VoidTrecker Express Mods ([personal profile] voidtreckermods) wrote2020-08-30 03:04 pm

Library


LIBRARY
This a double carriage. On the bottom floor there is a corridor running along one side, with a door to enter the carriage itself in the middle of the corridor. Up the stairs on either end of the carriage, the space is open, relatively.

Downstairs appears similar to a public library. The walls are painted brightly and lined with shelves, most of which are empty. Labels indicate that fiction books should be stored here. The wall facing the door is alternating windows looking out into the Void, and posters that seem to be large, blown-up book covers for the more popular fiction books in the train.

Four tables with linked chairs are spaced throughout the car, each one painted one of the team colours, and beanbag chairs similar to those found in the Games carriage can also be seen scattered in a pile in one corner.

A little wooden train with shelves built into it winds its way through the tables, its shelves filled with all of the previously-purchased Merry Little Void Train literature and the first book of several of the encountered but unpurchased MLVT series, including several colouring books. There's room on its shelves for far more than it currently contains. Kheli the rabbit is painted leaning out of the engine window, waving.

Along the far wall to the right are two scanning machines, which can do the following: register new books - as a helpful tutorial on the screen will inform you; provide summaries of books if given a specific title; or check books out if presented with a valid ticket. Passengers can have up to eight books checked out at a time; if someone walks out of the carriage carrying a book not checked out by them, the ICP speakers in that carriage will beep obnoxiously for ten seconds.

Upstairs resembles an academic library. The wall next to the stairs is a similar bank of windows as downstairs, although lacking the colourful posters, instead dotted with landscape paintings of previously visited worlds and unknown worlds both. Rows of shelves divide the space into six smaller workspaces, each with a single-person desk with lamp and bookstand and another window above, bracketed by shelves on either side. The bookshelves muffle sound, creating semi-private spaces around each desk.

The shelves are empty, with labels on each shelf indicating that non-fiction books belong up here.
We will not OOCly be tracking books being checked in and out. If a book is not being returned, please reply to that book's comment to let people know that it isn't available.

Please comment below with any books your character is registering with the library computers, using the following form, to either the fiction or non-fiction top level and under the correct genre or subsection with the book's title as the subject header:




BOOK SEARCHES ~ FICTION ~ NON-FICTION
FICTION: Merry Little Voidtrain ~ Action/Adventure ~ Crime ~ War/Epic ~ Drama/Slice Of Life ~ Horror
NON-FICTION: Void ~ Historical/Travel ~ Educational ~ Entertainment ~ Arts/Sports ~ Philosophy/Religion ~ Health
OTHER: Recipes ~ Passenger Documents

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Empire of Stars: Champion (sci-fi, drama)

[personal profile] voidtreckernpcs 2021-05-26 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Donor: Nita Callahan

Description: V765 grew up in the empire and is content to be a soldier like her parents. The problem with having famous parents however is that a lot is expected. Fresh out of military college is sent to Planet #98789878987, a notorious planet known for its lawlessness and disdain of the empire's reach.

Can she be the champion of her empire? Can she live up to the expectations of her family? Far from home, surrounded by enemies, can she stay true to her upbringing and bring peace to the multiverse?

*The Empire of Stars books have a warning taped up next to them: "These were written by a member of the Empire itself. We've previously had to fight them off from taking over a world by force. Read at your own discretion."
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Empire of Stars: Resistance

[personal profile] voidtreckernpcs 2021-05-26 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Donor: Nita Callahan

Description: Xoe grew up a rebel. Living literally underground on planet #98789878987 her family fight the Empire of Stars who enslave their planet. Xoe is a fighter, tough like all her people. She doesn't back down and she's not afraid of anything.

But a solo mission to scout out an empire fleet is the biggest thing she has ever done. Can she keep her nerve?

The book ends when Xoe and V765 crash into the wilderness after a battle goes wrong.

*The Empire of Stars books have a warning taped up next to them: "These were written by a member of the Empire itself. We've previously had to fight them off from taking over a world by force. Read at your own discretion."
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Empire of Stars: Honour Lost

[personal profile] voidtreckernpcs 2021-05-26 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Donor: Nita Callahan

Description: Xoe believes those of the empire to be ruthless and evil and no one is as surprised as she is when her life is saved by a soldier of the empire.

Together they begin a journey to find civilisation once more and both learn that perhaps, what they think they know is completely wrong.

However it takes more than the love of two people to heal a rift of centuries and the two young, idealistic pilots find themselves condemned by their people when they finally are found.

Xoe goes back to her people, encouraged to forget about the pilot. An enemy is an enemy, no matter how much kindness they show you. She returns to her work and tries to put the journey through the wilderness out of her mind. Yet she can not put V765 out of her mind.

V765 is cast out of the empire. Soldiers of the empire do not save rebels. The empire of stars does not show weakness.

But there is no place for a disgraced soldier in a universe where the empire's reach is wide and she lives on the edges of society, taking any work that comes her way.

*The Empire of Stars books have a warning taped up next to them: "These were written by a member of the Empire itself. We've previously had to fight them off from taking over a world by force. Read at your own discretion."
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Empire of Stars: Hope Restored

[personal profile] voidtreckernpcs 2021-05-26 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Donor: Nita Callahan

Description: A job comes to V765 that returns her to planet #98789878987. Though she knows she should not she seeks Xoe out.

Disguised as a rebel she joins the resistance, but all the time her and Xoe work to convince them that perhaps the empire should be listened to after all.

Xoe's closest friends begin to take heed and for the first time there is a glimmer of hope.

*The Empire of Stars books have a warning taped up next to them: "These were written by a member of the Empire itself. We've previously had to fight them off from taking over a world by force. Read at your own discretion."
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Empire of Stars: Closing a Door

[personal profile] voidtreckernpcs 2021-05-26 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Donor: Nita Callahan

Description: Sometimes it is the youth that must lead the way and after many Dramatic Conversations Xoe and her small band decide to follow V765 and join the Empire of Stars, even if it means leaving their people behind.

If the other books felt like the author was definitely of the Empire of Stars, this book confirms it. Xoe, V765 and the rebels decide that the way of the Empire is right and just and join, fighting against against the rebels in an epic battle that at least takes into account the utter heartbreak of fighting your own people for the greater good.

The series ends with Xoe joining the empire's military college, a bright future ahead of her. She bids farewell to V765 - still exiled because traitors don't get to be citizens even if they help destroy a rebel base, but loosely connected to the military as a gun for hire, and V765 promises that she will see her again when Xoe is a soldier for real.

It is perhaps meant to be a happy ending?

*The Empire of Stars books have a warning taped up next to them: "These were written by a member of the Empire itself. We've previously had to fight them off from taking over a world by force. Read at your own discretion."