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Usagi Quest (CK3/Princess Maker) (Sailor Moon)

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Almech_Alfarion said:
Best use of her time? Probably not. Unfortunately, what is best and what is necessary don't always line up, and Ami is going to be walking in circles where at least some of the people won't give her the time of day unless she has a useless piece of certified paper with the letters PHD written on it hanging on her office wall, and wasting a few years sitting through lectures she already knows the conclusions of is one of the few routes to getting that.

Now, there may be other ways to get her the "official" accreditations she's going to need and we are certainly going to look for and take them if the opportunity arises, but spending a few years risking being failed by professors because she's smarter than they are is certainly the most taken-for-granted route to acquiring them.
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Fun fact: in Japan in the early 90s, you could get a PhD by publishing five papers in certain science journals. So all she has to do is achieve revolutionary breakthroughs in science like the guy who invented blue LEDs and she's golden.
 
Vehrec said:
Fun fact: in Japan in the early 90s, you could get a PhD by publishing five papers in certain science journals. So all she has to do is achieve revolutionary breakthroughs in science like the guy who invented blue LEDs and she's golden.
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In that case I can see the value in going out of her way to get a PhD. It'd look great on her high school applications.
 
Also, let's not confuse 'Memetic Genius Season 5 Ami who has studied the supernatural for years' with 'talented 14 year old Ami who found out magic exists a few months ago and has the world's best study tool'. By the time she actually becomes the first one, we can expect circumstances to be very different.
 
Also, the world will need a scientific journal for magic related research and study. How much will that journal care about pieces of paper instead of verifiable results in studies/papers in such a ground breaking field?

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Man, lose power for several days due to hurricane, only to discover that at least this quest hasn't magically charged forward in the time I was gone.
 
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Mercury Royal Academy of Sorcery - Cryochamber Primarius Records
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    • "Huh? Wait… Oooh!" She grins. "Well well, what do we have here?"

    "Uh… I don't know?" It's her visor, not yours!

    "Well…" She trails off again, looking down at the ground in front of her feet. "Wow, 'Sagi, I can see it! Or… sort of see it. My visor's drawing pictures of it in front of the ground. Like I was looking through the rocks. I think it must be the remote systems; I was hoping I'd be able to do something like this when I got close, like I did back in the hangar."

    "What do you see?"

    "Well, there's some damage, but the ceiling held up almost everywhere. I have some systems access… hm." Ami waves vaguely at the ground, possibly forgetting that you can't see what she's pointing at.

    "The backup generator has been running so long that the computer's calendar crashed for some reason, there's some kind of tap going to the Roof of Heaven… not important. It… oh."

    "Is something wrong?"

    "I think that this damage indicator means that the people in one of the chamber blocks can't be revived. I'm going to need to think about why, but I think one of the revival machines has broken down somehow."

    You try to fight the sinking feeling. "You said that happened to one of those 'blocks.' Are there others?"

    "Um… yes." Ami sags with relief. "And their equipment is still working. Everything's been overdue for maintenance for "error" years, but it's still working. And it looks like what we saw from the computer on the Moon is basically right. It's safe to be moving around and living inside for people who need, ah… air. Things like that" Ami winces, perhaps feeling a bit awkward about putting it so bluntly. "And there's a record of the people in the chambers. Names… ages… school IDs, believe it or not, for a lot of them."

    "Well, it's an academy, so I guess that makes sense."

    "Something like a university, I think. And… hm. They're not all human- Artemis and Luna are going to be so happy, there are Mau here! And some of the other species we've heard about, too. There's…" she wiggles her fingers very fast, moving her lips silently. Then she stops. "I count six hundred and fourteen people down there, Usagi!"

