Grrl Power #881 – Gesundämmerheit
In case you, like Torchy, were indeed wondering where the stasis pod was.
This guy has a universal translator, but he’s one of those aliens with an insanely loud barky, clicky language that the translator isn’t able to set up a sufficient interference waveform to “mute” normal speech. Oh, sure, he could buy one that’s specifically made for loud talkers, but he’s an honest, hard working space merc. Why’s he gotta spend his own money on something that benefits others?
In my mind this guy sounds a lot like the Mars Attacks aliens, but with more growls and roars, along with that slight delay like the guild navigator peon from Dune talking into that 1920’s radio mic.
Sydney doesn’t know this guy is male. She’s probably got about a 40% chance of being right, as most humanoid species are dioicous, but there are some which are monoecious, triecious, hermaphroditic, etc. It’s also entirely possible it’s the female of this guy’s species that can attack vomit 11 gallons of acidic mucus on command, but her glasses don’t do species and/or sex identification. There’s probably an upgrade for that though. It would actually be super useful if you were an intergalactic trader or diplomat or something.
The word “intergalactic” suddenly bothers me. Shouldn’t it be “intragalactic?” Most science fiction deals with only a single galaxy and the adventures contained within.
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Still better then Zeitgheist
I don’t get the meaning of “Gesundämmerheit”, it’s not a German word. “Gesundheit” would make sense, it’s what you say after someone sneezes. The “dämmer” could be related to “Dämmerung”, which means dusk or dawn, but doesn’t make sense (and it should be “ämmer”, because the d belongs to the “Gesund”, but “ämmer” makes even less sense. And by the way, it’s “Zeitgeist” (Zeit = time and “geist” in the meaning of spirit).
Aahhh, it’s Comic-Germanic, and roughly translates as “That oops-understanding moment”.
I’m guessing this is a mashup of “Gesundheit” and “Gotterdammerung” (the primary context in which English speakers encounter “dammerung”) suggesting something like “the twilight of the sneeze.” By analogy with “the twilight of the gods” (Gotterdammerung), this is the day the powerful sneeze is finally defeated.
That would be “Gesundheitsdämmerung” or “Gesundheitsgötterdämmerung”. Totally unconventional, though, it doesn’t work without the long explanation. If that was the intended meaning, I’d have called it “Kotzbrockenragnarök”. Or whatever “Kotzbrocken” is in Icelandic, but only if the double meaning is preserved in the translation.
Mithos, I come from a low german background, DaveB did a good job on this one. Not perfect to those with a better grasp of German than him, but very good and gets the point across to a very wide audience.
German words like Gesundheit are used widely in english speaking counrtries and cultures.
This maximizes understanding across the reader base even if it makes people like you with better german than us hobbyists (or more serious ones like me) sigh a little.
nooooooooooooo typo’s >_< this is either my first post in ages or my first post and i flubbed it.
Considering that “gesundheit” literally translates as “health”, and just happens to be what is said when English say “Bless You”, the portmanteau can only be understood by its relationship to other words anyway.
Ya done good, kid.
Actually I meant Zeitgheist, the guy who vomited acid, from Deadpool
Thank you for explaining this. I am German and didn’t know that English-speakers use “Dämmerung” mainly in this specific context of “Götterdämmerung”. I like the joke, as I’m fine with not getting jokes at the beginning, because I know that there’s a roughly 99% chance that someone in the comments or on some other website (explainxkcd) will clear everything up for me.
Yes, we Americans only encounter that word particle in terms of either Wagner or war games/RPGing, so it’s more associated with War or Armageddon/Ragnarok than it is with “dusk/dawn/twilight”.
Similarly, we only encounter “Gesundheit” in its relationship to sneezes, so many Americans think it translates as “bless you”… what we say.
Ok, so it’s just an “assimilation” of a word from a foreign language without preserving the actual meaning. We have those in German, too, but I don’t like it. For example, we’ve “assimilated” the word “Handy” and use it with the meaning and instead of “mobile” for mobile phones.
And to stir the pot (another idiom), ‘mobile phone’ is British-English and ‘cell phone’ is American-English.
Interesting, I didn’t know about the “Gesundheit” thing either.
They don’t.
