Grrl Power #691 – The full Sydney
Well that’s gratitude for ya. But it’s also… kind of unsurprising really. Also, if you’re at a giant space airport, you gotta pick up some souvenirs, right? It would be embarrassing to return home from your lost in space journey without knickknacks for the team.
Sydney does make a good point about not really needing to hide the orbs. The very idea of the mythical 4th tier of civilization/technology isn’t even universally agreed on by everyone, and those who do think it exists have no direct evidence of it.
Of course, that doesn’t mean someone won’t be impressed with Sydney’s orbs and try to do something about it, so some caution might be sensible. Still, will all the alien life forms roaming the station, there’s maybe not anything too unusual about someone with lights floating around their heads. The gray gal at the food booth had a flame… eye thing between her horns. Never quite figured out what that was really, just thought it looked neat when I drew it. Still, Sydney and her orbs don’t stand out as much as she might think in a moon sized creature cantina.
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Well, I see Sydney is back to normal.
Those words do not belong in the same sentence together. :P
Normal is fluid…. how do you know that Sydney is not the normal one and its everyone else that is odd.
Sure they do. She’s normal for her. :P
For whom the Spice flows, does the Spice control.
And the Spice did flow. Sydney is filled with Spice.
Sydney is now back to peak operation.
^ This.
If salt can be considered as a kind of spice, remember that Sydney is already the Queen of Salt…
From Young mature adult to whiny aggressive five-year-old Cora did not know what she was in for. Huskies Panda to Sydney cuz she runs so many different gambits even those native to Earth can find themselves confused and perplexed dealing with her
I have no idea how have to hand it to Sydney became Huskies Panda toSydney
I suspect Ke-pa is responsible.
Sydney definitely qualifies as a Trope-ical Storm, that’s for sure.
….Cora fails Agility save…
….Cora must roll a Will save with at a -5, due to Sydney’s unpredictable personality, or be forced to by “Halo” some holographic wings.
(Am seeing bespectacled Christmas angels in our future people!)
Something tells me Cora is going to now have the “oh, now I see how you’re one of Dabbler’s friends”. Dabbler is one part exotic beauty, one part ADHD boosted spaz machine, as it were.
I did not think of that. It would kind of make sense especially with the whole dabbler understands Sydney well enough to win bets off of predicting her behavior.
A Venn diagram??
(Sydney) (Cora)
((Dabbler))
A Venn Diagram, and a great idea for the next VDSD.
Maybe the flame accessory was a flame elemental pet? Never know when they pop up and eat your cable salad, I tell you. Mean lil buggers.
New term: cable salad – the mess found behind most desktop computers and poorly maintained server closets.
Auto corrupt has taught me so much.
I remember on more than one occasion, cleaning up a wiring nightmare at a client, only to show up a month later to find the cabling salad again. When asked who touched this after me, “no one” and “nope, not me” were my consistent replies. You would think cables had spontaneously formed a garter snake hibernaculum under there.
so that’s when you put a padlock (or equivalent) on it and give one of the only two keys to the IT person, you keep the other one… next month when you go back and it’s a mess again. then you know who did it… and if they complain about multiple people needing access and they gave the key out, ask them about how many keys there are to the blank paycheck storage cabinet and if you could “borrow it” then tell them that it’s essentially the same level of paranoia/security required for your physical access points to the various databases and servers, etc. in the server room for pretty much the same reasons.
and on a lighter note, you could also say “Hey!, That’s OK by ME… YOU guys are buying me the trip to the Bahama’s with all the time I’ve had to come over here to “fix” things that shouldn’t NEED fixing!…
That’s the thing. I am the IT person. No one else should have been in there.
Well, you said client, not employer. Let them mess it up all they want. More time spent fixing it means more profit for you. I may not know computers but even I can figure out that much.
Tangle Pixies, fae from the depths of hell who want only to come into your house and tie things into knots, cables, wires, necklaces, your hair while you sleep, just anything that they can get their mischievous little hands on.
It is an eye of flame, clearly a baby Sauron.
At the least, buying a projector might be a good idea. Making the orbs look like they’re part of the accessories might make them look less important.
A set of angel wings to go with her halo and she can just pass the whole thing off as a “look”.
