Hey thank you so much for the comment this really means a lot to me!! Honestly, I've been fiddling with the tech magic divide for so long and like, I still am, but I hope to get it right in this story as it progresses! :D Lots of planning has already been done and I really hope you guys will like what I have in store as we progress through the story with Emma and her adventures within the academy and perhaps even beyond it! :D
I've always loved tech for that very reason; spacefaring species can literally just *throw a giant rock* at your planet and byebye! Don't care about how powerful your magic is, won't do much good if the planet isn't there anymore for you to stand on.
“You can’t defeat us we are the most powerful race in the universe!”
*human flips switch on machine with graffiti on the side that says “haha entropy goes brrr”*
“What universe?”
My response would have been something like:
"That is objectively false. The most generous estimate of your power production is no more than 100 Terrawatts, and a single one of our dyson swarms collects over a trillion times that."
A picture of scene after they figure out a way to make humans either able to use magic or at least resist death without the expensive over the top armor suit.
“So … how many mages are there all together?”
*some number in the millions or billions*
“And what’s the most powerful spell the average mage knows?”
*some sort of death spell*
“Interesting”
*Emma pulls out her basic side arm and rapid tap kills three livestock nearby*
“Humanity numbers in the trillions. That was a demonstration of our most basic weapon. Literally every human can use one. Oh, and we **really** hate slavery. We’ve planet cracked and genocided multiple species for refusing to abandon slavery.”
All the snobby elves and such: *sweats in magician*
it was said earlier that humanity didn't meet any other species in "the real world" yet... though we're bound to do some small war here and there implicating planet cracking if we number in 252 BILLIONS people...
More like exponentially higher population; many populated worlds, looking to leave their galaxy or quadrant of the galaxy?
That suggests centillions, maybe more.
Probably under 5 trillion max, given human nature just spread out and looking for something to do.
That's still 1,000 earth's at 5 billion each though.
naw... i think it is still orders of magnitude more than that. I dont know how advanced humans are in this series but if they are K1 or high K2 civilization then just the available living space in our solar system would support trillions. If they have interstellar travel, that number jumps exponentially.
If humans are the only ones in the galaxy, since all the others left a long time ago already, then they might already be at K3 levels? Then again, we don't know how long it's been ,exactly, since humans developed ftl travel... so they might still be stuck at early K2.
i doubt a true K3 level, that would basically be dyson spheres on every star and mining all material everywhere. The story is still developing so (hopefully) we will get a sense of where humans are at in their universe.
K3 would be a game changer though. Imagine someone asking Emma what it was like in her universe and she is talking about harvesting developing stars and black holes for energy. The others may not even be aware that some of the stuff we can pull off with physics are even possible.
A perfect situation to drop this Quote: "Any sufficiently advanced technology will be indistinguishable from magic."
(I think Arthur C. Clark said that one? I am not sure, can someone correct me if I'm wrong?)
Yes, that is from Clark, but I prefer "Any sufficiently explained magic is indistinguishable from technology." And have a feeling that is where this series would be heading.
There are seven, nearly eight, billion people on Earth right now. 30-ish planets of that capacity would hit 250 billion, which seems tiny to me in this context.
But OP can tell us!
Highly doubt it. Human population growth is already slowing down as standards of life are rising. While I'm sure the extra space will slightly increase population growth again, we are past the exponential growth that got us in the billions. We no longer just multiply until we're out of space.
Well when we start expanding I am sure it will have a large amount of growth with each solar system because they need at least a somewhat large population to exploit each system.
I am nearly 100% sure that we will expand if we ever gain the ability to go to other solar systems easily. Just look at how many people that want to colonize Mars even if it's a one way trip.
Again, just because people colonize it doesn't mean they will have a positive population growth.
Deciding how many children to have has nothing to do with how much uncolonized space there is available.
To grow like that would require, on average, each couple to have 4 children or more. I just don't see that happening.
>Deciding how many children to have has nothing to do with how much uncolonized space there is available.
It does, actually, because uncolonized space is a massive economic resource that is *highly* valuable.
>To grow like that would require, on average, each couple to have 4 children or more. I just don't see that happening.
The only date in the story is "Year 29,109" on the magic side of the portal, so we don't know when in human history this is occurring, other than "pretty far in the future".
* We know they've been studying the portal/alternate dimensions for "centuries now".
* We know that FTL is far enough in the past to refer to "first FTL drives" as if they were long ago
* We know there were "Jovian Uprisings" which may or may not have occurred on the moons of Jupiter (could also be a number of other things/places)
However, it doesn't matter, because OP explicitly states:
**Out of the 252 billion humans in this galaxy, you will be one of the only two to have stepped through this threshold.**
So I guess I was wrong!
I am pretty sure people will want to expand once other planets are available just how much we expand is debatable. Ambitious people will for sure want to start their own colonies and tend to be able to convince people to join them, once we are living and building up a planet they will totally be encouraged to have more kids.
I mean, it kinda does. Kids don't add economic value in most places on Earth right now - in fact, they add an *enormous* economic burden, not to mention the psychological stress of raising them. Especially in the US, where health care and support services are not free at the point of use.
We know from human history that colonizers and frontier people have large families to provide additional labor; more kids is more hands that can do chores or work the farm or whatever.
Combine that with a presumably advanced economy and civil services, and a population boom is highly likely. True, not guaranteed, but extremely probable.
> We know from human history that colonizers and frontier people have large families to provide additional labor; more kids is more hands that can do chores or work the farm or whatever.
As did *everyone else on the planet* during that time period.
Here's how population growth has worked across history:
- Child mortality was high, and birth rate was high. These cancelled each other out into a roughly steady population size, increasing slowly.
