Grrl Power #433 – The bubble bus
Yes, Sydney has a rebreather now, but it was designed with one person in mind, not four. As Gwen pitches, there may be significant development in this area if the team decides they need it.
The problem with being cagey about what city they’re based in is that whenever I list a city they have to travel to get to, it’s easy to cross if off the list of potential home bases. New York would probably make for a poor location anyway, as would anything on either coast if the team has to serve the whole country. Ideally, there would be at least two active branches, one for each coast, and eventually that’s the plan. Really you’d want one near all the major population clusters, but the scarcity of supers makes that impractical at the moment.
I had trouble deciding what clothes to put Sydney in since she’ll be wearing this gear for a good number of pages in this arc. Part of me wanted her wearing some other superhero shirt as that comprises a fair bit of her wardrobe, but Arianna will get on her case about that now that she has her own personal brand to build. I decided to return her to the white and yellow scheme she was in for the first ~300 pages. Instead of a Wonder Woman-ish pattern though, she’s debuting her official logo. It’s hard to see here but you’ll get a better look at it in upcoming pages obviously. Each team member has one, but Maxima is definitely not down with Arc-SWAT wearing “costumes” so they’re hard to spot in the wild. Really the logo is mostly for marketing purposes, but it only works as branding if they’re occasionally worn by the team members. Sydney’s ideal for this as she clearly has no issue wearing a superhero logo shirt, and especially if it’s her own logo.
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She *could* shield a larger area and draw in the shield to get more air inside.
I wonder if she can “level up” the shield orb to allow for air generation.. XD
That would be a dangerous thing to do You then get into the same kind of prison that Vehemence is contained by. Lower the shield and you have a sudden depressurisation, with the risk of the bends. Too extreme a differential and it could even result in death. Possibly a very messy one!
I vaguely recall Dave making a comment once that the force field automatically compensates, to keep the air pressure consistent, when enbiggening (and, by implication, when doing the reverse) to avoid such issues.
I can’t swear to that though, as the thread would probably have been around the time of the press demonstration, and has not been referenced often enough to keep it fresh, in my mind. So I could be mistaken.
Hmm…she needs to find a skillpoint button that allows her to shape the bubble as an elongated oval, line everyone up like a train, and give them plenty of space between passengers to increase the capacity to store CO2 before the percentage of it gets too high for safety’s sake.
I’d say “just make a really big sphere” but 1. they’re at the BOTTOM of the sphere, so the CO2 is going to build up fast around them, and 2. wind resistance will probably cause problems for the setup, even if the flying orb is super fast & thus could probably handle burning power on drag problems…
Sydney already found that.
You could design a “Halo Transport System” like what Gwen envisions.
Just make it a sphere, with Sydney at the front driving. Multi-purpose, where the system could double as a field barracks for a small group. (bunk-bed design, but very limited space in-between)
Depending on how big Sydney could make her shield and still fly (from a practical standpoint), I bet it could support a team of 6 including Sydney.
At this point Halo can travel at what, mach 4? 8 minutes at mach 4 is about 375 miles. How far are they going that taking it in hops of 375 is problematic?
I’m re-reading, because why not? It occurs to me that Sydney could resolve her air limitation, or at least ameliorate it by picking people up in a much larger volume shield ball. double the diameter = 8x the air. more so, because the volume taken up by the passengers remains constant