Grrl Power #674 – Space cavalry
Psyche! I bet you thought that would be Sydney coming outta that wormhole, didn’t you?
Ag. So many double sized pages. Hand. Clawlike…
So this is Cora, a character I haven’t drawn for a very long time, probably since before I started the comic. She wasn’t a blue alien the last time. Actually a fair amount about her has changed, but she’s always been Dabbler’s friend.
The anti-mass driver is just a railgun that fires antimatter projectiles, in case you were wondering. I suppose it would be cool if it was a beam that disrupted the Higgs field. I have no idea what would happen if fundamental particles suddenly ceased to have mass. Probably it would be the same as disintegrating something, because everything would just fly off in random directions. Possibly accompanied by massive explosions and radiation? But no. Just antimatter projectiles. Still, that’s multiple levels of suck for whatever you’re targeting. Not only the Götterdämmerungian kinetic energy delivered by something going… let’s say 0.7 C, but also the mutual annihilation of everything in its path.
Okay, here’s a thought. What if you had an antimatter projectile that was multiple projectiles all matryoshkaed inside one another? Like each layer was sort of like a sabot round. The projectile hits something, apocalyptic explosion ensues, but the interior of the projectile continues forward until it hits the next significant piece of matter. Sort of like a 5 stage antimatter bunker buster?
Yeah. That’s what the anti-mass cannon shoots. Seems like bonkers overkill honestly, unless you’re bombarding the Emperor of Mankind in his bunker under the Himalayas.
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I can just imagine Sydney flying out of the Earth end of her wormhole and arriving at Arcon headquarters just as Dabbler recieves a message from Cora asking “Are you sure Halo is here?”
The second part of that message is:
“Also there was something way worse than space squids here. We’re not sure what it is, but it killed a bunch of them and left really scary particle trail behind it before vanishing”
“We’re detecting unusual levels of profanity in the southern quadrant. Gotta admit that info is spot on about her toxicity.”
Take a look at the last page again. Sydney isn’t heading for Earth.
Actually, she might be, if the theory that the last one is fuzzy because that’s where she currently was and the orbs can’t open a wormhole to where you already are is correct.
Once again with feeling class “There is no overkill. There is only shoot and reload”. Yes, in the back of the class. uh huh, I understand the confusion but yes you do reload weaponized energy weapons.
>weaponized energy weapons
As opposed to peaceful energy weapons?
Professor Death was offended by the idea of that weaponized energy weapon used for non-peaceful goals.
https://vimeo.com/64522190
Like industrial lasers?
If you’re using an industrial laser as a weapon, that isn’t very peaceful.
Yes. Like Dazzlers, or brown-note generators, or directed-sound queeze-cannons.
“I Brought’em all online.”
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is… … is that the space version of “that’s what she said”?
My guess is more along the lines of all weapons are ready just in case or perhaps you know I’m always trying to be prepared for the worse
Got a theory about the orbs. The orbs are an extradimensional kid’s video game. 65 million years ago s/he was playing a new level and beat the dinosaur level, but while saving the game the save file got corrupted. And he hadnt saved for a while so when s/he went to his/her previous save he found that s/he lost a ton of his/her upgrades. Frustrated s/he threw his game into the ocean and left to play a different game. Sort of like how I quit mass effect when the disc got scratched and by the time I got a replacement game Ialready had gotten into other games and never went back to finishing mass effect.
It’s a good theory.
Mine is that it’s actually just Sydney! She’s the strongest, most powerful “Super” in probably the galaxy. They’re a manifestation of her power, because of who she is. She’s a nerd, so subconsciously she manifests herself and her powers as these orbs with various abilities and a skill tree. Because nerds love skilltrees.
And when she found them while scuba-diving, they finally manifested, because she was actually drowning.
Given the inferiority complex surrounding her non-super form, I find it very hard to believe that she’s internalised such a self image as the paragon of attractiveness that, by all known laws of the Grrl Power universe, should be brought out by any such innate powers. That, to me, makes the theory implausible, even if it is a fun one to consider.
