Grrl Power #1062 – Jalapeño, Jalapeño, Jalapeño
No, Leon didn’t just summon tech support.
I really wanted to title this page “Zulu Zulu Zulu” because I am almost positive there is some scene in some movie or TV show somewhere in which someone sends that message, and the message means “Invasion imminent.” Only, I can’t recall where I saw that, and I just don’t remember if the message was actually Zulu Zulu Zulu or Zebra Zebra Zebra or November x 3 or X-ray or Oscar or what. My brain is whispering that it was someone like Spock or Data, but I don’t even recall if it was Star Trek or even Sci-Fi. It’s very frustrating and you can imagine that googling “zulu zulu zulu invasion” produces results about, you know, the actual British attempts to conquer the Zulu, and “zebra zebra zebra invasion” give results about invasive zebra mussels. Like, the mollusk things, not buff furry zebra dudes. Though honestly those probably show up on page 2 of the results.
Anyway, since my brain wasn’t cooperating to recall the exact reference and I couldn’t think of anything else, I went with “word that should definitely not be on a Military Phonetic Alphabet list” just to make sure no one has any idea what I’m doing.
Edit: Ah hah! Kizik Ucalegon over at Patreon cracked it. “Zulu Zulu Zulu” is from On Basilisk Station, the first Honor Harrington book. And my fucking brain went from hearing an audiobook of the scene to trying to tell me it was Data from an episode of Star Trek. No wonder I can’t remember if an anime I’ve watched was subtitled or dubbed half the time.
Snippet: ———————
“‘Mr. Venizelos, you will commandeer the first available Junction carrier to relay the following message to Fleet HQ. Message begins: Authentication code Lima-Mike-Echo-Niner-Seven-One. Case Zulu. I say again, Zulu, Zulu, Zulu. Message ends.'” She heard McKeon suck air between his teeth at her shoulder. “That is all, Mr. Webster,” she said softly. “You may transmit at will.” Webster said absolutely nothing for an instant, but when he replied, his voice was unnaturally steady.
“Aye, aye, Captain. Transmitting Case Zulu.” There was another brief pause, then, “Case Zulu transmitted, Ma’am.”
“Thank you.” Honor wanted to lean back and draw a deep breath, but there was no time. The message she’d just ordered Webster to send and Venizelos to relay to Manticore was never sent in drills, not even in the most intense or realistic Fleet maneuvers. Case Zulu had one meaning, and one only: “Invasion Imminent.”
Edit 2: Ironically, or… serendipitously? Anyway, I upgraded to fiber internet about three weeks ago, meaning there’s a 50 foot fiber cable running from the curb to the side of my house because they haven’t gotten around to burying it yet – and my neighbor just clipped it with his weed whacker. So I’m on “tethered-through-my-phone” internet for the next week. :/
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Well, that ‘coordinated response’ that Deus mentioned a few strips back is apparently a LOT more coordinated.
Or Deus planned it all through various untraceable cut-outs as part of his MASTER PLAN, MUAHAHAHAHA!
Wonder what interesting tricks our secondary characters will come up with.
Possible, but a bit to gauche. Deus is perfectly willing to let other supervillains kick up a fuss to the point of threatening inter planetary war, but his own actions were very hidden and non-intrusive (though it is surprising they never followed up with where the other artifacts went off to, but it seems they are still just chasing the other members of Sciona’s crew down offscreen). Not to mention, they are using Supers, which are very identifiable. It is possible they are just mercs, but altogether it doesn’t seem his MO (though he may very well have, and to be honest, probably did, tipped them off that Maxima would be out of town).
It seems more like the Brut squad, as I doubt their criminal empire was toppled with one swan yacht.
I don’t think anyone (aside from Sciona and gang) have even a hint of a suspicion that Deus was involved.
They would still have the question of where the artifacts went to, and as soon as they find a member of Sciona’s gang, they would learn about Deus
Archon’s IT technicians are quite fast to respond it seems.
Wonder if they can fix the issue about the comments not showing up immediately? A dozen near-simultaneous posts on the “Zulu, Zulu, Zulu” is nerd-cred worthy, but looks horrible.
Agreed. Clearly some 4th wall breaking is in order.
