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====== Astronaut School Yggdrasil ====== | ====== Astronaut School Yggdrasil ====== | ||
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//Romantic teen adventure drama in a futuristic school setting.// | //Romantic teen adventure drama in a futuristic school setting.// | ||
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- | Constructing | + | Construction of the space elevator " |
- | A space elevator like Yggdrasil gets away from the necessity of the constant expensive and destructive rocket launches of the 21st century by the simple expedient of climbing: the great climber trains, " | + | A space elevator like Yggdrasil gets away from the necessity of the constant expensive and destructive rocket launches of the 21st century by the simple expedient of climbing: the great climber trains, " |
- | 20 years after establishment, | + | Twenty |
- | In the year 2189 Astronaut School Yggdrasil is the most desired vocational high school of the free world. Every year the school takes in 500 of the most talented applicants, boys and girls under 20 years of age, with finished primary education. The students will spend the next three years far from home, ten thousand kilometers above the Earth; as the mere journey to the school at the far end of the space elevator takes a week, the students will learn to live in a space habitat out of necessity. After finishing school, the new astronauts will have their choice of employers in the space industries, or they may continue on to advanced education at just about any college, or even the ETO space corps Lunar Academy. | + | In the year 2189, Astronaut School Yggdrasil is the most desired vocational high school of the free world. Every year, the school takes in 500 of the most talented applicants, boys and girls under 20 years of age, with finished primary education. The students will spend the next three years far from home, ten thousand kilometers above the Earth; as the mere journey to the school at the far end of the space elevator takes a week, the students will learn to live in a space habitat out of necessity. After finishing school, the new astronauts will have their choice of employers in the space industries, or they may continue on to advanced education at just about any college, or even the ETO space corps Lunar Academy. |
- | The second space age brings a cultural paradigm shift to an Earth in the grip of nation-states and resource scarcity, a change not embraced by everybody. Headmaster Drees has had to prove himself every step of the way to a board of directors consisting of functionaries from the major funding | + | The second space age brings a cultural paradigm shift to an Earth in the grip of nation-states and resource scarcity, a change not embraced by everybody. Headmaster Drees has had to prove himself every step of the way to a board of directors consisting of functionaries from the major funding |
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===== Sania Ganju Pandit, Astronaut of love ===== | ===== Sania Ganju Pandit, Astronaut of love ===== | ||
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- | Sania is a smart 16-year old Indian girl who just got her acceptance letter to the astronaut school. Unlike the 500 other lucky entrants, she's not so excited about space research or industry; rather, Sania is driven by the desire to fall in love with the sweetest, most talented, heroic astronaut boy ever, and to win his heart for her own. All things considered, the astronaut school is the place to be for her! | + | Sania is a smart 16-year-old Indian girl who just got her acceptance letter to the astronaut school. Unlike the 500 other lucky entrants, she's not so excited about space research or industry; rather, Sania is driven by the desire to fall in love with the sweetest, most talented, heroic astronaut boy ever, and to win his heart for her own. All things considered, the astronaut school is the place to be for her! |
It's not that Sania hates space, she's merely lukewarm to it; star-gazing never was to her taste, and planetariums favored by her school-friends caused no heart palpations. On the other hand, Sania' | It's not that Sania hates space, she's merely lukewarm to it; star-gazing never was to her taste, and planetariums favored by her school-friends caused no heart palpations. On the other hand, Sania' | ||
- | Sania does not know yet what her dream man is like, but it is evident that a new life in a thoroughly new environment will shake her sensibilities. There will be new challenges to the smartest girl of her school; new freedoms unknown in a conservative family environment; | + | Sania does not know yet what her dream man is like, but it is evident that a new life in a thoroughly new environment will shake her sensibilities. There will be new challenges to the smartest girl in her school; new freedoms unknown in a conservative family environment; |
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