Grrl Power #623 – Stargate DIY
Because “Skybreaker” is much cooler sounding than “The Cosmic Can-Opener.” I’m betting Sciona’s plans involve light travel in which she circumvents those TSA lines. Or she’s planning on summoning one humongous tentacle?
I don’t know, I’m (mildly) sick (and being a baby) and tired and I can’t think of anything to say about this page without being too spoilery, so I leave it to you guys.
I’ve updated the vote incentive with a revised version of the mock cover. The new one is on the left, hopefully that’s obvious. The saber toothed tiger still looks derpy, and his paws aren’t finished. Also, the girl’s face needs to be prettier. I was trying to avoid that dead faced look that most women have on covers, well, most men do too, because most really good painters pretty much only know how to draw portrait type expressions, and the standard beauty expression for a woman has settled in on that same basically blank, but slightly smokey look. I don’t know how much more work I’ll put into this version. I think I learned a bit from doing it, but the composition of it could be better, so I may move on to a new layout entirely if I find the time.
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With the woman in the painting, maybe give her a bit of a snarl. Film yourself swinging a sledgehammer the same way she’s swinging the rock, and focus on your expression.
She’s not actually swinging it like a hammer though, she is going to use the sharp end to make her point
Pro safety tip. Never break the sky, when you are standing underneath a rack of potions and volatile chemicals.
Or the secret special elite pro tip of “don’t break the sky ever.”
Also Never Set the Cat on Fire
Yea. Don’t click if you want to avoid grim stuff.
One of my friends, in this village, had her cat set on fire, a few years ago. Lost most of its fur, on its back and both ears were reduced to little more than stumps. The good news is that it made a good recovery. Practically all of its fur regrew (which I had not thought possible). Never got its ears back though, obviously. And it still has a lovely a personality as it ever had. Absolutely adores me, and always wants a cuddle. Which I am happy to do, for as long as it is required.
If I ever find out who did that, I will be hard pressed to resist reciprocating!
Let me know and I will help, airfare and all.
Thanks.
*wags tail vengefully*
Don’t do anything RASH…
…1st-&-foremost, be sure to agree upon a locale, an exit strategy, a conveniently-remote plot of dirt (for burial of evidence), & NEVER FORGET: “Pigs Will Eat ANYTHING”.
He he.
I was just watching the Mythbusters episode on how to dispose of bodies with acid. BUT THAT WAS PURELY A CO-INCIDENCE!
OK I also looked up what their ‘special sauce’ was composed of. But you know how curious I am about trivia. Honest. Nothing more to it than that! Stop looking at me like that!!
Mmm. But there are piggys living within an easy walk of my house. The one problem? On prior encounters they have shown every interest in adding me to their menu!
I didn’t read it, because I have a couple of cats and love them.
:-D
That’s because you weren’t bringing them something (or someone) else to eat :P
I do have two farm hogs to feed… But they don’t need any junk food.
Me too
Aww, it is nice to know how strongly folks care for our furry friends!
Yay another filker! :)
When Frog puffed himself to break the sky, he failed, and hid under a stone in shame. But none of the other animals ever knew he tried to break the sky.
I am practically disappointed that she called something the Skybreaker and nobody in the comment section has referenced Stormlight yet. I do like how the final step for construction this doomsday device was literally ‘bolt the thing into its mounting apparatus’.
Didn’t make the connection until just now, but I would love to see some crossover fanfic, in either universe! Jasnah and Shallan would probably thrive in the Grrlverse, but Kaladin and Dalinar would be hilariously out of place. Max, Sydney, and Xuriel would not blend in well at all going the other way, but I would love to watch them explore Stormlight powers. :D
Forget them, I’d like to see Wit in the Grrlverse.
I see the Moon Stick… I thought its powers were restorative and sealing, though, not travel.
Going by the sigils in the hilt she installed, she has in fact as we theorized back when she got it that she has a means to focus where it opens a portal too as opposed to possibly being a dimensional randomizer otherwise.
