Grrl Power #668 – All’s fair in love and kaiju battle royale
Weirdly, Sydney’s flight orb doesn’t have nearly as much torque as you’d expect considering how fast she can go. That isn’t to say it doesn’t have a ton of juice, but Cyclops’s eyebeam there is used for paralyzing massive starships and stuff like that.
Cyclops actually has 5 eyes, but the one big one kind of dominates any discussions about him. Well, they call him 1.4 eyes, cause the 4 smaller ones… well, you get it.
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I’m curious if she can make multiple copies with telepresence or see anything with truesight.
I assume she hasn’t unlocked the multiple copies thing with telepresence yet… but what if the link between the speed orb (or the link with lighthook) and the telepresence/truesight orb actually allows her to, after making copies, choose which copy she wants to be in. This would be akin to creating multiple copies originating from a central area/her, but one of the copies that goes away from the center is the real her. (Rather than the central area/her staying the real one.)
That could get very confusing from the pov of the operator…she doesn’t have a brain like Harem’s, so input from multiple viewpoints would have an increasingly sharp learning curve with the more telepresence clones she has. As it is, pretty sure she either has to focus on the lightbee to be aware of its location, thus muting her local awareness, or…she focuses locally but could ‘lose’ the lightbee. The real question is, does it remain where she last sent it out, if she focuses on restarting the observation sequence after an interruption? We know it’ll restart at her own location, but that’s just a default positioning. (And would it take a skillpoint to ‘restart’ the lightbee at Last Used Location…?)
No worries. I have trust in Sydney’s ability to think creatively. She’ll find a way out of this.
She could just shoot it in the eye.
Yup. She doesn’t need Flight to stay up, thanks to the tractor beam, so shoot the core for massive damage
Yes, blasting it in the tractor-beam eye seems like the most obvious sourse of attack.
Want me closer? Here, have a energy beam! It travels so much faster.
You are forgetting about their shields tho
Maybe it would at least blind it?
Maybe the shield requires an opening while firing she never had a chance to test that last time
You’d think the tractor beam would grant the blast from Sydney a guarunteed hit, since it would pull the shot in.
And hopefully she’ll figure that out before Reeeen Reeen Rumble occurs.
or Ram it. If she can’t break out of the beam, Then I say fly towards at full speed, the tractor beam will give you a speed boost as it’s trying to pull you in that direction. I think it’s a fair bet the creature’s beam is only meant to prevent escapes or to hold the item still so it can use one of it’s own weapons on it. So this way we’ll build up a good amount of speed, for a hard impact on the emitter. True we’d have to hope the shield can withstand the impact as well. but on the other hand it’s likely it’s going to have to withstand a big impact either way, since the thing is likely to hit her with some other weapon now that she’s stuck. so if she’s going to get walloped either way least this way is just as dangerous to the creature getting hit.
Would it be for massive damage? No-Man would think to do that to a cyclops… But then, Sydney is no man of woman born, is she?
Unfortunately, I am guessing that Multicolor Sydney needs meds badly right now, which means that trying to follow Homer’s lead probably would derail her into thinking about donuts, while bringing up the Scottish Play would end up with her shouting, “There can be only one!”…
She can just represented to an new location, as long as she does it fast enough.
If only because Dabbler said Sydney would be too wise to fight one of those things (probably because of the extreme threat rating) and when they arrive to get her back she’ll be standing on an empire’s supply of their corpses.
This is it. This is the moment when the Deus Ex Machina occurs. Sydney is saved by…Sydney. Because this is the future. Whaat?!?
1. World is destroyed, but she spoke to them yesterday.
2. Too many Harems.
3. The enemies recognized the balls on sight and sent out their highest level response.
Sydney in this time will be notified by Harem that there are “too many” just like that “last time”.