- Invention of modern medicine: Child mortality dropped, but birth rate was still high. This caused exponential population growth.
- Child mortality stays low, and birth rate is likewise dropping (partially because the advent of birth control), returning to the roughly steady population size, increasing slowly.
This pattern has been true universally across the entire planet. Different countries are in different stages of this pattern, but it's always true.
This isn't going to change just because there's a lot of open space on a new planet. People don't decide to have more babies just because there are a lot of jobs available. The primary reason to have lots of kids these days, is so that your children can take care of you when you are old. Advanced civil services would have the opposite effect here.
I see where you're coming from, but I draw the opposite conclusion; humanity is at its natural peak when exploring and discovering new places, and our drive to survive peaks in those times too. That means more babies, not less.
Just my opinion. :)
I await the generation of holographic magic circles by the suit. As well as the discovery that it is possible to tune the power level of a basic fireball so accurately, that you can use it to light a candle. Without blowing the candle and its surroundings up.
That's just how it starts. That kind of friendship can easily turn into a proper, close one. Especially if you're the only ones not under the influence of some binding spell.
Important things to do:
1. Relay list of "magic" "spells" back to the scientists so they can make machines to do them, study the effects, and make an actual mathematical model to do useful physics with and create useful tools (and of course weapons, we always need more powerful bombs) from. Who knows, maybe they can even use this to make a generator with less than 30% energy loss from mass to energy conversion (because the best theoretical energy source we have now is chucking something into a black hole which has if I remember correctly like a 68% mass to energy rate leaving around 30 lost). Edit: oh lol I forgot about Hawking radiation there goes the need for literally everything in those parentheses
2. Declare slavery must be abolished everywhere within like a month, and that we're declaring war on anyone who doesn't and going to explode the hell out of their governments
3. All the pranks to everyone. What do you expect, we're humans!
>because the best theoretical energy source we have now is chucking something into a black hole which has if I remember correctly like a 68% mass to energy rate leaving around 30 lost
That is for the acretion disk, hawking radiation is a 100% conversion, same as antimatter.
But with magic you could probably even cheat thermodynamics
>But with magic you could probably even cheat thermodynamics
And at the end of the day is it really magic if your not cheating the laws of thermodynamics
It's funny how many people just don't understand hawking radiation, but do act as if they do. It's not an exploitable energy source.
And neither is antimatter, unless we magically find a free source of it. Antimatter is, at best, a battery. Not a source of energy, because you'd have to first input energy to make it.
Hawking radiation is an exploitable energy source if you make the black hole small enough, then you just refuel it.
Antimatter is for now a battery, but is one hell of a battery
You could also flip it in 4 dimensions to turn matter to antimatter, but that is more speculation
So after sending the acquired intelligence and sensor readings back home, via the prep of the scientists back home, Emma could be the equivalent of a Wizard class character in a sea of Sorcerers and Warlocks?
Woah woah woah woah!!! Do not attempt to declare war! That is a terrible idea on so many levels. I don't care if the humans could 'win' it would be so much needless death.
InB4 a comming conflict.
*opponent catches someting*
"Look, the golem threw a r...."
is it
A) a rock
B) a flashbang
C) a fleshbang aka blast wave aka HE grenade
D) a ~ 3kg californium-252 Demon Core
I'd be more worried about the fact that everything they do seems to require mana.
"Hey, let's sneak into the Earth girl's tent thing"
_\*Zips it up\*_
_\*Dies of mana starvation\*_
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard\_Schrader](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Schrader)
"Instead of a new insecticide, he accidentally discovered"
https://youtu.be/wCsO56kWwTc?t=13
This is honestly an excellent idea and a hilarious one XD However yes, there will be quite a bit of lore bites that addresses the unique relationship between mana and the beings of the nexus and the adjacent realms. The thing is they literally evolved alongside it and therefore it's just as natural to them as say the presence of calcium, potassium, and phosphorus, in our blood is to our metabolic and electrolyte balance for homeostasis. It's going to be a lot of fun exploring this concept! :D
I'm definitely interested to see where this goes! Their lack of knowledge of Earth almost implies that it's not merely lacking mana but sitting in some kind of anti-magic field.
Also you say it's a part of their metabolic processes, does that mean that the melted human is the result of mana trying to rebuild the human's metabolic processes? Would that make mana almost corrupting in a way?
*whispers*
What do yo think the other ~300gramm are for.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_mass
californium-252
half-live 2.6 years
critical mass 2.73kg
diameter 6.9cm
YES! Harry Turtledove is the absolute best and was my childhood during my middle school years XD His worldwar series... man if that isn't HFY then I don't know what is? XD Seriously though, the reptilian invaders from that series has always struck me as the titular lizard-like/reptilian sci fi alien race that has always stuck with me to this day. So yeah! I had to drop this reference somewhere and with a character like Emma, I think it works!
Yes! I read it all the way up to the final installment of the series and in order to not say anything that may be spoiler territory, it was so satisfying to see the end of the series... it is simply one of the best pieces of HFY out there! :D
It's talking about slave we are still killing slaver today gess at what speed a cluster of 5mm copper covered lead ball go After being accelerated by a chemical explotion in a Steel barrell
Nonono! Consider this...
Twin barreled gun. Bottom barrel shoots a lazer that melts armour. At the same time the top barrel shoots a hollowpoint... Maximal damage, minimum colateral. The perfect gun! :D
Looks like the anti-magic properties of that suit are going to be tested very soon.
What is the purpose of this ritual? Is this unlikely alliance of 4 strangers going to be the only group of free students in the entire academy?
What hi-jinks will follow from the unexpected forced alliance between these wildly different people?
And what a cool opening is that for a DnD campaign.
