#geosynchronous

[merriclo]

not to be that person but why r y’all so mean to navi and fi. they’re sweeties

[putting-gummigoo-in-places]

Put him in geosynchronous orbit

[swan2swan]

Up at 3 AM once again thinking about how most control of systems in Star Wars would actually take place on the Night Side of planets, as hyperspacing in on the Day Side would mean passing too close to the system's star.

[competitionpedia]

Why is ISRO building a second rocket launchport in Tamil Nadu’s Kulasekarapattinam?

The cornerstone for ISRO's second rocket launchpad was laid on February 28 in Kulasekarapattinam, situated in the Thoothukudi district of coastal Tamil Nadu. It will be dedicated solely to commercial, on-demand, and small satellite launches in the future. To know more about Rocket Launch Port in Tamil Nadu, visit: https://competitionpedia.in/…/news-current…/07-03-2024

[retroactivebakeries]

local catgirl spaceshipwright is beaming with parental pride over the newly-completed vessels in their drydock berths, whispering their names to them one by one for the very first time. Azimuth Trouble. Heavy Petting. Geosynchronous Cubit. Pretty Nice Day Obliterator. High Altitude Folly. Smooth Customer. Sapphire and Stainless Steel. Epigraph (Epigram?). Slime and Punishment. A Community Garden for Shrikegirls. Left the MRI On. Disaster Adjacent. World’s Most Expensive Drum Machine. Cadaver Antics. Translunar, Among Other Things. Gone Fishing (in Space). Quality Parts. Flask Argument of Kings.

[dcdreamblog]

The recent question about the Justice League Detroit era sparked a memory and sent me back to my scrapbooks. What many of your readers might not know is that the local kids who signed up with the League weren't the first superheroes from Detroit. Some years before, there'd been a fellow named the Crusader who was trying to be to his city as Batman to Gotham.

He was controversial at the time, with some saying his methods were too violent, while others claimed "the nights were brighter then." Sadly. he tragically died in a fall while in costume.

Any thoughts on short-career superheroes of note?

(OOC: Aquaman #56 (1971); no one brings up Aquaman's earlier visit to Detroit during the JL's stay there. Watsonian: Everyone was being diplomatic about what would be a sore spot. Doylist: The writers of JL didn't remember that earlier story. Heck, I only remembered it because I still had my copy.)

Gotta be honest, folks, I had to LOOK INTO this one. I had never heard of the Crusader before. At least not that one. The name Crusader has been used by at least 4 different people at different points in time. Anyway. I WAS able to dig up a news image of him.

(Taken from the Detroit Free Press)

From what I can tell he was NOT well liked in the general superhero community. A bid for Justice League membership was formally rejected on the grounds of his violent and single minded methods. He was putting people in the hospital with SERIOUS injuries for really minor crimes especially when he seemed to get his heart set on a car theft ring that had been targeting the city's poorer neighborhoods. Generally you don't send people to the ICU for carjacking.

Honestly I have to agree, the news reports I read speak of a man who was more focused on meting out violence than he was in protecting the innocent, a sentiment shared by Aquaman who became embroiled in the man's actions near the end of his life. Eventually having something to do with launching a mysterious satellite into orbit in a geosynchronous orbit over Chicago that had near disastrous effects on the local living standards and ecosystem.

As for the broader question of "short career superheroes" well, all superheroes save lives by nature of doing what they do. Whether they have decades of experience beneath their belts or not. It doesn't really matter how many bona fides your hero has when he's diving out of the night save your from a mugging or a house fire.

Some heroes hang up their masks because their vigilantism was inspired by a specific animating principle. Perhaps a local crime syndicate or evidence of government corruption that, once uncovered and laid to rest also lays to rest their reasons for crime fighting.

Some heroes unfortunately die young in the profession and are remembered with the bitter question of who they might have become if not called before their time to commit the ultimate sacrifice. The example that comes to mind here is the 4th Starman who is still deeply mourned in his native Arizona after laying down his life to help defeat the malicious Eclipso.

Every hero does what they do for their own reasons, reasons many of us would never be able to imagine. Whether their careers are short because they accomplished their goal and have hung up their capes to ride off into the sunset. Or because they were called to the next great adventure before their time it makes no real difference, they were here, they saved lives and we should always be a little thankful for it.

