Grrl Power #542 – NCC Scoville
Actually that is a pretty fair question. The more powers you’ve got, the more earning potential you’ve got in the private sector. But in the military, I’m pretty sure you’re worth your pay grade. Of course, Sydney isn’t an E-0, she’s an ES-0, and makes more than a four star general. That might sound ridiculous on the face of it, but considering what she could make with her cutting beam alone, doing demolition, fracking, anything involving mining, or any number of things. The team needs be competitive with organizations like the NFL.
A few of you came to a similar conclusion as Sydney on this page. I’m not saying you’re right, but, congratulations I guess?
Death traps are pretty absurd. To the point that it’s weird they’re such a common trope in superhero comics. I mean, in the history of comics, has a single death trap ever worked? The 900th time Batman escapes from one, doesn’t the Joker… ok, maybe that’s a bad example cause he’s properly looney tunes, and it can be argued that he has no interest in killing Bats, cause then who would he play with? But then, the Penguin or Two Face. After they fail to dispose of Bats the umpteenth time, wouldn’t they think “Hey, maybe it’s time for a change in tactics.” And it’s not like death traps are weekend projects either. Sure, some of them are just a motion sensor and a claymore, but usually they’re considerable installations involving pits in the floor and giant sheets of plexiglass over top and/or spikes with moving parts, motors and gears. You don’t just make that stuff on a whim. Are Doctor Octopuss’s henchmen primarily comprised of contractors and day laborers? Or is he actually hiring people to make that stuff for him?
When they get together at Villain Con or their Legions of Evil, do they compare notes on death traps. “Ooh, this one almost got him.” “Next time I’ll add glue to the switch.” “I took his utility belt, but didn’t search his boot heel.” Meanwhile, the noobie henchman in the back is wondering why they didn’t just shoot him, and beyond that, if you’ve got him unconscious long enough to put him in the trap, just… take his mask off. Just a peek! Maybe these guys are knocking over armored cars to support their death trap making addictions.
Maxima was in the Air Force and fought in Gulf War 2, but if she had been somehow captured, she wouldn’t have been stuck in a death trap. She’d have either been put in prison or killed outright. Assuming they had a prison that could hold her, which they didn’t. No one does. You can’t pour a concrete wall thick enough to hold her. Ok, so a death trap might actually be the only way to keep her under control – but it wouldn’t be a trap that eventually killed her. Put her on a pressure plate, tell her if she steps off it, a bomb will go off in a hospital somewhere. But a room with spiked walls closing in on her? Yeah, good luck with that.
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Light hook = Canada Arm
Not understanding = me.
CanadArm (Pronounced Canada Arm) is series a remote-controlled mechanical arms used by NASA in various situations where they needed precision in a hazardous environment.
As a canadian, I learnt about in elementary school.
An American university student was asked this last week, “What year did America declare independence?”, and his answer was, “uh, 1984?”. So it seems as a Canadian, you at least learned “something” in elementary school.
I would just like to point out that editing is a thing. No idea who said this, and in what context, but that sounds like one of those classic news stories about how dumb people in the US are, which are often made by interviewing a ton of people, and only showing the stupid ones.
Or with memory problems. As someone with a weak memory sometimes you have to say, “I don’t know” to things that seem pretty obvious to those with great memories. I can learn it, get straight A’s in it, and then expect to only randomly remember a vague selection of it, if I’m lucky.
I actually think there are a lot more like me than not but they don’t admit it like I do so where I either admit I don’t know or look it up online they would attempt to wing it while telling themselves they actually knew it all along in an attempt to be “normal”. (when in truth they probably are closer to the true norm than some oddball who remembers even half of all the random stuff they at some point learned just long enough to spit out on a test paper… )
I tend to keep random information for longer than most, but names and dates? Yeah, no. It has to actually be interesting to remain easy to access.
Or a hearing problem. “What year did Michael Jackson flare incandescent?”
I don’t think he ever moonwalked in flairs. But I know several ladies who felt he was hot.
In 1984, MJ’s hair caught fire while filming an ad for Pepsi. He wasn’t seriously hurt.
Said interviewer does show people getting the answers right at the end of the sequence of random question asking, I guess to restore some faith. The last segment of the sequence he asked a young lady if she knew the words to “The Star Spangled Banner” and she just sang it to him.
I mean…a lot of it sounds like random trivia. It’s stuff that typically has little bearing on people’s lives. Some people keep that kind of thing around in their heads, others don’t.