Sydney will have many more features unlocked, will have fought these enemies before and beat them down repeatedly, and is a protector of earth. Also she is a Sergeant and has a cool suit built for her by Dabbler that allows her to use 3 balls. She floats down, destroys the enemies, and our Sydney is going “Whaaaaaaat!?!?!?!”. She can fly faster than light due to the comic (wormholes). She knew where to go because she had been there before. She tells Sydney she can’t tell her anything or it could destroy the universe. Sydney begs “Pleeeeeaase!!!” Her older self leans forward and whispers “Ben 10”, then leaves to join up with Maxima and Dabbler who she brought along within her shield. Maxima says “You didn’t tell her anything, did you? You can’t….”, then you hear our Sydney “EEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!” as she realizes what the clue meant. Maxima turns to Dabbler and says “Do it. But just for our time here”. Dabbler pulls out a gun and shoots Sydney, who had her shield down and her back turned. It causes her to forget a period of time, so she doesn’t remember how all of these bad guys are dead, but she knows it had to be her. However, we, the audience, remember and will know. Yay!
Just curious. Having never watched the series, what does “Ben 10” as a clue refer to?
Ben 10 was a cartoon serialized show in the US where a young boy had a special watch. He could change into 10 different aliens with it. Later, he runs into his future self, who calls himself Ben 10,000 because he has so many aliens he can’t keep track of them anymore.
Essentially, this tells Sydney that she will receive a tremendous amount of untold powers yet to be unlocked from her balls.
Can we please agree to call them “orbs”? On behalf of my 5 year old mind, thank you.
Thank you for the explanation of “Ben 10”, as well.
Heh. Sorry, yes, her orbs.
From a friend with the mind of a 13 year old “Orbs? She doesn’t have very big ones.” I swear I am going to throttle him /sigh
Ben 10 etc. several incarnations of the cartoon started first in 2005. Boy finds a “watch” the Omnitrix (omni-genetic-matrix) He can turn into 10 aliens. He finds out later its origins (alien) and that there are over 3 million. Designed to save genes from every intelligent species thus far found.
Just last year it was rebooted for the current generation at a quarter hour instead of half an hour show. Some changes, but same concept. Humans are also part of its matrix of genomes. The boy Ben has some flaws and he learns to be a better less obnoxious person. Along with his cousin Gwen, same age, same BD and very smart going all over the USA with their grandpa Max in the “Rustbucket”.
The rest you can use that thing called an “Internet” to locate all data.
A parallel universe would also fit those observations, but wouldn’t have the paradox problems that all the refugee souls fleeing though the portal would possibly cause in the time-travel variation.
Branching off of parallels does obviate the Grandfather Paradox. But the nearest ones to you in parameters are very close to you. The “further” away change more and more.
Sounds like a good time to teleport out!
Or use the PPO to destroy the tractorbeam emitter.
I’m thinking Sydney’s actually kinda screwed here. I know she survives this. My points on her being screwed,
1. 1.4 is not projecting a tractor beam, 1.4 is projecting a STASIS Beam as it is not pulling her towards him/her/cos as a tractor beam would, nor is it pushing her away like a repulsor beam would. It is holding her in a stationary position for the other two to get clear shots. Just because Sydney says it’s a tractor beam, doesn’t make it a tractor beam, she’s just going to the first choice given her gaming/comic knowledge.
2. If you look closely at the Lightbee orb, you can see it has a solid mini core which it releases as a scout/probe that just happens to glow brightly as it flies. Looks at the Lightbee when the core is out and you’ll see the difference. Since it is a solid core, the instance it leaves the safety of Sydney’s shield, it’ll be trapped by the stasis beam too, giving Sydney a teleport range of … 3 feet. Given that could be used to edge out of the beam if the emitter wasn’t mobile… which is it as it’s set into a creature’s head who would just follow the blipping (and probably swearing) Sydney as she attempted this. Admittedly I’m assuming the Lightbee core doesn’t have a immunity to Stasis effects.
3. Shooting the eye wouldn’t work, as taking how Sydney’s shield works in conjunction with the PPO by projecting a reticle from where the particle beam is emitted from, it would be safe to assume 1.4 (and family) ‘s shield works in a similar way, so 1.4 is still shielded against attack while projecting the beam. Also there’s a good chance that the stasis beam would stop the beam from ever reaching 1.4 as the particles would simply not move (also would prevent plasma in a similar manner and even lasers by preventing the motion of the heat transference).