[zeldaseyebrows]

WIP Ask Game

Thank you @sparklyhyperbole and @raurusthirdeye for tagging me! I have too many WIPs, so I'll do the ones I'm actively working right now:

Sacrilege and Sororities Chapter 16: Oh Balls (New Year, New Me)

Link meets their eyes, one by one. "I need to know that you are all who you say you are. Tell me something only you would know."  Sir Xavier answers with a straight face, “Your security answer to the question 'What is your favorite food to eat?' has always been 'p***y.'” Link breathes in through his nose.

2. Ganondorf's (Rude) Awakening- The Roommate AU. Modern!AU Link and Ganon are forced to be roommates. It doesn't end well.

“I just happened to notice that there’s been a lot of hair in the shower drain recently,” Ganondorf said, spinning his lunch salad in the spinner with perhaps more violence than usual. “Hm.” Link shrugged and popped another pizza roll into his mouth. “Maybe I’m shedding.” “I’m not sure it’s all yours. Has your friend been taking showers here?” “You mean Zelda? I’m sure it’s not her.” Ganondorf’s fingers tightened and clenched on the spinner handle. In front of him, the salad appeared ready to fly away and take off into geosynchronous orbit. “The extra hair is blonde. And long,” Ganondorf gritted out. Link raised an eyebrow and gestured to his own hair.

Also wanted to give everyone an update that I am working very hard to have the next chapter of Sacrilege and Sororities done asap!! It has not been forgotten or abandoned. I've just been disgustingly busy and I don't write linearly. And this is the writer type that I am, so take that as you will about my ridiculous method of writing long form content haha (thank you @linksthoughtbrambles and @bahbahhh for tagging me!)

And if anyone would like to do this meme, please consider yourself tagged! I'd love to read about your WIPS!

[yesterdays-xkcd]

Interestingly, on a true vertical log plot, I think the Eiffel Tower's sides would really be straight lines.

Height [Explained]

Transcript

Caption: Top of observable universe.

[Black Hat is standing on top, throwing a black kitty down.] Black Cat: Mrowl!

[Map of the universe from observable universe to Earth. Each area of item is labeled. Labels left to right, up to down:]

(46 billion light years up) Hubble Deep Field Objects One billion light years: Great Attractor. Antennae Galaxies (colliding). Andromeda.

Holy crap lots of space.

One million light years: Magellanic Clouds. Edge of galaxy. Galactic center. Crab Nebula. Orion Nebula. Horsehead Nebula. Romulan neutral zone. The Pleiades, duh!. Rigel. Betelgeuse. Ford Prefect.

[Three arrows are pointing up above three lines labelled “expanding shell of radio transmissions”.] Edge of federation sector 0-0-1.

Pollux. Arcturus. Missing WMDs. Sirius. Barnard's Star. Alpha Centauri.

One parsec:

One light year: Oort Cloud (?). Bupkis. Comet which will destroy Earth in late 2063. Pioneer 10. Voyager I. Eris (All hail Discordia!). Pluto. (Not a planet. Neener neener.) Neptune. Uranus. Saturn. [Two arrows labelled “life” point to two moons, one next to Saturn and the other Jupiter.] Jupiter. Asteroids. Mars. Venus. Sun. Mercury. Spaceship Planet Express: Hey, a heaping bowl of salt! Spaceship Discovery One: Open the fridge door, Hal. Moon. Human altitude record (Apollo 13). 2nd place: Snoop Dogg. Space elevator - One of these days, promise! Geosynchronous Orbit. GPS satellites. Lunar lander: In retrospect, they shouldn't have sent a poet. I have no idea how to land. International Space Station. Space junk.

Official edge of space (100 km): Meteors.

1/10 ATM: High altitude balloons. Airliners. Shuttle Columbia lost.

1/2 ATM: Cory Doctrow [In an hot air balloon]. Everest. Helicopters (6000 m). Cueball: Woo Python!

[A vertical scale is drawn along the right side of the picture, starting at 1 km and getting progressively smaller and smaller.]

1 km. 800 m: Burj Dubai (~800 m). 500. 400. Eiffel Tower (325 m). 200. Kites. Great Pyramid (140 m). Pop fly. Redwood (115 m).

100m. Oak (20 m). A person in the oak: Hey squirrels! Tallest stilts. Brachiosaur (13 m). Giraffe (8 m).

[Megan and Cueball holding the kite are labeled:] Folks.

Title: The observable universe, from top to bottom: on a log scale.