I have live on both sides of America, and various points in the middle. I have never heard anyone use that word. Not even in tv shows and movies from various decades.
Gesundheit, I have heard and is in fairly regular use in places.
I have even heard und, habe, bitte, and a few others *mainly due to dialect*,
but that dammerung…never…
best I can tell it was being used for a video game or some tabletop game and that is the American usage. No different than when you hear Spanish in the Anime Bleach; a foreign word being used to sound “exotic” in your creation.
It’s the usual problem, where an English speaker is trying to produce foreign looking words. People who only speak English just see it as a joke. A person who speaks the other language is puzzled by the gobbledegook.
It’s the same with fake Russian. They use Я (backwards R) as a substitute for R, to make text look “Russianish”. But anyone who knows Cyrillic is puzzled, because Я is a different letter which sounds like “ya”.
Also, lot of people are using greek letter sigma – Σ – as a replacement of E, although it’s closer to S or Z.
This a word play on Gesundheit and Götterdämmerung (“god’s twilight”, i.e. apocalypse, Ragnarök etc.).
Note that “gesundheit” is USAian dialect. It is not used in the other English speaking countries, or by people who use it as a second or later language.
If we say anything, it will be “Bless you” or “Stop sprayinbg your COVID-19 germs on me, you dirty swine!”
We are vaguely aware of the dialect use of the word, but it doesn’t spring to mind when we see “Gesundämmerheit”. I didn’t get it until it was discussed.
Judging by the discussion in comments, someone should make venn diagram for scopes of space trade.
Residential science nerds, get working on it.
Interstellar is the best go to. Also can Sydney squeeze with the light hook? With a 16 ton weight limit seems she could pinch point alot of things in half.
“Galactic”, which was used by Sydney when arguing the universality of guns as a threat with Maxima IIRC, is usually the most clear. Compare with “national”.
Actually, “galactic” is one step above “interstellar”. Just like “global” is one step above “international”. I’m not sure if there is any need for “interplanetary” and, uh, some word for encompassing everything orbiting one star.
A species so primitive that it’s barely moved off the rock where evolved? Still confined to a single star system? Poor things. Try using “insystem.” If only a few stars are involved, “intersystem.”
barely moved off the rock.
I’d say not moved off the rock, interplanetary*ly* speaking, humans have walked into the backyard in a pup tent, taking one step at the edge of the property on a boulder, and then thrown a bunch of cameras and junk into the nearby yards and wilderness and watched their drone footage of it while spying on the neighborhood with a telescope.
Oops. Actually, “galactic” is one step above “interstellar”, just like “global” is one step above “international”. I do think “galactic” is most likely most appropriate.
I’m not sure if there is any use for “interplanetary” and some word encompassing all things orbiting the same star. Our star doesn’t have any more life orbiting it, but I’m not sure if goldilocks zone can be larger for different kinds of stars.
If you had two planets in the goldilocks zone both with enough mass to hold a decent atmosphere they would interfere with each other gravitationally. I’m not saying it’s totally out of the question, but I have a feeling there would eventually be the kind of togetherness that rules out a sequel.
I mean all you really need is for the second inhabitable planet in Sol is for it to be at the L3, L4, or L5 points for it to have a stable orbit. Now the presence of Venus and to a lesser extent Jupiter is liable to knock it off from the Lagrangian points but considering that Earth is four billion and change years old as long as the impact doesn’t occur until the six billionth year everything’s fine as far as intelligent life is concerned.
Or you could just have a pair of planets ~0.05 AU apart orbit a shared center of gravity which itself revolves around the local stellar object. Much easier on the math long term.
Amusingly, that (hypothetically) essentially happened. Except it didn’t take six billion years. The Giant-Impact Hypothesis (which seems pretty likely to this geologist that dabbles in planetary science) has a Mars-sized protoplanet (referred to as Theia) forming in Earth’s L4 or L5 point, getting destabilized by the proto-Venus (and probably some other gravitational shenanigans with the massive jovian forming relatively nearby), and smashing into the forming Earth about 0.1 billion years after the solar system started coalescing. The result: An unusually large moon with a composition rather similar to its parent planet(s).
There’s actually no need for it to have been destabilized by Venus.
