“NEXT YEAR ON DRAGONBALL Z”, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Lauren
3 years ago
I’m curious how space rules work for these guys – can their species just be in space unprotected like that? Or is it a starcaster thing? Or is it like a safety bubble around the ship thing?
Yep but it appears his left hand is exposed. Based on the burns Cort got im guessing it would destroy any gloves anyways so im guessing the starcaster is gonna help out his hand.
Kinda surprised this wasnt plan A tho so I wonder if theres more of a drawback to using the Starcaster.
its kind of not a good idea to use the biggest gun right away. while these guys didnt plan on fighting the federation in force, if they had gone with using the death star nuking with the starcaster, the first reinforcements to rush up would have been the federation starcasters. note they used the plural term to describe the federation big gun. how many starcasters does the federation have? enough to win a “who has the bigger “gun” fight” if you whip yours out too soon against them.
If memory serves it was established in an earlier comic that the Federation has two, the Draenglex *claim* they have two but in reality they have one, which is why they want the one that’s now on Cort’s arm so badly.
I’d imagine the major drawback in using it in large scale warfare is that after the first beam you’ve got the attention of the entire enemy fleet and are basically the epitome of a glass cannon. So you’ve really gotta blast and bail.
Another probable drawback: The enemy has Starcasters too, so you might need to save your Starcaster to deal with theirs. If you waste too much energy blasting random ships, you risk running out when an enemy Starcaster attacks you.
The starcaster will help repair any damage due to vacuum exposure (which would mostly be the extreme cold anyway). The whole reason Cort got his jammed on his forearm in the first place was to repair some bullet wounds. And I believe the explicit reason it heals is because channelling all that power does hurt the wielder, so there would logically be a risk involved with using it to soon after a previous use or for too great a duration or (if this is a fictional universe that cares about the Hayflick limit) to frequently in general.
If I’m remembering right, it’s because the starcaster was in the backpack she was wearing, and her damaged arm was in the way of getting the backpack off quickly
Just to fight common misconceptions: Space is not actually cold. Not in the “freezing fast” kind of way at least. Vacuum is the best single-“material” thermal isolator there is, since the only way to transfer heat in it is radiation. And that is by far the slowest method of heat transfer. So while you recieve less heat than you radiate and you will freeze eventually (after you die), it is so slow that your internal heat production outpaces it (while you are alive). Also, vacuum technically doesn’t even have a temperature at all, since that is an attribute that only… Read more »
Yeah, that makes sense actually, so I looked it up. Apparently the biggest threat (aside from the obvious lack of air, which wouldn’t be a problem in this specific instance) would be ebullism, where the lack of pressure lowers the boiling point of one’s bodily fluids causing tissue swelling, hemorrhaging, and possible gas bubble emoblisms in one’s blood stream.
Thank you. I was going to say something, but saw you already did.
This is something that really bothers me in scifi literature. An author will talk about flash freezing due to the ‘absolute zero’ of space. Uh, no not how it works at all.
Otherwise the sun wouldn’t be enough to warm the planet, the absolute zero of space would be freezing the planet to fast. The lack of matter in space makes it so there is no conduction, or convection of heat. Only radiation, as you stated.
I had to do some research about the dangers of vacuum for a gaming session a while back. I was a bit surprised that what they teach in movies is mostly wrong.
It’s got to be shields holding in atmosphere or something, based on the fact that his cape is billowing.
Unless, I suppose, those gadgets on the end of his cape are cape-billowers that tug the cape around to make it billow dramatically regardless of wind or atmosphere.
If anything, cloaks would move a whole lot more in Zero G because there is not gravity to affect the movement caused by the person’s shoulders and back. They wouldn’t billow like they would in the wind but you can bet they would move around for sure.
It would be more likely that once it started moving back and upward like that that it would continue to move around the attachment point and end up wraping around your head. it would depend a bit on how stiff the fabric was. A stiffer one would tend to spring back to a specific position, more flexable and its going to be constantly trying to wrap around you. Either way a cape is probably the least practical garment to have in zeroG.