She SO should get the angel wings, especially if they have articulating function. Imagine, Sydney in her “Halo”civilian gear, the Forb, and holographic wings. Ariana would be drooling at the prospects. Then she (Sydney) could try getting some devil wings, just to change the “mood” and drive Ariana to dread.
Halo in angel wings. And then she starts to curse again.
Going for the fallen angel theme I guess
Sydney in Mercy (Overwatch) cosplay,” Heroes never die @#%**&!!!”
So, Sydney can join the ranks of people mistaken for angels throughout Earth’s long history?
Or a Vorlon who is out of their encounter suit.
RE: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2806
Ok im now convinced this is exactly what DaveB has planned and she’s going to have the Angel look in at least one encounter.
She returns to Earth but is dropped off in the boondocks
(Like all UFOs have to do)
She picks a farmhouse at random and asks if she can stay the night.
*While wearing fake wings and glowey balls over her head.*
**ON CHRISTMAS EVE**
She passes out immediately on the bed or couch or Lazyboy.
Everyone is convinced she’s a Christmas angel….despite the snoring.
Where’s that poem? Ahah, the The Sydney before Christmas!
ooh! could you make me a set of holographic orbs like these? *points over her head* I’m sure they’d sell well to others!
Sydney on returning home: “Hey can Arc-light make me some spare holo orbs in case these get broken?”
Max: “Absolutely not, alien holo tech is-”
Arianna: “YES! AND I WILL HELP YOU MARKET THEM!!”
I’m betting any souvenirs she gets are confiscated for analysis, and may or may not be returned to her.
Well this should be fun to explain to Max once she gets back. She better bring her back something as well or else she’s going to be in super deep.
Well she will already be in trouble for soliciting a bribe, besides Cora already probably payed her for a meal.
Soliciting a bribe?
Well that or extortion of the Im a brat in military police gear fashion.
Ether way the inevitable Karmic backlash she’s building up will be hilarious… after all consider what happened after repeatedly taunting and teasing the Ancient Vampire https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2688
Or when she teased Harem refering to her as a cupcake becase her mind was Basicaly being Jamed
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2910
Let’s just say she’s a Karma magnet…..
Ok slight correction., she called her a buttercup, ant the Karic payback was probably also for the maniacs joke, but still, like I said she’s a karma payback magnet.
How is she ‘soliciting a bribe’ and slash or ‘extortioning’? o_O
By tackling her and acting like a brat.
Like I said elsewhere she’s building up bad karma for her inevitable karma backlash.
Don’t know where you got your dictionary from, butt you should burn it and never refer to it ever again
“The full Sydney” – how apropos in all its glory!
i see The Herculoids in panel 1 :D
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That looks like a Grendel from Niven’s Beowulf’s Children over on the checkered walk. (Top right corner of panel). Could be baby Grendels near it.
I remember them from my time as a youngling. https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNGE4MWE1NDgtODc4MC00MTNmLWJmYTEtMmE5YWY2YWI4YWRlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNTc4Njg5MjA@._V1_.jpg
This was back in the ‘Jonny Quest’ days of television where putting young children into mortal danger was considered good parenting skills.
There is a demon pushing a shopping cart. So is he literally going to Hell in a hand-basket?
This is a space station, not Xanth.
First thing I saw was ‘Gloop’ and ‘Gleep’, the others confirmed it for me.
Cora’s never gonna line that one down.
And Sydney? Didn’t she already pay for lunch? Besides Technicaly you are a going to be cop. Not much she can buy you withoiput getting you in trouble
1: Cora isn’t in her jurisdiction, as they aren’t on Eee-arth, much less in the US.
2: Cops are allowed to have gifts given to them.
3: Cora has better reasons to say ‘no’. among which are, “Better tech than your planet already has. Ask a human to make something similar. “
Dabbler can probably make her one in 5 minutes, if Sydney is persistent enough.
Ok first of all regardless of where in the universe Sydney is, she and her behavior remains under the jurisdiction of her superior officers and she remains subject to the US Military Code of Conduct. This was actualy sorted out way back Durring the Mercury program, because someone in Congress actualy brought the issue up. Civilans in NASA are subject to Federal laws while in space, Military personal from and including active duty, inactive duty, or reserve personnel and officers working for or assigned to work with NASA are additionally subject to the US MCoC.