Once the tertiary object gets bigger than a certain fraction of the secondary object’s mass, the L4/L5 points are unstable in and of themselves, and it goes into an independent orbit around the primary object.
So, what destabilized Theia may have been nothing more unusual than it gaining mass at a faster rate than Earth.
Earth and Venus, each shifted outwards a moderate distance, ought to be stable. Or switch Venus and Mars. Admittedly the width of the habitable zone is narrower than was once believed.
With a wider variety of life forms though, the zone requirements could expand a fair amount. The Grrlverse probably has humanoid species that would do just fine on any of the inner planets of our system, and perhaps a few of the outer ones.
“Galactic” might be several steps above “interstellar”; we just don’t really know yet as we’re still basically restricted to a single planet. The galaxy is definitely a large place, after all, and comparing going between two stars go going across the galaxy is like comparing going to the corner drugstore to going to the other side of the world.
“Our star doesn’t have any more life orbiting it”
Have you not been following the news about the discovery of significant quantities of phosphene on Venus? Right in the upper atmosphere, where theoreticians had predicted that life could exist (if it found a way of avoiding being dissolved by the acid rain).
There are three possibilities:
1) It is being caused by some non-biological process unknown to science.
2) Microbial Venusian life has evolved to be immune to the acid that would be fatal to all known Earth life (including the extremophiles). Not that hard to envisage, given that is the environment they will have evolved in.
3) It is a side effect of heavy industry. Which of course has a whole bunch of possible reasons, including:
a) We have discovered where those pesky Nazis have been hiding out.
b) Earth and Venus used to be twin planets, but they never managed to get their global warming under control. And their industrial base is really really durable (phosphene would break down fast under the conditions in Venus, so it must have something still replenishing it, rather than being an ancient legacy of a now inert process).
c) Venusians are all hot-looking nymphomaniac women, who we just have never seen because of all those clouds. QED.
Just high enough to avoid the surface pressure but not so high to be killed off by the UV rays.
meanwhile Mars still has that mysterious reappearing methane which we only know of two ways it is produced, geological activity *which Mars doesn’t have* and biological side effect. Predictions of underground life on Mars, also likely microbial.
Wouldn’t be surprised to find life on a lot of those moons around the Jovian planets with their energy rich resources and liquid cores and what not.
There is a hypothesis that life is just something the universe does as a chemical reaction under rich conditions. That said, complex life is another story; look how long it took Earth to go from single cell life to multicellular, exploded after that. But has a higher chance of happening if life is just something that shows up almost anywhere just waiting for conditions to get right for exploiting resources to become more complex.
And if you want to emphasize that you can span the entire galaxy, try pan-galactic. “Galactic trader” makes me think he trades galaxies, which are the third-most-inconvenient cargo to try to fit into your ship’s hold.
So, does that make this well-travelled spit-thrower a pan-galactic gargle blaster?
Yes, Yes it does.
As in “pan-galactic gargle blaster”?
For some reason Sydney looks extra cute today…
It’s the loose hair bang in front. Double kudos for it being panel 6.
Panel 7. #6 is under the two small (#4 & #5) panels. I know… I’m pretty sure that DaveB did not intend this, but them’s the rules.
Life experience has taught me that accidental cuteness is the best cuteness.
It’s in 6 and 7. Look closely at 6.
Panel 6 is the close up of the stasis pod with the translated text
Panel six is, as the text says, “Sydney Cam”, as in, “This is what Sydney sees”
Not only do you see that bang, you can also see the edge of the glasses and how things look slightly different outside the field of the lens (also the overlap of the two lenses in the middle)
Super-syndrome is beginning to infect her…
Soon, should be bodacious and vivacious.
No, not until she starts to develop powers of her own
It’s the Serious face she is putting on. Honestly Silent Calm Sydney is more dangerous than any other kind of Sydney in a Combat situation, cause it gives her time to think and analyze what is going on.
Then she opens up 10 cans of Woop-ass that would make Stone Cold Proud.
And thats why you pick eyes of the runekeeper on your warlock
Honestly, my DM loves and hates me for taking that invocation.
Damn right!
Could you see Sydney learning magic?
SYD: “Dragon Slave!”
Sulu: “OMG! Shields, SHIELDS!”
…
Singed Professor: “What did we tell you? NOT ON THIS PLANET!”