1. Sounds plausible. She doesn’t seem to be moving towards 1.4.
2. Also plausible, given that Sydney had to maoevre the Lightbee through various openings instead of simply sending it through walls etc.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2402
3. Not sure about this one; Squidward’s shield seemed to be more form-fitting than Sydney’s, plus it wasn’t visible even when active. Still, she would have to shoot straight down the Stasis beam, and these guys have seen her defeat Squidward so are unlikely to underestimate her attack.
I’m expecting something to happen soon though, because these guys can probably keep this up longer than Sydney.
Sydney(After killing all three of them):’Pant, pant – take that! (pant) you bleepety bleeps! (pant).
BOOM! BOOM! BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM!!!
Sydney: ‘No. This isn’t happening. This just isn’t happening, man!’
Yeah, that’s probably a good time to fly off to a third of the way around the globe and hope to find something edible.
Yeah, pretty much what I think. I don’t think the lightbee is unstoppable and indestructible because that would just be too good.
If somebody is about to make a dramatic entrance, now would be a good time, or maybe after we see what happens to the lightbee. Still hoping it’s some mysterious unknown hero nobody’s heard of before. Preferably in a giant mech, but since DaveB has a hard time with mechanical stuff it’s optional.
I don’t have enough data to comment on 1 or 2, so I’ll just set those aside. #3, however…
We don’t really know how Squidward’s shield functioned (we saw it in action once), and it may not even be a shield as we would think of it. If it does work like Halo’s, this beam has to pass through it. Halo’s PPO beam (& other effects) originate outside the shield (by a few inches, in fact). This “tractor” beam (& Squidward #1’s eye beams, too) originates from the eye itself (no space). Still, a PPO slicing beam straight at the eye might make 1.4 blink, giving Sydney a moment to escape.
The blinking would likely not help Sydney much, since she can’t use flight, shield and PPO at the same time (and she doesn’t dare drop her shield).
Or, they’re holding her in place so they can communicate with her and negotiate terms for ceasing of combat. And the other three units powering up their weapons? They are the honour guard of the commander, and they’ve powered up their weapons as a mark of respect, because they acknowledge the Mighty Halo as a formidable combatant.
I don’t think this is the case, but I like the idea. :D
Is the lightbee even visible to anyone else, or is it simply an artifice visible to Sydney for reference by the orb, or is it a comic book thing so we the viewer can easily understand the visual media of the comic
It is. They follow it here:
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/494
I personally think it’s not a solid entity.
She Allred noted it’s made of light and could therefor pass through their shields.
Pretty sure the stasis beam won’t stop it.
1. We don’t know for sure what the beam is. The comic animation isn’t clear whether she is moving closer or staying in the same position. I tend to agree that it is likely a stasis beam as that would make the most tactical sense. The main evidence we are given is that Sydney says it is a tractor beam, so we kind of have to go with that. If she was truly not moving, she would likely comment that after she realizes it.
2. Interesting theory on the Lightbee mechanics. I like it. However, it doesn’t mean there is no options left to Sydney. If the beam is in fact a stasis beam, and she can move a few feet using the Lightbee, then she could use it to move TOWARD 1.4 and try to get inside his shield/so close that she would not be visible to him, making it impossible for his partners to shoot without hitting him. I personally think the Lightbee is probably immune to the stasis/tractor beam.
3. It is reasonable to assume the shield would block her shot or the beam might stop it.
The shield size is currently set to default tho she could enlarge it to be bigger then the tractor beam (its at default right now and is taking most of the beam already) which would not free her but would make it so Lightbee could escape without passing through the beam at which point tele to freedom becomes much more viable or at the very least tele to dodge. if 1.4 focuses on her tele works, if it tries to hold them both it would have to constantly change its aim based on where Lightbee escapes from while still at least grazing the bubble at which point shrink and run might just work.
change the shield size to be bigger then the stasis beam and use the light bee that way?
Tractor beams can be used to hold an object’s position, anchoring it from flying away. They don’t have to constantly be moving an object…or any starship towing another starship would constantly be smacking itself in the aft with the other ship.