In addition I aparently need to point out that Sydney is a legal adult. One who is in training, suposedly, to be a special forces Police Officer. Somehow because of the bonkers behavior she exhibits, people do tend to overlook that point.
Also. Sydney Tackeled Cora. Cora’s behavior is not the problem here. It’s Sydney’s. And again Sydney tackled Cora (while in uniform, but let’s leave that bit aside because while in reality that complicates the hell out of things for her, see anyone who ever screwed up and Basicaly ended there Military Career on the spot while on pass by being in uniform at Seaworld San Antonio, and getting arrested)and begged her to buy her a gift.
The Karma backlash that she’s building up once she gets back home is going to be rediculously massive.
Not really?
I mean, she is just a trainee, lost in space during a mission she really should not have been allowed to participate in and involving secrets way above her pay grade. She was only allowed because the regulations in Archon are pretty lax, and her abilities are invaluable. (Also, said secrets don’t resist her truesight…) The same lax regulations will get her out of trouble. The one who has been and will still be in trouble even after her return is Maxima, as “her abilities are invaluable” probably doesn’t fit well in the paperwork to explain why Sydney went missing in a mission she shouldn’t have participated in.
No, I was pointing out earlyer that while she does get away with crap, Karma always payed her back. In spades.
Tease a Vampire? Fall into a portal full of literal Blood scab oatmeal while standing next to another Vampire.
Tease a teamate and then joke about a planet getting genocided? You get to take the long way home. (And rescude by yet another big Bodied bimbo who incidentally is blatantly a freind of Dablers.)
Her Karma magnet status showed up fairly early.
Swear enough to make a sailor r blush? Run into nuns…
get away from the nuns? Get stuck in a bank robbery,
“help” foil the robbery? Get held hostage, take down a gunman, get shot at, then dump a unintended bio weapon in the bank, be made a official superhero, and then have your first major superhero rumble interrupt the fancy after dinner.
Oh and then get lost on your way back to work on your first day as a superhero, embarrassed by the press, and end up late to work and embarrass yourself to the President of the US.
So yes, Karmic backlash.
I hadn’t seen those as connected before.
Once Sydney figures out how to use the Atherium Causeway reliably, her teammates are going to insist she bring them on regular shopping trips to The Fracture. Not for any advanced technology or weaponry, but for the latest in space fashion.
Depends, does she need to be in space to use it? Or is on a planet safe enough. If space bound it’s one thing for her to be a personal osprey with Hiro flying wing if anything goes wrong, but once on orbit….yeeeks.
So far we’ve only seen an Atherium Causeway (AC) opened from just outside of an atmosphere, and destinating at a location in hard vacuum. We have no idea if it is possible to open an AC within an atmosphere, or if doing so would be a very bad idea. I can imagine that opening an AC with vacuum at one end and an atmosphere at the other could really suck.
#dadjokes
So, she bubbles the lot of them, flies straight up at Mach 16 for 2 minutes, opens the causeway, and takes 5 minutes to find a place to land on the far side. She won’t even have to stop to redo the air.
If you’re standing on the vacuum side when you open it, then it just blows.
I called a touristy area with souvenirs. …I suppose it’s obvious.
So…holographic accessories are a thing there?
That’s lucky for Sydney. People will just assume that’s what the Orbs are.
(Seven is a little garish…..not sure any are animated other than PPO.)
I predicted desk ornaments. Animated representations of planets visited. Or your own.
Let’s get this out of the way and say that at least Sydney isn’t getting
a tattoo at an alien souviener stand.
Or a boob job.
But if it was a holographic tattoo that could move around on her body you know for a fact Sydney would be onboard for that. If for no other reason then to say to Jabberwonky, “You think your tattoos are neat check THIS out.”
Or a boob job that moves around her body. She could get more than two! Rule 34 implies someone would really be into it.
Or an under the skin screen in an area meaning animated and changeable tattoos.
The site is gone now, but I once came across a site that had, among other things, a gal who got superpowers from an alien boob job…
Sounds like Pulse.
Wasn’t that the first villain that Young Justice fought in their comic run? “Headlighter” or something like that? I vaguely remember something like that…
Somewhere in the ’98 run of Young Justice, I mean…
Nina downed, aka the Mighty endowed who is a new god who’s poweres are inverses in her mighty tracts of land with the power of hypnoboobs!