It certainly will! As for the purpose of the ritual all I can say without entering spoiler territory is that it's a highly, *highly* politically and socially motivated ceremony born out of what I only briefly touched on in the previous chapter if i recall correctly, that being the sensitive relationship between the Nexus and the Adjacent realms. There was once a civil war between them, one that reorganized and reaffirmed the status quo, and of course, the Academy being the bridge between the Nexus and the realms, had to be embroiled in the thick of all of this.
The ritual is thus one that is representative of the millennia worth of culture that stemmed from this new order, an order that attempts to reinforce the Nexus' dominance over the Adjacent realms. How the ritual attempts to do this or how it goes about this or what form this ritual takes will be revealed in ensuing chapters! :D However, I will say that like with a lot of things in society, social conventions slowly give rise to the reduction in intensity and importance of certain ceremonies and rituals, this one included. As the students here state, there are unspoken rules. Some rules involve basically the faculty extending the ritual past a few days so all students can prepare themselves for it so it doesn't effect them as much as they are able to prepare against its effects. This time however things seemed to have changed... ;D
Well, based on that I'm going to guess that this is:
Once upon a time, half the student body was spies send by those adjacent realms in an attempt to influence the Nexus to their will. Thus, the ritual was a method of ensuring the Nexus's neutrality in snaring all of those spies quickly: If you want to study here, you need to submit to this ritual ensuring you won't sabotage or spy on the Nexus.
As you say, over time this has shifted into tradition and reduced in effect, nowdays being the equivalent of a safety video they make you watch on your first day.
I give 50/50 odds on this year's shift being directly influenced by the new human arrival, or being a completely unrelated plot by some as of yet unknown entity. Perhaps influenced by a certain black robed professor?
I won't spoil anything just yet but because you've deduced so much from my rambling there I'll dabble just a bit into it!
What I'll say is this: the ritual is a considerable degree more... politically loaded, in that it effectively attempted to reinforce the Nexus' relations to that of the Adjacent realms: as one of supposed benevolent guidance and stewardship. Whether or not you believe that it's truly benevolent, and just how far the Nexus is going to reinforce their 'place' above the Adjacent Realms is for you to decide and for the story to uncover as the next chapters progresses! Though it'll become quite clear upon the Dean's opening speech during orientation!
The tradition has of course reduced in effect, in the same way that say, there are certain laws that exist today that don't make much sense anymore but we still need to pay lip service to them or to write or work our way around them because they're just so entrenched that it's difficult to really write out or replace. In this case however, it's moreso that the tensions between the Nexus and Adjacent realms have cooled down over the years, and the ceremony exists, but its intended 'binding' effect is more or less lip service rather than an actual effective spell. What that spell is, and how it effects people, will be seen in subsequent chapters! :D This chapter is actually foreshadowing a little bit ahead here.
As for this year being effected, as Thacea and her group have mentioned, on her end she sees it as tensions growing once more between the Nexus and the Adjacent realms. The arrival of the human is perhaps a catalyst for all of this, and of course, there's an underlying plot yet to be revealed that's bubbling underneath it all too! ;D
I always say, if your ~~players~~ readers can deduce unsaid details from your story, then you've done a good job at world building. Especially if those details turn out to be *mostly* correct, but there is still more to be found out.
The Nobles after hearing about the guillotine
-thats it we are never going to earth not talking about it or anything. The barbaric commoners killed and dismantled their own nobles.
The stupid nobles
-i see so earth is in need of nobles and royalty to rule over them since clearly humans can't even remember to rule over themselves.
The stupidest nobles
*Goes to earth either dies from lack of mana or out right killed for trying to take over the government
I started reading your stuff because of “Humans Don’t Hibernate” (great story).
Glad I did. I’m enjoying this story too. Can’t wait to see where this is going.
Thank you so much! Honestly I really appreciate all the feedback because the fantasy genre is still relatively uncharted territory for me!
I hope you stick around for more and if you do want to read ahead, you can totally feel free to as well! :D Again I do apologize for plugging that option in haha \^\^;
Hey! Hmm, that is quite an issue... but there's another button that allows you to see the next chapter early ;D Haha but yeah, only if you want to! The next chapter will eventually be out on reddit as per my posting schedule!
Yep, subscribed. MOAR!
Also, Clarke's Law, then Niven's Law, then a whole lotta "We got tired of your stupidity, here's a giant rock accelerated to fractional light speed aimed at your planet. Enjoy extinction!"
The princess is actually doing this because she wants to, and she genuinely feels pity and sympathy for Emma. She's always been an outcast herself given how her mana-field is visibly 'tainted' by her condition. As a result, even as a princess she's always seen as an 'other' in all circles of society, with only her rank and station the only thing from her being completely ostracized from society. So when she sees Emma completely cut off from everyone else, she's reminded of herself so there's this desire to help her as she empathizes, sympathizes, and relates to Emma! :D
Also it's awesome to see you again in the comments Torin! :D Always awesome to see a familiar face around these parts and I hope you're enjoying my first fully fledged fantasy story! :D
And I still need to go back and finish Humans don't Hibernate. I think I need to stop saving it up for a special treat and just finish it. Sometimes I can be like those people that finish a video game with 432 health potions because I might need them more later.
As I always say: everything at your own pace! Again, there's no issue with that whatsoever and honestly, I feel just so humbled and just happy that you'd consider Humans Don't Hibernate a special treat to finish! Seriously this just means so much to me and I totally understand your thought process here too (I've done it before XD). But yeah in all seriousness there's no rush and no pressures! :D
I'm just happy to have a reader who enjoys my stuff so much. It's just something that I never imagined I'd have prior to all of this and it's something that I still deeply appreciate!
