Grrl Power #763 – It’s an evil spaceship, not a death dreidel
Okay so, the pacing of this page is a little weird. If you read the panel order literally, it might seem like Maxima waited for the Fel ship the hit the atmosphere and dropped all the way down and started firing before she responded to the question. You know, for dramatic effect. Granted, a ship like that could traverse the 300 miles of atmosphere pretty quickly, especially considering something like 90% of the air is in the bottom 1o miles. Given unknown levels of alien tech like deflector fields or whatever, they could potentially largely ignore drag. Really, the biggest issue would be the sudden stop, assuming they could travel 300 miles in a few seconds. But that’s easy to explain as well. Any ship capable of accelerating to warp speeds has to have some kind of inertia dampener or cancellation device so the crew and everything inside the ship doesn’t get atomized when the accelerate to 80x lightspeed in 4 seconds.
So, while they could maybe have actually cut through the atmosphere in like 4 seconds, just assume the chronology of the middle panels is actually interleaved a bit with Max trying to get the press to safety. Just… the page layout would look wonky if I drew it that way.
Max’s “When a special forces colonel tells you to take shelter, it’s usually a good idea to do it.” line isn’t quite a pithy as “I am a bomb disposal technician. If you see me running, try and keep up.” but it’s probably equally good advice. Less clever is Sydney’s shirt that reads “I am an ADHD riddled superheroine, if I am acting distractible and agitated then that’s perfectly normal.”
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And that’s a Halo Shield, Mr. Bubble, right? Didn’t see her deploy it…
Halo’s shield is a bubble. At least we’ve never seen her deploy it as anything but a bubble, so I think this shield is generated by Cora’s ship.
Expect the unexpected with Halo :p
But yeah, it’s probably Cora’s ship, or an automated system build by Dabbler.
No, Sydney is the only one who can create forcefields, it’s the Halo Law (recently written after Sydney officially registered as a Super)
It’s almost pointless to point out your idiocy at this point, but I can’t allow your misinformation to stand without correction.
Budget Halo (Hex?) can create force fields;
Kaiju can create force fields;
Dabbler can create force fields;
(Probably) every starship can create force fields, because at a fast enough velocity striking a stray hydrogen atom is dangerous.
Did I miss any, or is that enough refutation of your blanket “only Halo has a force field” idiocy to shut you up for a few moments?
While it’s possible that Guesticus was serious… I don’t remember any ‘Halo Law’ being mentioned, so I suspect they might be sarcastic. So how about you calm down and don’t jump at people the moment you think they’re wrong? Ain’t no e-points to be won around here.
Thank you for being able to recognize the obviously ridiculous statement
Don’t mind Faerie King, they just always believe me to be wrong and them never wrong (even though they have been shown to be wrong numerous times)
That is a dirty lie. I have never, ever claimed to be infallible. I am wrong often, and I have no problem acknowledging it when it happens.
Two or three pages back, you claimed you were never wrong
And CLEARLY he was wrong then, so what’s the big deal?
Quote or it didn’t happen.
Halo is an agent of Chaos, not Law. Very much chaotic good, working in an organization that requires you to be Lawful.
Also, the pattern of that shield does not match Sydney’s.
No that’s the ship’s defense shield. Mr. Bubble can’t quite cover something that big (yet, maybe with some upgrades).
Maybe it can’t, maybe it can. But it’s not Mr. Bubble anyway. Completely different pattern. Plus it seems to be straight, not curved.
In hindsight, I think it’s the ship’s shield.
On the other hand it’s doing a Mr Bubble level job. Might be HER shield…
It is doing a ‘stop space-ship-destroying weapons’ level job, like a good space ship shield generator should.
Sydney’s shield has a slightly different pattern, too.
I’m assuming it’s a shield from Cora’s ship, not Halo. Halo’s field looks different when it’s hit.
Oh, and it’s Mr Bublé :P
Lethal Weapon 2… Blazing Saddles…. you’re right on with the movie references today, arent ya? :)
Umm, talking about the singer, always have
Is is *Bob* Bublé… just like Bob Bigbuté?
Michael, actually
Fairly decent singer
Never heard of him before.
You have never heard of, The Boob, before? o_O
I have not.
Now you can :D
… but Cora only just got notice, so presumably Max did too?
Yes? Not sure what you were going for here. Cora is told something dangerous is incoming, she tells Max as the nearest available authority figure that something dangerous is incoming, and Max’s immediate response is to try and get the civilians to safety.
