Grrl Power #880 – Variable lethality
By “Variable,” Cora of course means “That depends on what I’m shooting and where I hit them.” I suppose that applies to most non-AOE weapons, really.
My first draft had some Predator looking scrawl in panel 5 there, but I thought that wasn’t particularly helpful, so it’s been translated for your convenience.
So, the “stasis” gun doesn’t stop time, because if you reference your technobabble lookup table, it’s too power inefficient to do so. It’s like accelerating mass to light speed without cheating with spacial compression or just straight up warp nonsense. Basically, slowing time to 10% takes 100 energoid-hours, slowing it to 9% takes 200 energoid-hours, slowing it t0 8% takes 400 e/h, 5% takes 3,200 e/h, etc.
At least, that’s how the gun works. The stasis pod is more efficient because it’s maintaining a time slow field inside layers of other fields, and those usually have much larger power cells than a rifle. They can put 10 fields that each slow time by 15%, which is far more power efficient.
Basically what’s happening here is the gun is trying to keep Maxima at something like 2 or 3% speed, but as she realized something is wrong, and is using super speed to compensate, the gun is like “I don’t know what’s happening here, so I’m going to double fist your power cell to attempt to keep things stable. Please be alarmed if your gun starts getting really hot.”
“Torchy” is probably a racial slur, but a fairly mild one. Whatever Torchy is, her race definitely has some demon or devil in their ancestry, neither one is usually ever described as a snowflake. If you call a Marileth a six-armed snake-butt, their first instinct isn’t to go cry about it on Space Twitter. Succubi have certainly heard their share of slurs. On top of all the usual female derogations, they get stuff like “Horned Hussy” or “Homewrecker on hooves.” At least the ones that actually have horns and hooves, that is. Even without their glamors, succubi have morphologically and chromatically enjoyed the spice of life. No, not Melange. Variety. Most have horns. Some have hooves, some do not. Some have that little tail with the spade thing on the end. That has to get caught on stuff. Walking through the woods with a spade tail is probably like pulling a DVI cable out of a big tangle of wires. You know, the ones with the big screw things on the side that get caught on everything? Man, I’m glad we’re moving past stupid cable connectors. USB C fo lyfe!
Oh shoot, I forgot to draw Torchy’s wrist forcefield thingy.
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Their lack of actionable intelligence is starting to bite them on the ass.
They probably got all their intelligence from the space cop’s video off Max shooting down the cruiser. She didn’t use any speed in that entire fight.
Even with that they should have basic intelligence on Maxima’s most important associates sans Halo, who were not present – and that with “below garbage” level of planning. Taking down Max on her alone – ok, they came prepared (to the limit of their understanding). Trying to take her down while two relatively (to the rest of the crew) known in the wider Galaxy people are with her – well, overconfidence is a slow (’cause it was slowed down with temporal locality dissociator, in this case) and insidious killer, as they say.
Teal deer: I’m with Pendrake on this one.
Well… They are the first to attempt to capture her. They were probably aiming for speed themselves, figuring plenty of other kidnappers were on their way to sell her to the syndicates.
Mind you, after this is over I’d dare say all the other kidnappers are going to either give up or pause and take better stock of the situation… Which is bad because for an initial attempt, this might have got reasonably close. A second stasis gun, better readiness with the stasis pod and they might have actually pulled the snatch and grab off… Sure they’re all gonna be on guard for attempts now, but its still scary to think how close this has come for an ill informed attempt
Nah, Halo has never been big on galactic youtube as an Archon member.
All she has done that was seen by the overall galactic community was eat some grakz.
The fight with Squidwardia was on a wiped out planed that was famous for it’s imperialistic behavior and currently managed by only the military of an even more dangerous foe who just committed genocide. Such people have tendencies to keep their exact situation a secret and aren’t very willing to share the knowledge of what the exact power is of a foe that can destroy multiple high level squidwards.
The Vehemence fight also wasn’t very in the galaxy’s eye and not very impressive on the side of Sydney’s powers.
Sconia doesn’t have anybody to report to anymore and has reasons to not tell the rest of the galaxy what happened(she would reveal to be still alive and a spy).
Sure if they had access to spionage raports actual earth media, they could’ve seen Sydney coming, but that’s not really basic intelligence.
Dabbler and Cora on the other hand…
They’re both galactic adventurers/mercenaries, so basically all their fights were in the galactic eye, they’ve reason to flaunt their accomplishment on galactic LinkedIn and in the Fel fight they were shown as Maxima’s allies.
Yotz was referring to Dabbles and Cora, not Sydney
oops
If you think about it, it’s a big galaxy with a LOT of sentient beings. How would anyone have heard of Cora or Dabbler?
Put it this way – how many Mercenaries or Adventurers can you name that are world famous outside of a movie? That’s what always gets me reading books – the main character, no matter how distanced from the Halls of Power, knows all the power brokers and their backgrounds and history. Most people barely know who their mayor is, let alone the power movers in society in their small town.
What I’m saying is, how would they have any intelligence on Cora or Dabbler if all they have on Maxima (their target!) is that she makes things go boom, can fly, and has golden skin? Even if they did reasonable levels of research, since Dabbler almost always wears her glamor in public and Cora is new to Earth, how could they be expected to know about them. I’m with most everyone here – this group leapt before they looked. And this will probably cause most other groups thinking the same to back up, and do a LOT more research and observation.
And this is more that I’ve said in public in more years than I can count. I apologize for the long read. Here’s a potato.
TL;DR: Why would anyone have heard of two specific people in a huge galaxy fill with various sentients?
Well, Cora did save the Fracture (twice), and assuming that’s a pretty significant hub, it’s not unreasonable to have heard of her.
Maybe not know she was there, because it does seem the intel on this op was lacking.
I’m sure that Maxima will be rather perturbed at the fact this fight was at least CLOSE to requiring her direct intervention, and will quickly conclude that there are gaps in Archon’s knowledge of threats from the galaxy. She will soon be grilling Dabbler and Cora to the maximum extent they will tolerate on what technologies and political interests they may be facing from the rest of the galaxy, and formulating interventions
I haven’t seen any evidence thus far that she might’ve almost needed to directly intervene. Everyone else we’ve seen has been doing their jobs admirably.
I think this arc could easily justify Cora sticking around with the team for a while, since she’s been a pretty popular character.
Because galactic LinkedIn. Nobody needs to have heard of them, they only need a reason to want to be heard and “so I can get a job” is generally considered a good reason for that.
I wouldn’t say “Intelligence” is something these guys had period.
