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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“I wasn’t ready for fear vomit.”
Looks like she is now. lol
Sydney is so hyperactive that she was probably always ready for fear vomit. Maxima is the one who was off her game, back at the bank.
That’s my secret. I’m always ready for fear vomit.
…
I’ll see myself out …
A big wind blows.
Well damn…Look Who’s Talking…like a real cop, now.
Well, a badass hero, at any rate. An actual cop wouldn’t be that conversational before grabbing the PPO.
In fairness, though, after the acid goo vomit, she’s justified in escalating.
That all aside, I gotta wonder how strong Crimoon the Vomiter is, if Sydney hasn’t already just taken away the damn pod. I mean, we already established the Lighthook is able to manage multiple tons of force.
she is more that protected by her shield. And she has him/her/them effectively neutralized so far. No need to escalate because they spit at her.
if he lets go of the portable time toilet he can run and potentially endanger civilians out of desperation. He hasn’t been subdued just his bug catching space net has been intercepted.
How do you suppose it would go if you spat on your arresting officer? I suspect you’d fall down the stairs even if they had to drive clear across town to find some.
Dood, look at the ground around the shield. That’s attempted murder right there. Plus, you know, the whole trying to kidnap a law enforcer thing.
SHE is more than protected, but she has less invulnerable team members, and civilians to worry about. if he’s throwing deadly AOEs around, she has good reason to end the fight quickly, even if she is, herself, safe.
I can’t help but think of Worf correcting Sydney here.
“The FEMALE throws things!”
What does the male do?
“He recites love poetry… he ducks a lot…”
so is there a klingon BDSM equivalent where both sides just recite sappy love poetry and cuddle? which the rest of society considers indecent and risque?
how much for the only fans channel of this… asking for a friend.
PPFFFTTT!!! HAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!! Didn’t they cover that sort of on an episode of STTNG? :-P
LOL
And Sydney just said to him:
“Silence! You will surrender immediately or live out your life in a pain amplifier.”
I mean… you’d probably use “interstellar” if you’re doing anything on the sub-galactic scale and “interplanetary” if you’re doing anything on the sub-system scale.
That’s does allow me to recontextualise my trip to the corner shop to pick up wine as “an intraplanetary adventure”, however.
Indeed, much more evocative and literally true of any situation.
*engaging pedant mode*
Technically, ‘intra’ means inside or within. “Journey to the Center of the Earth” is an intraplanetary adventure.
What you had was a ‘superficial’ adventure. Which admittedly does not sound nearly as impressive.
I’d be impressed. I have a 2 year-old and a 10 month-old. A superficial adventure is more than I’ve had in 10 months.
Watch as it turns out Crimoon is female, and acid vomit is their species version of a pick up line XD.
Panel 4: The perp takes a beat to check the side of the pod. LOL
Also enjoyed that moment. Funny on its own and helps build the character (and solidify his team’s overall persona of not-too-bright).
They had to make sure that the writing was still in a language a ‘backwater local’ should not be able to read
Nah, too lazy.
Can you read the labelling on anything meant exclusively for the middle eastern market or mainland china?
I believe you can use your phone to translate most stuff now. The tech isn’t that remarkable if you think about it
From this encounter we can deduce a few things, provided we operate off the assumption this Crimoon entity is purely biological and not supernatural.
1: He likely can’t do that again anytime soon; that was a lot and it will take the body time to replenish that supply.
2: due to the sheer amount regardless of if its acidic or sticky this sort of behavior is typically seen in nature as a defense reaction, a physically expensive last resort to escape a predator…so his ancestors must have had some big nasty predators; unless they still do and his world has some big kaiju like zillobeast sort of creatures on it.
3: He is a moron, this conclusion is reached because regardless of knowing how strong Sydney’s forcefield is…it is still visibly a forcefield…and what forcefield has ever been breached by a liquid based attack like that…
This fight is clearly over, Sydney can yank the pod away, crush it, smash it into the ground, doubtful any of them have anything that pull apart let alone sever the lighthook.
Stasis gun individual not named yet: Stasis gun is being taxed out and losing power, Maxima is moving.
strongest fighter with fancy sword got choked out by an invincible opponent,
the other ones are being occupied fighting, and the stasis pod has been intercepted and the guy holding it has zero options against the individual he is facing.