Unfortunatly she lacks the needed superpower of standing up and not falling er down on her own boobs due to there their weight….
Reportedly last seen in a set of power armor that blocks her hipnoboobs but let’s her walk around, also reportedly is getting her back reinforced due to minor back pain.
Not downed, Dowd.
And there’s the trouble she was expecting.
Slightly different shape though.
Fourth tier is infinity gems style reality warping stuff, yeah?
Likely, my best guess is things that defy the setting’s laws of physics and magic, or have no clear mechanical nature yet aren’t infused with any known magical essence.
So my guess is anything from a spoon that can survive a trip through a black hole, up to the infinity gems, and straight on to *this marble holds an entire universe inside it with different laws of physics from our own*, or this mech is powered by your emotions, and can regenerate from nothing, change form, and even grab things in hyperspace (so not really a mech, just shares the same aesthetics).
I imagine a lot of higher end 3rd and 4th will seem very similar, (technological overlap points varying by specific race, even the ascended can have that one holy grail item that most of even them aren’t sure how that one scientist in their ranks was able to make “like anti-ascension weapons”, or the higher plane projector where they reside now), and 4th tier may have many lower tech looking things for aesthetic purposes, or form to function *no reason for that spoon to warp reality* but a close enough examination may reveal their true nature thanks to the common power source or material being “impossible” stuff.
I think it is doing things that are logically impossible, i.e. going faster than infinite speed.
Creating a mass so large even you cant lift it and then doing that anyways.
Could be a fan service moment in the making. Sydney drags Cora over to the hologram stand, and all the hologram generators in close proximity disrupts Cora’s “clothing”. Everyone on the promenade gets to see for themselves if the curtains match the carpeting.
People will also be able to see if the otters match the ants. Gotta be careful with the metaphorical innuendo, it’ll confuse the hell outa space aliens.
I presume a high tech uniform meant to provide some degree of protection (she prepared a gun but no additional protection so this should be legitimately “bullet resistant”) should not be disrupted that easily.
Carpet? With an outfit that “tight”, bare floor would be easier (and more aesthetically pleasing) to maintain. Besides, who says Cora’s species can grow hair anywhere but their heads? And if she even has Terran mammalian sexual organs to begin with? Her people might mate with organs in their mouths for all we know!
(That would be one HELL of a French kiss! To say nothing of an Australian one!!)
Showing my age but an old Love American Style episode had an Earth male encounter a blue skined alien girl and at some point she chokes and the guy pats her on the back and she gets all flustered.
Later in the vinette she develops a bump on her arm and her father shows up with a ray gun rifle and explains since he got his daughter ” in trouble ” he’d have to marry her as it turns out that was how her race reproduced and she asks how Earth people do it.
He wispers the mechanics in her ear and she replies oh that’s how we forcast the weather.
Ahh, so, here is how to hide the unscannable orbs. Get a holographic projector that projects orbs….on top of the orbs.
That way, a scanner will scan them and say ‘there is a holographic projection in that spot’
Problem solved.
It could also be useful in battle, eg, you could trick an opponent into thinking you are holding a different orb.
It could, possibly, make the orbs much less obvious, by projecting a less obvious thing on top. ….whatever that might be
That is, so that people don’t suddenly get very curious. If someone scans you and detects unscannable orbs, they may decide its important and start investigating
If they scan you and get ‘holograph’ back, they will ignore you.
indeed, also the wings could give the illusion of fligth to those not familiar with her orbs
That’s… actually a pretty good idea. It would need to auto-map onto the orbs’ locations with very high fidelity as she moved, but it might get her past a surface scan. Anything more complex would still pick up on the space being “too empty” for a hologram, but no reason to scan if you can clearly see nothing’s wrong…
Nothing could automap to the orb’s position because they’re unscannable.
+1 Good point.
if the orb’s motion can be predicted, then you don’t need to map anything
fpr example, if they maintain a simple circular orbit, then they have a constant accleration and you can use the center of sydney’s head as the origin of your coordinate system
elliptical orbit would be trickier, but a model could be built with a few calcs
if they use true random processes to determine their motion (like thermal noise or radioactive decay) then you’re boned
“I just soloed what should have been a raid, I’m entitled to at least one cosmetic item or skin!”
