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Carly Nagisa

Wednesday 26 April 2034

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Synchronizing with the city: How the Satellite children are trying to find their place

It’s a sunny day when Kokoro walks down the Neo Domino boulevard, on her way to Central Junior High. She’s excited, but also a bit anxious. At twelve, today is her very first day at her new school. Immaculately dressed in the girl’s uniform, she’s hoping to make a good first impression, like all new students are wont to do. And of course she’s curious about all her new classes. “Especially maths,” she tells me. “Crow-niichan (Crow Hogan, who raised her – Ed.) taught me maths, and I always liked it.”

It wasn’t always like that. Kokoro was born in Satellite, and for the first seven years of her life, she knew no other life than the constant run-and-hide that most Satellite children were so used to. Five years ago, when Satellite and the City were reunited, she enrolled in primary school for the first time in her life. She didn’t like it. She was always ‘that Satellite kid’ who would never amount to anything. A sad story, and unfortunately a common one for all the children who were born in Satellite.

Why is that, though? Are the Satellite children less intelligent than City children? Clearly that isn’t the case. One need only look at Fudou Yusei, who grew up in Satellite, yet became a Pro Duelist and is currently studying physics at Neo Domino University. Various Satellite children followed his example, enrolling at Neo Domino University or carving out careers of their own. The younger children all have their own dreams: 13-year-old Takuya wants to become a Security officer. Daichi, at 15, wants to go to Europe to study. And Hikari, one of Kokoro’s friends, would love to become a Pro Duelist, “Just like Jack Atlus and Crow-niichan (Like Kokoro, she too was raised by Crow Hogan – Ed.).”

They dream big, the children. Yet many of them share Kokoro’s primary school experience: Bullying is commonplace, and even though Security strictly forbids discrimination both at school and at work, every day Satelliters get rejected simply because they come from Satellite. The stereotype of the Satellite criminal is pervasive and nefarious, and the irremovable criminal markers that so many Satellite people acquired while trying to survive are now proving more harmful to them than ever. In a society that claims to be tolerant towards all walks of life, the former Satellite inhabitants are still being discriminated against.

Claiming that there were no real criminals in Satellite would be foolish. For years, the island served as a place to put those who could not be reintegrated in society. Yet many of the Satellite children, who just spent their days trying to survive, are now being punished for having the misfortune to grow up in a place abandoned by the City. People like Jack Atlus, Fudou Yusei, and Crow Hogan prove that the former Satellite inhabitants can be of great value to our current society. Why should they be punished for arbitrary factors? Are we not, as a community, better than that?

So how was Kokoro’s first day at school? Kokoro makes a face when I ask her. The teachers are nice, but there’s this one kid who keeps looking at her weird. But, she says, she’s from Satellite, and she’s going to show everyone that that’s nothing to be ashamed of.

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Comment by: You have to be kidding me from Neo Domino City

How telling that miss Nagisa uses Fudou Yusei as her main example. Fudou Yusei was only a Satellite inhabitant by a stroke of bad luck, and therefore cannot be compared to the true Satelliters. Did the author forget that Fudou Yusei’s father was a prominent scientist and City inhabitant?

No, the issue here is clear. Miss Nagisa was desperate to write about kids’ silly dreams, but couldn’t find an example of a adult Satelliter who actually accomplished anything.

Comment by: King from Neo Domino City

@ You have to be kidding me: Shows what you know. Carly knows more about Satellite and the people who live there than you ever will.

Comment by: Black bird from Neo Domino City

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Comment by: Zach O’Neill from Neo Domino City

@ You have to be kidding me: How telling that you immediately assume that Fudou Yusei doesn’t consider himself a Satellite inhabitant. Never once has he said that he’s a City person. On the contrary, he’s never hidden his past and very much considers himself a Satelliter. As Kokoro-chan so wisely said, there’s no shame in having grown up in Satellite.

As for your point about his father being a City person, need I remind you that the parents of almost all the children who grew up in Satellite were City people? Or are you so desperate to forget that the two weren’t always separate places?

Comment by: No-chan from Tokyo Metropolis

I think it doesn’t mater that Fudou Yusei is from sattelite. If you’re a good person it doesn’t mater where you come from.

Comment by: You have to be kidding me from Neo Domino City

@No-chan: What are you, ten? Go back to school and learn to write.

Comment by: Black bird from Neo Domino City

@You have to be kidding me: Afraid that he’s making more sense than you?

Asian Journal of Modern Physics, 2039, 3, 41-46

Effects of Human Influence on the Rotation of Momentum as Evidenced by Synchro Summoning and Accel Synchro Summoning

Zachary O’Neill

z.oneill@sci.nduni.ac.jp

Abstract

In this paper we investigate the connection between human emotions and the rotation of Momentum, compared to the effect of human emotions on the Duel Monsters card game, as proposed by Zweinstein (2008). We compare the effects of Synchro Summoning and Accel Synchro Summoning on Momentum engines built into the current generation of D-Wheels, used in the Duel Monsters Pro Duelist Circuit, and examine the results in light of the current use of the Neo Domino City central Momentum reactor.

I. Introduction

Much has been made of the principles of Momentum and its timely arrival in a world facing a drastic shortage of fossil fuels. In his 2011 paper on the principles of Momentum, professor Fudou writes that “the Neo Domino City Momentum reactor is a perpetual motion device […] fashioned as a planetary gear system.”¹

Indeed, not only the central Neo Domino City reactor is built upon that principle, but also the engines that power today’s D-Wheels follow the same schematics. Even though the use of Momentum became contested after the disastrous incident now known as Zero Reverse, it was later revealed that this incident was caused by sabotage, and not by any inherent structural flaws. No matter how big Neo Domino City grew, the central reactor had no problems keeping up with the demand for energy. Even more strikingly, not only did the Momentum reactor cope incredibly well with the 2029 reunion of Satellite and Neo Domino City, it even managed to surpass all expectations. The surplus in energy made for an explosive growth of the city, which also caused a rapid development in technology, last seen when Momentum itself was introduced. The Momentum reactor has not been significantly changed since its creation, yet when the aforementioned reunion took place, its massive energy output stunned the scientific community (Ohira, 2032). Can this be called coincidence?

To find out, we used the research of Albert Zweinstein as our starting point. He writes that “The test subjects, M and A, could breach a dimensional barrier through a display of exceptional willpower and, in the case of A, a close bond with his duel monsters deck.”²We posit that willpower has a similar effect on Momentum engines and even the main Momentum reactor.

Our test subjects were four Pro Duelists, whom we shall identify as Y, J, C, and R. Accel Synchro Summoning, a novel way of Synchro Summoning that requires the summoning of a Synchro Tuner monster, could only be performed by Y. The parameters used were as follows:

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¹ Fudou, “On Momentum”, Asian Journal of Modern Physics, 2011, 6, p. 24.

² Zweinstein, A., “Duel Physics and Duelists: A Case Study of the 2006 Duel Academia Incident”, Physics International Journal, 2008, 5, p. 78.

41 – Asian Journal of Modern Physics

Messenger log – 26 May 2043

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