Caption: Sizes are not to scale, but heights above the Earth's surface are accurate on a log scale. (That is, each step up is double the height.)

[xenodile]

so from the various bits and pieces of backstory we've got, the whole predicament that is the Ark has slowly come together.

The Rapture Invasion started when Raptures began flooding out from the Lift, a massive space elevator connected to a satellite in geosynchronous orbit, humanity's greatest technological achievement. Raptures are too resilient and powerful for conventional human warfare to be effective, thus necessitating the development of Nikkes and weaponry catered to superhuman soldiers.

The Rapture Queen, presumably the source of the seemingly infinite Raptures, is built into the satellite connected to the lift, and Cinderella severing the Lift prevents new Raptures from coming to Earth.

Red Hood meets D.E.E.P. and learns about the Super Massive Core, a gigantic Rapture core that powered the Lift, and that it is linked to an identical Core that serves as the power source for the Ark.

So the Lift was built with Rapture technology, and the Queen was effectively hidden IN the Lift itself before the Rapture invasion. And the Ultra Massive Cores being linked means that the Ark was under construction well before the Rapture invasion ever began. We also know there are several failed Arks in various places, as in gameplay we can explore these as Lost Sectors and recover the Harmony Cubes that were part of their construction.

And in Marian's personal story, her check up reveals that the Goddessium alloy that constitutes a Nikke's body and the synthetic tissue created by Rapture nanomachines are in fact two parts of a single whole.

So my theory that VTC found and vivisected some kind of extra dimensional entity like an alien or an angel in order to create both Nikkes and Raptures is tracking, but it's also becoming more and more likely that the entire Rapture invasion was started intentionally. I am beginning to suspect that the whole purpose behind the Ark and the Central Government is to "preserve" humanity like an ant colony. Trap the human race is a forever war, housed within a controlled idyllic environment, and convert the brightest and best examples of them into machines to preserve their knowledge.

[dr-futbol-blog]

Allies, Pt. 2

The hive has finally reached Atlantis and everyone is on edge. They seem to be in continuous radio contact with both the Daedalus and the Orion, both of whom are hearing everything that is spoken on the Control Platform of Atlantis, as we hear the Canadian technician give Caldwell a status report when he asks for one. Essentially Caldwell and Sheppard ask for the same thing, Caldwell just manages to sound more official about it than Sheppard who seems to be calming his own nerves more than everything else by inserting some levity to the situation, making fun of how anxious he himself is to hear what is going on out there. Sheppard very obviously hates being on the sideline unable to do anything, having to wait to hear from where the action is.

Caldwell: Atlantis, report? Chuck: It's going into geosynchronous orbit. Hasn't armed any of its weapons. Weir: If they do, I want you to switch from cloak to shield as quickly as possible. Don't wait for my order. Chuck: Yes, ma'am. Sheppard: You could be a little more chatty, Elizabeth. Weir: I'm sorry, we're just waiting for them to make the next move. Chuck: Transmitting a signal, audio only. Weir: Put it on speaker.

Because we have both Caldwell and Sheppard wanting to hear from them, this scene seems to call back to the tense moment in the beginning of The Siege (S02E01) at the start of the season when Sheppard had been on the bridge of the Daedalus together with Caldwell, waiting to hear back from Atlantis after they had just watched the wraith bombard the city with darts, unsure whether McKay had been able to get the shield up in time. Sheppard had been very aware of the fact that everything was hinging on McKay being able to shield them. It had been a question of seconds and because of interference caused by the exploding darts, they were unable to hear from Atlantis, they were getting only static in response -- just as Sheppard had been getting only static in response from McKay in the previous episode.

In contrast to now, Sheppard had been hailing Atlantis instead of Weir or Elizabeth, and I had discussed at the time how many mainstream viewers interpret his worry as motivated by Weir while the fact that he had chosen to hail Atlantis (knowing better than to try hailing McKay directly when everything was hinging on him making the shield work in time) betrayed the fact that his concern had been above all for the man that he loves, and we have seldom seen him as afraid as he was then. Sheppard did not want to know whether Elizabeth had survived, he wanted to know if Atlantis was still standing. We are reminded of this by how Caldwell is the one hailing Atlantis now and Sheppard hails Elizabeth, sounding much more relaxed than he had been then, even though they are essentially in the same situation, because he knows McKay is not in danger. Not hearing back from Atlantis, Sheppard does not know what had happened. For all he knows, the wraith might have destroyed them outright. But because McKay is with him, we do not see Sheppard despair not getting an immediate answer from Atlantis like he had done at the start of the season. Sheppard cares about Atlantis and he cares about Weir, but he does not care about them the same way he cares about McKay.