ShonaSoF
3 years ago
Time for one of those sweeping anime-style lasers that leaves a trail of explosions a second or two later?
Gonfrask
3 years ago
In fact, the most ships the federation send, the bigger the lost…this show a poor coordination from the Federation, because if you know what a starcaster does, you should give priority to your own members to arrive and while follow the enemy fleet and perhaps delay it with…”aceptable losses and sacrifices”
The cloak is not billowing in the traditional sense. It’s moving because it’s connected to his back/shoulders so the cloak would move more in Zero G from his shoulder and back moving. Cloaks do this in planet as well but not nearly as much because of gravity pulling them down.
Momentum and mass dictate which way the fabric moves. Its not going to stay still unless it’s rigid.
The REAL issue is that with the wrong movement there’s nothing to stop it from swinging up and over the wearer’s face or tangling an arm.
chargersfan
3 years ago
If this were a comedy, I could imagine this guy walking out into space singing along to some music. What would be the funniest song to play as the soundtrack?
Sugar Sugar by the Archies was the first thing to jump into my head. Also, Here I go Again by Whitesnake would be pretty good. Anyone else have a better suggestion?
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Kamee HAMEEE…
HAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAA
“NEXT YEAR ON DRAGONBALL Z”, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I’m curious how space rules work for these guys – can their species just be in space unprotected like that? Or is it a starcaster thing? Or is it like a safety bubble around the ship thing?
You can clearly see he has a suit and he’s putting a helmet on in panel 3
Yep but it appears his left hand is exposed. Based on the burns Cort got im guessing it would destroy any gloves anyways so im guessing the starcaster is gonna help out his hand.
Kinda surprised this wasnt plan A tho so I wonder if theres more of a drawback to using the Starcaster.
its kind of not a good idea to use the biggest gun right away. while these guys didnt plan on fighting the federation in force, if they had gone with using the death star nuking with the starcaster, the first reinforcements to rush up would have been the federation starcasters. note they used the plural term to describe the federation big gun. how many starcasters does the federation have? enough to win a “who has the bigger “gun” fight” if you whip yours out too soon against them.
If memory serves it was established in an earlier comic that the Federation has two, the Draenglex *claim* they have two but in reality they have one, which is why they want the one that’s now on Cort’s arm so badly.
I’d imagine the major drawback in using it in large scale warfare is that after the first beam you’ve got the attention of the entire enemy fleet and are basically the epitome of a glass cannon. So you’ve really gotta blast and bail.
Another probable drawback: The enemy has Starcasters too, so you might need to save your Starcaster to deal with theirs. If you waste too much energy blasting random ships, you risk running out when an enemy Starcaster attacks you.
The starcaster will help repair any damage due to vacuum exposure (which would mostly be the extreme cold anyway). The whole reason Cort got his jammed on his forearm in the first place was to repair some bullet wounds. And I believe the explicit reason it heals is because channelling all that power does hurt the wielder, so there would logically be a risk involved with using it to soon after a previous use or for too great a duration or (if this is a fictional universe that cares about the Hayflick limit) to frequently in general.
I mean, if you look at the page when Cort last used it again and pay attention to the state of his hand, it seems the damage starts immediately.
I remember that chapter a bit. Though why did Nyra (sp?) tear off her own arm in that incident? Was it related to the Starcaster too?
If I’m remembering right, it’s because the starcaster was in the backpack she was wearing, and her damaged arm was in the way of getting the backpack off quickly
Thanks!
Just to fight common misconceptions: Space is not actually cold. Not in the “freezing fast” kind of way at least. Vacuum is the best single-“material” thermal isolator there is, since the only way to transfer heat in it is radiation. And that is by far the slowest method of heat transfer. So while you recieve less heat than you radiate and you will freeze eventually (after you die), it is so slow that your internal heat production outpaces it (while you are alive). Also, vacuum technically doesn’t even have a temperature at all, since that is an attribute that only… Read more »
Yeah, that makes sense actually, so I looked it up. Apparently the biggest threat (aside from the obvious lack of air, which wouldn’t be a problem in this specific instance) would be ebullism, where the lack of pressure lowers the boiling point of one’s bodily fluids causing tissue swelling, hemorrhaging, and possible gas bubble emoblisms in one’s blood stream.
