Author's notes: After building up the willpower and weeks of rework, I finally made a new chapter.
I had doubts on whether making a long singular chapter or to split it into two. And after thinking about pacing, I decided to make two chapters.
So DC and RWBY crossover trailer came out. so did the new season of RWBY
I actually "almost" completed this chapter when the crossover trailer came out. And well the trailer is ceartainly looking better than the comic. The new volume also looks intresting. So I will go one by one.
When RWBY DC tease with Batman, Superman, and Ruby and Weiss was released I didn't have the highest opinion of it since it went against the original designs of Batman and Superman while readapation of older designs of the other duo I liked. One of the good things that will happen is that somebody will start writing fanfics but I won't join that group for now. when you will read the notes that come after the end of the chapter you will understand why. Also, I heard a joke concerning the ccrossover, that a lot of protagonists in RWBY are using guns, while we all know one of the things Batman doesn't like. In ideal case it should be addressed in this movie. What i like about the trailer is that it goes against the comic and makes the justice league appear in RWBY and not sharing the same world. There are combat scenes but while watching I realisd that things are off. For once Pyrrah never appears which would mean it's post Volume 3,Yang has robo arm, Weiss can summon advanced glyphs when only in later volumes she can do that and this is where things change, Beacon appears to be in realatevly normal state, Wonder woman and Blake appear to be in Menagerie with Blake having the original design with no Sun in sight, there is also the grimm dragon which if isn't that dragon could make sense since there are more than 1 grimm of each type with only 2 known exceptions, but if it is that dragon then it raises questions, then there's the fact that Beacon looks empty, though events of Volume 3 could explain it. Which all means that this isn't the true original like timeline. Something had to happan which caused diffrent outcome of Volume 3.
So fall of Beacon had to happen ,which is evident by robo arm, which forced team RWBY to seperate which is evident by the fact that Weiss and Blake aren't in Vale. But it had to happen not too long after since they wear the original outfits. Also this isn't when RNJR (I belive it's better than JNRR) goes to Haven. Weiss could learn those glyphs either because she manages to summon them because of extreme situation or because Batman is Batman and he always somehow achieves things. Sun must've gone for Blake since otherwise if he didn't it would be against his charckter or he choose his team over Blake instead but the third option combines both options: he did go for Blake but with the involvment of Wonder woman he could somehow go and lastly the best option:he is there, just he wasn't in the trailer.
And the presence of grimm seer doesn't surpise me at all and we all know what it means. So that's all for the crossover
And now onto normal RWBY, a new trailer of Volume 9 came out. And well I'm interested. From the current info of the trailer, I came up with possible plot directions and theories. I believe that the first new episodes will focus on the arrival of RWBY with focus on each and every one of them except Jaune and Neo. In some time, penny's sword is going to appear and Weiss will tell what happened. None of the 4 will suspect jaune to be there. They hear about tree and guess that's their way out. The mask creepy figure will be at some point antagonist but maybe will turn out to be a good guy. I also have in my bingo card that the creepy one isn't connected with gods and can be somehow a girl. At some time, fire woman or somebody else will give the heroes a test with standard character reply to it: "I know who I am". In highly unlikely predictions I believe that the person with the crown can somehow be connected with jaune. And I say person because not every character follows their inspiration 100%. The picture of fire jaune can be his power up scene or death since his inspiration or berserk mode. Neo will be in berserk mode but could somehow defect or stay in wonderland or die but I believe she will be alright since she is too much of a fan favorite. Jaune could die. Somebody could die. The main four will survive. The scene where the WBY are small could be the time where they meet the creepy. Somehow, they will fight the fire lady. The black mysterious girl could be fire lady or that scary dude. Also, I have noticed that the creepy doesn't have hands and instead relies on sticks. And as I noticed those look somewhat attached but also could be natural extensions. And finally in my bingo card which I'm 100% certain, is that fanfiction writers will have new opportunities and some can start writing again.
Also, as a side note the scene where the current Ruby and younger Ruby see each other was coincidental with one of my ideas of what the wonderland could hold there. But my version is different.