Problem: If the orb is solid, and the light bee is solid, how does the light bee pass through the orb?
We’ve never actually seen the core being drawn leaving the main orb, but we know the main orb can teleport to the core, so the core teleports out of the main orb.
so…I strongly disagree with your first point…the beam is almost certainly a tractor beam:
Sydney is almost 4 times the size in the last panel, while 1.4 eyes is only a touch smaller. this means that we’ve changed perspective, so we can’t use visual size to determine what the beam is doing
Beyond that though, there are two indicators that she’s being pulled towards it and no indicators she’s being held in place: the colouring of the beam has yellow far closer to 1.4 eyes in the first image, and Sydney about to reach it in the second. And Sydney says it’s a tractor beam…I know you mentioned it could be a go-to term as a gamer, but comics rely on text to convey things that visuals fail to do, so I can’t imagine an intentionally misleading statement. Also I’m a gamer too, and am personally far more familiar with stasis beams or abilities than specifically tractor beams.
As a side note, even if it was a stasis beam, we can see through it, so it at the very least lets photons through, and so would let the light bee through (the light bee has to pass through the outer orb, and we’ve never seen any indications of the orbs opening or anything like that, which strongly suggests it’s light-based… and it’s also in the name)
Yes, we swung towards Sydney’s position without getting any closer to 1.4. Hence Sydney getting bigger while 1.4 doesn’t change size.
DaveB himself has said in a previous comic that the lightbee is based heavily off the lightbee from Red Dwarf, which is a solid projector. Just because it has Light in the name doesn’t mean it’s made of light, for example: lightbulb. Is a lightbulb made of light?
you…seem to have countered the least important point in my comment? right after repeating the first thing I said? I love debates and if I turn out to be wrong so be it, but if you’re going to reply to a comment, at least *mention* the topic the problem was actually about next time
the only thing I used the change in perspective to state was that we couldn’t use visual size as an indicator, though I suppose someone with better spacial math skills than me might be able to, though I doubt DaveB is taking that sort of thing into account when drawing.
you also then disputed the small sidenote to my small sidenote. the name bit was just to show that there’s a parallel there, and you skimmed over the actual evidence I had regarding the lightbee
that aside I’ve seen you comment elsewhere regarding the lightbee teleporting, and disagree with that aswell. there is another event suggesting the lightbee is not solid that I didn’t mention because someone else did earlier. it got out of her shield. there are three ways this could have happened:
1. it’s made of light and passed through
2. sydney opened her shield for it (this is extremely unlikely after she got hit with that rock-spike when she thought she was safe, I’m just putting it here to be thorough)
3. it can teleport outside of her orb…this brings up a whole skew of other problems…how far can it teleport? how fast is it done? what if you try to teleport it into something solid? would a gamer like sydney try to spam it leaving at max range and her teleporting to it to move faster than light?
from these possibilities, it being light is far more likely than the teleporting, as the teleporting brings up enough iffy questions and potential abstract uses that it would have been addressed at least in part when they were testing the orbs in the first place
1. The orbs are likely attuned to each other, allowing them to interact in ways such as allowing a solid spybot aka Lightbee pass through it without having to shut down the shield.
2. The Lightbee has to find an opening large enough for it to pass through otherwise back in the Mars facility when Sciona was introduced it could have simply flown through the dirty window, which DaveB said it couldn’t do, meaning it has some form of solid structure to it.
3. We know nothing can telelport through Sydney’s shields, as Harem found out in an earlier comic, but given the orbs are likely designed to interact with each other, the Lightbee is likely attuned to shield and can pass and teleport with the shield up. Otherwise, Sydney couldn’t have teleported to her vantage point against McKree since she still had her shield up when she teleported to the Lightbee.
Sydney!
PICARD MANEUVER!
Again – full marks.
+1
Even fuller!
+2
Halo isn’t even sitting down, so why would she need to pull her shirt back down?
Why? Is her uniform rumpled? The Picard maneuver is straightening your uniform ‘tunic’ (hard to call it a tunic when it’s a one piece uniform, but whatever) after standing. It was something Patrick Stewart did unconsciously on TNG that a few of the other cast decided to imitate.