That moment had also been one where Caldwell had likely clocked that Sheppard had some personal reason to be both as afraid and as relieved as he was when they finally learn that Atlantis had survived. What is real curious, and makes the end of the season rhyme with the beginning, is that Sheppard sharing the bridge with Caldwell had also been when they had first made a reference to allies. The two of them had the following exchange:

Sheppard: The Asgard gave you hyperdrives and shields. How come no offensive weapons? Caldwell: They don't like providing other races with anything that could potentially be used against them. Sheppard: I thought we were allies. Caldwell: Without the beaming technology, you wouldn't be here, Major.

As already indicated, this episode is not so much about Sheppard and McKay as it is about how they are perceived by others, what impact they and their relationship have had on the people around them. Like the Asgard, Sheppard and McKay do not like to provide the people around them with anything that could potentially be used against them. And like Sheppard was then, some of the people around them seem to be hurt by their perceived distrust, Weir chief among them. Sheppard has very good reasons to want to keep what they have under wraps, and McKay has agreed to keep his confidence whether they are together or not.

It is not a coincidence that it was Caldwell who delivered him the message that without their allies Sheppard would not even be alive any more, let alone rekindling his relationship with the love of his life. And throughout the course of this episode, we see character after character reveal in small ways that they are allies, that Sheppard can trust them. Sheppard and McKay have saved everyone so many times that all of the people on their orbit owe them a debt of gratitude. And while in Coup d'État (S02E17) we had heard Sheppard call her Doctor Weir and her call him Colonel, their use of the intimate address here speaks of this deep friendship that has formed between them and Weir's sincere desire to be an ally to him, which may have been one of the reasons she seems to have facilitated Sheppard, the person responsible for the security of Atlantis, spending the weeks leading up to the attack of the wraith away on his honeymoon on the Orion. As mentioned previously, but I want to underscore it, Sheppard's presence on the Orion is not necessary. They need the ship, yes. McKay and his team could easily have delivered them the ship, and Sheppard spending weeks sitting in the captain's chair, as lampshaded by McKay, was not crucial to the operation, and his skills as a strategists might have come in much more handy on Atlantis. And yet Weir had given him leave to join McKay.

Michael: We know you are there. We mean you no harm. Please respond. Weir: John, are you hearing this? Chuck: It's repeating again. Michael: We mean you no harm. There is no point in hiding, Doctor Weir. We know you are there. We mean you no harm. Please respond. Sheppard: Is that who I think it is? Weir: He's addressing me by name. I think we can assume it's Michael.

They are all shaken by the voice that they hear on the intercom, the prodigal son returning to remind them all of their mistakes. What is interesting is how what Michael is saying is overlaid with the reaction shots because there seem to be two layers here, the wraith being used as a metaphor for gay people but also for the allies in this episode. Michael's message might just as well be the same as would be sent to Sheppard and McKay by everyone who love them. We mean you no harm. There is no point in hiding. We know you are there, forced in the closet by the institution you serve. It is Sheppard that now gets the message "We mean you no harm" overlaid on him, and McKay gets the message "There is no point in hiding, Doctor," and it is not a coincidence that the word "Doctor" is spoken when we see him exchange a look with Sheppard. The whole message is further lampshaded by Weir asking Sheppard if he is hearing this, if he in particular is receiving this message.

What is interesting is that while through the character of Michael they are revisiting the question of Sheppard's sexual orientation, in this episode the onus is actually on the people around him, on how other people around them perceive Sheppard and his relationship, how entirely without his input and without him even noticing, there is a network of people who support them that seem to have formed around them. We see several examples of people being allies in the episode, which is clearly a new and unfamiliar experience to him. What we had learned in Michael (S02E18) about his past explained why Sheppard may have felt like he needed to bury his feelings deep and never let anyone see them -- but what he has found in and with McKay has just been too big for him to keep concealed, to keep it hidden away and not let anything show. They are obvious to anyone who sees them together even if they think they are being careful and clandestine. It is also fitting that they would have Michael deliver the words as who ever "Mike" had been in Sheppard's past, he seems to have been a false ally, seems to have been trying to get into his confidence under false pretenses and possibly at the behest of his father.

