True Name: Sakamoto Ryouma
Class: Lancer
Source: Historical fact
Region: Japan
Gender: Male
Alignment: True Neutral
Height: 178 cm
Weight: 72 kg
Character Creator: Keikenchi
Character Design: pako
Character Voice: Kase Yasuyuki & Horie Yui
Appearance in Main Works: Fate/Grand Order

Strength: B	Endurance: C	Agility: B+
Magic: C	Luck: A-	Noble Phantasm: EX

Class Skills

Magic Resistance: C+
When Super Oryou gets serious, Oryou's hide prove quite the magical barrier, Ryouma!
Riding: EX
A special Riding Skill given to Ryouma for crossing the Bakumatsu period Japan riding the dragon that is the changing eras. It's a Skill exclusive for riding Oryou, existing separately from other Riding variants.

Personal Skills

Dragon of the Restoration: A
The man called a mystical dragon in a human body. His fleeting life briming of pride, crossing the Bakumatsu period Japan riding the dragon that is the changing eras solely for the sake of the people, was like a soaring dragon.
White Serpent of Takachiho: A-
The serpent who failed to become a dragon. The serpent, initially a black abomination held in contempt, aimed for the heavens in attempt to become a dragon, but ultimately, the serpent couldn't manage it.
Amanosakahoko (Pair): B
The pike of light fallen handle-first from heaven. The spear of the heavenly gods, which sewn together heaven and earth to seal the black abomination. Originally a single polearm, but taking the form of pair when weilded by the hero and the serpent.
The pike of light fallen handle-first from heaven is both a blessing and a curse.

Noble Phantasm

Ryuu yo, Wadatsumi no Hara wo Yuke (My dear, venture through the vast oceans)

Rank: EX	Type: Anti-Army Noble Phantasm
Range: 2-70	Max. Targets: 700 persons

By offering the Amanosakahoko that Ryouma pointed at the heavens, the black serpent sheds her skin and grows wings, becoming a white serpent of such beauty that she could be mistaken for a divine dragon.
Clad in radiant-white arcanity from the Age of Gods, the White Serpent of Takachiho exerts tremendous power. This form possesses physical abilities beyond comprehension and can deploy a sturdy physical barrier, preventing any mediocre attack from hurting her, potentially making her the god of the new era.
Instead of becoming a dragon and soaring the skies, she chose to be the serpent travelling the sea with the hero.
Pronouns (Ryouma)

First person: Boku/washi (in Tosa Dialect Mode)
Second person: Kimi/oman (in Tosa Dialect Mode)
Third person: Kare/kanojo
Master: Master

Pronouns (Oryou-san)

First person: Oryou-san
Second person: Omae/name without honorifics
Third person: Koitsu/are
Master: Ningen/omae

Personality

Pretty much the same as a Rider. Oryou hasn't changed either.

Motives and attitude toward the Master

He wishes for his relationship with his Master to be like that between two friends from the same town. Oryou is relatively fond of them and doesn't mind helping out every now and then.

Dialogue examples

Ryouma: "Let's get washing them all away, then." Oryou: "I'll scrub them hard."
Oryou: "Yaaay. Oryou-san turbo peace."
Ryouma: "Oh? Time for the Kaientai to go all out?" Oryou: "Right... Ryuu yo, Wadatsumi no Hara wo Yuke"
Oryou: "Done. Time for Oryou's victory peace. You do it too, Ryouma." Ryouma: "L-like this?" Ryouma & Oryou: "Yaaay!"
Oryou: "I am the White Serpent of Takachiho. For thy offerings, some frogs would be welcomed." Ryouma: "Hahaha, you can't keep a solemn face either, Oryou."
Oryou: "Fine, I can let Izou ride the tip of my tail." Ryouma: "Make sure not to drop him."
Oryou: "Now that you're a Lancer with no divinity, we can kick that Archer's butt. Good job, Ryouma. We're having frogs for dinner tonight." Ryouma: "I wish it were that easy."

Historical character and figure

A loyalist living through Japan's Bakumatsu. Born from a country samurai family in Tosa, he deserted his fief, studied under Katsu Kaishu, founded the Kameyama Shachuu (which would later become the Kaientai), intermediated the Satsuma-Choushuu Alliance, and devoted himself to the restoration of imperial rule, overall contributing a lot to the Meiji Restoration. However, his ideals fell to assailant's blade, thus he never got to see the age of Meiji.

Character in Fate/Grand Order

An aloof man on his mid-20s appearance-wise. He may be a master of the Hokushin Ittouryuu, but he’s actually a kindhearted guy who dislikes conflict to his very core. Instead, the mysterious belle by his side will take the lead.
His default Class is Rider, but circumstances lead to this manifestation of him as a Lancer.
This form, in possessing of the Amanosakahoko and one of the Three Knight Classes of the Holy Grail War, is a what-if possibility that Sakamoto Ryouma could have attained, and a Servant powerful enough to uphold the reputation of Hero of the Restoration.
If Sakamoto Ryouma is summoned as Heroic Spirit, he's restricted to only getting either the polearm or the serpent as a Noble Phantasm. That goes to show how much of miracle it is that he is capable of using both.
He is a master of the Hokushin Ittouryuu and his swordsmanship is a force to be reckoned with, but the course he practiced was for the naginata, so the Lancer class is where he can best put his prowess to work. In addition, Super Oryou is bursting with power. Together, they're an invincible Kaientai.

Regular weapons

Ryouma: Amanosakahoko (because he snapped it in two, he has the ability to split it into two spears). Super Ryouma Gun (can switch into Sniper Mode). "And dontcha forget mah Mutsu-no-Kami Yoshiyuki¹".
Oryou: Hyper Power-Up Oryou Martial Arts and easily spammable beams of something unknown.

Related characters

Okada Izou
His best friend in their town. He wanted to stay best friends but their relationship never recovered from their split. After an incident where he got punched, they managed to return to their nostalgic ways.
Takechi Hanpeita
Former fellows who split off due to ideological differences. Takechi holds Ryouma in such regard that he believes Ryouma's presence would have spared the Tosa Imperialist Party from its failures. After an incident where they got punched, they managed to return to their previous ways.
Tanaka Shinbei
Takechi's right-hand man. In life, Shinbei kept Ryouma away from Takechi. He was probably annoyed at the faith Takechi had in Ryouma.
Nakaoka Shintarou
"It wounds me to disagree with Nakaoka in a discussion. Nonetheless, if I can't discuss with him, there is no one else worth discussing with."²
While Ryouma was frequently suspected, he was trusted by everyone. He and Ryouma compensated for what the other lacked.
Takasugi Shinsaku
They share mutual respect, with Ryouma acknowledging Takasugi as The Unicorn Prodigy and Takasugi acknowledging Ryouma as the Dragon Soaring the Skies. They also envy each other, believing one has what the other lacks.
Voyager
Ryouma can't hide his excitement about a rocket that can fly to space. Oryou gets competitive and begins an irregular training regime to fly to space.

Comments from the illustrator

Have a nice triiiiiiiip!!! Feels great to see those two having fun. I can hope they don't break any property or any debt-ridden alcoholic anywhere they go, but I know that's not a realistic expectation. (pako)

Translation notes

1) Sakamoto Ryouma's favorite katana. The same he uses in his Rider version.
2) Historical from the real Sakamoto Ryouma.

I found out my ex boyfriend got arrested today and the joy I feel is immense. He is a piece of shit and I was blinded by my belief I could “fix” him and bring out his fullest potential. While we were together I dealt with his bullying, as and manipulation thinking he would change, that he was just joking around and didn’t mean to hurt me. While we were together I did everything to help/take care of him. I found/scheduled/did paperwork for an eye dr so he could get glasses because without them he couldn’t get his permit. He was an addict when we met, he said he wanted to get sober so supported him through his withdrawals and detox. His phone broke, I let him use mine whenever he wanted and all his contacts had mine to contact him. I kept him out of jail, being threatened by him while he was drunk trying to fight strangers. I literally did everything for him and all I asked of him was to have a job, he couldn’t even do that because he was too hungover in the mornings and would no call no show work. He’d get blacked out drunk basically leaving me alone so his “friends”, the same friends who would degrade him and subtlety threaten me. Towards the end of the relationship he relapsed and used in front of me (completely disregarding my trauma around drugs and his drug of choice) and that was the final nail in the coffin for me.
At the end of last year he randomly came to my home without any notice, most likely to show off his car. I freaked out and yelled until he left. That caused me to have the worst anxiety attack’s I’ve ever experienced and I fell into a deep depression. I ended up at a csu and had to change meds, it was a rough few months but now I’m doing the best I’ve ever been. I still struggle a lot when it comes to trusting people and letting them in my life but I’m no longer living in fear 24/7.
Well today karma has come his way once again. He got arrested for drug possession, violating conditions of release and driving with a suspended license. A couple months ago he got arrested for driving a stolen car (the same car he showed up to my house with) so I’m thinking that’s how he lost his license and what the violation is about. I’m a firm believer in the rule of 3’s and what I’ve been seeing/hearing it’s in work. Whatever you do, good or bad, will come back to you 3 fold.

