Yeah, but said brother pretty much crippled a fleet to acquire it. Can’t really use the Starcaster if you don’t have enough ships to get the user into an enemy system to use it.
Sure, but he doesn’t even know how to use it yet and it’s going to take quite a bit of time for him to learn, especially given that he isn’t very bright and has poor control of his emotions.
Logically the starcaster would just be a means to get him killed.
There’s actually 6 starcasters, the other two just haven’t come up at all. Speck says there’s 6 in the universe when they first meet Nilah at the beginning of the story, but Nilah cuts him off as he’s saying who has them.
It is also only Specks view. They only know the situation in their own galaxy. As Nyrah and the Dranglaex have taken a Starcaster from another Galaxy, and the father of the Dranglaex princes can also be seen with what is most likely a Starcaster, there’s near certainly more Starcasters in the universe.
Which takes time and manpower and materials. (and shipyards, can’t build space ships in your backyard)
Rob Stark of Song of Ice and Fire comes to mind, he won every battle… and lost the war because of politics, betrayal, etc.
Now the Republic needs their Tywin Lannister… well, one hopefully smart enough to not further provoke his own kid, while they are aiming a weapon at them. (and not getting into a situation, where said kid wants to kill him in the first place 😛 )
Maybe, but the presence of one fewer Starcaster than the enemy was enough to keep all those superior fleets grounded for years out of a fear of losing. So it seems like in this universe maybe Starcasters matter more than logistics.
If they mattered that much though seems like they could have just gotten them from the federation long ago. I mean, obviously the starcasters weren’t very well guarded.
Probably because that idiot shouldn’t have a starcaster, and honestly, he got EXTREMELY lucky to get that, like the odds were entirely against him and only plot armor saved his ass.
LeHack
3 days ago
Brother rivalry, good, still a lot of cards in the game.
Stephen
3 days ago
That’s great brother!
Do we still have a fleet?
GUNnibal
2 days ago
I’m very sorry in advance, but I gotta say this.
Next panel should be Vectanix going “Ew, bother, ew!”
Gonfrask
2 days ago
And now the Federation will panic and their response can’t be predictable…
Or
You don’t get it, do you? You never were selected to wear a Starcaster.
Or
Do you now how many time we will need now to have a fully operational fleet to follow the crusade? Our enemies are right here and our supply chain is in other galaxy…
I imagine the more level headed members of the Federation will say, well now our enemies aren’t lying and have 2 starcasters like they were bluffing beforehand, but they lost a lot of ships to get it.
Lily
2 days ago
Seeing as how the entire balance of power in the entire galaxy was based around a single starcaster, just storming in and grabbing one seems pretty justified, regardless of causalities.
The thing about a fleet is that it gets the actual heart of its power safely to places. Yeah, sure, they gained a planet destroying force. That can be used TWICE per engagement (one for each brother, so if they both use it, now they have no commanders); AND it assumes there will be only ONE engagement every couple of weeks and not more often (for the universe shaking might of the Starcasters, they demand a toll of their users); AND the Starcaster has NOT been shown to be capable of performing defense against anything aside from killing before its… Read more »
It is a superweapon though, and even the threat of it can swing the war. The threat of where it can be used might even be more powerful than it’s actual impact on a battle. So having more than your enemy, is a big advantage.
Where can a super weapon be used though? The thing is that they need to get said super weapon TO the place it needs to be used before they can use it. Hard to do when you need a fleet to do it, and your jealous and power hungry brother just squandered the fleet that would accomplish that.
They also likely won’t want to deploy both of them in the same battle (apologise if you said that and I missed it), as then they’d risk losing them both. Although I disagree with the “(one for each brother, so if they both use it, now they have no commanders)” part – I mean, the Starcaster wielder doesn’t have to be a field commander. They hotheaded brother (Kelias) seems like he may demand it (while also using the Starcaster, which would take his focus away from actual leading, being on the ship’s bridge to see the maps and reports, etc.),… Read more »
Killiak
2 days ago
Cort not firing his starcaster means our good brothers here have NO IDEA about the actual remaining firepower of the Federation.