Well, he should be dropping that stasis pod fast, or he’s in trouble. Also like the new look for the lighthook.
Sydney: Yay, free advanced alien tech, I knew they drop loot
+1
Confiscate stasis pod.
Restrain alien mercenary.
This sounds like a problem that solves itself.
“Sorry, your Stasis pod’s already occupied!”
Another massive ‘Oops’ moment by the mercs.
Yeah, sure Sydney doesn’t look very dangerous compared to Maxima. That said? Barfing on a police officer CAN and HAS been construed as assault in a lot of different places even without whatever that alien hurl material was supposed to do.
This is NOT going to end well for lizard breath.
Good thing Sydney wasn’t arrested for barfing on Maxima then
Conciddering in the last panel, that stuff is eating away the pavement, I’d say its meant to dissolve stuff.
He could have gotten hired as an extra for an Aliens movie, except for the OSHA people.
I am wondering if he got enough of a circle going that it will eat down to a sewer or subway area and cause Sydney to fall. . .
extremely doubtful given the layers of the road, the sub-structure, and I don’t know if a subway runs under whatever part of Time Square has a brick pavement but that too has support structures. Even if that half circle bled clean through there would still be enough support for where Sydney is standing to not be structurally impaired.
The pair appear to be standing on planking, not pavement. Is there a boardwalk near Times Square?
It’s paving brick. And, since things haven’t caught on fire, I’m guessing the puke is more like fluoroantimonic acid instead of chlorine trifluoride.
Thank goodness for that. ClF3 is one of the NASTIEST substances known to man.
One of. I still love the “Things I won’t work with” article about F2O2.
This explains why LOX and LF are frowned upon as rocket fuel.
Yeah, “one of.” I’m am never going to unilaterally declare something to be THE nastiest substance in existance, because some lunatic out there with a chemistry degree will take that as a challenge.
That said, ClF3 will ignite nearly every known substance on fire (including things that normally should not burn), will burn in a vacuum, will dissolve its way through almost anything it touches, and in doing so will release charming clouds of hydroflouric acid. It is absolutely nasty ENOUGH, even if there are worse things than it out there, and it ranks way up there on my “you could not PAY me to get close to this stuff” list.
ClF3 is totally outdated by now. We have figured out how to make ClF5, a even nastier variant, now with 2/3 more HF gas.
And probably most aliens too. They have atomic based chemistry on other planets as well.
People have constructed bleeding on a police officers uniform as a crime before now, let alone vomit.
I feel like Intent would be very important here. Bodily fluids are potential biohazards, so intentionally trying to get them on someone should be a serious offense. We also don’t normally have good control over those things so doing it accidentally without negligence coming into play shouldn’t be a crime.
I recall a case where the person in question had HIV. That has been construed as assault with a deadly weapon.
You’re thinking inter*stellar*. You’re doing intragalactic trading every time you go down to the local dairy.
How about interterrestirial trade?
That’s some of the lack of ‘actionable intelligence’ or possibly ‘intelligent action’ the mercs are demonstrating.
Earth may be a galactic backwater, but there are aliens who’ve been hanging around here for a while. Not counting the sex tourism, there might be a brisk and profitable trade in things like maple syrup or
pumpkin spicePSYCHIC SPACE COCAINE!Maple syrup hmmm.. read John Ringo’s Troy Rising series?
Never really understood that, by simple fact that sugar would have a similar effect on this since the majority of what maple syrup is, is sugar. Sure there are a few other things in it but there is not real difference between it and corn syrup. You would be able to fake it with corn syrup and adding in the right mix of other chemicals to it and the aliens would never know. Ringo would have been better off just simply using sugar, but he needed one thing that the main character could corner the market on. He would have been better severed if it had been something that can’t be made from sugar, is all I’m saying.
Figuring out whatever trace chemical, of combination of chemicals, that had that effect might take decades of research.
If an alien shows up on my doorstep that eats/assimilates people and just happens to get stoned off of oregano… I’ll take the good fortune where I can and be glad I have a fully stocked spice rack.
nice
I broke down laughig until i caughed :D
But yes i agree that they did zero research other than “this person would be a good slave to sell to the highest bidder”.
