Spacetrawler, audio version For the blind or visually impaired, June 16, 2021.
You know what they say, out of the frying pan, and into a very safe distant location.
Spacetrawler, audio version For the blind or visually impaired, June 16, 2021.
You know what they say, out of the frying pan, and into a very safe distant location.
(or it was just a teleporter torpedo)
(although a big flash and the ship vanishing probably wouldn’t be a good look)
I was convinced the conversation in the 3rd panel was said in loud panicky voces with their comm links open to throw off the Stribs before they did some mind-blowing manoeuvring . But nope, they just went straight to some manoeuvre that no one knows about.
I wonder if that wasn’t a method they’ve come to use to help trigger Diller.
I like that Diller is the only calm one in panel three. After a lifetime of lucky escapes, what’s one more? Whatever kills her, if anything ever does, will surprise the heck out of her.
Yes, but how much panic can a face with only four dots and no mouth express? 😀
Oh you’d be amazed…
She just happened to lean on the right wrong buttons.
All in all, that was a pretty disappointing strafe :-p
Heh, you know. I can pretty much those exact words as part of an after action report. Not sure if it’d WWI (phase 1) WWI (phase 2) The Korea Police Action…or some other similar conflict.
I listened to the audio for this strip, and heard this for the fourth panel:
I thought Khaba was the ranking member of the team with three stripes on her sleeve as seen here, but she only has one in the strip above. Since Diller is mute and Khaba responded, the captain must be Zakzar.
Well I flubbed that link. It was supposed to go to Ride From Miyke.
The three stripes are leather straps holding her gun to her arm. 🙂
For extra credit, define a “light league.”
Good luck.
All the photons got together to choose up sides for a baseball game.
a “light league” is the distance traveled in the unit of time known as a “parsec” 😉
anyway yeah, shouldn’t it have been something like “light minutes” or “light days” away?
well clear of the battlezone but not like across the galaxy or anything
Has Diller been wearing a symbiont this whole time?
Yes. Basically since just before Tesfay met up with them.
Since they talked about it openly, at least.
So now we’re with Zakzar and crew, plus Tesfay, an unknown but presumably lengthy (timewise) distance from where Spacetrawler was left, immobilized.
Without knowing the type or even size of the disaster the Stribs were preparing for the GOB, it’s not possible to prepare for whatever is left at the original location. Secondary trap? Scavengers? The single maddened survivor and his/her ship? I doubt the last, really; the Stribs need time to make their getaway and obscure their trail, and that will take time, distance and no sensors looking their way.
But until they get back to the location they were Dillered from, our attention is going to be elsewhere. Hm. Back to pondering.
And what the heck is a ‘grasper’?
Useful when grasping at straws!