Well, it’s just possible that Crimoon isn’t a COMPLETE idiot.
The corrosive vomit is still doing a number on Sydney’s surroundings.
It’s possible Crimoon was trying to
a) obscure Sydney’s vision with a flood of goo (still a bad plan unless you know your acid vomit can cling to a force shield).
and/or
b) dissolve the floor *around* Sydney on the assumption that she cannot also fly. I don’t know exactly what’s under Sydney, but if there are empty spaces (such as a subway tunnel or station) for her to fall into, they might assume she’d have to let go of the stasis pod to catch herself. But that acid vomit would have to work REALLY fast to drop her in a hole in time to do any good.
Of course, all of this is just trying to justify Crimoon’s actions after the fact. It’s more likely that Crimoon is exhibiting extremely poor judgment. But I like to speculate.
But yeah, this fight is over unless the kidnappers have some other cards they haven’t played yet.
Well they did, quite possibly, watch a recording of the Super’s reking face of Fel Soldiers like they were nothing, and saw Maxima take out a Fel ship single handedly. And since Xuriel and Kora are known elements in the Xenovarchy, then it goes to say that they know of them as well.
So, since they are a Merc group. It goes to say that they do have some cards up their sleeves.
Unless they are a bunch of greens and greys under a more powerful leader, and they were simply the canon fodder from their boss to test their limitations. In which case they don’t have more cards up their sleeves, but the one behind them will have the right cards to be more of a threat in a few comics from now.
I could be mistaken, but I thought Sydney was at the gun range when the attack happened, so wasn’t part of it. The only “combat footage” of her would be the Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em restaurant, and possibly the construction job and maybe whatever she and Cora did on Fracture.
Yes, Sydney was quite upset that she had got to the fight just in time for clean-up duties
And Mr Buble is not clearly visible, apart from the blue edge, it is nearly completely transparent, like a water bubble
Ah! But the Xenovarchy Ship that was tailing the Fel, recorded the whole thing / was there. That’s what I was talking about. So yeah Sydney wasn’t in the fight. But Maxima and the Supers pwning the Fel was something that the inter-galactic federation knows about.
Well, there were a few chances…. All long shots, but Crimoon did have a few chances. Strong acid can etch glass and obscure the vision of someone inside. It’s at least conceivable that there’s some form of force field that acts enough like glass for that trick to work – at least until the forcefield is dropped and rebooted.
Some kinds of forcefield may work as a thin shell of “time stop” that incoming projectiles/materials penetrate but then can’t move any more. If such a field does not actively eject things from the time-stopped field, his goo wouldn’t slide off, again with the objective of obscuring her vision.
Some kinds of forcefield don’t work against gases, and his goo may have an excessively high vapor pressure resulting in an asphyxiating or paralyzing cloud of gas when it’s used. Even if, as liquid/goo it couldn’t get through, he might hope that Syd falls prey to such an effect as it converts into gas while completely enveloping her.
Some kinds of forcefield don’t work if electrically grounded; they stop one millimeter or less short of the floor. So bullets and other ungrounded things bounce off, but if you throw a bucket of water on them they blow out their power supply or something (sounds silly but it’s canon in dozens of different tv shows).
And, finally, Syd is operating her tentacle *through* the forcefield. He may have hoped that that implied a hole through which some of his liquid might penetrate, or that his attack would force the hole to close, cutting off and freeing him from the tentacle.
If Crimoon is a non-idiot, then there are forcefield gadgets available on Fracture or otherwise well known to him that have one or more of these various “minor problems” and very few or none available he knows of that don’t. Otherwise these are all vaguely ridiculous, and taken all together add up to a very unlikely longshot.
No, the Violator is operating on the outside of Mr Buble, it can not form inside (that is canon when she trapped herself inside with Kevin)
I believe his point was the alien doesn’t know that and may have thought it was tethered to a device inside the bubble requiring a hole to pass through…granted we have seen other forcefields already with one way energy; so I am sticking with calling him an idiot.
Pedantic point – we know Sydney can’t currently manifest the lighthook inside the shield. This could be lack of experimentation or (more likely) an as-yet-unlocked upgrade. I can see DaveB unlocking that option just before Sydney needs to restrain and protect a hostile from the surrounding mob.
