hmm, I wonder if that long yellow line is another shot from Lance Major or from Cort.
I think it might be Cort, because Lance Major seems to use the yellow spheres as attacks.
Both use beams, see 2 pages back. The angle should sugest cort but since the lance major also started from that locaton its hard to figure out how far she would be away from him.
Cort would make sense as it would create issues with him and not following orders.
Then again he wants to stay with the federation so it might be that he doesnt take the shot. Or that his shot is in the next panel.
mm yeah, I missed that. Although that beam looks bit thicker then this one if you compare ship sizes. But it could also just be perspective playing tricks on my eyes since that one was much up closer for ous to see then this one.
No it wasn´t cort. He can´t fly but has to stay on the hull of a capital ship, and that shot is similar to what she fired before in the first attack. I guess we´ll see how cort messes up halcyon six´s friends …
Next panel prediction: Cort takes the shot and accidentally takes out the Lance Mayor, making him both a persona non grata AND the federations only remaining starcaster.
A VIP who everybody hates that they need, and a sulking mess that nobody trusts to boot.
Why would they need him? His only advantage is that he is already binded to the Starcaster and shoot a few beams. It takes time to get at that level, but this is a great investment to get rid of your non-complient and evidently bad wielder of a Starcaster. This would already be a question of note if Cort fired against the wishes of his superiors even if he destroyed an enemy cruiser. His arm would be in the chopping block near immediately, the rest of his body thrown into jail if they don’t ‘misplace’ it in the vacuum of… Read more »
Or more likely it’s from behind and firing through the ship into the foreground. Think of the contrast in sizes between a single person and these ships. Regardless, the vector doesn’t connect with any Federation ship, and they’re turning away from Cort as you said, so it’s definitely La’ni.
Nightdagger
1 month ago
The fact that I don’t see a Starcaster starting up on either of the Federation cruisers is encouraging that Cort did the mature thing, followed orders, and didn’t blindly fire an all-powerful starkilling weapon into a mass melee of friendly and enemy ships.
Of course, there might not BE a “start-up” warning glow either, so…
John
1 month ago
Based on the vote im assuming this was Cort taking a shot, if they voted no it would feel odd showing this and not making it clear it wasn’t Cort.
Nice shot!
It’s not Cort. Cort was on the hull of a Dreadstorm. This is from an individual floating in space. It’s the Lance Major as they can fly and Cort can’t.
I’d argue that we wont see what Cort did until the comic cliffhanger tomorrow (page 24). His vantage from the tail lights may have consequences, and this page sets up those stakes.
Cort’s on a ship; the shot isn’t coming from a ship.
Darkhorse
1 month ago
Based on the angle of the shot it was La’ni. Cort had a cruiser in his sight fleeing from him. This beam is clearly from the front, as the width of the beam also changes shape.
Though not as clear as everything moved, my best guess is that the Dreadstorm facing the ‘camera’, lowest on the picture, is Corts ship. That matches what is most likely the side of the ship Cort is standing on, looking towards the fleeing cruisers. He hasn’t fired (himself from the Federation) yet.
You’re forgetting scale. If it was from the front, La’ni would have to be close enough to the “camera” to look as large as a significant fraction of a cruiser, and that doesn’t line up with the perspective projections of the art. Tim knows how vanishing points work.
Pfft, but it seems at least two people don’t know how vanishing points work. Debris is even detailed traveling with the beam in the direction of the camera. Not to mention the ships are newly fleeing the engagement area; La’ni wouldn’t already be ahead of them, even if she’s a quick little flier. La’ni’s firing the thing from behind, beyond any doubt.
James
1 month ago
Looks like Cort’s going to vaporize our “purple shirt” pilot character. Dang it.
Votes have stakes. While it wouldn’t be planned for an early exit, it certainly could be in the list of options.
Still, it’d further character development if it was the new wing could take the hit and compound the psychological trauma.
Kasey
1 month ago
From the Federation standpoint, the Drang fleet just hit a ship that is known to have a caster, that caster is non-responsive/not participating in the battle so they could safely assume it has been taken or disabled. We have the Drang fleet in a hurry to leave so that supports that they are carrying precious cargo. Frankly, it would be worth it to get ships directly in front of them to prevent a safe jump. Even if you lose those ships, you MUST prevent anyone from getting out at almost all costs (wouldn’t be worth burning the Lance Major, but… Read more »
It would be a good trade if possible, but I doubt that’s actually a (realistic) option. It looks like they’re already doing their best to surround. If they could’ve had ships blocking every possible escape route they’d presumably have done so already.
