Lost in Space (Reboot) OoC

MsBloom

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Some basic but important information
The breeding protocol was always there as a contingency plan, in case any sort of disastrous event should reduce the human population aboard the colony ship to numbers below expected viable biological diversity through free choice of partner. Even with the colony ship intact and arriving at it's intended destination there was a protocol in place by which each adult man and woman were required to produce at least two children, a third and fourth child giving the parents a financial bonus for each additional child.

The contingency plan however was a little different, firstly in that it required all males and females over the age of 15 to breed at least three children without any promise of a bonus for a fourth or fifth. The children should preferably all be conceived within no more than a year of each other.

Choice of partner for each child was a free choice but also subject to strict regulations:

1. No couple already having produced a child were allowed to produce another until they had filled the mandated quota of at least three more children.

2. If a coupled male and female did not conceive a child within 6 months they were to be assigned new breeding partners.

3. Due to lesser probability of women over forty falling pregnant they were to choose younger males with more viable sperm to breed with and vice versa, younger females with a greater probability of falling pregnant were to choose older males with less viable sperm to breed with.

4. No colonist, regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation, were allowed to refuse breeding. Punishment for refusing to breed or secretly using any sort of contraceptive was banishment from the colony or be forced to breed without their consent. This applied to both males and females.
the only contraceptives allowed would be condoms or diaphragms to allow husbands and wives to still enjoy sex without risking pregnancy if they already have a child between them. All other methods such as birth control pills or implants, injections and whatever else of a more permanent nature would be illegal.
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Would it be ok to go back and write a journal entry dated for the first night they were on the planet?
 
A good point, but the phrase "they don't make them like they used to" comes to mind. Seeing as the Endeavour launched roughly 20 years from the present real-world date, it's not unsafe to assume that the whole 'planned obsolescence/everything is disposable because they'll just buy a new one' thing was rooted even deeper in society when the meteor hit the Lost in Space Earth than it is in our real world. Furthermore, because the original plan was such a massive undertaking, the people in charge would have figured that at least some of the things aboard the colony ship could stand to be disposable, because the colony as planned would have always had replacements on hand.

Of course, there's no reason you have to treat any of that as anything other than me speaking out of my skinny butt, and I don't expect you to. It's just, as they say, my two cents on the matter.
 
@MsBloom and @Jack Stalker I have no issues on a day for Owen and Cara. Whichever you guys recommended is fine with me :D

And apologies for those who are waiting. Getting you all out a reply. Yesterday was very hectic.
 
@LeaT @MsBloom As co-GMs, please let me know if the scaly-looking wolf creature that Nate befriended is against any plans you have already laid regarding domesticate-able or wild animals. If not, he's got himself a new pet.
 
I have another question. On the main ship, The Endeavour, would there have been a school in place there? Perhaps even a university setting of some kind? I seriously doubt they had a mall to go to so they could purchase clothing or whatever they wanted, but could they have had a barter system in place of some kind with fellow passengers?
 
I'm pretty sure that any necessities would be free, and luxuries would be under either a currency system or a barter system.

As for school, I doubt there would have been such a serious oversight on the part of those who put together the expedition. And even if it was overlooked, it would have been corrected within the first generation.
 
Thanks. I do not want to write a journal entry where things are mentioned that didn't, or couldn't, have happened onboard.
 
Elizabeth was a teacher, and I think Capheus was as well. I think an onboard school is established because "thing 1 and 2" were having sex with teachers.
 
@Aluora that actually made me laugh out loud. I never put any thought into who was who with that either. I don't know if Riley is Thing One or Thing Two.
 
Well, I do rp Ana, their mother. So I guess I could name which one was born first. Honestly, if Mac was ever asked which one was which, she would say something like, "Does it really matter? They're Thing One and Thing Two. That's all that matters."
 
Well, I do rp Ana, their mother. So I guess I could name which one was born first. Honestly, if Mac was ever asked which one was which, she would say something like, "Does it really matter? They're Thing One and Thing Two. That's all that matters."
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And I mean, he wants to have a girlfriend, but he also realizes how difficult that's gonna be. I suppose his three parents are sort of already polyamorous, and now there's the breeding protocol. Nate kinda has the opposite problem, he's dealing with the breeding protocol and whatever relationship he ends up in will sort of have to be open by necessity. It's a lot for a young man to handle, that's for sure.
 
Would it be ok to go back and write a journal entry dated for the first night they were on the planet?

Absolutely.

it's not unsafe to assume that the whole 'planned obsolescence/everything is disposable because they'll just buy a new one' thing was rooted even deeper in society when the meteor hit the Lost in Space Earth than it is in our real world. Furthermore, because the original plan was such a massive undertaking, the people in charge would have figured that at least some of the things aboard the colony ship could stand to be disposable, because the colony as planned would have always had replacements on hand.

Except you are forgetting one thing. There will be no factories already set up to manufacture new ones where they were going so I would assume that the mentality would be the direct opposite. Nothing would be disposable, at least not for the first century or so.

@LeaT @MsBloom As co-GMs, please let me know if the scaly-looking wolf creature that Nate befriended is against any plans you have already laid regarding domesticate-able or wild animals. If not, he's got himself a new pet.

Can't say it goes against any plans, seems a bit random to me though and will almost certainly be met with scepticism by the other colonists at first.
On the main ship, The Endeavour, would there have been a school in place there? Perhaps even a university setting of some kind? I seriously doubt they had a mall to go to so they could purchase clothing or whatever they wanted, but could they have had a barter system in place of some kind with fellow passengers?

There would certainly have been a school in place, even for higher education though this would be mainly focused on the professions needed to build a colony (Engineers, Biologists, Computers, Medicine, but also a military school/police academy of sorts.

I'm thinking there would have been some sort of economic system in place but perhaps not built around a currency like money, a bartering system of sorts as you suggest. There would almost certainly be tailors and seamstresses for instance, as well as farmers.

Lol...it makes me laugh every time the twins are mentioned as "thing one and thing two".

Me too.

"Does it really matter? They're Thing One and Thing Two. That's all that matters."

To me Thing One and Thing Two feels like something of a collective name Mac uses for them and she would probably use their actual names if referring to one of them specifically.
 
Except you are forgetting one thing. There will be no factories already set up to manufacture new ones where they were going so I would assume that the mentality would be the direct opposite. Nothing would be disposable, at least not for the first century or so.
I was moreso thinking that there would be crates full of such things, but eh. Nothing wrong with being proven wrong every now and then.

Can't say it goes against any plans, seems a bit random to me though and will almost certainly be met with scepticism by the other colonists at first.
Oh, I know the other colonists might not like it. But A) it gives Owen something to use his veterinary skills on, and B) it gives Nate a cool companion.
 
Oh, I know the other colonists might not like it. But A) it gives Owen something to use his veterinary skills on, and B) it gives Nate a cool companion.

Yea I know and after I read your post in Exploring the Ruins it made some sort of sense. I mean just because it looks like a wolf/dog doesn't automatically mean it is a predatory carnivore.
 
After some thinking, I'm make a few changes to how fertility works going forward to make conception less likely in general, to prevent everything being settled by week 2. Any rolls already made will be grandfathered in.
 
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