Not even that much: we know that Sydney said to Vehemence that she couldn’t manifest the Lighthook inside the Shield, right before she used the Lighthook outside the Shield to create a very effective ‘improvised’ visual distraction using Dabbler’s (super)natural assets. I would not bet against that statement being a bluff to get Vehemence to let his guard down, once he ‘knew’ that Sydney’s only viable attacking option couldn’t reach him. A bluff that has been maintained before and since, because the element of surprise when a threatening adversary inside the Shield suddenly gets a faceful of Lighthook can only be used once.
It is really considerate of them though to wear pants.
to paraphrase the comic “Free Fall”
no matter what form your species takes, chances are they will want pockets to carry things around.
Also reminds me of a funny moment from Ben 10, where he found out (for never explained reasons) one of his alien transformations was nude while his species wore clothes and had as they put it, “an advanced sense of shame”.
And to paraphrase Freefall, “… especially other people’s things.”
And this my friends is why our pockets and toolbelts need closure zippers and locks on them.
I mean how easy is it to identify pre-ftl(space) species? I mean one look at the nearest hardware store, and you’ll find that not one tool belt that works in Zero-gravity. Just ask NASA.
And fer crying out loud can we rethink pockets on clothes in general? Yeah lets put pockets in the middle of a hinge. No zippers or velcro so you important stuff gets squeezed out.no loops to attatch those point bits like keys. Or lets put the cheapest f**king fabric for the pockets to rip and loose your stuff. “Oh i know lets put it in a e ternal bag we can forget or get stolen when not paying attention. Or put the pockests on the side so when we get in our vehicles we can get squished and poked because we have no spece to move ‘cauze of airbags and such.
Hufff, hufff, hufff… gee wiz terrible design gets me going
Keep in mind that we essentially live in a disposable society. Our products are designed shoddily for two reasons: to be cheap and to be continuously purchased due to wearing out/becoming obsolete.
Sturdy things with lifetime warantees/guarantees are expensive as hell.
*again not directed at you*
I worked for a company that made clothes(design and mfg) They sold nationwide (possibly europe as well via chain
stores)
They no customer feedback available to customers. To be fair I don’t know of ANY one that does.. ever tried to contact said mfg so they know just how there products fail us? They arw desperate to sell you stuff, why are they not making it easy for to tell them what we REALLY want?
We have 6billion people on this planet, and the designers / companies that make them are part of that total. The liklyhood that someone somewhere has not looked at that and said ” that is stupid” is losd to zero percent.
Some ‘fashion’ designers need to to slapped for the stupid shit they come up with. Imean who has not run across a pocket that was fake or useless?(mens dress shirt or womens jean pkcket with teeny volume)
Frankly why has the public put up with this? Vote with your dollars people. Tell them why as well.
looks like crimoon wont be helping out anytime soon, here’s hoping he surrenders, instead of you know choosing to be broken
I vote for slightly broken with the assist of the quickly self disassembling stasis pod being put to use in a percussive manner. It would be music to someones audio receptors ….. and the beat goes on……
That, “Or am I going to have to break you?” remark isn’t going to look good on her after action review, if she does actually injure him. Given that she’s safely inside an impenetrable force field, AND already has one excess force incident on her record. (At the restaurant bash.)
I’m assuming the choker doubles as a badge cam.
I mean, cops get away with worse, more blatant behavior all the time. He did just use a deadly weapon, even if an ineffectual one.
I’m pretty sure Sidney is in the clear of anything except bad PR, and with how he looks, most people will automatically take her side.
The “safely inside an impenetrable force field” has a limited air supply still. Lighthook might be able to break said target anyway just by contact and Sydney’s just trying to be diplomatic rather than violent first.
She has her rebreather on.
No she doesn’t
She doesn’t need one (mostly). Not since discovering that one of her mystery orbs can create air.
The exception being if Halo has to continuously hold two of her orbs. Which, to be fair, she currently is doing, in having her shield up and using her lighthook. But there is no rush, as the air currently in her shield will last a reasonable amount of time.* And there would be no dire consequence for swapping the tentacle orb for the air orb, for a second or two, then grabbing the stasis box again.