I imagine they’re referencing the Star Trek canon Picard Manuever.
https://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Picard_Maneuver
Maybe she can poke it in the eye using the lighthook
Poke that one in the eye, slap all three in one fluid motion, then bump their heads together.
After muttering “Why I oughtta…”
Well, she is known for doing the Curly noises …
I’m thinking just try to teleport out.
Fly into to pull, Sydney. It’s the last thing they’d ever expect.
Mach 4+ Eye Pole of Justice!
So.. to be clear…
It’s not a weapon, it’s an attractor beam, and it’s large and likely relatively fragile (as compared to the outer armor).
And it’s probably unshielded at the moment and she’s basically perfectly lined up with it.
Eye-shattering kaboom in three… two…
Tractor beam hella OP, nerf inc. XD
Teleport into his mouth for cover, then shield up and light beam his head off Sydney >_<. Tell them about the god damn coupons!
It’s true that while in a tractor beam, and regardless of whether it’s the ‘hold you in place’ or ‘move you around’ kind, your flight ball is redundant and can be freely swapped for a different option.
i’d be willing to bet these are the ones dabbler called. just a guess she called that first ones boss told em the situation and they sent others so they could make sure she didnt get squashed by the first one.
The others are powering up, I doubt they are there to help.
That would require Dabbler to know who they’re dealing with, which she doesn’t. She has expressed a clear unfamiliarity with these entities, and has simply referred to the first one as “that thing”. If Dabbler had any idea who these aliens were, she would have said so.
Quick Sydney, switch to the comm-ball and teleport behind creepy-eye there!
That presumes that the light-bee cant be affected by the tractor beam itself. Depending on how it works, it could trap the light bee just as easily as her. That whole cylinder could effectively be an isolated dimension at this point for all we know.
She needs gorilla feet! 4 orbs at once! No problem. I’m sure they can do that, right?
So that is what the Eye of Sauron does.
IF statis beam and it stops her beam. Then the enemy’s beams would not affect her in the statis beam influence zone.
So if that’s the case then it’s just being used to hold her and planned on being dropped when beams are locked onto her to overwhelm her shields and kill her.
OR if beams can get through, then so can hers. Eye shot or Light Bee escape. Speed of Lightbee might be same as her own flight mode too.
If these are smart aliens and have fought Orb bearers before. They’ll know that she will need air refresh and thus are holding her, guns ready waiting for her to grab fresh air. (not knowing of her emergency air pack)
She could use the tenta-orb to form a spiral shield between her and the tractor/stasis beam then side slip out at full accel.
Lightbee seems to be the best choice here if the rapid fire doesn’t even make alien beamer blink.
Waiting for her to drop the shield for air wouldn’t work very well, she has the life support orb that can generate air.
The rest of the suggestions are certainly options, but we don’t have enough information to know hiw successful they might be. Mostly seems to hinge on exactly HOW the beam is immobilizing Sydney.
Did neither of you read Sydney’s dialogue in the last panel? It’s a “tractor beam”. One which, according to the author’s notes, can be used against starships. It’s just pulling her in.
I never said it wasn’t a tractor beam, just that it had Sydney immobilized, meaning she can’t move away from it of her own volition. Ease back on the condescension a little?
Right, Sydney immediately called it a tractor beam because she can’t fly away while in it and that’s the geek culture reference her brain supplied. But that doesn’t mean that she knows jack-all about how it really works, other than the aforementioned ‘I can’t fly away!’ part of its capabilities. You claiming that it is pulling her in is a bit premature, since there doesn’t seem to be any movement indicators in the last panel. Holding her in place while whatever the Reeeen Reeeen Rumble happens seems to be just as likely, if not more so. You don’t want to pull something that you’re about to unload on with maximum destructive power any closer to you, after all.
I only just noticed that Sydney’s hair has been down since she got buried in rubble. Between that and the scar, I’m wondering how different she’ll look when the others finally see her again…
…and how long Sydney will maintain the “battered warrior who was left behind on an alien world” look?