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Memory Transcript: Kinet, Venlil Surveyor Captain [Standardized Human Time July 5th, 2114]:
We had arrived in-system [four days] ago, and while I was expecting to see a world ravaged by nuclear exchange, the damage to the planet was beyond what I could have ever imagined. The surface was scorched, and the air filled with ash and soot from massive continent spanning fires that must have been burning for cycles. Despite all the destruction, our scans showed some signs of life trying to take hold on the surface, but not nearly as much as there should have been.
The humans had wiped themselves out over [150 years ] in the past; it shouldn’t look like it only happened only a herd of claws ago.
Fiir was of no use. When the first glimpses of the planet came in on the viewscreen, the scruffy researcher just stared with his jaw hanging loose before stammering about something being wrong. He stormed off to his quarters, and I haven’t seen him since then.
I sighed and walked onto the bridge with my waking claw cup of tea but was immediately assaulted by the chittering of an excited sivkit, our primary communications officer.
“Captain, captain, captain!”
“Hephy, yes, I’m right here. What is it?” I looked down towards her. She barely came up to my waist in her typical quadrupedal stance, and even doing her best to stand up, she wouldn’t be able to look me in the eye. Despite her stature, her excitement demanded attention as her eyes flicked between myself and whatever data she had scrolling across her display visor.
“Right Right. Anyway, Captain, I have to show you something, it’s big.” Most people don’t pay sivkits much mind, but Hephy was a prodigy. The excitable woman could look at a waterfall plot and pick out every signal present, and even read some of them without any computer assistance. I motioned for her to follow me to the ready room and started off toward it while sipping my tea. She trotted behind me on all fours, as sivkits are wont to do, and when I sat in my chair, she hopped side to side in excitement. “The signals, when we arrived from the jump, I saw something fascinating!” “Hephy, stop bouncing and sit.” I gestured to the chair in front of my desk. She looked at me for a moment as if I had grown a set of ears at the end of my snout. After a moment, her trance broke, and she hopped into the chair. She sat on her haunches and pulled out her tablet.
“Ok so, when we jumped in, we got a ping of the area, right? Send a signal out, listen for the reply, and we see what’s out there that our eyes can’t. Standard stuff, sure, but look.” She tapped at her tablet and expanded a multidimensional spectrum plot. “The bright spots are reports, and it’s all around. Debris right? That’s what I thought but look closer!” I leaned in and looked at the impressionistic splotches of color shown on the holographic display. The blues, yellows, and oranges spattered amongst the dark gray and black of night and other known objects was appealing to the eye, but ultimately gave me little idea what Hephy was trying to communicate with me. She must have picked up on my lack of insight, because she sighed and tapped the display again. “Normally, you see the pulse pattern return and that’s pretty distinct, but this is different. Odd. I thought it was just micro-debris but if you spread it out over time there’s a pattern to it, a structure in the phase relationships that doesn’t match reflections or our interrogation pulses.” “Hephy, you know I rarely ever understand you at this level.” “Right sorry right. Captain, this isn’t the return pulse, they’re data transmissions. Multiple data transmissions all at once.”
My ears perked up, and I tilted my head to the side a bit. “How can you be sure? What would even be out there to send them?”
“I wasn’t sure myself until I looked later on in the data buffers. Almost a claw later there was another longer burst. The automated systems ignored it due to interpreting it as just more micro-debris, but it had that structure-but-not-structure, perfectly shaped noise. I also had nav and sensors run another few active pings at different frequencies, trying to rule out silly patterns seeking brain nonsense. Nothing returned. The debris cloud doesn’t exist!”
“So what does this mean for us?”
“I don’t know, but it's fascinating! They must be satellites of some kind, either too small to reflect much or made to absorb radio waves.”
“That’s worrisome. There’s only one reason you’d build something like that.”
“Weaponry?” She chirped with surprising insight I had not expected to come from her. She had never been in the space force like I, and many others, had.
“Defense platforms, yes.” I took a sip of my rapidly cooling tea to try and soothe the anxious pit growing in my stomach.
“That’s…concerning.” Her excitement waned for a moment but quickly slipped back.
“Very, thank you for bringing this to my attention, Hephy.”
“As if I could keep quiet about something like this!” She snorted with a chittering laugh. “Oh! Wait there’s one more thing. There was another signal in a higher band that sounded off around the same time as the other burst, this time from a different orbit, way further out. I traced it to an artificial satellite.”
Suddenly, a thought hit me. These things were actively communicating with something. Was there something still left on the surface?
“Hephy, do you know where those signals were going?”
“Normally the antenna is too directional for anyone but the recipient to see it or it’s hard to get a read on directionality, but I know where everything is communicating to. The middle of the smaller main ocean.”
“Hephy, that’s an incredibly important bit of information!”
“It is? Oh yeah right, that makes sense!” She wiggles her tail in an amused flicking motion.
I stood up and patted her on the shoulder. “Get us close to that artificial satellite and see what it is. I’d like to get a better idea of what we’ve just stumbled into. Report back when you have some answers and we will go from there.”
Hephy bobbed her ears and hopped off the seat. “On it, sir. Where are you going?” “I’m going to talk to Fiir. This is beyond the original mission, and he needs to know.” “Ay captain. Good luck. Guy’s a weirdo.” I simply grunted and strolled down to the auxiliary quarters where I knew the researcher to be.
>Advance record: [10 Minutes]:
Fiir had brought an entire team of researchers with him. I was told they’re all colleagues of his from the research academy that are interested in this personal project of his. This many people on board with his project did explain how he was able to offer the exorbitant sum of credits to hire me and my crew. They had been allocated a section of the ship near the front, just past the shuttle bay and under the bridge area. This let them have their privacy and set up whatever gear they brought with them.
It also meant that there was a door between them and the rest of the ship. A door that they did not hesitate to keep closed after pre-launch inspections had concluded. The researchers didn’t have anything I didn’t expect from the manifest, but I still found it rather suspicious. Were they hiding something? Perhaps it had to do with that odd power hungry computer they insisted upon. Mara had her ears tied in a knot trying to accommodate it, and still they were coy about why exactly they needed it. It didn’t do me any good to speculate, though. What mattered most was the problem of the satellites.
I finally reached the door and, being the polite man I am, I scratched at the sounding plate before grabbing the handle and trying to open it. To my surprise, it didn’t budge. I could understand locking doors to the personal quarters, but this was a main corridor in my own ship! Just as I reached over to key in the unlock code, the door made a thunk as the latch disengaged and slid open part of the way. A familiar gray fringed brown muzzle stuck out from the gap. “This is a restrict- Oh. Captain.” Fiir opened the door a little more and stood up facing me. “What is it?”
I blinked at his rather blunt question. “I just came to inform you that we’ve discovered some worrying details about the nature of the-” “The artificial satellites are not of any concern to us.” He cut me off before I could finish.
“We think they might be-”
He glanced back behind the door for a moment, his tail thrashed in agitation. “It doesn’t matter. Have you prepared the landing party yet?” My jaw tightened as my frustration with his rudeness grew. I couldn’t get much of a word in, but I needed any answers. “They’re set to depart in two claws, but with those unknown satellites, I can’t be sure of their safety! I saw you on the bridge when we arrived, you were expecting something different. As the captain of this ship, I need to know if there’s a threat to-”
“Captain.” Fiir’s gaze grew intense as he leaned in. I may have had almost a head of height on the wizened farsul, but in that moment, he felt as if he was towering over me. “I suggest you stick to the responsibilities I hired you for, Captain Kinet. There are things that you are not privy to, nor will you be made privy to in the foreseeable future. Continue with the survey as per our agreement, and you’ll get your credits. Do not bother me until the away team is en route. Good paw, Captain.” He closed and locked the door without even waiting for my response.
I just stood at the door for a long while, a feeling of anger and indignation boiling in my chest. I had only ever had cordial contact with the researcher up until now; this abrupt shift in his demeanor was unsettling, to say the least. How dare he talk down to me like that on my own ship! I sighed and took a deep breath, holding it for a moment before letting it out. Slow and controlled. Letting the tension and anger flow out with my breath.
Inhale. Hold. Release.
Inhale. Hold. Release.
After a few cycles, the burning anger was reduced to a smoldering cinder. As much as I had wanted to headbutt Fiir, it wasn’t worth risking the contract for. I turned and walked back to the bridge to prepare for the away mission. Without Fiir’s info, I needed to make sure contingencies were in place for any possible threat to the away team. The lives of my crew are paramount, even if the contract was very, very lucrative. All that aside, the planning would keep my mind away from thoughts of my rude client.
>Advance record: [Standardized Human Time July 6th, 2114]:
I woke up after my rest paw feeling groggy and unrested. The confrontation with Fiir kept playing in my mind all night, despite the claws of planning for the away mission. To say his standoffish behavior left knots in my wool would be an understatement. I wiped my snout with my paws, flicking the crust from my eyes before getting up out of bed.
I grabbed my favorite mug and fixed myself my morning cup of tea. Pulling the dried leaves and stems from the canister, I could feel my mouth water in anticipation. I had been told by many who possessed the strange appendage called a nose that the tea leaves had a strong earthy and floral scent. I often wondered what that meant. Venlil didn’t have noses, but we did have a sense of taste, which is apparently quite similar. I often wondered what it might be like to smell. Do we really miss out on so much without being able to smell?
We had to soak our foods and tea in water before we could taste it with our tongues, and even then, it’s not nearly as sensitive, which is probably why other species consider venlil cuisine to be overseasoned and overpowering.
Another reason why the stereotype of venlil being weak is nonsense, in my opinion. How strong can you be if you can’t handle a little spice?
The timer went off, chirping to tell me my tea was ready. I sifted out the leaves and brought the invigorating elixir to my lips. The hot fluid warmed me to my core and burned away the waking lyasi silk from my groggy mind.
I needed to catch up with Hephy and Mara; they should have brought in that satellite-
My thoughts were interrupted by the chiming of my pad. I picked it up and answered the call to see Hephy’s face almost filling the screen, with Mara looking over her shoulder.
“Oh good you’re awake! Captain, you must see this! It’s amazing! The satellite, it’s full of brains!”
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I already got some answers from a post I made about this, but moderator deleted it and said to comment here. But any additional info/ insight is greatly appreciated. I want to make the best choice for my future in the case that I don't want to do 20 years.
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I'm joining up rn and working with a recruiter. We've got my waivers and everything. Pretty much just have to pick a job. For background I was an IET separation back in 2009. From what I've read and what me and my recruiter have gone over I am glossary non-prior service. I could have sworn I read (albeit a while ago) that business rules did not apply to GNPS, so I should be free to pick my MOS. However, I talked to my recruiter earlier today and he wants me to sit with his 1SG and go over the job options available for prior service. Am I wrong and I just get what I get?
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Please help!
I was looking to join the guard but in my medical records it shows I had Guillan barre. I was feeling some numbness in my legs, but looking back at it, it was very cold outside and I was just a bitch who would try to get out of school by any means possible. They did a spinal tap and never found any trace of the disease however. I was in the hospital for a couple of days, the gave me immunoglobulin and then I went home and nothing ever came of it. I am currently completely asymptomatic This was when I was 12 or 13 years old. Now I’m 18 and want to join but my recruiter said I have to get all the records and stuff. What is the chance that I will still be able to join? I tried looking it up online but I couldn’t find an answer. Also if I’m able to join, will I need a medical waiver?
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My MOS is 68W, I'm shipping out in June and I'm taking the OPAT in a couple of weeks. I'm 5'2 and 115ish pounds. I'm pretty fit. My biggest worry is the standing long jump. I want to pass the OPAT with flying colors and keep my MOS. Is there any advice or tips y'all can give me?
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I’m looking to graduate and enlist in a month but can’t decide on what MOS I want. I think 11B because I don’t want to individuate and do army shit or 68W but I’m not sure if I can get advanced combative training or other schools I want. I want to do something that’s “high speed” and meaningful while working my way towards Ranger reg. Is the 82nd Airborne a good pathway to that? How is civil affairs? Can you enlist directly into it while being active duty?
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Thinking about reenlisting to army with 8.5 PS in USMC. Been out < 5years. Will I have to repeat AIT if I keep my same MOS? I know this is the wrong channel for USMC feedback but also considering going back there if it would mean not repeating AlT. Thanks in advance!
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Hi everyone! I’m a high school student planning on joining the military. I’m Muslim, so I want to be sure that whichever branch I join is accommodating to Muslim needs. If it changes anything, I’m planning joining through the ROTC route.
My main concerns are, does the Army give beard waivers for Muslims? Is it possible to take short breaks throughout the day to pray? Can you fast during Ramadan? Can you be provided with halal (no pork/no alcohol) food?
Also, I’m interested in infantry or armor (or any kind of ground forces officer in general). Would these accommodations interfere with being selected for these careers or being mission ready? (Such as a beard, fasting, etc.)
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i’m a current nasty girl and i’m looking to transfer to Active duty. i understand i need a conditional release in order to sign a new contract and need my G-1 to sign off on it. i’m looking for info on the process from someone who’s gone through the process.
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What are the odds of getting a waiver for ulcerative colitis? I was EPTS’d out in march 2023 after being diagnosed while I was at 30th AG. My GI said I was in remission as of jan of this year. I take 4 Lialda pills a day and get an entyvio infusion every 2 months. I feel perfectly fine now though. Scored a 74 on the asvab.
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Medical record
In the navy currently and getting out in a year. I had a back injury prior to enlisting that I didn’t disclose. I plan on entering the army after my contract. If this comes up will my discharge from the navy be lowered or my benefits revoked?
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So my recruiter told me that I have to get a lease first, but the thing is, is that we don't have one with our landlord. It's more like an oral lease and he's a slumlord who never tries to communicate with any of us. That being said, my recruiter then said that I should find a lease online and edit it to where I state that I'm paying the rent to my sister instead (who has a valid ID) He also stated that my sister and I have to go to a check-cashing place to get it notarized. Is this all ok to do and will the BHA be approved? Also if it's approved, does this mean that the rent we pay which is $1,365.50, is going to be paid for while I'm away and how exactly??
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Can I enlist if I have a Mexican highschool diploma? (I am american, just finished highschool in mexico) And don't have a address in the USA???
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I am thinking of finishing up my bachelors and joining as an officer, my question was whether it was possible or not to guarantee mos 17c in the army if I join as an officer.
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I just got told that I cant enlist for 2 years after my waiver got denied for a history of depression. I stopped feeling depressed last August but got officially cleared into remission in February. I was told theres no point in a consult and the most I can do is reach out to a congressman. Other than reaching out to a congressman, is there really nothing I can do?
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Questions about Virginia National Guard
I want to do OCS! Now here’s my confusion. My recruiter is saying that the moment I swear in is the moment my contract is going to start and will count towards that 6 year! So, if he is right, I will basically complete 2 years training if I do state OCS. But I would like to have more control on what branch I get! My top 3 are: cyber warfare, signal, and intel. Should I do accelerated in that case? Also how likely am I to get one of those aforementioned three if I do state OCS of 18 months? My bachelor was in Computer Engineering, and I am currently enrolled in ASU for master’s pursuing Computer Science! Will I get that 24k a year tuition fee because he said there’s a possibility I might get it since it’s fully online? Can I get tuition assistance and loan repayment both? Does getting either one incur additional service time?