As an American who is both well read and of high intelligence stories like that just make me increibly sad.
As an american who is well read and has had conversations with other americans, this makes me skeptical.
Amen. It doesn’t help that the subject appears to be ‘random facts about the history of the country’, including sh*t like specific dates, being asked of random people in the street. Personally, I’d probably give a random answer to the jerk shoving a camera in my face as I’m walking to work/school, just to get them out of my face. Especially if it’s early in the morning.
Then there are people like me, who may not know but can figure out to a fairly high precision and confidence level.
Like “when, within 10 years, was the Civil War”? I dunno… but it was in response to the election of Lincoln, which was in 1860, and wasn’t long delayed… but some of the actions leading up to actual warfare, Lincoln couldn’t have ordered until he was in fact the President which would have been 1861 and back then they did inaugurations in March… so it must have begun in 1861, probably in the spring. And Lincoln won re-election, if I remember right, shortly before the war ended, so it ended in 1864 (late) or 1865.
(checking wikipedia)… The first states to secede did so in December 1860. Shooting started April 1861, and the “insurrection” was formally declared ended May 1865 (not quite a month after Lincoln died) but a few scattered remnant forces continued fighting.
The civil war wasn’t in response to Lincoln’s election. He was elected president during the civil war and is the one who took the steps to end it.
He took office just before the fighting broke out in full. The first secession happened in response to Lincoln winning the presidency.
Thing is, that takes time to think through, and there would often be a sense of pressure to respond, in cases like this. Having to think it through for a minute or so first makes it look like you don’t know it.
Ahh, now that makes sense, thanks :-)
Shuttle and ISS “robot” arms (ps: they ain’t obots, but some media orgs wouldn’t stop calling it that). Fun fact: in the early shuttle program, it took a coupla years to correctly simulate the “shimmy” of the arm. It’s long, and nothing is perfectly rigid. It flexes in a non-linear manner when moving objects, related to angles of the joints, mass of the object, heat of the various parts of the arm, acceleration imparted by operator input.
This reminds me of an issue with the original Hubble solar panels. They tested them to make sure they provided voltage, but did not do any heat tests. After the telescope was launched they found out that when the telescope went from the sunlit to shaded side of the Earth, or vice versa, the temperature would swing from -200 degrees to +200 degrees (F). would cause to solar panels to start ticking and banging like an old radiator on a winter day. The vibrations messed up the images taken by the camera.
And it didn’t help the fact that the mirror itself was machined wrong, something like .005 degrees off from the focal point. something no human could ever see. So they gave it glasses lol
Some possibilities (I keep using that word. I wonder if it means what I think it means.):
There’s supposed to be an eighth orb, shaped like a common geode, containing the Elixer of Ultimate Transformation. I wonder where it is?
There are missing orbs. Someday, an Alien Big Bad will show up. When he spots Sydney, he will initially cower. Then he will notice that she lacks both the white orb and the black orb. Then he will laugh and screech something at Sydney which the so-far unidentified orb will translate for her as, “Hahahahaha – You don’t have the balls to challenge me!”
Sydney will become seriously injured, and grab the unidentified orb. A holographic Squidward will ask her to “Please state the nature of the medical emergency.” Or maybe it will be Robert Picardo, since that would be consistent with her expectations.
Maybe invoking the seventh orb will cause a voice to intone, “Self-destruct engaged. Please withdraw all personnel to a minimum safe distance of 1 light year. Thirty. Twenty-nine. Twenty-eight…
I see what you did there….
and i approve.
the self destruct would be epic….
Then Kronos whips up her “screen,” does some beedily boops, and says, “There!” Everyone relaxes as the countdown stops until Sydney hears her mutter, “Like a snooze alarm…”
If there are actually two more orbs, then the set Sydney has is ‘Seven of Nine’.
Isn’t the last one used for relaxation?
Lightbee is Sensors/Transporter (She hasn’t told Maxima yet has she?)
I’m betting the last orb is communications (telepathy/precognition)
Oh, wait Life Support has gotta be a Replicator! (Too many points to spend for only Oxygen)
Sydney says to the green orb, “Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.”
Betting it makes water, not hot.
And the orb will invariably produce a liquid that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.
That or it does the REST of life support too… medical, defense against biological weapons, maybe some resurrection…
Life support might imply it can also do healing – medbay.
It could be like a captains log. Automatically records everything. Then every time she tried to use it sends the logs to wherever it came from. After all if you send out a explore you want to know what happens.