Sorry, Primateus, but there are a lot of problems with that idea.
1.) Why doesn’t Sydney remember it that way?
2.) Why didn’t Sydney know about the green orb’s air production?
3.) Why does the “history tab” already have at least 3 planets available?
4.) Why does Sydney need to physically hold the orbs in her hands to use them?
5.) Sydney clearly isn’t a “super”, and she definitely has normal human parents, so where did these powers come from?
1) Well, memory is tricky, people can repress all kinds of traumatic events and then fill in the blanks with what they thought happened.
2) I believe I’ll refer to my idea about the skill tree. She’s manifesting it in that way because she’s a nerd who also plays roleplaying games. One part of that is “growing” into your power and discovering new abilities, etc.
3) Maybe she’s just filling it in as she goes?
4) Maybe she doesn’t? Maybe she doesn’t haven’t actually “realized” that she doesn’t need to?
5) Where does any superpowers come from? Also, how do we know Sydney definitely has normal parents? How do we know this? Answer = we don’t, not really.
But you’re not entirely wrong. A lot of things have to go just right for my idea to work. But it’s always fun to speculate.
That seems more like hexis stick than Sydney’s. Remember hex has a similar power to sit me but hex doesn’t actually touch her power projections and signals case I think it’s more like she is a variation on Thor in the orbs are variation on her hammer. What makes it make even more crazy sense is the fact that Thor unworthy Thor as he is still has the power of thunder and lightning I think there was the storyline thunder in her veins
The orbs being a video game created by a species so advanced and powerful that it totally ceased to think of other life as having value is still the strongest theory, I think.
My hypothesis from the beginning is that the orbs are alien survival gear. They were never activated until Sydney touched them and they keyed to her bio-field. Alas no way to access the operating system and manual for it. I still consider it viable.
Anti-matter sabot rounds would be unlikely to be useful for the same reason sabot missiles would not be useful. As soon as it hit any matter it would explode, which would blow apart (and throw off-course) the succeeding sabot rounds. See the section on Efficiency:
https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacegunexotic.php
That’s a fantastic website.
Also, if fundamental particles ceased to have mass, it’d do weird things but I doubt they’d fly apart – most would be held together by the EM, strong, and weak forces, wouldn’t they? As long as it’s a coherent object. Eliminating mass would probably cause loosely-packed asteroids to fly apart depending on, I dunno, rotation maybe, but the individual rocks/ice/debris would stay together. So probably relatively harmless for a space ship which would be held together by screws and welds.
I think particles would “fly apart” if they lost mass. They would behave as energy. The strong force deals with maintaining the atomic nucleus together and acts on particles with mass. The weak force deals with particle decay but also acts only on particles with mass. An EM field with enough strength might catch them but still the original form would be lost and they would go out in all directions one it stopped.
Gravity is the weakest of the forces, it only has any effect when there is a large amount of mass accumulated. It has effectively zero impact on the structure of a space ship.
Most solid objects are held together by electromagnetic forces, such as covalent bonding between atoms. Gravity is not involved at this scale.
The atoms and particles are held together by the weak and strong nuclear forces.
Gravity might be a weak force but it holds planets and stars together. Consider the spin and pressure that would literally tear apart our little world. The heat of the core alone would destroy the Earth leave aside the centripedal force from the spin. Nope Earth would “explode” but it would less pyrotechnics and more bits flying everywhere in slowmo because of the size. And now there is a new asteroid belt (after it all settles down in a few thousand years. You have to remember Earth is mostly liquid and we live on a thin crust of solid rock.
you’re talking range, not strength. An example of how weak gravity is:
get a cheapie flexible fridge magnet. use it to pick up a paperclip and consider this:
gravity is so weak that an 8000-mile ball of mass can’t generate enough force to overcome the electromagnetic force in that cheap fridge magnet.
That’s gotta be at least a coupla dozen orders of magnitude.
Other simple example is an object falling from the top of a tower. gravity pulls it down. strong and weak forces makes it spatter against the ground.