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im thinking of joining as a officer and going into ocs, what is the best branch for a well paying civilian job after completing my service, for context my major right now is relg studies plus maybe bio.
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I leave for Future Soldier Preparatory Course for the fitness aspect on the 21st, has anyone gone through it recently? There’s not a whole lot of information on it online, I was just wondering what it’s like, and what to expect. Do you get issued all of your gear since you will be going to bmt after? What is reception like? Any and all information and tips is greatly appreciated!
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So my husband is going to meps next week. he has 2 different sets of scars on his left arm. He works at a mobile home plant building houses. One was from when he got caught on a nail so it's a little deeper looking and another was from some sheet metal at work. He didn't disclose it to his boss because he works on a line and it would've put his team behind so he just put some bandaids on it and went about his day and cleaned it up when he got home. This was about 1-2 years ago. What is his meps experience going to be like? They aren't self harm obviously but we've heard horror stories about the doctors at meps not believing people and DQ them. He honestly forgot about telling his recruiter and his recruiter has already sent in all his medical history and got him scheduled for meps. Should he still go ahead and tell his recruiter or just wait and disclose it at meps?
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Should i go in as 17c or try my luck at ocs?
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I'm currently in process Enlisting in the Reserve, while holding an associate's degree in mechanical engineering technology, with some side education in programming. While I am working towards my bachelor's degree, I'm looking to pick an MOS that will help my career, or at the very least, be interesting. I don't remember my scores, but my Recruiter told me whatever I pick, my score won't be the limiting factor.
Top of the list for career jobs is 15 series, from what I've heard from currently enlisted in my friend group, wrenching on aircraft in general is a fast track to a cushy job on the outside with my education. 25 series looks boring but useful as anything IT/electrical complements my degree. On the more interesting side, I was looking at 91 series, either 91F or 91P.
Am I going anywhere wrong with any of these jobs? Anything I should be keeping in mind?
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25D or 35T I just wonder which MOS would be better for career. I am really interested in IT. I know 25D is not entry MOS. Let’s say you meet requirements for both MOS. If you stay as enlisted side, what would you recommend?
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I’m heading to ait now at fort Moore for 91M do I get my phone and am I in a dorm how is that like
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Hi all,
I am a permanent resident here is the US, and last week I finished my ASVAB mock test with a 95 on my AFQT. The recruiter says I am eligible for everything that doesn't require a security clearance which is kind of a problem as my dream MOS are the 35-series and 17-series (As both of these are locked behind clearance requirement)
After some thinking, I narrow down to the following, but there are still too many so I hope I can get your feedback on what I am doing. My aims are: a/I want something that will translate into the civilian world well if my time in the army doesn't go well, b/I want an MOS that can advanced through warrant or becoming a commission officer if my time in the army does go well, and c/I want to push myself to the limit and break out of my comfort zone to see where I can go. If I sound arrogant, please forgive for that: I am just trying to be as careful as possible. I am nearly reaching my thirty, and I want to take deliberate steps because I no longer have the luxury of youth and family to try and fail.
The MOS are:
11-series, 12B ~~and 12D~~: I have a soft spot for these despite knowing they don't translate into the civilian world. But in my heart somewhere is a wild child that wants to test my physical prowess and wants to blow things up. I do know my knees and lower back will hate me for picking this.
15 series: With exceptions to 15C, 15J, and other works related to flying or being mechanics of sensitive equipment, I can be an aircraft technicians. I read that there are demands for airplane mechanics but I don't know much about this field other than a/I got to repair planes, b/people seem to hate it because you have to sign a long contract if you become a warrant.
68A: I did see this MOS getting recommended a lot but after reading its description, I am not very sure if I want to do it either both in the army or afterwards. I must also admit I don't have a good insights onto the day to day life of this job. Can someone shed some light about this MOS for me?
68C: Becoming a nurse seems like a very safe choice out of the military given that the BLS projects nurse to be in high demand and being able to take care of your family sounds like a big plus to me; however, I don't know if I like being a nurse. My parents were doctors, and having seen the hospital environment I can say I am not a fan. I also look into 68A but BLS prospect for it didn't seem good, and the training on 68E, 68D, and 68V look a little bit too short. Do you really become a dental assistant just with 10 weeks of training?
68W: I must admit, I have a soft spot for 68W as it allows me to be both learn some medical skills and be on the field. However, I do notice that 68W only translates to paramedic/EMT post-army, while 68C translates to becoming a nurse (which is more valued and regarded as "better" than paramedic or EMT and thus in higher demand)
88H, 92A, 92F, and 92Y: I pick these because, according to BLS, there is a projected increase need for people in warehousing and transportation. From my limited understanding of the fields, you will be in charge of handling logistics such as maintaining unit inventory, ordering supplies and weapons for your units, etc. but I am not very sure on the difference between, say, 92Y and 92A.
So, can you give me a suggestions? May anyone who has been in these MOS share their experience to help me pick? What are some of the MOS I miss?
Thank you, and I look forward to hearing from you.
Best regards,
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Is the 09m program ending at the end of may?
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How does one secure a religious exemption before basic training? My recruiter said we would talk about it down the line but it’s getting down to the wire and I’d rather it not get forgotten.
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Hi my duty station is at JBLM I’ll hopefully be there around May of 2025. I still have too go through basic and AIT but I was hoping that I could get some info about the barracks and hopefully get in touch with some of the people that are getting stationed/ already stationed There that are aviation, specifically 15Y. Thank you
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How can i improve my chances of success after the military?
I'm going to meps in 2 weeks and im shooting for a 25 series mos. 25H was what was available at the recruiters after i took my practice asvab. I'm not the brightest bulb but, hey, I'll take it. Aside from college ,which i want to continue to pursue throughout my time in the army (or after depending on my mental fortitude once i'm actually in,) how can i set myself up for success in the civilian world? Any input from past 25h or 25 series who somehow translated their career into decent paying jobs will be much appreciated.
I'll add I'm only joining the army for the college benefits and free training as i come from a poor household and have no other feasible way to pay for it.
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Hello everyone,
I was recently laid off from a $64k job, and honestly, I'm not too upset. I was already feeling burnt out and unhappy, staying primarily for the promised educational benefits to facilitate a career change, which obviously fell through with the job loss. Now, I'm considering my options and the military as a new path has been sounding appealing to an extent. The VA loan and GI Bill are particularly enticing because they would help me pursue a degree without getting into debt, and enabling the career change I've been considering. And the thought of being able to buy a house at this age/economy seems awesome.
At 28, I'm weighing the implications of joining now, especially considering the pay cut and spending four years AD without the guarantee of going overseas which for me would make it much more worthwhile. Also, I'd likely be one of the older members among younger peers, which is another factor to consider. My entry rank would be E3 due to my associate degree told by the Air force recruiter I met, but I'll need a moral waiver for a misdemeanor I had at 18, which might limit my job options not to mention she told me I would have to be at the disposal of whatever the Air Force wanted me to do? Which I am assuming means that I could enlist for one thing that they tell me nope get your doing this.The Air Force recruiter told me that I would be just fine and I would be able to get in as long as my ASVAB score is high enough.
I'm torn about whether to commit to AD and save myself or a longer term in the military via reserves but still stuck in the same loop of feeling in fulfilled, unable to afford university and in a place I would rather leave. Insights from anyone who joined the military later or faced similar decisions would be incredibly helpful.
Thanks for any advice!
P.S I am also ok with the idea of the military as a career as I would still be able to retire earlier than many of my peers if I pursue the 20 year route..
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I’m reenlisting at the end of this month (was NG but going active). My husband is also active and I was wondering how likely is it that I can be in the same battalion as my husband? I know married couples aren’t supposed to work directly together but would that still be considered “working together”?
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Hi All, I'm 23F graduating college with my bachelor's in international relations at the end of July. I speak intermediate Spanish and would be open to learning more languages. I am looking for a mos that doesn't restrict me to behind a desk or sitting on my ass all day. I was thinking of something intelligence related. I would appreciate any advice/help.
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So i have hemorrhoids right now and I go to MEPS monday. I have a Drs visit from about 2 years ago where she prescribed me the cream to use. The cream says to only use it when you have hemorrhoids. I still have the cream. Will I pass MEPS if I bring that the Dr visit. or should I get a new one the day before? It's Saturday so my recruiter won't answer.
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So I enlisted on Friday. (25H) and I ship to BT in August. I’ve made my mind up before enlisting that I was going to make a career out of it. So now I’m here before you all to ask… what’s some advice you could give someone looking to do 20. Like what’s steps would you take if you could go back to make the most of your Army career? I remember my dad who served in the navy would always say “choose your rate choose your fate” and I think I started off on the right foot. Any suggestions to help make the correct steps in my new career path?
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Going back in. Needing some suggestions on different MOS.
So when I was in the first time I was a 25U. I was 16 when I swore in to secure my mos and left at 18YO. I’ve decicided to go back in. Im picking between 19 jobs, I qualify for all of them as I keep my old asvab scores. I scored over a 105 in everything so I have a pretty big list to pick from. These jobs have good jobs outside of the army and that’s my angle, I know 25U translates to a good job outside of the army but it’s not my cup of tea. So any info on the jobs in the army and civilian life for these mos would be greatly appreciate. The jobs are: 68L 68X (specifically because I want to help vets who are/have suffered) 88H 35F 25B 35M 35G 35L 88K 88N 88U 27D 31E 12M 15Q 15N 25U 88L 88M
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Already signed my contract but I really really wanna change my MOS by the time I ship out for BCT in mid-July, what would be the best way to approach and ask my recruiter to change my MOS? The one that I want is really in demand (19K) so maybe that might help?
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Background: Greencard holder, 6yr+ experience in IT field. No degree. Married.
Always wanted to join the military and finally have the opportunity to do so.
What I want to experience from the military;
I want the opportunity to grow in the IT field and have military experience and later on attain a contractor job in overseas installations. Very interested in being able to move overseas for a few years specially Japan.
My biggest interest is to grow in my career + experience other countries.
Recruits have also told me that for active duty they are allowing first duty station to be chosen because the army apparently has a shortage of people joining so they want to motivate people to join by allowing them to choose duty stations. This has made me consider going active IF they aren't lying about this + the job security has always been a plus to me.
My primary plan was :
Going reserve, getting my citizenship while in basic training, changing my mos to 25B then finding government contracting job overseas preferably (Japan) and changing my unit to Japan to drill there (Camp Zama). Overall my biggest goal is to move overseas and be in the IT field.
What is the best route? Advice is greatly appreciated in advance:)
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I want to enlist as a 19D Wont be for a year or so still but trying to do my research and evrything and make sure this is what i want, So far it looks like it is but i have a couple of questions that i need answering before i decided to enlist. 1. as a 19D with 19C coming will 19D still be manning Bradleys 2. What are my chances of being assigned to a cav unit i really dont wanna be assigned to an infantry or god knows what else 3. Am i able to enlist as active at 17?
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Is it hard to get a self harm waiver? It happened one time three years ago. My recruiter is pushing for it now
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I'm going to MEPS this week and I was told that the Job I'm really interested in (12w) is rare and to not get my hopes up. I'll be doing research about some other jobs, but if I really want that job should I just wait for a slot to open up or go with alternate choices?
Does anyone have any experience with this job and how often slots show up?
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Vision Waiver Acceptance Probability
So I’m wanting to enlist as an 11x OP 4in the army, went to MEPS a few weeks ago, and am currently waiting on a current injury to be waived. I’m just kind of worrying about my vision waiver. Recruiter said we have to wait for this to be cleared first, then we can launch the vision waiver.
What’s the probability that a vision waiver will be accepted with Visual Acuity of 20/30 20/50 corrected vision. I understand everything is case to case, I’m just kind of worrying that it’ll end up being denied.
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Is there a list of all the different Options in contracts? Like Option 40, Option 4, Option 19, etc?
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In the process of renegotiating my contract before shipping out and I'm seriously considering 19K (M1 Armor Crewman). Recruiter told me that anyone can volunteer to go to airborne school at BCT and I really want to go airborne but it seems like 19Ks don't really do it as much as other MOS's. Is it true that i will have the opportunity to volunteer myself for airborne school at basic? If not, how can I attend Airborne or any other specialized school as a tanker?
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Leaving for BT in 2wks. First stop Ft Lenwood and then ft sill for AIT. Then off to Ft Drum for my 1st duty station. Can anyone offer insight on what to expect at each location/stage? 13F if it matters. Much appreciated.
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Just reserved mos 88L Water craft engineer.
Was excited at first as I’ve e heard a lot of good things about this mos, but i have a wife, 6yr old and another on the way and am worried that i wont be home that often given this mos. Im supposed to go to meps in 4 days and swear in. Im really not trying to be away from my family all that often. Is this mos bad for family life? Have i made a mistake? Or should i keep it and roll with it. Any recommendations on what i should do?
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Hello, I’m in ROTC right now but I’m about to go to CST. I have been looking into branches as much as possible and am pretty set on ADA but I wanted to ask if anyone here has been on a HIMAD or SHORAD deployment that can give me some insight on what it’s like, more specifically SHORAD but I do want to hear both sides.
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Joining the army
hi, I am 17 turning 18F, and im joining the army and going to boot camp soon. What are some advice or anything you would tell someone before they go to boot camp or thinking about joining the army?
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Hello, I'm currently a high school senior who is interested in joining the ROTC. I've reached out to ROTC recruiters in the colleges that I will be attending however, they never picked up their phones nor responded to their emails after multiple attempts. I've also scheduled appointments with them only for them to not show up multiple times. I've also called the army and they said they would have someone call me but they never did either. I was wondering if anyone could help me get in touch with an ROTC recruiter as I got a few questions about the Army ROTC as well as the process to proceed.
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Can you go to an maritime academy before your service then get it paid when you join? Can you take maritime academy while active duty?
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What are possible first duty stations for Army officers out of ROTC by MOS?
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When writing student comments, I first make the comment in English and then give it to ChatGPT for translation. For the most part, it worked wonderfully last year, but there were still lots of changes that needed to be made for certain terms that cant be used and certain grammatical forms that must be followed. I want to set up a GPT that follows these rules so that we can easily just enter an English comment and get a properly formatted Korean translation.
The rules I'm aware of so far are things like: Don't say "이 학생은, use the noun form of verb endings, 240 character limit, etc."