The real question is whether Sydney wants the butterfly, bird, fly, or bat wings.
Faerie or dragon wings
You are very clearly not a geek girl, because the answer to “Do you want butterfly wings, bird wings, dragonfly wings, or bat wings?” is “YES!!” (As in yes to ALL of the above!)
…If you’re going to get a holographic projector for wearable holographic accessories, then it can project just about anything you program into it (at least, for that region of the body).
Pfft, no. That sort of reprogrammable projector is top-line stuff. This booth sells the cheap bauble types with one mode only, which you think are a good buy but aren’t and burn out within a month.
And yes, it’s Sydney, she wants all of them but which one does she want MOST?
I’m on Sidney’s side with this one. I would be willing to BEG for actual hologram wings.
What would Sydney need holographic wings for anyway!?
You are really asking why a comic shop owner / geek would want a cosmetic shiny / glowy sci-fi object? ;D
It would also be a boon to her cos-play cred.
Well, she kept wearing the eye patch a while after she stopped needing it.
And why, you ask? To look cool!
She’s gonna get a holographic eye-patch, isn’t she?
I want to believe that holographic accessories are incredibly tacky, the space equivalent of a bootleg T-shirt or giant foam finger.
The grey videoblogger may have caused an uptick in cosmetic holos
when Sydney’s Grakz eating video goes viral.
Now all the Tweens will want Floaty Balls(tm).
Weren’t these already marketed as “Happy Fun Balls.”?
“Do not taunt the Happy Fun Baal”
Baal – home of those fun guys The Blood Angels.
A great and fun place
Floaty Balls sounds like an STD of the sci-fi variety.
I’m sure the holo gift shop has holographic foam fingers (or tentacles) for all the popular teams.
(and if your team is losing half way through the game you can just pull up the control settings and change the logo to the other team)
Yeah, but you gotta be careful of how many times you change the team logo, those DRM lockouts will just ruin your season if you hit the limit and can’t change it back to your team when they pull the equivalent of a “Hail-Mary” Pass, and are now on the winning side of the equation… and here you are stuck with the losing teams mascot on your Holo-Logo….
If you keep changing sides that often, maybe you shouldn’t be a supporter
Cue the return to base, her team mates worried for her after being stranded on a hostile planet, only see her walking in with a big stupid grin on her face and covered head to toe in touristy crap.
With holographic wings she might be able to get a more sympathetic audience from the refugees. Should she want to try and speak to them.
Or add insult to injury by basically putting herself over them by flaunting a fake “Five star general” helmet – or crown – or something … if Wings indicate status / caste..
Wearing fake wings might be the alien equivalent of Blackface, to the Alari at least.
See the “My culture is not your costume” meme.
…Which is why the wings being offered by the sales display don’t look the least bit Alari-like.
For those who may be thinking the wings need to look even farther apart, consider the Sari of India, and the Toga of Ancient Rome, and the Great Kilt of the Scottish Highlands.
(The toga is the long bit of cloth draped over one shoulder and wrapped around the hips, and not the tunic that is often worn underneath; if you’re thinking the tunic-dress thing that is pinned at the shoulders, that is more likely to be an ancient Roman stola or an ancient Greek chiton. The great kilt, as opposed to a regular kilt, is the one that is pleated not only around the waist, but thrown up over the shoulder in more pleats and pinned in place.)
All three are long lengths of cloth which are draped in pleats over one shoulder and otherwise wrapped around the rest of the body, especially the waist. They are very similar in this regard and can be worn draped partially over an arm…but they are distinct enough that you can also tell them apart at a glance. Aside from the fact that a toga cloth is semi-circular (curved near the ends) versus the rectangular cloth of a sari, they are not quite worn the same way.
And while both the sari and the great kilt are pleated at the waist, the sari is not pinned at the shoulder, and it only has a small section that is pleated in the front, plus it is not secured in place with a belt, but instead (when properly worn) is either knotted around the waist, or tucked into a lehenga (petticoat or skirt; the top is called a choli) that is firmly tied around the waist, to be able to support the weight of the pleats, which almost invariably are positioned in the front, and not pleated all the way around when it comes to wrapping a sari. By comparison, a great kilt is laid out across a belt, pleated, then the wearer lies down, wraps the belt around their waist, stands up so that the two halves both hang down, and the long end (which on a sari is very fancifully woven and called the pallu) is bunched or pleated on the shoulder and pinned to the shirt with a very visible brooch pin…whereas saris, if they are pinned, are pinned very discreetly.