Granted, things have not been going the slavers’ way, but they’ve been fairly formidable so Dabbler & Cora shouldn’t be so overconfident enough for the witty banter. By now, sword A should have been placed in torso B.
They are like spiderman, they banter even when in mortal danger
Remember that witty banter has zero cost during combat.
Not true while actively engaged. It costs use of breath and some concentration but could buy you an agrivated mistake if the opponent hears/allows themselves to be baited. Generally not a great idea but neither are locked up right now so I guess it’s fine
@Garbler is refering to the Literary trope “Talking is a free action“.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLHeP4UrT_c
to expand, in mediums where events are either off screen, or the founding method of comics, novels, and radio dramas. Talking is a free action is so common because it fills the time. If the comic only showed action, with no banter, a movie only the action with no one liners, internal monologues, dialogue between participants, the scene would go by too quickly for the audience to really soak in what is happening or relate to the characters. This differs a lot between moving and still images; so focusing on a comic book format; the dialogue helps keep you invested in each panel, soaking up the scene and the emotional response to the moments by the characters. Which granted if this were a monthly comic book where eight pages + are all released at the same time, an editor would probably cut back some of the dialogue, mostly anything too exposition like, as the reader is getting all these pages at once and action can more easily flow across multiple pages.
A two pages a week with several days between them however, probably a good idea to self contain some action moments, and the characters talking prevents too much skimming over the images.
that said there is still a balance to that, which is why I can see why some don’t care much for the exposition pages (I don’t mind them…be a hypocrite if I did honestly), as its not something you often see in comics; more so novels. In none-visual this trope is taken advantage of much more as everything you know about the world is being told to you, not seen. So its either narrator or character describes stuff; *and yes this isn’t perfect and some screen writers clearly have a habit of it left over from their other writing jobs or courses*.
It creates a non-zero probability that you will accidentally divulge information that a recurring nemesis may use against you in the future.
I always thought witty banter was part of the hero (or villain) power-up sequence.
Whelp… party wipe in 3…2……
The presumption was that Max was frozen, but this means that they’re really boned if Max has been aware and draining that battery the entire time. It’s been what?…. Something close to maybe 5 min in real time? Not sure on how to base time in this, but I’m betting that thing has tops 15 min before Max drains the entire thing.
She probably min-maxed into speed, so even at 99% slowdown she is still moving, which is draining the gun really fast
Max’s normal (evenly distributed Multipower slots) speed is fast enough to catch a bullet. Otherwise I doubt the bank robbery debut stunt would’ve ever gotten approval.
She’s probably maxed into speed right now, but not OVERBOOSTED. That would probably cause an unacceptably violent reaction from the stasis gun. (Accidentally blowing up Times Square = bad.)
I would guess Max is moving ‘fast’ enough that if that gun glitches flamez there would be converted to hot plasma.
Using the Newtonian forumla for kinetic energy, a guess for Max’s weight at 80 kilograms, and 300 petajoules as her max energy output (another guess from when she shot down the Fel cruiser) – her speed appears to come out to 86.6 million joules per kilogram. Pretty sure that’s deep into relativistic range. I don’t want to do the math further but I’d guess that she’s in the range where if she punched at top speed, she gets plasma explosions in front of her fists … or perhaps worse ( https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/ )
Special relativity gives that an object of 80Kg with a kinetic energy of 500PJ has an effective mass of 85,6kg and go at about 35% of the speed of light, essentially a hundred thousand kilometer per second, she would go to the moon in three seconds.
So yes, she had better not fly at her top speed in an atmosphere.
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/393947/minimum-speed-of-a-baseball-to-cause-nuclear-fusion-in-air
I’d have guessed that only a couple of minutes have elapsed. These would be super-nappers are on a very short timetable indeed.
Possible storyboard:
Panel 1: Panel 7 of Comic #875 from Max’s perspective.
Panel 2: Completely black (everything’s blue-shifted into ultraviolet, only an extremely high-pitched background noise is audible) Max thought bubble: “The fuck?!” 0.1 seconds have passed for her, 10 seconds for everyone else. Ray starts pumping up.
Panel 3: (symbol in corner shows Max putting her Multipower into Speed) Max can now see extremely blue-shifted blurs moving around, noise is still unintelligible. 0.2 seconds have passed for her, Detla has just ‘disarmed’ Cora. Max thought bubble, showing her inner nerd: “Did someone just cast Time Stop on me!?”
Panel 4: Max is maxed on speed but not OVERBOOSTED. Sees Achilles fighting Detla as heavily blue shifted blurs but recognizable. Thought Bubble: “Dammit, I’m going to have to talk with Sydney and Dabbler about this, this is shit they can think outside the box about.” 0.5 seconds have passed for her in total, about 1 minute for everyone else.
Remaining panels: Max thought bubble: “But FIRST…” Shows the slow turn from Max’s viewpoint, colors normalizing as Max begins to Overboost.
Yeah, most of the 2 minutes this fight has been going was probably spent in Max switching her speed up in reaction to the slow down which is why she’s only just starting to turn now. The battery probably did most of it’s draining in the last 20 seconds or so, which means a party wipe in 3, 2, 1 for the rest of the battery to drain is probably accurate.
Real time should be in seconds. Let’s see:
Max flips over galactic sleazebag.
Max gets frozen in stasis beam –> this is time zero.
galactic sleazebag hulks out –> that’s like 2-3 seconds after
Cora+Dabbler go into battle form–> that’s almost simultaneous with the above.
galactic sleazebag grapples with lizardman –> another 1-2 seconds?
Space swordswoman appears, chops Cora’s hard light hand
Space swordswoman gets boob road rash –> another what, 10 seconds in? Probably less
Space swordswoman retrieves her sword. –> 1 second? 2 tops.
Achilles makes the scene and takes space swordwoman out –> 5 seconds? 10 tops.
Cora+Dabbler banter–> 3 seconds? 4? How long will it take them to exchange a single phrase?
Max sloooooowwwwlyyyy tuuuuurns –>I’d say a full 2 seconds to make a 45 degree turn (which is what we are seeing in the comic). 2 seconds for 45 degrees is a slow turn indeed.
So overall? that’s like 45 seconds total. Not even one minute. And I’m being quite gratuitous with some actions, in real life they would probably take less than what I chalked them up for.
In my mind, the whole fight scene has taken at most 20 seconds so far.
20 seconds, if “99%( is literal, means it’s been .2 seconds for Max. If she was ready for sleezebag to try something, that’s a reasonable reaction time to max speed.
Yiangos said
“In my mind, the whole fight scene has taken at most 20 seconds so far.”