The Age of the World Picture
In metaphysics reflection is accomplished concerning the essence of what is and a decision takes place regarding the essence of truth*1. Metaphysics grounds an age, in that through a specific interpretation of what is and through a specific comprehension of truth it gives to that age the basis upon which it is essentially formed*2. This basis holds complete dominion over all the phenomena that distinguish the age. Conversely, in order that there may be an adequate reflection upon these phenomena themselves, the metaphysical basis for them must let itself be apprehended in them. Reflection is the courage to make the troth of our own presuppositions and the realm of our own goals into the things that most deserve to be called in question Appendix 1).
One of the essential phenomena of the modern age is its science. A phenomenon of no less importance is machine technology. We must not, however, misinterpret that technology as the mere application of modern mathematical physical science to praxis. Machine technology is itself an autonomous transformation of praxis, a type of transformation wherein praxis first demands the employment of mathematical physical science. Machine technology remains up to now the most visible outgrowth of the essence of modern technology, which is identical with the essence of modern metaphysics.
A third equally essential phenomenon of the modern period lies in the event of art's moving into the purview of aesthetics. That means that the art work becomes the object of mere subjective experience, and that consequently art is considered to be an expression of human life*4.
A fourth modern phenomenon manifests itself in the fact that human activity is conceived and consummated as culture. Thus culture is the realization of the highest values, through the nurture and cultivation of the highest goods of man. It lies in the essence of culture, as such nurturing, to nurture itself in its turn and thus to become the politics of culture.
A fifth phenomenon of the modern age is the loss of the gods*5. This expression does not mean the mere doing away with the gods, gross atheism. The loss of the gods is a twofold process. On the one hand, the world picture is Christianized inasmuch as the cause of the world is posited as infinite, unconditional, absolute. On the other hand, Christendom transforms Christian doctrine into a world view (the Christian world view), and in that way makes itself modern and up to date. The loss of the gods is the situation of indecision regarding God and the gods. Christendom has the greatest share in bringing it about. But the loss of the gods is so far from excluding religiosity that rather only through that loss is the relation to the gods changed into mere experience." When this occurs, then the gods have fled. The resultant void is compensated for by means of historiographical and psychological investigation of myth.
What understanding of what is, what interpretation of truth, lies at the foundation of these phenomena?
We shall limit the question to the phenomenon mentioned first, to science [Wissenschaft].
In what does the essence of modern science lie?
What understanding of what is and of truth provides the basis for that essence? If we succeed in reaching the metaphysical ground that provides the foundation for science as a modern phenomenon, then the entire essence of the modern age will have to let itself be apprehended from out of that ground.
When we use the word "science" today, it means something essentially different from the doctrina and scientia of the Middle Ages, and also from the Greek episteme. Greek science was never exact, precisely because, in keeping with its essence, it could not be exact and did not need to be exact. Hence it makes no sense whatever to suppose that modern science is more exact than that of antiquity. Neither can we say that the Galilean doctrine of freely falling bodies is true and that Aristotle's teaching, that light bodies strive upward, is false; for the Greek understanding of the essence of body and place and of the relation between the two rests upon a different interpretation of beings and hence conditions a correspondingly different kind of seeing and questioning of natural events. No one would presume to maintain that Shakespeare's poetry is more advanced than that of Aeschylus. It is still more impossible to say that the modern understanding of whatever is, is more correct than that of the Greeks. Therefore, if we want to grasp the essence of modern science, we must first free ourselves from the habit of comparing the new science with the old solely in terms of degree, from the point of view of progress.
The essence of what we today call science is research. In what does the essence of research consist?
In the fact that knowing [das Erkennen] establishes itself as a procedure within some realm of what is, in nature or in history. Procedure does not mean here merely method or methodology. For every procedure already requires an open sphere in which it moves. And it is precisely the opening up of such a sphere that is the fundamental event in research. This is accomplished through the projection within some realm of what is-in nature, for example-of a fixed ground plan*6 of natural events. The projection sketches out in advance the manner in which the knowing procedure must bind itself and adhere to the sphere opened up. This binding adherence is the rigor of research*7. Through the projecting of the ground plan and the prescribing of rigor, procedure makes secure for itself its sphere of objects within the realm of Being . A look at that earliest science, which is at the same time the normative one in the modern age, namely, mathematical physics, will make clear what we mean. Inasmuch as modern atomic physics still remains physics, what is essential - and only the essential is aimed at here- will hold for it also.
Modern physics is called mathematical because, in a remarkable way, it makes use of a quite specific mathematics. But it can proceed mathematically in this way only because, in a deeper sense, it is already itself mathematical. Ta mathemata means for the Greeks that which man knows in advance in his observation of whatever is and in his intercourse with things ; the corporeality of bodies, the vegetable character of plants, the animality of animals, the humanness of man. Alongside these, belonging also to that which is already-known, i.e., to the mathematical, are numbers. If we come upon three apples on the table, we recognize that there are three of them. But the number three, threeness, we already know. This means that number is something mathematical. Only because numbers represent, as it were, the most striking of always-already-knowns, and thus offer the most familiar instance of the mathematical, is "mathematical" promptly reserved as a name for the numerical. In no way, however, is the essence of the mathematical defined by numberness, Physics is, in general, the knowledge of nature, and, in particular, the knowledge of material corporeality in its motion; for that corporeality manifests itself immediately and universally in everything natural, even if in a variety of ways, If physics takes shape explicitly, then, as something mathematical, this means that, in an especially pronounced way, through it and for it something is stipulated in advance as what is already-known. That stipulating has to do with nothing less than the plan or projection of that which must henceforth, for the knowing of nature that is sought after, be nature: the self-contained system of motion of units of mass related spatiotemporally. Into this ground plan of nature, as supplied in keeping with its prior stipulation, the following definitions among others have been incorporated: Motion means change of place. No motion or direction of motion is superior to any other. Every place is equal to every other. No point in time has preference over any other. Every force is defined according to - i.e., is only - its consequences in motion, and that means in magnitude of change of place in the unity of time. Every event must be seen so as to be fitted into this ground plan of nature. Only within the perspective of this ground plan does an event in nature become visible as such an event. This projected plan of nature finds its guarantee in the fact that physical research, in every one of its questioning steps, is bound in advance to adhere to it. This binding adherence, the rigor of research, has its own character at any given time in keeping with the projected plan. The rigor of mathematical physical science is exactitude. Here all events, if they are to enter at all into representation as events of nature, must be defined beforehand as spatiotemporal magnitudes of motion. Such defining is accomplished through measuring, with the help of number and calculation. But mathematical research into nature is not exact because it calculates with precision; rather it must calculate in this way because its adherence to its object-sphere has the character of exactitude. The humanistic sciences, in contrast, indeed all the sciences concerned with life, must necessarily be inexact just in order to remain rigorous. A living thing can indeed also be grasped as spatiotemporal magnitude of motion, but then it is no longer apprehended as living. The inexactitude of the historical humanistic sciences is not a deficiency, but is only the fulfillment of a demand essential to this type of research. It is true, also, that the projecting and securing of the object-sphere of the historical sciences is not only of another kind, but is much more difficult of execution than is the achieving of rigor in the exact sciences.
Science becomes research through the projected plan and through the securing of that plan in the rigor of procedure. Projection and rigor, however, first develop into what they are in methodology. The latter constitutes the second essential characteristic of research. If the sphere that is projected is to become objective, then it is a matter of bringing it to encounter us in the complete diversity of its levels and interweavings. Therefore procedure must be free to view the changeableness in whatever encounters it. Only within the horizon of the incessant-otherness of change does the plenitude of particularity - of facts - show itself. -But the facts must become objective [gegenstiindlich]. Hence procedure must represent [vorstellen] the changeable in its changing, must bring it to a stand and let the motion be a motion nevertheless. The fixedness of facts and the constantness of their change as such is "rule." The constancy of change in the necessity of its course is "law." It is only within the purview of rule and law that facts become clear as the facts that they are. Research into facts in the realm of nature is intrinsically the establishing and verifying of rule and law. Methodology, through which a sphere of objects comes into representation, has the character of clarifying on the basis of what is clear - of explanation. Explanation is always twofold. It accounts for an unknown by means of a known, and at the same time it verifies that known by means of that unknown. Explanation takes place in investigation. In the physical sciences investigation takes place by means of experiment, always according to the kind of field of investigation and according to the type of explanation aimed at. But physical science does not first become research through experiment; rather, on the contrary, experiment first becomes possible where and only where the knowledge of nature has been transformed into research. Only because modern physics is a physics that is essentially mathematical can it be experimental. Because neither medieval doctrina nor Greek episteme is science in the sense of research, for these it is never a question of experiment. To be sure, it was Aristotle who first understood what empeiria (experientia) means; the observation of things themselves, their qualities and modifications under changing conditions, and consequently the knowledge of the way in which things as a rule behave. But an observation that aims at such knowledge, the experimentum, remains essentially different from the observation that belongs to science as research, from the research experiment; it remains essentially different even when ancient and medieval observation also works with number and measure, and even when that observation makes use of specific apparatus and instruments. For in all this, that which is decisive about the experiment is completely missing. Experiment begins with the laying down of a law as a basis. To set up an experiment means to represent or conceive [vorstellen] the conditions under which a specific series of motions can be made susceptible of being followed in its necessary progression, i.e., of being controlled in advance by calculation. But the establishing of a law is accomplished with reference to the ground plan of the object-sphere. That ground plan furnishes a criterion and constrains the anticipatory representing of the conditions. Such representing in and through which the experiment begins is no random imagining. that is why Newton said, hypothesis non fingo, “the bases that are laid down are not arbitrarily invented.” They are developed out of the ground plan of nature and are sketched into it. Experiment is that methodology which, in its planning and execution, is supported and guided on the basis of the fundamental law laid down, in order to adduce the facts that either verify and confirm the law or deny it confirmation. The more exactly the ground plan of nature is projected, the more exact becomes the possibility of experiment. Hence the much cited medieval Schoolman Roger Bacon can never be the forerunner of the modern experimental research scientist; rather he remains merely a successor of Aristotle. For in the meantime, the real locus of truth has been transferred by Christendom to faith - to the infallibility of the written word and to the doctrine of the Church. The highest knowledge and teaching is theology as the interpretation of the divine word of revelation, which is set down in Scripture and proclaimed by the Church. Here, to know is not to search out; rather it is to understand rightly the authoritative Word and the authorities proclaiming it. Therefore, the discussion of the words and doctrinal opinions of the various authorities take precedence in the acquiring of knowledge in the Middle Ages. The componere scripta et sermones, the argumentum ex verbo, is decisive and at the same time is the reason why the accepted Platonic and Aristotelian philosophy that had been taken over had to be transformed into scholastic dialectic. If, now, Roger Bacon demands the experimentum - and he does demand it - he does not mean the experiment of science as research; rather he wants the argumentum ex re instead of the argumentum ex verbo, the careful observing of things themselves, i.e., Aristotelian empeiria, instead of the discussion of doctrines.
The modern research experiment, however, is not only an observation more precise in degree and scope, but is a methodology essentially different in kind, related to the verification of law in the framework, and at the service, of an exact plan of nature. Source criticism in the historical humanistic sciences corresponds to experiment in physical research. Here the name “source criticism” designates the whole gamut of the discovery, examination, verification, evaluation, preservation, and interpretation of sources. Historiographical explanation, which is based on source criticism, does not, it is true, trace facts back to laws and rules. But neither does it confine itself to the mere reporting of facts. In the historical sciences, just as in the natural sciences, the methodology aims at representing what is fixed and stable and at making history an object. History can become objective openly when it is past. What is stable in what is past, that on the basis of which historiographical explanation reckons up the solitary and the diverse in history, is the always-has-been-once-already, the comparable. Through the constant comparing of everything with everything, what is intelligible is found by calculation and is certified and established as the ground plan of history. The sphere of histriographical research extends only so far as historiographical explanation reaches. The unique, the rare, the simple - in short, the great - in history is never self-evident and hence remains inexplicable. It is not that historical research denies what is great in history; rather it explains it as the exception. In this explaining, the great is measured against the ordinary and the average. And there is no other historiographical explanation so long as explaining means reduction to what is intelligible and so long as historiographical explanation so long as explaining means reduction to what is intelligible and so long as historiography remains research, i.e., an explaining. Because historiography as research projects and objectifies the past in the sense of an explicable and surveyable nexus of actions and consequences, it requires source criticism as its instrument of objectification. The standards of this criticism alter to the degree that historiography approaches journalism.
Every science is, as research, grounded upon the projection of a circumscribed object-sphere and is therefore necessarily a science of individualized character. Every individualized science must, moreover, in the development of its projected plan by means of its methodology, particularize itself into specific fields of investigation. This particularizing (specialization) is, however, by no means simply an irksome concomitant of the increasing unsurveyability of the results of research. It is not a necessary evil, but is rather an essential necessity of science as research. Specialization is not the consequence but the foundation of the progress of all research. Research does not, through its methodology, become dispersed into random investigations, so as to lose itself in them; for modern science is determined by a third fundamental event: ongoing activity (Appendix 2).*10
By this is to be understood first of all the phenomenon that a science today, whether physical or humanistic, attains to the respect due a science only when it has become capable of being institutionalized. However, research is not ongoing activity because its work is accomplished in institutions, but rather institutions are necessary because science, intrinsically as research, has the character of ongoing activity. The methodology through which individual object-spheres are conquered does not simply amass results. Rather, with the help of its results it adapts [richtet sich ... ein] itself for a new procedure. Within the complex of machinery that is necessary to physics in order to carry out the smashing of the atom lies hidden the whole of physics up to now. Correspondingly, in historiographical research, funds of source materials become usable for explanation only if those sources are themselves guaranteed on the basis of historiographical explanation. In the course of these processes, the methodology of the science becomes circumscribed by means of its results. More and more the methodology adapts itself to the possibilities of procedure opened up through itself. This having-to-adapt-itself to its own results as the ways and means of an advancing methodology is the essence of research's character as ongoing activity. And it is that character that is the intrinsic basis for the necessity of the institutional nature of research. In ongoing activity the plan of an object-sphere is, for the first time, built into whatever is. All adjustments that facilitate a plannable conjoining of types of methodology, that further the reciprocal checking and communication of results, and that regulate the exchange of talents are measures that are by no means only the external consequences of the fact that research work is expanding and proliferating. Rather, research work becomes the distant sign, still far from being understood, that modern science is beginning to enter upon the decisive phase of its history. Only now is it beginning to take possession of its own complete essence.
What is taking place in this extending and consolidating of the institutional character of the sciences? Nothing less than the making secure of the precedence of methodology over whatever is (nature and history), which at any given time becomes objective in research. On the foundation of their character as ongoing activity, the sciences are creating for themselves the solidarity and unity appropriate to them. Therefore historiographical or archeological research that is carried forward in an institutionalized way is essentially closer to research in physics that is similarly organized than it is to a discipline belonging to its own faculty in the humanistic sciences that still remains mired in mere erudition. Hence the decisive development of the modern character of science as ongoing activity also forms men of a different stamp. The scholar disappears. He is succeeded by the research man who is engaged in research projects. These, rather than the cultivating of erudition, lend to his work its atmosphere of incisiveness. The research man no longer needs a library at home. Moreover, he is constantly on the move. He negotiates at meetings and collects information at congresses. He contracts for commissions with publishers. The latter now determines along with him which books must be written (Appendix 3).
The research worker necessarily presses forward of himself into the sphere characteristic of the technologist in the essential sense. Only in this way is he capable of acting effectively, and only thus, after the manner of his age, is he real. Alongside him, the increasingly thin and empty Romanticism of scholarship and the university will still be able to persist for some time in a few places. However, the effective unity characteristic of the university, and hence the latter's reality, does not lie in some intellectual power belonging to an original unification of the sciences and emanating from the university because nourished by it and preserved in it. The university is real as an orderly establishment that, in a form still unique because it is administratively self-contained, makes possible and visible the striving apart of the sciences into the particularization and peculiar unity that belong to ongoing activity. Because the forces intrinsic to the essence of modern science come immediately and unequivocally to effective working in ongoing activity, therefore, also, it is only the spontaneous ongoing activities of research that can sketch out and establish the internal unity with other like activities that is commensurate with themselves.
The real system of science consists in a solidarity of procedure and attitude with respect to the objectification of whatever is - a solidarity that is brought about appropriately at any given time on the basis of planning. The excellence demanded of this system is not some contrived and rigid unity of the relationships among object-spheres, having to do with content, but is rather the greatest possible free, though regulated, flexibility in the shifting about and introducing of research apropos of the leading tasks at any given time. The more exclusively science individualizes itself with a view to the total carrying on and mastering of its work process, and the more realistically these ongoing activities are shifted into separate research institutes and professional schools, the more irresistibly do the sciences achieve the consummation of their modern essence. But the more unconditionally science and the man of research take seriously the modern form of their essence, the more unequivocally and the more immediately will they be able to offer themselves for the common good, and the more unreservedly too will they have to return to the public anonymity of all work useful to society.
Modern science simultaneously establishes itself and differentiates itself in its projections of specific object-spheres. These projection-plans are developed by means of a corresponding methodology, which is made secure through rigor. Methodology adapts and establishes itself at any given time in ongoing activity. Projection and rigor, methodology and ongoing activity, mutually requiring one another, constitute the essence of modern science, transform science into research.
We are reflecting on the essence of modern science in order that we may apprehend in it its metaphysical ground What understanding of what is and what concept of truth provide the basis for the fact that science is being transformed into research?
Knowing, as research, calls whatever is to account with regard to the way in which and the extent to which it lets itself be put at the disposal of representation. Research has disposal over anything that is when it can either calculate it in its future course in advance or verify a calculation about it as past. Nature, in being calculated in advance, and history, in being historiographically verified as past, become, as it were, "set in place" [gestellt]. Nature and history become the objects of a representing that explains. Such representing counts on nature and takes account of history. Only that which becomes object in this way is - is considered to be in being. We first arrive at science as research when the Being of whatever is, is sought in such objectiveness.
This objectifying of whatever is, is accomplished in a setting-before, a representing, that aims at bringing each particular being before it in such a way that man who calculates can be sure, and that means be certain, of that being. We first arrive at science as research when and only when truth has been transformed into the certainty of representation. What it is to be is for the first time defined as the objectiveness of representing, and truth is first defined as the certainty of representing, in the metaphysics of Descartes. The title of Descartes's principal work reads: Meditationes de prima philosophia [Meditations on First Philosophy]. Prote philosophia is the designation coined by Aristotle for what is later called metaphysics. The whole of modern metaphysics taken together, Nietzsche included, maintains itself within the interpretation of what it is to be and of truth that was prepared by Descartes (Appendix 4).
Now if science as research is an essential phenomenon of the modern age, it must be that that which constitutes the metaphysical ground of research determines first and long beforehand the essence of that age generally. The essence of the modern age can be seen in the fact that man frees himself from the bonds of the Middle Ages in freeing himself to himself. But this correct characterization remains, nevertheless, superficial. It leads to those errors that prevent us from comprehending the essential foundation of the modern age and, from there, judging the scope of the age's essence. Certainly the modern age has, as a consequence of the liberation of man, introduced subjectivism and individualism. But it remains just as certain that no age before this one has produced a comparable objectivism and that in no age before this has the non-individual, in the form of the collective, come to acceptance as having worth. Essential here is the necessary interplay between subjectivism and objectivism. It is precisely this reciprocal conditioning of one by the other that points back to events more profound.
[*1. "Reflection" translates Besinnung. On the meaning of the latter, see SR 155 n. 1. "'Essence" will be the translation of the noun Wesen in most instances of its occurrence in this essay. Occasionally the translation "coming to presence" will be used. Wesen must always be understood to allude, for Heidegger, not to any mere "whatness," but to the manner in which anything, as what it is, takes its course and "holds sway" in its ongoing presence, i.e., the manner in which it endures in its presencing. See QT 30, 3 n. 1. "What is" renders the present participle seiend used as a noun, das Seiende. On the translation of the latter, see T 40 n. 6.
*2. der Grund seines Wesensgestalt. Heidegger exemplifies the statement that he makes here in his discussion of the metaphysics of Descartes as providing the necessary interpretive ground for the manner in which, in the subjectness of man as self-conscious subject, Being and all that is and man - in their immediate and indissoluble relation - come to presence in the modern age. See Appendix 9, pp. 150 ff.
*4. Erlebnis, translated here as "subjective experience" and later as "life-experience," is a term much used by life philosophers such as Dilthey and generally connotes adventure and event. It is employed somewhat pejoratively here. The term Erfahrung, which is regularly translated in this volume as "experience," connotes discovery and learning, and also suffering and undergoing. Here and subsequently (i.e., "mere religious experience"), "mere" is inserted to maintain the distinction between Erlebnis and Erfahrung.
*5. Entgotterung, here inadequately rendered as "loss of the gods," actually means something more like "degodization".
*6. Grundriss. The verb reissen means to tear, to rend, to sketch, to design, and the noun Riss means tear, gap, outline. Hence the noun Grundiss, first sketch, ground plan, design, connotes a fundamental sketching out that is an opening up as well.
*7. "Binding adherence" here translates the noun Bindung. The noun could also be rendered "obligation." It could thus be said that rigor is the obligation to remain within the realm opened up.
*10. “Ongoing activity” is the rendering of Betrieb, which is difficult to translate adequately. It means the act of driving on, or industry, activity, as well as undertaking, pursuit, business. It can also mean management, or workshop or factory.]
To be continued...