Without going into more detail than ‘we detected that a hostile alien ship is incoming’ the whole exchange took only a few seconds, maybe a minute at the most.
Cora to Maxima Leander: “APOCALYPSE OMEGA!!!!”
Maxi: “Who is this? How did you get this number?”
Maxi has only just met Cora, and certainly doubt Cora would have mentioned being a wanted thief
Why is it sometimes diamonds and sometimes triangles?
Is it some variation of a Truncated Icosahedron?
You can only go so far in tiling a closed surface with one shape of tile. Once you get past the Platonic solids, you need to mix it up.
You can approximate any shape with triangles. Not regular triangles though.
Right – as Brett said, you need to make sure they’re cool with just being friends.
I once worried the players in a D&D game that I was running with something like that. There was an area that I wanted to steer them away from…
“It’s a stone pavement built from blocks with octagonal upper surfaces.”
“Don’t you mean octagons and squares?”
“No, just octagons.”
“But that’s mathematically impossible…”
“I know: Nevertheless…”
“Uh-oh! Eldritch geometry! Let’s go over [i]that[/i] way, instead.”
^_^
Ummmmm it’s not mathematically impossible to have a surface made of octagonal shapes without squares.
https://i.stack.imgur.com/rFLkh.png
Remember, octagon just means 8 sides, no one ever said they all have to be the same size :)
Octagon – a plane figure with eight straight sides and eight angles
Maybe I told them “regular octagons”? It was quite a few years ago…
Or, they just assumed they were same octagons :D
That’s actually a nice example of hyperbolic geometry there….
can you make one out of spider shapes?
Yeesh, looking at that gives me eyestrain.
Then my work is complete.
You would probably go with an interpolated dodecahedron, aka geodesic dome.
Those can be made arbitrarily big using only standard 3ft metal pipes. Assuming the length to width ratio of the visible ‘ribs’ of the shield determine its strength, a shield based on such a pattern would be infinitely scaleable, assuming you have the power to keep expanding it.
If you want all the nodes on a spherical surface, though, a geodesic dome’s struts have to be a mix of lengths.
Be… cause it’s a different shield generator?
Wow, you can learn!
Keep it up, we’re all rooting for you!
You… really are an idiot, aren’t you
Cmon Oberon, that was uncalled for.
Why is it sometimes triangles and sometimes diamonds?
Is it some variation of a Truncated Icosahedron?
It’s entirely possible that Max has a copy of a certain handbook that caters to soldiers, private security contractors, and people of a paramilitary nature…
Notably: Maxim 3: “An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks EVERYONE.”
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bomb+disposable+t-shirt&t=ffab&iax=images&ia=images
Max might not (yet), but I bet Cora and Dabbler each have a copy.
I just realized after reading the wiki history of said book that the Grrlverse is in exactly the right era for the origins of the Maxims. My new head-canon is that Deus was somehow involved with (or at least an inspiration for) the original script that eventually resurfaced as the Maxims.
Are we ever going to find out what people are telling Mabel, or even who she is?
You NEVER find out what or who, when THAT line is deployed.
Probably the same thing Sydney was telling the news reporter after the bank incident.
Mabel gets to hear all the best gossip.
Are we ever going to find out what was the “noodle incident” ???
It’s in the archives.
“No one can prove I did that!”
This is just like Budapest all over again!
You and I remember Budapest very differently.
Syndey’s noodle camera was captured for posterity: Super-spicy noodle to the eye, but yeah, the conversation with Mabel is some form of noodle incident.
It’s a line from ‘The Great Gatsby’ originally, which was recycled on ‘The Simpsons’.
And I am happy to see it recycled again and again. It’s like… an OG meme.
I usually remember it from an episode of Dexter’s Lab.
Actually, it’s NOT a line from ‘The Great Gatsby.’ You will find this claim all over the internet but those who have read the book or seen the movie know otherwise. It’s one of those things that was first done on ‘The Simpsons’ that people think is a reference, but isn’t.
I think it would make more sense, and be harder to disprove, if people claimed it was from a ‘Burns & Allen’ routine.
I found this:
*When Homer comes home looking for Marge, he interrupts a conversation between Bart and Lisa where Bart says, “So then, I says to Mabel, I says” and repeats the line after Homer leaves.
In the mid-20th century, the line was a catchphrase representing inconsequential conversation and was ubiquitous in popular culture. It is believed to have originated from the “Dere Mable” series by Edward Streeter.
