Glad to see I was right on the 'this would put her in the lead' situation, I'm also really glad to see that Hawke is such a good sport about it all. Sounds like he does this for all the right reasons.
Also, yay blue hair (I may have watched too much anime growing up, that this seems a fairly normal hair colour to me).
And boy do I wish I had an AIS (or similar) and matching head-ware to organise my life for me, and talk to, and poke me when I need a good poking to get something done and, yeah. Though I do wonder how long term access to one of those would affect somebody's personal development, in both good and bad ways. I expect a chunk would come down to what kind of protocols the AIS was set up with.
Hmmm, angel-wings ... though while I'd love the visual look of it, I have to agree with Simon that they would be an absolute pain to have outside some situations. I'm curious if they are 'functional' for the people that have them. Doesn't look like this setting has Artificial Gravity, which implies they probably don't have anti-gravity either, and possibly not reactionless drive tech (the fact that the sports rocket wasn't using it doesn't mean they don't have it) and that means that a lot of your 'flying person' tech based options are limited (using tech to fly, and the wings for stabilisation).
There is of course the 'actual flapping the wings' method for flight, but assuming a mostly normal human body attached to them, you'll need some very interesting muscle tissue to get the power-to-weight required, and there is no way it will look anything but clumsy in use, at least in anything close to 1G. Gliding of course is always an option, and comes mainly down to just how big the wings are in relation to the person.
What can I say, I've done minimal bits of study onto this subject. :) Generally for your classic 'angel' effect, at least for how they often look and move in fantasy or anime, the wings are really just a special effect, and they tend to fly like they are using levitation or similar.
I Want An AIS
Also, yay blue hair (I may have watched too much anime growing up, that this seems a fairly normal hair colour to me).
And boy do I wish I had an AIS (or similar) and matching head-ware to organise my life for me, and talk to, and poke me when I need a good poking to get something done and, yeah. Though I do wonder how long term access to one of those would affect somebody's personal development, in both good and bad ways. I expect a chunk would come down to what kind of protocols the AIS was set up with.
Hmmm, angel-wings ... though while I'd love the visual look of it, I have to agree with Simon that they would be an absolute pain to have outside some situations. I'm curious if they are 'functional' for the people that have them. Doesn't look like this setting has Artificial Gravity, which implies they probably don't have anti-gravity either, and possibly not reactionless drive tech (the fact that the sports rocket wasn't using it doesn't mean they don't have it) and that means that a lot of your 'flying person' tech based options are limited (using tech to fly, and the wings for stabilisation).
There is of course the 'actual flapping the wings' method for flight, but assuming a mostly normal human body attached to them, you'll need some very interesting muscle tissue to get the power-to-weight required, and there is no way it will look anything but clumsy in use, at least in anything close to 1G. Gliding of course is always an option, and comes mainly down to just how big the wings are in relation to the person.
What can I say, I've done minimal bits of study onto this subject. :) Generally for your classic 'angel' effect, at least for how they often look and move in fantasy or anime, the wings are really just a special effect, and they tend to fly like they are using levitation or similar.
-- Brett