Some bureaucrat in anther galaxy could be filing the logs in a basement totally forgotten by everyone else.
Universal Translator,
Food Replicator
General Replicator.
Holodeck.
Cloaking Device.
Autodoc.
Bar
Detaching Saucer Section
Shuttle Craft
Cargo Bay
Stellar Cartography
The possibilities are unlimitless.
I suspect the air/life support may have the be able to generate more then just air once leveled.
I like the Cloaking or Healing. I like Maxima’s explorer rather than Sidney’s spaceship idea considering the limitations on it – only two at once. In space the forcefield or life support (assuming it can provide enough air pressure) would be required-that would limit it to only one operation , thus could not be at the same time as anything else. Any why you would need to level up your spacecraft?
Maybe when she levels an orb up enough, she can toggle said orb on or off, and only need to hold it for advanced functions.
Maybe the species that made the orbs have eight hands each. Like Dabbler, but more so.
The double negative hurts…. You meant to type “limitless” or “unlimited”
Maybe they wanted to cause pain to those who pay attention to details. :P
I don’t un-understand what you couldn’t be not talking about?
//Torrenal <- possibly part troll.
(Hum, how smart is my phones spell-check… used to be I could use unprerebluables as a word and it wouldn't gripe… bugger, doesn't like it as a word… reguarding? Rererereguard? who made spellcheck smart? I liked all those not-words it would let me get away with!)
Avoid assigning functions to the unknown ball that are good fits with the known functions of the known balls, or that don’t make sense in context. i don’t even know what “detaching saucer section”, as applied to Syd, would mean, and I suspect that I don’t want to find out. Similarly, there’s no apparent need for a shuttle craft to be deployed from a single-person spacecraft with atmospheric and landing capability.
Universal translator sounds like a comm function, i.e. the telepresence orb, and cloaking device also fits well with that orb. Syd has TWO ways of potentially working a holodeck – telepresence and lighthook.
The one plausible exception to that: it’s nothing unusual in SF for spacecraft to have one drive system for local work, and a separate mechanism for rapidly traversing great (interplanetary or interstellar) distances. Sometimes the latter simply are incapable of making small jumps, and sometimes they can make small jumps but aren’t necessarily good enough on precision to make it safe to transport to very close to your destination. Sometimes they are only capable of making certain predefined jumps. (I just finished reading a story where a spacecraft spent a couple weeks maneuvering within one solar system to a point where they could jump several light-years instantaneously, with no choice about where that jump would take them.) So maybe the unknown ball is something on the order of a warp drive, perhaps in combination with the navigation capability needed to know where you want to go and arrange to actually get there. That could be built into the flight ball, but it also might be a separate system.
I’m sure Sydney would enjoy occasionally detaching and reattaching her head. A cargo bay might be a nice extra-dimensional Bag of Holding. But a general replicator would be amazingly useful! Make any food, tool, weapon, you need on the fly.
But no, the possibilities are not really unlimited, nor are they limitless. They are unlimitless.
But Sydney already said one of her weaknesses is, like the vampire, she can die if she is beheaded. :)
Right. But the tan orb will let her do this safely.
Like Robin Williams in The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen.
That only works with someone who has narrator powers and .. can… step beyond the 4th wall. OK, Sydney qualifies. Carry on. Nothing to see here. Certainly not Sydney getting all snugly with me!
Maybe that log takes the form of a graphical representation of the recent highlights. Posted to an alternative dimension in the form of a website.
a death trap can serve two practical purposes, one you use it to keep people out of something (these are better as fast acting kill rooms, like one where all the walls turn into flame throwers or a bullet storm wall) or as a test of some ones capabilities. on a failed test they die. bullet storm is an actual type of gun, one particular model will expend 1 million rounds in a single minute.
bullet storm is also a very violent and fun game where you can shoot people in the balls and then rip their head off
Firing this gun for one minute costs five hundred thousand American dollars. I call her Sasha.
Well, gotta finally say it. The last few comics probably attracted or made happy the people that like feet, due to how much of hers Sydney was showing in last pages.
I’m not saying it’s a bad thing, though.
No. The “Propulsion” orb is “Impulse Drive”. The purple one with the wibbly bit inside is WARP DRIVE.
…Are you talking about the Lighthook? Because I REALLY doubt that.
I think they intended to talk about the other unknown one, and didn’t read the comic very closely and figured they were questioning the last orb.
