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Doesn't matter how advanced your tech is, a tungsten shell traveling at 0.002c is still a tungsten shell traveling at 0.002c
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Reminds me of a Hellbore. Great art BTW!
... am I the only one to wonder, after the speedy maneuvers in panels 3+4 and him not having buckled up previously, out of which smashed piece of furniture we'll hear the voice of cpt. Kas ask "... so, did we land a hit?"? Maybe the tactical desk he said he wanted the enemy ship to be "wiped off" of, perchance?
HECK YEAH, blast the ghosts! Man I hope the habitation modules haven't been hurt too much on the Dawn!
I'm so invested in this webcomic, makes me look forward to Mondays!
I see a number of visible guns on that big warship that aren't firing. Must be point-defense guns that don't have the requisite range for this fight?
... stupid question, now that the Alliance mil-ships have emptied their big guns, are we quite certain that they failed to detect just one enemy ship under the regolith?
Oh..you mean they have now poked a nest of Ghost ships, drones, tanks and automatons made out of pure nightmare....
...And this kiddos is why never fire first without checking that those you attack can't wreck your arse with return fire. Especially when it involves space battles with those who can travel interstellar distances, because if they can, they likely can build rail guns etc and kill you with dumb metal. Or worse, like antimatter weapons, GRASER's or more exotic things.
Or say dive in, do a 180° turn and use their engine's exhausts to completely wreck your ship. Because any sufficiently powerful drive is a weapon in the right hands. And any ship with one can be turned into a missile as well, potentially.
Interesting that the Ghosts made a suicidal act of hostility, but didn't simply self-destruct, either before or after blasting Dawn. It buys them the worst of both worlds, effectively declaring war on the Alliance while still leaving analyzable wreckage.
Self destruct is still on option at this point.
As is "take all the fire, give a metaphorical raspberry, and leave seemingly unharmed" - though I think we're all hoping that one isn't on the table.
Well, they didn't blow up the tunnels that supposedly make up the rest of their Moon base, either, so avoiding to hand any intel to their eventual opponents was essentially off the table, anyway.
Of course, with that ship supposedly sitting idly on the Moon for centuries, they supposedly had lots of spare time to make sure that eventual wreckage would look evermore like what they want it to look like ... we're talking about spooks who routinely posed as greys, after all ...
Or worse : If the recon team is inside and still alive, they have now made their own kind kill them by destroying a "lifeless" ancient old-old tech drone ship. That´s full-scale mockery.
But I still want that laser/particle cannon from the drone-ship
For science.....and stuff....
Certainly you'll understand if we handcuff you right in front of its muzzle for the duration of your sciencegasm ...
I'm confused ... if the "tungsten shell"s travel at "only" 0.002 c, shouldn't they arrive at the Moon ~500 seconds after laser shots, still well after particle beams, etc.? Or is that blue beam hitting the Flying OnePunchMan first one of the latter ones? If those can cleanly punch through the ship, that's a bit of a glass chin ...
I count two blue and one orange hit on target - with, so far, unclear effect. (The ship banking might be an evasive maneuver.) And the Alliance's aim seems to be good enough for Kas and his cruiser to be safe.
... the sortie's surface team, driver possibly excepted, ought to be a complete loss now, though.
I think you should check page 277 again.
Also, the ship isn't banking; it's kinda falling apart, though a lot of these details got covered up by the explosions, so yeah, that isn't clear anymore. =(
... OK, with the exception of the driver and the shuttle crew, then. (I didn't quite consider the guys who can blast into orbit on a moment's notice a part of the "surface team" ... )
... waaaaaait. That's not just Kas' ship above the Moon but a sizeable part of the fleet's military convoying ships, isn't it? OK, considerably less delay between firing and impact, then. Also, less amazing that Kas was able to tell they were aiming at the Dawn, rather than just "at the fleet".
And thirdly, it sure explains why the Flying OnePunchMan was hit "from above" at a steep angle, in spite of being barely above the Moon horizon as seen from Earth.
Where that first blue shot hit, the Ghost ship has no blemish on the next panel. That made me think they have some very fast self-repair.
"the sortie's surface team, driver possibly excepted, ought to be a complete loss now, though."
Yeah, I pointed it out a few pages back that they might well be alive... but *on a hostile alien ship*, which seemed very unlikely to turn out well for them in almost any scenario.
The driver of the ground transport should be well out of the fire area, judging by the amount of movement involved... so that particular person *could* still be alive. With the lower gravity of the moon, that is definitely at least plausible.
They shot my friends, that's why I made sure they'd never shoot anything else again. Those worried about the moon, get over yourselves. There is debris from the solar system and interstellar debris hitting it all the time. Sheesh.
THE MOON! They're trashing the surface of our Moon, those savages!
Fair and reasonable reaction. That makes me think that the Ghost ship certainly could have escaped if they had floored it right away, but they chose a hostile action that they must known would immediately seal their fate.
But as I recall the Azinarsi lore, "death" is just a minor inconvenience for them, barely more than losing a disposable drone, so yeah, make sens.
To the contrary, they're restoring its original state. With a certain ship filling up the new hole in the regolith surface. OK, partially molten into a different shape, but.
I wonder if there's some kind of AI or even lower-level program running it - "if detected, shoot the largest ship with main weapon, then attempt to flee" or something.
Because at the moment, the action taken seems to make no sense. We don't have enough information to understand the "why".