Since the Starcaster bonds with the wearer, I wonder what it takes to get the remaining bits out. Do they go in with a knife to scoop out the arm, then sandpaper clean the insides?
If I’m not mistaken the permanency of the Starcaster goes away upon death or limb removal. If I recall, Cort once asked about removing it, and I think he was told that the only way to remove it was to have his arm chopped off, and decided against it because he didn’t want to lose his arm. In addition, Nyrah’s brother was a dried up corpse after dying from old age, Starcaster still affixed to his arm.
Interesting question. I think you can drop it it into acid, or an incinerator or something. The Starcasters are capable of channeling the power of the sun, withstanding that force. It is heavily suggested it’ll survive basically anything thrown at it (though they were careful with Speks acid). After that I recommend a mild soap and a damp cloth. This will allow it to retain it’s colour for longer. Silver polish has a surprising shiny effect. Despite popular belief, it is not recommended to put the superweapon in a coke to clean it. It’ll leave spots that are nearly impossible… Read more »
pookysgirl
2 days ago
Wait, who’s the guy to the left of Xinchev? Why isn’t he wearing a toga-like uniform?
How many Starcasters are there? I thought there were only three. But now both brothers have one, Cort has one and the Federation alien from two pages ago has one.
I can’t recall the exact number, but there are several in this galaxy alone. I think I remember 7? The Federation is the largest force in this galaxy, but it is suggested they only rule a large chunk of this galaxy. They controlled two. Other civilisations have others, like Nyrah’s species (Odrossian) had on their planet. The Dranglaex and Odrossian are from another galaxy where there were another number of them, suggesting each galaxy has some. The dad of the princes has one as well. The Dranglaex chased the Odrosdian to this galaxy, trying to take the Starcaster they took… Read more »
I don’t think the princes’ father has a Starcaster. Early in the story, we learned the Dranglaex pretended to have two of them, while hunting for the Odrossian one. (which Cort is now using)
Unless Nyrah’s info was inaccurate and they actually had two (now three), but I don’t think we have seen anything to contradict her.
We only learned what the characters think. The Dranglaex have no reason to communicate their whole history, telling their father has one, as well as cousin Ed in galaxy cleansing mission #2. It only matters that they are in that galaxy, pretending to have two. It is nost likely that there are many more Starcasters in the universe. As the reader we can see those things, but someone like Speck only concerned themselves with this galaxy politics, if he wasn’t even more local focused on the star system they were at. Why would he know there are more than the… Read more »
The Federation thought that the Drangleax might have two, knew they had two and knew the whereabouts of a fourth (what they thought was a fifth) Starcaster. The Drangleax KNEW they had one, and the Federation had two, and they also knew that the Federation thought the Drangleax had two. Now the Federation has very little reason to assume that the Drangleax have three, or else they would have used it here to mitigate-to-negate the heavy losses they suffered in this action. So now, the Federation KNOWS the Drangleax have two, and know that the Drangleax is unaware of Cort’s… Read more »
Two WERE in the hands of the Federation.
One is in the hands of the Drang.
Cort has one.
Two are in the hands of a thus-far unrevealed third/third and fourth side.
Number51x
2 days ago
Big picture, this likely infighting is good. Short term, a lot of people are gonna die while this guy tries to prove himself.
James Rye
2 days ago
Wait, what if he is not compatible with it? Like if I remember correctly not all starcasters can be worn by everyone, right? Would be hilarious if he tries to wear it and it just doesnt work for him, lol.
The starcaster bonds with the Aug markers in people’s DNA, and since the Aug are believed to have created most, if not all life in the current universe, anyone should be able to bond with one, unless they happened to have evolved from life not influenced by the Aug.
Sure anyone should be able to bond with one,
but maybe it makes Kelias puke his brains out and he’s ooo for a decade
Kevin Greenbaum
2 days ago
Now to see how he handles the bonding process, the Lance Major seems significantly more trained with it that anyone we’ve seen so it might not bring them the advantage they wanted right away.
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Time to not get recognition from your brother, who will nag about casualties. Why can’t his brother appreciate that he got a Starcaster?
