"To be the first to enter the cosmos... Could one dream of anything more?"

- Yuri Gagarin

The year is 2029. The Soviet Union somehow didn't collapse, and the Space Race has only started escalating since its start in the 1950s. With Earth's resources slowly dwindling and large parts of the surface ravaged by war and disasters, every single major country in the globe has searched for ways to cope with it.

The only possible way to survive... Is to go up.

Umamusume are girls who possess the characteristics and abilities of a horse. Ever since the dawn of Man, they have accompanied civilization after civilization. With their greater strength and speed, they bore the brunt of empires and kingdoms for millenia, from the streets of Rome to the wastelands of Siberia and the plains of the American Midwest. They used to race for entertainment. Now, they are mankind's only hope for survival. They are the vanguard of the world's space agencies, going on missions to explore every planet in the Solar System and possibly even beyond.

Background Information

The Soviet Union, which didn't collapse in the 90s for some reason unbeknownst, is in a standoff with the European Union and the USA. The Coalition of South American Countries (CSAC) are at odds with the US yet again. The Middle East has been made a wasteland in 1998 by Israel's Samson Option with only a handful of surviving extremists making a barely functional caliphate out of it and exploiting the survivors. Warlords in Africa obtained nuclear weapons from the USSR and then proceeded to bomb each other into oblivion, leaving South Africa as the sole surviving recognized nation in the continent. India is hit by an asteroid that, according to official sources, had accidentally been deviated from its planned course by a failed redirection mission. Australia's dry plains are flooded after an earthquake opens a pathway for rising seawater. Antarctica is melting at a rapid pace due to the amount of destruction sown all over the globe contributing to the Greenhouse effect. The remains of the once-great continent have joined the Association of Asian Nations, which are allied with the Republic of China and the US against the USSR and the remains of the CCP.

(Grey areas are danger zones. Coastal China is irradiated as well as almost the entirety of Africa. The Canadian forests have been burnt into a no-man's-land after the initiation of War Plan Red when Canada fell to the Communists in 1986 after Operation PROFUNC was bungled by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.)

Tracen Academy is not what it is in this universe. Instead of courses for races, they do astronaut training, mechanics repair practice, and control center guidance. They no longer guide racers to reach their dreams, instead they pump out cannon fodder for the insatiable machine of Man's expansion into the stars.

Scenario 1: TrainerPOV

You are a Trainer, but not in the way you think. Your job is to train these Umamusume to do their job as best as they can, and possibly even accompany them on missions to make sure they get the job done. Will you do as the overseers ask for the sake of humanity, or will you scheme your way and your trainee's life out of this insatiable thirst for expansion?

Scenario 2: UmaPOV

You are an Umamusume. In the eyes of your employees, you are nothing more than a name and a number. You will have to disprove that in some way. Work hard and prove to them that you aren't just some machine to abuse, or plot against the system that did all this in the first place.

Scenario 3:

CYOS.

(I really don't know what to say about this. I suddenly had a hyperfixation on space travel in today's age about two weeks ago, and I've been playing Spaceflight Simulator and KSP to cope with it. During one of my seshs, I suddenly had the idea to make this bot. It took me a while to actually start making this, but it was fun. I hope you guys enjoy this low to medium-quality bot.)

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