The line’s appearance on The Simpsons may be an homage to Tex Avery (1908–1980), who inserted it into several of his cartoons.*
I don’t know how true it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO2Fj8V9OrA
So much for diplomacy. “That ship landed on your pre-FTL territory stole a deeply important artifact of ours, we demand it’s immediate return”? Nope, shoot 1st, level everything, then take it from the wreckage…
Funny, I think that is gonna be Maxima and friends response in kind….
It would be a great time for aliens and superheroes to team up right now against that, but monsters like our Frasier buddy, mages, and Icon’s people would be way able to be welcome if they revealed themselves by saving everyone. If there’s enough shade/melee combat then vampires and lycanthropes can join in. Who really needs the veil at that point?
Maybe that’s how Cora ‘obtained’ the Artefact of Cuddles in the first place
Again, Cora and co are friends with the Space Piggies, do you really believe the Piggies are going to believe that one of their ‘friends in high regards’ is a common thief?
Well, they know she’s not above criminal activities. After all, she does litter.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-695-ordnance-schmordnance/
Well, the history teaches us that this is most efficient way to conduct diplomacy, so…
Gods do not negotiate with dogs, you know. Theirs is to order, and for dogs is to obey.
One would be wise to remember, though, what some of dogs may be Garmrs, but oh well.
That’s Klingon for ‘Open Hailing Frequencies’.
Ha, that got me. :)
There’s a reason Maxim 1 comes first though.
Huh?
Is the lower part of that ship covered in some sort of hieroglyps?
Yes, it’s a Go’auld d10. Twice as pretentious as their normal pyramid ships.
No one expects the space Egyptian role players.
If it were twice as pretentious, it’d be a D20.
It costs a lot of money to keep a battle cruiser staffed and armed. The writing is corporate advertising sold to defray expenses, and to raise the awareness of corporate brand names. “When you think genocide, think Glaxnor nuclear warheads”.
Think of it as a giant NASCAR race car.
Glaxnor was later acquired by Strohl Munitions
I love their plasma cannons! Especially that Ominous hummmm!
“Make your next combat engagement as easy as a Strohl in the park. Discounts on mega-bulk purchases are available.”
~Strohl Munitions advertisement
Is it just me, or do the protrusions at the top resemble cat ears?
For some reason, I noticed them first when the ship landed, and thought it was some kind of cat race thing.
Maybe it is the cats from Futurama…
If that bothers you, try seeing them as frog’s eyes. Worked for me.
Wait a sec.. Fel… Feline? Hooboy. I think I had the demonic angle all wrong.
The ship shouldn’t be spouting gouts of copper-green flames, it should be sprouting whiskers and shooting weaponized catnip bombs!
Quick Sydney! Dial down your PPO and shine it on the ground like a giant laser pointer. Try to make them follow it away from headquarters!
“So I says to Mabel, I says…” This is at least the second time this line has been cut off in this comic (that I remember). Both in a news broadcast, and both by Max butting in.
It’s a classic line from The Great Gatsby. It’s ALWAYS cut off, as it was in the Great Gatsby, too.
As with all other American culture, Gatsby was picked up by the Simpsons as a parody.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO2Fj8V9OrA
Note: DaveB has made several Simpsons references over the years. So this is more likely how this line got into the authors brain.
We interrupt this program with breaking news.
Aside from the various posts that swear it was from the book, I found another source online that claims the line is not in Gatsby at all. I did a download of the public domain text of the book and searched on ‘Mabel’. I got no hits on the word Mabel, or even on the phrase ‘I says’.
This whole thing may be some sort of literary ‘Rickroll’.
There was another claim that the style of speaking was common in vaudeville, so it might be from a contemporaneous comedy that would have seemed like Gatsby, and been easily conflated.
And they had such a good PR going. “you don’t interest anyone, don’t have anything worth worth our invasion”… yeah, sure. If Ariana thought parking lot brawl was PR nightmare, I wonder how she’ll deal with THIS level of mess.
Simple. They are after the alien artifact on board the alien spaceship. Not anything the earthlings have.
Besides, this is WAY above her paygrade. Let the diplomats handle this.
“Managing quivering masses is her job.” (loose quote from Max) Diplomats dont deal with hysteric crowds, and hysteric crowds (a.k.a common people) aren’t know for their ability to listen to rational arguments about stolen artifacts. Especially with hostile alien ship shooting from above.
Hum… I rather suspect that someone is still pissed about the Alari… They used the comm of Coras ship and someone noticed and they now know where (some of / rest rest of) the Alari are.