And honestly, if you’re using a railgun you’re probably going relativistic – and at that point, you may as well not bother using antimatter. You’re going to get the same explosion without it, and it’ll be a lot safer for you to operate.
well you could make a sabot round idea work if it was a normal casing which contains anti-matter in some sort of magnetic suspension ie using the casing to pierce and deliver the anti-matter deeper inside of the target before releasing. honestly what would be the point not much would be gained from being able to penetrate isnt it like 1 gram of anti-matter would be equal to that of a nuke?
If I remember correctly antimatter/matter reactions follow the E=MC^2 equation at 100% efficiency. So the mass of both sides would be completely converted into energy and that’s a lot of energy.
That’s only true if 100% of the antimatter makes contact with 100% of the matter. This would likely work for well-mixed stuff, but if you’re talking a solid brick of the stuff, as soon as the leading edges touch each other, the resulting explosion would likely drive the remains of the blocks apart – likely in pieces.
Still a lot of energy, but less than E=mc^2 would suggest.
well that’s the thing though you don’t need a brick as I said and after looking back into it and doing some math just one gram of antimatter would produce around 1.22 megatons the USA currently strongest active nuke is the b83 which is variable but can have a max yield of 1.2 megatons. for the sake of perspective, the bombs that were used during ww2 were 13 and 20 kilotons.
anti-matter
On the other hand, a missile with a nose made to punch through and leaving an explosive package out the rear each time it punches through something might be useful…
Wow, Aliens from the planet Dang have arrived.
If I could upvote this comment, I would never stop.
Sorry, but the antimatter railgun would be a lame weapon. Put a bale of hay in its path, BAM, instead of a kinetic arrow of gods you have a flash of light spreading in all directions. Just don’t forget your sunglasses.
It’d be a lot more than just a flash of light, it’d be a lot of hard radiation too (gamma rays). And the light would be…pretty bright. Probably closer to a laser than a flashlight.
Not to mention, your criticism could apply to a lot of things – put a bale of hay in front of a missile and the missile might detonate before hitting its target. It could block a lot of beam weapons too. And the leading edge of the antimatter might just blow the bale of hay apart, letting the majority of antimatter pass through the resulting debris cloud.
Okay, let’s take a simple gas – as present as an atmosphere on nearly every planet. There’s no blowing that away. Each layer of the antimatter projectile will burst apart upon first contact with the atmosphere, creating a bit of firework right on its edge.
The radiation from the annihilation might have some mid to long term effects, but it’s not going to be an effective weapon by any means. Not remotely worth the effort of creating, storing, transporting and firing such an object.
Technically, you could fire an energy weapon through the atmosphere to temporarily burn it away along the path of the projectile, but the amount of antimatter that would be created when the vacuum collapsed would make firing an antimatter projectile redundant. Not to mention that the beam itself would probably punch right down to the moho.
Depends. if you wrap it in a warp/stasis field that separates it from the matter of your own gun, you could time when it arrives. I’m pretty sure a civilization capable of generating enough anti-matter to use it as weapons has no trouble overcoming that little bump.
It’s good to have friends in Spacial Astronomical Places.
Please tell me those ridiculous Boobs and muscle are just padded parts of the uniform. This is getting a little silly.
Cheesecake and beefcake are a promised part of Grrlpower. It’s the artistic opposite of Order of the Stick.
If you are advanced enough for interstelar travel you are most likely also advanced enough to alter your body traits.
Including massive spinal reinforcement and restructuring of back muscles that must be involved here.
And presumably somehow learning to function independently without being able to bring your hands together in front of you, let alone reach anything on the other side of your body without turning.
United Federation of 0% Body Fat Planets.
0% body fat means you are dead. There was a Sliders about that. They developed a biological means of reducing fat and it went out of control. You brain needs 25% of your carbohydrate intake to function. Being a fat head is normal and natural. Constricted your vocal cords and you went all cannibal to get that much needed fat.