I concur, That means the stasis gun is burning out at 2% per secon trying to hold Maxima. If she’s not in the pod in 30 seconds, we’ll find out if a Galagar 8 personal shield generator is tougher than the hull armor on a Fel capital ship. (I doubt it is, myself.)
Max is turning visibly in 99% stasis! “How fucking fast is she going?” indeed.
I mean it’s not necessarily consistent.
Most likely, the first 18 of those seconds, Maxima spent on realizing that everything around her is suddenly moving super-fast, and then however long it takes her to shift her stats around, and only in the last 2 seconds was she actually moving at a noticable speed.
Well comics don’t show every punch thrown, and it’s possible there were quite a few seconds spent in stare-downs. So going by the conversations — how long it would take to say each word — I’m reading it as closer to at least a minute.
I was hoping it would be like the back alley when they… dealt with some thugs. :(
To be fair, these guys (despite trying to be quicker than others and not gather intelligence first) are a few cuts above the Thugs Cora dealt with. She remarked on “Torchy” having the latest shield technology, so they’re likely much more formidable and highly trained.
Just poorly informed
In their defense they probably assumed superheros would follow the known laws of physics.
They had the proof Maxima did not though.
But in their defence how would you expect someone to single handedly destroy a Fell ship without beam being their main strength?
that really depends on what they are used to encountering, if alien biological beings primarily, yeah, biological limitations can’t afford to spend resources on too many things. There is a reason few poisonous animals are also venomous and vice versa, why nothing with bioluminescence also has bioelectricity or those having venom.
Something that spits digestive enzymes isn’t likely to also be shooting quills tipped with paralyzing poisons, ect…
however tech enhanced (which they may have assumed)…I am still wandering if they even know what supers are and instead think Maxima is some kind of android *maybe even a techno-organic one*, with like a dimension battery core or something to power the beams…but tech has limitations, and even they assumed that they’d just have to exceed the base limitations and not get shot.
Even if they encountered supers, most supers are one trick ponies (granted this has less to do with physical limitations and more to do with story balance; like Cyclops and Boom Boom don’t also have super strength, Storm has omega level atmokinetic powers but a completely normal human body as susceptible to damage as anyone else, ect…
However if they’ve encountered magic, higher level demons, gods/beings who can pass themselves off as gods, eldritch, and other such beings then maybe they think she’s a golem or sorceress and knows a really powerful spell like The Dragon Slave, and intended to grill her to learn how to cast it. In the fight Maxima did seem to stand back while others fought and then unleashed a powerful beam that took the ship down; that is a pretty typical caster move (glass cannons, stand back, take the time to cast the spell while being defended).
I think it’s a case of “let’s overpower and we’ll bruteforce through anything we’ll encounter” kind of operation they ran here, just to beat others to the punch.
One: This is getting exciting
Two: That vote incentive, seriously.
Now I wonder if the orb we have no idea of the power of may protect against stasis.
Shield would probably work
Halo’s shield reacted to the tractor beam fired by a world breaking genocidal space titan; and by reacted to, she was stuck in one spot, but able to move freely while inside her shield to utilize the light bee to teleport out. So stasis gun, worst case scenario (for Halo), the bubble is stopped in space but she is still able to move around inside; best case the gun is so much lower powered compared the cyclopsethulu that it defends against it completely so other than a splash back, no reaction.
She could probably still use the lighthook from inside to take care of the person with the gun though
that feeling when your realise your plan wasn’t as foolproof as you thought
That feeling when you realise you brought your fools with you to enact your foolproof plan.
“Foolproof” doesn’t help if the fools are running the plan.
Admittedly, no one expected so many powerful people around their target.
Though that also means they did zero groundwork and just tried for a smash’n’grab. Which really would be a stupid idea when you’re attempting to grab the lady that just one shotted a universal plague.
D*** Max, you are more awesome than we realized.
And a LOT more awesome than they realized.
Callback to Zombie Superman’s eyes turning toward full-speed Flash.
The annoying thing for Flash in that fight was that he was, just barely, still enough faster to dodge, but Superman wasn’t just fast, he was still super-strong and invulnerable, so there wasn’t anything Flash COULD do except dodge.
I think they got that fight wrong from the outside perspective, though: At the speed they were moving, it was a time stop for everybody else; How could Supes have been distracted by Lois, when Lois didn’t show up until he and Flash had been playing tag for HOURS?
Well, I guess I got that wrong, Superman downshifted after knocking the Flash for a loop, didn’t he?
Yes, after seeing the clip posted on one of the other pages, Lois showed up after Soups had knocked down Wonder Tits and was in the process of seeing how much the Worlds Greatest Villain could bleed
I was going to give a shout out for the same thing, Dal! An awesome couple of panels.
Y’know, at this point Maxima is just seeming to be too OP, that can work, when the challenges is stuff like Moral Dilemmas
But Max isn’t really faced with stuff like, the closest she got to a challenge is Vehemence, and even HE admitted he couldn’t go up against her with juicing up beforehand, and even then she has an entire team back her up to keep him off balance
What Maxima needs is an opponent who can go up against her whenever and that her team won’t be much help against, someone who can really challenge her, and not just on a physical level. Or else she’s just going to end been a Mary Sue in he context of this story
She just seems OP because she can min-max her stats on the fly, (like how she took the gigaton punch with her face and only broke her nose)
You beat her by forcing her into a power dump state where she has to completely max out one of her stats. Vehemence had her in max armor and was eventually going to overpower it, Dabbler figured out how her powers worked and forced her to dump everything into armor and ended in a draw. With her in the stasis gun, her defense is probably low enough where an anti-armor round could take her out, or someone with gravity manipulation powers could force her into a strength dump.
This is, of course, why she doesn’t reveal that aspect of her power.
Yeah, if you’re gonna go around with anything on max by default you go with armour so you can take any surprise hit. Then switch to what you need.
But I’d dare say there are a number of things that can get Max. We’ve seen her somewhat held by a vampire gaze and there’s other powers out there that could trump her because they don’t rely directly on power or speed, like For Whom the Death Tolls.
The vampire gaze failed not because of Maxima’s resistance, but because one of the eyes on the Husk had been cracked so the gaze wasn’t working properly.
Sydney has expressed several times a worry of Maxima being mind-controlled.
An anti-armor round would enter the almost-stasis field before hitting her, which she would then effortlessly dodge at ultramaxed speed.
Except she’d have to be looking toward it when it appeared 3″ from her at the field boundary. Assuming it even survived passage as a solid object instead of an expanding ball of plasma.
She’s already moving at ultraspeed right now. She’d be long gone by the time it actually passed that 3″ regardless of whether or not she noticed it.