Del Cox
1 month ago
La’ni’s supposed to be an expert with the Starcaster, but if she’s getting that much overpenetration with her casts, she’s probably stressing her body more than she needs to and limiting her shot count.
I wouldn’t go to that conclusion. We of course do not know how it works for the wielders of a Starcaster, but I imagine it as a single rotating button for power output. It ranges from 0, where it’ll barely go through paper, to a respectable percentage of the energy of a star. Those things that can output trillions of times the energy those mag cannons can produce per second. Now I give you the dial and ask you to fire the laser at a ship with a shield that has sustained an undetermined amount of damage. Do not overpenetrate.… Read more »
what you’re talking about is completely subjective until they say otherwise in the comic, so there’s no conclusive argument against your reasoning. But I’ll cite that if you spent most days of the week training with an axe, you’d learn how to refine your control to split a stick halfway without cutting the log behind it in half.
True, but that still relies on you knowing exactly how much force you need to split those sticks. (And then applying that amount). It doesn’t let you immediately do a perfect split on a mystery piece of wood of unknown thickness and hardness. You could probably still learn to do it with enough practice, if you take some time to experiment and see exactly how much force is too much or too little. But the main goal here isn’t to keep the log undamaged, it is to split all the wood as fast as possible. A bit of excess force… Read more »
Kevin Greenbaum
1 month ago
Why doesn’t she sweep them like the prince did the the Fed ships? Yes he ended up in a healing tank for awhile but if they clip the ship that has the caster on it it’s worth it.
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hmm, I wonder if that long yellow line is another shot from Lance Major or from Cort.
I think it might be Cort, because Lance Major seems to use the yellow spheres as attacks.
Totally Cort. He WAS told to not do it after all 😀
Ya, if cort was shooting, it would be from one of the ships in the background I believe.
It’s coming from the wrong direction to be Cort. He was behind them, that’s coming from in front of them.
Both use beams, see 2 pages back. The angle should sugest cort but since the lance major also started from that locaton its hard to figure out how far she would be away from him.
Cort would make sense as it would create issues with him and not following orders.
Then again he wants to stay with the federation so it might be that he doesnt take the shot. Or that his shot is in the next panel.
mm yeah, I missed that. Although that beam looks bit thicker then this one if you compare ship sizes. But it could also just be perspective playing tricks on my eyes since that one was much up closer for ous to see then this one.
No it wasn´t cort. He can´t fly but has to stay on the hull of a capital ship, and that shot is similar to what she fired before in the first attack. I guess we´ll see how cort messes up halcyon six´s friends …
It’s not Cort. Previous page showed the bad guys turning away for Cort to escape. This beam came from in front on the bad guys.
Next panel prediction: Cort takes the shot and accidentally takes out the Lance Mayor, making him both a persona non grata AND the federations only remaining starcaster.
A VIP who everybody hates that they need, and a sulking mess that nobody trusts to boot.
Why would they need him? His only advantage is that he is already binded to the Starcaster and shoot a few beams. It takes time to get at that level, but this is a great investment to get rid of your non-complient and evidently bad wielder of a Starcaster. This would already be a question of note if Cort fired against the wishes of his superiors even if he destroyed an enemy cruiser. His arm would be in the chopping block near immediately, the rest of his body thrown into jail if they don’t ‘misplace’ it in the vacuum of… Read more »
Or more likely it’s from behind and firing through the ship into the foreground. Think of the contrast in sizes between a single person and these ships. Regardless, the vector doesn’t connect with any Federation ship, and they’re turning away from Cort as you said, so it’s definitely La’ni.
The fact that I don’t see a Starcaster starting up on either of the Federation cruisers is encouraging that Cort did the mature thing, followed orders, and didn’t blindly fire an all-powerful starkilling weapon into a mass melee of friendly and enemy ships.
Of course, there might not BE a “start-up” warning glow either, so…
Based on the vote im assuming this was Cort taking a shot, if they voted no it would feel odd showing this and not making it clear it wasn’t Cort.
Nice shot!