I imagine there are many places where Zulu was used to mean invasion imminent, but the one that comes to mind is David Weber’s book On Basilisk Station, where Captain Honor Harrington sends a Zulu Zulu Zulu message; in later books we still hear about “condition Zulu” being declared.
I only know of it from
Marion G Harmon’s Wearing the Cape series, Book 7, Recursion.
Shell tells Astra that The Dome is completely DOSed while they’re hundreds of miles away.
Astra calls a Zulu-Zulu-Zulu.
“Case Zulu” was the never-rehearsed alarm signal for the Star Kingdom of Manticore in the Honor Harrington series, which warned of an imminent invasion.
Was it Weber’s “Honor Harrington” series, maybe?
It’s from the Honor Harrington series written by David Weber. Zulu Zulu Zulu is ever transmitted accept in case of imminent invasion. Not even during exercises! Spectacular series!
I don’t know if he took if from somewhere else, but the Honorverse has Case Zulu which means “invasion imminent.”
“Message begins: Authentication code Lima-Mike-Echo-Niner-Seven-One. Case Zulu. I say again, Zulu, Zulu, Zulu. Message ends”
Did anyone else ever notice that the authentication code is a jumble for lemons ,of course some would say it works for melons too, but it’s so appropriate to Honor’s whole outlook that when life gives you lemons, you make lemonaide.
Zulu was the emergency signal in the honor Harrington book series meaning imminent invasion of the home system, it was noted as being the one signal never used in exercise due to its extreme implications and importance
Ok, but why? It isn’t like there is much valuable things there, even the prize crop of supers is gone. Weapon’s and Dabbler’s lab is a possibility, confiscated alien tech is another. If they knew that some people like Krona were there that could be a reason, but doesn’t seem likely.
For the perpetrators, Deus doesn’t seem likely, as while he would have the greatest amount of forewarning that all the combat supers would be gone at that time, the attack force uses Supers who aren’t hiding themselves, and are thus pretty identifiable. However depending on scale of attack, if it manages to wipe out all record and witnesses, or if the supers are mercenaries, that could explain it.
More likely is whoever hired Brut and co, not sure if one swan yacht was their entire criminal empire.
The crop being gone is precisely why you attack now. As to why, disabling an enemy is a perfectly sufficient reason.
The crop is not gone, they are after the new recruits.
They’re about to find out what it’s like when you interrupt Math’s ordered porn search time.
*distributes Popcorn, as harem seems not to be on scene*
As you already mention there are the labs and alien tech. There’s probably all kinds of other data they could be trying to steal as well (it’s easier to just steal or force access to the servers than trying to get in remote, especially with Leon on the tech team).
Not to forget that simply trashing the place would disrupt Archon from running at full capacity for a while as well.
What? you do remember it was just Maxi, Anvil and Dabbles who went, right?
Oh, and Sydney managed to snag a ride-along
Fairly sure Hiro and the others staid behind
Yeah, I’m pretty sure the B Team is going to get some spotlight time.
I mean, Math and the Power Trio alone can seriously screw up anybody’s day. And Hiro, Gadget, Jigg, and…I expect Detla is still loitering about, somewhere. She’ll complicate some things for sure.
Oh! Varia, duh, she’s right there.
Don’t forget that Kron being right there at Ground Zero is one of the most powerful assets that could be on-hand right now. She can hack the roof of the building into a ten-meter thick layer of titanium. Everybody falls, nobody is getting in or out. She’s an instant game-changer in so many ways. Even over-powered, so long as she remains aware of “going too far,” such as her time-dilation/time-travel attempts proved.
First thing she can do is hack herself and Leon to have super speed with bodies that can handle the stress. Even 20% increase would allow them to react much faster and accomplish a lot more in short time spaces. Since they’re not prepared for it, there may be a limit like not using 300% or 3000% or more speed, but anything at the outset leverages what else they can accomplish, and 150% normal speed is probably something that most humans can adjust to rapidly enough to use it. Then, as other supers show up, she can hack them to enhance their native talents.
Looks like Hiro is going to get that some of that command experience that may allow him to form a second unit to compliment Max. Thus freeing them from chain-of-command restrictions.
Disrupting Archon’s base of operations would interfere in their ability to coordinate defenses. Even if the communications collars have a satellite link they still need some means of coordinating traffic.