Except anything crossing into the stasis field also (presumably) slows to only 2-3% of normal time. We’ve seen her catch a bullet before, a Matrix dodge should be viable.
We have no indication yet from DaveB though on whether objects can enter the field safely. Obviously nothing can get out or there would be little point.
Actually. Dabbler fought her to a draw in their initial meeting.
You can beat Maxima, just not with raw power. You need to be smart about it, and know how her powers work. Which is a secret.
But that still means we never actually seen her get challenged in the story, remember, her fight with Dabbler happened prior to it
Yes, we have seen her challenged. Beaten, really, where her teammates had to save her.
Just because she survives a challenge, doesn’t mean SHE beat it.
Without a full team to back her here, she’d have been in the stasis pod before she had a chance to accelerate. And speed with no strength wouldn’t have helped her punch her way out.
Someone like Deus perhaps?
Deus is the only real Mary Sue in this comic. So yes.
He’s not a Mary Sue. He’s just smart enough not to let anyone know his vulnerabilities. He can probably be taken out with a single bullet, if you can get past his bodyguards.
But you can’t because Deus have planned everything perfectly. He have a counter for any threat. Everything he does works out just as he planned it. That’s a Mary Sue in my opinion.
Halo is the Mary Sue if anyone. Powers are found, not developed/earned. Uses comic book logic on everything. Somehow has an orb to do whatever needs to be done at that moment. Etc.
In a comic chock full of arguable Mary Sue’s
… why are you still reading?
Mary Sue is a trope wrapped in a cliche stuffed into a pigeonhole conveniently used to avoid actual analytical thinking.
On second thought all the characters in this comic are too much comedic to really count as Mary Sues, especially Deus and Halo. This is just a superhero comedy that shouldn’t be overanalyzed like I just did.
you don’t know what Mary sue means i see.
the fact Sydney needs to train and gets in trouble means she is not a mary sue.
Deus is the text book definition of a villain sue. he’d the richest people in the world, knows literally ever secret on this and every other, always gets what he wants and the writer has this fetish for stating how great he is at sex every change he gets. this isn’t even getting into how everyone has to get dumbed down to make his plans work
Been saying that for years.
I’d rank Deus as being on-par with David Xanatos of “Gargoyles” – every machination he’s engaged in (pardon the pun) has had some dual-pronged approach or larger aim in mind. That is NOT an easy thing to accomplish.
Xanatos didn’t have little black book of monsters that don’t even have sex that wanted to have sex with him
only because it was a kids’ show. But you know if it had been an adult targeted series he would have.
Obviously the real challenge’s gonna be when she gets possessed by the destroyer-of-worlds-type demon she’s probably lifting these powers from, and the whole team has to rally to take her out…
That would be true if combat was the focus of this comic, but the combat is mostly for show, not what the story revolves.
Maxima meets plenty of challenges that can’t be punched away – everything to do with Deus, Dabbler’s trolling and harassment most of the time, her leadership duties (mostly with regards to Sydney, but many of her subordinates lack discipline), investigation (Sciona) or politics (the council, the bureaucracy).
She even has a classical superhero moral challenge in #616.
Yup, could be she has a particular phobia of fuzzy caterpillars or so.
Did that to mom once. Just dropped the thing into her hand. :) Not like she hated them, but it was the sudden furry thing crawling about.
It’s rational to fear fuzzy caterpillars, though. Most of them are toxic, some of the lethally so. (The more spectacular they look, the more deadly. It’s “Don’t bother unless you want to die.” advertising.)
I concur, I had suffered some kind of long lasting nerve damage to my right temple thanks to a fuzzy caterpillar falling on my head in the backseat of a four wheeler in the mountain.
It fell on me from a tree and I brushed it off, it caused this intense pain that I mistook for a headache and suffered through ALL NIGHT as a result.
but ever since when I get any kind of headache that one spot on my temple has to join in with that same intense pain…or at least did for several years. Seems to have stopped this year.
Or 2020 has had such a high level of background mental pain that it pales in comparison.
Well, It’s one reason I ride motorcycles with a full helmet. No law on books requires it either.
It’s because running through a cloud of hornets, that are now VERY peeved, give you time to wipe em off/get to the side of a 65mph asphault grinder plate. Believe me just hitting em, does not insta-kill em. They will go crawling around on your shell.
Kinda like when you see a biker stripping down by the side of a road, they just had a mad wasp go up thier sleeve.
Adding a second Mary Sue to fight the first won’t fix the underlying problem…
A Mary Sue doesn’t exist unless they are a stark contrast to the story and setting.
Mary Sue was a Star Trek fanfic character who was better than everyone on the enterprise at their jobs, was smarter than everyone, and everyone just loved them and did what they said even though they had no authority to do so.
In common modern usage, I’ve come to hate the term and readily dismiss those who use it as it has devolved to “I don’t like this character who actually survives and solves problems in this power fantasy story” especially when (you didn’t do this but using as an example) they compare it to dramas where the main appeal is “anyone can die”, or dark dramatic pieces where the hero(s) suffer loss and defeat and claim that is realistic…its pessimistic not realistic, and not why a lot of people get into things like fantasy and superheroes (despite what some comic writers seem to think).
But on that Maxima has a weakness, one she doesn’t advertise and we’ve seen why, that her powers work on a grid that she has to mentally adjust, power, speed, defense, energy blasts, primarily with spaces between them to show mentally how they balance out. But she does presumably have a finite level she is working with (like trying to adjust your stat points in Dragon Ball Xenoverse, max out defense and your punches are at a base level, same with speed or ki, max out strength and you may be strong but you aren’t hitting anyone and have become a glass cannon.
her base is pretty tough, possibly B-class super when she lowers all her stats to base, we don’t know how powerful she is if she tries to keep them all even but at total stat point usage, we do know when fighting Vehemence she had to increase her defense so much that she could no longer over power him; which being this was televised lead Sciona who saw the fight on the news to wrongly assume Max was weakened by electricity.
likewise all these slavers saw was that Maxima could fire a massive energy blast, and did so under a ship’s shield. So given they clearly did zero research (heck even without Archon there, there is probably a dozen super vigilantes in spandex under their street clothes hanging out nearby waiting to “play hero”)..it is New York in a super world after all. But that said, they knew nothing else about her, I’d wager even without Archon there, the second they tried to make the transfer to a status pod shed have “zipped” like a DBZ fighter from their sight and taken them all out.
