This doesn’t bode well. Cort is unpredictable. Cutting off the one person he has a unbalanced trust with can be dire.
Dagroth
30 days ago
Uh-oh.
Cort will find out, belatedly, that Nyrah and Speck were kicked out in presumably a damaged ship. Or finds out now, if Quel tells him, hoping to keep him calm enough by being transparent. (if Quel can find him at all, if it’s all so classified now, maybe even his location inside the ship is on the need to know basis, and they forgot, or “forgot”, to add Quel to the list)
Either way, I don’t think Cort will be calm about it…
Stef
30 days ago
The previous page button goes to an unrelated page, rather than the previous page
Depending on Federation structure, that commander could be in a disconnected command structure being vicen staff, and so outside of the rank structure.
Different department. He’s a Marshal, not a part of the Federation Navy. I’m not exactly sure how this translates in real life terms, but I feel like it’s the equivalent of Military Police vs the Military itself.
Drakontis
30 days ago
5 bucks says Cort’s location is about to be compromised.
Remember a page or two ago that the Starcasters are being moved to CovertOps. Quell likely doesn’t have official clearance to know about that which is why the request is being denied
Mildar
30 days ago
Hey Tim. This comic is in CTRL-ALT-DEL instead of Starcaster Chronicles
I think Quel is finding himself spirit between loyalty to Cort who it has some debt to having made promises and the federation which “seems” to be about to sell Cort out. Its worth keeping in mind that one option for the federation here is to just cut Corts arm off and or kill him if needed to put that star caster on someone they feel they can trust and this is a desperate times/desperate measures kind of situation which makes that kind of thing plausible. I don’t think the federation is actually planning to do that but from Quel’s position… Read more »
It’s also a matter of Cort’s trust.
Quel is probably the only member of the Federation, that Cort has some amount of trust for.
If he feels that trust is betrayed, things might go downhill*, fast.
*They are in space and there’s no downhill, so, I don’t know, down the nearest black hole? 😉
Verdiekus
30 days ago
Uh oh, time to run Cort!
Lonewolfcavalry
30 days ago
Looks like quel is realizing cort had good reason for wanting to avoid joining
bkplaczek
30 days ago
It is easy to read past it but in the opening panel the part “I’ve been on hold” has a particular weight to me. I just feel there were at least four others Quel was transferred around between before talking to this commander.
Illaria
30 days ago
I think its been denied because they are covert now and technically dont need to make requests….like Spectres from Mass Effect.
Kenju
30 days ago
I love how waaaaaay back when the decision for Cort to join or not came up in 2022 and I said exactly this kind of stuff would happen, how people said I was wrong, only to be 100% right so far lmao ^^
Cort would have been better off if they had just kept running me thinks.
Ben
30 days ago
I’d like the next vote to change things up: Let us pick whether Quel helps/lets Cort escape, or tries to keep hold of him.
Peter Cleaveland
30 days ago
Clearly what happens next will show the darker side of the federation, although granted this really is a “desperate-times” situation. My question is how dark? The other starcaster girl – will she side with Cort? What Batman-style contingency plan does the federation have to keep her in line? Family to threaten? Explosive in her head? That would be a nasty twist, and drive Quell out too.
Ashi
30 days ago
Would not be surprised if Quel’oran went behind their back to give Cort what he wants.
foducool
30 days ago
lol nice, now Cort straight up stopped existing
MercuryGreen
30 days ago
…I wonder if the Cult/Sympathizers has more agents then Our Heroes know…
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Is this don’t sign anything face?
This doesn’t bode well. Cort is unpredictable. Cutting off the one person he has a unbalanced trust with can be dire.
Uh-oh.
Cort will find out, belatedly, that Nyrah and Speck were kicked out in presumably a damaged ship. Or finds out now, if Quel tells him, hoping to keep him calm enough by being transparent. (if Quel can find him at all, if it’s all so classified now, maybe even his location inside the ship is on the need to know basis, and they forgot, or “forgot”, to add Quel to the list)
Either way, I don’t think Cort will be calm about it…
The previous page button goes to an unrelated page, rather than the previous page
Looks like the page is in the folder “Ctrl Alt Del” instead of “Starcaster Chronicles”
Yup, wrong category. I fixed it.
Now I really crave an office/fed-burocracy comedy spin-off of this comic. This just reads like my day with a particularly ornery project X’D
Well, sounds like someone just got drafted.
Quel starting to see where the shit is…well, he is a commander, can’t he just…give the order?
Depending on Federation structure, that commander could be in a disconnected command structure being vicen staff, and so outside of the rank structure.
Different department. He’s a Marshal, not a part of the Federation Navy. I’m not exactly sure how this translates in real life terms, but I feel like it’s the equivalent of Military Police vs the Military itself.
5 bucks says Cort’s location is about to be compromised.
Either that, or they’re about to try to chop his arm off…
Remember a page or two ago that the Starcasters are being moved to CovertOps. Quell likely doesn’t have official clearance to know about that which is why the request is being denied
Hey Tim. This comic is in CTRL-ALT-DEL instead of Starcaster Chronicles
Fixed it.
I think Quel is finding himself spirit between loyalty to Cort who it has some debt to having made promises and the federation which “seems” to be about to sell Cort out. Its worth keeping in mind that one option for the federation here is to just cut Corts arm off and or kill him if needed to put that star caster on someone they feel they can trust and this is a desperate times/desperate measures kind of situation which makes that kind of thing plausible. I don’t think the federation is actually planning to do that but from Quel’s position… Read more »
It’s also a matter of Cort’s trust.
Quel is probably the only member of the Federation, that Cort has some amount of trust for.
If he feels that trust is betrayed, things might go downhill*, fast.
*They are in space and there’s no downhill, so, I don’t know, down the nearest black hole? 😉
Uh oh, time to run Cort!
Looks like quel is realizing cort had good reason for wanting to avoid joining
It is easy to read past it but in the opening panel the part “I’ve been on hold” has a particular weight to me. I just feel there were at least four others Quel was transferred around between before talking to this commander.
I think its been denied because they are covert now and technically dont need to make requests….like Spectres from Mass Effect.
I love how waaaaaay back when the decision for Cort to join or not came up in 2022 and I said exactly this kind of stuff would happen, how people said I was wrong, only to be 100% right so far lmao ^^
The Starcaster Chronicles 10.23 – Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic Ctrl+Alt+Del
Cort would have been better off if they had just kept running me thinks.
I’d like the next vote to change things up: Let us pick whether Quel helps/lets Cort escape, or tries to keep hold of him.
Clearly what happens next will show the darker side of the federation, although granted this really is a “desperate-times” situation. My question is how dark? The other starcaster girl – will she side with Cort? What Batman-style contingency plan does the federation have to keep her in line? Family to threaten? Explosive in her head? That would be a nasty twist, and drive Quell out too.
Would not be surprised if Quel’oran went behind their back to give Cort what he wants.
lol nice, now Cort straight up stopped existing
…I wonder if the Cult/Sympathizers has more agents then Our Heroes know…