In NMS news ,just as we all know, there are no news unfortunatly to make a trio of big news. I belive that when it comes there could be a new expedition, some new technolodgy, minor amount of new lore and that's it. Yes I know ,very creative ,but considering that NMS isn't for now focusing on coherent plot ,at least as far as we know, these are the most predictable things.
You all want now is probably more actioned filled chapters than the last type of chapter. And I agree with you. But I tried to expand that chapter as much as possible and if I released the chapter in its more original state, it would be shorter and even more boring. But it's your guess what the chapter will be about.
For those that looked up lahp. I originally planned to name that character that way but at the last minute I changed to lup.
And I'm happy to say and you will be also happy with the news that I did make prototypes of chapters ahead of this one. In ideal world I should be posting them every week at the very second, I posted the previous the week ago. But even if I decide to make changes at least core and secondary parts already exist.
And my prediction about this fic is that I will be disappointed in the end how I wrote it. But time will tell. Though I have a feeling that my prediction will be correct.
And here comes the story.
It's morning and Traveler has been up and moving for a while.
Traveler says in his mind "Я уже забыл сколько я спрашивал решение идти на юг по берегу (At this point I forgot how much I doubted the choice to go south along the coastline)".
He doubts the choice because during the walk he, along with Telamon, only saw rocks, the coastline, sand and some new terrestrial, aerial and aquatic faunna. He scanned the new faunna and even named some of it during the time when he had to rest but he primarily focused on continuing the route just as Telamon proposed. And of course there were also new black and white types and he named all of them.
With all those black and white menacing creatures sharing the same traits he met on the planet, he stated to himself when he saw the last new black and white type: "С такими темпами, этих созданий надо занести в свою отдельную категорию(At this rate, these creatures must be placed in their own diffrent category)." But he didn't place them in their own category since he thought that he needed more information about them.
However despite meeting the new black and white creatures, not much progress was made about their nature by either of the duo.
And then only coastline was a good enough of a sight. Rocks are rocky and they slow the movement. And sand… due to the fact that he wears exosuit and not normal clothes, makes the sand not getting everywhere and rough. But it is irritating. One irritating property of sand, which can be achieved under right conditions, is that it is…
Then Traveler trips over and hits sand again.
Slippery.
This time he lands on his backpack. Even shields glowed a little in blue.
Traveler notes that "Я уже не знаю сколько я уже поскользнулся об песок (I don't know at this point how much I tripped over sand)".
Then he gets up.
From the visor he sees and notes that "Мой экзо костюм теперь имеет более песчаный цвет от всего этого времени пока я тут был (my exosuit has now more sandy color from all this time since I have been here)".
Then he says in his mind "Я мог бы пойти в воду и избавится от всего этого песка но есть один плюс: я со всем этим песком в местность очень хорошо вливаюсь (I could just go into water and get rid of sand but there is one plus: I blend with all sand on me into terrain very well)".
He then continues to march on.
And he still marches on because he and Tel found small pieces of uranium which aren't much usable but those pieces were confirmed by Telamon to be from space which raised the possobilty that a big enough bit can be found and used and now they are searching it ,if it exists, since both of them are not sure. But they have one plan:all possible bits fell from a ceartain direction and if the trajectory of the smaller ones can be calculated then they can try to calculate the trajectory of the big one. If it of course exists in the first place and they do realise that their plan has too many flaws but do it anyway since it's the best option they have now. So, he along with Telamon decided long ago that it' s better to continue the search.
"Надеюсь что на сей раз уран близко (I hope that uranium is close this time)."says he to himself
After a little bit of walking the radiation scanner starts to go up.
Telamon manages to find the source of radiation and points on the hud. The readings also say that uranium isn't too enrinched to be dangereous just as the other bits were.
Traveler sees that it's in the sand.
He turns and asks Telamon "Ты точно уверен что уран не слишком обогащён(Are you sure that uranium isn't too enriched)?"
Telamon nodded.
"Если ты не прав то это будет не моей виной(If you are not right then this will not be my fault)" he commented to Telamon and focused on the source.
The source of radiation is thankfully this time not too deep into the ground and since it is under "soft" sand, he decides to dig with his hands.
He digs carefully and finds a small bit of uranium surrounded by signs that it was from space. The bit is so small that it can't be used properly but thankfully it's true that it isn't too enriched.