Aside from her stats Maxima has now displayed both of Juggernaut’s weaknesses (mind isn’t defended, hypnosis still works and likely mind control…of course this is an elder things and shoggoths scenario where the one second you slip up on that you’re dead because the thing you are trying to mind control vastly over powers you otherwise and doesn’t want to serve you), the other being stasis…even before they added that weird unstoppable momentum thing; Juggernaut could still be placed into a state of hibernation and kept that way. Stasis pods were the only way to keep him imprisoned.
Maxima is basically if Juggernaut could also fly and shoot energy beams
-also I say if…I know they nerf this character as a jobber a lot, I don’t know if he’s ever gotten these buffs…heck Red She-Hulk could fly last I saw *by merging with Betty’s older mutate form Harpy”; so I don’t know.
But that raises one other problem. Maxima has been stated to be so powerful, and I see complaints she may be OP, but in most of the fights we’ve seen her in so far she has been compromised; under-estimated Vehemence and got blind sighted, nearly succumb to a vampire gaze from the power thief “not a robot”, and now she has been slowed down by a stasis beam and the fear is she could be mind controlled to become a weapon…
Now there have been plenty of moments where she over powers her opponents too so this has balanced out. Yet people are still complaining she is OP.
to paraphrase Archer,
“Do you want the Worf affect, because this is how you get the Worf affect.”
that being if you SAY a character is really powerful, but to insure everyone else gets a spotlight and to demonstrate just how much of a threat the recent threat is you have your “this one is really strong” character being taken down…and have this happen one too many times; then your powerhouse tank no longer comes across that way and is diminished as a fighter to the audience. Which happened to Worf on Star Trek the next generation…enough that they tried to correct for that after a few seasons when the damage was already done.
Maxima so far has pulled more a Goku *without the excuses* with the (not in the fight till needed) move of not just instantly ending every battle. *and yes I consider it writing excuses to say your strongest fighter is off training, dead again, not on the planet, sleeping…yikes Super pulled this crap to keep Majin Buu out of the big fights where he’d have been useful, save for ONE instance where there were no known stakes in play*,
the closest Maxima came to that was being buried by an explosion fighting the blood powered mannequins, where others got to fight till she showed back up. Otherwise it was standing back as commander in the parking lot fight, and now being out of the fight thanks to this stasis beam thing; at least its not a “oh no a world breaker has arrived and we can’t get Maxima to wake up to help us fight…see Frieza revived arc and lack of Majin Buu…
I’d add that “Shebang” managed to hurt her, too, in the restaurant fight, and not using remotely her most powerful attack out of fear of killing everybody in the parking lot.
Maxima’s powerful, but no Mary Sue.
Yep, and she is on the list of characters I hope show back up again, her and Hexbug, Belltoll, and Barberian are high on that list….that and the mysterious masked figure with stickers on her mask caught my eye (seeing as the other figures that were played off as the imagination of characters were apparently actual threats watching the demonstrations on tv.
The moment you realize you don’t have the credits to cover the debt you just incurred.
This just makes me think of Flash vs superman fights. The first person the speedster ever sees who’s moving can be a real shock.
Yep. Angry Zombie Superman was scary fast.
This really reminds me of Jotaro VS Dio fight, when Dio noticed Jotaro is moving in frozen time
Well I assume if you had a spade tail, you would just point it in the direction you are going, but yeh a spade is not a very practical shape
Shouldn’t Max’es be whipping about from the superspeed headturn? The gun could not-slow the hair, but that’d seem unwise against beings with prehensile hair.
Shouldn’t Max’es HAIR be whipping about? *
Max isn’t spinning, she’s turning to glare at a gnat.
Just because she’s using super speed to make that turn doesn’t mean she’s actually moving at super speed…so her hair wouldn’t be whipping about. It’s like using super strength to move something heavy enough that it is just barely within your lifting capabilities…you can lift it, but not as quickly and easily as you’d lift something like a car….so you’re using the super power to do something at the rate that a normal person would lift something heavy. At least, that’s how I interpret this.
Maxima already faced her ultimate opponent with the Maxima vs Evil Maxima fight in “Wearing the Cape: Team-Ups & Crossovers”… which resulted in, judging by the description of the flash & blast wave when they fought, a high atmosphere nuclear explosion above the center of Lake Michigan, which Max rode out better than Evil Max.
I wonder if Dabbler has noticed the being behind her?
She did, she’s blocking the attack with her sword.
She blocked an atack so she had to have had.
Some gadget giving her a 360º threat detection?
Sorry, didn’t mean to reply.
Um… Oops?
Murphy’s Law of Combat (One of hundreds), ‘If it is stupid and it works, is isn’t stupid’
Unless it is-
Maxim #43 of The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries by Howard Taylor ‘If it is stupid and it works it is still stupid and you are lucky!’
Trying to kidnap someone like Maxima is stupid. Period.
I don’t care how much these alien mercenaries are getting paid for this job, it isn’t going to be enough.
I doubt they’ll survive long enough to get paid.
And that’s if Maxima olbiterates them, OR they end up imprisoned.
You know what would really be twisty?
It would REALLY suck if these ‘mercs’ are working for the some black Ops organization of Cosmic version of the UN. What if the whole IDEA was to get Maxima alone for a bit to talk to her about what she did to that Fel ship and how. (Talk as in ‘conversation’ or ‘debrief’ not ‘threaten’ or ‘brainwash’) Snatching her in public was silly and doing it in the presence of her team was just plain dumb.
These mercs are almost certainly expendable fodder of some kind.
That said?
Recruiting allies is the kind of thing that nations and organizations meant to protect nations DO. Would that change in space in any way except magnitude and the sheer messiness of trying to stay in contact with HQ several thousand lightyears away?
Now, think about it. What data do they HAVE on Maxima? Do they have any more than the cops’ reports? A golden woman from a backward, pre-FTL planet. She shows incredible amounts of power that frankly should scare anyone sane.
They need more information. So…
Send in the mooks to get some and any who survive will be compensated. (Either with money or a sudden catastrophic damage to the brain, depending on the merc)
I was thinking a few pages back it could be a Xevoarchy operation intended to make Earth “realize” they need to join the Xevoarchy as even their greatest defense is still vulnerable…but the increasing lethal measures by this group do make me doubt it (doubt it, not completely reject it as we know governments can pull crap like this and insist casualties are needed to get the message across, having little regard for lives compared to their agenda).
Whoops! Touchscreen means that I hit reply just by scrolling.
Let’s do this again:
Has Dabbler noticed the insectoid sneaking up behind her?
Considering she just blocked his attacks? i would say yes.
I doubt even the statis pod could hold maxima indefinitely – it just slows her down, it won’t affect her strength or explosive capabilities – if she can touch the statis pod from the inside, good chance it’s going to be turned to cinders ;) (along with the section of the hull of the ship along with it ^^)
Might take a while anywhere from minutes to hours to days – depends on how fast her energy beams move, through whatever medium they put her in (?)
