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After offending [[Zhang|Officer Zhang]] in a [[lecture]] at [[Spacefleet Academy|the Academy]], [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] is made to wear an [[exo-suit]] modified to look like a [[rabbit]] for a training exercise on [[Goethe]]. A recording tells her how Goethe was an [[Earth]] colony inhabited by psychic individuals until the sole continent was destroyed by a [[hypervolcano]] and Zhang informs Benny and her fellow students that their mission is to locate and retrieve their respective [[drone]]s. | After offending [[Zhang|Officer Zhang]] in a [[lecture]] at [[Spacefleet Academy|the Academy]], [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] is made to wear an [[exo-suit]] modified to look like a pink [[rabbit]] for a training exercise on [[Goethe]]. A recording tells her how Goethe was an [[Earth]] colony inhabited by psychic individuals until the sole continent was destroyed by a [[hypervolcano]] and Zhang informs Benny and her fellow students that their mission is to locate and retrieve their respective [[drone]]s. | ||
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* A [[Psychic power|psychic person's power]] can double or even quadruple when they are under extreme [[stress]]. | * A [[Psychic power|psychic person's power]] can double or even quadruple when they are under extreme [[stress]]. | ||
* [[Roxanne's boyfriend|A cadet]] once found out he was psychic after deactivating a platoon of [[combat synth]]s at the last minute of an exercise. His girlfriend [[Roxanne]] cried for weeks after he was transferred for the [[psychic division]], on a different base. | * [[Roxanne's boyfriend|A cadet]] once found out he was psychic after deactivating a platoon of [[combat synth]]s at the last minute of an exercise. His girlfriend [[Roxanne]] cried for weeks after he was transferred for the [[psychic division]], on a different base. | ||
* While running from the mummy, Benny enters [[Museum (The Bunny's Curse)|a museum]]. | * While running from the mummy, Benny enters [[Museum (The Bunny's Curse)|a museum]]. Its exhibitions were: | ||
** Posters advertising [[VR]] simulations | ** Posters advertising [[VR]] simulations | ||
** [[Clothing|Clothes]] influenced by popular entertainers | ** [[Clothing|Clothes]] influenced by popular entertainers | ||
Revision as of 19:15, 23 December 2022
The Bunny's Curse was the second story in the anthology In Time.
Plot
After offending Officer Zhang in a lecture at the Academy, Benny is made to wear an exo-suit modified to look like a pink rabbit for a training exercise on Goethe. A recording tells her how Goethe was an Earth colony inhabited by psychic individuals until the sole continent was destroyed by a hypervolcano and Zhang informs Benny and her fellow students that their mission is to locate and retrieve their respective drones.
to be completed
Characters
References
- Goethe was once home to psychics before a volcanic eruption covered the planet's only continent in molten rubble.
- Zhang collects 22nd century model submarines.
- During some academy training exercises, Benny has visited carved cliff-faces of Merritt and the glowing tube cities on Xolotl. The exercise on Xolotl was distubed by bioluminescent scavenger worms.
- A psychic person's power can double or even quadruple when they are under extreme stress.
- A cadet once found out he was psychic after deactivating a platoon of combat synths at the last minute of an exercise. His girlfriend Roxanne cried for weeks after he was transferred for the psychic division, on a different base.
- While running from the mummy, Benny enters a museum. Its exhibitions were:
- Posters advertising VR simulations
- Clothes influenced by popular entertainers
- Parts of vehicles
- A glass sheet that projected though-forms for amusement of children
- A puzzle to be solved with telekinesis
- A cutlery set
- The mummified remains of a hypervolcano victim
- Toys, including those resembling pink bunnies
Notes
to be added
Continuity
- Bernice briefly thinks of her mother, before deciding she shouldn't dwell on the past. (PROSE: Love and War)
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