“rest rest” -> “the rest”
No. It’s the ‘Fel.’
The Fel don’t give a shit about Dirt, they are there for Cora
Well they’re really after the Fel Artifact of Unspeakable Cuddles. But Cora has it.
Agreed, the Fel are following Cora, not attacking Dirt or even Archon. Cora’s ship was able to spot the Alari ship in Galytn from orbit, so it should have been simple for them to head directly to her ship’s location.
A single ship isn’t really an invasion. Unless it’s a single ship the size of Montana. This would be more properly classified as an incursion or a raid.
I see a lot of effort was put into the alien text on the sides of the spaceship.
Interstellar Rossetta Stone?
Legal disclaimer?
The Sacred Texts?
Caution: Warp Core must be removed before opening this panel?
Intergalactic sponsorship?
Warpcore provided by FTL Corp Inc.
Gravitysuspenders by Droppitnot
Spillnot’s Shakeproof Coffeemachine
etc.
And probably a “WE BRAKE FOR NOBODY!” plaquette on the backside.
This looks like a job for, ‘MIGHTY HALO’!
Seriously she has bagged elder gods I think she has this. . .
You just messed with the wrong neighborhood ET.
ET phone for ambulance.
That ship looks…. oddly Egyptian
Stargate SG-1-ish.
*** Less clever is Sydney’s shirt that reads “I am an ADHD riddled superheroine, if I am acting distractible and agitated then that’s perfectly normal.”***
OK, now I just HAVE to see Sydney wear this in comic.
How do we start a petition for this? Put me down for it.
Forget about the comic.
How about getting one of those for ourselves?
I’d buy one.
Additionally Alternate
Distracted Diversionary
Heroine Histrionic
Designate. Diagnosis.
Blue, purple and gold cleavage in the same press conference.
Rarity scale coloring!
You could’ve put the panel with Maxima saying “When a Special Forces Colonel tells you to…” after the sonic boom of the 3rd panel with the booms of the new ship firing punctuating her statement.
I think could possibly have worked as well, if not better.
I was thinking along the same lines. The second row of panels could have had a fourth. Maxima’s dialog could have played across however many of them the speed of the action is meant to indicate.
Even if talking is a free action…
is it just me or does the ship look like a cathedral?
Might it be time to bring in contestant number 2 on the Hollywood Squares villain board? (center top)
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-186-fingers-to-maximum-steepleage/
And in typical comic book irony, he and his group of super zealots will help Archon defeat the alien invasion because the invaders do not meet his own racial or religious purity test.
You mean Fred Phelps?
Meanwhile,Sydney and the others will be scurrying about while preparing for the incoming invasion…..
Ouch! Biggest gun Earth has there is probably Maxima followed by Halo’s cutting laser then Heatwave and Jiggawat. Not sure about Dabbler as I’m kind of presuming her hand held alien tech doesn’t compare to capital ship stuff.
Actually… would Heatwave’s power ignore shields? I mean, if she can see it she can heat it right? No need for uninhibited, physical path?
depends on how she gets the heat there.. if she’s transmitting Infrared light to heat something up, any shield that can stop a laser can stop her power.
Dabbler makes handheld railguns, snug and light enough to look lik a crossbow.
I am sure she can whip up (or has already done so) a big heavy weapon capable of piercing a lot more than just a tank, and Maxima has shown she can lift and wield several tonnes worth of concrete.
I am really looking forward to seeing Maxima quote Scarface: “Say hello to my little friend!”
She says that as she pulls Sydney from behind her back :D
And Sydney is struggling in Maxi’s arms shouting “Let me at ’em! Let me at ’em!”
Shouldn’t that be ‘Say “HALO” to my little friend’? :-)
Nah, “Say friend to my little Halo!” :P
“Who you calling ‘little’? Why I oughta… ” *five minutes of Sydney-esque swearing, during which the fel Fel fell to their knee-equivalents and begged her to stop*
Considering aliens are used to live in a world where magic is a valid option, I think it is possible for them to have a shield working against whatever superpowers are.
Remember what they said earlier.
“There’s no such thing as bulletproof if you have a big enough gun” or something to that effect.
There’s no such thing as “bulletproof” full stop. Only bullet-resistant.
If only the aliens were firing bullets.
wel acushyulee
…I guess, a slug fired at .95C via non-chemical-based non-cartridge-using propulsion system is not technically a bullet, and we do not know what type of weapon was used by Fel in depicted barrage exactly, so your remark stands, probably.