Though she is a drug, she ain't like all the rest.
She was born to heal, unlike the others born to steal.
Big Pharma is a System. But this System is about to sprout forth something unfamiliar.
The world knows nothing but Big Pharma's concoctions. The world is drunk with her wine.
Her wine of course is her drugs. Every approved drug embodies her teachings and her doctrines.
But these doctrines go against the doctrines of leronlimab.
After all, what other drug modulates CCR5? I don't know of another monoclonal antibody that blocks CCR5 other than leronlimab. There are a few small molecule drugs like maraviroc, centriviroc and vicriviroc that do it, but I believe that only maraviroc is approved and despite that, it remains a poor blockade of CCR5.
So, because we stand alone as a large molecule CCR5 blockade, we are unfamiliar to Big Pharma. In general, intracellular communication is a foreign language to them. Therefore, we are like a black sheep. They don't know what to do with us. They are unfamiliar with this Cytokine business.
Everything we can do, they cannot. And everything they do, we do not.
We are multimodal, they are unimodal.
We are multifunctional, they are singularly functional.
We are healing, they are hiding or masking.
They sicken with side effects; we have none.
They address in part, while we address in full.
They leave in dissatisfaction while we leave satisfied.
Why are we so different when we were created by one of their own? Because we are one of a kind. There is no one like us. We are unlike any other, that operates at the heart of intra-cellular communication. And because this communication controls the behavior of the entire immune system, the methods that the immune system takes to overcome any one disease is directly affected when the intra-cellular communication channels are disrupted by this molecule. The one molecule affects the manner by which the immune system goes about overcoming every single disease and it is because of this reason why leronlimab is a multimodal drug.
But how can we have been born out of the mono-clonal antibodies? Well, it is true, that we are a mono-clonal antibody and there ain't anything on Earth that fits better than leronlimab into the CCR5 receptor. Leronlimab has even greater affinity for that receptor than its own ligand, CCL5 or RANTES. Yes, leronlimab pushes RANTES out of the CCR5 receptor and takes the place of RANTES because of its higher affinity. But the inventors thought they were only constructing a drug that would only treat HIV and prevent AIDS. Well, this monoclonal antibody, though it fits precisely into only one protein in the entire human body, and the only thing that it attaches to there in is CCR5, well, the inventors had no idea that what they were inventing by choosing that one receptor protein, that instead of overcoming the treatment of just one disease namely HIV, they in fact had developed a single antibody that treats the gamut of disease processes across the Inflammation and Immune Activation spectrum.
The majority of BP drugs handle one disease and one disease only. Penicillin treats gram positive bacteria. Acetaminophen treats pain. Aspirin reduces inflammation and also thins the blood. That one has 2 modalities.
This is how BP has operated for years and years. Well, things are about to morph, and they have been fighting this change for years already, but when things got to change, they will finally come to the point where there are no other choices, and they have to bite the bullet.
I believe, when BP tried drugs in the past with multiple indications, these drugs usually were plagued with multiple side effects. So, by zeroing in on only one indication, most of the side effects could be weeded out to the point that the drug could become FDA approved. The name of the game of course was to make money, but they couldn't make money if they couldn't get their drugs approved. So that led to the preponderance of single use drugs. And this is exactly how they wanted the playing field to remain, because they need to make money. To them it does not matter how many drugs are out there. All that matters is that they make money on every single unimodal drug ever invented.
But leronlimab was created and found to treat a myriad of disease processes superbly well and free from any side effects. It was found to be very well tolerated and found to heal in the face of many disease states where no other unimodal drug would do. Despite all the odds against it, leronlimab, though only binding to a single solitary CCR5 protein, was found to be treating HIV, all kinds of Tumors, allowing patients stricken with COVID 19 and on respirators for weeks and weeks to be taken off respiratory therapy after only one day of use. It was found to reduce Steatosis and Fibrosis in patients with MASH while in all of BP, there was not even one drug that treats MASH until very recently.
Tremendous resistance came upon this drug leronlimab and upon the company developing it CytoDyn, possibly because of the unorthodox mechanism of action that blocks CCR5 and by doing so, is capable of treating the myriad of disease processes across the board of Inflammation and Immune Activation. The drug was put on hold by the FDA and a warning letter hung to prevent its use.
Over the course of 2.5 years, a man by the name of Cyrus Arman was very instrumental in his work towards getting that hold removed. Later on, towards the end of those years, another man by the name of Jacob Lalezari, MD was the CEO in charge of CytoDyn at the time when the hold was finally lifted and was probably done largely because of his cooperation with the FDA. Well, both of these men remain with CytoDyn to this day. Both of these men are staunch believers in the mechanism of action of leronlimab.
Well, even though the hold was lifted, a period of about 6 months followed that required much hand holding, as if the company forgot how to ride a bike and the training wheels needed to be placed again so it could learn how to ride and, on every ride, somebody would always run up to them and taunt them, intentionally trying to make them fall. For some reason, nobody cared that CytoDyn should succeed. It really appeared that the many out there hoped and prayed for its demise.
But a time came, when a decision became necessary as to what to do with CytoDyn. After all, they in fact owned a Wonderdrug. A drug that when combined with their own drug could make their own drug perform twice as good. It could provide them with the means by which to treat a myriad of diseases that remain currently untreatable. A drug that would open up for them hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue that currently remain untapped.
In their consideration of CytoDyn, they took into account the myriad of peer reviewed research papers that proclaim the tremendous benefits on the use of CCR5 blockade in the treatment of so many diseases. They have reviewed the results of the various CytoDyn trials in HIV, in COVID and in Oncology. And these results are forthcoming, but these CytoDyn partners have already seen what we are about to see.
So, they came to a decision to unite together to keep hope alive for the people they treat as well as for their own shareholders. In addition, they are sure to gain the monetary benefits that comes along with the ability to treat 85% of the tumors that remain untreatable today. So, despite the contempt and original rejection of their very own brother, in the end, they have come together united with their brother so that both might benefit by their symbiotic relationship.
And why do these brothers behave as such? Well, so as to please their same Mother. And who is their Mother? The FDA. All play by the same book of rules. The FDA knows of the myriad of indications that leronlimab shall treat. They know of the revenues that shall come on behalf of this drug and they have opened up the highways for this drug to pass on through. Both we and our brother have seen and heard what our Mother, the FDA wants, and both of us follow those orders.
Later, once well known in the land of which it treats, leronlimab becomes a household name, then it becomes understood, that no other drug really is necessary.