Breasts are modified sweat glands and I find those two disturbingly large. Some women do have breast reduction surgery for that anomaly. Mammalian hypertrophy. I find it not just distracting—also ugly.
The more muscular the smaller they would be to put it simply. Unless she is pregnant.
Blue skinned humanoids seen them in Star Trek and Dr. Who. Also some beings on Earth have been seen that have blue skin. Usually to do with aquatic nature.
So, Dabbler has the kind of pull (or money) necessary to divert a spaceship. And the contacts, ability to talk to them at interstellar distances, etc. She is really slumming on Earth. Are supers just that interesting?
I think they’re just that tasty: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1694
So, Dabbler has the kind of pull (or money) necessary to divert a spaceship. And the contacts, ability to talk to them at interstellar distances, etc. She is really slumming on Earth. Are supers just that interesting?
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Given the statement “Dabbler and Cora seem to have some similar hobbies” I’m reasonably certain this crew is basically Cora’s harem.
Heh. She’s an alien even though she certainly looks delightfully human. Maybe her species has a mating season like many species of animals, and for most of the time they’re not even interested in sex? Or they instinctively monogamous like some species of birds? Maybe she belongs to a species that reproduces like plants do, by producing and breathing in pollen? Or maybe plants and animals never diverged on her world, and people grow on trees, and the tree stage does al the reproducing while the mobile stage (Cora and her kind) takes care of the tree forms? Thing about aliens is, they’re alien. :) Seriously, you may well be right, but personally, I would love it if DaveB turned the whole ‘sexy alien’ trope on its head like that.
I mean, I do like trope reversals, and DaveB is pretty clever, but he also seems to like writing erotic stuff, so I don’t know if I’d gamble on him rocking the boat with this one.
Besides which, a reverse harem is still playing with tropes a little (more so I think when this comic started and likely when this scene was planned, but w/e)
True, but in a webcomic called ‘Grrrlpower’ a reverse harem situation is almost predictable. Oh well, whatever DaveB has decided, it’ll most likely be good, I’m thinking.
If he reversed the inny and outy without telling readers it would be really confusing.
High-heels … in … SPAAAAAAAAACE!!!!
What kind of foot structure would require a race to wear high heeled boots?
Or is it a brain structure thing?
high heel somehow makes a butt more proeminent so it isn`t a stretch that someone who is a human shaped humanoid want to emphasize her assets.
after all, who doesn’t like nice firm buns?
Any species that likes to show off their ass ;D
The basic idea of an antimatter weapon is that a payload the mass of a bullet causes an explosion the size of a nuke. More specifically, 1 gram of antimatter weapon striking a target made of matter will produce somewhere around a 43 kiloton explosion (tnt equivalent, somewhere in tactical-nuke range), but a good chunk of that can be converted to neutrinos which won’t damage the target with the blast. That’s assuming total annihilation, with all antimatter combining with matter, rather than some of it being scattered into space because the rest of it just sent it flying that way rather than into the target.
So our “bunker-buster” would have to have a series of internested containment shells that are tough enough to survive a series of nuclear explosions so point-blank that ground zero is AROUND each subsequent shell. Our current models for antimatter containment are basically strong magnets, and yet each layer of containment would need to survive not only the EMP of the exterior layers detonating, but the extreme magnetic disruption of a mass driver. Also, the extreme acceleration. Magnets have limited strength and if you accelerate too quickly the magnets will NOT be strong enough to maintain containment. Also, deceleration from striking the target. Having each layer fail at exactly the right moment, rather than all at once because of impact, is… silly.
(They seem to have artificial gravity, though, so I guess you could use a gravity-based mass driver, which would avoid most of the problems of acceleration and EMP at launch.)
A better approach might be something akin to a 19th century shell — basically a hollow round stuffed with dynamite and a delayed impact fuse. It’s not MUCH of a delay… just long enough for the shell to penetrate and explode INSIDE the target rather than against its armor. It seems less fancy, but when you’re designing a weapon that needs to function just right in the middle of a nuclear battlefield when striking a target at relativistic velocities, “fancy” is another word for “overengineered” and “likely to malfunction”.
