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The Starcaster Chronicles 09.04

October 8, 2021 by Tim


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Rolan7
Rolan7
3 years ago

Dot dot dot…

maarvarq
maarvarq
3 years ago

Only two macroscopic life forms perhaps. I forget if there’s any other explanation for them both being able to breathe other than some life form generating the oxygen.

BakaGrappler
BakaGrappler
3 years ago
Reply to  maarvarq

It’s a “Failed Terraforming Planet.” So, there’s enough resources for life, but not enough for an ecosystem. Because Alien Terraforming gods.

foducool
foducool
3 years ago
Reply to  maarvarq

one is a full cyborg safe for her head, the other has a magical artifact that prevents any harm to happen to him

Ryan
Ryan
3 years ago
Reply to  foducool

Is she really full cyborg except for her head? Her arm is bandaged, which is normally not something you do unless there is a flesh wound. Also, I’ve always wondered if her entire head is 100% natural. She has the purple face spike/tentacle/horn bits, which are probably normal for her race, but what about the blue bit on top? Is that part of *her as well? I’ve always kind of wondered, part of the fun of making alien races, can make them whatever you want in your imagination.

Michael
Michael
3 years ago
Reply to  Ryan

When the arm was cut, it didn’t bleed; the bandages are just to keep the wiring safe from dangling in corrosive elements like air or sunlight unfiltered by air.

And we’ve seen how she and her brother were in their prime, they had the head-crest and big tails like Freeza.

EMMachine
EMMachine
3 years ago
Reply to  Michael

You mean this comic from 2014?
https://cad-comic.com/comic/the-starcaster-chronicles-01-22/
The strange thing is. In 2014 the crest had the same color as the rest of her head, but when Tim came back to the comic in 2015 it was blue.

Michael
Michael
3 years ago
Reply to  EMMachine

I want to say that can be hand-waved with lighting, but the flashback panel suggests the blue might be make-up; so what I said still stands, just not exactly as I remember it.

Merendel
Merendel
3 years ago
Reply to  Ryan

Just because her robot body has no blood circulating does not mean there were not other fluids leaking out that should probably stay on the inside. it was exposed wires and tubes leaking fluids when she lost the arm as I recall. They patched the stump up as best they could which aparently included bandages.
The body is also falling apart, it was ment more as a medical life pod than a permanent replacement body. It was never designed to take the strain she keeps subjecting it to.

Paladin
Paladin
1 month ago
Reply to  maarvarq

You are making a lot of assumptions (do they both actually breath oxygen).

Regardless, the atmosphere was tested when they arrived and found to be breathable, if just. It would take months (years probably) for 2, 3 people to make a significant change to the composition of a planets atmosphere. It literally doesn’t matter if CO2 is being converted to O2.

GUNnibal
GUNnibal
3 years ago

-…Ketchup?

Robert Loughrey
Robert Loughrey
3 years ago

Still not speaking to him I see. Fair enough, he was sort of a twit with all that.

Leon
Leon
3 years ago

No attraction, I guess….

Atros
Atros
3 years ago
Reply to  Leon

Yeah not getting the vibes this story as a whole is going to have a romantic arc for its main characters any time soon, if ever.

Jay
Jay
3 years ago
Reply to  Atros

Not with that attitude.

Leon
Leon
3 years ago
Reply to  Atros

Im curious if Cort meets that female pilot

Me-me
Me-me
3 years ago
Reply to  Leon

Female pilot had a schoolyard romance plot with the engineer, remember? For pathos. Would be weird to shoehorn the protagonist into that.

Leon
Leon
3 years ago
Reply to  Me-me

I thought the Dranglaex blew up the station she was at

Michael
Michael
3 years ago
Reply to  Leon

They haven’t been mentioned or shown blowing up any stations, just several cities and most of a fleet. Did you mistake her wing-woman for a station?

D00dM4n
D00dM4n
3 years ago

Could always use the starcaster to cut the moon in half if you really wanted to be separated? Or the ever popular draw a line with the weapon of planetary destruction?

Freddie
Freddie
3 years ago
Reply to  D00dM4n

CHA

I forgot my beano
I forgot my beano
3 years ago

I forget why it’s awkward.

Vicente Sampedro Burgos
Vicente Sampedro Burgos
3 years ago

Then a sudden fart breaks the silence, and he knows he was not this time.

grizz kid
grizz kid
3 years ago

Not criticizing, but it would have been hilarious if Tim had left this page with them just sitting and eating, no words, just to make us feel the awkward all weekend long.

XYZ
XYZ
3 years ago

Maybe it’s time for everyone to finally learn why Cort got fired and became wanted dangerous criminal (I doubt that being a smuggler makes him so dangerous some Federation marshals want to eliminate him on sight), other that “He’s the only corrupted cop that got himself caught in the act”.