The shield however is currently only protecting her, and she is within her legal right, as a cop, to use force in the defence of others. He is clearly still intent on kidnapping a police officer and has demonstrated a (probably**) dangerous attack form.
* In reality a lot longer than it has previously been portrayed in the comic. But even that dramatically-shortened duration is still more than enough to allow this situation to be resolved.
** Kids with realistic-looking toy guns have been shot, with no repercussions to the officers, because it was reasonable that the judgement call they made was that the threat appeared credible. The bar is not set at “beyond a shadow of a doubt” for snap judgements in a dangerous situation.
I think you can drop probably, and go straight to lethal, the asphalt has been eaten away around the edge of Sydney’s forcefield.
She needs to secure the off-brand capsule corp drum first, either removing it from his person and putting it somewhere guarded or disabling it *considering the strength of the light hook it should reasonable be able to squeeze and crush it, and no I don’t see any timey wobbly stuff happening if she does because its not on, and crushing the power source hazards depends on what that power source is and volatile it is. Crushing is the resort to go to only if it can’t be secured properly of course, chances are scientists will want to study this confiscated tech taken off of criminals attempting to abduct and human traffic a law enforcement officer.
One of the orbs, provides a breathable atmosphere!
Can’t she make air now?
Keep in mind that in addition to being crooks, these would-be kidnappers are entirely extralegal, citizens of no country on Earth, and inhuman. The way our laws are written, pretty much anything anyone does to them could be defended on the grounds that “attacking animals had to be put down.” There are strong counterarguments, sure. But that could be tied up in court forever.
Syd’s comment reminds me of a movie I once saw, where someone complained about police brutality and the response was:
“Police brutality? Naw, this here is just intimidation and harassment. We don’t get brutal unless this doesn’t work.”
I don’t see a problem with it, and I doubt her superiors would either. It may even be standard policy.
Most police and military forces will try to first gain compliance by informing the other party that they should comply willingly because if they don’t, force of an unpleasant nature will be brought into play.
The rhetoric is an often necessary tactic to give *not* using force every chance for success before there’s no remaining option but for things get messy.
It was a warning, if they give her a reason to break them, then that is on them, specially after they used a possibly deadly attack on her (look at the ground around Mr Buble, and tell me how that would look if it had made direct contact with Sydney?
that is called “I roll ‘Intimidate'”.
Haven’t seen it mentioned yet, but in case anyone hasn’t come across it, Sydney’s translation overlay is also a real-life thing. About 5 years ago Google bought out a company that made an overlay translation app, and put the functionality into their Translate app (which also works with typed text and live speech recognition). I believe other translation apps do the same now, but I remember being blown away the first time I used it.
Sydney has dealt with the public before, I wish I didn’t feel for her here but I know exactly how she feels.
Thinking on it, I wonder what’d be more destructive. Crimoon’s puke, or Sydney’s breath after a hot meal? I mean we did see her mace several city blocks after one meal early on, and it’s a shame she has never done that since in almost a decade.
Crimmy upchucks on her, and she drops her shield and releases weaponized mace breath that makes Crimoon cry blood.
Crim, and everyone downwind of Sydney for a dozen miles
This. I vote for this. So much epic. Or worse and more embarrassing…she ate some Graktz I think it wastiThe stuff on Fracture. And then cuts loose with Phosphorescent Pharting.
I wonder if they have anything greater than Earth’s unmaker, and could literally make Sydney breath fire. Not only let her have fire breath, but the weaponized destruction of her breath would clear out all of Archon, and all buildings within a half a mile radius. That’d be an awesome weapon to give her.
I think Crimoon’s surprise about them being able to read Galactic Trade Standard is the final nail in the coffin of their preparedness. We know that the Fel Fight happened long enough ago that the US has a shuttle to reverse-engineer. This means that they probably have access to that language, or at least an official ambassador, so really shouldn’t be surprised.
Also, it occurs that we’re all assuming it was footage of that fight which brought this about. While I think that’s a good guess, they could be keying off something else entirely – the press demo, maybe?
Thank Cora, she incorporated that, into the glasses!
I had a Sydney thought…
The unknown orb…
Tape a knife to it, since Sydney can control it’s location telepathically. Or attach a gun with gyroscope to it, and rotating the ball pulls the trigger.