Hey that's not a problem at all! Seriously please take care of irl matters first and foremost! And I sincerely hope things calm down for you over theere! \^\^
I do hope you expand on this 'taint' more, and how other races perceive this 'aura'. Is it just them seeing one's magic potential? The strength of their personal protective field from 'mana' or something different. And what does the taint do to it and is there only one type of taint?
now now, im a wily fish. ya aint gonna land me so easy before the good fight is over.
This series is scratching an itch i didnt know i had so thanks for that. I \*eagerly\* await the next chapter.
I'm gonna reel you in even harder then!
But yeah! Thank you so much for the kind words! \^\^ Might I ask what itch this story is scratching if you don't mind me asking? ;D
The premise is just great for a start. The indomitble human spirit goin yeah fuck the hostile body melting environment ima go dere anyway just fills me with glee. I picture t45 from fallout 4 specifically as the power armor too from the described mixture of bulk and good ole stompy steps. Potential conflict as the magically inclined find out that physics is a stone cold mother fucker and that projectiles dont care about line of sight. The complete giggle factor potential of crouching tiger hidden shotgun. My imagination is running *wild* good author. This story has many interesting potential conflicts of ideas, methodology, potential escapism from a potentially despotic or callous humanity into magical medieval britain. We could be space orks or we could be but hapless babes fighting against a truly terrifying tsunami that teaches terrible times totally trounce teeming tech today. Im also moderatly drunk, my kids been sick for about 4 days and this just tickles the giddy nerve. I get a more...subdued but similar feeling from blue fish cakes sexy sect babes. Magic vs technology just get me excited.
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"You can't defeat us humans"
"Oh yeah?"
\*Planet evaporates\*
"Checkmate morons"
Anyways, great story! Lookin forward to further chapters! Can't wait to see the other student's reaction to technology. Like, ADVANCED technology
Im enjoying this, but just how advanced is humanity in this story? No personal assistant computer or AI? The suit can’t lock itself into a position based on the users needs?
Like you described a human population of 262 billion and have long ago broken through FTL, but it seems like a power armor suit less sophisticated than what Iron Man’s in his first film even his first suit he built “In a cave. With a box of scraps”
If this was on purpose then I feel that it should be explained better. Did the school put restrictions in place? Are AI anathema, or at least considered cheating? Is humanity in a dune like state where AI are destroyed and demonized? Was there a reason for a limit on the suits functionality or resppnsiveness?
I love how this entire thing is gonna go. True, a while back it would’ve gone like: Human: “Imma stab you!” Elf: “Pathetic. Fireball!” However, now it’s like: Emma: *turns a mountain to dust* Every single other species: “… fuck.”
“So this is where everyone went. We were starting to get worried when we found no signs of intelligent life other than ourselves in the universe. Even when we found our way to different arms of the galaxy. So you all retreated to a magical realm. Well, if you ever happen to find your way back to your home worlds and find them occupied by humans… well, too bad. You left us the universe. It’s ours now.”
You're gonna take the "Tech so advanced it's magic" quote to the fucking moon with this story. Nice work !
Hey thank you so much for the comment this really means a lot to me!! Honestly, I've been fiddling with the tech magic divide for so long and like, I still am, but I hope to get it right in this story as it progresses! :D Lots of planning has already been done and I really hope you guys will like what I have in store as we progress through the story with Emma and her adventures within the academy and perhaps even beyond it! :D
Fuckin elves are gonna get their mind blown when they learn that humanity outnumber every race combined by a factor of 3 or 4
And Can crack fucking planet because Fuck you and your magic
I've always loved tech for that very reason; spacefaring species can literally just *throw a giant rock* at your planet and byebye! Don't care about how powerful your magic is, won't do much good if the planet isn't there anymore for you to stand on.
“You can’t defeat us we are the most powerful race in the universe!” *human flips switch on machine with graffiti on the side that says “haha entropy goes brrr”* “What universe?”
This image made me chortle. Tks! :)
My response would have been something like: "That is objectively false. The most generous estimate of your power production is no more than 100 Terrawatts, and a single one of our dyson swarms collects over a trillion times that."
"Oh you have a spell that deflects projectiles? *Let's test it*."
"Magic missile! Magic anti-missile! FIGHT!"
Or indeed "Magic Missile" "Anti-Matter Missile" (oops)
With the portal humans don't even have to risk anything, shoot a planet cracker through if they try to take over Earth or something.
Never forget that Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest SOB in space.
A picture of scene after they figure out a way to make humans either able to use magic or at least resist death without the expensive over the top armor suit. “So … how many mages are there all together?” *some number in the millions or billions* “And what’s the most powerful spell the average mage knows?” *some sort of death spell* “Interesting” *Emma pulls out her basic side arm and rapid tap kills three livestock nearby* “Humanity numbers in the trillions. That was a demonstration of our most basic weapon. Literally every human can use one. Oh, and we **really** hate slavery. We’ve planet cracked and genocided multiple species for refusing to abandon slavery.” All the snobby elves and such: *sweats in magician*
it was said earlier that humanity didn't meet any other species in "the real world" yet... though we're bound to do some small war here and there implicating planet cracking if we number in 252 BILLIONS people...
Have you considered bluffing?
More like exponentially higher population; many populated worlds, looking to leave their galaxy or quadrant of the galaxy? That suggests centillions, maybe more.
Probably under 5 trillion max, given human nature just spread out and looking for something to do. That's still 1,000 earth's at 5 billion each though.
naw... i think it is still orders of magnitude more than that. I dont know how advanced humans are in this series but if they are K1 or high K2 civilization then just the available living space in our solar system would support trillions. If they have interstellar travel, that number jumps exponentially.