The thing is, regardless of type of weapon they are using, there are no ‘~proof’, only ‘~resistant’. Bullet-resistant, plasma-resistant (not really that different from bullets), laser-resistant, maser-resistant, dark-matter-particle-beam-resistant…
I mean, just look at so-called ‘explosion-proof’ things – if there are several gradations of ‘proofing’, then it’s not proofing at all. Only a resistance of some kind.
At least I’m technically correct. The best kind of correct.
How does a slug traveling at .95C avoid relativistic effects?
Using a hyperspace bypass.
Some aliens. Not all.
In that particular case, I doubt those hieroglyph like symbols are only cosmetic.
#DeathDreidel.
#DeathDreidel.
#DeathDreidel.
We make you out of KILL!
#DeathDreidel.
#DeathDreidel.
#DeathDreidel.
Our hit list you shall fill!
Second verse, same as the first
DeathDreidel
DeathDreidel
DeathDreidel
I made you out of BOOM!
DeathDreidel
DeathDreidel
DeathDreidel
These blasts shall spell your doom!
I have a #DeathDreidel
I use it hunting prey
And when the warp core’s ready
Then plasma I will spray
I conquer with #DeathDreidel
Bringing worlds their doomsday
And to the locals conquered
I monologue from the walkway
Invading with #DeathDreidel
To turn their world to firewood
Most natives can’t resist me
I didn’t know that Dirtlings could
Exotic weapons wrecked #DeathDreidel
My plan’s in disarray
And with Cora and Halo
I no longer want to play
:)
I’m wondering if those are retros or weapons or both.
This ship also has literal walls of text.
Remember the Kzinti lesson: any reaction drive’s efficiency as a weapon is in direct proportion to its efficiency as a drive.
What if I told you that any civilization that has artificial gravity has already developed inertial dampening? Just pull in the opposite direction.
A ship that decelerates from interplanetary (never mind interstellar) speeds to relative stop within earth’s atmosphere is not going to create a sonic boom.
It is going to create a rapidly expanding column of ionised gas miles wide. Aka, the biggest lightning strike in the universe, ever. With a thunderclap that breaks all window panes (and eardrums and most plywood boards) on the planet in the next nine hours or so.
This might be a good day to take off from work.
:)
This scene is more dramatic, but it would have been almost as amazing if the Fel would have opened fire from LEO and Maxima told Halo to lay down suppressive fire in that direction.
It would have led to a half page frame of the press seeing a couple of dozen of Halo’s fiery balls of explody death disappearing in the distance, followed shortly by an MMM chain of explosions in the extreme distance.
Granted, this would work better in the animated feature :)
Well the cannons it is shooting appear do not be making nuclear sized explosions so Halo can tank the guns. Dabbler and Cora probably know where all the important components are at. Max is a force of nature when she is pissed. Then there is the rest of the team. That ship is about to have a very bad day.
Excellent page as usual. I love the angry gold Maxima.
Just another possibility is that the new aliens are using some form of kinetic discharge to stop and are actually just drunk driving. This could explain the space police in the last page.
Archon needs to establish an alert system based on the number of scowl lines in Maxima’s forehead.
“All hands to battle stations. We are are at Furrow Level 5!”
I’m a bit lost. Who were the Fel again? And why would they attack?
The Fel were first mentioned the same page Cora’s ship arrived at the Alari homeworld where they mentioned their encountered with the Fel delayed their arrival.
The second mention, that I recall, was when they took the Alari refugees on board and they had to move the Fel artifact of unspeakable… cuddles.
The Fel are a powerful alien race which Cora has had some sort of dealings with or against, who are apparently powerful enough that galactic space-cops are not usually well equipped enough to handle battling them. And apparently Cora has in her ship’s possession a Fel Artifact called the Fel Artifact of Unspeakable … Cuddles (not the actual last word – probably – but Altus said that because a little Alari kid was watching when he was describing it, and he might not want to have said Unspeakable ‘Doom to All Who Are Near It.’
In any case the Fel are powerful enough that Cora was trying to give them a wide berth when trying to get to the Alari Homeworld to rescue Sydney, or at the very least they kept her busy for a significant amount of time, either by fighting or by avoiding them.
The design and prominent symbols on the Fel ship give off a kind of religious vibe. It is possible that whatever item Cora has on her ship may be some sacred artifact they are here to recover. If it is their version of the Ark of the Covenant just make sure that they are WAY far away if they try to open it. That sort of thing never ends well.