So the question remains what or who is she trying to summon?
Her army?
An obedient army that follows whomever summons them?
An entity of some kind, preferably the kind that obeys whomever summons…as opposed to
-A great curtain of darkness is beheld by all present from deep within a great echoing voice issues forth, “Who dares disturb my slumber?”
I am Sciona of the Alari, per the pact of blood and stars I summon you to this world oh great progenitor to do my bidding.
-Such arrogance small mortal creature to presume mastery over one such as I simply by virtue of barging a door into my domain.
Sciona: What?
Great tentacles aligned with spikes and red crystal eyes sprawl forth from the darkness embedding themselves along ceilings and walls as a central figure of an unknown woman is made manifest from the darkness.
“Perhaps,” speaks the enchanting voice, “I will grant you a place in my expansive empire once I have made value of this new world small mortal thing.”
She’s summoning up Dab’s buddy.
You might want to see a urologist about that!
Quibble alert:
Dave, the bench vice appears to be missing its crank mechanism. No wonder it is taking her so long to finish her work. https://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/attachments/f19/9292d1232399335-another-interesting-bench-vise-dscn9122-800.jpg
That’s Bigby’s Helping Clamp, available at any fine emporium of magical items near you. Their slogan is “I’ll give you SUCH a pinch!”
It might not be a vise. It might work more like a bench dog.
Not sure who is right here. I think I will just sit on the fence.
It could be extended at the end of the run and the handle at an angle we can’t see.
A handle that long might dangle. Dangerous looking thing though, it could manhandle, mangle, entangle or strangle. She would make quite a vandal. But it would be all too easy to mishandle.
So, my perspective may be off, but when I look at these panels it seems that
a) the moonsickle thingy of hentai summoning is jambed into a large blade, handle first- thus the end result is edged pretty much in every direction;
b) Sciona is waving this thing around in the air, holding on to it by the sword blade (?!?)
Is this some sort of blood mage thing? Doing damage to yourself in order to activate the magic? Or is that NOT, indeed, a sword blade?
It may or may not be a sword blade, butt it would have to be fairly thick for the handle of the Sickle to be inserted (and the bit on the blade-side looks more flat than a sharp edge), panel four shows a handle at the base of the ‘Sickle-holder’
Panel 4 does indeed show a hilt, and if looking at that alone it does convey the impression of a sword hilt.
So, we can deduce that (in the final panel) Sciona’s left hand will be holding it by that hilt, not the ‘blade’.
Then look at panel 3. Where the ‘blade’ is attached to the Brane Ripper. We can see that the end of the ‘blade’ has no resemblance to a blade. What appeared to be the edge, in the later panel, is actually angled off, away from our perspective. Likewise on the other side.
Looked at from end on it may look like a “U”. Possibly with one part longer than the other (but that may just be a trick of the perspective). Plus the part that looks like it may be longer does not extend down the length of the ‘blade’. So it is an unusual extrusion.
Whilst we can deduce that there is a socket in the end of the blade, designed to fit the Brane Ripper’s handle, from the shape the blade takes, it is hard to deduce what purpose those angled bits of metal may form. So presumably are just necessary bits for its primary purpose (say like a radio needs an aerial).
So, whatever it is, it just has a sword handle at one end (the grip looking pretty much like that on the Brane Ripper), but is not otherwise a sword.
Those ‘angle’ bits on our right, are used to hold the Sickle in place (you can that in panel five)
Or, just to cover my butt, it is no longer a sword. It is possible that Sciona repurposed one. We do know that she has been using chopped off bits of a magical sword, in order to make her constructs. This may be the remains of that, reforged.
In which case it may still have a sharp edge. However it is still possible to hold a sword, by its blade, simply by pinching it in your fingers. Especially when most of the weight can be taken by her left hand.
