Don’t click the previous comic button a couple of times (comic 10.24)… you’ll likely have a bad time. Almost as bad as the farmer and his family are about to have.
Eldest Gruff
2 years ago
Next page, doubtless, is going to show the giant combination orphanage / puppy shelter / hospital for sick innocent children who dream to grow up and become doctors to help others.
All immediately disintegrated because Cort unthinkingly sneezed and covered his mouth with the Starcaster.
On a more serious note, I always question the single-biome environment staple of sci-fi; it seems silly even though it’s extremely common. I don’t think there’s any indication that we know of that suggests potentially habitable planets will be any less diverse in their environments than earth.
I think that in fact is a reader problem…we autofill this kind of things if not other note is added, we haven’t had a text box saying this is a desert planet (or hill planet) but we are thinking automatically that the whole planet should look like the actual scene. Maybe in other pole they timber, fishing, etc
I don’t see any reason to assume that it’s a single-biome planet. It could just be an actual desert.
Although, I notice that he’s growing rocks. Which makes me wonder if this planet even *has* any biomes. It may just be a *very* small, rocky moon with only an artificial atmosphere around the farm, and his crop may just be a mineral that develops under the influence of specific kinds of radiation that happen to bathe this planetoid regularly
Certain biomes, like desert or ice, make a little bit of sense if they cover the entire planet (though it does raise the question of how life manages to survive)
A planet almost entirely (or even entirely) covered in water can work, but things like forests are not going to be planet wide
Plot twist: These farmers are super wealthy wood freaks, who put all their money into getting real wood from off-world to build their authentic earth repo shack.
Crystals aren’t rocks. And kids regularly grow crystals as grade-school science projects, so the concept of it being a harvestable resource in sci fi shouldn’t be that out there. 🙂
I would have problems to sleep there on a windy night.
Sarshish
2 years ago
I object to the wooden porch. Given the environment and the home being repurposed container of some sort, I’d expect the porch to be constructed of other repurposed scrap and held up by rocks not nice concrete blocks especially with the home being secured with ropes to keep it from rolling. If they have concrete, it should have a cradle to hold it or at least wedges.
Maybe it’s just modular? You buy as many as you need, put them together, and put your stuff inside. And the wooden porch they could have made themselves.
I get that sort of vibe from it, anyway, maybe because of Subnautica, in which you could have similarly shaped constructions as part of your base (and indeed, as many as you would have materials for and wanted to build).
Mr Sunday Movies Fan
2 years ago
He’s harvesting blue rocks, which leads to the interesting bit of trivia that Blue Harvest was the original working title for Star Wars
Nightdagger
2 years ago
This planet is about to get Starcasted out of existence, isn’t it.
Officeshreðder
2 years ago
Plot twist. The farmer watches on in horror as we all get starcaster’d out of existenc. Literary scholars would debate the ethics of breaking the 4th wall this way, if there were any left.
Crestlinger
2 years ago
Big ol’ deathbeam is the leading consensus. It Would be ironic if it only fried their tractor or crop.
24
Naaaaww *all the feels*
They’re all gonna die horribly, aren’t they?
Good harvest, indeed…
Not only that, but a ‘Blue Harvest’…
All this build up.
I’d laugh if Tim trolled us
Yes, that’s my immediate impression.
“Ah yes, a happy, hard working salt of the earth family, scraping out a living on a frontier”
:gets popcorn:
“What atrocities await them?“
Its…. possible….
https://cad-comic.com/comic/the-starcaster-chronicles-10-24/
Don’t click the previous comic button a couple of times (comic 10.24)… you’ll likely have a bad time. Almost as bad as the farmer and his family are about to have.
Next page, doubtless, is going to show the giant combination orphanage / puppy shelter / hospital for sick innocent children who dream to grow up and become doctors to help others.
All immediately disintegrated because Cort unthinkingly sneezed and covered his mouth with the Starcaster.
