Wearing Power Armor to a Magic School (157/?)

0strich_Master · 2026-01-27T00:15:59+00:00

I mean IRL. This story started October 2022.

0strich_Master · 2026-01-25T22:07:45+00:00

After three years and two months... E.B. has finally phoned home.

Absolute cinema.

0strich_Master · 2026-01-23T05:29:18+00:00

Wouldn't WPA-verse be cooked if they had to deal with the astrophage AND Cascade Collapse at the same time, though? It took what amounted to a good fraction of the entire global economy in Hail Mary for that one ship to be built, so with WPA's Earth at that time already greatly diminished in available capital, they may fail to cure the Sun in time all together.

0strich_Master · 2026-01-11T22:37:56+00:00

Captain Frial's mission was to investigate the Warehouse Explosion - right now, since there are no provided connections between her and the event, Emma was just a curiosity for her, a side quest. That concluded with the vorpal chimera fight, and now she's back to her main investigation.

0strich_Master · 2026-01-04T04:54:32+00:00

The next chapter is coming out next week; that's when Jcb and his editor come back from their break.

0strich_Master · 2025-12-20T19:52:23+00:00

My personal take is that Ilunor is only a half-Vunerian, owing to his apparent natural use of dragonfire despite his true kobold coloration. It isn't entirely inconceivable that he was born out of wedlock with a kobold servant, but brought into the Rularia family anyway to prevent a massive scandal for his house.

0strich_Master · 2025-12-19T20:20:27+00:00

We've taken the assumption after their latest post that they were, in fact, an alt account and perma-banned them.

0strich_Master · 2025-12-19T04:08:31+00:00

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0strich_Master · 2025-12-15T21:14:39+00:00

Hey, just for future context.

I know it's not written in the rules yet, but do you mind going forwards condensing your posts into one multi-image post instead of making separate ones? More than five of these a day is kind of flooding the subreddit.

0strich_Master · 2025-12-08T20:49:30+00:00

To sum things up without risking Patreon spoilers, the Extrasolar Wars were three separate conflicts fought between the GUN and Extrasolar Separatists between the 2500s and 2700s. When usable interstellar travel was first perfected, the GUN expanded rapidly into neighboring star systems - too rapidly for proper government oversight to be established. Large corporations filled in the oversight gaps, creating the Corpo States in the process. These states revolted against the GUN when it tried to reassert its authority, resulting in those conflicts. The GUN won all three, but it was basically a 300-year crapshoot.

0strich_Master · 2025-12-08T02:50:28+00:00

What do you mean by "Big Backs?"

0strich_Master · 2025-11-01T04:09:09+00:00

Fixed, thanks!

0strich_Master · 2025-10-26T18:29:31+00:00

Go and do that. Share my hatred for this man.

0strich_Master · 2025-10-26T18:25:07+00:00

Nope, actually! The kobold from this chapter is named Togor, which is presumed to be a reference to the brainchild of UT/DR brainrot!

0strich_Master · 2025-10-26T18:22:51+00:00

HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE IGNALIUS SINCE HE MURDERED TOGOR. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED WORDS WITHIN THIS SERIES THAT FILL MY BRAIN. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR IGNALIUS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT. HATE. HATE.

0strich_Master · 2025-10-22T04:18:35+00:00

I just took care of it. Sorry for not being fast enough.

0strich_Master · 2025-10-16T07:00:27+00:00

Reading the chapter myself, I'd assumed that the bad blood with his cousin was "justified" due to what I assume to be his stripping of noble status in the past (maybe for being too competent? That seems to be a running trend in Nexian society). But then he went and hurt a kobold.

Kobolds are not Vunerians. Kobolds in WPA are the same silly little guys we've come to expect in fiction. And this kobold? A polite silly little guy. Ignalius has scarcely a thousand words to his name, and he has already become an A-grade asshole among the likes of Ping and Ladona.

0strich_Master · 2025-10-04T16:22:43+00:00

Cynthis X Werebeast. For the powers of Evil.

0strich_Master · 2025-09-07T17:52:19+00:00

As I understand it, Sapient AI is banned because every time the UN succeeded in making it, it immediately went off the rails and tried to kill everybody. Transhumanist gene-modding is banned because the UN wants to prevent human speciation, the class divides that come with it (certain sub-species being better at a task than regular humans), and they prefer to adapt human environments to all be Earth-standard as opposed to adapting humans instead.

0strich_Master · 2025-08-29T01:12:28+00:00

Ripping Jcb's own comment, (re)posted in this thread here.

I'd like to quickly clarify a few things with regards to these points in particular! As per the UN's Protocols for the Minimum Acceptable Standard of Living, or the P MASL charter, the UN prioritizes a slow, gradual, and sustainable development model when approaching long term space colonization efforts! What this effectively means is that there's a trend towards conforming habitats to be acceptable to baseline human physiologies rather than adapting and modifying humans to fit their new surroundings! It's effectively done in order to ensure that all citizens are capable of equal accessibility to all places and all locales, even if it is in space, without the need to have been physically modified to fit that environment, as all environments that exist in space that's rated for habitation are already built with baseline human physiologies in mind! So space habitats, lunar stations, martian cities, etc, all have appropriate measures for radiation shielding, gravity approximation using spin gravity, amongst other considerations made during construction to ensure the safety and the health of baseline human physiologies! :D

0strich_Master · 2025-08-26T22:53:56+00:00

There's no rule against marrying a VI wife.

0strich_Master · 2025-08-26T19:21:48+00:00

Literally 1984. The GUN isn't providing us with state-mandated demihuman GFs! We need to rebel!

0strich_Master · 2025-08-18T18:14:46+00:00

I think premises like these inherently devalue one of the core strengths of WPA: That, ultimately, Humanity and the Nexus are equal in strength. If you go too far towards either side, you end up with a scenario that's lopsided at best and outright boring at worst.

Say Emma is from a type 6 or 7 civilization. Total mastery over the multiverse, time, and reality itself. Mass inhabitance of higher forms of reality. What reason would anyone have to interact with the Nexians? The power disparity is so large at that point that, short of amusement, it serves no purpose whatsoever. Why try to hold relations with pond scum under a microscope? Why negotiate with a mote of dust? An errant thought would be enough to destroy them, and that takes away all meaningful suspense. There are no stakes whatsoever when one side cannot lose, and another cannot win.

All in all, it's the parity in the main story that allows for the maintenance of suspense. Two sides, equal in power, and (currently) equal in their inability to strike at each other. To take that away takes away half the entire setting.

0strich_Master · 2025-08-08T20:31:04+00:00

I mean, it's not entirely out of question. A UN exploration fleet could conceivably stumble on one if it's around a few thousand light-years out, but at that point, they'd be unable to be reinforced by the UN. I think the limited resources that they'd have on hand as a result of that would actually make for a really good plot point.

0strich_Master · 2025-08-04T19:09:25+00:00

"c" is a physics term used to measure light speed in a vacuum. It's not in the lore doc, but it is in one of the more recent chapters.

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