He understands that "Этого не достаточно (this is not enough)".
He decides to look up other sources.
And they all are roughly equal.
He is disappointed but then Telamon shows on the hud "Рассчитывается новая траектория (New trajectory is being calulated)"
But both are not optimistic since this is 10th possible direction by this point.
Traveler hopes that Telamon can do it.
Traveler decided to sit on sand and check equipment while Telamon does the trajactory. He knows that Telamon would report if something was wrong with the gear but decides to do it anyway since there is nothing else to do.
And then after some time Telamon manages to calculate the new rough trajectory of the meteor ,if it didn't disintigrate only into small pieces, and points on his hud.
He gets up and sees that the trajectory leads straight into the desert.
Traveler is somewhat disappointed but he notes that "Лучше чем водоем (it's better than the body of water)" since on the ground he can retreat easier and there is another reason that would sound to insane to a normal person which he himself doesn't believe but takes into account. Afterall 50% of water in whatever region of existence that contains a ceartain thing is too big of a percentage.
As he put it at the time when he heard about it, he responded "Кто-то должен был это заметить(Someone had to notice it)".
And so, he goes into the desert.
And as he goes he says"По крайней мере уран не взорвался(At least uranium didn't blow up)"
After some marching through the desert carrying the rifle with fingers on the trigger he ends up in a more rocky terrain. But sand is still present everywhere. he looks around and then sees that some black spots are moving in from a small canyon ,that is about a dozen meter tall, dead ahead. Traveler then comments to Telamon "Это похоже те черно-белые животные (those appear to be that black and white creatures)".
Telamon reacts almost immediately and sees that those are treehwost type. 12 of them to be precise. Telamon immediately notifies Traveler.
Traveler sees in his hud the picture of treehwost and hears Telamon saying "12 враждебных существ приближаются, контакт через 3 минуты(12 hostile creatures incoming,contact in 3 minutes)". While Traveler doubted about classification, Telamon put those creatures to what they were to them from the expeience.
Traveler doesn't like the way Telamon calls them because hostility can be found in all creatures and is natural and shouldn't be seen as pure negative trait, even patience is a degree of hostility. And though creature isn't the worst of curses it still can be used as such. But he quickly understands that Telamon does have a point in calling them like that. And so, he focuses on the situation.
Traveler calmly notes that "12 не такая уж большая проблема но снаряды должны быть экономно использованы (12 isn't that much of the problem but ammo has to be sparinngly used)".
He then decides that in order to preserve amo he must go on top of that canyon and go around them.
He sees where he can climb and finds not the most perfect but comments "Достаточно хороший путь (a good enough pathway)".
He straps his rifle onto the thigh and climbs carefully.
And as he climbs more shields are diverted to hands by Telamon. Though the suit is quite durable but it isn't invisible snd since other parts don't require that much shielding, diverting them to climbing would be more beneficial.
And after a minute he manages to reach the top.
he then takes his rifle and walks on top of the canyon.
While walking he asks Telamon to take a look at those creatures from the top to see what they are doing.
Traveler feels calm and isn't feeling strong negative emotions since these creatures are the least dangerous and he could take them on easily without multitools.
He sees that they were heading where he was a few minutes ago.
And he decides to move out faster since those creatures could realise that he could've climbed here.
And after 10 minutes of heading towards the trajectory he concludes and says "Похоже нас не нашли(It appears that we haven't been found)"
and after additnal 20 minutes, as he heads to the possible impact site he notes "Точно спас патроны(Definetly saved ammo)"
Telamon meanwhile prefers that his organic companion should've gone for an easier straight forward aproach, but realises that Travelers desicion did save plenty of ammo but a minute was lost.
Traveler meanwhile wonders,since the day he saw them, of what these creatures feed. And why here they have black colors. In the desert more darker colors are not a good choice since they will attract more sunlight. More brighter colors are better. There are also far more other questions about them like: reproduction,intelegence and so on. And since he and Tel know too little Traveler simplefied it for now to as he said it"Природа и история имеют свои причины(Nature and history have its reasons)".
And so he goes.