Sciona was taken aback by Vale resisting her advancing on Deus. So I suspect that Sciona has super strength (she clearly did lifting Sydney up, but that was in another body). Her wings certainly do, to take out pillars so easily, so other limbs may well too. Making it a simple matter to lift even a heavy sword like that.
Her wings don’t have to be strong to cut the pillars, just sharp
No matter how sharp the sword it will never pierce the mountain’s side.
Without strength and durability, the sharpest blade will falter at the edge of stone and wood. Only the soft living things need fear it without such protection.
Yea, diamond is the best combination of hardness and sharpness we currently use in industry and even that requires oomph behind it to cut through anything substantive. Whether it be made in a bit and rotated by a drill or formed into the teeth of a saw and drawn repeatedly across a surface to gradually cut through it.
There is no material which provides the ‘hot knife through butter’ slicing action we saw Sciona using on pillars twice. Even the greatest samurai swords just use pillars made of some vegetable matter, to demonstrate their slicyness.
Now granted we will be able to produce monomaterial weapons and tools in due course. We can already make graphine, which is a sheet of single atoms. At some point we will discover or develop something which could make a monowhip or monosword.
That would slice through flesh and bone like a sword, but better. But marble, reinforced concrete and the like? I doubt it. But possible.
Sciona’s wings though do not give the impression of being a single atom thick. Plus they are not spell-created, rather the artefact just restored her natural body. In other words they are the wings of a species.
Here is the thing which can support Guesticus‘s contention though, in that we know flapping winged flight is not possible for humans.
Even if you massively genetically re-engineer people, to have hollow bones, and put in much more powerful muscles to power the wings, they would still only be able to fly in micro gravity (i.e. in space stations) or on planets with BOTH low gravity and an air density greater than on Earth.
So, despite Sciona being an alien, as she is a human-shaped alien we have already crunched the numbers on that. Unless her body is composed of meta materials with properties that grant lightness and super strength (supporting my claim incidentally) she would not be able to fly. And CERTAINLY not at mach speeds, without the latter.
But Sciona is a mage. Which does open up the possibility that her species is inherently magical too (the one does not automatically follow the other, but it potentially could, especially if they magically enhanced their genes). Clearly magic could allow flight, unless it is way weaker than super-powers, in the Grrlverse.
And then we can say “if Sciona’s flight is powered by magic then she can cut through the pillars with the magic in her wings too”. Which is perfectly reasonable.
As it has to be either super strength or magic (or some similarly exotic alternative), Guesticus‘s alternative does have equal validity.
I would point out though that mine does still account for Sciona being taken aback at Vale being easily able to push her back. Plus any species which had wings which could slice through anything, without any force being applied, would probably go extinct, from accidentally cutting bits off themselves.
Just think of any time you ‘tripped over your own feet’, to realise that, in a lifetime of activity, limbs are bound to come into contact with other limbs, or your body (or your partner’s or your children). Fine for us. Not good for limbs which can slice through anything.
But, hey, magic can be programmed not to hurt the user, so we can paw-wave that inconvenience away (unlike if the wings just had a mono-atomic width, at the edge).
Actaully I think wurtzite boron nitride is the hardest natural material known to man, followed by lonsdaleite (which I think is made of graphene, which is also the strongest material on Earth) not diamond.
But diamond sounds better :)
I hate when I type too quickly and misspell ‘actually.’
There are different measures of hardness, and diamond still wins out on pertinent ones.
Plus Wurzite only has a theoretical hardness greater than diamond. We have very little natural Wurzite and artificial production has yet to produce any that exceeds diamond in actual testing.
Thus my statement remains true. Especially in the context of hardness in use for industrial cutting, as Wurzite is not used for that at all (yet).
Other forms of boron nitride are used in industry mind. Cubic boron nitride (c-BN) is used as an abrasive (i.e. like sandpaper). Whilst it is not as hard as diamond, it has other properties which make it preferable to diamond, for use in machining steel. Not least of which is that it is cheaper to make. ;-)
Weirdly (for us non-alchemists*) another form is used as a lubricant. Whilst another is used in semiconductor devices.