Surely they’d have secure redundancy offsite, possibly even government cloud services. But even if those are up, it still definitely makes things harder and probably takes a couple minutes to re-establish full communications.
this is most likely a “domestic” terrorist attack. A “send a message” type of attack.
Which just proves how full of themselves these hood wearing guys are as invading a military compound like this gives you the oh so wonderful (lethal force authorized) and (kill on sight) orders issued against you.
They are probably looking for those photos of Maxima from page #333
Are you thinking of “Tora, Tora, Tora”? That was the attack code phrase used in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941
I think that’s “Torah. Torah. Torah.” Yeshivah University’s football cheer
You’re probably thinking of “Toro, Toro, Toro,” the call for more fatty belly tuna at fine sushi restaurants worldwide.
Maybe “Taco, Taco, Taco”.
A fast food order at a Taco Bell for three tacos.
“Zulu Zulu Zulu” I don’t remember from any TV show or movie. Rather, it is in the Honor Harrington series by David Weber. Specifically, it is used in the first book, “On Basilisk Station”, in the build-up to the climax of the story.
I’m sure they just want to talk, and the fact that the most powerful members of ARC SWAT are out of country is just a coincidence
“Code Zulu” is the “invasion imminent” code signal in the Honor Harrington book series by David Weber. Never used in a drill.
In the Honor Harrington book series “Case: Zulu” is a signal sent from a ship or installation that the home system is about to be under attack. Maybe you’re remembering that? Or maybe THAT reference is inspired by something else.
You may be brain-farting on “Tora Tora Tora”… but what do I know.
Holy shit, wasn’t expecting this! Kids next door! Battle stations!! I mean Archon, Battle stations!
Weber’s On Basilisk Station use Zulu for that.
A nerdy horny guard not neglecting his duty despite being in the middle of being with his love, and even realizing it faster than his superpowered girlfriend who has the ability to pretty much hack and see the entire universe, in a franchise that’s about Girl Power?
I gotta thank you for not only subverting multiple tropes at once, but downright smashing them into the ground! You are way ahead of Hollywood, probably by decades.
Titan A.E. Smashed the “dumb brute guard” also…not just smashed, the went full on Sherlock Holmes better spoken and more erudite SMARTER brother. Eh, still got his but knocked out.
Being able to see the universe makes seeing smaller bits of it a bit more difficult. Similar to how we see countless atoms each day, but we’re hardly aware of the specifics of any particular atom unless we zoom in (with a microscope), and at that point we’re missing so much more.
I’m not sure the word “guard” would ever apply to Leon. I suspect that he’d be pretty useless in a straight up, face to face fight. And I’d also be very disappointed if he ever let himself get caught in that sort of situation.
You don’t have to be combat-trained (or ready) to stand guard. Anyone with a functional optical and audial system can stand (or, in this case, sit) guard
Being useless in a face to face fight is no different from typical fictional guards. ;-)
Also there are plenty of shows that include guards that are just people sitting in a room with a bunch of screens, surveying cameras and watching helplessly as one after another loses connection. I can’t think of any right now, but I remember seeing such scenes multiple times.
24, Jason Bourne series, Salt, etc, etc, etc.
As Guesticules pointed out, you don’t have to be combat trained to be a guard. A guard is just a role within a security force. Typically, they handle low-level incursions and are there to alert the rest of the force if a serious threat arises. Leon fits this definition perfectly.
Only problem is, they need to be trained to alert someone if they detect something suspicious, problem is, far too often they go investigate and end up dead (or worse) and no warning has been giving
Now I’m wondering if Krona can just un-cut the lines to the building from there, that’d be a pretty boss move and a major win in keeping communications up.
We roll that’s one way to be interrupted
I don’t know about a show or a movie, but ‘Zulu Zulu Zulu’ is the Manticoran code for ‘Invasion Imminent’ in the Honor Harrington books, which are a mil-specfic sci-fi series.
In the first Honor Harrington novel, “Code Zulu” meant “Invasion” and was transmitted by Honor to alert the homeworld.
Case Zulu is the invasion imminent message for the Manticoran fleet in the Honor Harrington series. It is first used in the very first book (On Basilisk Station) by Honor Harrington:
“‘Mr. Venizelos, you will commandeer the first available Junction carrier to relay the following message to Fleet HQ. Message begins: Authentication code Lima-Mike-Echo-Niner-Seven-One. Case Zulu. I say again, Zulu, Zulu, Zulu. Message ends.’”