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    === MERCURY ROYAL ACADEMY OF SORCERY ===
    === CRYOCHAMBER PRIMARUS ===
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    Total Accessible Occupants: 614​

    DESIGNATION BREAKDOWN:
    36: Facility Staff
    55: Long-Duration Experimental Subjects
    29: Academy Faculty
    65: Academy Staff
    312: Academy Students (various degree programs)
    117: Miscellaneous Citizens

    SPECIES DEMOGRAPHIC:
    433: Human
    97: Mau
    49: Pollun
    12: Belthan
    23: Shantair

    HOMEWORLD RECORD:
    306: Mercurian
    25: Venusian
    67: Lunarian
    1: Earthling
    31: Martian
    72: Jovian
    19: Uranian
    25: Neptunian
    2: Outer-Belter
    18: Mau Protectorate
    13: Pollun Protectorate
    12: Belthan Protectorate
    23: Shantair Protectorate

    CRYOCHAMBER FACILITY RECORDS:
    - 1 Maintenance Resource Manager*: Mercurian; Human
    - 1 Master Machinist: Mercurian; Human
    - 1 Managerial Sinecure: Mercurian; Human
    - 1 Secretary: Mercurian; Human
    - 1 Junior Secretary: Mercurian; Mau
    - 9 Senior Research Associates: 6 Mercurian; 1 Pollun, 2 Mau, 3 Human; 2 Lunarians; Human; 1 Jovian; Mau
    - 8 Research Associates: 4 Mercurian, 2 Lunarian, 2 Jovian; Human
    - 6 Junior Research Associates: 4 Mercurian, 1 Martian, 1 Orcus; Human
    - 8 Protectorate Research Chairs: 2 Mau, 2 Shantair, 4 Pollun

    CRYOCHAMBER EXPERIMENTAL SUBJECTS:
    - 15 Shantair: Project Research Duration - 100 Standard Imperial Years: ERROR! Experiment Duration Overdue.
    - 4 Mau, 4 Human (2 Martian, 2 Jovian): Project Research Duration - 500 Years: ERROR! Experiment Duration Overdue.
    - 4 Mau, 4 Human (1 Martian, 1 Mercurian, 2 Jovian): Project Research Duration - 2200 Years: ERROR! Experiment Duration Overdue.
    - 4 Mau, 4 Human (1 Martian, 1 Mercurian, 2 Jovian): Project Research Duration - 10000 Years: ERROR! Experiment Duration Overdue.
    - 4 Mau, 4 Human (2 Mercurian, 2 Jovian): Project Research Duration - 31600 Years: ERROR! Experiment Duration Overdue.
    - 4 Mau, 4 Human (1 Martian, 1 Mercurian, 2 Jovian): Project Research Duration - 100000 Years: Experiment Duration Remaining 36,875 Years remaining

    ACADEMY FACULTY:
    - 1 Assistant to the Deputy Headmistress: Mercurian Human
    - 1 Dean of Medicine: Mercurian Mau
    - 1 Dean of Homemaking Studies: Jovian Mau
    - 1 Dean of Elemental Studies - Lunarian Human
    - 1 Dean of Students: Mercurian Human
    - 1 Dean of Cryonic Studies: Mercurian Human
    - 1 Assistant Dean of Physics: Mercurian Human
    - 1 Assistant Dean of Diplomatic Studies - Lunarian Mau
    - 1 Assistant Dean of Astronavigation - Lunarian Human
    - 1 Department Chair of Astronomy: Jovian Human
    - 1 Department Chair of Sympathetic Magics: Mercurian Pollun
    - 2 Co-department Chairs of Alchemisty Studies: 1 Mercurian Human, 1 Lunarian Human
    - 1 Head of Coaching: Jovian Human
    - 1 Head of Security: Mercurian Mau
    - 1 Professor of Botanical Biology: Venusian Human
    - 1 Professor of Venusian Herpetology: Mercurian Human
    - 1 Professor of Astral Engineering: Martian Human
    - 1 Professor of Commerical Applications of Industrial Sorcery: Uranian Human
    - 1 Professor of Military History: Belthan National
    - 1 Professor of Illusion: Neptunian Human
    - 2 Professors of Linguistics: Mercurian Human
    - 1 Professor of Human Culture: Mercurian Human
    - 1 Professor of Temporal/Gravitational Mechanics: Mercurian Human
    - 1 Adjunct Professor of Economic Prognostication: Uranian Human
    - 1 Adjunct Professor of Archeology: Pollun National
    - 1 Adjunct Professor of Meteorological Balancing: Mercurian Mau
    - 1 Adjunct Professor of Industrial Enchanting: Belthan National
    - 1 Adjunct Professor of Aetheric Gastronomy: Lunarian Human