Traveler walks and is almost exhasted from his journey when he flips on the sand again, losses the grip of the rifle and hits the sand with his chest this time, with rifle landing right next to him and shields again flicker a little bit.
He notes to himself that "C такими темпами меня можно назвать песчаным человеком (At this point I could be called sandman)".
He gets up, picks up the rifle and continues with annoyance of falling on sand again.
He checks the status of the rifle in case sand could cause malfunction. And The rifle turns out to be fine.
It is then then that Telamon reports "Движение (movement)".
Telamon shows the feed trough the camera on the helmet and Traveler sees that there are a bunch of Zhalos and treehwosts. To be more specific, there are marked: 43 treehwosts and 10 Zhalos. And they are heading towards their direction with some of them roaring.
Telamon says "Контакт через 46 секунд(Contact in 46 seconds)"
Traveler sighs and prepares for a fight.
He regrets that he had to fight other creatures and so he regrets now. He regrets that he killed lifeforms in that mine for those crystals. He tried to avoid fights and sometimes it was succsesfull, but not every time. But here and now from his perspective those creatures try to have a meal or destroy an intuder and not to have a nice talk and translator programm can't exactly help either. Just like other times.
He is also not glad with the news that all known by the duo black and whites coorparate with each other as if they are one species.
He looks at the direction of the ocean or see or whatever it is and doesn't go there because it won't change much since he is far enough from it and he won't be able to get away fast enough and if he did that with jetpack it would mean this whole journey would be for nothing.
He then sees in the distance the creatures.
He rationalizes that "C Трихвостами можно легко справится, то же самое нельзя сказать о жалах, там 53 целей и у меня 64 снаряда и перезарядка займет дорогие секунды (treehwost are easy to deal with, the same doesn't go for zhalos, there are 53 targets and 64 rounds and reloading takes precious seconds)".
But he doesn't want any chances this time.
So, he says "Активировать протокол мясорубка на блажащий час (activate protocol myasorubka (meatgrinder) for following hour)"
And the protocol has become white in the hud with Telamon on standby to make the procedure.
Traveler doesn't prefer to use this protocol and he didn't use it before on the planet because he believed it to be overkill, it's resoursce expensive and the other reason being morals and gruesomeness.
He aims the rifle and decides to be more precise this time and shoot more slower. Targeting computer finds it's targets and provides clear trajectory.
Everything is ready for the battle.
But a few seconds pass and he doesn't shoot.
And he lowers the rifle.
He says "не в этот раз(Not this time)"
He decides to follow his moral side and not to kill those creatures when they see him for once. He realizes that from his own experience the idea to shoot everything unknown is not very progressive.
Telamon meanwhile isn't glad with his companion desicion not to shoot.
Traveler sees that to the right is a higher hill meanwhile the left is smaller.
He points his hand left to the left hill and says to Telamon "Реактивный ранец может оправдать себя на этот раз так как тут может быть уран (Jetpack can pay off this time since there could be the uranium around)".
Telamon understands the message and is checking the jetpack.
And so, he activates the jetpack and red orange flame comes out and he holds rifle tight as he flies to the left hill.
The creatures are surprised by this sudden movement and after some looking up see the jet trail. And of course, chase for the target.
The jetpack doesn't have unlimited range and so he has to land for it to cool off.
The moment he is on the ground he sprints as fast as possible not looking back. While he is running, he looks when Jetpack emblem won't be red. He doesn't say any words and only reacts to the envirement and the icon. He continues to run when the icon became white again. With that he flew into the distance and then landing. While fast landing he has two thoughts in the brain at the moment which could be said like this:"Смотреть или не смотреть назад(Look or not to look back)"?
He didn't have to decide because Telamon displayes a red message on top right of the hud's screen which said: "53 враждебных существ, контакт через 40 секунд(53 hostile creatures, contact in 40 seconds)". Which promoted Traveler to continue sprinting.
He sprints and waits for icon to be white again. Then it's white again.
He flies and then lands and runs.
Now he sees in the hud that: "53 враждебных существ, контакт через 1 минуту , 30 секунд(53 hostile creatures, contact in 1 minute 30 seconds)".