Indeed, “can independently take down capital ships with a single shot” that seems both a promising target and a huge red flag to any mercenary with an ounce of experience.
yeah why its been making me wander if they think she’s an android. Like they think they can grab her, run off, and study/reprogram her. Also their whole smash and grab approach like they think this backwater planet somehow got their hands on some super advanced battle android; with their extremely limited intel *shiny metallic humanoid unleashing a physically impossibly energy blast that took down what amounts to a Borg Cube in their world*, it is a more likely conclusion for mundane aliens than (super powered organic being); I mean the only “natural” beings that would have that kind of power would be supernatural beings like eldritch, demon lords, gods, and ascended beings…also daikaiju* and since Maxima isn’t hundreds of feet tall. Their best conclussions would be
A: This is some powerful android, maybe from a past civilization these primitive locals found (with apparently civilizations being blasted back to pre-industrial after developing to a certain point for various reasons being common place to some extent the scenario of a primitive culture uncovering some vault of lost tech probably happens more often than you’d think)
*which her symbiote might be…most super powered symbiote and battle parasites seem to be this in comics and manga.
B: This is a god like being and we are stupidly provoking them. *we just kidnapped the avatar of the slumbering demon lord of the forgotten hell…oh..why’d we do that again?*
Ah major demons
https://i.imgur.com/pP3Wmoy_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium
Cute. And I don’t think I ever saw that bard comic before,id there an actual series of these? Seen the famous lay the Dragon and bards are responsible for all half human creatures ones
Nice try Crimoon. And “Ewwwwwwwwww, gross!”
I guess you could call it intradimensional trading, if you want to be really redundant
Is the blue glow by her hands showing her controlling the lighthook?
The glow is the balls she is holding. Blue is the hentcorb and purple the shield
That should be hentorb, or tentacorb.
“Lighthook”, but I prefer “The Violator”.
Violator in her right hand, Mr Buble in her left
Yes, the orbs glow when in use – this looks brighter than normal, but it’s nighttime so that makes sense.
Although I don’t recall the Lighthook having so much texture before.
It’s night, more things visible without the accursed daystar blotting everything out.
Well done Sydney, making sure to deploy Mr Buble before confronting Crimoon
And then she beat him half to death with the pod. The End. XD
ah the return of “eat pavement”
And when he starts begging for mercy and swearing to reform, she makes him swear by Grabthar’s Hammer.
Is it just me, or is the lighthook much much darker than usual?
It appears more ominous in subdued lighting.
A callback to Futurama’s Police’s Lightbaton?
“Wait, how does an Earthling know about the Holy Hammer?!”
With so many hundreds of civilizations out there, there must be a few with names/traditions that line up with some of our made-up ones. Which should make for some interesting culture shock as Earth gains an official presence with the rest of the Galaxy.
very likely, and likely very funny.
Watched some videos on youtube on different cultures trying each other’s food and so often you hear someone comment how the name of the food resembles another word in their language.
Heck like 20 years ago I did the same thing for a fantasy series by accident. I wanted to name a continent something that sounded fantastical but recognizable, a ravishing land and mixed in shire, so named the continent Ravashira. Sound magical huh?
Well move forward ten years and find out its the name of a soup like dish in India.
So long as your continent was people with a people with Hobbit-like appetites and meal schedules, that’s actually a really good name.
Although when re-reading the descriptions of Hobbit life in recent years, I’ve had to wonder when the Hobbits did anything at all besides farming and meal prep. Six gourmet meals a day is just an insane amount of work to fit in while doing another trade. Perhaps that’s why it was so unusual for Bilbo to go questing and live off of supplies or whatever they caught the trail.
It was more a Final Fantasy high tech mixed with magic arrangement with spread apart towns and an economy set up for adventuring with regular events and artificial dungeons (as well as pest control) focused around it…also a post apocalyptic land starting to recover the lost technology of their ancestors (Phantasy Star, Final Fantasy, and Slayers) were the primary influences for it. The whole series shows its age now for how young I was when I started it…and kind of ashamed now I tried to sell it as a book…re-reading its no wander it never got a publisher…I kind of jumped the gun on that (mostly my writing style and theme jumping in some chapters was to blame and characters that would come and go…hey…it worked for Slayers…but this was a novel…not a manga so different expectations).
also yeah, Hobbits were Tolkein’s dream of a peaceful society living off nature in his envisioned utopia. A lot of Tolkein’s works were based around how much he hated industrialization; there is a reason he named the dragon Smaug, and Saruman’s was clearing forest to build industry. Fact: Tolkein saw his childhood favorite woods cut down to build a factory.
