And the least experienced Starcaster bearer. Let’s be real, the Federation isn’t letting that Starcaster go, whether or not it remains attached to Cort’s body.
I don’t know how much time is a “vall” (I’m guessing it’s roughly equivalent to hours), but considering the current chaos I don’t think it’s the best move to just kick out the civilians with a broken ship.
The military side has much more important things to think off right now, so they should at least let the dust settle down before they bother themselves with such an inconsequential thing.
This. They kick them out, the ship ends up in distress, then they need to rescue them anyway? I could understand if they were at some kind of station where they could offload them safely, but just floating out in space seems really dumb.
Considering that the Dranglaex will rendezvous with their fleet in two valls, I think that a Vall could be as little as a few hours, and as long as a few days. In context, I’m going to assume it’s as close to a day as possible, or the standard sleeping/waking cycle of the races that descended from the Aug. If I’m not mistaken, the only units of time we’ve heard so far are “Vall” and “Centivale,” with Centivale being something that happened quite some time ago, but within someone’s lifetime. It would be neato if Tim would drop some sort… Read more »
Centivale is absolutely not three months, though. In the context of the conversation that Avisar Calway has on 10.08, when seeing Lance Major La’ni for the first time. She says she’s never seen a Tookoru before or heard of the planet Tookoron, and her friend says, “Because the Dranglaex wiped it out. Over two centivales ago. Her and a small band of refugees were all that’s left. Took them two Chryons at Super-L to reach us, but she got them here alive, barely.” So Tookoron was destroyed over two Centivales ago, but it’s recent enough for La’ni to still be… Read more »
The prefix Centi denotes 1/100th, not 100. Hecto is the prefix you’re thinking of. So a Centivale would be closer to 15 minutes, assuming that Vall and Vale are synonyms and that both refer to a single day.
In the decimal system, centi- actually makes units smaller. It goes dezi- 1/10, centi- 1/100 and milli- 1/1000. To increase it’s deka- *10, hecto- *100 and kilo- *1000.
In my head, I equate centivale with century. But tbh, the made up units (and ranks) make things somewhat confusing. Some kind of lookup table to equate sci-fi units to real world would be helpful every now and then.
Irony is the other side has whole Ships as support teams: bacta tank, crack med crew, Actual ‘lean on me’ support people, etc. Federation wins when they realize this and get the same or better.
JozMk.II
30 days ago
Huh. Wonder if this is about to go Empire Strikes Back, with the main characters splitting up?
Stephen
30 days ago
Civilians who kept that starcaster out of enemy hands, one of whom was under sustained torture to attempt to force her to reveal it’s location to the enemy
Gonfrask
30 days ago
Break the Anphellion…several times
xrogaan
30 days ago
You know what could be a good answer? “Quel, you’re not hearing me. I am not leaving their side until those promises are fulfilled. Either you boot the three of us out, or they stay.“
Ok, then you can go minus that arm of yours of course.
Grant it I’m not sure if that would mean that Cort has to die or not. As I’m pretty sure that Starcasters will not allow themselves to be removed from a living host. Also not sure if the host can live with out the Starcaster.
Mind you, the Federation would absolutely kill him. Cort’s choices are military service or an extremely expedited trial for previous crimes committed with an even more expedited carrying out of (death) sentence. The Federation needs that Starcaster. Cort is optional.
About healing: Nyrah told Cort that Starcaster’s accelerated healing would prevent arm removal, but he was considering doing that with a knife. There probably exist better (faster) tools that could do it.
Using RL examples, compare the time and difficulty of cutting something through using a knife, vs a chainsaw.
That’s exactly it. Cort is only of use to the Federation if he isn’t a liability. He hasn’t been disarmed (bu-dum tsss) specifically because he’s had experience, has people vouching for him, and time is of the essence. The second he starts throwing around demands and threats is the second that they show him the brochure for government-issued prosthetics.
Let me rephrase what you said in another way: “We tried to fuck Cort over, and if figured it out. So we killed him, and his crew. Then we took his arm. We, as the Federation, follow a long tradition of being the baddies.” If that were to happen, Cort would have been right all along. Federation’s rotten. Why try to save it if people has tendencies to jump out of windows? What we see here though is more of a bureaucratic hurdle, protocol. Something they follow without really thinking. Cort is more of a mercenary than a loyal soldier,… Read more »
Luc
30 days ago
Hmm Quel seemed much more reasonable before this. I’m hoping he’s just over stressed from the war that’s now right outside their window, because I never would have wanted Cort to sign up with the Federation if this is the actual Quel personality. Sending a civilian ship out when there’s so much war debris and whatnot out there, maybe with Dranglaex preparing a counter attack? Something’s not adding up, but maybe I’m just missing something.