Either way, you’re probably not holding her for very long… you’re not going to get her to work for you, you’re not going to be able to keep a laboratory or piece of equipment safe from her for research – what could you possibly be interested in doing?
I guess this answers whether or not Max’s speed dump accelerates her awareness and reaction. XD
maybe – we’re not sure how much speed she’s dumping/shifting/prioritizing at this moment, in order to overcome the time dilation
Max: “Thanks for bringing me a stasis rifle, I’ll be taking that.”
Stasis rifles, stasis pods, Schism swords, high tech mercenaries, spaceships, tons of gold and gal-gal 8 shields it’s low tech planet Christmas and galactic ambassador nightmare fuel.
I just want that Schism sword myself. I’m sure I can figure out how to control the fragments enough to use it as a shield against Terran projectile weapons.
Well I’x rathèr have L8na 8nverses Ragna Blade. You cant steal that from me. Kinda like margial arts. Does not go *BEEP* at airports either.
“Fragment of the Lord of Nightmares. Release thy heavenly retribution Sword of cold black nothingness become one with my power, one with my body Together, let us walk the path of destruction and smash even the souls of the gods – Ragna Blade”
“Thank you. Now I have a knife.”
Never pull a weapon unless you’re sure you have better mastery of it than your opponent.
“Now I have a nachine gun.Ho, Ho, Ho”
So the stasis field only slows the person down, not put them in stasis. In that case, it’s obvious that Maxim would escape via speed. It also makes you wonder if they bothered to do more research on who they were dealing with, as we know Aliens have been traveling to Earth for a while, so the information would be available to them.
The visits prior to now have been completely veiled from the human population, and I think I remember they are largely unknown to the rest of the galactic population (like refugees kind of thing where you may prefer to be anonymous), and maybe certain types of tourists – I certainly don’t glue my nose news broadcasts when I travel, so maybe they would have little if any idea about the general existence of Supers, much less details about Maxima.
They appear not to have done their homework before trying to capture Maxima. Unless that’s proven wrong in the next several comics, it’s as simple as that.
I think the idea is that the stasis, for most people, WOULD be effectively in stasis. As in something that could sustain them through intergalactic transit – Maxima is just THAT FAST right now that she can move despite the Stasis.
“Slowly she turned, step by step, inch by inch” :-)
Yes I know that reference is older than anyone reading this comic (including me), but it just came to mind watching Max to the turn.
a certain song by Pete Burns came to my mind, mostly cuz i bet the flamboyance of it would piss her off, what with her inherent shininess
I first encountered it in a 3 Stooges short… Not sure where it originated.
From Vaudeville. The Stooges did it repeatedly.
With lots of variati9nz too. Love the one with Lucy from “i love lucy” … “let me have it. *splat!”
Originally thought it wasna pre-hammer space windup. Might as well be.
Niagara Falls…
I understood that reference.
(DANG! I wish this had upvotes like r/.)
A few years from now: “Remember USB type C? Man, I’m so glad we’ve moved past stupid cables. wireless for life yo!”
I’m waiting for quantum-ether, or lag-be-gone :)
Until wireless is as reliable as cables and I don’t need to remember to recharge the wireless device I’m never willingly switching to wireless peripherals.
Based on how vm’s, firewalls, calculators, games, internet connection and gps got treated the general market will take enough with “pretty reliable”.
All of those are either necessities, the only option available, or are serious improvements in convenience. Wireless peripherals for a static device are none of those (except controllers for systems that only offer wireless)
A little different:
All these were once separate systems with their own hardware and wired connection and are currently used with less reliability(than their modern hardware equivalents) as a (partly-)software component of one device.
On the extra convenience thing I agree.
Until wireless starts offering some extra comfort the general market will have significant part wired, but it already offers already two improvements a. it makes it requires less space in mobile devices(apple’s reasoning), b. it’s more foolproof in that there’s less movement with sensitive hardware components(I’ve seen one person destroy three phones by mistreating the charger port).
Yeah, and so will commence the age of “Hey, why does my data keep getting stolen?” because nobody understands basic security protocols. XD
What do you mean “will commence”? Wifi is a poster child of bad security to the point that it’s only the second or third example given of what not to do in crypto 101. Okay, WEP, WPA comes a bit later. But still. And before wifi we already had windows, which showed, and shows, the same symptoms.
As for usb-c, well, usb-a+b was already supposed to fix everything. Which was obviously not going to happen at introduction already. Then there were mini and micro. And then there was -c, and that turns out to be mostly bust as well.
Honestly, usb and its governing body is like the ‘web and its standardisation body the w3c: It’s done by and for idiots. And so is wifi and its alliance. WPS, anyone? I could go on, no sweat at all. Our computators and intarwebtubes are rife with idiotic insecurity.
Reminds me of an article on the horrors of being a programmer my JS Slack group is discussing today, as well as this and this from XKCD.
“Let’s capture an obscenely super-powered person, they said. We’ll sell them to the highest bidder, they said. It’ll be easy, they said…”
yippee ki yay
I can’t help but think nobody in their right mind would be interested in her for any reason but storage – you’re VERY unlikely to get anyone to work for you by capturing them in a stasis field, research on her would be quite the dangerous proposition, unless it could be conducted while she’s in the stasis field
I think it’s far more logically an attempt to mitigate the threat of her powers
I could imagine them adjusting the stasis field so just some of her hair or a toe protrudes and then taking samples.
I’d dare say there’s probably other technological things that could be done to keep her either in check or safe once you’ve captured her in stasis and have all the time in the world to setup.
Really though, “supers” appear to be something unique to Earth in general and while Maxima appears to have something additional from the “geode” compared to other supers, Aliens might be interested in capturing any “super” and studying them.
I am starting to wander if they even realize she IS a living a person; and don’t think she’s some advanced battle android from a world that put all its tech effort into weapons and not space travel. Would be funny to have one try to bring up a processor scanner to find out what kind of processor she uses only to realize she gives off psychic imprints and realize she is a living person; they just kidnapped someone while stating an intent to sell into slavery to everyone around and not the smash and grab some tech to sell off they thought they were.
Clearly the slaver alien is unaware that Maxima can shift all her power into pure speed and still have enough strength to kick her ass and send her blasting off again Team Rocket style.
We figured it out above, a very rough estimate places Max somewhere around 35% of lightspeed given what we’ve seen her do so far. Anyone getting punched by her at that energy level would literally explode (in a big way) as their atoms underwent fusion. Do not taunt happy fun Maxima.