“The internet is down” is n00bish, so I’m guessing Krona is saying this. Leon would talk about “the network”, since it’s his, not built out of everyone else’s networks too (which is what internetworking at “THE internet” scale is all about).
Six fibers (by the labeling, probably a bundle of four and a bundle of two, two fibers each, light in and light out–they would be supposed to follow different physical paths, and not just out of the building) going out all at once is an act of war. I’d not call those things “trunk” because that’s such an overloaded term. But it’s originally a telco term so if these things come in from the telco and they called it that… I’d call them slightly out of their minds because that implies a lot of voice channels coming in, not a big fat pipe for data. But then, I’d likely call them that anyway. If they’re all bundled together and act as one, they’d together be called one trunk, and they’d not show up individually.
One “invasion imminent” scenario comes to mind, and that book called it “case zulu”.
Nope : “the network” would be the local network. “The internet” is the collection of links to the rest of the internet. So “The internet is down” means exactly this : all links to the outside are broken. At the same time. And with 6 fiber links, it is highly unlikely that this is an accident.
You’re right that “the network” is primarily the local network, though to the lusers it’s the machines (and servers, providing services) on them rather than the network proper itself. Depending on his mindset and just where exactly the hand-over happens, it might well include the connections to the rest of the world. This is a government facility, well-funded and influential if not large, so he just might regard a big large room at the nearest interlink facility as part of “his”, ie “the” network, too.
The connections to the outside world would strictly be “the uplinks” or possibly “our internet links”. “The internet” is still the whole, the part you draw as a cloud in your network diagrams, not the connections to it. At least to a networker. “The internet” does not go down, it’s designed to route around damage so YOU can be SOL but that’s not all of the internet. So “the internet is down” (“it must be the server”–how many servers exactly do you think there are accessible through this “internet” thingy, hm?) is n00bish, no way around it. At best, it’s a tech talking to someone he regards as a n00b… out of earshot of other techs.
You are right. I should have be more precise: the network / the internet distinction => that’s how I speak to management :)
It’s possible, though very unlikely, that there’s a chokepoint somewhere down the line that would take out the entire building’s connection if accidently damaged. Adding in that the wifi and cellular signals all dropped to unusable at the same time however easily drops the chances all the way down to “Assume it’s an attack and apologize later if you’re wrong”.
I once worked on a contract for the IRS where I had to travel to WVA a few times to visit one of their major hubs located there for disaster recovery exercises. It was in a fairly remote area. Not desolate, there was a hotel right across the street from the gate, where I stayed of course, and a few other shops. But remote enough that there was just a single line of telephone poles bringing in electricity and internet. I was told that the IRS had carefully contracted two different telecom vendors to provide the large internet trunks the facility required. That they had carefully buried those cables along different paths on different sides of the building. And how those cables then met at the same stretch of miles long telephone poles, any break along which would render both redundant trunks useless.
They did have a satellite backup, but its capacity was trivial compared to the needs of the facility. And so expensive that it was purely an emergency backup, not a third active element of their internet access. And by satellite backup I don’t mean they had a 30″ Viasat antenna. They had a ~4 meter antenna. Fairly impressive, if ancient even a couple decades ago.
Not impossible that hotel got much of its income from that facility.
I haven’t had to deal with it myself, but I read about it enough to know that “two paths out of the building” is the easy part. Better select a nice spot between two IXes, and closely oversee the planning and digging of the fibre paths yourself. It’ll cost though, sure enough. (Which, by the by, is why “rural internet” initiatives like to have farmers chip in with some digging labour, like on their own land.)
The big thing with (geostationary, talk about “long distance”) satellite links apparently is less the bandwidth and more the latency, or rather the latency times bandwidth product. Though really old stuff probably doesn’t have the bandwidth either. But maybe it wasn’t all that old, except the dish.
The closest thing i remember to that is “Tora, Tora, Tora” meaning “Tiger, Tiger, Tiger” but it was the code name to begin the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the title of a movie about that attack. The Zulu were fierce warriors in Africa, so it could be a quote from a movie about them.
Wow. ONE person knows the true origin. I believe you are slightly off, however. My understanding is that it was the signal that they had achieved surprise in their attack.
