Grrl Power #636 – Promises promises
So we don’t know the details of why Sciona was on Earth in the first place. It might have been for being a jerk. But if you’re exiled, when you come back, it’s good form to bring an offering. Like access to a planet with powerful beings that can kick the shit out of exiled blood mages even if they’re doping on super juice.
There’s probably something to be said for a global government, but it’s probably not ideal when an alien race is offering compulsory administration. And no matter who’s handling the paperwork, it’s probably impossible to do without gradual cultural homogenization. I guess it makes some sense that Klingons are the warrior race, and Ferengi are the capitalism-gone-mad race, because they’ve had a single world government for hundreds of generations. Or maybe they were a bunch of warring tribes/houses who all spoke the same language and had the same culture to begin with, and it was just a question of who bends the knee to whom. Whereas, at least in Star Trek, the Earth still seems to have 200 languages and countries, despite a global government. That or what used to be countries are now like federated states or something. I’m actually not sure what the arrangement is, but in any case, they haven’t had a single government long enough to wash out all the sociological distinctiveness.
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i’m thinking sciona was supermaned and her parents sent her off to somewhere safe while the rest of her race quietly created graves for themselves and all the dust billowing about if whats left of sciona’s once mighty people.
I’m thinking sydney’s “new information” that they should consider before making a decision (about bowing) is the army standing behind them…
She is holding the true sight orb after all.
Worst case…or maybe best case scenario if this is in continuity with Wereworld at all..not that it holds a copyright on the concept but…
Sydney seeing cloaked individuals: “Guys! Here be Dragons!”
Wereworld is officially cannon, for Grrl Power.
Well then let’s bring on the oldest most powerful species in the galaxy, Dragons.
Which Maxima immediately knocks the teeth out of, creating a wonderful source of revenue for the team.
Dabbler also appropriates one tooth to make a knife that can cut an engine block in half and then still perfectly julienne tomatoes.
But then there will be family problems, when Halo’s eggs hatch, and their relatives have no teeth!
Yeah, global culture/government makes much more sense than planets of a single biome (a) screw you spellcheck, that is too a word, and b) excluding a few; obviously a planet-wide desert or ice hell happens, but something like Kashyyk? Less so, assuming that what we’ve seen of it is standard all over the planet)
A planetwide jungle actually could happen, depending on how the plantlife and resources of the planet actually functioned. You’d need some WEIRD shit going on, and you’d need symbiotic natures out the wahzoo, but from what I understand of Earth Biology you could even rig the Earth to function in this way. That said, the first time a major fire happened the planet would probably be erased back to square one. And if any part of the balance of the planet got knocked off, from water to sunlight to seed propagation to the -very- valuable nutrients spreading into the soil…yeah, the whole planet is suddenly going to change from jungle to desert hell over a rather short timeframe with very little anyone could do to do anything beyond -stop- the rapid propagation of the desert, and then fixing the -death-
Or, to state more accurately: “Could” and “SHOULD” are two different things. If you’re exploring a whole universe, the odds of you seeing this sorta anomaly are very, very slim indeed, barring a planet in which the plantlife was both mobile and sapient, and thus could fix the issues itself, while also -camouflaging- as trees.
A moon, a single inhabited environment is possible on a SMALL planetoid like a moon around a gas giant.
The biosphere being something humans could live in is questionable though *specific gas levels*. A desert with a methane or nitrogen atmosphere, or having too low or too high of oxygen relative to other gases is the biggest problem with small biospheres over if the small orbiting planetoid is overcome with a homogenous autotroph or lacks seasons due to size and position.
You need not fear a global bushfire if it is raining most of the time. Which is something that we have even experienced here on Earth. You may be a bit too young to remember, but it once rained for two million years!
Not coincidentally, forests flourished then. And, just having a single landmass, that extended throughout the world. Loosely speaking, that is. I am sure there were bits of other biomes, but if they were mostly isolated, from one another, between forest, then the generality is fair.
Excluding the watery bits, of course.
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It’s boggling to me how incomplete Window’s (Chrome? Firefox? I’m not sure where the dictionary lives) inline spellcheck is
My guess is it is browser based. Stuff I do, things I do in non-browser windows tends not to give the spell check options. Barring Skype, but that is owned by Google, so I would expect that to have been updated to share resources.
Most browser spellcheck on MS systems is handled by MS dictionaries, and Skype is owned by MS, not Google.
huum, apparenlty Sciona’s race has two canines side by side on the top and one on the bottom (so, 6 total).