‘I forgot/ran out of time to draw a clothed version’
..and the voting site crashed from the number of clicks..
While dojinshi sites doing the XXXX rated ones.
I didn’t know Dabbler had a sister.
(That does not look like a Dabbler expression. No sense of humor in the *burn*.)
What ‘burn’? That’s Dabbles being seductive, she is not an all-the-time goof like Sydney is
I think you’re one the very few people to ever use a Stasis Field to slow down time instead of outright stopping it. Would have preferred full time stop myself just to see what the others could do without Maxima
A stasis /ˈsteɪsɪs/ or stasis field, in science fiction, is a confined area of space in which time has been stopped or the contents have been rendered motionless. — wikipedia
I think it’s a matter of there’s two ways to keep things motionless, relative to an outside observer.
Application of Force to constrain movement
Time Dilation to slow (or stop) the movement/perception of anything inside, relative to outside
Usually, I’d assume the dilation is far more effective, but effectively stopping time would probably take nearly infinite energy – something they may be able to approach inside a chamber, as DaveB talked about, through a nesting approach, but that’s not as practical in a gun format – thus her urgency to get Maxima in the “stasis pod”
If these mercs had a choice between time or force, they may have actively selected time dilation because she blew up a space ship with a single energy shot, showing that a force-field may not be able to hold. If not, then that’s possibly the only TYPE or maybe the most effective TYPE of “stasis” field in the galaxy(?)
Are there other methods of “stasis”? (that don’t rely on “well it just stops them… somehow…”)
I’d wager even a stasis pod wouldn’t keep Maxima still for too long… she would most likely destroy the nested field generators in progression, thus breaking through the layers of dilation from the inside – pretty sure you’d have to have a field powered by something like the Fracture to keep her contained safely…
The biggest thing, upon reflection, is that stasis fields don’t normally NEED to stop time – only slow it to 10%, 1% or maybe .01% of real time, for it to be very useful – especially as a weapon
Given that we know Maxima can move extremely fast, and given Torchy’s extreme surprise at her being able to move sloooooooooowly, I would think this field dilates at least down to .01% transient time (though the gun’s normal setting could just be .1% or something) – she’s not expecting to see any movement at all. Given that it has drawn more power to attempt to maintain stasis, it obviously is not just a dollar-store stasis field — it’s got some automatic adaptability, but its field generator or power source has limits
So if they don’t normally need to adapt to super-speed, except maybe double- or triple- speed spells or something, they’re not going to be designed to do a lot more than that for your generally available mercenary supply chain.
In other words, Redguard, most stasis fields may effectively stop time, by slowing it to .1%, but that’s not something the science fiction you’re referring to chooses to elaborate upon
We know that a gravity well will affect the passage of time. Time on earth / orbit. That the more intense the gra ity, the slower time will pass for them.
Unfortunaly you would also kill the thing you are trying to study of old age and or starvation.
Soooo … different universe rules / unknown physics? Star trek started explor8ng the possibility of d8ffernt d8universes with differntn propertues (a fluid one) some ould be even more bizarre.
So does this mean that Maxima could move in Zero Point Energy?
Zero point energy can be pressed against, so a hard “maybe”
Anyone care to wager on the odds of this fight!?!?
oh its over. we are just waiting for one of two things- Sydney to interfere with the poorly prepared merks plan again. or Maxima getting out of that stasis field. my money is on Sydney doing something creative. In part because I don’t want Yorp to bite me.
What if Sydney is the real target of this kidnapping and all of this focus on Max is just a distraction? Maybe some other thugs not seen yet are making a move to snatch and run with her.
Then the thug would actually be surprisingly well informed
Maybe offer Yorp a “special” Yorpie snack made from a recipe from Alice B.Toklas…!
Just smack him on the nose with a rolled up newspaper and say, NO!
How fast is she?
As fast as she wants to be.
Reminds me of the gate guardian.
Ingsol: “Vhy didn’t ze veakness aura affect you?”
Sydney: “Nothing gets through Mr. Bubble.”
Dabbler: “150% resistance to debuffs.”
Maxima: “It did.”
To fight Maxima, it’s not enough to have really big numbers. You need an absolute power with no pesky limits.
Oh! I’d forgotten about that page. I don’t want (and can’t afford at the moment) to lose hours trawling the archives to find it…does anyone have a link so I can get a refresher on what led to it?
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-559-the-guardian-needed-an-upgrade-anyway/
THANK YOU!!
It led to the nigh-ancient vampire quoting Snagglepuss, which still makes me chuckle.
You absolutely certain Snagglepuss wasn’t quoting the nigh-ancient vampire?
I… but… everything I think I know is wrong! *huff huff*
I like the idea of him watching Hanna Barbera cartoons, just like Vale was watching Teen Titans, but now I think I prefer the possibilities of your version.
Yeah at some point it losses meaning. Had a facebook game that accumulated coinage. On trillion later and a 5% hit, that while ig seemed large, could be recouped in minutes due to interest gained .
It all depends on which side of the equation you were on.
Am I the only one who read Dabbler’s comment in the last panel with an inflection of “smug pride”…probably derived at least in part from a sense of “I’m turned on by attractive people, but even more so when they’re powerful, and there’s a damn good reason I want to ride her”?
AAR (After Dark Version?)
Max- It would have been nice if someone briefed us on the math and physics of a Stasis gun.
Dabbler – Projector.
Sydney- Looks like a gun, held like a gun. Shiny blue beamy comes out. S’ a Gun.
Cora- Can’t argue with her there.
Dabbler -anyway. There’s a few laws I’d have to bypass to “brief” you on them. But it’s not like the tech hasn’t been laying around ARC for the last few months anyway.
MAX- What? How dangerous is that>?
Dabbler- Not very. It’s built into one of my vibrators.
MAX- What reason could anyone want to have a stasis projector built into a vibrator?
Cora- well, it’s not a full on body stasis projector. This one slows thoughts down…sorta.
Dabbler- (nods sagely) This one triggers when you have an orgasm. And again when you have one while having the first.
MAX (stares in disbelief)
Sydney – so potential exponential O’s?
Cora and Dabbler nod in agreement.
Dabbler- “I call it the slow burn. Though the end result is more like a supernova. It’s real popular with many on the team.
MAX- You’ve given these out as a party favor?
Dabbler- well, yeah. Kinda lets me feed remotely with out zonking anyone out. Tastes like junk food….really really good junk food.
Sydney- well it sorta goes right to your hips.
Cora- Lower.
Sydney- Shut up. (blushing)
MAX- ….