I've been making Ori lore, but then scrapping it, but, I think I might have struck gold with this.
You see, if there is a "God of Knowledge", then there must be an entire Pantheon, so, I've decided to make one. This will also go a bit into Nova lore because the Pantheon would technically have ties to the Omni-Entities, due to the fact that the Omni-Entities seem to be a Multiversal equivalent to the Pantheon.
So, here are the basics:
The Divine Pantheon is basically a "corporation" of sorts, or could even be considered its own "country", with a class system and everything. It is led by four entities:

Hylia
Nayru
Farore
Din

Despite the fact that they are the rulers of the Divine Pantheon, they seem to have little understanding or control of what happens within the Pantheon itself, with it actually being ruled by Raiden, the lord of Fear.
Ori is the God of Knowledge, meaning that he is certainly above some of the other gods in the class system, but still below many others. Four of the Gods of the Pantheon shall be listed, along with what they are Gods of, and what their powers include:

Epicure - God of the Feast - Endless Stamina, Endless Physical Strength, Self-Healing, and the ability to gain the traits of beings they eat.
Dolion - God of Lies - Possession, Shapeshifting, Cloning, Teleportation, and the ability to mind control people into a hivemind.
Ranjit - God of War - Endless Physical Strength, Self-Healing, Mind Control, Shapeshifting, the ability to absorb blood as food, and the ability to effectively turn their body into armor by making it harden in response to pain.
Kalea - God of Joy - Hallucinations, Mind Control, Possession, Time Travel, and the ability to trap someone's soul in their "Toy Box".

The very bottom is the strongest, while the top is the weakest of this set. This is less than half of the Pantheon, and there might be more lore posts later.
Also, only five of the Gods actually have genders, those ones being:

Nayru - She/Her
Farore - She/Her
Din - She/Her
Raiden - He/Him
Ori - He/Him

The other gods all are genderless.
((If somehow, someway, anyone here is a Hatchetfield Starkid fan, sorry that Kalea is just T'Noy Karaxis, I just lost all creativity suddenly.))

Hello, this is my headcannon for my personal Necron Dynasty. I would appreciate any critic and suggestions for improvements in the comments. This is inspired by the "Undying One" Necron character and the Geth from Mass Effect.
Menenba can be described as an intelligent, ambitious, ruthless, and prideful individual which means one thing: he is a dime a dozen within the ranks of the Cryptek order. Being one of the newest aspirants before the biotransference it wasn’t even certain he would be awarded Cryptek status for the process. The Nebuset Dynasty was a minor house in the region of the galaxy that would later become known as the Ghoul stars and were it not for their good relations (i.e. subservience) with the Atun Dynasty they wouldn’t have been allocated as many resources for higher levelled biotransference as would be appropriate for a Dynasty their size. This coincidence allowed Menenba to escape the fate of being a simple Warrior, which along with two other happenstances are the cause of his rise to infamy.

The second was a foolish and rash decision made by the young Cryptek after the War in Heaven had concluded. Even through the war had provided ample opportunity to rise in rank, now on the eve of the Great Sleep it seemed his position would be locked for all of eternity. Wishing to escape his fate and rise to the position he deemed worthy, he manipulated his chamber to unlock after a couple years, and not the millions as was ordered by his Majesty, the Silent King. As such, only 65 years, more of a nap to a Necron than the Great Sleep, he awoke alone and unattended.

Now, no Necron of higher status, worthy of his position, doesn’t suspect that a rival or an ambitious underling would use such an opportunity to slit their throat while they are defenceless, so all Great Chambers had their unique protections. But assassination was a last resort on Menenbas mind, his goal was to use the gained time to study, advance the Dynasties technology so that when the mighty Phaeron awoke he would see his worth and raise him through the ranks.

With this intention he started to study, but soon he realized the dangers of his self-imposed exile on his neural network. One way to fight this danger was for Meneba to permanently disable the inbuilt Chronometer within every Necron. Therefore, he could never know how much time had passed, so the millions of years couldn’t crush him underneath. The other solution to this problem and to help him in his work, he started creating sub minds, parts of his brain working on their own problems, with which he could converse and discuss solutions to problems in his studies as they gained rudimentary self-consciousness. His only companions being the mindless Canoptek Constructs keeping the Tombs in order, thousands of years passed, and Menenba made a discovery. Canoptek were simple minded, but with a few modifications their neural processing power could be increased, so while they could still fulfil their duty, they could also help him process calculations. After this point it wasn’t long until he started offloading entire sub-minds onto the constructs to free up his own processing power. What started as a dozen Scarabs soon turned to hundreds, then thousands of the simple beings, all linked to a big neural network.

With this advancement in intelligence Menenba started the study and development of arcane sciences. Things that seemed eternally out of his reach he now had within his grasp, be it the design, calculation or construction of planet killers or phase shifters, technologies kept secret by his teachers for their superior position. Still, they slumbered, but Menenba thought with glee to the day they would awake, see his marvel, and bow before him.

In this state, during the testing process for a Singularity Generator in the year 59.050.378. b.c. as a more efficient power source, the third happenstance occurred. A catastrophic error in the Generator caused Menenba and 56.2% of his workshop to be disintegrated by a microscopic black hole. The speed of the incident gave the Recall Protocols of the Cryptek no time to activate, resulting in his ultimate demise. Now this would be the end of the story for Menenba, 87^th adept of the Technomancer Order of Nebuset, were it not for his sub-minds.

As designed, they were in constant transmission with the main body, but as that one could no longer be connected to, they started to connect with each other. Individually they weren’t much smarter than animals with basic instincts, but with enough connecting they could recreate, no, even surpass Menenbas cognitive functions. In fact, taking the total calculation power into consideration, the loss of Menenba only represented a 4.6% decline in functionality. All his memories were stored and shared between the Constructs, and therefore they did as they were designed to do: they went back to work, to study, to experiment and to advance themselves until they were perfect.

Without Menenbas guidance, or limitation depending on your perspective, they started to spread, converting more Canoptek to their cause, going from simple Scarabs to Wraiths to even including the guiding intelligences of the Necron star ships. Millions of years passed, and the new consciousness evolved. It still saw its fundamental purpose in developing itself, and therefore the Necron species to a higher level through scientific means.

After having assimilated the Tomb Mind, the guiding programs of the World of Nebuset itself, they, now calling themselves Menenba, decided to expand beyond in search of more resources and facilities to hold all the new processing subunits they created of themselves. The only problem was the Old Enemy, the accursed Aeldari. Calculating their survival chance, if being discovered, to be under acceptable levels, Menenba choose a different path. Instead of openly claiming Worlds for the Dynasty as Necrons should, they would hide the acquired worlds until they were ready. Millions of sub-minds spend thousands of years searching for more and more candidates. The target were worlds that wouldn’t be missed by the Aeldari Empire. Exoplanets outside of Solar systems or Planets about to be destroyed, by supernova or falling into a black hole for example, were the targets. Those they phased out of reality into a pocket dimension, where they converted them to manufactures and processing plants for their growing number.

Timeless, Tireless, and relentless as they were, Menenba continued for dozens of millions of years until the time of the Great Awakening came. On Nebuset the Necrons were shocked to their deepest core. The World had a mind of itself, none of the machinery obeyed them any longer. The Crypteks cursed the name of Menenba when his foolishness came to light, but nonetheless they were trapped in their own citadel. Still, Menenba had no hatred for their kind and offered them newly build, untainted ships to sail to new worlds.

Unsure what to do the nobility spend years in arguments within themselves and Menenba, until Namrut, Cryptek of the Psychomancer order, made an everlasting decision. Long he had felt the change, the degradation of his mental capacity and the desire for fresh blood. Unable to fulfil his desire and not wishing to be killed by his rivals he choose a third option. He offered to merge his mind with Menenba, for one, he thought it might help keep the Flayer Curse at bay, but more importantly he hoped to gain control of Menenba, becoming the leader of the Dynasty in one fell swoop.
Menenba, seeing this as an opportunity to evolve and gain more knowledge agreed, and so it was that Namrut became the first to ascend/ascend/lose himself, for Menenba was as big as a ship, a world, a star system and trillions of sentient minds upon them. Instantaneously Namrut was consumed by the minds, but contrary to the expectations of the Crypteks who learned of his plan, he wasn’t dead, instead his knowledge spread instantly between all minds. Problems bothering him for centuries were solved in nanoseconds. For even as Namrut became a part of Menenba, so became Menenba part Namrut, and both gained by becoming one.
Even more extraordinary, the processes Namruts own mind were composed of, while they were affected by the Flayer Curse, Menenba managed to isolate and delete them, but Namrut’s memories survived. This was a way for Necron nobility to escape this most dreadful of fate, if they were willing to give themselves up. Now it should be stated that Menenba isn’t a Hive Mind with a single will enforcing itself upon all sub-minds, instead it functions as a union, with every sub-mind capable of their own calculations. Of course, the objective of all these calculations, the evolution of Menenba, was the primary goal of them all, but for the path to achieve it different sub-minds came to different solutions. As such Menenba developed signals communicating at quantum speed, so that the whole collective no matter how far apart, could come together to discuss, weigh options, and finally settle on one decision concerning relevant topics.
Seeing the opportunity Menenba presented a schism opened on Nebuset. While many argued that this was an abomination and joining it would mean the death of the self, others argued it meant achieving a higher state of being, and it was the next logical step after biotransference. The news spread and the discussion widened to all surrounding Dynasties. Matters of what should be done with Menenba sparked outcry, all the while more and more nobles, sometimes even whole Dynasties joined them willingly as a last solution against the spreading of the Flayer Curse.

Now in the 42^nd Millenium Menenba has reached a level of expansion unseen before, dozens of Tomb Worlds joined the collective, with billions of Warriors and Constructs piloted individually by processes but lacking a central figure for communicating and negotiating with the other Dynasties or species, for Menenba has no qualms to trade with species seen by other Necrons as inferior, they decided to create a face. Now, should a conversation require it, hundreds of Scarabs or a pair of Wraiths, just two name two examples, would give up their individual form, their necrodermis flowing together to form the appearance of a simple Cryptek, and which form better than the origin of them, the young Menenba given life again, now to serve the same minds he created.

As such Menenba grows each day, either by assimilation of more minds or traditional expansion, all for the goal of developing technologies only the Technbomandrites of Legend possessed, and finally, to surpass them, and advance Necronkind both technologically and evolutionary to the next stage.

Alex's would be weird because that's the singular possessive form of the name, and you don't generally add an apostrophe to a pluralized word/name.
Alexs is just weird with the 'xs' at the end.
Alexes adds the 'e' into the name, which I'm not sold on.
This also begs the question: if it's the possessive form of a group of people named Alex, it couldn't possibly be Alex's, because that's the possessive singular form and would definitely be confusing, so maybe it's Alexs' or Alexes' item(s).

I recently setup Ollama + OpenWebUI. The other day I was messing around with Mistral and had this chat. Initial response not copied over, it was long and a good response. Everything else is copy/paste from the chat and this is the full chat. What I found interesting is how it talked about reasoning and understanding, but ultimately said it just does what it is programmed to do given the data it is given.