    ACADEMY STAFF:
    - 43 Mercurian Human
    - 9 Mau
    - 5 Pollun
    - 4 Lunarian (all human)
    - 4 Jovian (3 human, 1 Mau)

    STUDENT BODY:
    —92 Mercurians (74 human, 19 Mau, 7 Pollun)
    —20 Venusians (16 human, 1 Mau, 3 Pollun)
    —50 Lunarians (41 human, 6 Mau, 3 Pollun)
    —21 Martians (19 human, 2 Mau)
    —47 Jovians (41 human, 6 Mau)
    —17 Uranians (11 human, 3 Mau, 3 Pollun)
    —24 Neptunians (18 human, 1 Mau, 5 Pollun)
    —1 Outer-Belter (human, Quaoar)
    —16 Mau Protectorate (Mau)
    —8 Pollun Protectorate (Pollun)
    —10 Belthan Protectorate (Belthan)
    —6 Shantair Protectorate (Shantair)

    MISCELLANEOUS:
    - 1 Class 7-B of Delphinius Middle School - 25 Students; 22 Human, 2 Mau, 1 Pollun
    - 2 Field Trip Chaperones
    - 1 Delphinius Middle School Teacher
    - 56 Mercurian Human
    - 10 Mercurian Mau
    - 6 Mercurian Pollun
    - 3 Venusian Human
    - 1 Venusian Pollun
    - 1 Earthling Human
    - 4 Lunarian Human
    - 1 Lunarian Mau
    - 3 Martian Human
    - 4 Jovian Human
    - 1 Jovian Mau


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    *Currently on extended administrative leave pending investigation for non-filing of 573 full quinquennial cycles of maintenance documentation.
     
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    • So... we now have an approximate since The Crystal Kingdom's End. Given that there's apparently some, nearly, 37,000 years left on a 100,000 year cryo experiment.
     
    Lunaryon said:
    - 10 Human; 5 Mercurian, 5 Jovian: Project Research Duration - 100,000 Years: Experiment Duration Remaining 36,875 Years remaining
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    So assuming the Standard Imperial Year is the same as the commonly accepted modern earth year, the Fall is now dated to have been sometime after 61,133 BCE
     
    Well that's interesting.
    Most of the Mau were SM citizens in truth. Also we got about 100 cats!
    All of the Belthan and Shantair however are from protectorates.
     
    Oh that is a very wide cross section of the Silver Millennium, and I really hope beyond hope that at least a few of the middle schoolers had family at the university who also made it...

    Silverking said:
    I don't know if I should view us thawing that's guys out as us "auto-completing" the tech tree several times over, gaining free Research AP, or being stuck in a whole new batch of AP Hell hitherto unimaginable.
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    I'd say it probably trades a bunch of the research rolls for a couple of integration and set up actions and probably a lot of on upkeep costs.
     
    Silverking said:
    I don't know if I should view us thawing that's guys out as us "auto-completing" the tech tree several times over, gaining free Research AP, or being stuck in a whole new batch of AP Hell hitherto unimaginable.
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    Alternatively we could start by only unfreezing the deputy headmistress, the deans of students, cryonics, and medicine, and the head of security and have them take care of the administrative planning of it all, with us mostly providing resources and options.
     
    StarSingerBlue said:
    Hmm. The last two are Nanoha, but Google can't find me anything for the Pollun.

    Oh no.

    Those poor kids…
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    Luna first mentioned the Pollun waaaaaaaaayyyyyy back at the start of Turn 2, though they haven't really come up since.

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    "There were four other worlds..." Luna starts to explain. "Four other peoples who were part of the Silver Millennium, but outside of this solar system. The Belthen, the Pollu, the Shantair, and..." Luna pauses for a moment. "The Mao, my... homeworld. I... never knew it. I was born here, on Earth actually. Still... The fact that they aren't here... That they didn't help Earth after the Attack..." Luna goes quiet again, but for longer this time.
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    So (seemingly) no officers or veterans, which is disappointing, but all those students and professors should at least get us out of research AP hell.

    *Inhales weapons grade copium*
     
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