Caldwell: You don't actually intend to respond? Weir: Why not? Caldwell: Where do you want me to start? Weir: I think we can safely say our cover is blown. Caldwell: I wouldn't jump to that conclusion. Weir: The message is from Michael, Colonel. Dex: They know we're here. Caldwell: But they don't know exactly where we are. Sheppard: He's right. Answer them and we guarantee the first shot won't miss. Weir: Teyla? Teyla: Any attempt on my part to connect with Michael will confirm our location as surely as if you answer by radio.

The vocabulary they use here has a double meaning that is carried over the entire conversation, and it is no accident that it is Caldwell as the representative of the military that is advising against disclosure. Weir's mention of their cover being blown and there being no point in hiding is interesting in the context of this particular episode because this is one where we get a heavy textualization of the subtext later -- again in the context of someone being an ally. Another thing that we are reminded of here is the psychic connection that exists between Teyla and the wraith, and Teyla and Michael in particular, her being "exceptionally open" to him. It seems as though Michael has the ability to locate Teyla as accurately as they if were in radio contact, which again opens the question of the nature of the connection between Sheppard and McKay that may be hinted at the end of the episode.

It is also remarkable how relaxed Sheppard sounds now that he has assurance that McKay is not in any danger, when he is able to look right at McKay when he is talking about the destruction of Atlantis. He fixes his eyes on McKay as he says the words "the first shot won't miss," advising Weir against a course of action that might lead to the destruction of Atlantis. And yet he does not sound anywhere near as terrified as we have seen and heard him previously, unsure of the fate of the city. There are many people in the city he cares about, it is their home. And yet it is not an existential question to him like the thought of losing McKay is. Everything else he can survive but not that. Everything else is negotiable but not that. Even later on in this episode we can appreciate the difference.

McKay: I recommend you open a secure channel to the hive via the Daedalus. That way they won't be able to pinpoint Atlantis' position. Weir: And we can always turn the shield on. Sheppard: I believe we have enough combined firepower to take out a single hive if we need to. Weir: Have you ever heard of a Wraith behaving this way? Dex: No. Teyla: Nor have I. Weir: Right. Let's hear what they have to say.

McKay suddenly pipes up with a recommendation, seeming to bridge the two prevailing views: caution and making contact. What is notable is that McKay is standing behind the weapons' officer, a cute blonde woman that he has paid absolutely no attention to, whose station he was standing behind when we had first joined them on the bridge -- because fixing Sheppard up with the drones that he needs seems to be a priority for McKay. He has minions working on other fixes but he is being personally responsible for getting the weapons to work because that is what Sheppard had wanted from him. And given the way they had behaved in the previous episode, it is notable that in this episode neither McKay nor Sheppard seem to pay any attention to any blonde women whatsoever -- and we later see one make quite an obvious pass at Sheppard to which he remains oblivious. Sheppard seems to only have eyes for McKay, looking at him intensely as he speaks. And note that when Sheppard says the word "we," he once more glances at McKay. While he is obviously talking about all of them, Atlantis, the Orion and the Daedalus, he means the two of them as well. His "we" is always Sheppard and McKay first. In order to be able to shoot his load Sheppard needs McKay to roll up his sleeves, spit in his hands and get to work -- and not for the first time.

Continued in Pt. 3

[bookoftheironfist]

Danny: “How do you kick somebody’s head off in zero gravity conditions? Start with the weapon-- use the inertia to spin around and-- then shove off the wall and bring it to him-- Even shattered, the stub of the whip-sword still looks nasty-- then take it-- and him-- out. And then...Stellar Astro-Fist. Um...Kick of the Geosynchronous Thunderbird. Something. Doesn’t matter. I made it up. What’s got two thumbs and didn’t boot in front of millions of people while inventing zero-g kung fu?” Defenders (2011) #1 by Matt Fraction, Terry Dodson, Rachel Dodson, Sonia Oback, and Clayton Cowles

In which Danny fends off assassins in low orbit.

For the record, this is not actually his first time fighting while weightless. All the way back in Marvel Premiere #22, he and one of his early antagonists were thrust into an abstract pocket dimension created by Master Khan, which had the fun feature of no gravity.

