No worries, take your time and get to the best place :)

Em couldn't have said it better! My own schedule is a little bit all over the place as well, and I'm not sure where I'd manage to fit in some writing, so (as much as I'm dying to see all of our runner babies back in action) extending the hiatus just a little longer works pretty well for me too. Take your time!

(Side note: I've been reading manga lately with, like, team battle story arcs and I got to thinking about what if Sundown hosted some sort of annual tournament-bracket-style event where sectors duke it out to see how they rank in skill/strength/tactical ability etc, and all the civilians get real hype about it and root for different teams and form fan clubs and it's basically the closest thing they have to a big televised event and it's mostly for fun but also serves as a way to see how teams have improved and analyze their skills which is the only reason the elders permit it, and I'm just geeking out over the idea a bit so I just thought I'd throw that out and share, kaythat'sallthankyoubye)

Whew, sorry, this turned into a bit of a text wall! But I figured writing about this could be a good means of shedding some light on the extended canon of Sundown society. Hope you enjoy!

Sundown is kind of an allegory for mild British Wartime socialism (HAHA I TRICKED YOU ALL THIS FUN ROMP THROUGH THE ROOFTOPS IS ACTUALLY SYMBOLIC) so encouraging competition between the teams doesn't really make sense. There's already enough hostility between sectors (particularly in regards to Sector V, whom most people loathe both because it's lead by the son of the enemy and crewed by some of Sundown's youngest and oldest runners) without introducing a formal practice for it: the point of the sector system is to encourage community cohesion ('Sector V are good guys, they lay down their lives to protect us. Sector Y are good guys, they scavenge for the food we eat. Sector H are good guys, they heal our satellite settlements when the doctors in Sundown are too busy'), and because they all do such drastically different things (Sector E are a division of demolition experts who clear debris from lower chunks of the Sundown skyscraper for settlement purposes, Sector S are scouts who are regarded as the fastest runners around, but simultaneously are usually totally unfit for combat engagements, etc) there'd be no way of organising a competition to fairly gauge teams on equal footing. Put a medic up against any member of Sector X and they're gonna fall, that's less to do with their talents and more to do with where they're directed. That's why the brawl between X and Y was so controversial: because it kind of contradicts what the original elders had planned for Sundown at large, a community where the individual works for the good of the whole, as opposed to for fame and glory.

This, similarly, is why a runner is expected to lay down and die when captured. Outgoing squads (V, X, Y, H, N, S and the defunct O and Zed) are comprised mostly of people who are too stubborn to answer to the enemy and would sooner die out of spite than give in to torture: it's for the good of Sundown as a whole, the enemy can never know where to find them. Haha, you didn't think hard-heads like Church, Eva, Klaus, Marina and Melanie ended up on the same team by coincidence, surely?

This said (and I understand that you weren't made aware of this, that was my folly: the post that established it was before this iteration of RPG), the sectors kind of do have fan clubs. In a prior post, as Church was making his way to the dwelling of The Elders to meet his punishment for his team mate having killed in cold blood, he passed a wall on which I noted there were drawings of, amongst other things, Sector V. V, X and Y in particular are actually sort of civilian favourites, given they all perform such crucial roles: V is the first line of Sundown's defence, and their sword when it comes to stabbing out into the dark unknown that is New London. Likewise, Y is the reason they can eat, and X is the only Sector trusted to use martial force to keep the hordes from Sundown's door. They're all very popular, not in a "GO SECTOR V, GO SECTOR V" kind of way, but definitely in a "I want to grow up to be like them one day" sort of way. Plus, people do root and spin stories and legends out of Sectors facing their respective Omega Band (Sector V. vs. Band V., Roark's designated group, for example.)

Oh, I figured there wasn't much chance of that happening in canon (good God imagine how long that would take), it was just one of those wild ideas I get and end up falling in love with because it's a bit brighter and happier than what we tend to write and I'm kind of a fangirl for that type of stuff. You know me :P Still, thanks for taking the time to lay it all out for me!

And more importantly, OOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH SUNDOWN CANON FACTS!!! This is like a field day for me! Have you assigned a role to every single sector, A through Z?! Can I have a graph? Ohhhhhh, I love stuff like this, and suddenly you're teasing me with a little tidbit of knowledge about this world that's apparently much richer than I could have ever imagined or dreamed, wow you've been holding out on me! This is seriously really exciting to see, if you ever feel an urge to throw out an even larger text wall in the future, pleeeeaaaaaase doooooo (I never even knew what Y did, I thought they were just there to annoy Sector V, I suddenly feel like I'm seeing for the first time after being blind for years)

Sector Zed is defunct like O is, although for different reasons. If it's in everyone's better interest I can upload a list of Sector Roles to the front page at some point? If it makes you feel more snug in-universe whilst I'm working on this post (and I have returned to working on it, I'm just about emerging on the other side of my little episode.)

And in lighter news, check it out! I'm an uncle! I mean I already have 'nieces' but now I'm a biological uncle!

ohmygodohmygodohmoygodOH! Lookat the supercute precious oh noooooooooo

Congratulations, that's so exciting! You're going to be the greatest uncle this child could ever have, aaahahhhhhhh, you're so cute together!!!! *screaming into the sunset* Thank you for sharing!

He's so tiny, too. I'm like, 6'4-5 so he's just so LIDDLE.

Aww look at him! So cute! I hope he grows up to be a proper Runner ^^

Oh and some more background information regarding TSTS' world would be incredible! I'll take everything I can get.

Hey folks, I wrote a song! Not a TSTS song, but it's about a youth movement standing up against a fascist dictatorship so I guess the spirit is the same! chirb.it/MaAO4P

HEY WHOA -- THAT'S AMAZING, WHY ARE YOU SUCH A BALL OF TALENT, CAP?

I'm afraid I'm about to step onto a plane that will be taking me to a cursed land of No-Internet, so I won't be able to give it a proper listen until next week, but from what I can hear over the ugly din of airport sounds, this is really great! Keep it up, this is seriously way too cool!!!

Hope you enjoy your trip to the perpetual outer-web! I'll be posting the revival post this week so hopefully that's something nice to return to.

Yay! :D
Also: sweet song.

Let the nerding begin.

We're BAAAAACK.

JENNO! What have I told you about stealing babies?!

PS. Yay! Let the posts begin!

To sell them off before I get too attached?

WELCOME BACK.

Hey Vivid, when you're back and free do you think we could wrangle a collab at some point?

Well, this thread sure is unnervingly quiet. I'm writing a TSTS song, if any of you are still around.

I am alive

Uh oh, sorry about the silence, had bit of a rough week: summer fever and some social-yada yada that crowded my calender... Anyway: I got a post nearly done, so I will likely finish it after work tomorrow.

Also glad to see that you're alive Titch! And that song better be kickass Jen ^^