* They might call themselves chemists, but we know their origins!
The same deal goes for lonsdaleite. Which actually is a form of diamond. But I am not trying to wriggle out of it, on a technicality, as the same comments apply as above.
So, if you wanted to give a super an exotic armour, lonsdaleite would be better than diamond. But do note the simulated again. Yet again actual testing turns out to be lower, due to the paucity of good quality samples. And, presumably, the artificially produced stuff isn’t up to scratch either.
Talking about which:
In other words, even when we can artificially produce good quality lonsdaleite, it still will not have the type of hardness that is useful for cutting.
Heh, my turn to hit the ‘submit’ button too hastily.
I omitted to end it with:
“in preference to diamond”.
Estimates of the weight of flight capable pterosaurs run as high as 550 lbs. Don’t ask me, talk to Witton and Habib.
They though are aerodynamic. Humans (and Sciona) are not.
Sciona’s wings aren’t connected to her back directly, they can retract into blue “spirit flames”, and clearly aren’t made of muscle and tissue, although they could still be made to burn.
Chances are she is using magic, mag-lift properties, hyper force *exotic force produced by the rapid decay of exotic particles that produce a reduction/repellent force against physical space gravity* But in a minor or controlled way, or else is using some psychokinetic flight as the wings do bare some resemblance to psychokinetic flight.
the wings could in theory operate like insect wings producing a vortex lift rather than a power lift *think how bumble bee wings work…and yes people science does know how they fly, that myth they don’t needs to just die and be buried in the backyard beside the clown-dog demon that spoke only in bad puns.
or else the wings are actually vestigial remnants of her species evolution, a shadow of what they were in times past, and not actually needed for flight anymore. Heck we saw her flying with most of them in the water and only the two small ones with no (clear) reduction of speed.
Good observations.
Out of interest water and plasma do a far better job than diamond, for ‘hot knife through butter’ slicing, if you fancy checking out some cool videos on YouTube.
no one mentions soraka
That is the First Rule of the Soraka Fight Club.
I can’t believe it! Nobody has asked about the nipple lights?
You missed the thread, on the first page of comments.
No one reads the first page once a new page is added, and half the time, people barely read it when it’s half a page
i thought they were like magical arc reactors or something. now i can’t UNSEE IT!
I know it’s serious business but all I can think about is Space Station 13’s Veil Render, which summons ancient evil, and the joke version* the Veal Render, which summons cows.
*which I technically introduced
I love the fact that, even when dealing with objects on unknown magical power, a crescent wrench is the perfect tool. I’m only disappointed by the lack of duct tape.
Duct tape is for emergency situations. That is why Sydney carries a roll (next to her pom poms). But Sciona is not known for her wisdom.
To be fair, The Cosmic Can Opener is probably something Sydney would have called it. I like that name better than Skybreaker, too. Might just be me.
In the name of the Moon I shall open a hole in reality.
I don’t think she’s fighting evil by moonlight.
I also don’t think she’s winning love by daylight. What she did with Deus seemed more like just pure sex, not love. Plus she sort of lost there.
Plus she did run from a real fight with Maxima.
She also turned her back on her allies, who probably were not her friends so that doesn’t count I guess.
She definitely didnt stay to defend.
I certainly don’t think she’s someone upon whom we can depend
So… she’s definitely not the one named Sailor Moon. :)
Dang, an encyclopedic knowledge of super hero comics and able to recognise a Sailor Moon quote.
I haz not even watched one episode of that!
*hangs head, in shame*
An iconic piece of modern culture, oft cited, and favoured in cos-play, yet even a busy lawyer knows more about it than me!
Butt, we have seen her moon rise >.>
Did you have to remind me of that song? It have been stuck in my head all day now.