I was wondering where she was (herding civillians away from the fight?)
She could have ended the incident 2 pages ago by slapping Torchy with lighthook.
Please break him.
In both the literal and the figurative sense.
She should at least be able to pick him up. Of course we doubt know how much the pod weighs. Also I have to wonder how that strength is distributed along the tentacle.
As described after the restaurant fight, she can lift 17 tons with Lighthook.
Seeing as that doesn’t break her spine or legs some kind of antigravity/levitation is involved.
Well, 17tons as tested by Max.
Might be even more now since she has put in a few ‘upgrages’ since then. Aka the center pips which at the time did not seem to do anything. The last skill tree we know if is a bit outdataed.
Just where do you test possible planet annhilators safely?
Severny Island, Novaya Zemlya, USSR, wyld-one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
Or more responsibly, Point Nemo, or perhaps Bouvet Island which is has the distinct advantages of having someplace to park, as well as fitting the super theme by being a volcano.
Testing in the USSR? There’s about 30 years’ worth of problem with that…
DaveB, my guess is that it should just be “galactic”, because going to the nearest bakery on foot is “intragalactic” too. “Intragalactic” really just confines the movement/phenomenon to the galaxy, so it really only makes sense when you’re looking at an intergalactic/extragalactic scope.
Interstellar is intragalactic. If it’s an intergalactic setting that deals in one galaxy then it’s an intragalactic. If it’s a setting that hasn’t left their galaxy then it’s interstellar.
Example:
Warhammer 40K has multiple interstellar civilizations and two intergalactic ones but the focus is almost entire only the interstellar ones assuming it ever strays from humans. It’s an interstellar setting.
Interstellar would be everything between stars no? In my mind that would mean that technically everything between 2 stars no matter which galaxy they’re in would be interstellar.
Interstellar would be everything in our galaxy the Milky Way according to dictionary and NASA and historic usage.
Just because Earth is a “backwater” doesn’t mean the inhabitants are stupid. Admittedly many are but…… But in any case it is a “backwater planet” that has inhabitants that are capable of kicking your butts. Don’t dis the Earth. It is going to hurt. A lot.
I don’t think they were trying to be rude, gust surprised that a planet that only recently opened up would have learned basic.
I’m going to vote with the ‘Galactic’ group. Even if intergalactic travel/trade exists, I’d think that Galactic Trade Standard would be a holdover from the old days when you couldn’t just pop over to Andromeda for a latte.
Intragalactic would indeed be the proper word, but for historical (and hysterical) reasons the prefix inter often gets used instead of intra.
Intraplanetary is the same as global (sort of anyway. We don’t travel literally inside the planet after all)
International is also the same as global. Between nations and over the surface of the globe.
Interplanetary is traveling between planets (of a single solar system is assumed)
Interstellar is travelling between suns (or solar systems)
Intrastellar would be the same as interplanetary
Intergalacic is travelling between galaxies
Intragalactic would be the same as interstellar.
However …
Space is really really big and traveling to nearby stars (which may take a couple of centuries at 10% c) is not really the same thing as traveling to the other side of even a moderately sized galaxy like ours (which at the same speed takes considerably longer than existence of our species)
Intergalactic at such speeds would take longer than the universe existed even for the nearest galaxy. For moderately farther galaxies we quickly end up in the situation that we can not keep up with the expansion of our universe and will never reach these galaxies.
Flat earthers are wrong, but they will still disagree with the concepts discussed here. Same with the most radical bible literalists.
And fun fact, a lot of dictionaries don’t recognise the prefix intra or words formed with it.
International, being a political term, is a bit vague here. It might be worth replacing it with intercontinental.
Also, intraplanetary could mean “within a planetary system”, which would include both a planet and its moons. After all, Mankind has been to the Moon, but we wouldn’t consider ourselves an interplanetary species until we’ve been to Mars.
