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Senior

Why keep it a secret indeed... Certainly starting to sound like they fear a body snatcher sort of scenario and worry if someone among the ships is compromised or a sleeping agent.

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Senior

[takes a magnifying glass at panel 2]

... is that the first Sashli we're shown?

I'm getting mixed signals about the "back room" there ... the groove in the ground and the angle between the "vertical" structures suggest that the non-rotating part of the Dawn begins at the groove, but if that were the case, everyone on its far side should be floating in zero-g, shouldn't they ... ?

(Not to mention that you don't want a zero-g area to be so spacious, lest someone who's drifted away from the handles needs a couple hours to "swim" back to where he can get a grip on/for himself ...)

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Wilson

Since the people in the background are all walking in the surface, my guess is that area is still rotating. It would also seem pretty hazardous for the seam between the rotating section and the zero-g section to be along the middle of the floor. So I think they are in a relatively low-g area, and the zero-g space accessible to pedestrians might only be the relatively narrow tubes we've seen them floating down in earlier pages. I hope that transition is a more obvious threshold than an unmarked seam in the floor!

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Darth_Biomech

The "tubes" are just corridors in the non-rotating part of the ship. And the transition between the sections is definitely not something so reckless - it looks more like a train, or a horizontal elevator.

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It would also seem pretty hazardous for the seam between the rotating section and the zero-g section to be along the middle of the floor.

I see four potential hazards from that:

* Lack of nearby handrails to grab in zero-g, as mentioned above

* Body parts getting stuck in the groove - fixable (memento Terran escalators)

* Speed difference between the two sides might be too high (aka the osoto guruma sleeve bearing )

* Someone please keep the insctoid in panel four from getting rotated into the wall!

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Regular

Nope. The first Sashli was on page 7. But this might be the second. And the groove (if you mean the line on the ground on the left) goes right up to the wall of the building. If that was rotating, it would smack people pretty hard.

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Lord Eric

I think the groove is just a floor marking. For one, it goes through a building. For two, there are still radial buildings and walking people on the far side. For three, that would require a massive moving seal which is exposed to the entire volume of the barrel if it fails.

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glenn

What if it's Earth? Sending out lots of signals. and actually looking for other life out there? Did somebody think that was suspicious, or was it just a good reason to send a whole fleet to find out?

-(If they didn't like what they found they could always destroy it before it became a problem...)

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Senior

Quantum stated that he found signs of "ghosts" activity within our Internet, recognizable by not matching our own fingerprint and apparently purposefully hidden from detection by us. If those ghosts are indeed Terra-based, they'd have to be a group of quite seclusive supervillains IMHO.

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glenn

Well then, Earth could be the battle-ground and prize for one side or the other. Are they snooping to interfere and steer people towards their side, or have the Alliance similar ambitions?

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tully

Quadruple arm "Dunno".

My new favorite Raharr gesture !

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Senior

Next up: Raharrian Synchronous Tetrathlon:

* scratching top of head

* "hmmmm" pose at chin

* "how could they do that to me" fist on hip

* fist bump your (re)new(ed) partner in countercrime

all simultaneously!






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So far there hasn't been a single instance of a massive interstellar war. Due to the vastness of space, there's no territorial or economic gain from it. The presence of armed spaceships is still warranted for keeping space travel safe and for peacekeeping or policing missions since unexpected events or rogue states can still happen and might require force as a solution.