Does that mean they are mostly omnivorous if a bit more interested in meat that baseline humans ?
Sounds like a reasonable conclusion. Plus she did not attempt to eat Deus after mating with him, which falls within the parameters you defined.
That might contribute to her behaviour above.
Trying to be the top dog.
Maybe Sydney has no pupils, in the final frame, because her students keep ignoring her?
Or maybe we just have not had a shot of Sydneys Pupils before when she was using the true sight orb. You will notice her eyes now actually look like two smaller versions of the orb.
I get the feeling that this room they are in is a massive mausoleum for a dead civilization and the runes on the floor are it’s former members. Nevermind the decapitated looking statue.
The last of the Alari.
I wonder if her haircut will become a popular style, amongst future generations of youngsters?
Mmm, maybe Sydney is experiencing this?
Even worse: just two pages ago, it looked like everybody, other than Sydney, died!
It’s not a room…
If anybody is looking for an enjoyable anime, I can recommend ‘Wolf Children’, without reservation. Wonderfully realistic art and most poignant.
Isn’t that a tragic one?
Maybe, maybe not. I would not want to give any spoilers, to folks who want to see it.
There is a very sad scene, fairly early on though, if that helps you to place it.
Maybe the strange stuff going on with Sydney’s clothes is what happens (at least this time) when a new orb is born.
Wait!
That isn’t Sydney. That’s holo-Halo (no reason you can’t Detect Magic and Project at once) and the prison-esque garb is an affectation of that. The clothing pattern she’s showing is part of the aura she’s standing in and possibly disrupting.
Don’t remember that around max’s neck. i remember teh communication collers but that looked more like a tattoo or charm i guess
The chokers always were skin-tight, but I agree that does look as you say. I think it is Max’s high shinyness there, extending across the chokers, with the same brightness. Without some differentiation it makes it both the skin and the material appear to be of the same texture, slickness and reflectivity. Which they may be, but normally we do not get that effect.
I think it best to write that off as the final panel having a number of problems with it.
Personally, I question the agenda of anyone trying to unify all of the governments.
Heh. Yea, I get where you are coming from.
Oddly enough the social engineering proposal, which I am getting much closer to publishing, works to preserve the distinctiveness of cultures, peoples and religions. Whilst also giving them improved tools to function harmoniously with disparate groups.
So in one regard (the more prevalent one) it would preserve the variety of countries we presently have, yet it also would allow greater cohesion, where it is necessary to co-operate as a body. For instance in preparing for, and coping with, any globally significant natural disasters.
The fun thing about archive diving is that when reading it all in the course of a few days at most, you come to the realization that Sydney *NOT* checking out new surroundings right away with the truesight orb would’ve been OUT of character for her. She’s been eager to have a look-see with that thing every spare chance she thinks about it. (Aka at random & somewhat spazzy moments, but still, quite frequently–about as frequently as the average person checks their cellphone, practically.)
So her doing so right now, checking to see if she can see through the dust cloud, maybe even sending out her lightbee. Of course, we don’t see the trail from it, but the light trail doesn’t begin in the middle of the orb, so much as it’s tethered slightly away from the orb when it starts out (although it shifts from time to time, as sometimes it seems tethered just above her head while she’s concentrating over distance, as seen here: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2402 ) … and if it’s doing that, then Sydney’s arm and/or Maxima’s speech bubble are covering it up.
Although to be honest, in this page when we first meet the truesight orb, https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/494 …it looks like once her illusionary self is in an area, the glowing lightbee trail vanishes. Which is again confirmed here: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2402 in Sciona’s first lair. That trail gets briefly re-established when Sydney accidentally/experimentally portals to the lightbee’s location, here: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2409
…So, now that I think about it, it’s slightly better than even odds that Sydney did not just send her lightbee outward to see what was beyond their cloudy current surroundings, but sent herself in illusionary form to investigate beyond said cloud/fog/other vaporous substance (but that brings up a comment I have to put on the next page, to avoid spoilering any new readers who haven’t clicked Next yet).
Well thought through.
I wonder if the rest of the Alari died off while Sciona was on Earth?
Honestly, this page should have ended with the supers all laughing hysterically at the whole “unify all your governments” bit.
Re-reading from the future, I realize that Scion’s isn’t being super-villainy here – well, she is, but only to the extent that EVERY Alari is. She is actually just feeling free to express herself AS an Alari, for the first time in, it has been suggested, decades. Like when someone who’s lived in a foreign country for years returns home, their native accent leaps to their lips almost immediately? She’s HOME.