types, and one piece of minor equipment is compared to a USB key). [[spoiler:And the world was "rebooted" to the start of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time Unix time]]
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* OrwellianRetcon: Hughes felt that the original ending of the story [[note]]the two chapters after "It Has To Work"[[/note]] was rather weak and abrupt, so he wrote a new one. The original ending is still available on the website, though it's been moved to a different section.
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* OrwellianRetcon: Hughes felt that the original ending of the story [[note]]the two chapters after "It Has To Work"[[/note]] "Why Not Just" and "Destructor"[[/note]] was rather weak and abrupt, so he wrote a new one. The original ending is still available on the website, though it's been moved to a different section.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler:Subverted by Ra. It didn't malfunction; it was deliberately reprogrammed by Virtual Humanity.]]
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* MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness: 4, "One Big Lie" - based entirely around a fictitious field of physics, namely [[spoiler:nonlocality technology -- the ability to instantly transport matter and energy from any location to any other -- which allows the eponymous AI to display near-godlike powers, including simulating the existence of an entire fake field of physics, i.e. magic.]]
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* MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness: 4, "One Big Lie" - based entirely around a fictitious field of physics, namely [[spoiler:nonlocality technology -- the ability to instantly transport matter "arbitrary quantities of mass, energy, momentum, spin and energy electrical charge" from any location to any other at the speed of light -- which allows the eponymous AI to display near-godlike powers, including simulating the existence of an entire fake field of physics, i.e. magic.]]
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* HollowWorld: [[spoiler:All the Earth replicas that were destroyed in Abstract War.]]
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* HollowWorld: [[spoiler:All the Earth replicas that [[spoiler:Tens of thousands of replica Earths, which were all destroyed in Abstract War.War. Ra supplied enough ArtificialGravity to make them feel like "filled-in" planets.]]
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* HollowWorld: [[spoiler:All the Earth replicas that were destroyed in Abstract War.]]
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* FakeMemories: Anyone who ''thinks'' they were [[spoiler:born before 1970]], since they were actually [[spoiler:created from scratch at that time.]]
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* {{Terraform}}:
** Done to [[spoiler:''Earth itself''. After Abstract War, Earth was a thin-atmosphered radioactive wasteland with nothing left alive but a few bacteria. The Wheel Group reconstructed it as a living, inhabited world.]]
** Also done to [[spoiler:the fifth planet in the Sirius system, by the Abstract War survivors who chose not to join the Wheel Group.]]
** Done to [[spoiler:''Earth itself''. After Abstract War, Earth was a thin-atmosphered radioactive wasteland with nothing left alive but a few bacteria. The Wheel Group reconstructed it as a living, inhabited world.]]
** Also done to [[spoiler:the fifth planet in the Sirius system, by the Abstract War survivors who chose not to join the Wheel Group.]]
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* BondOneLiner: One of Exa's personal mottos is "Don't quip until the quarry's dead". We only get to hear one in the course of the story. [[spoiler:And then it turns out his target isn't actually dead.]]
-->''[Exa catches up to his target, who has just exited [[DreamLand Tanako's World]].]''
-->'''[[spoiler:Laura]]:''' I don't understand. Why does this part have to be real? [[spoiler:Nothing else is real. ''Magic isn't real.'']]
-->''[Exa shoots her.]''
-->'''Exa:''' Gotta wake up some time.
-->''[Exa catches up to his target, who has just exited [[DreamLand Tanako's World]].]''
-->'''[[spoiler:Laura]]:''' I don't understand. Why does this part have to be real? [[spoiler:Nothing else is real. ''Magic isn't real.'']]
-->''[Exa shoots her.]''
-->'''Exa:''' Gotta wake up some time.
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* AncientConspiracy: The Wheel Group is so old that they may date back to the ''invention'' of the wheel. [[spoiler:Or so Laura believes. In fact, the Wheel Group is less than forty years old.]]
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* DownerEnding:
** [[spoiler:The Earth is physically destroyed. The people of Earth are saved, but the simulation in which they live could theoretically be halted or terminated at any time.]]
** [[spoiler:From Laura's perspective specifically, the ending is even worse: in addition to being directly responsible for the destruction of Earth, she lost her mother (a ''second'' time), her boyfriend, and her near-omnipotent power, and is now trapped in a toy universe with no way out.]]
** [[spoiler:The Earth is physically destroyed. The people of Earth are saved, but the simulation in which they live could theoretically be halted or terminated at any time.]]
** [[spoiler:From Laura's perspective specifically, the ending is even worse: in addition to being directly responsible for the destruction of Earth, she lost her mother (a ''second'' time), her boyfriend, and her near-omnipotent power, and is now trapped in a toy universe with no way out.]]
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* PresentTenseNarrativePresentTenseNarrative: From start to finish.