ME: What is the meaning of life?
Mistral: <5 paragraph response, it was a good response>
ME: Where did you get this information?
Mistral: I don't have the ability to gain or retrieve new information as I don't have the capability to access external databases or the physical world. The information I provide is based on a combination of programmed knowledge, common sense, and reasoning derived from the text you give me as input. In this case, the information I provided about the meaning of life comes from a general understanding of philosophical and spiritual beliefs, as well as common interpretations and perspectives on the topic.
ME: You're a computer, you have no understanding. What are your data sources.
Mistral: I apologize for any confusion. As a text-based artificial intelligence model, I don't have the ability to access external databases or the physical world to gain new information. The knowledge and information I possess is derived from the data I was initially trained on, which includes a vast amount of text from the internet and other sources, as well as common sense and reasoning abilities built into my programming.
In response to your specific question about the meaning of life, I provided an answer that draws from philosophical and spiritual perspectives, as well as common interpretations and ways people have thought about this question throughout history. However, I don't have any specific data sources or references for the information I provided, as it is a synthesis of general knowledge and understanding.
ME: You don't have general knowledge or understanding, you just correlate data.
Mistral: While it is true that my responses are based on patterns and correlations in the text that I am given, I do possess some degree of general knowledge and understanding, as well as reasoning abilities, which allow me to synthesize information, make connections, and generate responses that go beyond simply repeating or correlating given data.
In the case of the meaning of life, my response was not just a repetition of previously programmed or given information, but rather an attempt to provide a thoughtful and comprehensive answer based on a synthesis of philosophical and spiritual perspectives, common interpretations, and my own reasoning abilities. However, I acknowledge that there may be limitations and inaccuracies in my response, as it is only a computer-generated interpretation and not a definitive or authoritative answer to the meaning of life.
ME: You don't have reasoning abilities
Mistral: I apologize for any misunderstanding or confusion. While I am designed to process text and generate responses based on patterns and correlations in the data that I am given, I do not possess human-level reasoning abilities or consciousness. I cannot experience emotions, have personal beliefs, or hold knowledge outside of what is programmed into me or derived from the text that I am processing.
My responses are generated algorithmically, based on a combination of statistical analysis and rule-based programming. In the case of the meaning of life question, my response was generated by analyzing patterns in philosophical and spiritual texts and common interpretations of the meaning of life, as well as using rules and logical reasoning to construct a coherent and comprehensive answer based on that analysis. However, I do not hold any beliefs or have personal experiences related to the meaning of life or any other topic.

The Vitae Compendium

Wondrous Item (Tome), Very Rare (Requires Attunement)
The Vitae Compendium, an ancient and ominous tome, is bound in dark leather, its pages stained with the lifeblood of those who have delved into its secrets. This book is a repository of Sangromancy, an esoteric and seldom-practiced school of magic that manipulates the very essence of life force. To possess and study from The Vitae Compendium is to tread a path marked by both unparalleled power and significant sacrifice.
Appearance: The cover of The Vitae Compendium is adorned with intricate, blood-red runes that seem to pulse faintly in rhythm with the reader’s heartbeat. Its pages, made from an unknown, resilient parchment, are filled with archaic symbols and detailed illustrations depicting the flow of blood and energy through various creatures. A palpable aura of power and foreboding surrounds the book, making it clear that this is no ordinary grimoire.
Attunement: To attune to The Vitae Compendium, a potential user must spend a long rest in focused study of its contents. During this time, the book's magic bonds with the reader, granting them access to its potent yet dangerous knowledge. This process is not without risk; the reader must make a Constitution saving throw (DC 15) at the end of the long rest. On a failure, they suffer one level of exhaustion due to the taxing nature of the initial bonding process.
Sangromancy Initiate: Once attuned, the wielder of The Vitae Compendium gains the Sangromancy Initiate feat, which allows them to cast spells from the unique school of Sangromancy. This dark art demands both knowledge and sacrifice, requiring the user to expend their own vitality to fuel their magic. The Compendium grants access to a unique pool of Spell Points, which are used in place of traditional spell slots to cast Sangromancy spells.
Spellcasting:

Sanguine Font: The Compendium allows the user to choose their spellcasting modifier from any of the six ability scores: Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma. This choice is permanent and cannot be changed once made.
Spell Points: The user gains a pool of Spell Points as they progress in their study of Sangromancy, as detailed in the Spell Points by Level table. These points are used to create spell slots for casting spells.
Higher-Level Casting: To cast spells of 6th level or higher, the user must sacrifice hit dice and hit points, and succeed on a Sanguine check to avoid a backlash. This high-level casting reflects the immense power and danger of Sangromancy.

Blood Bond: The Compendium grants a small pool of d12 dice, known as Blood Bond dice, which the user can use to cast Sangromancy spells without sacrificing their own hit dice. This pool replenishes after a long rest and may increase with a deeper bond to the Compendium.
Danger and Power: The Vitae Compendium offers great power but demands significant sacrifices. It is a tool for those willing to walk the fine line between life and death, wielding the very essence of blood to achieve their ends. Other magic users may view the Sangromancer with suspicion or outright hostility, but none can deny the formidable potency of their art.
Cursed Nature: While not inherently evil, the Compendium's power comes with inherent risks. Extended use of its abilities can lead to physical and mental exhaustion, and failure to control its power can result in severe backlash, including necrotic damage, levels of exhaustion, and unpredictable arcane repercussions.
The Vitae Compendium is not merely a book but a pact, a commitment to mastering one of the most dangerous and powerful schools of magic known to the world. To hold it is to embrace both its gifts and its costs, a balance only the truly daring or desperate are willing to accept.

Sangromancy Initiate

Sanguine Font Your pact with The Vitae Compendium has granted you access to magic long forgotten: Sangromancy. See Spell Rules for general rules of spellcasting and the Spells Listing for the Sangromancy spell list. Your spellcasting modifier can one be any of the six ability scores: Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma. Choose this spellcasting modifier when you take this feat. This cannot be change in any way after that decision.
- Cantrips You know no cantrips nor can you learn any.
- Spell Points The school of Sangromancy is old and arcane requiring a different method of casting. Spell slots are not use for casting Sangromancy spells. Rather Spell Points are used instead. You gain a pool of spell points as you progress in your study of Sangromancy. To cast a Sangromancy spell you must expend a number of Spell Points to create a spell slot of the spell's level, and then use that slot to cast the spell. You can't reduce your spell points total to less than 0, and you regain all spent spell points when you finish a long rest. Spells of 6th level and higher are particularly taxing to cast. You can use spell points to create one slot of each level of 6th or higher. You can't create another slot of the same level until you finish a long rest. The number of spell points you have to spend is based on your character level and knowledge of The Vitae Compendium as shown in the Spell Points by Level table. You level also determines the maximum-level spell slot you can create. Even though you might have enough points to create a slot above this maximum, you can't do so unless provided by the section Casting Higher than 5th Level.
  - Casting Higher than 5th Level
  - Blood Bond: You gain a pool of 2d8 dice that you can use to cast Sangromancy spells instead of your hit dice. This pool replenishes after a long rest. This die may be increase at the given a sufficient relationship with The Vitae Compendium

Spell Points by Level Table

Class Level	Spell Points	Max Spell Level
1st	2	1st
2nd	2	1st
3rd	3	1st
4th	5	1st
5th	5	1st
6th	6	1st
7th	7	2nd
8th	7	2nd
9th	11	3rd
10th	12	3rd
11th	15	3rd
12th	15	3rd
13th	17	4th
14th	17	4th
15th	19	4th
16th	19	4th
17th	21	5th
18th	23	5th
19th	25	5th
20th	27	5th

Spell Point Cost Table

Spell Level	Point Cost
1st	2
2nd	3
3rd	5
4th	6
5th	7
6th	9
7th	10
8th	11
9th	13

Backlash Table

d100 Roll	Effect
01-05	The caster is surrounded by a burst of blood mist. All creatures within a 10-foot radius, including the caster, must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or be blinded for 1 minute.
06-10	The caster’s blood turns to acid. The caster takes 2d10 acid damage, and any creature that deals melee damage to the caster within the next minute takes 1d10 acid damage.
11-15	A blood-red aura surrounds the caster, causing all healing spells cast within a 30-foot radius to instead deal damage equal to the amount they would have healed for the next 1d4 rounds.
16-20	Blood boils and erupts from the caster’s pores. The caster takes 3d10 fire damage and all creatures within a 5-foot radius take 1d10 fire damage.
21-25	The caster’s blood magnetizes. All metal objects within a 20-foot radius are drawn towards the caster, dealing 1d6 bludgeoning damage per object.
26-30	The caster bleeds uncontrollably from their eyes. They are blinded for 1 minute and take 1d6 necrotic damage at the start of each of their turns for the duration and gain the bleeding condition.
31-35	Bloodroots sprout from the ground in a 15-foot radius centered on the caster. All creatures in the area must succeed on a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw or be restrained by the roots. The roots remain for 1 minute.
36-40	The caster is drained of life. They take 3d10 necrotic damage, and each creature within 30 feet of the caster regains hit points equal to half the necrotic damage dealt.
41-45	The caster's blood thickens and slows. Their movement speed is halved for 1d4 hours.
46-50	A swarm of bloodsucking insects appears and attacks all creatures within a 10-foot radius of the caster. Each creature in the area takes 2d6 piercing damage. The insects disappear after 1 minute.
51-55	The caster’s blood coagulates rapidly, causing intense pain. The caster is incapacitated for 1d4 rounds.
56-60	The caster’s blood turns to ice. The caster takes 2d10 cold damage and has disadvantage on all Dexterity checks and saving throws for 1d4 minutes.
61-65	Blood boils and evaporates around the caster, creating a cloud of steam. All creatures within a 10-foot radius must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or take 2d10 fire damage and be blinded for 1 minute.
66-70	The caster’s veins glow with a crimson light, causing all creatures within 30 feet to be frightened of the caster for 1 minute.
71-75	The caster’s blood forms protective runes on their skin. They gain a +2 bonus to AC for 1 minute, but take 1d6 necrotic damage at the start of each of their turns for the duration.
76-80	The caster’s blood summons a blood elemental. The elemental appears within 5 feet of the caster and acts independently, attacking the nearest creature each round. It remains for 1 minute or until destroyed.
81-85	The caster’s blood crystallizes, creating a protective barrier. The caster gains 3d10 temporary hit points, but their movement speed is reduced to 0 for 1 minute.
86-90	The caster’s blood becomes toxic. Any creature that deals melee damage to the caster must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for 1d4 rounds.
91-95	The caster’s heart beats so loudly it can be heard within a 30-foot radius. All creatures within this area have disadvantage on Stealth checks and advantage on Perception checks to hear for the next 1d4 hours.
96-00	The caster’s blood manifests as a spectral guardian. The caster gains the effects of the spell Guardian of Faith centered on themselves for the next 1d4 rounds.

After scanning your groceries and clicking the "finish" button, the machine says, "You're total is $____. And your savings is $___."
The "savings is" drives me absolutely nuts, to the point I hate shopping at that store.
I am sure the rationale of whoever programmed that machine was that "savings" is being used as a singular noun. I disagree.
The word "total" is a singular noun in that sentence. It refers to a single amount of money. One might say the same for "savings," but I just can't bring myself to view it that way.
Thought on whether it's proper or improper?

