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It's such a pain and even now I don't understand why they demand so much space

Someone once claimed it referred to app data as well as app install space but that can't be the case because it's happened with apps that have next to no external data

WOW!!! tecknar!!! verison uhh. indev. or something. WOW!!!! it's obviously got all the bells and whistles from the inbox version but there's some new features as well which you might find fun! like YOU CAN CHANGE THE CANVAS SIZE. also other miscellaneous crap like groups and stuff and I Actually Implemented Keyboard Shortcuts This Time

GO CHECK IT OUT!!! and PLEASE find my bugs......

Chapter 1: How it starts

The Stargates are strange things. Nobody really knows how they work, how they connect two points across space instantly, how they don’t seem to have any adverse effects. They’re human constructions, but the engineers are working blind, like building an engine while blindfolded, trying to find where you dropped the 10mm by sound alone. It doesn’t matter if nobody knows, though. They work, and they work well. They connect two points like a doorway, even over tens of lightyears, letting people, animals, ships, anything, pass through like they’re walking into another room. One’s never failed before, so why bother worrying when billions of people use them every day?

Tedaki station is a frontier outpost. It’s beyond the edge of what humanity would consider civilised space. It’s isolated, quiet, like a rural town in the middle of nowhere, and when you have Stargates connecting every point in space, that’s really saying something. its only purpose is to be a waypoint, or a stopover for frontier colony development. It’s small, tiny compared to the stations in the Core, mostly cargo space, it’s like a fancy and expensive storage box. It’s operated by a skeleton crew, maybe 15 people at most, minimal living space, not much to do. Not exactly a retirement plan. Contact with Tedaki station was lost months ago, probably just an equipment failure, it happens all the time around there. It’s not an issue, just send a crew through the Stargate to fix it. Only Tedaki, like all frontier stations and colonies, doesn’t have a normal Stargate.

Stargates on stations that far out are different from the ones back in the Core systems. Stargates are extremely intensive to operate, they need constant cooling, power, adjustment, they need to be watched 24/7, and they’re very, very expensive. When you have a crew so small, you can’t do that, so they cheap out on them. Stargates on stations like Tedaki are timed, not on demand. Every few months, for a few hours, the gate will open. This is the only window where crews can be rotated and maintenance done. The gate cannot be opened any other time, at least not from Tedaki’s side. It’s just cheaper that way.

Stargates vary in size, but the commercial ones, the ones used for transport between stations, are huge. Squares five hundred meters wide that transport cargo, people, ships, automatons, just about everything. When inactive the opening is covered with a strange fabric-like material. It’s not placed there by people, it’s made by the Stargate itself. An odd, impenetrable, moss coloured sheet that folds in on itself and disappears when the Stargate is activated, only to return when inactive. The events that happen when a gate is activated are hard to comprehend, so it’s normally advised to look away before activation and only look back when it’s stable to avoid something called Stargate sickness.

i’m so into linguistics, particularly articulatory phonetics. to dumb it down, it just studies how sounds are made!

btw Luciano Canepari is a legend in linguistics, and all 4 images in the following are made by him!

those are called vocoids! vocoids just mean any sound produced with a relatively open vocal tract, so every vowel is a vocoid, but not every vocoid is a vowel! for example: w is a consonant but a vocoid too!

I’m making my own phonetic alphabet for transcription, it’s based off of IPA, extIPA and canIPA.

It’s not finished yet, can someone recommend me what to add, change or remove?

(btw the palato-alveolar row is IPA post-alveolar, and post-alveolar row is IPA retroflex)

I thought it was Жизнъ with a Ъ so I got rid of the palatisation

I originally wrote 'Zhizñ' with an Ñ before going "Wait that looks like yeru, not yeri, so it's just 'Zhizn' then"

Perhaps it's different in Ukrainian, my only experience with Cyrillic is in the context of Russian

Actually wait that would be why I wrote И as I because that's how it is in Russian