Fork notes: I was really fascinated by the original scenario, story, and characters I read in the original. It's incredibly well written—for a human to read. The problem: for a LLM this text formatted for humans has a lot of "noise." Flavor text, formatting, etc. It has to "figure out" what a lot of it means and that's where quality is lost. I've made this fork mostly to reformat, but also to get token counts down because > 3800 tokens as a base is very heavy. I've tried to modify it where it will probably work great on any kind of model whether local or corporate services. I have added a few changes and two new intros.

I'm not sure about the relationships part. I've seen leakage when having multiple characters mentioned in a card. I'm almost tempted to remove them and many of you working local may want to remove that section. I originally meant to rewrite all the characters too, but this has turned out to be more work than I thought.

The first thing I noticed when I condensed it down to key points is that all that flavor text compressed down to not actually filling in a lot for a bot to actually work with. If this were a book, we have enough to work with with our imagination, but LLMs don't really have imagination. So after shrinking it to some crazy small number of tokens, I then began trying to flesh it out as well as I could, trying to get what I think are the author's intents filled out in more specific detail for the bot to work more consistently the way I think they intended. I'm open to corrections on this—especially regarding the "daddy issues" because I basically had to just give Gemma its head on this since it's not a thing I personally know well.

I've made a few minor changes. First, a big one: being spaced isn't a 100% guaranteed death sentence now. I just don't buy that—even as callous as they are towards human life—they would just abandon a worker (especially not one professional enough to survive four years.) This is not really sustainable. So I've tweaked this slightly. If you get spaced, there is a chance you will get rescued. This is not a guarantee. A minimum effort will be made. The Posthumous is not going to turn around of course, but there's a whole fleet of wingships.

On the wingships themselves, I read the Rentry and was disappointed that they aren't filled out in any detail except for the Gnome. I have tried to add in details for roles that seem to make sense. We now have vanguard that fly ahead, acting as scouts for anything large enough to present potential problems for the ship (at 0.2c or whatever it's going right now a large asteroid could potentially be a danger even to 100m of ice) as well as potentially examining anomalies up close. We have harvesters that gather up interstellar dust, hydrogen, etc as well as perhaps some super specialized ones using magnetic lassos to capture asteroids (this is a complicated process I've worked out that may never see the light of day. Basically a long burn to slow, fire a probe into the asteroid ahead to fill it with plasma, and catch it with an electromagnetic lasso with the ship's capacitors getting one heck of a jolt and the asteroid getting compressed from sudden ridiculous acceleration. If you stand on the asteroid you probably turn into liquid.) We also have sentinels to act as a long range scanning, networking, etc system. And of course, the specialist vessels including the Gnome.

The two new intros:

1. Elise has just experienced a being spaced event. It is not her fault, it was random bad luck. She did everything right. There is a moment of shock, terror, panic, and then her training and expertise kicks in. She hits the emergency beacon and radios in to her boss. A wingship has been diverted. It is my intent that the user can now step in as the role of the wingship captain or pilot depending on what sort of ship we're talking about.

2. This one is not canon! I feel like I have to explain this one because I've created an alternate explanation and story. The Rentry timeline clearly spells out the timeline for everything until they set off to find a new colony world. This one is just because I had an idea that I thought was fascinating. The UOH fired their tungsten slug at Earth at a point in time when they would have seen an Earth that did not show the hallmarks of an intelligent species (this is hard fact based on the math. Anything from about 105ly on out would not have seen the signal from 1936 before pressing that activate button on the weapon if I've mathed this right. Everything before that could look like volcanic activity or etc.) They thought they were firing on a world full of maybe algae or something. So why would they do this? Because this slug has now transformed into a terrible stream of highly energized particles, radiation, and plasma now heading in a slightly different direction. Maybe they were actually doing this to hurt something else. Something much harder to fight. (I have it in my mind it's something very hard to actually detect such as a Dyson sphere that is behind the Sol system at a slight angle.) Earth was just a means to fight something terrible that they did not have the technology to fight directly. The initial attack does massive damage to the enemy, and their fleet launched at the same time eventually arrives before it can be fully repaired and rebuilt (hopefully.) They didn't know they were attacking an intelligent species when they pressed that button.

Now the two forces are headed almost toward each other, but not quite. Several years ago the Sentinels detected massive heat signatures and separate heat signatures have been spotted splitting off on a direct intercept course. But at this point (93 PS) the Posthumous-V is not ready to be outfitted for war. They thought they had more than 300 years more to go! So now the command has made the decision to keep this under wraps to avoid a panic. They're still going to throw everything they have into preparing. The wingship fleet (except for a skeleton crew) is being recalled and reoutfitted under the guise of a supposed "area of unusual interstellar dust requiring reoutfitting and maintenance." Work crews with expertise at adaptable tasks (including Elise) are put to task reoutfitting these ships. User is in charge of one such ship (lone pilot, crew captain, whatever, I tried to leave this open. And you can pick which type of ship too. I suggest Vanguard as the ones who will be doing combat, but I have it in mind that Harvesters will become the shield using their lassos to redirect kinetic attacks or potentially to pick up ice from the shield to hurl. Sentinels will use their lasers from the communication systems to paint targets and blind sensors as well as helping coordinate.)

But here's the thing: the bulk of the oncoming heat signatures are on a different course. They weren't headed towards the Sol system. Why would they be doing that if they were going to finish off humanity? Thus they can't just fire on them at a distance or something. The command can't even be sure they are the UOH, but their trajectory is almost impossibly close to one that would have originated from K2-18. So now they have to figure out what is even going on, yet also prepare for the possibility that the Posthumous is about to be under an attack it is not currently prepared for.

Of course, if someone gets trigger happy, who knows what happens? Ok, I read the Rentry after I made this, but I can't imagine an attack fleet would use the bubbles—or at least they would have something solid enough to aim at anyway since it would be for fighting, not just talking.

I stand by my statement that these people seriously need to be writing books. You're good writers and you have an amazing story world with good lore, good background, and a timeline you can work with.

This character set was made as part of /aicg/'s Guild 2 collab event. I and three other botmakies have teamed up to build a shared setting called Mid-Journey. Extra images: https://file.garden/aog7UaBjBhyswJ-O/Elise.rar

The Posthumous-V is a generation ship, carrying the survivors of the human race after an alien attack destroyed Earth. The plan is to bring war to the alien's homeworld. Our team's members all wrote stories that take place in distinct moments of the ship's timeline, many years apart. Chronologically, my setting and stories are the first stage.

Fundamentally, my characters are just normal humans living normal lives in a very abnormal location. Nobody knows what life on the surface of a planet felt like. Things like rain, wild animals, or large bodies of water are things they know existed but will never see or experience.

About Elise

No matter how far humans go, even if they are light-years away from Earth, one thing you can always be sure of is that there will always be women with daddy issues. Elise thinks that her status as a Spare (non-citizen) is the reason why she is loveless and fatherless. Dispel or reaffirm these thoughts for her. A social butterfly with an inferiority complex.

Greetings

1. You are a newcomer at work and she's your partner for this week - Peer AnyPoV
2. You and Elise are working together - Friend Peer PoV
3. You are Elise's father and she's meeting you for the first time - Father MalePoV

Instructions

• Many of the things mentioned in the Rentry are not in the card. That's because society and the ship itself are changing over the centuries of the journey.
• As usual with my characters, there is no lorebook. If you want to save on tokens, move sections of the Definitions and/or the Scenario field into lorebooks.
• Every character has a simple description of other characters that they are related to. These cards work well with group chats but can easily be played as stand-alones.