Politics. Quel wants to help Cort as much as Quel needs to be mindful that he is one of the highest ranking members of his unit, and pretty much has a direct line to the Federation Council if I’m not mistaken. If I’m not mistaken it’s the equivalent of being friends with the top general of the USMC.
Yeah after checking the comic again, I think stress is definitely a part of it. Quel does try reassuring him at the very end that the Federation will fix up his ship and Nyrah, but obviously they have other important things to worry about right now. I wonder if they could offer up a base camp somewhere for them to hide out for a while, but I don’t think I see it going that way.
“Join one of the other ships for a safe passage home” would work from a military PoV.
ForthKnight
30 days ago
The primary source of Quel and Cort’s disagreements are over his disillusionment and distaste for Federation bureaucracy.
Knowing that, going down the “you know how this works” line is a mistake on soooo many levels
Taylan Ertan
30 days ago
Civilians that know more about Starcasters than either side…
Kevin Greenbaum
29 days ago
This is the first day the ads were exceptionally annoying, I had 3 before it’d let me see the comic.
Kasey
29 days ago
Step 1. Cort gets a rank.
Step 2. Cort deputizes Nyrah and Speck.
Step 3. ????
Step 4. Drang defeated!
Crestlinger
29 days ago
Plot twist! Cort convinces La’ni to desert! ‘This is what they want to do to me and I only just signed on and don’t Know anything confidential, hate to be caught in your place if the political will of the day want Yours off.’
Dragon Turtle
28 days ago
Quel’s side of things could seem reasonable if this vessel was really low on space with troops transferred from destroyed vessel, or refugees, or something… but that just doesn’t seem to be the case? Their seems to be space.
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This is not a good idea to upset one of the only two starcaster bearer with burocracy…
And the least experienced Starcaster bearer. Let’s be real, the Federation isn’t letting that Starcaster go, whether or not it remains attached to Cort’s body.
Emphasis on BODY, because that’s the only way they’re getting that Starcaster without Cort attached.
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I don’t know how much time is a “vall” (I’m guessing it’s roughly equivalent to hours), but considering the current chaos I don’t think it’s the best move to just kick out the civilians with a broken ship.
The military side has much more important things to think off right now, so they should at least let the dust settle down before they bother themselves with such an inconsequential thing.
This. They kick them out, the ship ends up in distress, then they need to rescue them anyway? I could understand if they were at some kind of station where they could offload them safely, but just floating out in space seems really dumb.
They kick them out, they end up in distress, and the Federation fucks off at FTL because they have more important things to worry about.
I think Vall is a day, if I’m not mistaken.
Considering that the Dranglaex will rendezvous with their fleet in two valls, I think that a Vall could be as little as a few hours, and as long as a few days. In context, I’m going to assume it’s as close to a day as possible, or the standard sleeping/waking cycle of the races that descended from the Aug. If I’m not mistaken, the only units of time we’ve heard so far are “Vall” and “Centivale,” with Centivale being something that happened quite some time ago, but within someone’s lifetime. It would be neato if Tim would drop some sort… Read more »
If we assume “Vall” to mean “Day,” then “Centivale” is likely 100 Valls, or a little over 3 months.
Centivale is absolutely not three months, though. In the context of the conversation that Avisar Calway has on 10.08, when seeing Lance Major La’ni for the first time. She says she’s never seen a Tookoru before or heard of the planet Tookoron, and her friend says, “Because the Dranglaex wiped it out. Over two centivales ago. Her and a small band of refugees were all that’s left. Took them two Chryons at Super-L to reach us, but she got them here alive, barely.” So Tookoron was destroyed over two Centivales ago, but it’s recent enough for La’ni to still be… Read more »
Vale and Vall could be different units.
The prefix Centi denotes 1/100th, not 100. Hecto is the prefix you’re thinking of. So a Centivale would be closer to 15 minutes, assuming that Vall and Vale are synonyms and that both refer to a single day.
In the decimal system, centi- actually makes units smaller. It goes dezi- 1/10, centi- 1/100 and milli- 1/1000. To increase it’s deka- *10, hecto- *100 and kilo- *1000.
In my head, I equate centivale with century. But tbh, the made up units (and ranks) make things somewhat confusing. Some kind of lookup table to equate sci-fi units to real world would be helpful every now and then.
