Nice catch. This is kind of intentional. In my head the MC is a certain age and then has a birthday relatively close to the start. So even though they spend just over two years at the Academy, they age up three years. I did this just because it’s easy to throw a age +1 at the start of each Chapter, and it would be nice to get the MC closer to adulthood, but you’re right that it does just feel wrong. It is also unnecessarily confusing. I’ll give it a closer look when I’m finished with Chapter 4 and decide exactly what I want to do.
Either way, thanks for the info. It really does help!
Something interesting to note is the age ranges are quite volatile in range. There’s quite a difference between teen, pre teen, and young adult. Poor teen MC trying to prove themselves and command a fleet whilst battling hormones.
I do have some text planned at certain points that address this. Moments where the MC realizes that they are still too young to legally drink in most places and yet they’re in charge of hundreds of souls. Or romance-wise locking out vast age differences (for obvious reasons) by saying things along the lines of “Wait, that’s an adult and I’m 14. This isn’t love, it’s a childhood crush!”
Just got the image of a teen Lucas entering the academy as a teenager and worrying about how he will perform there only to be told he must also share a room with a hot 18 year-old woman for 2 years who, depending on choices, he may develop a crush on.
Just a thought, even if united nations have ships and yes fussion nuclear reactor as power source, they still need resupply, maintenance and thousands of other things. So even if the ship can theoretically can travel to entire solar system can they in practice. Big ships like dreadnought and cruisers like the one MC command are big enough it but what about corvette or destroyers, especially corvette. And what each ship operation range.I mean if only limitations are people and not the energy source which no matter which type I still height double it what stopping humanity from sending colony ships in other star system light years away and why have they not done it already. Just constantly propeller the ship for a few days and you will have a very effective speed since it’s space and when you are near destination just do the reverse humanity should have send hundreds of colony ships by now even before the war. Ok if you do that then you can send a colony ship after months of constant propulsion just 10 percent the speed of light the nearest star is 4.5 light year away it will take 45-50 year it’s a reasonable time frame for a colony ships. So why did no one try it.
You are correct. Fusion reactors are very effective, but they do still require fuel. Upkeep for vessels is necessary and is either carried out at the nearest port on fairly regular intervals, or when on deployment, small and fast resupply ships can be sent out to top up a ship with food, fuel and other basic necessities.
As for human colonization of other solar systems, it’s not really something that is critical to the plot right now so take everything I say not as gospel truth, but my initial thoughts on an element of world building that I haven’t spent much time thinking about. So, with that in mind and potentially subject to change, I think the colonization of other worlds is simply not practical or useful at the moment. Keep in mind fusion tech has only existed in universe for about a 100 years, and its implementation as an effective energy source and propulsion system is even more recent than that. Probes were sent out to nearby star systems in the late 2080s, and reached places like Alpha Centauri and Barnard’s Star a couple decade’s later, and found interesting scientific data but not much else. There are some gas giants and barren world’s but nothing habitable or Earth like.
Colonies in the Sol system are still very reliant on Earth in many ways, and you don’t have that safety net moving 5 light years away. It’s also a long trip with a lot of ways for things to go wrong, and would require a great deal of funding, with almost no chance of return on investment. So long story short, it’s high risk, low reward, too expensive, and too impractical. And current priorities rest elsewhere after the war.
Perhaps that will change if humanity manages to, you know, not die in the coming years…
So it supply issue in a way. It’s kinda like that even a supply wagon can only reach so far before it to run out of supply much less supply anyone. I think it will be interesting to see MC learning the biggest issue is always limit of supply chain, even if you have a ship ammo and food need regular resupply. And even if it’s a fussion reaction it’s essentially powering a ship it’s gravy system and so many other systems that have height energy requirements and even it needs supply after just a few years. Even modern carrier that have a nuclear reactor still need resupply to there reactor because of waste disposal and every few decades a new reactor, more so if it’s not sea but space.