The most effective antimatter weapon option would probably be a positron particle beam. Particle beams are much easier to project at relativistic velocities than something you’d stick in a mass driver, and positron/electron reactions produce almost pure photons, which can harm structures and crew on their own and rapidly turn into heat which is also pretty dangerous. You’d lose almost no energy to neutrinos. For a bunker-buster, just follow up with two or three more shots.
…. Jiggawatt is terrifying.
…. though honestly, the technology that lets you open up a wormhole to wherever suggests far more terrifying weapons. Just open one end of the wormhole is placed in the center of the enemy’s lungs and the other in, oh, I dunno, a star. (Hello, Farscape.)
Those high-heel not-heel boots look very uncomfortable.
If she has human-style feet? Probably. (Unless that dark patch near the heel is just exterior color and it’s just a normal boot.)
Her limbs are mechanical.
Golden Man from panels 3,4,5 strikes me as someone else who might have encountered one of Maxima’s super power lottery space geodes. He’s got the skin color and the pointed ears down. His hair is not purple, which is a point against given what little we know, but that could be explained by natural pigmentation before getting space geode watered.
If he is the recipient of a space geode, then Dabbler is presumably playing head games with Maxima (more so than usual), as Dabbler being Dabbler, there’s seemingly no way she wouldn’t know about the space geodes, or that Max is “using” one.
He’s even got the same kind of elf ears.
I was about to post the same idea before I found this. If is is true, then Max may have found someone she could date for real without fear of damaging him in more amorous situations. He is even has a military service background, so they would have something in common to talk about.
Maxima’s power pool set up would presumably let her do this, if she were afraid of injuring her partner. She could just dump all her points into energy projection or something… and then not project energy. Whether or not she needs to do this is unclear. Given the way she and Deus reacted, there may have been something there, and Deus is just a baseline human (as far as we know). Deus has also, apparently, made a habit of bedding super ladies, which would imply that in-universe lethal super destructo woopie is not really a thing.
And she does know people she could date safely if it is an issue, most of them just work for her, which is a whole ball of wax for a military commander. However, there are Terran non space geoded non alligned supers who are likely durable enough.
More interesting, I think, is that if there are others who actually know what the Space Geode is; there may be a way for Maxima to temporarily turn the thing off. She didn’t care for it when it first emerged, and she’s not fond of the way it affects her current interpersonal relationships. Counting against this are the physiological changes the geode seems to have caused. Max’s blood is now blue, for example, and she’s got pointed ears, which seems to indicate that the Space Geode, she is a one way street. Still, it’s a comic universe, anything’s fair game.
Even if Max can’t manage her condition, more Space Geode users in the setting might lead to the reveal of a Space Geode kryptonite (since if there are a lot of other shiny golden people crusading across the universe, someone, somewhere has probably spent considerable resources trying to kill them). That could have an interesting impact on future conflicts in the comic.
Good points. Still, Max doesn’t give the impression of still being a virgin at 34, so she probably found some way of dealing with it.
Yes, that was rather my point. There are multiple ways that Max can deal with it, if she even has to.
The bit about turning the gold off had more to do with the way that Max feels that it makes her an exotic object (something I think the author has commented on several times; it’s on her cast page). Recall young Max’s misery when the gold started coming in. Given the chance, she would presumably only go gold when she had to. She’d still be a super (and thus granted a degree of what is essentially the current ideal of physical attractiveness, as all natural Supers seem to get), and thus would still be objectified (which she’s not fond of), but likely to a lesser extent.
It occurs to me that anti-matter particle accelerator weapons could be defended against by having layers of anti-matter armor sandwiched in with your regular armor (not quite touching obviously). Besides if you can get the annihilation blast to shape outward it can act like reactive armor as well.
If you have the technological prowess to do something like that safely, you wouldn’t need such a defense because you’d already have much easier and safer ways of deflecting antimatter attacks at your disposal.