If you have things that bother you, you don’t want things that might bother you. “Let them go on a safe location” is their logic.
But there will be some plot device being triggered that allows them to stay, right?
Edit by reply: E.g. Cort mentions her being a good trainer.
The very best, like no one ever was.
Pika?
Well, so far Nyrah IS a best trainer Cort had. And the only one, but shhh. 😉
You know who needs a support team? Starcasters.
Irony is the other side has whole Ships as support teams: bacta tank, crack med crew, Actual ‘lean on me’ support people, etc. Federation wins when they realize this and get the same or better.
Huh. Wonder if this is about to go Empire Strikes Back, with the main characters splitting up?
Civilians who kept that starcaster out of enemy hands, one of whom was under sustained torture to attempt to force her to reveal it’s location to the enemy
Break the Anphellion…several times
You know what could be a good answer? “Quel, you’re not hearing me. I am not leaving their side until those promises are fulfilled. Either you boot the three of us out, or they stay.“
Ok, then you can go minus that arm of yours of course.
Grant it I’m not sure if that would mean that Cort has to die or not. As I’m pretty sure that Starcasters will not allow themselves to be removed from a living host. Also not sure if the host can live with out the Starcaster.
Cort would have to die, since Starcaster healing.
Mind you, the Federation would absolutely kill him. Cort’s choices are military service or an extremely expedited trial for previous crimes committed with an even more expedited carrying out of (death) sentence. The Federation needs that Starcaster. Cort is optional.
About healing: Nyrah told Cort that Starcaster’s accelerated healing would prevent arm removal, but he was considering doing that with a knife. There probably exist better (faster) tools that could do it.
Using RL examples, compare the time and difficulty of cutting something through using a knife, vs a chainsaw.
and i dare them to try and force the issue. because the instant cort figures out how to control that thing they lose a great deal of their leverage.
That’s exactly it. Cort is only of use to the Federation if he isn’t a liability. He hasn’t been disarmed (bu-dum tsss) specifically because he’s had experience, has people vouching for him, and time is of the essence. The second he starts throwing around demands and threats is the second that they show him the brochure for government-issued prosthetics.
Let me rephrase what you said in another way: “We tried to fuck Cort over, and if figured it out. So we killed him, and his crew. Then we took his arm. We, as the Federation, follow a long tradition of being the baddies.” If that were to happen, Cort would have been right all along. Federation’s rotten. Why try to save it if people has tendencies to jump out of windows? What we see here though is more of a bureaucratic hurdle, protocol. Something they follow without really thinking. Cort is more of a mercenary than a loyal soldier,… Read more »
Hmm Quel seemed much more reasonable before this. I’m hoping he’s just over stressed from the war that’s now right outside their window, because I never would have wanted Cort to sign up with the Federation if this is the actual Quel personality. Sending a civilian ship out when there’s so much war debris and whatnot out there, maybe with Dranglaex preparing a counter attack? Something’s not adding up, but maybe I’m just missing something.
Politics. Quel wants to help Cort as much as Quel needs to be mindful that he is one of the highest ranking members of his unit, and pretty much has a direct line to the Federation Council if I’m not mistaken. If I’m not mistaken it’s the equivalent of being friends with the top general of the USMC.
Yeah after checking the comic again, I think stress is definitely a part of it. Quel does try reassuring him at the very end that the Federation will fix up his ship and Nyrah, but obviously they have other important things to worry about right now. I wonder if they could offer up a base camp somewhere for them to hide out for a while, but I don’t think I see it going that way.
“Join one of the other ships for a safe passage home” would work from a military PoV.
The primary source of Quel and Cort’s disagreements are over his disillusionment and distaste for Federation bureaucracy.
Knowing that, going down the “you know how this works” line is a mistake on soooo many levels
Civilians that know more about Starcasters than either side…
This is the first day the ads were exceptionally annoying, I had 3 before it’d let me see the comic.
Step 1. Cort gets a rank.
Step 2. Cort deputizes Nyrah and Speck.
Step 3. ????
Step 4. Drang defeated!
Plot twist! Cort convinces La’ni to desert! ‘This is what they want to do to me and I only just signed on and don’t Know anything confidential, hate to be caught in your place if the political will of the day want Yours off.’
Quel’s side of things could seem reasonable if this vessel was really low on space with troops transferred from destroyed vessel, or refugees, or something… but that just doesn’t seem to be the case? Their seems to be space.