Additionally, it’s probably better to use one prefix over the other in similar circumstances. I would advocate to use inter- for numbers nearer the minimum requirement, and intra- for numbers nearer the maximum. For example, a small organisation might have branches in a couple of neighbouring regions, and would thus be interregional, whereas a large organisation probably has branches in almost every region and would thus be intranational.
Your final example assumed a region was smaller than a nation, so it gave me mental whiplash. In the business organizations I deal with “regions” are usually things like “North America” or “ANZO” (Australia, New Zealand and Oceana” or “EMEA” (Europe, Middle East and Africa). Occasionally there will be sales regions that are smaller, but not often.
You forgot ‘SEATO’ (South East Asia Treaty Organisation)
Not familiar with ‘ANZO’
Rather than “North America”, the “CUM Zone” is better (Canada, USA, Mexico) :P
Interesting. I used region in an attempt to be unambiguous with regards to different countries’ subdivisons (state, county, department, etc.). I thought by stating “a small organisation” it would have been obvious I wasn’t talking internationally. Obviously not.
Have we ever seen Sydney deploy her shield through something, so as to dismember it?
Given that it doesn’t rip chunks out of the pavement when she uses it on the ground, it appears to have safety features against that sort of thing.
If someone is partway through, would they be allowed to keep moving, be pushed (presumably) outside the shield, or be trapped in the forcefield itself?
This has been discussed in detail many episode ago. The consensus is no.
Could you give a date for that discussion? I don’t remember it, don’t want to trawl the entire archive to find it.
It would be in the comment threads, not the comic itself, which show up in search results.
I think one of the key scenes in the discussions was the battle at the
MWars factory, where the shield was activated on (and conformed to) a flat surface, then subsequently rounded off when tipped into free fall. Also during the press conference (and again on Alar) when it was activated amidst flying debris, capturing some of it but not bisecting anything.Well, she’s clearly using a translator just to talk to the guy…
As DaveB stated in comments the alien has the translator.
As DaveB stated in the comments, the alien has a translator.
We have Word of God that it won’t do that because of a safety sensor. Since there are far more cases in which doing this would be a horrible accident than cases in which it would be useful, this is good design.
Reply to 1001100×02 got detachd. Reference is to severing things by deploying Mr. Bubble through them.
Aside from the obvious Xenomorph resemblance, his posture and behaviour reminds me of the protagonist from the ’80s computer game Survivor, right down to the carrying of a stasis pod.
How long will this exchange take place?
Sydney, don’t scratch your nose while policing!! It’s gross! (The fact that the alien just projectile vomited all over you doesn’t give you an excuse, either!)
Now when are the higher ups going to figure out the special features on Sydney’s Glasses and insist she turn them over for study, and then they get shipped off to Warehouse 13?
Never. First, they are not that observant or that smart.
Second, those are her private property and her professional gear.
Third, THEY DO NOT WANT TO PISS OFF THE SECOND MOST POWERFUL PERSON ON THE PLANET.
Also for them she was gone 2 months and around with a whole bunch of aliens. She couldve just picked up basic
It’s not allowed to mix personal and military gear as a soldier.
Yet you’re right they won’t take her glasses.
I don’t know what they could find out by studying them. Imagine this, it is the year 1750, you are the smartest man alive and somehow you got you a working smartphone (obviously GPS and internet don’t work, but everything else does) also the battery is magically always charge because reason. How could you even study it? What could you even hope to understand from it? you lack both the tools and the basic theories necessary to understand it. and Sidney’s glasses are exactly the same thing. Now if they had a scientific text, or even a maintenance manual it could be different but taking an item much more advanced than your level and hope to understand it just by analyzing it? I don’t think it possible.
Demand she turn them over for study? I doubt it; they might ask, but not push it if the answer is ‘no’. Demand Cora provide a second pair for study*, or at least explain what functions she added, even if she won’t explain how they work? It’ll take as long as it takes to call her.
* For a suitable price, naturally.
“HA! Break me?? My bones are titanium and my blood is acidic!! Do your-”
*Syd lifts stasis pod, pounds him with it six times*
“Hng… I surrend-”
*Syd pounds him another six times*
“What??? I’m pretty sure he said, ‘I’ll surround you’, that’s totally a threat…”
sadly… this would work in court.