He continues to run. Thankfully the pursuers had difficult time. Terrain wasn't flat and they had to cross sand hills and and ocassinal rocks that were hidden underneath while he easealy could fly over those obstacles.
he runs on top of a sand hill and jetpacks further.
He sees while he flies that there is a decent concentration of sand hills which means cover but also problems with reaching the tops of the hills.
He lands and now the status was: "53 враждебных существ, контакт через 2 минуты , 30 секунд(53 hostile creatures, contact in 2 minutes 30 seconds)".
He runs. But just as the persuers have trouble to cross the terrain, he has too. As he runs on top of a sand hill he falls and rolles almost to the bottom of the hill but manages to stand up in time. And time was ticking.
He immeadeatly presses on without saying a word and continues to run and after reaching the top he jetpacks.
Then he again lands and runs forword on top of a hill. He almost prepares to jetpack when the red message disappeared. Instead of relief he was confused and a little bit scared. But before he could think Telamon sys through limited voice messages "враждебные существа отступают(hostile creatures are retreating)."
He feels relived.
He turnes around. And Telamon shows with a pointer that all 53 gave up on persuing them.
He takes binoculars from the belt and decides to doublecheck.
And he looks and looks and he manges to spot them and then sees that Telamon is correct.
This put him into relief.
And after being assured that they are going away he collapses to the sand.
Traveler than says while heavely breathing :"я... у..ж.е исто..щен, над...о сд...елать пере...рыв(I...'m a.. exha...sted, a brak...e nee...ds to be m..ade)."
Telamon looks up his vitals and sees that Traveler is right: though adrenaline was pumped up and increased stress the majority of it came from a diffrent reason. He walked straight for 2 and a half hours, through all those sandhills and rocks because he was determined to get uranium as fast as possible.
And as slowly but surely his breathing was stablelising he thinks to himself "Был ли я прав(Was I right)?"
"Пока я смог все "мирно" решить но какой ценой(While I did solve everything "peacefully" but at what cost)?" "Я потерял достаточно топлива и те существа могут атаковать кого-то другого или позже меня и Тела, плазмомет был бы более рессурсно эффективным и мог бы навсегда рещить проблему(I lost enough fuel and those creatures might then attack someone else or later me and Tel , boltcaster would've been far more resoursce efficent and could permanetly finsih the problem)".
He decides to switch the trail of thoughts on a diffrent topic.
He remembers his theories about the setlement. At that time he had that reaction to his theories because he deep down was disappointed and he mocked himself for insanity of theories because he could've been stopped by many diffrent ways other than the setlement. Though now he mostly returned to his normal state.
He remebers them and concludes that those are unlikely to be true but they have their basis.
He then looks from the hill just in case.
"Похоже они не преследуют(It appears that they don't persuit)" he noted
He then looks at how much energy he has left. It was still enough but he lost a lot of energy that could'vs been spent on life support.
He hopes that there is a big bit of uranium around here.
And afrer resting he got up and continued to search for uranium.
After some time folowing the trajectory he is feeling tired. Since Telamon made "rough" calculations there are expected results. Both understood that that "rough" could mean a diffrence from a few meters to dozens of kilometers. And that rough proved to be bigger than a few meters, far bigger.
He says "Я надеюсь что этот маневр себя оправдает (I hope that this maneuver would justify itself)" .Since being on unknown world with limited supplies does cause to be more careful of how much you use your resources.
That's when Telamon reports radiation readings.
This energized him to finally finish the search.
"Должен продолжить(must continue)"he noted
Telamon highlightes the location.
He then reaches the location and radiation readings show that it isn't too explosive and prepares to use those 2 modes of multitool in rifle that are now partially repaired by the safe nanobots.
And so, he carefully begins
After mining he looks at how much he got.
There was less than they hoped but it was finaly enough for satellite and exosuit and the other impotant thing is that this uarnium wasn't too enriched to be explosive.
He then concludes "Этого достаточно (It's enough)".
With that he notes to Telamon "Наконец-то можно сделать спутник (Finally a satellite can be made)".
Meanwhile Telamon made a conclusion in his robotic mind.