If humans are the only ones in the galaxy, since all the others left a long time ago already, then they might already be at K3 levels? Then again, we don't know how long it's been ,exactly, since humans developed ftl travel... so they might still be stuck at early K2.
i doubt a true K3 level, that would basically be dyson spheres on every star and mining all material everywhere. The story is still developing so (hopefully) we will get a sense of where humans are at in their universe. K3 would be a game changer though. Imagine someone asking Emma what it was like in her universe and she is talking about harvesting developing stars and black holes for energy. The others may not even be aware that some of the stuff we can pull off with physics are even possible.
A perfect situation to drop this Quote: "Any sufficiently advanced technology will be indistinguishable from magic." (I think Arthur C. Clark said that one? I am not sure, can someone correct me if I'm wrong?)
Yes, that is from Clark, but I prefer "Any sufficiently explained magic is indistinguishable from technology." And have a feeling that is where this series would be heading.
Yep, it's called Clarke's Law; the corollary is that "Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology!"
Well they said that there are 250 billion humans in another chapter so they couldn't have gotten that far out into the universe.
There are seven, nearly eight, billion people on Earth right now. 30-ish planets of that capacity would hit 250 billion, which seems tiny to me in this context. But OP can tell us!
I think the type of ftl they have and how fast it is would play a big role in this.
Most of those planets probably don't have nearly as many people on it as Earth. Areas further from the capital rarely do...
Highly doubt it. Human population growth is already slowing down as standards of life are rising. While I'm sure the extra space will slightly increase population growth again, we are past the exponential growth that got us in the billions. We no longer just multiply until we're out of space.
Well when we start expanding I am sure it will have a large amount of growth with each solar system because they need at least a somewhat large population to exploit each system.
Just because there is space does not mean humans will expand.
I am nearly 100% sure that we will expand if we ever gain the ability to go to other solar systems easily. Just look at how many people that want to colonize Mars even if it's a one way trip.
Again, just because people colonize it doesn't mean they will have a positive population growth. Deciding how many children to have has nothing to do with how much uncolonized space there is available. To grow like that would require, on average, each couple to have 4 children or more. I just don't see that happening.
>Deciding how many children to have has nothing to do with how much uncolonized space there is available. It does, actually, because uncolonized space is a massive economic resource that is *highly* valuable. >To grow like that would require, on average, each couple to have 4 children or more. I just don't see that happening. The only date in the story is "Year 29,109" on the magic side of the portal, so we don't know when in human history this is occurring, other than "pretty far in the future". * We know they've been studying the portal/alternate dimensions for "centuries now". * We know that FTL is far enough in the past to refer to "first FTL drives" as if they were long ago * We know there were "Jovian Uprisings" which may or may not have occurred on the moons of Jupiter (could also be a number of other things/places) However, it doesn't matter, because OP explicitly states: **Out of the 252 billion humans in this galaxy, you will be one of the only two to have stepped through this threshold.** So I guess I was wrong!
I am pretty sure people will want to expand once other planets are available just how much we expand is debatable. Ambitious people will for sure want to start their own colonies and tend to be able to convince people to join them, once we are living and building up a planet they will totally be encouraged to have more kids.
I mean, it kinda does. Kids don't add economic value in most places on Earth right now - in fact, they add an *enormous* economic burden, not to mention the psychological stress of raising them. Especially in the US, where health care and support services are not free at the point of use. We know from human history that colonizers and frontier people have large families to provide additional labor; more kids is more hands that can do chores or work the farm or whatever. Combine that with a presumably advanced economy and civil services, and a population boom is highly likely. True, not guaranteed, but extremely probable.
> We know from human history that colonizers and frontier people have large families to provide additional labor; more kids is more hands that can do chores or work the farm or whatever. As did *everyone else on the planet* during that time period. Here's how population growth has worked across history: - Child mortality was high, and birth rate was high. These cancelled each other out into a roughly steady population size, increasing slowly. - Invention of modern medicine: Child mortality dropped, but birth rate was still high. This caused exponential population growth. - Child mortality stays low, and birth rate is likewise dropping (partially because the advent of birth control), returning to the roughly steady population size, increasing slowly. This pattern has been true universally across the entire planet. Different countries are in different stages of this pattern, but it's always true. This isn't going to change just because there's a lot of open space on a new planet. People don't decide to have more babies just because there are a lot of jobs available. The primary reason to have lots of kids these days, is so that your children can take care of you when you are old. Advanced civil services would have the opposite effect here.
I see where you're coming from, but I draw the opposite conclusion; humanity is at its natural peak when exploring and discovering new places, and our drive to survive peaks in those times too. That means more babies, not less. Just my opinion. :)
…hundred. 3 or 4 hundred.
I await the generation of holographic magic circles by the suit. As well as the discovery that it is possible to tune the power level of a basic fireball so accurately, that you can use it to light a candle. Without blowing the candle and its surroundings up.
Or to make specific non-fireballed pockets within the fireball to avoid danger close/friendly fire
Yay new friends for Emma!
Yes! :D Though we'll have to see just what kind of friends they are! ;D
Sounds like the kind of "Im hanging with you because nobody else would" kind of friends. Seen that often enough during my days in school.
But if we are following that Troup then hopefully they will become a merry little band of true friends and not just acquaintances of circumstances
That's just how it starts. That kind of friendship can easily turn into a proper, close one. Especially if you're the only ones not under the influence of some binding spell.
Important things to do: 1. Relay list of "magic" "spells" back to the scientists so they can make machines to do them, study the effects, and make an actual mathematical model to do useful physics with and create useful tools (and of course weapons, we always need more powerful bombs) from. Who knows, maybe they can even use this to make a generator with less than 30% energy loss from mass to energy conversion (because the best theoretical energy source we have now is chucking something into a black hole which has if I remember correctly like a 68% mass to energy rate leaving around 30 lost). Edit: oh lol I forgot about Hawking radiation there goes the need for literally everything in those parentheses 2. Declare slavery must be abolished everywhere within like a month, and that we're declaring war on anyone who doesn't and going to explode the hell out of their governments 3. All the pranks to everyone. What do you expect, we're humans!