I think his species is called Regan (Regan from the Exorcist). They do find green projectile vomiting a sign of virility.
Ok.. but..
how did they get Max in the pod with both of the two in the previous panel? Sure that one guy popped up behind our favorite succubi. but the other gal was still free..
I suppose the capture one started fighting her while that guy poded and ran?
…What gave you the impression Maxima is in the pod???
Maxima isn’t in the pod yet. Sydney intercepted the stooge who was bringing the pod over
He is bringing the pod to Max. Sydney is stopping him from getting to her.
Immediately before the jump cut to Sydney, the boss chick with the flame head yelled “Crimoon, where [is] that stasis pod?” We are seeing what is delaying the arrival of the stasis pod.
Sydney and Achilles are both scratching their faces. Possible Biologic/Nanotech/Miniaturized Storm Trooper attack?
Sydney is probably the only one just taking it easy.
Everyone “else LOOT!!!”
Achilles “WWF! I got a new move!”
Maxima “Wwwwwwhhhhhhhyy nnooww?”
Sydney “sorry but I must deny your luggage on the ground that it is very suspicious… Are you assaulting an officer?”
You can see when took place by the advertisements on the street.
They are advertising Smallville in the background. If you date the picture you can know which month and year.
nice catch
I think they are advertising “Nashville”
Just a thought, wouldn’t those glasses be a security concern? (If anyone concerned with security found out at least)
Yup.
Using your own boots is considered an security issue, using alien glasses from your eskimo sister is another level of security issue.
The standard answer from Sydney should be simply, “Some of us travel.”
Less to explain, less to deny.
Sydney’s bluff game is getting better…a little. Enough to fool idiot space mercs, at least.
I would not call that a bluff, coming from someon who single-handedly took down an alien spaceship dreadnought or what ever that colossal thing was.
She’s lying about how she could understand the foreign writing. A bluff is any kind of lie or deception, not just lying about how strong or violence-prone you are.
No, she is not. She traveled to the Fissure, while there she got the glasses, the glasses stay in a pocket, the glasses contain a dictionary. She got a pocket dictionary. QED.
Well Cora fabricsted the glasses for Sydney. Syd could also have picked up a universal translator at the port on fractue as well.
I would also guess the translators are free. Think of them as a loss leader- all the better to sell you stuff.
The bluff here is that Sydney is trying to hide the special functions of her alien made glasses.
She also has an alibi, since she managed to bluff Crimoon into ADMITTING it was a Stasis Pod, which is a standard interrogation tactic, so even if she didn’t understand, Crimoon’s still acting suspicious enough for her to put two and two together.
people generally use interstellar rather than intergalactic when working within a single galaxy since you’re still usually dealing with multiple star systems.
Intergalactic = between galaxies. One of the first great space opera series novels, Lensman by EE Smith, featured an intergalactic war between all known galaxies. Of, course, at the time there were only two of them, but it was intergalactic. The nearest galaxy is a million light years away, not counting the small galaxies like the Magellanic Clouds that orbit our Milky way. For intergalactic war, some people propose that you need larger warships. The battlecruisers in one of the old Taurus intergalactic war games — board war games, folks — were four light years long. (E.E. Smith was a founding member of the National Fantasy Fan Federation N3F, a wargaming club that still exists.)
The N3F is mostly stfnal, but we do have a Games Bureau.
The correct term is INTRAgalactic just like we should say INTRAcoastal water way rather than INTERcoastal water way. Also, dioicous is for plants. Animals are bisexual, trisexual, asexual, etc. So most humanoid species are bisexual. Also, an individual who will have sex with either gender is, properly, referred to as AMBIsexual as in AMBIdextrous, the prefix ambi meaning either/or. bisexual refers only to species.
And some aliens like Dabbler is just plain sexual.
The difference between Pan and Bisexual is Bisexuals have sex with either or both males and females, where Pansexuals have sex with whoever consents and doesn’t care which end or point in the middle they are in the gender spectrum.
Now people who have sex with pans…
if i recall right,the thing with Pansexual is they’re attracted to personality, not gender.
Frying pan sexual perhaps? Well if I know the internet right there should be something disturbing on that theme out there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru-92YnNQUA
well, here’s the Disney version for ya ;P
You said that totally deadpan.