Thank you. I was going to say something, but saw you already did.
This is something that really bothers me in scifi literature. An author will talk about flash freezing due to the ‘absolute zero’ of space. Uh, no not how it works at all.
Otherwise the sun wouldn’t be enough to warm the planet, the absolute zero of space would be freezing the planet to fast. The lack of matter in space makes it so there is no conduction, or convection of heat. Only radiation, as you stated.
I had to do some research about the dangers of vacuum for a gaming session a while back. I was a bit surprised that what they teach in movies is mostly wrong.
https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2013/space-human-body/
Or even better:
https://www.thoughtco.com/human-body-in-a-space-vacuum-3071106
I’d personally rather be done putting it on before stepping outside.
Yeah.. but you’re not wearing a Starcaster either.
I think he did, and was adjusting the HUD or voice-com.
It’s got to be shields holding in atmosphere or something, based on the fact that his cape is billowing.
Unless, I suppose, those gadgets on the end of his cape are cape-billowers that tug the cape around to make it billow dramatically regardless of wind or atmosphere.
It’s his Reiatsu. Sheesh, that word is hard to spell
If anything, cloaks would move a whole lot more in Zero G because there is not gravity to affect the movement caused by the person’s shoulders and back. They wouldn’t billow like they would in the wind but you can bet they would move around for sure.
I think that metal ridge at the bottom is some kind of technology to make his cape billow correctly just to make him look cool.
Ah yes… The cool-o-nator!
It would be more likely that once it started moving back and upward like that that it would continue to move around the attachment point and end up wraping around your head. it would depend a bit on how stiff the fabric was. A stiffer one would tend to spring back to a specific position, more flexable and its going to be constantly trying to wrap around you. Either way a cape is probably the least practical garment to have in zeroG.
Time for one of those sweeping anime-style lasers that leaves a trail of explosions a second or two later?
In fact, the most ships the federation send, the bigger the lost…this show a poor coordination from the Federation, because if you know what a starcaster does, you should give priority to your own members to arrive and while follow the enemy fleet and perhaps delay it with…”aceptable losses and sacrifices”
Ah. The shit-eel is about to get real.
Oh hey, the cover shot
ohhh shit yea! well picked.
Why is the cape billowing?
His Starcaster loves drama
The cloak is not billowing in the traditional sense. It’s moving because it’s connected to his back/shoulders so the cloak would move more in Zero G from his shoulder and back moving. Cloaks do this in planet as well but not nearly as much because of gravity pulling them down.
Every exploding ship loses all the air that was keeping occupants alive; with so many doing this at once, I wouldn’t be surprised.
Same reason the american flag waved when stuck in the moon. Momentum and inertia.
Wasn’t that stage magic?
Joking obviously, though I do like someone elses comment of it being tech for dramatic effect
Momentum and mass dictate which way the fabric moves. Its not going to stay still unless it’s rigid.
The REAL issue is that with the wrong movement there’s nothing to stop it from swinging up and over the wearer’s face or tangling an arm.
If this were a comedy, I could imagine this guy walking out into space singing along to some music. What would be the funniest song to play as the soundtrack?
Sugar Sugar by the Archies was the first thing to jump into my head. Also, Here I go Again by Whitesnake would be pretty good. Anyone else have a better suggestion?
‘Indiscriminate Murder Is Counter-Productive’ by Machinae Supremacy
Staying Alive, for obvious ironic reasons.
Ideally sync it so that the chorus overlaps with the (presumably) incoming starcaster blasting.
Boom by P.O.D.
The intro makes a good “getting dressed” anthem, chorus kicks in just in time for carnage…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSpQKRCndXQ
Space Lord – Monster Magnet
“No more Mr. Nice Guy”?
The Lollipop song
Never Gonna Give You Up
Circle of Life
Banana Boat Song
Friday
Leave it to Beaver theme