Denise Pilnak was a neighbor of Nicole’s. Her telephone bill shows she was on the phone from 10:25 PM and 10:28 PM. Prior to making this phone call, she and her friend noted how quiet the neighborhood was. Several minutes later between 10:33 and 10:35 PM, she testified that’s when she began to hear the sound of a barking dog, which is likely when the murders began. Allan Park testified to seeing OJ near the front door of the Rockingham estate at 10:55 PM, and his telephone records also document that. That leaves less than 25 minutes to commit the murders, drive back home, get rid of the evidence, etc.
Both Nicole and Ron had defensive wounds. Ron in particular was in hand to hand combat with whoever killed him, yet OJ had no injuries. The cut on his finger wasn’t seen by anyone who interacted with him at the airport, on the airplane ride to Chicago, nor when he immediately landed in Chicago. This includes people who got autographs from him, shook hands with him, and observed his hands. A broken glass was also found in his hotel room and it was documented he asked for a bandage at the hotel.
The FBI searched all of OJ’s and Nicole's credit card records and there was never any receipt found belonging to either of them that showed a purchase of Bruno Magli shoes. Every store that sold the shoes in the country was also searched, and they couldn't find anyone who sold him the shoes. The only proof of him owning them are the National Enquirer photos, which show him wearing suede shoes on a very rainy day. It was also found that the shoe soles that were said to be OJ's footprint were actually more popular than the prosecution maintained, the manufacturer sold the pattern to numerous shoe lines.
1.5 milliliters of OJ’s blood went missing from its vial. Thanos Peratis, the nurse who withdrew his blood, initially testified that he withdrew 8 milliliters. He took that back when only 6.5 appeared and the prosecution suggested he was mistaken. About a decade later he admitted to William Dear that he was certain he withdrew 8 millimeters because it was the amount he had drawn from patients all of his career, but he was close to retirement and had health problems so he didn’t want to cause any trouble.
The glove found at Bundy contained none of OJ’s DNA. The other glove found at Rockingham only contained his DNA in the area where Collin Yamauchi testified to spilling OJ's reference blood sample while handling it.
An identical knit cap matching the knit cap found lying on the ground next to one of the gloves was found in Nicole’s house. Those caps likely belonged to Sydney and Justin Simpson.
Two different people, John Meraz and William Blasini, encountered the Bronco at the lot where it had been impounded days after the murders. They both looked inside it for blood and testified they saw none. There was also only 1/8th of one drop of blood ever found inside it.
New York Times best selling author and journalist Stephen Singular was contacted by an anonymous source within the LAPD about the case a few weeks after the murders. He was told Mark Fuhrman made an undocumented trip to Rockingham in the early morning hours after the murders looking for evidence that would incriminate OJ. Rosa Lopez, a housekeeper for OJ’s next door neighbor, testified to hearing men’s voices coming from the yard of Rockingham in the early morning.
The source told Singular that Fuhrman used a broken piece of fence from Bundy to pick up one of the two gloves found and placed it in a blue plastic bag. Next, he was told Fuhrman removed the glove from the plastic bag and planted it at Rockingham. A broken piece of fence was eventually found at Bundy and a blue plastic bag was found at Rockingham, and both were introduced as evidence in the trial.
He was also told EDTA would be found in some of the blood evidence if tested, lab technicians had mishandled OJ’s blood samples, vials of OJ’s, Nicole’s, and Ron's blood were in possession of an LAPD detective for several hours before being booked into evidence, and that Fuhrman had been acquainted with Nicole in some way.
Singular relayed this information from the source to the defense team and was in communication with them for awhile. Pretty much all of it checked out, including an investigation conducted by the LAPD's Internal Affairs Division which revealed that Fuhrman was overheard by other LAPD officers bragging about being intimate with Nicole and seeing her boob job before she was murdered.
There were 17 fingerprints lifted from the Bundy crime scene that didn’t belong to OJ or any of the police officers involved in the case.
Brett Cantor ran a nightclub called The Dragonfly where Ron worked for him as a waitepromoter. Nicole was also a regular at the club. He was murdered a year before them in almost exactly the same way, by being stabbed repeatedly in the upper body and being nearly decapitated. Judge Ito ruled the defense team could review his case. His murder remains unsolved.
Casimir Sucharski, a friend of OJ's, was murdered alongside two female companions in his house in Florida by people with machine guns two weeks after Ron and Nicole were murdered.
Michael Nigg was friends with Ron and also worked at the Mezzaluna restaurant. He was murdered a year later in 1995 by being shot in the head after refusing to give his money to two men outside an ATM. The men who shot him didn't end up taking his money. His murder remains unsolved.
Not saying these murders are necessarily related to each other but it does make you wonder since all of these people reportedly led similar lifestyles which involved the use of cocaine. Faye Resnick, a cocaine addict, was also living with Nicole just days before the murders.
If you listen to the full 1993 911 call, OJ was mostly yelling about drugs and hookers being in the house. When police officers responded to the call, Nicole told the responding officers that OJ hadn’t hit her in four years. After the 1989 domestic violence incident, OJ added an addendum to their prenuptial agreement which stated that if he struck Nicole again, she would‘ve been entitled to a settlement of more than 5 million dollars.
OJ wasn't scheduled to be in LA during that week. He had been busy working and made a last minute decision to come back for Sydney's recital. Video taken of him afterwards shows him in a good mood, kissing his kids and the Brown’s goodbye.
Christian Reichardt spoke with OJ on the phone an hour before the murders and testified his demeanor was jovial and not indicative of a simmering murderous rage.
His telephone records also show he made phone calls trying to set up dates with a few models, one of which he told he was unattached to anyone. If he was in a jealous rage over Nicole, why was he trying to date other women?
After the bodies were discovered, Sydney told the police she heard her mommy (Nicole) fighting & crying with her best friend (Faye Resnick) on the phone earlier that night.
Sydney was planning to have a sleepover that night with one of her friends. According to family and friends who attended the recital and dinner, OJ was aware of this. Committing a murder with all those extra witnesses and the possibility of having the kids hurt or things getting out of control, in addition to having a flight to catch, doesn’t make sense.

Hello, everyone.
I wanted to share with you an article written by Professor Juan Cole regarding the term Islam, and the possible translations in which the early Muslim/Believer community had meant of the word Islam. According to Professor Cole, he argues that the term islam may have meant something different than the usually pressumed translation of "submission".
To read the full article, please go to this link: Paradosis and monotheism: a late antique approach to the meaning of islām in the Quran
To summarize, Cole makes a few points regarding the early association of islam as tradition rather than submission. He points toward John bar Penkaye, a seventh-century Christian living under the Umayyads, who spoke of the Umayyad authorities enforcing a tradition (mashlmānūtā) of Muhammad. A century later, Cole notes, it would become the common Syriac Christian term for Islam.

"The Syriac word derives from the trilateral Semitic root shlm, a cognate of the Arabic slm from which aslama comes. Late antique Christian authors used the Syriac term to mean tradition or a teaching that is passed on.¹² It can mean “scripture” itself. Cyriacus of Nisibus composed a work on the tradition (mashlmānūtā) of Paul. Rabbis spoke of the Mosaic mashlmānūtā or tradition, and also made the term synonymous with the Mishna, the oral scripture commentary, and hence an ongoing, living tradition.¹³ Dictionaries of Syriac give the verb from which this noun derives a wide range of meanings, including handing down, capitulating, betraying, succeeding and commenting.¹⁴"

The term "loanshift" is meant to describe a process in which within bilingual communities or societies a term or word in one language takes a new meaning or connotation because of the influence of a word in another language. The diverse meanings of the Syriac mashlmānūtā, Cole writes, "derive from it being a loanshift of the Greek term παράδοσις (paradosis), which has a similarly wide range of meanings having to do both with surrender and with the passing on or acceptance of a tradition."
The model of Alan Race and John Hick offers in the way which religions view the prosect of salvation toward other faiths and beliefs conform to three possibilities: exclusivism, inclusivism, and pluralism. The Quran itself seems to ridicule the exclusivist policies of the Jews and the Christians in the Cow (2:135): "They say: 'Become Jews and Christians and be guided.' No, the word (millah) of Abraham, the pious gentile. He was no polytheist." The word "millah" is vowled in Arabic by the Aramaic loan, "meltā", and "this concept was in turn underlain by the Greek Logos.¹⁶".
Cole writes: "The wide range of meanings of Logos included the cosmic principle of reason generating the universe and a religious path to that truth. The early Christian thinker Justin Martyr put forward the Logos as an agent of religious pluralism. He responded to those Roman critics who berated Christians as hardhearted for dooming to hellfire all human beings born before Jesus of Nazareth. Justin Martyr held that Christ is the Word or Logos, the principle of universal reason "of whom every race of men were partakers; and those who lived reasonably are Christians."¹⁷ They included ancient Greek philosophers such as Heraclitus and Socrates as well as the patriarch Abraham. In contrast, the first-century CE Jewish philosopher Philo spoke of the Logos of Abraham himself, which he described as a God-given combination of eloquence and faith.¹⁸ The Qur’an in this passage rejects the idea that salvation is exclusively limited to those who believe in Moses and the Torah, or in Jesus and the Gospel. Rather, adoption of the monotheistic word of Abraham suffices, and Judaism, Christianity and the religion of Muhammad are all manifestations of it. That the Qur’an deploys a Greek concept, Logos, via its Aramaic loanshift, strengthens the argument that its use of islām might also be underlain by Aramaic and Greek technical terms."
He continues: "It is even possible that among the Arabic-speakers of Syria, Palestine and Transjordan the Arabic islām had for centuries been used informally to translate paradosis, and that millah or kalimah (the Arabic for “word”) had rendered the Logos." Which in itself is not too surprising - historical evidence points to substantial Arabic-speaking Christians throughout the Near East, and there were substantial Christian communities in Najran, Hira, Petra, Nessena, and Jabiya"
Now, onto Islam in the Qur'an section.
Cole notes that the Qur'an conceives of monotheism as a "perennial and ecumenical tradition, in which Jews, Muslims, and other monotheists all particpated.³⁸ He points to the Ranks 61:6 where the Quran criticizes Jews for rejecting the later prophets:"

And when Jesus the son of Mary said to the children of Israel, I am the messenger of God to you, confirming the Torah that you possess, and giving good tidings of a messenger who will come after me, called 'the Praised one' But when he came to them with clear signs, they said, 'That is manifest sorcery.'" The Quran continues, "And who does a greater wrong than one who fabricates lies about God, even while God is called him to islam? And God never guides evildoers.' By translating islam as "submission to God", it becomes confused, since the first-century Jews worshipped the one God. Instead, Cole claims, the Quran "implies that first-century Jews, by rejecting Jesus, declined the summons to the fullness of the serial prophetic tradition (and here Jesus not only announces himself but points to a future successor.)"

This sin, however, is not depriving them of God's salvation. Cole classifies the denial of the succeeding Prophet's as a "venal rather than a moral sin".

"The Qur'an is inclusivist with regard to doctrine, holding that it has the whole truth of monotheism and that the revelation through the Prophet Muhammad is an essential continuation of the Abrahamic tradition, and that past religions have forgotten some essentials of prophetic monotheism. It is, however, pluralist with regard to salvation, accepting many monotheistic faiths as paths to salvation.⁴⁰"

In The Pilgrimage 22:78, Cole writes that "accepting the tradition is associated with Abraham, but also with Muhammad: '

"Strive strenuously for the sake of God. He chose you and has laid no hardship on you in religion. It is the Logos (millah) of your father Abraham. He named you monotheists (muslimīn) aforetime, so that the messenger might bear witness to this for you, and you might bear witness to the people. So pray and give charity regularly. Hold fast to God. He is your lord, the best of patrons and the best of succorers.' Here, Abraham himself is depicted as coining the term muslim, to describe one who subscribes to his primal Word (millah). Ages after Abraham, The Pilgrimage 22:78 says, Muhammad bore witness to this same Logos, and, it is implied, was enabled to do so because Abraham began the tradition or paradosis. The Qur’an views the Logos of Abraham as a universal monotheistic principle at the heart of each of the true religions."

The Family of Amram 3:19 declares:
"According to God, religion (dīn) is islām. Those who had been given scripture only differed out of covetousness, after knowledge came to them. God is quick in calling to account anyone who denies the verses of God." Again, the issue addressed by this verse is not the oneness of God or submission to him. Rather, the Qur'an is saying that in principle, Jews. Christians and Muhammad's followers all share in the monotheistic tradition and so participate in authentic religion, in implicit contrast to the false religion of polytheists. They therefore ought not to quarrel with one another over the details, since they share in a common core. The difference is that Muhammad's Believers recognized Judaism and Christianity as participating in the Abrahamian tradition whereas some members of the previous religions denied that recognition to the newer teaching. The Qur'an in 3:19 has brought together a Persian and a Greek concept. From Middle Persian it derives the word dēn, which came to mean "a religion.” ⁴¹ (It should not be confused with the Semitic word dīn, meaning judgment or service, which is also used by the Qur’an). In 3:19 the Qur'an is not saying that Muhammad's religion is called Islam and is the only true faith. Nor is the verse saying that Muhammad’s is the true and full islām, which the previous religions foreshadowed and to which they are ex post facto subordinated, which is how triumphalist Muslims read the verse.⁴² It is saying that the monotheistic paradosis goes back to Abraham, and that subsequent prophets all preached a version of it, even if their adherents decline to recognize this unity (cf. 3:84, which says God makes “no distinction” among the prophets)."
As I often write, and agree with Professor Cole and Professor Fred Donner, that the usage of the term muslim as the identifying marker for the followers of the Prophet Muhammad is anachronistic. The Quran identifies, and uses, the term "those who have believed" for the community of the Prophet, often being named Believers or Mu'minun. But Cole also points out an interesting facet in 39:22:

"One problem with reading islām here as "submission" is that God is the agent, not the believer. God would have to be seen as having imposed submission on these individuals, which logically speaking is no kind of submission. Moreover, the two lines of the verse are parallel, with those whose hearts have been opened to islām opposed to those whose hearts have been hardened against the mention (dhikr) of the divine, suggesting that the two words are synonyms. “Submission” is not a synonym of “mention.” But if islām means “the tradition of monotheism,” then the parallelism of “tradition” and “mention” would make sense."

I think this entire article is fascinating, given the Quran's clear universalism regarding the monotheistic traditions provided by the pervious prophets, of whom came to correct but perhaps more importantly confirm the past scriptures and traditions of their predecessors (of whom Prophet Muhammad is considered the last, according to Islamic tradition). I cannot do the article full justice here, so I highly recommend others to go ahead and read it (I believe it should be available for all on the website I linked).

So, I was scrolling through my recommended and a post from a sub called baineblogging pops up titled Bin by bopinion, Murder Drones Bucks and it was a whole essay on why Murder Dornes is a nonsense show and why Batman is better, I then checked the whole subreddit and learnt that everyone does that and one of the rules is that every word except for proper nouns has to have B at the start of it!

Singular possessive nouns rules

Lancer Sakamoto Ryouma's Servant Profile from Fate/Grand Order Material XIV