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The same blue-static seems to be in the support columns as on the Azinarsi (the exile) from the previous page.

But just a bit dimmer?

Also, my first thought after seeing these pages, and now this, is that the Ghosts make robots/synths for each species they examine/probe. At first I thought they were bio-re-engineering themselves for each species.

I wonder why they would use the same "Roswell Greys" esthetic for each species? Did they want to have the dots connected like the Rharr have done now?

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I am thinking, due to the Azinarsi´s reaction on the previous page that there is a connection to Azinarsi tech or culture...Maybe some "break-away" AI/group of Azinarsi in historical times who is running its own thing in space more or less undetected until now.

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Yeah, their very probably something with the Azinarsi. In the top-right of the last panel, we see a "blue noise" that is realy typic on them.

Now that I look back, all the colors chart, patterns and formes are exatly like the Azinarsi.

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I only hope that this is not a nanotech transformation chamber. It could be like the husks from mass effect but with the same speed and deadliness of the Flood parasite from halo, or it could be like "The Beast" from the game "Homeworld: Cataclysm". These thoughts are already creeping me out. And if my assumptions are correct, then I pity those Raharrs if they touch the bodies and start getting infected.

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... wait. They're still in hard vacuum, aren't they? I trust that we would've heard them discuss the chemical composition of the atmosphere if they suddenly had found themselves in one.

Did that "airlock" they entered even have an inner door ... ? What would it tell us about the builders of this base if they constantly dwelled in a vacuum?

Other than that:

-- Curved corridor suggests some sort of "center" off the right.

-- I guess that those black "eyes" are sheer make-believe, and that the actual sensors are behind the grilles(?) peeking out from under their inner corner.

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I am waiting for a 8 foot tall Raharr running around screaming with a 4 foot beserker doll clinging to the helmet...Comedy gold.

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Perhaps this base finished its mission at some point and was abandoned?

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The FUCK?!

... That sooo smart of the Ghosts part. Create a all fictional species and only interact with drone to reduce any accidental information leak. Furthermore, achieving this level of concealment implie that keeping the secret is of paramount importance to them.

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Hmmm. In the Delta Green setting for Call of Cthulhu the Greys are an artificial species created to be intermediaries for a mythos race called the Mi-Go. Hopefully this isn't what is going on here or the explorers and any observers are going to be making SAN checks soon.

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The good news is, if this place were under tight surveillance, that dropped body would've been noticed and hung back up pretty much immediately.

The bad news is that there are two more empty (not-)meathooks in seemingly-random positions, which suggests that someone's using their bodies as we speak, rather than the base having been mothballed centuries ago like previously thought.

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Their operation in the system was definitely not stopped centuries ago if they infiltrated human computer networks, as it was implied earlier. However the missing bodies are not a certain sign of present activity. They could be, but they also could have been used / removed years ago and just not returned or replaced.

What happened with the "nobody touch nothing" part thought? :)

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What happened with the "nobody touch nothing" part thought? :)

I don't know what you mean, that last panel could have "not touching yoooouuuuuu" for a title ...






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