Also, when your containment system failed (it’s not a matter of if), having that much antimatter means that the size of the explosion is “Earth’s atmosphere is blown into space and the continental plates all shatter” at a minimum. The upper end is “A supernova destroys the solar system you’re in.”
Green dude is clearly the Math of this group.
He would bring them all online, if you know what I mean….
You’re the kind of D&D player that the DM has to keep a short leash on, aren’t you, Dave?
The green alien both looks and feels like an alternate universe alien Math. Swept back “hair”, the attitude…
And then we have a non-shiny, black-haired, yellow-skinned man that for all intents and purposes could be a Max/Hiro love-child (stands the exact same way Hiro does). I’m NOT saying that he is; I just love drawing comparisons due to the artist’s style + random mumbo jumbo. Finding parallels like these is fun for me!
Btw, I LOVE your design for Cora’s armor/body suit. It’s wonderful!
That alien has the longest thigh I’ve ever seen!
I was wondering when Dabbler’s plan would show its hand, and of course it shows up predictably late.
I knew there was a trope for this; https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheCavalryArrivesLate
My thoughts exactly… or rather, I thought of said other half first.
For a second, when I saw the 4th and 5th panels, I thought the ship was crewed by people who had been exposed to geodes like the one that gave Max her powers. I mean, gold skin, pointed ears…
thought it was max’s son for a second lol
Yes, he DOES look like a hybrid of Max and Hiro, doesn’t he. If only this ship came from the future, I would have called him Hiro Jr. in a heartbeat.
Given the wide variety of life/body shapes this world has produced in the last 250 million years or so, I find it hard to believe that ANY alien life would look like us.
Right down to musculature even. We, as a species, aren’t exactly the most efficient form, our shape is more of a…. what’s the word…? Compromise! than anything else.
(Not that I can think of a Better shape/solution of course)
Star Trek handwaved it with ancient genetic seeding, but it’s incredibly unlikely for something like that to affect the outward appearance in a certain way while allowing larger differences in internal physiology.
But here, if there is an explanation it may be related to why supers look the way they do.
To be perfectly honest you REALLY don’t need anti-matter if you wanna cause nuke-level explosions, when you’re capable of sending mass projectiles at 70% of lightspeed.
Hell, just at 10% of lightspeed you’d already cause gargantuan amounts of damage with ordinary bullets.
If you then scale that up to AA-gun levels of mass at 70% of lightspeed? You could probably annihilate a city-sized moonbase with a few passes. Each bullet would have the destructive power normally associated with large non-nuclear missiles or small nukes. Force = mass*acceleration, and if you get 500 grams of depleted uranium moving at 0.7c, that’s a LOT of force. You’d need high-energy forcefields to withstand that.
The main difficulty
To me it suggest that getting or making antimatter is easy/cheap enough that they go “heck why not”.
I know they are in an very advanced space ship but just imagine if they loose to the squids and Sydney comes back since the jump destination was a dud and rescues them… that would probably qualifie for the big guns comment… Either they still can take her back or they can make sense of that jump display and can teach/show Sidney how to use it.
It just occurred to me that Cora’s crew may also be her “man candies”.
Several people have commented on Dabbler’s pull to be able to command a battleship as a taxi. Do we know that this is a battleship? For one thing, it has a lot more windows than I’d expect a battleship to have. The center section looks like the type of promenade or solarium that you’d see on a pleasure yacht or cruise ship. It has weapons, but those might be anti-piracy defensive weapons.
That part looked to me like a moon roof for romantic views, so at first I thought it was Dabbler’s ship.
It might be Dabbler’s ship from a long time ago that she lost in a game of mixed skill and chance to Cora. Or maybe just an orgasm contest like in Moon Over June except some computer-controlled vibrator and first one to succumb loses. Anywho, a contest with the ship as a bet.
What disturbs me is that the apparent globe shield isnt centered around the ship but instead is up and to the left of the center from a front facing veiw.