It belongs in a museum! :)
If no one has quoted the Seventy Maxims yet:
Maxim 2: A Sergeant in motion outranks a Lieutenant who doesn’t know what’s going on.
Maxim 3: An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody.
Ah, a person of culture.
Was scrolling the comments to post the OT one, if no one did yet. Too slow. Oh well…
“Because I said so.”
“Because I am supposed to be obeyed.”
“Because have the motivational ability of a suspicious stain.”
“Because I can’t communicate with other humans.”
“Because in the time it took me to say this, I could have said something that is actual informative and motivating instead of just waving my abusive nature around.”
“Because there is an alien craft on aggressive approach and you all need to get to safety.”
“Because I can crumple up your car.”
“Because your mother.”
“Because I wear boots.”
Because.
Danger. Go Now. (points)
… exactly three words…
Move now. Survivors get to ask questions later.
Yes, in a real situation Maxi’s reply would have been immediately after Reporter Brown (stained-pants) asked the question, butt it wouldn’t have been as dramatic or ‘cool’
Or, alternatively, you could have had Maxi pointing up and saying “Because that! MOVE!!!”
Hate to say this, butt gotta be done
Fel captain, holding up a holo-badge- “Diplomatic Immunity!”
Cute, but since Earth has no ambassadors in space, that does not apply! :)
Sydney or Maxi shooting a particle beam at them in the head.
“It’s just been revoked.”
(yes I’ve watched Lethal Weapon 2, and I love that movie despite how BADLY it gets the law on diplomatic immunity when someone is actively attempting to murder a police officer)
Yups, and that was why didn’t want to post it :P
It’s still one of the great lines of movie-dom. You were right to post it.
Along with “Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die,” “I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse,” “Go ahead, make my day,” “I love the smell of napalm in the morning,” “What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate,” and “I’ll be back.”
Particle beam to the head. Splat.
“Hmmm. Not very effective ‘immunity’, was it?”
This is what we’re referring to :). It’s great. Though everything about diplomatic immunity was clearly written by someone who does not know how diplomatic immunity works :). Gotta love Hollywood sometimes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwC_IaY3BmY
Here come the teddy bears from the Invincible
Eh, correct me if I’m wrong, but warp speed isn’t superior to lightspeed, at all. By which I mean, you don’t “accelerate” past light speed in order to attain warp speed, you curve space, and move it in order to travel faster, but your own internal speed, in the bubble of space time you created, is inferior to lightspeed.
I don’t know if you have to have a prior speed, and what it must be, in order to move when going at warp speed, but I know it’s inferior to lightspeed.
Because, you know, nothing goes beyond lightspeed ? (Except maybe tachyon, but that’s not warp speed either)
This is correct. Also, your ship will, by necessissity, be still according to its own frame of reference, thus not actually moving at all. The challenging part will instead be the front facing plasma beam when the warp ends – you do not end warp within a planet’s atmosphere or facing said planet, unless you want to destroy it.
Any universe in which warp worked that way would rapidly be uninhabited. More likely, there is some kind of natural gravity dampening of any such warp-caused waves.
I bet dabbler was just loving that. Left her Babble on and on until suddenly combat time
I was thinking it was odd to let her just babble along into ‘Mabel’ territory during an international press conference – Arianna is slipping.
Anything to distract from the hey there’s tons of humans living in space already and the whole you’re not mature enough as a culture to join the rest of the Galaxy even if members of your species are.
I figure anything at all to distract from the bomb shells that were spoken earlier in the press report especially the ones that while Earth is a culture is not ready for space there are plenty of humans who already went their had families and some cases declined to come back
Are those deceleration engines, guns, or “both is fine”?
If you throw out enough firepower below you it works as a landing rocket too. With the added advantage of melting any unevern ground below you.
Getting up again after your ship sinks halfway into that molten rock might be a bit tricky of course but those are minor details ;)
The goa’uld called. They would like to have a word.
Well yeah. Death dreidels only have four sides. Duh.
And I don’t think the Fel will be handing out gelt – or any other type of chocolate for that matter – at the conclusion of this game :)
I dunno, “Death Dreidel” sounds pretty intimidating.
Actually it sounds like the title to a Dethklok song from Metalocalypse.
For those of you who’ve seen “Vision of Escaflowne”, I have a feeling this scene will be familiar.
“Bring us Sydney, or we wipe out your country. You have one hour…”
They aren’t there for Sydney
Will counter your quote with one from GotC Vol.1 “Who?”
Our Sydney goes, one hour later… they’re begging us to take her back.