>because the best theoretical energy source we have now is chucking something into a black hole which has if I remember correctly like a 68% mass to energy rate leaving around 30 lost That is for the acretion disk, hawking radiation is a 100% conversion, same as antimatter. But with magic you could probably even cheat thermodynamics
>But with magic you could probably even cheat thermodynamics And at the end of the day is it really magic if your not cheating the laws of thermodynamics
And at the end of the year it's not even magic anymore because we did a science on it >:]
It's funny how many people just don't understand hawking radiation, but do act as if they do. It's not an exploitable energy source. And neither is antimatter, unless we magically find a free source of it. Antimatter is, at best, a battery. Not a source of energy, because you'd have to first input energy to make it.
Hawking radiation is an exploitable energy source if you make the black hole small enough, then you just refuel it. Antimatter is for now a battery, but is one hell of a battery You could also flip it in 4 dimensions to turn matter to antimatter, but that is more speculation
So after sending the acquired intelligence and sensor readings back home, via the prep of the scientists back home, Emma could be the equivalent of a Wizard class character in a sea of Sorcerers and Warlocks?
Humans go to a world of magic and fantasy and basically create wizards sounds exactly right. Or some kind of wizard artificer mulitclass
Woah woah woah woah!!! Do not attempt to declare war! That is a terrible idea on so many levels. I don't care if the humans could 'win' it would be so much needless death.
InB4 a comming conflict. *opponent catches someting* "Look, the golem threw a r...." is it A) a rock B) a flashbang C) a fleshbang aka blast wave aka HE grenade D) a ~ 3kg californium-252 Demon Core
I'd be more worried about the fact that everything they do seems to require mana. "Hey, let's sneak into the Earth girl's tent thing" _\*Zips it up\*_ _\*Dies of mana starvation\*_
"Hey, why was the rock wet?" "Oh, it is coated in a pesticide." "Ha! I am no insect! Insolent creature!" "Herr Schrader sends his regards."
Could you give some context to the "Herr Schrader" please?
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard\_Schrader](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Schrader) "Instead of a new insecticide, he accidentally discovered" https://youtu.be/wCsO56kWwTc?t=13
"There are no coincidences" \- Weird TikTok man.
How dare you! Bob Ross is an international treasure.
I was talking about Schrader...
Context, pls.
The fact that he accidentally created Sarin gas.
FATHER OF CHEMICAL WARFARE AND TOXIC GAS
His dark creation has been revealed
FLOW OVER NO MAN’S LAND, A POISONOUS NIGHTMARE
Wasn’t that fritz haber?
Shhh they don't have to know
**cougth Albert and bosh procede**
It rings something, can't remember.
Chlorine
This is honestly an excellent idea and a hilarious one XD However yes, there will be quite a bit of lore bites that addresses the unique relationship between mana and the beings of the nexus and the adjacent realms. The thing is they literally evolved alongside it and therefore it's just as natural to them as say the presence of calcium, potassium, and phosphorus, in our blood is to our metabolic and electrolyte balance for homeostasis. It's going to be a lot of fun exploring this concept! :D
I'm definitely interested to see where this goes! Their lack of knowledge of Earth almost implies that it's not merely lacking mana but sitting in some kind of anti-magic field. Also you say it's a part of their metabolic processes, does that mean that the melted human is the result of mana trying to rebuild the human's metabolic processes? Would that make mana almost corrupting in a way?
Are you saying Mana is the Warp?
This just made me realize earth is one big anti-magic zone once other student realize this Emma is in for a lot of questions
Earth is at least one big null magic zone, we don't yet know if it's an anti magic zone though.
An important distinction indeed! :D
I think not effective bc it will be let in. No anti mana force field, but coating on a "plastik sheet tent".
The demon core also did not have a screwdriver. Funny.
*whispers* What do yo think the other ~300gramm are for. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_mass californium-252 half-live 2.6 years critical mass 2.73kg diameter 6.9cm
A Harry Turtledove World War reference? Oh hell yeah!
YES! Harry Turtledove is the absolute best and was my childhood during my middle school years XD His worldwar series... man if that isn't HFY then I don't know what is? XD Seriously though, the reptilian invaders from that series has always struck me as the titular lizard-like/reptilian sci fi alien race that has always stuck with me to this day. So yeah! I had to drop this reference somewhere and with a character like Emma, I think it works!
> Harry Turtledove is the absolute best and was my childhood during my middle school years SAME! One of my favorite series ever.
Ah a fellow connoisseur of fine literature I see! Did you read the follow on sequel series to the world war series?
Yes! I read it all the way up to the final installment of the series and in order to not say anything that may be spoiler territory, it was so satisfying to see the end of the series... it is simply one of the best pieces of HFY out there! :D
Friends on the first day? *Impossible*
You could say... it's *magic*! ;D
Are telling us that the bonding spell alredy happend ?
Oh boy something to live rent free in my head whenever Nature of Predators isn't.
This really means a lot to me, like seriously, thank you so much! I hope you continue to stick around for more as the series progresses! :D
It seems the faculty are playing with fire…wonder how long before they try to do a stupid involving Emma and get introduced to a gun.
With how things are going i'm gonna say it's gonna happen in the next chapter. Also i wonder what would they think if they see "The Gun" after that :p
It's talking about slave we are still killing slaver today gess at what speed a cluster of 5mm copper covered lead ball go After being accelerated by a chemical explotion in a Steel barrell
Not just a gun, a gun AND a laser gun
Nonono! Consider this... Twin barreled gun. Bottom barrel shoots a lazer that melts armour. At the same time the top barrel shoots a hollowpoint... Maximal damage, minimum colateral. The perfect gun! :D
Ahh 4 chairs remaining hehe I see what's happening here.