Try placing quotes around “zulu zulu zulu”, so you only get results where that word is repeated three times. It really cuts down the search results.
This code has shown up multiple times in military fiction. In real military actions the only reference I could find was to Z company in the Falklands war using it as their battle cry.
I am so happy to see so many people mention the Honorverse case Zulu :)
I was shocked so many people knew it, I didn’t in spite of reading the books. Which is one of several fantastic series I’ve discovered here, keep meaning to start a book club thread on the subreddit or wherever.
Tora! Tora! Tora! At Pearl Harbor the Japanese lead flight commander used that code phrase to tell the carrier fleet that complete surprise had been achieved. Hope things go better for Leon than they did for Gen. Short.
I suspect that the entire situation around Duces new base/country were contrived and manipulated so his strike team could take out the Teams Base of operations/Archon… If I had to hazard a guess, they are by FAR the largest threat to Dueces plans for Dworld Dwomination… he takes out/destroys Archon, then offers Max and her team a new Organization to join… I sense this not going the way he plans
OK, at least 2 supers and a bunch of (possibly powered) armoured lackeys.
How many seconds will it take the left-at-home team to clean up?
So happy to see all these harrington fans!
I find hard to believe that this is not linked to the other attack and these guys just happened to strike when Archon’s bigger guns are on the other side of the planet.
This is not likely to go well for the bad guys. Archon may have sent some of their heaviest hitters abroad (including the very heaviest), but the ones left behind still hit pretty damned hard themselves, and are better-trained (I can’t think of a current mercenary force that could take on the US military on anything like equal terms, and survive). Two minutes of chaos, twenty minutes of curb-stomping.
So many still (possibly) at the base – Hiro, Harem, Heatwave, Math, Mr. Amorphous, Achillies, Stalwart, Jiggawat, Jabberwokky, Ren, Varia, Peggy, Seneca, Goose.
Then, two hours of paperwork, that may not actually include paper.
SupplementL: Every body generates its own weight in paperwork, so they’d better hope nobody gets zeroed.
A portion of that will be in absorbant towels though.
Wow. Lotta love for the Honorverse, here! Was gonna mention On Basilisk Station, but I’m WAAAAAAYYY too slow, lol.
Case Zulu might be a real thing, just completely forgotten because it refers to an unlikely scenario. In the 1900‘s the British were trying to seize land in Afrika, and were completely caught off guard when 20,000 Zulus attacked 1,800 British soldiers. 10 to 1 odds do inspire panic in people and I imagine that if ‚Case Zulu‘ is real it would be under the ‚never invoke unless absolutely sure‘ category
Pretty sure Leon installed so many redundancies (and likely both a satellite and landline connection, that there can never be an outage of internet connection
There’s always the Zulu scene in The Meaning Of Life
If Does is behind this why are they resisting? Half the folks here have been praying sing him for what a study specimen of White Manhood he is. Justifying his invasion of other countries because they are better off under his rule. Saying the people he chooses to conquer need to just bow to the inevitable. And all the rest of it. But I suppose it’s different when it’s only *shudder* Negroes *shudder* in filthy Third World hellholes. Not God creating Christian Americans. Hypocrites.
Not gonna lie, the rich white dude invading African countries, no matter the justification, is *NOT* a good look.
The guy treats his subordinates with respect, seems to operate via a meritocracy and while we don’t know if he personally cares for the well-being of the his (idk, subjects?), but he at least knows he’ll have a better bottom-line long term by providing them with a better life. Sure he’s morally ambiguous, but I’d take a benevolent dictatorship with him in charge in a hot second. Especially in preference to the current UK government.
Jesus H Christ on a bicycle, Tsath, get off the cross, we need the wood.
I’m a literal SJW Socialist and _I_ think you’re being way too ruddy “extra” with this.
Nobody is claiming the nonsense you just made up, and even Pander would say that Deus is at _best_ a morally ambiguous character, based on what we’ve seen.
And in the context of the _real world_, nobody is defending his actions.