Ohh, i see. But i’m afraid it doesn’t quite work like that – you won’t age even nominally 3 years in 2 years, no matter how soon you start :> So in this scenario it’d be more like, +1 year shortly after entering the academy, so in Chapter 1, then +1 year somewhere in the middle, so in Chapter 2… and then +1 year shortly/a few months after the graduation, so probably at some point during the ongoing pirate patrol, early in Chapter 4? I imagine celebrating that birthday could be turned into some small event and opportunity to interact with the crew or the ship officers, if you wanted; a little break from the usual all the business and no pleasure.
Yeah, you’re right. Keeping track of how much time has passed has honestly been a major challenge for me so far. I don’t know why, it shouldn’t be that hard lol. Regardless, thanks again, and I do like the idea of a birthday event of some kind. I’ll probably add something like that at some point.
What kinda salary MC will have. Space ship are heightly resorce intensive, so only those that meet very strict requirement will be allowed on them. So 13 billion people on earth and few million at best on rest of the solar system, only couple of thousand personal on space station and ships combined even the lowest rank should earn quite a lot and the fact you get accepted even should have positive effect when they retire. So how much each rank earn compare to a normal person.
I talked about this a little bit ago, but I don’t think money is going to be a resource or mechanic in game, so a salary, if anything, would only serve a worldbuilding role. With that said, I’m still going to shy away from giving any hard numbers because doing so then pushes me towards having to flesh out entire economies and price values.
I will say that there is a universal currency, credits, adopted by most of Earth at this point (I believe I reference that somewhere), and those are worth a couple US dollars, British pounds, European Euros, etc., each. Again tho, subject to change and not hard numbers.
As for how well you as a Officer of the Fleet are paid, the answer is much the same as the military in many modern day countries. Not great, but passable, at lower enlisted levels, but can get pretty generous at the higher ranks. Doing your job in space doesn’t necessarily mean you get paid more tho. Today in real life for example, you can have a US Airforce Captain making $90k a year flying a $200+ million dollar aircraft. Hell, you can have a mechanic maintaining that plane and making far less than $90k. Playing with the big toys doesn’t necessarily mean you’re making the big bucks. So there are some enlisted folks on the Chamberlain that are far from rich, but the MC is a high ranking officer, so let’s just say your retirement is going to be just fine.
Maybe slightly older just because of an increase in life expectancy vs today, and a current urgent need for seasoned veterans. But yeah, around late 60s early 70s. Also requirements based on years of service and such, but not dissimilar to modern practices.
Can MC after retirement, run in politics most war hero end up retiring early if they can help it to become political head of State because of there popularity. MC after becoming The Hero can reasonably retired at age 50 , and run for the United Earth head of State. If anyone is going to be popular enough that all nations and population will accept is going to be a famous war hero that save humanity very existence. It can be one of the life choices in the epilogue of what to do after the war. And can be interesting as what path MC can steer humanity through policies he support, a aggressive humanity that isolated or expansionist, still believe there is more to cosmic that just war and still try to be hopefull or on that see all alien in cosmic to be exterminated for humanity safety.
Mc seems a little young to be worrying about retiring since at most we start at age 18. Historically there have been generals that have been kept well past retirement because they were simply too good to let go. The pool of good and experienced generals is very limited. Though also historically there have been generals that got promoted to political leaders. I’d say it’d depend on the outcome. If there’s still war and strife then a general as a leader would be entertained, but if there’s peace it wouldn’t be likely.
How come aliens arrive in our solar system. We have established that they absolutely lack the most basic understanding in space combat, during the invasion and it was mostly ground invasion. But just how did they travel interstellar distance from what we gather and likely come from hundreds of thousands light year away if we are been generous. They bring so many troops that’s the most inefficient way to exterminate humanity. Even if they we’re bad at space battle but they have the number just throw astroids at Earth why invade just nudge a few astroids at Earth big one and it’s done. It’s more like humanity survive because there is a idiot aliens that attack them like movie type. United Earth must have realised it they are alive because against all odds a truly stupid aliens attack them more than anything. It have to be a question why invasion when they just want to kill us and in such a inefficient way and they don’t seem to know how to fight space battle.