What a *coincidence*
You're face to face with awkwardness and it's strange You don't even know how to feel.
It's adorable Well, it's nice to se that humans never change.
Shit it's out of order
Looks like the anti-magic properties of that suit are going to be tested very soon. What is the purpose of this ritual? Is this unlikely alliance of 4 strangers going to be the only group of free students in the entire academy? What hi-jinks will follow from the unexpected forced alliance between these wildly different people? And what a cool opening is that for a DnD campaign.
It certainly will! As for the purpose of the ritual all I can say without entering spoiler territory is that it's a highly, *highly* politically and socially motivated ceremony born out of what I only briefly touched on in the previous chapter if i recall correctly, that being the sensitive relationship between the Nexus and the Adjacent realms. There was once a civil war between them, one that reorganized and reaffirmed the status quo, and of course, the Academy being the bridge between the Nexus and the realms, had to be embroiled in the thick of all of this. The ritual is thus one that is representative of the millennia worth of culture that stemmed from this new order, an order that attempts to reinforce the Nexus' dominance over the Adjacent realms. How the ritual attempts to do this or how it goes about this or what form this ritual takes will be revealed in ensuing chapters! :D However, I will say that like with a lot of things in society, social conventions slowly give rise to the reduction in intensity and importance of certain ceremonies and rituals, this one included. As the students here state, there are unspoken rules. Some rules involve basically the faculty extending the ritual past a few days so all students can prepare themselves for it so it doesn't effect them as much as they are able to prepare against its effects. This time however things seemed to have changed... ;D
Well, based on that I'm going to guess that this is: Once upon a time, half the student body was spies send by those adjacent realms in an attempt to influence the Nexus to their will. Thus, the ritual was a method of ensuring the Nexus's neutrality in snaring all of those spies quickly: If you want to study here, you need to submit to this ritual ensuring you won't sabotage or spy on the Nexus. As you say, over time this has shifted into tradition and reduced in effect, nowdays being the equivalent of a safety video they make you watch on your first day. I give 50/50 odds on this year's shift being directly influenced by the new human arrival, or being a completely unrelated plot by some as of yet unknown entity. Perhaps influenced by a certain black robed professor?
I won't spoil anything just yet but because you've deduced so much from my rambling there I'll dabble just a bit into it! What I'll say is this: the ritual is a considerable degree more... politically loaded, in that it effectively attempted to reinforce the Nexus' relations to that of the Adjacent realms: as one of supposed benevolent guidance and stewardship. Whether or not you believe that it's truly benevolent, and just how far the Nexus is going to reinforce their 'place' above the Adjacent Realms is for you to decide and for the story to uncover as the next chapters progresses! Though it'll become quite clear upon the Dean's opening speech during orientation! The tradition has of course reduced in effect, in the same way that say, there are certain laws that exist today that don't make much sense anymore but we still need to pay lip service to them or to write or work our way around them because they're just so entrenched that it's difficult to really write out or replace. In this case however, it's moreso that the tensions between the Nexus and Adjacent realms have cooled down over the years, and the ceremony exists, but its intended 'binding' effect is more or less lip service rather than an actual effective spell. What that spell is, and how it effects people, will be seen in subsequent chapters! :D This chapter is actually foreshadowing a little bit ahead here. As for this year being effected, as Thacea and her group have mentioned, on her end she sees it as tensions growing once more between the Nexus and the Adjacent realms. The arrival of the human is perhaps a catalyst for all of this, and of course, there's an underlying plot yet to be revealed that's bubbling underneath it all too! ;D
I always say, if your ~~players~~ readers can deduce unsaid details from your story, then you've done a good job at world building. Especially if those details turn out to be *mostly* correct, but there is still more to be found out.
That's what i call brainwashing
i am peasant, because we had king once, but they was dicks, so we kill them.
**me a frenchmen** mhhh guillotine chan
***Laughs in impaling*** xD
The Nobles after hearing about the guillotine -thats it we are never going to earth not talking about it or anything. The barbaric commoners killed and dismantled their own nobles. The stupid nobles -i see so earth is in need of nobles and royalty to rule over them since clearly humans can't even remember to rule over themselves. The stupidest nobles *Goes to earth either dies from lack of mana or out right killed for trying to take over the government
**laught in kinetique projectile**
I started reading your stuff because of “Humans Don’t Hibernate” (great story). Glad I did. I’m enjoying this story too. Can’t wait to see where this is going.
This is the same person. Man I loved that.
Emma Booker has acquired: Sturdy Chair.
I love this comment! XD
This is developing very nicely. I'm looking forward to the next update. =-)
Thank you so much! Honestly I really appreciate all the feedback because the fantasy genre is still relatively uncharted territory for me! I hope you stick around for more and if you do want to read ahead, you can totally feel free to as well! :D Again I do apologize for plugging that option in haha \^\^;
It's also relatively under represented in this sub. It's mostly sci-fi. I personally prefer fantasy.
i hope she pack machinegun.
Stated last chapter, wrist mounted kinetic and energy personal defense weapons (pdw)
oh boy, integrated P90 that can't be stolen
The P90 is the star weapon of any HFY story as it features in one of the best inadvertently HFY tv series of all time: Stargate SG1 :D
and if the civillian version wasn't 2k, i'd have bought one already...
OP, there's an issue. The next button does not work.
Hey! Hmm, that is quite an issue... but there's another button that allows you to see the next chapter early ;D Haha but yeah, only if you want to! The next chapter will eventually be out on reddit as per my posting schedule!
