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Definitely! And fear not, she'll have to go through hell to keep it also :)

Each of the crewmembers (apart from Six) has a biological family of their own, but how they get along is murky and spoilery territory.

After a rough start, as the different pieces even each other out, they start getting along very well. She and Rook come to respect each other in a sibling-like manner, while Diodorus provides a degree of wisdom and patience to temper both of their rawer emotional heights.

Six is the fun aunt.

The severe health conditions that followed claimed her adoptive family, who were already aging and sickly, and almost killed her, too. She's been desperately chasing the idea of a family since, and comes to find it in the Trilobite's crew of rejects and expats.

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Yana's birth parents died when she was quite young. She was taken in by her community until the age of twelve, at which point the skies cracked open and they were all brought into Habitat. Unfortunately, Vara IX is a disease-ridden world and their extraction went... poorly.

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Back to the Scrapsea for this one.

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I have been silent in my shame for a long time now, but it is finally time to admit to the world that I, too, don't like The Princess Bride. I certainly wouldn't watch it again.

I think my top answer would be Midsommar, though. I was so disappointed, I didn't even bother with the last ten minutes.

As someone who doesn't really know the jargon, "Instalust" is hilarious to me. It sounds like something fake pharmacies would be spamming my inbox about.

From First Light book 1, the scene that introduces one of the main cast.

The 'gynoid' design has had a few resurgences in popularity over the centuries, from genuine to ironic to post-ironic. Nowadays, more prefer to pretend it never existed.

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Like my head!

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One of my notes for First Light reads "FIGURE OUT PARASITE SPECIES, DUMMY". Dummy that I am, I have not yet done so, but I want them to be a big part of the universe, fully sapient, and ethically complex, while requiring absolutely ruining someone's life to survive.

I had nothing for this one at first, then got an idea for a 'hook' and, well, now the robot part shop has a theme, I guess.

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It's a tough question; I'm not a particularly prideful person, I don't think. But I was very pleased to finalize First Light earlier this year--often I just hate my work by the time it's time for edits; that hasn't happened yet here! And who knows, people might even like it 😊

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"what happened to him?"
"he died of the plague."
"aw man I thought we had a cure for that?"
"it stepped on him"

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A fair amount, and because the main character is an epidemiologist, this is something I'll be adding to in the future. For now, special mention to the one planet where virulent bacterial growths went so out of control that they became both building-sized AND apex predators.

Had to cut out the spoilers for this one ;) I'm being a little pedant and going for exact matches this week, so I picked a 'screen' as opposed to the more common 'viewscreen' I use to refer to the large displays on a spaceship's bridge.

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Sometimes I write very dialogue-heavy scenes that are a little inspired by conversations in cRPGs, where once you have chosen your dialogue options and read back, it feels like a very snappy, and slightly confusing, back-and-forth.

It takes something that originally broke immersion, and turns it into a tool FOR immersion. It's so cool, and utterly impossible to do without both having a reactive medium like videogames, and being really aware of how gamebooks are played.

Please, play the Sorcery! adaptation. It's a masterpiece.

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To narrow it down to a single example, I've been on a gamebook kick lately and absolutely obsessed with the Sorcery! videogame adaptation, and how it integrates aspects of cheating/retrying and weaves them seamlessly into the plot.

Isometric RPG is the easy answer, though I've had people compare First Light to the Mass Effect series, which I have yet to play!

My brain keeps coming back to 4X, though. Like a Stellaris or Alpha Centauri type thing, with the characters as faction leaders.

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Very presumptuous of #SFFChat to assume the plan wasn't to put the cast of First Light in a dating sim all along!

I doubt I'm your favourite, but it would do this me good to have some new knights in my audience. 🎺 🎙️ 🥺

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You've definitely got this! Keep at it and be strong. All of the snippets I've seen you share so far have been fantastic, you should be nothing but proud.

Being met with silence after putting your work out there can be horribly frustrating, but don't lose hope!

Windswept Desire is published, it is read, and is bringing joy to those who are reading it, I'm sure. These are all huge victories. Give people time and they will get back to you, I'm sure.

And finally the Voices, being a species in its childhood, are still catching up to everyone else in the spacefaring community. They cultivate good relations with the UNCA and leverage those to hire talent from all across the galaxy to come in and teach them. Steadily, they're getting there!

The beastgods of Regrilles, as far as anyone can tell, have mastered genetic engineering to the point of spitting on the concept of "species". Or maybe they're godlike entities? Do they even exist at all? The debate rages on.

They rank among the galaxy's most remarkable agricultural scientists and terraformers, as well as social scientists (historians, sociologists, political scientists, archeologists, etc.)

Regrillians, as mentioned before, train exceptional engineers and mechanics, though not en masse.

Overall, the galaxy is both vast and varied, while at the same time fractured enough that technological advancement does not percolate freely between factions.

To call back to factions I've mentioned before:

Tellari hide surprisingly advanced technology under their more grounded aesthetic sense.