Dabbler- from your looks I see you’re debating on whether to ask for one for yourself. I’d have already offered, but the tech and materials required for someone of your…strength, needs to be considered.
Cora- Yeah A vibrator built of collapsed neutronium would weigh as much as my ship. And cost a penny. I got that right, right? (Looks at Sydney who’s eyes are huge with both disbelief and wonder. Only to get lost behind them when they fog up slowly.)
Dabbler- and then there’s the shape to consider. (Leans forward, adjusting Glasses she wasn’t wearing) What’s your preference? Kink?
MAX- Like I’d tell you!
Dabbler- Now you see my problem. Can’t use Depleted transuranics because compression boom…there’d be fallout.
Sydney titters and begins to shake.
Dabbler- How well can anyone control their inherent power set when they’re peaking?
Sydney giggles harder. Cora is biting her lower lips trying not to laugh too.
Max …. becoming a purplish gold.
Dabbler- I guess I could go with the classic three egg design, but humans aren’t built that way. So, two? Cora?
Cora- Don’t ask me, I’ve only sampled the men here so far.
Sydney- Two’s normal, unless you’re a bionoid or demon kin or staring in a Hentai Anime.
Dabbler- I really need to find the time to watch those.
Cora- Really? Tell me about them.
MAX- Ladies! We’re doing an After Action Report not gossiping.
Sydney- Sorta the same thing. Isn’t it? (giggles harder)
Dabbler- I’ll send you a sampler box.
MAX (cheeks are a deep golden purple.) So what are the -other- potential uses for stasis projectors? Can we make a shield out of them? One fast enough to stop say a laser blast long enough to get others and yourself out of the way?
Dabbler turns to Cora – Well that Mind Probe trigger thing worked out well enough.
Cora- that’s for psychic users though. But wasn’t he surprised. I will take over your Mind now!
Dabbler- and Boom the Stais on two weeks worth of orgasms was released. Mind you…my orgasms. They’re pretty big to begin with.
Cora- His heads went BOOM! But he went smiling! Well it’s assumed he did. Kinda musta sucked in the last microseconds though. Men aren’t built to have multiple orgasms.
All the ladies there nod even max slowly at the end when everyone’s looking at her.
Sydney- We’re better at something than men, but it takes a man to get you to that point.
Dabbler- not with my toys.
MAX- AHEM! On topic again, please.
Dabbler- they are notorious energy hogs, that’s why the pods layer the fields each does the minimum and in total you get an effective Time Stop for the target. But they are in phase. Closely in phase and sequenced. so when first is fading, the next layer is already applied. Much more efficient than a single beam as you found out.
Max- Baring Galactic tech law, can you prepare a report that the brass above me and those they answer to can understand? They are worried that one moment they’ll blink and find themselves in an Alien petting zoo.
Cora- well, it’s not just petting they’ll want them for. Why do you think Earth’s so popular with Alien Tourists?
Dabbler- That’s how I heard of you guys.
Sydney- There’s a rule for that…it’s not #34, but a close cousin.
MAX- What about stutter fields? I remember they discussed those in Applied Physics and Quantum Mechanics in the Air Force before. (Everyone but Dabbler and Cora stare at her). What? I can’t be more than just a nerd? I have a bit of geek in me too.
Dabbler (high fiving Cora)- Well my senses tell me, not recently. I mean even Sydney’s been getting it regular. It’s bad for your Health, Maxima. You need to… I’ll see about your toys.
Max glares. Sydney snorks.
Max- baring the tech paper and breakdown of captured tech by ARC Tech and ARC Light and Dark is there anything else I can give to my superiors to keep them happy? And No Dabbler a box of toys isn’t on the table.
Sydney and Cora both- Under the table would is more her style.
Dabbler- I don’t think they’ll need it. Looks over Max’s shoulder.
Max does another slow turn and sees a blushing General standing there (with his aide who’s smiling hugely. And she’s staring at Cora)
MAX- He’s right behind me, isn’t he? How long?
Sydney- Phrasing!
the saddest thing is now that you’ve written this we know it isn’t going to be drawn. but this needs to be in some repository so I can reference it in my headcannon
You are not entirely accurate, some males are able to have multiple orgasms.
Well I’m sure Cora will have a rethink…
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Am I the only one reminded of the the Superman-turns-head-to-running-Flash scene in Justice League? *grins*
Sadly physics throws a wrench in all the fun things, if your stasis beam slows somebodies time passage to 2% they’d immediately acquire a relative velocity of 42,000 km/hr as our galaxy is traveling at about 2.1 million km/hr and suddenly traveling at 2% of that would be pretty traumatic.
That depends on relatively to WHAT will the stasis beam do the slowing.
Some dark corner of Fracture Cosmos arrives with a pod in tow.
“I have a delivery for…no name…but I think it’s for you. And don’t worry, I’ve already been paid.”
~~”Where are the mercenaries I sent to get this done? ~~
“I believe they are in there.”
~~ They? All of them? That can fit only one being. ~~
“Ah, the customer said you’d ask that. The answer was…well let me paraphrase, I was distracted by her galactic globulariness. ‘Let this serve them as a warning. Try for anyone on Earth again and I’ll turn you into neutronium.’ Please sign here, or tap with a proper appendage. ”
~ Ah, I invested soooo much.What will I do now?~
Cosmos – Well, I’m done here. Want to hit a Jiggle Bar? I know one with Sy’llia’rian Twins headlining this month.
~ … Okay. Sure. But you buy the first round. I’m a bit tight after this expenditure. ~
Cosmos- You did put their pay in escro forist, pending their success? You didn’t like pay the mercs cash or anything, did you?
~ They insisted on a down payment… Z-chips. Two dozen, platinum core with twice that on completion. ~
Cosmos looks at the creaking and now leaking Stasis pod.
Cosmos- “Soooo how squeamish are you? The chips, they gotta be in there, don’t they?”
If the gun is keeping max at 3%, and energy use doubles for every 1%, what happens when it gets below 1%, energy use doubles every time you reduce speed by another 50%? Max moving at mach 1 would put her at average human walking speed moving at 0.4% speed. If Max can move faster than the human eye can see, that would require a 0.008% timescale effect to put her at base human walking speed.
As said by the author above.
The gun is using emergency systems.
It holds targets normally under 3% speed, but Max doesn’t give normal output, so it just does a maximum draw on the power cell the entire system can handle.
You should give the vote incentive Dabbler a tube top with that exact same text as in the box right now.
Slowly she turned millimeter by millimeter.
1% still would have maxima moving faster than a sprint, though. She can catch a bullet, 1/100th of that is still fast as hell.
love the slow turn