I’m kinda suprised Sydney did not offer to get vamped or bitten by a were. Then at least her human durability stats would increase. Still there are the bi9-mods Cora mentioned.
Syd adds two arms for Quad damage!
Sydney is a (kinda) vegetarian.
So unless the were-bunny agrees, that will not be something she rushes into recklessly.
Now I have an image of Sydney putting on a tasteful outfit made of carrots, and other rabbit foot, and trying to tempt the were bunny to start nibbling!
Didn’t they mentioned somewhere that there was the possibility the orbs would stop functioning for her if she did something like that? They have no idea how they works, they could be linked to her DNA/aura/soul/whatever, change it (i.e. becoming a vampire) and they could stop working.
Yes it was. Discussion when she found out about dabblers teleport based ‘hammer space’ (aka from dabs lab)
Eg. swapping real arm for cybernetic one with teleport tech. So, adding real arms should be an option.
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Arianna: “Sydney, we need to talk. The prototypes for your action figure set just arrived. What exactly made you think you had my approval to tell the manufacturer to attach a knife to each orb?!”
Syndey: “Yeah that… that started off as a joke.“
NEW – The Halo accessory pack now with orb knives, swords, death star truth serums … etc.
And best of all? LASERS! FRICKING LASERS!
Ok now I want to see Sydney dress up her orbs for halloween.
Ya know, Sydney was not quite thinking with orbs then. She could have fielded that stabby shooty toy using her violator ….
Replace intergalactic (which would mean travelling between galaxies) with interstellar (which would mean travelling between stars, inside a galaxy). Then you won’t have to worry about inter or intra as the prefix.
Well intra should only refer to a grouping (security) or company(syndicate/organization)
Eg the Xenoarchy would be c9nsidered intragalactuc (at fhe very least)
We have no idea yet if the Xenoarchy is also multi-galactic.
This guy is yelling about luggage right across the street (in panel two) from a luggage store. If I know New York entrepreneurial spirit and the big chunks of gold these guys have been waving around the owner will be coming out any second to say “Hey buddy. You need new luggage? come on in and I’ll make you a deal!”
“That was just how we greet each other.”
Heh! “Twilight of the sneeze”.
“…Shouldn’t it be “intragalactic?…” That’s why “interstellar” is better.
I just hope he doesn’t do the collapsing ground trope…
Oh I guess he will use some other kind of toupee.
I hope they remember to charge him with destruction of public property and make him pay for the wood his acid damaged, lol.
Cobblestone not wood,
or brick, I don’t know Times Square very well. Some old parts of cities sometimes have these stone or brick parts.
Stone or brick yes, cobblestone no. The latter is rounded natural stones used as part of a road surface. Having a distinctly different appearance to the ones depicted.
How many times would they have to fold Maxima to fit in that teeny pod?
Portable collapsible stasis chamber… It’s currently folded up in its carrying case,
so they have to get it over to Max, open it up, initialize it, shove her into it while the Stasis gun
holds her, and then switch over from one to the other before she has a chance to react… Yeahhh, I’m not seeing it.
Hwarf. Lol, Ren and Stimpy: Hairball sfx. Nice.
Intragalactic, planetary; planetary, intragalactic
…
Nah, original lyrics were better
Yeah, the difference in scale between those two words always bugged me. They might as well have been singing “entire nation, this grain of sand; this grain of sand, entire nation…”
The thing i have noticed, as someone with ADHD, not close to Sydney’s level, but enough. That the more tired and exhausted i get the more the H starts to fade away. She seems to be getting less excitable, is that a combination of physical and mental exhaustion combining with a seen that already world view, having fought an won for awhile against “planet wreckers” or an effect of getting more in tune with the orbs???
Or, training (with newspapers :P) and her meds are finally working
Also, she has shown to be very calm and focused when she needs to
Sydney probably is starting to get to the point where she can default to some level of training. It would be interesting to see Sydney’s psych profile. People with ADHD can learn to focus or to moderate the hyperactivity. It’s been a few years since I did a deep dive in the diagnostic manuals but Sydney may fall more toward the “Primarily Inattentive Type”. Even this label doesn’t work very well as the problem tends to be more one of focus rather than attention. For a person with this type of ADHD everything in the environment competes for their attention. They aren’t inattentive, their attention is just spread too thin in an environment that rewards the ability to focus on just one thing. Selendra describes one end of the hyperactivity spectrum. The other end is a person who becomes more impulsive and active with increasing fatigue. I’ve know children who would wind tighter and tighter until they had to sit still for a moment at which point they crashed and fell asleep.