“globe shield”? Do you mean the purple swirl part? That seems to be coming from the purple sphere under the nose.
Back at the club, there was some insinuation that Dabbler was a space princess of some sort…
Also, I’m pretty sure this is not a battleship with a command deck with so few personnel / controls. I think it’s Cora’s version of the Millenium Falcon, pieced together with whichever toys the current owner wanted. Basically a flying modified nerf gun.
Missed her by that much…
I must admit I like the simple fact that Dabbler had described Sydney as a tough friend in need of a lift from a hostile LZ rather than squishy young human I met a week ago. I think when Syd eventually gets home she takes over the title of “Goddess of Ash”.
Now Dabbler’s going to get some post-engagement intel on just what Sydney can do from an outside source. I can imagine her reaction:
“So she took down 3 Kaiju level threats and then left, apparently unscathed except for a bruise on her stomach? OK, gonna have to reevaluate my assessment of Halo’s combat level a bit…”
She’s already “The Mighty Halo”. Do you really think Sydney needs an ego boost? Besides, Maxima still has the greatest destructive power on the team. That title isn’t going anywhere.
This just in! Webcomic artist’s hand literally falls off due to too many double pages! More at 11!
But seriously thanks for doing these double pages to help show us what comes next.
Let me guss they missed syd by 5 min..
I love this ship. I also like the theory that the orbs are a manifestation of Sydney’s own power. Both Sydney and Max were chosen, maybe like Mulnier to Thor, they are deemed worthy.
Then it’d be less “manifestation of their powers” (especially as pre-unification / merger, they were powerless). And more “manifestation of their destinies”.
The later of which I can agree on. They were destined to get what they got.
It has ben suggested pretty heavily that Max was born a super, and the geode somehow enhanced her powers. Without it, she would have been more like Hiro.
I’m still curious as to whether the HUD was displaying previously visited planets or… is it a list of types? “Port me to the nearest tech hub” vs “Port me to a Class (whatever) planet.”
E=mc^2 my friends. In an Antimatter/matter reaction, ALL mass is converted to energy (though some may reform into particles throughout various reactions). So one tiny gram of antimatter comes in contact with the hull of a ship at very high speed. The only concern I am giving the speed is that it gives the fraction of time needed for the remainder of the mass to get inside the now very rapidly disintegrating hull as the outer layer of your gram bullet interacts with the surrounding matter. As each particle/antiparticle interact, they release massive energy, heating up both the surrounding matter and the antimatter bullet, so in fractions of a second, you have two expanding spheres of gas, one matter, one antimatter, merging and interacting more. In less than a second you are going to have a 100% conversion, and the remaining surrounding matter is super-super heated, up to an probably well into various secondary quantum reactions. Filled with approximately 9×10^13 Joules of energy. Which if we want to think in Watts, if we think this all too the eternity of an entire second to go through all this (probably MUCH shorter time) that would be 9×10^13 Watts. I can’t look up info online much where I am right now, but would someone like to convert that into equivalent other weapons?
A little annoyed at all these aliens being humanoid, especially given the focus on deconstructing the sillier tropes of the superhero genre at the comic’s start. Maybe the aliens who hang out on Earth tend to be humanoid since it’s easier to cloak them, but what’s these guys’ excuse?
A little annoyed at how all these aliens are humanoid, especially given the comic’s deconstruction of the sillier tropes in the superhero genre near its beginning. Maybe the aliens who hang out on Earth tend to be humanoid since it makes them easier to cloak, but what’s these guys’ excuse?
Dabbler chose the most humanoid from her list of space friends. So Sydney could relate better to her rescuers.
Aliens probably tend to hang out with others of similar shape – for ergonomic reasons, if nothing else. It’s easier to crew a ship when everyone can use the same chairs…
Not sure if it was addressed yet. If they appeared here and now, and Sydney is in the near future, they won’t be catching up to her soon. The ship they see may be on its way to Alari to destroy it.
Notice the part about “local relative time” and being “a bit late”, so I doubt they’re early.