Because the brother got drunk on power, and now the scales have been balanced.
Yeah, but said brother pretty much crippled a fleet to acquire it. Can’t really use the Starcaster if you don’t have enough ships to get the user into an enemy system to use it.
Logistics wins wars, not weapons or manpower.
Ships can be rebuilt, there are only 4 known starcasters.
Sure, but he doesn’t even know how to use it yet and it’s going to take quite a bit of time for him to learn, especially given that he isn’t very bright and has poor control of his emotions.
Logically the starcaster would just be a means to get him killed.
There’s actually 6 starcasters, the other two just haven’t come up at all. Speck says there’s 6 in the universe when they first meet Nilah at the beginning of the story, but Nilah cuts him off as he’s saying who has them.
It is also only Specks view. They only know the situation in their own galaxy. As Nyrah and the Dranglaex have taken a Starcaster from another Galaxy, and the father of the Dranglaex princes can also be seen with what is most likely a Starcaster, there’s near certainly more Starcasters in the universe.
Which takes time and manpower and materials. (and shipyards, can’t build space ships in your backyard)
Rob Stark of Song of Ice and Fire comes to mind, he won every battle… and lost the war because of politics, betrayal, etc.
Now the Republic needs their Tywin Lannister… well, one hopefully smart enough to not further provoke his own kid, while they are aiming a weapon at them. (and not getting into a situation, where said kid wants to kill him in the first place 😛 )
Maybe, but the presence of one fewer Starcaster than the enemy was enough to keep all those superior fleets grounded for years out of a fear of losing. So it seems like in this universe maybe Starcasters matter more than logistics.
If they mattered that much though seems like they could have just gotten them from the federation long ago. I mean, obviously the starcasters weren’t very well guarded.
Probably because that idiot shouldn’t have a starcaster, and honestly, he got EXTREMELY lucky to get that, like the odds were entirely against him and only plot armor saved his ass.
Brother rivalry, good, still a lot of cards in the game.
That’s great brother!
Do we still have a fleet?
I’m very sorry in advance, but I gotta say this.
Next panel should be Vectanix going “Ew, bother, ew!”
And now the Federation will panic and their response can’t be predictable…
Or
You don’t get it, do you? You never were selected to wear a Starcaster.
Or
Do you now how many time we will need now to have a fully operational fleet to follow the crusade? Our enemies are right here and our supply chain is in other galaxy…
Anyway, brother confrontation?
I imagine the more level headed members of the Federation will say, well now our enemies aren’t lying and have 2 starcasters like they were bluffing beforehand, but they lost a lot of ships to get it.
Seeing as how the entire balance of power in the entire galaxy was based around a single starcaster, just storming in and grabbing one seems pretty justified, regardless of causalities.
Weapons win battles, logistics wins wars.
No fleet = no logistics.
They’ve traded half or more of one planet-destroying force for the whole of another.
The thing about a fleet is that it gets the actual heart of its power safely to places. Yeah, sure, they gained a planet destroying force. That can be used TWICE per engagement (one for each brother, so if they both use it, now they have no commanders); AND it assumes there will be only ONE engagement every couple of weeks and not more often (for the universe shaking might of the Starcasters, they demand a toll of their users); AND the Starcaster has NOT been shown to be capable of performing defense against anything aside from killing before its… Read more »
It is a superweapon though, and even the threat of it can swing the war. The threat of where it can be used might even be more powerful than it’s actual impact on a battle. So having more than your enemy, is a big advantage.
Where can a super weapon be used though? The thing is that they need to get said super weapon TO the place it needs to be used before they can use it. Hard to do when you need a fleet to do it, and your jealous and power hungry brother just squandered the fleet that would accomplish that.
They also likely won’t want to deploy both of them in the same battle (apologise if you said that and I missed it), as then they’d risk losing them both. Although I disagree with the “(one for each brother, so if they both use it, now they have no commanders)” part – I mean, the Starcaster wielder doesn’t have to be a field commander. They hotheaded brother (Kelias) seems like he may demand it (while also using the Starcaster, which would take his focus away from actual leading, being on the ship’s bridge to see the maps and reports, etc.),… Read more »
Cort not firing his starcaster means our good brothers here have NO IDEA about the actual remaining firepower of the Federation.
