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Thread: Freefall 3: Death Ray Byproducts
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Unfortunately this seems to be a "upright ship at the bottom of the lake" situation."If it lives it can be killed.
If it is dead it can be eaten."
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Re: Freefall 3: Death Ray Byproducts
"And done really wrong, it's still at the bottom of the lake, but it's not upright, either."
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2021-05-18, 11:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-05-28, 03:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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Oh, hey, they're going to a factory full of under-occupied robots, with a human on board, to ask for a special project. They're going to get the most over-built reactor a ship has ever had.. probably get the ship's other reactor overhauled for free too just to give the robots something to do.
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2021-05-28, 10:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Counterpoint: explosives are dangerous. Edge can ignore human orders he doesn't like due to his primary job being dangerous enough. I give even odds that the robots are initially reluctant to entrust a human with any reactor that they could build.
On the other hand, I expect them to eventually pull the dead reactor out of the dead ship to melt it down for materials.
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2021-06-02, 11:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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New comic: These are definitely Jean robots. Rover17 now counts as a person!
I'm pretty much the opposite of concise. If I fail to get to the point, please ask me and I'm happy to (attempt to) clarify.
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2021-06-02, 12:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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I just noticed Rover17 iz in fact wearing a verra nize hat.
And Yes. The attempt a Jägerspeak was necessary."If it lives it can be killed.
If it is dead it can be eaten."
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2021-06-02, 02:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Someone on the Freefall forums just pointed out that Rover17 has been declared a person ... but the comms machine it's talking to hasn't claimed any such status. So maybe they're not all Bowman's design?
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2021-06-02, 02:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-06-04, 02:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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Existential crisises are best crisises.
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2021-06-04, 06:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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I love the little tail-antenna wag.
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2021-06-15, 08:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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Florence, sometimes (often, even) it's okay to just accept people's gratitude.
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2021-06-15, 08:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Freefall 3: Death Ray Byproducts
Cross-over with Star Trek narrowly avoided.
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2021-06-21, 02:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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How far in the future is this supposed to be again?
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Freefall is set an arbitrary amount of time into the distant future, but Mark Stanley has never been afraid to have his characters reference current events. He doesn't really seem to care how weird it is that characters only ever reference twentieth and early twenty-first century culture - but then again, no one ever really questioned why the characters in Star Trek almost never reference events and media from the past four hundred years of their timeline, but quite often talk about events that happened half a millenium previously.
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2021-06-21, 07:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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I agree with the base concept but not the example. Characters in fictional series certainly do usually make a lot of references to things the audience would understand. My take is always that we the audience are only dialing in to see the times when they make references which would mean anything to us, and the other six days a week we don't check in on the characters is when they are making references to 23rd century sports stars and 22nd century movies and novels written in 2089 and such. However, Star Trek (with significant variation, depending on the series) had been fairly good about referencing non-current culture just offscreen or just before/after the camera cut. Sure Picard is fascinated with Shakespeare, but he also digs for pottery on such and such ancient planet. Data looks for the fairly-universally understood to be the 'most funny' standup comedian and learns it is a guy with a routine about warp physics, which he decides is too esoteric, so he picks one at random and gets Joe Piscapo. It's infrequent, but just enough to indicate there is a greater world of history and culture that happened between now and then, but we as the audience don't get to/have to sit through it.
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2021-06-21, 08:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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I'm just not sure a series called Star Trek would have much appeal when space travel is as common as it is in this comic.
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2021-06-21, 08:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Freefall 3: Death Ray Byproducts
"If it lives it can be killed.
If it is dead it can be eaten."
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2021-07-06, 10:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Freefall 3: Death Ray Byproducts
Sure, it's nice to have a spare, but why does the crew want another reactor, again?
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2021-07-07, 12:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Freefall 3: Death Ray Byproducts
With only one reactor, they're limited to being an orbital shuttle. The second reactor was never actually theirs, they basically borrowed it to be able to deliver it.
So until they get another reactor, they don't have the ability to get the ship back to Jean.FeytouchedBanana eldritch disciple avatar by...me!
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