You mean this song? >.>
I would have called the skybreaker but other than that it seems pretty spot-on. If she’s only working with delaying tactics but then she must know that she would lose a flat-out battle.
Not necessarily, it depends on what her plan is, and fighting the Arc-thugs may take too much time and slash or energy
Still believe that all Sci wanted, was a way to go home (know that feeling all too well and would do almost anything to do so, right now, it’s not possible :( )
I agree, she’s a Disney Princess trying to return to her kingdom to reclaim her throne from the wicked witch and find true love.
so whats after the cosmic canopener? the doily of destiny, the fork of fate, the spool of saints, the intergalactic ice-pick, ooh how about the needle of knowing.
or maybe a bucket of nothing and by nothing think of the nothing in the keys to the kingdom book series (the series is about a fellow who inherits the house in the center of existence all he has to do is collect up the 7 keys to the house and the 7 parts of the will from 7 trustee’s that have each become corrupted by a different deadly sin for some reason)
There is a web of fate,
a comb of a goddess,
a spool of fate *used by the Norns and the Fates to weave the destinies of mortals* and with them the shears of fate that can cut a man’s life short.
and there are sewing needles of knowledge with which to knit a tapestry of the events of the world.
There are also about a dozen cauldrons and cups that fill with food and drink never ending, because this was the most powerful thing to many a culture, the idea of endless food and drink without turmoil to get it.
And let’s not forget the Fork of Truth and the pillaging shovel!
Indeed, we shall put those in the drawer beside the flamethrower of forgiveness, the atom bomb of love, and the replicating bunny slippers.
*blows up replicating bunny slippers, with Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch*
*sings the Song of the Great Tribble Hunt*
and soon those pieces will grow and grow, and we shall take over the universe!
But so soft and fluffy!
And think of all the happy orphans!
The cast page doesn’t work for me for some reason… It’s just a blank page.
I’m on Chrome on win 10
It doesn’t work for anyone, and hasn’t for years, just wait for Mr Puppy to retrieve the link to the wiki page replacement
As requested:
https://grrl-power.wikia.com/wiki/Cast
i’m getting a little “white-beard from one piece” vibe…
Is that a euphemism? Like how Santa might react if a sexy elf bends over in front of him?
He had the weird power to punch the air and make it crack while releasing a powerful shockwave.
Several games and anime since then had replicated it as an homage such as Disgaea 5′ Purgatory Palm move.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slLnt3qe4PQ
Behold…. My canopener.
*blushes*
*covers eyes*
Zip it back up again!
Okay, that’s not a can-opener. That’s a bill.
….. okay, yes, bills were can-openers, but those cans were their era’s equivalents of main battle tanks, so it’s still badass.
Hey, even modern main battle tanks can have badass problems from a bill!
Forget to switch to suitable rubbery treads, designed for road-friendly travel, and a tank driver could face a huge bill, for damage to the highway!
And, yes, it is legal for private citizens to own and drive a tank on the road. So it is possible for a private individual to have to bear the costs of such an error.
For info, I lived for years in a town where some locals could often be seen down the pub, or at the fish and chip shop, in their armoured vehicle. In that case it was not a tank, but it was a decommissioned military tracked vehicle. However there is no distinction, between the two, legally speaking. So they could have had one if they chose. Even a (former) main-battle tank, if their budgets stretched that far!
The main difference is you need a shotgun license for a tank. (Unless they changed it)
Lol.
And you will get another if that is true! I mean, like anywhere in the world.
America is funny, so does actually allow a private citizen to own a tank, with a working main gun, in certain states (not all).
So one of them may well have that rule. :-D
What is weird, for folks in the rest of the world, is that the 50 cal machine gun (or equivalent) is just paw-waved away, in that article, like it is no problem. Which it may (or may not) be (I know automatic weapons have restrictions in the USA, but also know that there are exceptions, so can’t be bothered looking up the details).