That’s a big strategic advantage.
Came here to say this, haha
Since the Starcaster bonds with the wearer, I wonder what it takes to get the remaining bits out. Do they go in with a knife to scoop out the arm, then sandpaper clean the insides?
If I’m not mistaken the permanency of the Starcaster goes away upon death or limb removal. If I recall, Cort once asked about removing it, and I think he was told that the only way to remove it was to have his arm chopped off, and decided against it because he didn’t want to lose his arm. In addition, Nyrah’s brother was a dried up corpse after dying from old age, Starcaster still affixed to his arm.
Interesting question. I think you can drop it it into acid, or an incinerator or something. The Starcasters are capable of channeling the power of the sun, withstanding that force. It is heavily suggested it’ll survive basically anything thrown at it (though they were careful with Speks acid). After that I recommend a mild soap and a damp cloth. This will allow it to retain it’s colour for longer. Silver polish has a surprising shiny effect. Despite popular belief, it is not recommended to put the superweapon in a coke to clean it. It’ll leave spots that are nearly impossible… Read more »
Wait, who’s the guy to the left of Xinchev? Why isn’t he wearing a toga-like uniform?
The lower class wears pants, like savages.
How many Starcasters are there? I thought there were only three. But now both brothers have one, Cort has one and the Federation alien from two pages ago has one.
I can’t recall the exact number, but there are several in this galaxy alone. I think I remember 7? The Federation is the largest force in this galaxy, but it is suggested they only rule a large chunk of this galaxy. They controlled two. Other civilisations have others, like Nyrah’s species (Odrossian) had on their planet. The Dranglaex and Odrossian are from another galaxy where there were another number of them, suggesting each galaxy has some. The dad of the princes has one as well. The Dranglaex chased the Odrosdian to this galaxy, trying to take the Starcaster they took… Read more »
I don’t think the princes’ father has a Starcaster. Early in the story, we learned the Dranglaex pretended to have two of them, while hunting for the Odrossian one. (which Cort is now using)
Unless Nyrah’s info was inaccurate and they actually had two (now three), but I don’t think we have seen anything to contradict her.
We only learned what the characters think. The Dranglaex have no reason to communicate their whole history, telling their father has one, as well as cousin Ed in galaxy cleansing mission #2. It only matters that they are in that galaxy, pretending to have two. It is nost likely that there are many more Starcasters in the universe. As the reader we can see those things, but someone like Speck only concerned themselves with this galaxy politics, if he wasn’t even more local focused on the star system they were at. Why would he know there are more than the… Read more »
The Federation thought that the Drangleax might have two, knew they had two and knew the whereabouts of a fourth (what they thought was a fifth) Starcaster. The Drangleax KNEW they had one, and the Federation had two, and they also knew that the Federation thought the Drangleax had two. Now the Federation has very little reason to assume that the Drangleax have three, or else they would have used it here to mitigate-to-negate the heavy losses they suffered in this action. So now, the Federation KNOWS the Drangleax have two, and know that the Drangleax is unaware of Cort’s… Read more »
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Two WERE in the hands of the Federation.
One is in the hands of the Drang.
Cort has one.
Two are in the hands of a thus-far unrevealed third/third and fourth side.
Big picture, this likely infighting is good. Short term, a lot of people are gonna die while this guy tries to prove himself.
Wait, what if he is not compatible with it? Like if I remember correctly not all starcasters can be worn by everyone, right? Would be hilarious if he tries to wear it and it just doesnt work for him, lol.
The starcaster bonds with the Aug markers in people’s DNA, and since the Aug are believed to have created most, if not all life in the current universe, anyone should be able to bond with one, unless they happened to have evolved from life not influenced by the Aug.
Sure anyone should be able to bond with one,
but maybe it makes Kelias puke his brains out and he’s ooo for a decade
Now to see how he handles the bonding process, the Lance Major seems significantly more trained with it that anyone we’ve seen so it might not bring them the advantage they wanted right away.