Surprise plot twist. The titans are actually the true owners of this planet. They have recently tried to reclaim it by attacking those nasty pale elf-thingies and crushing them. Now they want to talk to Sydney and find out if she is with the invaders, since she arrived with one.
None of them ever saw Sciona, though.
It was Sci walking over the sentry that woke it up
It never actually SAW her, though. It sensed something moving over it, but never looked at Sciona. They never confirmed the presence of a surviving Alari. (And Sciona no longer qualifies.)
I think that we can safely assume that there was a scanning involved.
Instantly and invisibly scanning her DNA the instant it woke up? Looking at page #641, the drone took a few seconds to turn on after Sciona walked over it. It was buried and offline when Sciona left, and it never scanned in her general direction. Everything in the pages with the drone suggests that it never actually *noticed* Sciona herself at all.
Is the 1 head on the right a refrence to asura’s wrath
People seem to be forgetting Dabbler ‘made a call.’
Someone is going to show up and help her get out of there before she accumulates too many exp points.
Am I the only one who thinks there’s a lack of consistency with the orbs leveling up? Eh, maybe we just don’t understand the rules.
Am I the only one who thinks Dabbler’s “I made my call” means she had made a declaration on what was going on, not a “call” as in a long-distance communication? But yes, I do think somebody else shows up first.
And yes, we don’t know the rules on that, but it never happened while Sydney was still using them.
You might not be the only one, but the list does not include me.
That she “phoned” someone is the only way I can interpret
what she said.
Someone off-planet.
You what has a phone it it? A Police Box. :)
Can’t remember the exact wording, butt fairly sure, once they got back to what use to be Sci’s base, Dabbles mentioned she knew people who could help, so that implies that her declaration “I made my call” is connected to that, plus the fact Maxi is conceding to her call to stand down doesn’t make sense: Maxi is the boss of Arc-SWAT (yes General Faulke is boss of the entire Archon) and Dabbles is simply a ‘civilian’ consultant
Oh, she did say she had to make a call. Forgot about that. And that she needed a power source. Hmm…
I guess the big question is whether Deus is working with them or not. We’ll know based on who shows up next.
It is curious how Dabs phrased that. It is phrased in such a way to cause you to think of multiple scenarios. (ah language is a weird thing at times)
I don’t think we are talking about ‘call’ being ‘communication.’ My first interpretation would be they are waiting for a specific event to happen before they can act.
My primary bet is on Dues and Vale to open a portal to Alari. They have the Skybreaker., It is also heavily implied by the towers in the desert that they have the power. It can also explain Harems comment of “there were too many of me”
now we don’t know a lot of how the modified artifact work with Scionas additions, buy Skybreaker might also have been ‘preset’ a bit to open the portal that way, and probably also to use blood as a power source?. Dabs herself said that traveling in time also takes an inordinate amount of power compared to a regular portal (paraphrase when talking about Krona)
I can see Maxs frustration as well. Being told to wait for a indeterminate time, unsaid event happened would be similar to us (the peanut gallery :-) to wait for the next update after a cliff hanger (like DaveB would ever do that) . :P
Time to tickle that guy with a particle beam to the eye, I’d say.
…My 2 cents-switch weapon mode, then swap out to comball/lightbee. All the Squidwards have seen is the cutting beam-autofire might at least activate tracsquid’s shield, cutting off the tbeam(equivalent to a blink). At best autofire might go thru their now tuned shields…
he seems like a friendly guy. He’s also primed for a power beam straight through his big eyeball.
Possibly, but Sydney was unable to penetrate the first guy’s forcefield and they were at an impasse before she used the light-bee to get inside it’s force field. And they were trading shots also, so Sydney should have a decent idea if they can fire through their own force fields without dropping them just as she can.
Spending the few moments before the Reeeen Reeeen Rumble concludes shooting at something she knows she can’t penetrate might not be the best course of action. It seems to me that swapping flight for telepresence and light-bee teleporting out of the tractor, and also out of the target area for Reeeen Reeeen Rumble seems to be the most prudent option.