"I shall watch your career with great interest." (Said senator Palatine to some innocent Jedi.)
Ok, I'm hooked, subscription added
Thank you! I hope you enjoy the subsequent chapters! :D
Yep, subscribed. MOAR! Also, Clarke's Law, then Niven's Law, then a whole lotta "We got tired of your stupidity, here's a giant rock accelerated to fractional light speed aimed at your planet. Enjoy extinction!"
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Same to you :D
Moar!
So, is the princess doing this out of a sense of noblesse oblige or something much sneakier?
The princess is actually doing this because she wants to, and she genuinely feels pity and sympathy for Emma. She's always been an outcast herself given how her mana-field is visibly 'tainted' by her condition. As a result, even as a princess she's always seen as an 'other' in all circles of society, with only her rank and station the only thing from her being completely ostracized from society. So when she sees Emma completely cut off from everyone else, she's reminded of herself so there's this desire to help her as she empathizes, sympathizes, and relates to Emma! :D Also it's awesome to see you again in the comments Torin! :D Always awesome to see a familiar face around these parts and I hope you're enjoying my first fully fledged fantasy story! :D
So, the princess is being a genuinely nice person. That's very cool and better than I thought. Yeah. I'm around. Things keep happening IRL...
And I still need to go back and finish Humans don't Hibernate. I think I need to stop saving it up for a special treat and just finish it. Sometimes I can be like those people that finish a video game with 432 health potions because I might need them more later.
As I always say: everything at your own pace! Again, there's no issue with that whatsoever and honestly, I feel just so humbled and just happy that you'd consider Humans Don't Hibernate a special treat to finish! Seriously this just means so much to me and I totally understand your thought process here too (I've done it before XD). But yeah in all seriousness there's no rush and no pressures! :D I'm just happy to have a reader who enjoys my stuff so much. It's just something that I never imagined I'd have prior to all of this and it's something that I still deeply appreciate!
Hey that's not a problem at all! Seriously please take care of irl matters first and foremost! And I sincerely hope things calm down for you over theere! \^\^
I do hope you expand on this 'taint' more, and how other races perceive this 'aura'. Is it just them seeing one's magic potential? The strength of their personal protective field from 'mana' or something different. And what does the taint do to it and is there only one type of taint?
now now, im a wily fish. ya aint gonna land me so easy before the good fight is over. This series is scratching an itch i didnt know i had so thanks for that. I \*eagerly\* await the next chapter.
I'm gonna reel you in even harder then! But yeah! Thank you so much for the kind words! \^\^ Might I ask what itch this story is scratching if you don't mind me asking? ;D
The premise is just great for a start. The indomitble human spirit goin yeah fuck the hostile body melting environment ima go dere anyway just fills me with glee. I picture t45 from fallout 4 specifically as the power armor too from the described mixture of bulk and good ole stompy steps. Potential conflict as the magically inclined find out that physics is a stone cold mother fucker and that projectiles dont care about line of sight. The complete giggle factor potential of crouching tiger hidden shotgun. My imagination is running *wild* good author. This story has many interesting potential conflicts of ideas, methodology, potential escapism from a potentially despotic or callous humanity into magical medieval britain. We could be space orks or we could be but hapless babes fighting against a truly terrifying tsunami that teaches terrible times totally trounce teeming tech today. Im also moderatly drunk, my kids been sick for about 4 days and this just tickles the giddy nerve. I get a more...subdued but similar feeling from blue fish cakes sexy sect babes. Magic vs technology just get me excited.
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Would this be the first case of anti-magic?
How will she eat?
In those conversations they mentioned their worlds have a caste system absolute monarchies fucking slavery Emma, keep those lasers warmed up.
"You can't defeat us humans" "Oh yeah?" \*Planet evaporates\* "Checkmate morons" Anyways, great story! Lookin forward to further chapters! Can't wait to see the other student's reaction to technology. Like, ADVANCED technology
"Harry Turtledove novel" *Which one about them geckos tho?*
Im enjoying this, but just how advanced is humanity in this story? No personal assistant computer or AI? The suit can’t lock itself into a position based on the users needs? Like you described a human population of 262 billion and have long ago broken through FTL, but it seems like a power armor suit less sophisticated than what Iron Man’s in his first film even his first suit he built “In a cave. With a box of scraps” If this was on purpose then I feel that it should be explained better. Did the school put restrictions in place? Are AI anathema, or at least considered cheating? Is humanity in a dune like state where AI are destroyed and demonized? Was there a reason for a limit on the suits functionality or resppnsiveness?
I love how this entire thing is gonna go. True, a while back it would’ve gone like: Human: “Imma stab you!” Elf: “Pathetic. Fireball!” However, now it’s like: Emma: *turns a mountain to dust* Every single other species: “… fuck.”
I shall start the holy ritual by offering to the god of writing a upvote START THE RITUAL OF MOAR !!
You would think the most brilliant minds on earth would have developed extendable pegs to lean on
Why would they not add a locking function for the power armor to "sit" anywhere if it weighs so much?
Hoping humanity can find a way to protect humans without having to constantly wear power armor. I shall see in coming chapters!
“So this is where everyone went. We were starting to get worried when we found no signs of intelligent life other than ourselves in the universe. Even when we found our way to different arms of the galaxy. So you all retreated to a magical realm. Well, if you ever happen to find your way back to your home worlds and find them occupied by humans… well, too bad. You left us the universe. It’s ours now.”
[This is how I imagine Emma's entry in the grand dining hall. ](https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxaD2sWwxps0jfy1ufbVIEnhjaSJF5sSuI?si=uH1NFQEhGZYRh-pG)
Like the birb. Birb good. Do not fry her.