Vultures can puke their stomach contents on an attacker if captured or cornered. Toothy, here, even has a head shaped like a Vulture, complete with beak. He doesn’t even notice Syd’s light tentacle has already encircled the stasis pod he’s holding. I hope he resists arrest after that puke stunt.
The puke stunt is already assault of an officer… And one in America no less… I think a brutality is in order.
Look at panel four, there is no ‘beak’
And they did notice the Violator, that’s why they are saying the corrupt cop is trying to steal their luggage
The back of his head reminds me of Louis Gossett Jr’s alien from ‘Enemy Mine’.
So I have a hypothesis… Maxima’s powers and Sydney’s orbs are both alien nth level technologies to accomplish the same goal. Their powers are both basically “one person space ships for space wizard.” Possibly from two different space wizard civilizations. True, Maxima hasn’t demonstrated the ability to open those aetherium causeways or whatever they’re called. However, being placed in stasis basically stops the passage of time for you. That is to say that when in stasis, you become a non-event in space time. If she’s capable of moving fast enough that she can still move after hit with a stasis field, then she might not even need such causeways because she’s already moving at transinfinite speeds.
there was some math on the last page’s comments, the blurb says she isn’t stopped only slowed down, which makes sense as we can still see her so those photons are exiting the field…although that said given the slowdown in and out we may be looking at events seconds behind and for all we know she has already exited the field and is now standing behind them all watching. But that is really high balling her speed.
We don’t know Maxima’s symbiote is Nth tech…but
Witchblade: Offspring of the embodiments of darkness and light
Guyver unit: created by ancient Creators species that seeded life on planets for no other reason than to make weapons
Marvel’s Symbiotes: created by a primordial emo-boy god (I hate his design almost as much as I hate that he makes almost 12 now entities that were supposedly alone in the darkness before the universe)…anywho..so current symbiote retcon, this punk made the symbiotes as a weapon against the Celestials…somehow…
*I don’t know about the Blue Beetle If that’s been retconned…yet…but I wouldn’t put it past them; heck I think last universe or two the Green lantern rings drew power from some trapped eldritch like entity or something.
but yeah, tech from a primordial civilization, left behind on planet, gets found again either In some prehistoric bomb shelter or dug up in the rocks…actually could put a few weirder Mecha anime on that list like Duel and the giant robot that was really a god-tree seed in Tenchi Muyo GXP;
DC’s current continuity of Green lantern’s emotional spectrum of the power rings
is that there is a entity that is the embodiment of each emotion/color, Ion for will,
parallax for fear, and so on..
(the guardians Imprisoned parallax in the master battery which is supposedly why the ring doesn’t work on yellow)
blue beetle’s is a malfunctioning weapon system a powerful
and (somewhat greedy and malevolent) race created To counter the Green Lanterns.
as for Max and Sydney, while my head Canon is that they are both Nth tech,
I’m Imagining They are both the Nth equivalent of videogame characters.
only instead of being forced to do what the player wants, they’re simply given power
And left to do whatever the heck they want while their empowering Couch potatoes sit back,
eat some metaphorical popcorn, and watch to see what happens.
Okay, good to see DC has chosen to keep some characters a little consistent over the last few reboots.
For Maxima I can see that going either way, the Guyver is what really comes to mind. I could see some ancient civilization like 60 million years ago that was a dominant power in the galaxy at the time had an outpost on this little rock of a planet covered in monsters and had guardians that bonded with a techno-organic symbiote to grant them powers to rival others forces in the galaxy with equally high or higher tech. Like a 2.9 to low 3rd tier civilization. Or be something higher…I mean I’m one to talk trying to say she’s not Nth tech when my own series setting the origin story for Eldritch Abominations and Elder Gods is they were created to be the unbreakable/self repairing dolls and toys of hyper dimensional beings.
