I've posted an entry for Year One and I'm about to make one for Year Two. I don't want to divide things by location, as that leads to unhappy postmapping; if we're going to do postmapping we might as well have the posts in rough chronological order to begin with; we can still subdivide into areas or events beneath it.

I moved Adam's old note section over here. You can safely ignore anything that has to do with Gabe for right now because Gabe has opted out of this section so far. I just wanted everyone to see the other notes he put in without me having to describe them vaguely and use links.

Please feel free to jump in, and know that I'm waiting with bated breath for you guys to join in.

Nathan wouldn't be the only person I'd have to move, of course. I haven't yet posted the different school rosters, but we can chat about that this evening, if you like. I was thinking of shifting a few people over to the Andes location, including Wick, Jor, Nathan, Dante, Swede, etc. I want whole school's worth of people to play with for each group without any interference.

In the original rewrite for Book One Kat and Jax got iced toward the end of the second year for attacking Sol and Gabe. We can certainly change that if you like, but if not, then it would be safe for me to have Nathan transferred from Andes to Siberia later on without having to shift everyone else around and still keep him out of Kat's hair. For now.

I hadn't given the idea of ID a lot of thought, but it certainly deserves some. It seems to me that a bracelet would be too inexact. Perhaps they can embed a chip or something? That's removable but not easily and wouldn't interfere with any kind of suit or exercise.

It would be a great way for a small number of adults to handle a large number of children if they needed.

Also it would be lovely for my backplotish thingy. Otherwise I may have them use tranq darts, which is fine but seems somewhat oldschool. This is the NEW school, babay!

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Plus, we have kind of a lot of people who go rogue, so that could provide some delightful complications for them. Or do you think they would not be so very delightful? There could be a little circuit that, if it detects conditions that indicate danger (including chip removal which should be technically difficult and have some element of danger, possibly brain damage etc), it could broadcast a signal. The signal wouldn't have much strength in certain situations, so that would assist our rogues a bit.

Speaking of IFC, the IF in our story is no longer the IF, and its charter has been altered slightly. China is largest remaining superpower and it is taking charge of the deteriorating state of Earth's ability to support life by organizing a massive colonization effort. Our kids are the best of the brightest and they are being trained as the officers that man all important PLA postings, including the colony ships.

The only place the current world exists so far is in our heads, so I think it's rather difficult to make a misstep at this point. I haven't been able to come up with a satisfactory replacement title for our IF, so...Amy? You're the Naming Mistress. Get to it! These are the military elite! They're the ones who'll be piloting the sleeper ships full of colonists and in charge of setting up the colonies when they get there and declaring when the colony is capable of living without martial law; until then, they get to rule the colonies with an iron fist. Yay! Those who don't go on the colony ships will be qualified to serve in any branch of the military, etc, though I'd say the vast majority are probably going to be sent out...if that's ok with you guys.

Regarding the faculty; no matter what our setup, I'm sure we'll have room for participants who are mentally off-kilter. ANY profession that involves adults responsible for children they don't individually love is going to involve at least a few who meet that off-kilter criterion. When you don't love them, children tend to be viewed as either a troublesome resource or a burden after you have to deal with them for a while; I imagine a particularly unbalanced person might easily become more so and begin to take joy in victories over them, no matter how small or petty.

I had hoped that Amy might post something before I had to so that we had a nice benchmark to set the scene. However, perhaps I could create a faculty member to oversee some of our little ones and thereby have a vehicle for the staff side of things without having to lard Sol down with a bunch of unnecessary exposition.

I'm feeling much better now. I'll try to post something tonight! It may be brief but it will be there! And it may be Nathan, since he's off someplace else not in anyone's way rather than Sol, which would demand a response from Pammy.