They lost fuel but they managed to finally reach uranium and far faster with jetpack. By it's calculations they managed to save from half an hour up to an hour and 19 minnutes of time if jetpack wasn't used. And it would add more time for the satelite to orbit reletivly savely from possible telescopes at their position until night arrives at their location and it would send distress signal far earlier. But those creatures could cause trouble in the future.
So Telamon concludes that this a tactical loss but strategic victory. But it does note that, that lost fuel might cause problems in the future.
Telamon knows that those conclusions of actions are unnsesery but it's unkown how much they both will be stuck here and so they need to improve and learn from their actions. To be more specificly Telamon makes it for Traveler since he is the one carying them and is the one who needs improvment ,while Telamon did it's job the most effcient. But unfortunatly, it can't show right now since suit's limitatios don't allow to have sufficent presentation like this in any form. For that voice module or at the very least text chat is required, which are currently non-available.
Telamon knows that there are unfortunatly unpredictable factors that the conclusions don't have and they won't be prepared for but it's better than not to prepare.
Author's notes: With description of current terrain, I think you have a couple of ideas where currently the cast started and where it is now.
In any setting the worldbuilding has too many loopholes such as why not use heavy ordnance against jedi or why almost nobody ever receives shrapnel damage.
But I remembered that this is crossover with RWBY. And RWBY has crazy power shenanigans of its own. So, the 'normal' NMS tech shouldn't be too crazy for Remnant considering Remnant has too much semblances that are too overpowered. But that goes for "normal"
Also, I have some development news.
While I will primarily focus on this story but I do some experiments with possible other stories. I technically still have a notebook with written text of a crossover between two universes it's just hidden somewhere. But if I decided to publish it, major rework has to be done since it's quality isn't that great.
And I came to a realization that though this story will be the priority, I may write multiple stories at the same time since imagination comes and goes but.
For now, I'll leave some names for my possible stories. Za Respubliku! A different rebellion or galactic anarchy, A different clone army, Star Wars: Shattered glass, Autobot army. A true white army. A clone one. Four plus one. Remnant and Respublika, and the following story is the least coercive story that is unlikely to be ever made and it's unexpected swap. Then the last one :Few minutes count.
Some of them you will understand automatically. The 1 st story I will primarily publish in my mother tongue and then make my translation here. The second story has many problems. I will have to make a map with every detail but with my current drawing skills or editing skills it could cause me brainrot. The next you will never expect what this story contains. Then the next story. Those who know what that means already probably know what it will be about. Then you might have some ideas with that name. Then those who know what white army was, know that there was distinctive lack of white and it would be truly white if at least one of them wore a certain type of white. Next is: sometimes, the hero starts his journey in an unexpected place. Next is up to you to guess since there is so much combinations of four in many different stories. The next one I actually made the most progress since I do have some prototype chapters. Though unlike the rest, I may publish first chapter on 8th of March as an aniversary of a ceartain event in history. And no it's not dedicated to that commonly known world day but a diffrent forgotten one. The one that only few people celebrate and acknoledge at all. I will give an aditional hint: what would be that date if it was changed from gregorian to jullian calendar? More specidicly what month would it be? And that should be ebough. Then I don't know what to do with next idea because it was more of a side idea ,so this one goes for now into declined idea category. Then this will be tough for you to guess because threre are too many possible scenarious.
And I continue to say my ideas because it will take a while for me to finish the story and at least it would be less of a boring eternity when I can finally publish them.
Also, I have news for you my countrymen: в ближайшее время я сделаю наконец то перевод этой истории на этом сайте и на фикбуке если кому-то нравится там больше. И я даю небольшой спойлер насчет производства глав: последняя глава истории будет сначала написана на русском и вставлю ее в русскую версию а потом сделаю английскую.
In obvious useless news this chapter is the longest yet ,though not by much, though a good chunk of it is my notes. Well at least not all the notes here are useless.
And lastly in obvious useless news, this work now is bigger (in number of words) than NMS Mass effect crossover "Traveler" but I do not claim that my work is the biggest on this site. That title belongs to AbleG's "No entity sky". Though "No entity sky" is a fine fic but I generally prefer crossover fics becuase I like the idea of two diffrent universes interracting in many diffrent ways . And that's why I consider "Traveler" to be the best fic on the site.
This is all I have to say.