That’s the brownish one with a sun inside.
Yeah, I figure. Also, sun? I just see a white blob.
Or the purple one might be Ten Forward.
…The energy tentacle Orb is the center of the ship’s social-life/entertainment area? You might want to reconsider that suggestion. I mean…not that there’s anything wrong with that particular form of entertainment…
Purple might be a database or knowledge bank.
…Okay, you seem to be a tad confused. They know what ‘purple’ (I’d say violet, because the Orbs are the seven colors of the rainbow) does. It’s the Lighthook. They’re theorizing about it’s function for a space-ship. What use would an extending energy tentacle have for a space-ship?
The unknown Orb is the orange one, the one with the white center.
Think less “Starship Enterprise” and more “Soft Weapon”, Sydney.
Oh, wait, she’s probably never read any Niven shorts… Ah! “The Kzinti Weapon”! I bet she’s got the whole STAS on DVD and/or Torrent rips!
Yeah, so, point is, yes, that sounds like an exploration kit, sure… but it sounds even more like an espionage kit.
Also, vis a vis Death Trap, I direct you to the words of a Master of Genre Savviness, the great Mephisto the Mentalist:
Admittedly, the Whateley ‘verse supervils have been at this a lot long than the ones in this ‘verse.
I meant “The Slaver Weapon”, of course.
Dear lord what did I just read…?
I refuse to read pt.1 or 2.
3 was perfect
It’s a recoilless manipulation system.
I have to say…Sydney looks really really cute with her hair like this. >.>!
The ‘Death Trap’ is the arts and crafts of the Villain world. It’s not required that the Superhero die, only that they get caught. There is no frustration like the frustration of a proper Death Trap not, at the very least, catching the Hero.
I bet Villains get together in hidden conclaves to show each other videos of their Death Traps to one-up each other. I bet there is even wagering by other villains on how exactly the Hero will get out of the trap.
….. I love this idea so much
So, basically, it’s like that Batman The Animated Series episode “Almost Got Him” then?
Yes, that’s what I thought of when I read that bit about death traps.
My personal favorite is Killer Croc’s “I threw a rock at his head one time” ………”It was a big rock”
Probably because he came as close as any of the others while spending less time/money setting it up.
And the one to win for closest almost got him was catwoman after bats arrested the rest off the confessions he just taped, by almost got him with seductions to the point he ran away.
Pretty sure that death traps are Arcade’s entire shtick :)
Just going to say it:
Sydney has cute feet
You forgot “seduce alien life-forms”. Kirk solidified that as one of the fundamental powers of any space-faring wessel.
The alien life form Sydney spends the most time around wants to seduce *her* – and everyone else nearby.
Black Hole Orb
Lead to Gold Orb
Black Box Orb-records everything
Summon Deity/Tell Mommy on You Orb
‘Reduce arms to two’ orb
Honestly, that hospital pressure plate idea is prettu ingenious, I can’t believe I’ve never seen anyone use something like that before. Really, it seems more escape-proof than any prison of iron or brick, because it’s the hero themselves who bind their self. I’m not sure how anyone could really escape from such a prison without outside help.
While an ingenious way to stop a hero, it has 1 major, MAJOR flaw.
At what point does the hero realize that the villian must be stopped… no matter the cost. At that point the evil villain has now made a hero who is not just capable of killing, but thinks its a necessary 1st response.
Personally, its more a good stall move that way, as long as you realese the pressure plate after what ever evil had to be perpetrated, you could do it again.
Just gotta say that the light hook is DEFINITELY the alien equivalent of the space shuttle’s robotic grappling arm. Also, a question. Dunno if this has ever been addressed. But how strong are the orbs themselves. We’ve seen that maxima has no effect on Sydney when pulling the orbs away, but what about Sydney pushing them around? Could she technically hover simply by driving the orbs into the ground? And if she could, could she then use three of the orbs to brace herself on something, and three of them to hold something large and flat above her? And if so, how heavy a thing?
I hesitate to ask – but has anyone else made the ‘space cadet’ joke yet? :D
eager young space cadet. yes,, Sydney must stutter in the next 8 panels and play it brilliantly.
Not quite what I had in mind but that works too!
Just had a thought. It goes on about how all the super heroines have ‘unlikely’ proportions, and how Sydney is normal, but has anyone really looked as how big her eyes are?
But she is Anime. Everyone else is Unrealistic Realism.