I’ve read the initial pose 3 times and I’m not quite sure what Tsath is trying to say still…
That being said I like your first sentence a lot Bharda :) – very fun and pithy – and I might use it as a snippy retort in the future :)
Yes unfortunately I’ve found at least one definite flaw in Deus during those executions, which does make him morally ambiguous in my eyes now (plus he does tend to take more of a ‘I’ll do what works in a utilitarian style, though I still want people to have a win-win scenario’). I’m still reeling from Deus failing to be perfect (but I suppose every rose has its thorn, just like every night has it’s dawn – just like every cowboy sings a sad, sad song)… but that ‘definite flaw’ of Deus is definitely not racism, so I’m not sure what Tsath is trying to say, or why Tsath would think Deus would be behind this. It does not seem nearly subtle enough.
Deus tends to do things so the outcome is always a win-win scenario – and usually his plans are completed about 37 minutes before anyone even has a hint of what might be happening. Attacking ARCHON when he has waaaaay better ways to deal with ARCHON in a much more peaceful, alliance manner would make no sense, and would be far too amateurish an action for Deus to do.
Also I’ve read his post a fourth time and still have no idea what his argument is or why he’s so fixated on race.
Agreed. It’s so chock full of r/BoneAppleTea that it’s hard not to believe this is a test of Poe’s Law.
Thank you for introducing me to this wonder of the Internet I had, somehow, managed to miss.
Edgar Allen or the other Poe?
A little of both actually.
From Nathan Poe:
“Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is utterly impossible to parody a Creationist in such a way that someone won’t mistake for the genuine article.”
Which gave rise to Poe’s Law.
Which has a corollory, Poe’s Law 2: Electric Boogaloo.
“Given that satire/sarcasm is indistinguishable from expression of actual believed ideas in text then all text has to be assumed to be satire/sarcasm until proven otherwise.”
This goes back to Edgar Allen Poe and his short story,
The System Of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
Where he writes “Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
This is sometimes attributed to Benjamin Franklin, but I dont believe that.
Good ole Uncle Ben seems to get everything attributed to him.
You may note that I did not include any indication of whether or not this all satire.
I do however think that Poe’s Law 2 is blatantly obvious on the internet.
Make of that what you will.
*plays melancholic power ballad riff*
Besides the Harrington reference, it seems to have been used in similar fashion in Star Trek: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/RedFireRedPlanet#:~:text=Case%20Zulu!%20Repeat%2C%20Zulu%2C%20Zulu%2C%20Zulu , even tough I don’t know if that is signalling invasion or just an attack/ambush
Maybe Archon needs a change of HQ and scenery-maybe in some remote region of northern Montana or southern Utah?
We don’t really know where the Archon headquarters really is, other than in a city or suburb. It could already be in those places, except the ecology does not look like the semi-arid lands and plants of southern Utah. I would think the headquarters should be more centrally located rather than further north than a good chunk of Canada; it is a few hours’ flight-time from New York City, but that just eliminates many of the really high-density cities.
Many of us have speculated that it is in Texas just because that is where the author lives, but again, to meet its mandate, I would expect to be more north to be centrally located.
The G.I.Joe team’s HQ(the Pit) was located under the motorpool of the U.S. Army Chaplain’s Assistant school at Fort Wadsworth in the original Marvel comics run,in the 1980s Sunbow cartoon series,the HQ has distinguishing features include a fortified wall and large cannon emplacement.Can you imagine Archon being headquartered in places like that?
https://gijoe.fandom.com/wiki/G.I._Joe_Headquarters
I think that that fort was also used in the comic at one time, rising out of the destroyed remains of stated motorpool after Cobra bomb the Pit, in a attempt to convince Cobra that they had destroyed the “Real” HQ.
As you are remote, so are you also remote from access to various critical resources you may require. THE major base of operations needs a lot of resources very accessible and very ready to implement immediately.
So, slightly out-of-the-way of innocent bystanders, but still near all the conveniences of a moderately-sized city, is a compromise that pays dividends.
What’s happening in panel 6? I’d assume some kind of bulkhead is is moving in response to the panic button being pushed, but the direction of the arrow makes it seem like it is sliding away instead of slotting in place (unless it’s the opposite and it is a (bullet resistant) window covering an opening instead).
Fairly sure that is a bullet resistant window locking into place sealing off Leon’s Nerd-cave
Yeah, I was wondering about that too. It shows a partial barrier but it seems to be pointing the wrong direction unless its a “Hey look, this is a slide not a wall!” arrow.
I think it’s thick bulletproof glass sliding into place where there was nothing previously.