But I doubt there are many readers living in other countries who would have an expectation that a civilian driving around their local shops, in an armoured vehicle, with a functional heavy machine gun, would be acceptable!
Wait, does it actually mention that the .50 Cal is functional? Or just that it comes with?
It is not even worthy of mention, other than to exclude it. Americans (or at least the ones likely to be drawn to such an article) know their gun rights well enough that is not necessary to detail.
If you don’t have a class three firearms license, you have to disable it. Fellow bought several jet fighter craft when the USSR broke up for selling thrills by the hour. The seller presumed that was a fairy tale, so he left all the guns on and active, because he assumed they’d be transshipped to some third world war zone. So this guy gets a call from customs, and I’d give 20 bucks to have a tape of THAT call. Took him weeks to dismount all that stuff and get it squared away. ROFLMAO – I about died laughing when I heard about that one! Google “fly a fighter”.
So wait. She took some random buster blade looking sword that’s magic. Cut it in half. Attached the sickle thingie in the middle, and from the looks of it, secured it with duct tape.
AND THAT. THAT is the SKYBREAKER.
I suppose a rush job will look like a rush job.
If you look closely at panel 3 you will see that, if it ever was a sword, it has been very heavily modified. Whilst it may have been rushed, there has been some intensive reforging, sockets built and attachment mechanisms made (see panel 5, as pointed out by Guesticus earlier, for the latter in operation).
And Bigfoot pointed out, above, that there is no duct tape in evidence anywhere (the grip of both the ‘sword’ and the Brane Ripper are wrapped in leather).
Ooh, the BBC has me seething mad right now. I think they would be better off employing muppets, given some of the blunders they have been making of late!
Re. this article:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-43806078
Here is my comment, just sent to the BBC news team:
“In 2014 Mr Modi told a gathering of doctors and medical staff at a Mumbai hospital that cosmetic surgery existed in ancient India”
Do your research properly. This is FACT. So should not be included in a manner that would leave less-informed individuals that this was another example of fair ridicule. It is not.
Further the real story, relating to that, is interesting enough that it is worthy of mentioning, in the correct context.
There has even been a Radio 4 podcast covering this in depth. Lower caste women, in India, used to have their noses split as a punishment. Permanently disfiguring them.
However a religious sect, with a well established medical practice, developed a technique of attaching skin from another part of the body onto the nose. Allowing it to replace the lost/damaged tissue.
This was kept in continuous practice whilst western medicine has nothing comparable. Further the procedures were precisely documented in ancient texts. In such a way that they are clearly recognisable (when translated) to modern day plastic surgeons, in the UK, still using the same techniques!
The best the west could manage was replacing lost noses with metal ones!
When British doctors and surgeons, working in colonial India, supporting the British Army and the East India Company, witnessed this procedure they copied the practice and brought it back to the U.K.
However it is shameful that they concealed its origins, due to the prejudices of society at that time. Doubly shameful that the BBC should continue to propagate this in the present day!
So.. did anyone else think “sword-sickle” when they saw them put together? cause i did, and now all im thinking about is sword-shaped Popsicles.
This is a villain with balls.
Escaping from a low-security prison? No biggie.
Using someone else’s passport, to fly on the same plane as the president? They should have been able to spot him, because he must have been using a wheelbarrow to carry his cohones!
Well I think this is gonna blow up in scionas
Face
That would indeed help to bring the story arc to a quicker end, than if Sciona managed to summon something (/some things) which had a power level similar to Archon’s forces.
Mind you I would not want to be in the vicinity of an exploding artefact! Especially not underneath enough rock and earth to squash me flat!
So basically it’s the granddaddy version of the Keen Edge.
Cutting open dimensional veils is usually never a good idea…
You know something big is gonna be coming. You and I can read the sounds…. Now somewhere in the multiverse there’s a critter that’s made the exact same association to that sound that earth cats have made to our can openers….