*cough* Pixel *cough*
If I were going to make a scout ship, it would have all the functionality that Sydney points out, with one additional feature:
Samples from new environments storage.
So, any day now, Sydney is going to point the mystery orb at something, press the wrong button, and one of two things will happen:
1) Math will be sucked into some alien hammerspace/bag of holding/storage compartment of the mother ship; or
2) a shark from the Florida Keys will be expelled and fall on Math.
Oh wait – maybe Math will be sucked into the BoH where he finds the shark. Or the aliens.
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Is it me Dave, or are you rendering the faces differently on this page? Also I guess you’re going to have to update Sydney’s info card for the new power.
Dave has confirmed that he will be doing the latter. No word on the former though. I have suspicions that he many have been kidnapped and replaced by some other pastel-tone loving artist!
Or maybe it is Dave, but he is being forced into a pastel phase, under duress! See if you can spot any subtle message, embedded into the picture. Maybe if we turn the table, to the right orientation, it will give a QRL code, linking us to his ‘message in a bottle’?
Ah yes, like Rembrandt’s seldom-discussed “my little pony” stage, which even he disavowed later in life.
Beethoven brony, Rembrandt disowny.
But you’ve gotta have the death traps! It’s part of the Villain Code.
Also, it’s so much more satisfying seeing your enemies dying slowly with no hope of escape–hey were’d they go!?
Does anyone else see this too? Sydney with her hair slicked down feels alot more serious then normal…. or is it just me?
The lighthook’s primary purpose is obviously as a companion on those long, lonely trips in the black. The other utilities of it are simply a happy coincidence.
The fact it can pick up and toss vehicles around is a “happy coincidence” ??
Hahaha, YES
Damn this lack of an edit button…. or at least secondary/tertiary functions, for the sake of the joke.
Navigation maybe? If she is a ‘spaceship’, that seems to be the only major component missing.
Last orb is clearly sensors. Scanning things. Tricordorb?
Apologies if it’s been said. Not quite up to scrolling through 471 comments. But :
1. Yes, Sydney, you still need your rebreather. You can only use two orbs at a time. Not hard to imagine needing
(Sorry for the false start above. Doing this on mobile is tricky.)
Apologies if it’s been said already. Not up to skimming through 471 comments right now. But…
1. Yes, Sydney, you still need your rebreather. You can only use two orbs at a time. Not hard to imagine needing to use two orbs while also needing a fresh air supply. Especially if using the life support orb takes concentration.
2. There is a logical reason for “death traps.” Let’s say you’re in Gotham and you’re trying to hatch your evil scheme. You know that Batman is the only one who can stop you. But you also know that Batman is the only one keeping the Joker from killing half the population that you’re planning to rule/rob/whatever, Scarecrow from sending the entire city into a panic with fear gas, etc. You can’t afford to actually kill Batman. Without him, the city would be rubble and your plans would be for nought. (Not to mention his key role in helping the Justice League fend off alien invasions and other extinction level threats on a semi-regular basis.) You know he’ll escape a death trap, but if it’s gotten to the point where he’s at your doorstep, all you can do is slow him down. He’ll escape from a cell, but adding buzz saws and lasers will make it harder. That could give you just enough time to finish the crucial part of your plan. If not, he’ll catch you, but at least there will be a city left to take over when you’re ready to try again…
People keep saying it’s not hard to imagine situations like that, but I genuinely find it hard not come up with one that isn’t a bit contrived, while also not being easy to resolve. Also, as I said before, if both her hands are busy, how is she going to get the rebreather into place?
*hard to come up with one.
This has been a little bit of a silly thought for awhile, but what if Max’s symbiote is the suit, and the orbs are the “ship” the original wielder arrived with? They may have been meant to work together, and the ship is always more powerful then the suit.
Ships do not have to take the form that we assume them to, after all.
This also raises the question, which may have been mentioned downthread or elsewhere (I’m too lazy to look), that either (a) the species for which the orbs were originally designed had more grasping appendages than humans, or (b) the last orb is a control orb that removes the necessity of holding specific ones. Otherwise, one can imagine the original (or originally intended) orb operator getting scragged simply because he, she, or it needed the functions of three of them at once to survive and could only manage two.
Certainly, someone like Dabbler, as the orb system is currently confirmed to work, could be twice as effective as Sydney in managing the orbs—and certainly more stable—if not as creative in their use.