Additionally, modern kilts (even some great kilts!) may have their pleats stitched in place, but both a toga and a sari are never stitched (not counting embroidery or attached trim) into shape as a garment. A great kilt and a sari can be made of common materials and used as everyday wear, but can be made of high quality fabrics in fanciful patterns. A toga, on the other hand, was considered the equivalent of a business suit, and never worn as casual attire.
What this all boils down to is that wearing a toga is not the equivalent of blackface when it comes to great kilts and saris, and the same goes for the sari and the great kilt for each other, or for the toga. The hologram wings on display are very much not Alari wings. Now, if they were shaped like Alari wings, with the number of wings, the glowy bits behind the back, etc, that’d be a different matter…especially if they were poorly rendered imitations. But they’re not. They’re butterfly (or moth) wing shaped, featherless bat (or pteranodon/pterodactyl) wing shaped, feathered bird wing shaped, and dragonfly (or other insect) wing shaped.
Considering how many times those versions of wings have evolved independently (pterodactyls are not directly related to bats, for just one example) over the aeons just here on Earth, I’m quite sure that many similar flapping-and-flying shaped surfaces have evolved on other worlds.
Another classic Sydney derailment lol
I want a static-electricity net on my scalp that makes my hair float like I’m in zero G.
Micro antigravity plates would do it better and won’t have any problems static might cause.
There ships all have gravity plating going by there designs so antigravity plates probably exist.
@mellryn – your comment played in my head, sung to the tune of Rockstar by Nickelback.
I never noticed the flame thing, it blended into her hair too well.
We had discussions down here in the comment section debating what it was, like a hologram, a natural part of her, and so on. Of course as DaveB drew it as a random such discussions were ultimately fanfic arguing.
We already know the air orb makes air. So why is there still a question mark next to it?
It might be able to make/convert other substances.
In the pool it made air.
In her forcefield it was a CO2 scrubber.
Making water would fulfill its’ life support duties.
Helium or Argon would be useful in specific circumstances.
Making Gold would be outside the job description…but no way to know it can’t.
Right now it’s the least developed skilltree of her orbs with only one point in one branch in it. Even the brown dwarf orb has more points and 2 branches with points.
Honestly until she uses them, the orbs just look like pretty accessories. Like space jewelry. (Also Sydney you can use the tentacle to form wings!)
Maybe this has been said before (I don’t generally follow the comments), but the recent updates, where Cora tells Sydney about the Nth, led me to a theory. Or a cluster of theories.
Three exceptionally powerful individuals all had similar builds and personalities. I say ‘had’ not ‘have’, because Maxima evolved since acquiring her powers. Teen Maximillia (#414) appeared to be about Sydney’s height and build (and hair color) when the geode doused her. We know Max played D&D as well at some point, and that is most likely a hobby from before she acquired her powers.
Then there’s blue-haired Krona (#481), who also seems pretty close to Sydney in build and personality. Krona is the only one so far who could actually read the labels on the orb progression chart (#506). The dice bag reference tells me she played (and may still play) tabletop RPGs as well.
What I’m thinking is that we may not be looking at one solitary example of Nth tech. We may be looking at two examples, and it’s possible that Krona was the intended recipient of both, only the Veil (#457) messed up target acquisition. The Nth (aka “space wizards”) may not be a collective species, but may instead be individuals chosen from amongst the plethora of other planetary populations because they demonstrate a specific potential.
The powers given to Maxima by the geode would provide natural protection and baseline combat ability, so that a novice “space wizard” doesn’t need to be on guard all the time. The orbs provide more complex (mostly “showy”) powers, which act as both an augment and teaching tool, developing as the “space wizard” learns how they work. This all ties into the subject’s natural talents, which they would need to evolve in tandem, probably using understanding gleaned from unlocking the orbs. (I’ve definitely noticed that Sydney unlocks points as she gains insight and learns new tactics.) Once their own powers sufficiently evolve, the “space wizard” could probably recreate the geode, and pass on the orbs to the next recipient.