It is also a tactic straight out of Sun Tzu: When your enemy tries to fix you in place, be elsewhere.
Three steps, in quick succession –
1) Grow shield until it’s bigger than the beam – shows you where the tractor is, gets lightbee out of beam
2) Move lightbee to safety (or at least other side of one of the big monsters from cyclops)
3) iris hole in the shield and teleport.
Looks like the rumble guy on the right is about to barf up some liquid owie.
That plan would appear to fail on step 1, since we know that Sydney can’t grow the force field without dropping it for at least a fraction of a second. Not being in the force field for any length of time while in a combat situation does not seem like a survival trait.
Also:
Huh? Why would you conclude that the tractor isn’t originating from the large eyeball? The one that opened and then shot out a beam of sparkly energy immediately before Sydney could not fly away?
I mean, I guess I can understand if you think that the sparkly energy is just your typical attack blast ray and the tractor is coming from some other undisclosed, location, because a comic panel can’t explain everything, but for me and apparently many others just going on the many “Shoot it in the eye! That’ll fix that whole tractor beam problem!” comments that most people take from the context that the eye beam is the tractor beam.
Believe they meant the limit slash edge of the beam: at the moment, the beam is fully encompassing Sydney, by Embiggening Mr Buble she might be able to get LightBee outside of beam
Honestly, given that the lightbee goes right through their shields we have no reason to believe it will be affected by the tractor. It’s made purely of light, it can pass through anything that harmless light passes through.
We are still assuming those things even have shields
The Lightbee is modelled after Ace Rimmer’s HardLightEmitter, which means: *drumroll please* it is solid, the image of Halo it emits is made of light
Expand forcefield to extend beyond the tractor beam, telecast to make it look like she’s flown out, and hope the alien readjusts long enough to give her an escape window?
Gonna be tricky to pull of a stnt like that when there are multiple sets of eyes looking at her, at least one set will see she hasn’t moved
What’s that above and behind the Giant squid…looks almost like a giant scorpion tail with “mouth” drooling…is that the ship moving in?
Nope. There are just three giant monsters, and they don’t all have uniform biology.
you can do it Sydney shoot him in his big glowing eye!
god every step of this battle is so much fun, i’m waiting for the moment she will go in her cursing frenzy while blasting all of them…
Meh, why not just call it a 3×3 eyes. Heh, wonder if anyone even remembers that anime. https://img1.ak.crunchyroll.com/i/spire3/a162924f3fa4683bd225fa5047a1b1aa1441586070_large.png
Accelerate to tractor beam source, fire PPO at point-blank range, GTFO?
I’m calling it now, Sydney is going to die here. Here seventh orb will turn out to be a 1 up orb with a 24 hour cooldown.
On re-read a thought occurs. Sydney will be (somewhat) fine, we know this from the start. The amount of orbs she has however is Not set in stone and these aliens, if anyone, could possibly have the skill set to destroy/untether/capture them.
Teleport orb, teleport orb!!!
One thing people are forgetting (or simply don’t understand) about Tractor Beams: they immobilise your movement, so Sydney can’t just zoom down it into the eye
Cue the battle music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17yZAqMoKy0
The one using the Tractor beam, seems to be of a higher rank, than the others, once you have been in the military, you can recognize an Officer anywhere, Officers are the same everywhere.
It occurs to me that the aliens don’t know she can teleport. If she can time an exit when the initial beam starts but before the ‘boom’, they’ll think they’ve got her and will leave.
Yes…that was my idea also.
Is the pewpew beam only?
If she could make explosive energy balls then exploding one
and teleporting away might look like a self-destruct.
Which orb does she release to grab Lightbee to perform the teleport? The Shield or the Flight?
Tractor as in Attractor Beam :P
This all begs the question, why would you want to suck items into your eye? Does not seem safe.
This isn’t the first time Sydney has had trouble with eye beams (or was it ‘I’ beams?)
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2023
Step 1: Unhand the Flying Orb
Step 2: Grab the Lazer Orb
Step 3: Directly Explode the eye looking at you
Yeah, that’s what it WANTS her to do.