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The Starcaster Chronicles, 11.02

February 7, 2023 by Tim


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blindcoder
blindcoder
9 months ago

Naaaaww *all the feels*

They’re all gonna die horribly, aren’t they?

GUNnibal
GUNnibal
9 months ago
Reply to  blindcoder

Good harvest, indeed…

Belgevain
Belgevain
9 months ago
Reply to  GUNnibal

Not only that, but a ‘Blue Harvest’…

DrakeStarkiller
DrakeStarkiller
9 months ago
Reply to  blindcoder

All this build up.
I’d laugh if Tim trolled us

Kaitensatsuma
Kaitensatsuma
9 months ago
Reply to  blindcoder

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?

Selphit
Selphit
9 months ago
Reply to  blindcoder
Selphit
Selphit
9 months ago
Reply to  blindcoder

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
Eldest Gruff
9 months 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.

The Legacy
The Legacy
9 months ago
Reply to  Eldest Gruff

I can picture his facial reaction, too. 😅

foducool
foducool
9 months ago

dude harvesting crystal meth lmao

The Legacy
The Legacy
9 months ago
Reply to  foducool

Almost! Lol

Gonfrask
Gonfrask
9 months ago

Oh! Come on! What’s next? A photo of your family?…
Wait…he has already show us the family

Mildar
Mildar
9 months ago
Reply to  Gonfrask

My guess is this was in the past and now The Farmer is fighting as his family is all dead.

Last edited 9 months ago by Mildar
Kaitensatsuma
Kaitensatsuma
9 months ago
Reply to  Gonfrask

Little Timmy coming out with his crutches perhaps.

They’ve nearly saved up enough money for the surgery!

Gonfrask
Gonfrask
9 months ago
Reply to  Kaitensatsuma

You are the man of the moment

HGW
HGW
9 months ago

That’s a lot of wood on a dessert planet 😉

Mnemnosyne
Mnemnosyne
9 months ago
Reply to  HGW

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.

Gonfrask
Gonfrask
9 months ago
Reply to  Mnemnosyne

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

Ben
Ben
9 months ago
Reply to  Mnemnosyne

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

chargersfan
chargersfan
9 months ago
Reply to  Ben

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.

Paradox
Paradox
9 months ago
Reply to  Mnemnosyne

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

Doom
Doom
9 months ago
Reply to  HGW

Lets hope it’s not your average single biome sci-fi world then ? 🙂

Jack0r
Jack0r
9 months ago
Reply to  HGW

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.

Risky
Risky
9 months ago
Reply to  HGW

Several trees grow in deserts and peoples who live in deserts use their wood in building their homes. Like acacia.

Last edited 9 months ago by Risky
Dom
Dom
9 months ago

I hate being a Patreon reader today.

Arcatus
Arcatus
9 months ago
Reply to  Dom

Nah, I feel like I have some sort of clairvoyant superpower.

Vladimir
Vladimir
9 months ago

Crystals remind me of blue Tiberium

Barnabus
Barnabus
9 months ago

So, they plant and ‘grow’ rocks. Do they dig into mountains and ‘mine’ for chickens ?

87ProZach
87ProZach
9 months ago
Reply to  Tim

Science Bitch -Jesse Pinkman

leduk
leduk
9 months ago
Reply to  Tim

I would LOVE to grow crystal at school tbh, instead of cuting frogs open.

wolph
wolph
9 months ago
Reply to  Barnabus

I want a pizza tree!

Dagroth
Dagroth
9 months ago
Reply to  wolph

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!”)

😉

playing it safe
playing it safe
9 months ago
Reply to  Barnabus

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?

Sayer
Sayer
9 months ago

So dead.

RblDiver
RblDiver
9 months ago

…It looks like they live inside a giant soda can 😛

Giuliano
Giuliano
9 months ago
Reply to  RblDiver

I would have problems to sleep there on a windy night.

Sarshish
Sarshish
9 months 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.

Dagroth
Dagroth
9 months ago
Reply to  Sarshish

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
Mr Sunday Movies Fan
9 months 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
Nightdagger
9 months ago

This planet is about to get Starcasted out of existence, isn’t it.

Officeshreðder
Officeshreðder
9 months 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
Crestlinger
9 months ago

Big ol’ deathbeam is the leading consensus. It Would be ironic if it only fried their tractor or crop.

robin
robin
9 months ago
Reply to  Crestlinger

or if the crop of crystals absorb the power of the starcaster…

ThatMageGuy
ThatMageGuy
9 months ago

Finally, going to be a good harvest. The future looks bright!

But maybe that’s because of all the incoming murder lasers. 🙁