Gods dicebag is related to a series of coments that date to Einstein’s reaction to the theory of relativity.
Basicsly,e Einstine once complained that God Does not play dice with the universe.(to which Neil Bore replied to Einstine, Don’t tell God what to do)
Part of his complaint was that basicsly at the time physics was dealing with a big problrem, namely Quantum uncertainty, in fact one of the big problems was that quantum mechanics in many ways it seemingly defied the rest of physics. Some of the solutions proposed at the time Basicaly made thermodynamics impossible, in that the only way to get the “books to balance” was if things simultanioustly decayed into increasig chaos and increasing order.
That’s a good reference for God’s dice, thanks for bringing it up. But I’m sticking with my assessment. The reason is that the dice BAG is still a rather separate concept from the Einstein quote.
Depending on how realistic the holojewelry can be made to look, Sydney can pick up a controller/projector box that can project realistic looking versions of her orbs…and in the future, if she’s ever in a pickle where she’s told to “hand over the orbs or your friends die!” boom, hand over the holoprojector while stuffing the orbs down the back of her shirt…
or bluff big time after kicking ass and held to stand still. “oh I been holding back bugger” fwoom copy of the orbs show up thus give illusion of double beams so on. which would giv enough time for maxima to go full speed strength or so on.
And Sydney’s in full “Dog sees a squirrel” mode.
And I’d say good luck XevoArchie. She’s been with them balls since they were a tube.
So, was thinking about that last orb, and what it might do. And the idea that came to mind was ‘food’. In that perhaps, Sydney can go longer periods without food while that orb is active. Why? Because long journeys. If the in-comic guess is correct, and she’s effectively equipped with a starship, food is probably going to be a requirement over time. In which case ‘air’ may be more than air, it might be ‘life support systems’ – including perhaps over time things like anti-viral and such to keep her healthy. That’s just my thought on the matter.
Naa, “food” would be included in life support, probably medical too. The thing is, to me, all of life support seems a bit light for one of these orbs, so it could just be a side effect of something rather different; or, OTOH, a max level-up for an air generator might be a terraformer.
Talk about a convenient cover… Holographic accessories… Orbs.. you know that by combining the two in an outfit, the orbs look like they are part of the accessories. And what is suspicious about bling?
is that the enterprise I see in panel 3 hidden behind her orbs?
Well-spotted, I totally missed that even on the 2x.
Wel,l at least a Federation starship. A lot of of them have similar outlines. And I agree, well spotted.
Well, at least a Federation starship. A lot of of them have similar outlines. And I agree, well spotted.
Well that would be an effecitve way to do the perverbial , hide the needle in a tree thing. holo wings would make her orbs look like holos too. While they probably don’t have the specific genre of angels, there is a good chance of something similiar or of duece having traded various things over the years
This is, truly, a most hazardous time: Sydney is *enough* back into a comfortable context (she’s in the company of a presumed ally, and soon going to be on her way back to Earth) that she no longer has “HOLY FUCKSOCKS, WHAT AM I GONNA DO?” taking up the majority of her attention… and can now *fully appreciate* how awesome her surroundings are. Whatever arrangement Cora has with Dabbler for doing this, I think there’s going to be a “hyperactive lunatic wrangling” surcharge tacked on.
Sydney’s also just eaten a large meal, uber-spicy, just as she likes it… she’s definitely more comfortable now. Probably going to fall asleep the moment she relaxes. If Cora doesn’t watch out, she may end up having to carry Sydney backt to the ship!
If the shop has a custom order option I think Sydney would either go with the Spock ears or the retractable Wolverine claws.
I now fully expect her to step off Cora’s ship with dragon wings, Spock ears, and Wolverine claws. And maybe a Fracture t-shirt to complement her Weezer one.
That’s not a Weezer t-shirt, that’s a Wonder Woman t-shirt (how Weezer managed to get away with that, have no idea)
Omg I want holographic wings too!
Oh no, drafted into a military force due to your superpowers. However will Sydney deal with such a fate. Oh the humanity. Oh the calamity. Oh the calamari. Oh the salami. Oh the rutabega.
Latched on so hard she changed the direction Cora’s knees now bend. ‘Pow’ indeed.
No, human(oid) knees are supposed to bend backwards