Or (c) in a lot of circumstances, it was expected that there would be several beings with orbs working together. Which has the advantage that even while working together they needn’t all concentrate on the same thing at the same time.
I dunno so much about DC comics, but as someone who has read pretty much every Spider-Man comic ever, as far as Doctor Octopus goes, he’s surprisingly not that into death traps that I can recall. Doc Ock’s schtick has always been “I’m going to save the world by doing something awful”. Any deaths traps he might have been involved in are usually coincidental or Plan F kinds of things. Also, he’s way more likely to try things to incapacitate heroes, like taking hostages, than he is to plan out a direct attack on them.
For all that Doc Ock is such a stereotype in terms of his being a bombastic, monologuing, take-over-the-world-style villain, I can’t actually think of a single time he’s ever attempted to lure a superhero into a trap just for its own sake. It isn’t his style at all.
When the Sydney Card gets updated, the yellow orb is the telepresence/truesight/teleportation orb – the T-Ball.
Only until it gets forced into a bag. :P
He also declined to kill Sydney out of self preservation. He needed 30+ minions and half an hour at least to ramp up his powers enough to be on an even footing with Maxima, and it is still debatable that he was on an even footing as he only had her pinned down so she needed all her power for defense. If not for that pinned down part she could have used all her power to vaporise him.
In fact, Maxima considered him enough of a threat that she considered to summarily execute him (ashing his brain stem were her exact words). Had he murdered Sydney he would have instantly been promoted from ‘grave threat’ to ‘hunt down and exterminate from a safe distance with extreme prejudice’
Kevin may be able to ramp up his powers to demi god levels given enough violence in his immediate surroundings, but without that he is not (much) stronger than a regular human. If he is unprepared Maxima could arrest, or kill, him in milliseconds. And surrounding himself with a 100 man battle royal at all times does not exactly allow him to keep a low profile.
If the orbs are the equivalent of the cosmic commando exploration kit, then the final orb could have a very obvious function. If you land your ship on an alien planet and go out for a look around you don’t want someone to jack your ride. The last orb is the ‘key’ that fits in the dashboard to make the ship turn on. The runes on it could include functions like door locks, setting the alarm and engaging stealth mode. The last user may have just turned it invisible then forgot where he parked. (What now? Sorry, never heard of this ‘Megamind’ you speak of.)
Also, all this speculation on orb powers is starting to make me think DaveB is ‘Tom Sawyering’ us readers. He creates a comic and works out what 5 of the 7 orbs do. Then he gets writer’s block and can’t think of what to do with the others. He publishes the comic and hints about what mysterious functions the orbs may posses. Then he just sits back and lets us do all the work thinking up cool stuff for him to read in the comments section.
What kind of spaceship has an XP bar and point buy? IS she stuck in training mode?
Only the best kind!
We have never seen an XP bar. Plus it being a ‘skill tree’ was Sydney’s initial assumption. Now that she has had the spaceship idea, she may alter that to ‘weapon and tool certification’ or something like that.
I am surprised Maxima asked what is Lighthook with respect to the balls being a spaceship / space suit / expeditionary kit. It is Halo’s “stick”. Or maybe rope? Bah! Some of these balls have dual functions! And yes I did see the Canadarm suggestion above – but I went to the more generic idea of a stick immediately: every kit needs a “stick” for prodding / poking things!
Just missing her compass… i mean navigational systems (or mapping/recording if you will): kind of necessary to complement the other balls. Fingers crossed for a holo-display system… immediate misuse potential: imagine Sydney with the ability to project a hologram of anything she’s recorded… the distraction potential is IMMENSE. (Hard-light power up????? Make me stop!!)
As regards the last, there are pages and pages of suggestions.
I don’t know if anyone asked this or posed this theory, but anyone else think the last orb might be biological like physical augmentation or genetic splicing like Ben 10 Omnitrix?
I do not recall that having been suggested.
Do you think Sydney might gain… say… canine features?
*looks at background art, as if mildly disinterested*
Lucky the aliens breathe air and not, like, phosphate esters.
If you check out the author’s recent comments, you will see that luck is not involved. They may well do.
SROP THE PRESSES
Red = fire
Green = life
Purple = air
Dark blue = space/water
Yellow = light
Purple = matter
Mabye brown is like earth bending or something
Couple questions. Why is the Shield Orb air? Or the Lighthook, it’s kinda hard to tell which one you mean. And why would the Flight Orb be space/water? I would think that ‘air’ would make more sense for that.