Sciona may be inadvertently saying very very loudly “Here KITTY KITTY…FOOOD~”
Mythbusters looked for a ‘brown note’ and could not find it. But they were just looking for a note, rather than a more complex sound. And the one they needed was a T-Rex roar. As we know that they scavenged (even though the degree is debatable), so even relatively modest prey would have been at risk from them, if hiding near to a food source that attracted them.
So even insignificant, mammals would have evolved to fear their roar! Plus T-Rex, and its cousins, were around for a long time. So I think such an instinct would be deeply ingrained, and could potentially persist to the present day.
The reverse of what you were saying mind, but it triggered the association.
But there would be at least one creature immune to the fear. Honey badger don’t give a s**t. Because her ancestral equivalent used to eat dinosaurs!
Imagine the shriek of an eagle crossed with the honk of a goose with a somehow shrill background sound like nails on a thousand chalkboards all playing at jet engine level decibels.
you do not want to hear the sounds a T-rex would make, especially not one during mating season which make goose trumpets sound tame by comparison, like a milling geese being choked and gargling at the same time.
I still take issue with that ‘Mythbusters’ episode. Between the millisecond delays and the curving the speakers around the tester, not only would there be waveform interference between the speakers, but a high degree of noise cancellation from the overlapping soundwaves.
What they needed to do is us a single, large transducer vibrating at the “brown note” frequency, and it would, after a bit, induce the appropriate physiological response.
They may be great VFX experts, but audio engineering ain’t in their skillset.
FYI; admittedly, not an audio engineer, but I have nearly 2 decades of sound engineering in a previous occupation I had.
Sounds highly qualified, to make an informed opinion.
I watched the ice cannon episode yesterday. It bugged me that although they cast cannon balls in a variety of materials, including with paper and sawdust, that they did not make the same effort with the cannon itself.
I gather that (off screen) they did try the paper. But they missed the potentially most effective one. Namely sawdust. This forms pycrete . In the right ratio (6:1 ice to sawdust):
This episode was doubly galling, because they were trying to replicate something that they themselves reported as having historically worked! So why do a half-arsed job?
I demand that the team reform and revisit this!
*wags tail determinedly*
Question: why is Sciona using an impact wrench to strap the ripper onto the end of the… sword/reality-canopener/thingy?
Mmm, that is not the way I would interpret it. We are not hearing any sounds that would correspond to using it. I think Sciona had finished making whatever adjustment the impact wrench was needed for, prior to that shot.
For instance, in the penultimate panel, we can see that there is part of the “sword”, which locks itself onto the Braine Ripper. From its look and sound, I take it that is a mechanical action, rather than something magical. So Sciona could have, previously, been tightening a part of that mechanism (obscured from our perspective), using the impact wrench.
Having done, so, but not wishing to risk wasting even a second, she would not put the tool down. Rather she kept it, in hand, just in case a further adjustment was necessary. Meanwhile using her left hand to slot the artefact into its socket.
As it fitted perfectly, no further work was required, so Sciona skipped straight to opening up her sky tuna snack.
For all of me, she’s trying to go home.
Guesticus favours that one too, so you could be right.
In which case she might say:
“So long, and thanks for all the tuna!”
And brichins, putting this as a leading community theory!
Sciona phone home.
If she is just trying to go home, why is she making the opening so big?
To accommodate her butt?
Her pleasure at finally completing The Skybreaker! has made her nipples glow with a red hot heat.
Did sciona just make a giant inter-dimensional can opener?
Ah, so I’m not the only one that thought this.
Air Can opener? Reality Can opener? Fourth wall Ripper?
I’m all for the latter, if it means Sydney can climb through and sit on my lap!
I summon the power of the all seeing eye, to tear a hole into the sky
So Sciona is responsible for that crack in Amy Pond’s wall. The Doctor will not be pleased. https://tiffanymetzger.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/crack-in-time.png
Indubitably.
Just as long as I get Kenya and Arianna.
Interesting combo. Normally Arianna comes with Susie News!