On that note I’ve been saying and still holding onto the theory Syndey’s orbs with their experience points and skill tree are actually a toy; the trope of (oops our child dropped their toy while were on holiday having a picnic on some primitive world and we didn’t notice till we got home back to our higher dimensional plane).
*When did you drop it?…that was five galaxies back! No, I’m not driving back there, we’ll get you a new one…save file? Kids these days*
There are some Nth-tech/Q-like aliens in Quantum Vibe that did something like that, only they set into motion a ‘game’ by finding a galaxy and actually somehow altering its physical laws slightly and manipulating it into a take on Star Trek with the aliens involved in the ‘game’ each in control of a faction (the Borg-like faction being an NPC faction). So the galaxy’s lifeforms are all videogame characters to them (in fact because one of the QV characters was the oldest human living he was old enough to remember watching Star Trek and mistakenly thinks he’s in a game simulation because of the similarities so didn’t mind things like killing people because he thought they were all simulations anyway).
I’ll have to hunt that down and check it out,
my own hyper dimensional beings have pulled something like this on individual planets (and pocket dimensions) to create various types of swords and sorcery worlds manipulating the raw dimensional distortion potential around each planet into specific types and combinations of magic; as well as creating portals for pure mana “random encounter” monsters to appear, sometimes magic item chests, all because they saw some Earth fantasy stories and games and became enamored by the concepts so decided they’d be fun if they were real. It messes with space traveler types as different worlds and dimensions can have such vastly different rules for how magic works yet to all their sensors and studies even when it can be hacked into a little it still comes across as a completely natural aspect of that world’s physics.
My working theory is that the Nth got tired of being the top species in the galaxy, and retired to Earth to play games. Normal humans are NPCs, Supers are Nth “players” with their memories suppressed so that they’ll stay “in character”. That’s why they’re better looking than normal people: Player characters tend to have higher charisma than NPCs.
If I could send a memo to myself from ten years ago I’d want to have pursued that angle. Despite it being part of the backstory for my own hyper dimensional races the closest I ever came was the Inferverse where exactly like that the players suppress their own memories and sometime even ethics and morals to play as characters in a “simulation”…that is actually a pocket universe and the people are real to each other.
I always regretted not going full tilt on that for a super hero story Idea I had, where the S-class heroes were actually a handful of such beings playing the game with their own memories and majority of their power suppressed but were responsible for the “aurora event” that caused super powers to become so widespread in the first place and influenced the mental architecture of the people to associate it with putting on costumes and either becoming heroes or villains.
Intergalactic is best usage at the moment. Interstellar would be synonymous as intrastellar is not currenly a woed. Interstellar also has the additional definition of the Milky Way (our home galaxy)
Intragalactic, would refer to a security group or company that spans the galaxy. I base this on definitions and usage of the words internet and intranet. A good example of some thing that is intragalactic would be the Xenoarchy and these ‘syndicates’
Now i propose we would also have to redefine the WWW just a wee bit once we include other planets to…
Www: WorldS Wide Website
Uh… I don’t think those words mean what you think they mean.
The word “intranet” has nothing to do with security groups or companies. It has to do with an internal network, as opposed to an external one.
Intragalactic refers to within one galaxy, and intergalactic means between galaxies, just like Dave is saying.
As an example, look at K-12 school sports. Intramural Sports refers to sports played between teams that go to the same school. Intermural Sports are sports played between schools. So intra- is inside, and inter- is outside. In this case, mural means “wall”, so “intramural” is “inside the walls of the school” and “intermural” is “outside the walls of the school”.
Intrastellar would be within a single star’s system of orbital bodies. Interstellar is between stars. So an interstellar war would be a war between stars, such as the war between the Federation and the Klingons.
Intragalactic would only be a thing if it makes sense for something to happen inside a single galaxy, but without stars being involved. Such as between nebulas, but even then that would be best said to be internublar. So if it’s a war between black holes, stars, and nebulas, then it’d definitely make sense to construct the word intragalctic.
Intergalactic would be between galaxies, such as between Milkyway and Andromeda. The problem with this word is that it’s frequently misused because of so many people who sadly don’t understand the difference between stars and galaxies. A pop culture example of this would be Mario Galaxy. it’s also hardly an isolated example.