"The odds here are against you. For you were never trained to use your kung fu skills...where gravity does not exist! You float helplessly as the razor-sharp shuriken shrieks past your head. Each movement sends you drifting even more helplessly. Each succeeding shuriken passes even more closely to your person." Marvel Premiere #22 by Tony Isabella, Arvell Jones, George Roussos, Aubrey Bradford, and Karen Mantlo

Fortunately, Danny was trained to adapt quickly to new environments, even very odd ones, and just as he does in the above scene from Defenders, he manages to find his space legs in time to fight back.

[mindblowingscience]

NASA is demonstrating laser communications on multiple missions—showcasing the benefits infrared light can have for science and exploration missions transmitting terabytes of important data. The International Space Station is getting a "flashy" technology demonstration this November. The ILLUMA-T (Integrated Laser Communications Relay Demonstration Low Earth Orbit User Modem and Amplifier Terminal) payload is launching to the International Space Station to demonstrate how missions in low Earth orbit can benefit from laser communications. Laser communications uses invisible infrared light to send and receive information at higher data rates, providing spacecraft with the capability to send more data back to Earth in a single transmission and expediting discoveries for researchers. Managed by NASA's Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) program, ILLUMA-T is completing NASA's first bi-directional, end-to-end laser communications relay by working with the agency's LCRD (Laser Communications Relay Demonstration). LCRD launched in December 2021 and is currently demonstrating the benefits of laser communications from geosynchronous orbit by transmitting data between two ground stations on Earth in a series of experiments.

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[bestworstcase]

fandom treating "just because something bad happened to you once upon a time? no one gets a fairytale ending!" like some sort of harsh truth sick burn is so funny to me bc

1. while the emotion behind it is genuine, yang is not dunking on salem to "call her out," she is being deliberately as caustic and belittling as possible to redirect salem's fury away from oscar onto herself while tied to the floor and that is indescribably more courageous, smart, and badass of her than the generic "you suck" speech yang's fans make it out to be

2. salem's actual reaction is like

"……ok?"

because salem does not even like fairytales and is also predominantly concerned with the part where a god who hates her wants to kill the entire world to punish her again, for the second time, and is also having the awkward realization that this is. her general's daughter. for something to be a sick burn there needs to actually be a burn

3. "hm. her again? :)" is salem throwing a brick into geosynchronous orbit, how likely is it this exchange will get reprised when the brick finally lands?

[competitionpedia]

Why is ISRO building a second rocket launchport in Tamil Nadu’s Kulasekarapattinam?

The cornerstone for ISRO's second rocket launchpad was laid on February 28 in Kulasekarapattinam, situated in the Thoothukudi district of coastal Tamil Nadu. It will be dedicated solely to commercial, on-demand, and small satellite launches in the future. To know more about Rocket Launch Port in Tamil Nadu, visit: https://competitionpedia.in/…/news-current…/07-03-2024

[edwhiteandblue]

January 12, 1986 — STS-61C Columbia launches after four unsuccessful launch attempts

STS-61C deployed the Satcom-K1 geosynchronous communications satellite and carried numerous smaller scientific experiments. Columbia also carried two future NASA Administrators, Charlie Bolden (served 2009 - 2017) and Bill Nelson (served 2021 - 2025), into space.

[sprintingowl]

Morbo's Catastrophic Sanctuary

It is the year 2149, and earth’s temperature has stabilized. Thanks to a network of geosynchronous atmosphere control satellites, the tumult of the Climate Era has ended and humanity’s cities have begun to sink back into their normal routines.

Risen Cairo is a metropolis in three layers, built on the banks of the Nile Ocean. Its upper plate is resplendent with solar collectors and mansions overgrown with greenery. Its middle plate houses its working class and plumes with the smoke of its industry. And its lower plate contains those who have not fully integrated into society---late refugees from the Climate Era, or those whose fortunes have tumbled them down onto the lowermost economic rung.

Society is mostly peaceful, with football and airskiff racing being at the top of the news cycle.

Nevertheless, from the shadows, a presence looms.

All this tranquility is bad for business.

---

After months of playtesting, this 187 page osr JoJos TTRPG Actual Play inspired abomination of a system is released.

Risen Cairo is a city in three layers, built on the Nile Ocean. All of its cars have legs. Cryptids and vampires and robots are normal citizens. Some people have powers that have been awakened by trauma. And this is all your problem.

Built on the Mork Borg engine, using artwork by the incredible Strega Wolf Van Den Berg, and inspired by Afromenace's incredible JoJos TTRPG system, this is a game that haunted me for months and I am thrilled to finally inflict on you all.