I can picture his facial reaction, too. ?
dude harvesting crystal meth lmao
Almost! Lol
Oh! Come on! What’s next? A photo of your family?…
Wait…he has already show us the family
My guess is this was in the past and now The Farmer is fighting as his family is all dead.
Little Timmy coming out with his crutches perhaps.
They’ve nearly saved up enough money for the surgery!
You are the man of the moment
That’s a lot of wood on a dessert planet 😉
True, I would expect more cake.
On a more serious note, I always question the single-biome environment staple of sci-fi; it seems silly even though it’s extremely common. I don’t think there’s any indication that we know of that suggests potentially habitable planets will be any less diverse in their environments than earth.
I think that in fact is a reader problem…we autofill this kind of things if not other note is added, we haven’t had a text box saying this is a desert planet (or hill planet) but we are thinking automatically that the whole planet should look like the actual scene. Maybe in other pole they timber, fishing, etc
I don’t see any reason to assume that it’s a single-biome planet. It could just be an actual desert.
Although, I notice that he’s growing rocks. Which makes me wonder if this planet even *has* any biomes. It may just be a *very* small, rocky moon with only an artificial atmosphere around the farm, and his crop may just be a mineral that develops under the influence of specific kinds of radiation that happen to bathe this planetoid regularly
The big brown ball in the background of the previous page suggests single-biome, although we can only see roughly half of the planet / planetoid.
Certain biomes, like desert or ice, make a little bit of sense if they cover the entire planet (though it does raise the question of how life manages to survive)
A planet almost entirely (or even entirely) covered in water can work, but things like forests are not going to be planet wide
Lets hope it’s not your average single biome sci-fi world then ? 🙂
Plot twist: These farmers are super wealthy wood freaks, who put all their money into getting real wood from off-world to build their authentic earth repo shack.
Several trees grow in deserts and peoples who live in deserts use their wood in building their homes. Like acacia.
I hate being a Patreon reader today.
Nah, I feel like I have some sort of clairvoyant superpower.
Crystals remind me of blue Tiberium
So, they plant and ‘grow’ rocks. Do they dig into mountains and ‘mine’ for chickens ?
Crystals aren’t rocks. And kids regularly grow crystals as grade-school science projects, so the concept of it being a harvestable resource in sci fi shouldn’t be that out there. 🙂
Science Bitch -Jesse Pinkman
I would LOVE to grow crystal at school tbh, instead of cuting frogs open.
I want a pizza tree!
Captain from WALL-E, is that you? (“This is called farming! You kids are going to grow all kinds of plants. Vegetable plants. Pizza plants!”)
😉
Look more like crystal than rocks…
If life can be based on an element other than carbon, consensus is that silica is the most likely option. Why couldn’t that life be crystalline?
So dead.
…It looks like they live inside a giant soda can 😛
I would have problems to sleep there on a windy night.
I object to the wooden porch. Given the environment and the home being repurposed container of some sort, I’d expect the porch to be constructed of other repurposed scrap and held up by rocks not nice concrete blocks especially with the home being secured with ropes to keep it from rolling. If they have concrete, it should have a cradle to hold it or at least wedges.
Maybe it’s just modular? You buy as many as you need, put them together, and put your stuff inside. And the wooden porch they could have made themselves.
I get that sort of vibe from it, anyway, maybe because of Subnautica, in which you could have similarly shaped constructions as part of your base (and indeed, as many as you would have materials for and wanted to build).
He’s harvesting blue rocks, which leads to the interesting bit of trivia that Blue Harvest was the original working title for Star Wars
This planet is about to get Starcasted out of existence, isn’t it.
Plot twist. The farmer watches on in horror as we all get starcaster’d out of existenc. Literary scholars would debate the ethics of breaking the 4th wall this way, if there were any left.
Big ol’ deathbeam is the leading consensus. It Would be ironic if it only fried their tractor or crop.
or if the crop of crystals absorb the power of the starcaster…
Finally, going to be a good harvest. The future looks bright!
But maybe that’s because of all the incoming murder lasers. 🙁