Vultures will vomit their stomach contents on you if cornered or captured. Toothy, here, has a head like a Vulture (Panel 4), so it figures that (he, she) would use a barf defense if cornered. He/she also hasn’t noticed Syd’s Light Tentacle has encircled the Stasis Pod he/she’s carrying. Definitely the not the brightest bulb on the tree.
Good vulture points. Regarding the ‘not noticing’, I think that is the point of panel 1. He noticed and thereby started hurling his baseless accusations.
Yeah, intragalactic would make more sense than intergalactic if this is all in one galaxy…
If most civilizations were visited by others before they developed requisite space travel technology, especially before word coinage or word use caught up, intragalactic would be the word of choice.
A civilization that developed its own space travel tech first, and maybe spent a few decades exploring before encountering another civ and being introduced to the galactic order would be more likely use use words like “interstar system” or perhaps whatever the abbreviated version this became: “interstar”? “interstarsys”?
“I must break you.”
Meep meep!
The Milky Way galaxy has 14 satellite galaxies that we may be able to reach someday even as the rest of the universe races toward the observational limit. So intergalactic travel, given the existence of aetherium causeways and the gate network, is feasable
yeah but using the portals we’ll just find agrarian humans worshiping fire squids, space vampires, and killer robots.
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Ok, Dabbler is definitely remaining at the top of my non-A-team list. Four arms give her a heck of a bonus.
I can’t help but want to know how sensitive her hooves are. Anyone got any insights on how sensitive other hooves are?
Well you can put orange-heated iron onto them hard enough to form an impression, then hammer nails into them, without apparent signs of pain.
Of course pain and sensitivity are not covered by identical receptors, so that is not actually a definitive reply. I have a foot long surgical scar, which had the side effect of leaving me with no pain receptors around it. Yet I can feel kitties walking on it.
Which can have a bad side effect, if the kitties decide to do a bit of loving kneading, with claws out, when I am not paying attention for some reason. Afterwards I will find a series of red holes, where I didn’t feel their claws piercing my skin.
Coming back to the hooves, it is possible that they do have sensitivity in them, in order to be able to avoid damaging their hooves on stones and other sharp objects, even if they have no pain when it is necessary to run over same, in order to avoid a predator.
If nothing else, there are fleshy parts in the hoof which will have a full set of receptors.
Hooves are basically modified toenails. The actually hoof is dead, but it’s growing out of a bed that’s plentifully supplied with nerves. So, it can detect forces and shocks, but has no sense of touch as such.
You know, Sidney is really being quite disciplined here. Also, that poor, dumb acid spitting alien. He drew the sidney straw. That is the straw of suffering.
Or at least the straw of PROFOUND humiliations!
She doesn’t even need to hurt him, not really. Just hold him up by one leg with the lighthook until he surrenders.
Are you saying Sydney is the Short Straw? She kinda IS the shortest member of Arc-Swat, unless there’s somone we haven’t met…
Actually she isn’t. there’s a genetic dwarf guy who’s part of Arc-Light, also, Pixel, when she’s not En-Jaguared is shorter than her.
And she is not part of Arc-Swat, but part of the council
Pixel and Krona are both Semper Vi, which does joint ops with Archon but is a separate entity and part of a completely different government.
Hah Sydney breaking that guy will be funny. XD
“What’s a dazzling young urbanite like you doing in a rustic setting like this?”
*Distant chanting of “Break! Break! Break!”*
Wait a second. Translation options? Could she toggle the translation to translate TO an alien language like “Galactic Trade Standard” and then write something in English, see what the translation is in her glasses and “Trace” that, allowing her to now WRITE in an alien language for which she doesn’t even know the alphabet, just copies the letters?
that is an option for some real translators, so yeah sure.
I figure the only reason Sydney has not taken that and smashed it is that she wants to keep it as a kick-ass futuristic space fridge. It keeps things hot! It keeps things cold! It keeps things in the pot, nine days old!
Also useful for preserving the life of a team-mate who is bleeding out.
Also for not destroying evidence.
But first they prank Harem, by putting one of her selves in as a hide and seek.
Huh. We know that the time-shifting portal threw Harem off (the physical displacement didn’t seem to matter) – what happens if you slow one down by 99%? Does just the 1 get thrown off, just the 4 in normal spacetime, or all of the above?