Maybe if he took the shot he somehow took out a (very rare) Federation asset in the Dranglaex fleet? Oof. That’ll end up on Cort’s permanent record.
It’s not Cort. Cort was on the hull of a Dreadstorm. This is from an individual floating in space. It’s the Lance Major as they can fly and Cort can’t.
I’d argue that we wont see what Cort did until the comic cliffhanger tomorrow (page 24). His vantage from the tail lights may have consequences, and this page sets up those stakes.
We’ll see how the vote landed tomorrow.
I guess this comic was drawn so Tim could make us guess while not having to immediately complete the voted-upon comic version.
Nicely done
Cort’s on a ship; the shot isn’t coming from a ship.
Based on the angle of the shot it was La’ni. Cort had a cruiser in his sight fleeing from him. This beam is clearly from the front, as the width of the beam also changes shape.
Though not as clear as everything moved, my best guess is that the Dreadstorm facing the ‘camera’, lowest on the picture, is Corts ship. That matches what is most likely the side of the ship Cort is standing on, looking towards the fleeing cruisers. He hasn’t fired (himself from the Federation) yet.
I think he is on the one in the middle top. And I totally agree that was La’ni’s golden beam taking out a cruiser.
You’re forgetting scale. If it was from the front, La’ni would have to be close enough to the “camera” to look as large as a significant fraction of a cruiser, and that doesn’t line up with the perspective projections of the art. Tim knows how vanishing points work.
Pfft, but it seems at least two people don’t know how vanishing points work. Debris is even detailed traveling with the beam in the direction of the camera. Not to mention the ships are newly fleeing the engagement area; La’ni wouldn’t already be ahead of them, even if she’s a quick little flier. La’ni’s firing the thing from behind, beyond any doubt.
Looks like Cort’s going to vaporize our “purple shirt” pilot character. Dang it.
That’s the girl whose friend was killed, isn’t it? I don’t think tim would kill her off, seems pointless.
Votes have stakes. While it wouldn’t be planned for an early exit, it certainly could be in the list of options.
Still, it’d further character development if it was the new wing could take the hit and compound the psychological trauma.
From the Federation standpoint, the Drang fleet just hit a ship that is known to have a caster, that caster is non-responsive/not participating in the battle so they could safely assume it has been taken or disabled. We have the Drang fleet in a hurry to leave so that supports that they are carrying precious cargo. Frankly, it would be worth it to get ships directly in front of them to prevent a safe jump. Even if you lose those ships, you MUST prevent anyone from getting out at almost all costs (wouldn’t be worth burning the Lance Major, but… Read more »
It would be a good trade if possible, but I doubt that’s actually a (realistic) option. It looks like they’re already doing their best to surround. If they could’ve had ships blocking every possible escape route they’d presumably have done so already.
La’ni’s supposed to be an expert with the Starcaster, but if she’s getting that much overpenetration with her casts, she’s probably stressing her body more than she needs to and limiting her shot count.
I wouldn’t go to that conclusion. We of course do not know how it works for the wielders of a Starcaster, but I imagine it as a single rotating button for power output. It ranges from 0, where it’ll barely go through paper, to a respectable percentage of the energy of a star. Those things that can output trillions of times the energy those mag cannons can produce per second. Now I give you the dial and ask you to fire the laser at a ship with a shield that has sustained an undetermined amount of damage. Do not overpenetrate.… Read more »
what you’re talking about is completely subjective until they say otherwise in the comic, so there’s no conclusive argument against your reasoning. But I’ll cite that if you spent most days of the week training with an axe, you’d learn how to refine your control to split a stick halfway without cutting the log behind it in half.
True, but that still relies on you knowing exactly how much force you need to split those sticks. (And then applying that amount). It doesn’t let you immediately do a perfect split on a mystery piece of wood of unknown thickness and hardness. You could probably still learn to do it with enough practice, if you take some time to experiment and see exactly how much force is too much or too little. But the main goal here isn’t to keep the log undamaged, it is to split all the wood as fast as possible. A bit of excess force… Read more »
Why doesn’t she sweep them like the prince did the the Fed ships? Yes he ended up in a healing tank for awhile but if they clip the ship that has the caster on it it’s worth it.
She’s flying in space without a suit and might not survive. Too many friendlies close.
So do we ever find out the actual result? Usually it’s obvious or stated.