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The Starcaster Chronicles 13.10

July 12, 2024 by Tim


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Gonfrask
Gonfrask
4 months ago

Someone new is going to take care of you.

GUNnibal
GUNnibal
4 months ago

Private no class Cort Whatever, reporting for toilet duty! That arm ornament will sure come in handy!

On a more serious note, I think the good news is that he gets to work with La’Ni – she might be the only person left who could teach him more about using the Starcaster. After all, Nyrah’s experience is third-hand, she never used a Starcaster herself.

Last edited 4 months ago by GUNnibal
Eldest Gruff
Eldest Gruff
4 months ago
Reply to  GUNnibal

You laugh, but I bet you anything that Starcaster’ll buff the toughest, hardest grunge out of any toilet. Along with the toilet itself, the pipes, the floor, a circular portion of several decks directly beneath the toilet, a similarly sized portion of the hull of the ship, and a very slightly larger circular portion of a piece of space debris roughly 12,000 km away.

Meatballs21
Meatballs21
4 months ago
Reply to  Eldest Gruff

It’s tougher than those old Toilet Duck commercials where the bottle was a plane and a tank!

Crestlinger
Crestlinger
4 months ago
Reply to  GUNnibal

*Snorts. Third hand.(cause how they bind to their hosts) Good one.

Jedi
Jedi
4 months ago

Well Cort, how about a little song … ?

You′re in the army now, oh-oo-oh you’re in the army now….

The Legacy
The Legacy
4 months ago
Reply to  Jedi

Sabaton is the best. 😁 Though once Cort is trained, a good song would be Winged Hussars when he and Lani show up during a big fight. Lol

Kif
Kif
4 months ago
Reply to  The Legacy

“You’re in the Army Now” predates Sabaton by some decades. They only covered it.

Flanker
Flanker
4 months ago
Reply to  The Legacy

Status Quo, you mean 🙂 (yeah, I know, that is also just the cover of the original)

ears
ears
4 months ago

There are trenches to be dug, private Cort

GeorgeV
GeorgeV
4 months ago
Reply to  ears

Finally all that rock carving practice is going to pay off!

7eggert
7eggert
4 months ago
Reply to  ears

Problem is: These trenches need to zig zag so if there is an grenade enemy inside they have to kill each defender individually (optimal case).

Jedi
Jedi
4 months ago

I wonder if Tim decided that the current situation is ‘too good’ for Cort and he has to have him ‘ditched’ by a friend once again to make him more desperate and bitter against the Federation… after all this isn’t Star Trek where every story ends well …

Dr DoobieDo
Dr DoobieDo
4 months ago
Reply to  Jedi

From another perspective though, this will allow for much faster growth.
Changes sometimes good and is always hard LOL.

Eldest Gruff
Eldest Gruff
4 months ago
Reply to  Dr DoobieDo

There’s a part of me that really wants to see the party go head to head with these guys. There are few problems that can’t be solved by tossing a Speck at them.

Jedi
Jedi
4 months ago
Reply to  Eldest Gruff

They cant be solved but dissolved 😉

ReyMonoArdilla
ReyMonoArdilla
4 months ago
Reply to  Jedi

Speck is a great problem solvent.

Pyre
Pyre
4 months ago

And this is where we say “This deal is getting worse all the time……”

GUNnibal
GUNnibal
4 months ago
Reply to  Pyre

Droma: “I’m altering the deal. Pray I do not alter it any further.”

I'm a human blanket
I'm a human blanket
4 months ago
Reply to  GUNnibal

“Furthermore, I wish you to wear this dress and bonnet…here is a unicycle. You will ride it wherever you go…also, you are to wear these clown shoes and refer to yourself as Mary.”

Stevyn
Stevyn
4 months ago
Reply to  Pyre

I mean, Cort really should have hashed out some negotiations during his meeting. Did he really just say “Yea, sign me up for the Federation!” without specifying that he wants his rank restored, or to work directly under Quel? He knows that he holds some serious cards, right?

jonathan corbett
jonathan corbett
4 months ago
Reply to  Stevyn

He’s a deserter. He should be glad they aren’t shooting him ON SIGHT. At least, that’s what I recall, possibly wrong about Cort…

CMasta1992
CMasta1992
4 months ago

Someone give Quel a break

Jay
Jay
4 months ago
Reply to  CMasta1992

And get this man a shield!

Ben
Ben
4 months ago

Ahhhh, and there’s a single word that potentially lets the suicide bomber make perfect sense: “drafted.”

If you force people to kill and die for you without any say in the matter, you really can’t complain when they turn on you.

Clark
Clark
4 months ago
Reply to  Ben

While I agree with that sentiment: Cort did (kinda voluntarily re-) enlist, and we have no knowledge if there is an actual “draft” happening.
(I kinda suspect ‘drafted’ on this page should be ‘selected for’. If an actual draft existed, the “getting Cort to join up” arc of the last episode would not make much sense…)

GeorgeV
GeorgeV
4 months ago
Reply to  Clark

Actually drafted already means that. According to google one of the definitions is:

2. select (a person or group of people) and bring them somewhere for a certain purpose.”he was drafted in to help fix the engine”

;The draft’ is commonly used to refer to conscription (the forced military recruitment), but the word ‘draft’ does have other usages.

foducool
foducool
4 months ago

c’mon you ape, who wants to live forever ?!

Crestlinger
Crestlinger
4 months ago

Probably what Quel was in meeting about before the interruption.

Stephen
Stephen
4 months ago

There’s one big issue that his royal princeness might not have considered in his haste to go grab his enemy’s toys Their only starcaster is currently out of commission and separated from the main fleet (which he has already split in two) He can’t use the starcaster he just captured without an attunement time and 1/3 of his fleet is isolated in range of two functional starcasters and at least one fleet’s worth of angry Federation ships With any luck he might just have trapped himself in a rather fatal situation One major defeat and the surviving prince’s fleet might… Read more »

jack
jack
4 months ago

this reminds me of robin williams’s take on british impressment

fill you full of rum, you’d wake up on an english ship going “aaahh…” “you’re in the navy boy. did you enjoy your rum drink, smartass?”

Mr. X
Mr. X
4 months ago

So wait, who has how many starcasters? I’ve lost count.

PhobosRising
PhobosRising
4 months ago

Cort could be put in charge of PT, he does have experience with running.

Mike
Mike
4 months ago
Reply to  PhobosRising

Is that what we need to discover what’s in the fridge hanging by chains above the front door, to blast it open with a star-caster?

PhobosRising
PhobosRising
4 months ago
Reply to  Mike

When you have a hammer, everything is a nail. Just be glad he hasn’t tried figuring out how to use it to masturbate….

jonathan corbett
jonathan corbett
4 months ago

La’Ni knocks Cort unconscious. “Ok, men. Cut that Starcaster off and leave him, we don’t need the rest of this traitor.”

Derfman
Derfman
4 months ago

“I am altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further.” – Darth Vader

Kaitensatsuma
Kaitensatsuma
4 months ago

Well that solves at least a couple of problems, uh, for the corrupt bureaucrats

  • It puts Cort in direct line of fire
  • It also puts Cort in a command structure he isn’t expected to disobey
  • Also means they know and control where he is/goes

Let’s see how it backfires/doesn’t come to fruition.