I have to give it to you Chris, none of this Strib storyline I could guess.
Coyoty
When they run out of races to backstab, they backstab each other.
Jude
I don’t know about back-stabbing. That gun is pointed right at his chest …unless there’s another old codger behind about to stab him in the back. I wouldn’t doubt Christopher will include that at some point.
Rikard
The gun warps a blade via a miniature worm-hole, to the back of the one it’s pointed at, and then retracts the blade through real-space at % of C?
JoseB
Asshole-to-asshole combat, and the old ones have more experience at being assholes than the young ones.
mojrim
Bingo!
VINCENT GOUDREAULT
Weren’t the old Stribs younger Stribs at some point, and just as careless and nonchalan?
Or is this kind of like the disrespectful “ok boomer” attitude we witness these days on our planet?
Scorpinac
Do I detect that the younger adult Stribs(the ones who were behind this whole plot) are about to suffer the “Fate Worse Than Death” trope?
Flyswatter
“Probable Death Ships” – I love it. Now that the seniors have taken over the ship, I have no idea what direction things will go. They’re still Stribs; just older. Are they even more ruthless?
GasketMan
“Age and treachery will always overcome youth and enthusiasm.”
mojrim
So, the stribs are americans.
Muzhik
And my favorite:
Don’t p*ss off old people. The older we get, the less “life in prison” is a deterrent.
Or, how about:
Careful Boy, I’m This Old For A Reason
DanG
Apple, meet tree.
Pete Rogan
A little reminder that ‘seniority with a gun’ is more persuasive than ‘seniority.’
That said, I kind of wonder what their next move is going to be. Conciliatory? Combative? Cooperative? If so, with who?
rws
This Strib ship was behind a shield. How did the seniors get on board? Thought they’d be stranded on a decrepit old freighter outside of the shield.
I have to give it to you Chris, none of this Strib storyline I could guess.
When they run out of races to backstab, they backstab each other.
I don’t know about back-stabbing. That gun is pointed right at his chest …unless there’s another old codger behind about to stab him in the back. I wouldn’t doubt Christopher will include that at some point.
The gun warps a blade via a miniature worm-hole, to the back of the one it’s pointed at, and then retracts the blade through real-space at % of C?
Asshole-to-asshole combat, and the old ones have more experience at being assholes than the young ones.
Bingo!
Weren’t the old Stribs younger Stribs at some point, and just as careless and nonchalan?
Or is this kind of like the disrespectful “ok boomer” attitude we witness these days on our planet?
Do I detect that the younger adult Stribs(the ones who were behind this whole plot) are about to suffer the “Fate Worse Than Death” trope?
“Probable Death Ships” – I love it. Now that the seniors have taken over the ship, I have no idea what direction things will go. They’re still Stribs; just older. Are they even more ruthless?
“Age and treachery will always overcome youth and enthusiasm.”
So, the stribs are americans.
And my favorite:
Don’t p*ss off old people. The older we get, the less “life in prison” is a deterrent.
Or, how about:
Careful Boy, I’m This Old For A Reason
Apple, meet tree.
A little reminder that ‘seniority with a gun’ is more persuasive than ‘seniority.’
That said, I kind of wonder what their next move is going to be. Conciliatory? Combative? Cooperative? If so, with who?
This Strib ship was behind a shield. How did the seniors get on board? Thought they’d be stranded on a decrepit old freighter outside of the shield.
@rws, I had to go back and double-check, but the shields were disabled by the purple-alien-in-the-sky:
https://www.baldwinpage.com/spacetrawler/2022/03/23/032322-otherworldly-meddling/
Except for the shields around planet Gentlekindness:
https://www.baldwinpage.com/spacetrawler/2022/04/08/040822-engaging-shields/
And also, in today’s strip, the leader of the Stribs says to the older stribs that “we are letting you on our ships.”
Right. Should have reread it. They are fast, should take hours. Ah well, rule of funny rules all.
“Probable death” ships? Super deadly?
Ok, YOU fly it, young whippersnapper.