These trivia bits are generated randomly.
Raharrs are warm-blooded creatures and are accustomed to temperature range a bit warmer than Earth's.
"Dawn" class mothership and "Lake" class tankers are the only spacecraft in the Exploration fleet that can create artificial gravity while not under acceleration.
If a space ship accelerates at the same rate as it would in a free-fall under Earth's gravity (Otherwise known as "1G acceleration"), it can reach Jupiter from Earth in just under 6 days. It would need to flip in the middle of the travel, to start decelerating and enter the planet's orbit.
Insectoids in a lot of ways are the weird ones among the Alliance members. Besides having a completely unpronounceable name of the species, they have dextero amino acid biochemistry, which makes their food and biosphere to be inedible by the rest of the Alliance, and vice versa.
The names of every species of the Alliance (besides Insectoids) are words taken directly from their respective native languages that they use to refer to themselves. They all have same translation:
"a human".
Azinarsi relationship to death is different from the rest of the civilizations of the Alliance: they do not care about it. Death would mean loss of information and experience gathered by that instance of a person's mind, though, and these two things are about the only valuables for an Uploaded mind, so Azinarsi try to avoid it when possible.
A lot of backgrounds and other elements in the comic are actually 3d models. It helps reduce the time each page takes to make.
Raharrs descended from the evolutionary branch that can be described as "apelike cats" by their evolutionary niche. Although initially carnivorous and solitary, they were forced to become omnivorous and form persistent packs during the latest of the rare ice ages of their homeworld, approximately 30 million years ago.
It takes more than a year to cross the Alliance space even with the fastest FTL drive.
Prior to becoming a webcomic, Leaving The Cradle was initially developed as a modification for Source engine, back in 2007. It was vastly different back then, much closer to the usual space opera look and feel, and the plot had nothing in common with the webcomic version, sharing only exactly two characters and nothing else.
Many homeworlds of the respective species are still divided into countries, but freshly established colonies on other planets are almost always monolithic and basically independent, since they sprawled from a single initial outpost, and time lag involved due to interstellar distances making remote management of the colony from a homeworld to be ineffective and frustrating at best.
There's no way to communicate faster than light. If you want to send your message to another solar system, your best bet is to use a courier spaceship. It can take even a month for it to finally reach the destination, but it still beats sending it as a transmission and expecting it to arrive decades or thousands of years later.
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.
The Alliance space stretches for an impressive 16 thousand light years along the longest axis, and contains approximately twelve billion star systems. Despite that, 99.99% of those star systems weren't explored even by an automatic mapping drone yet, and the borders of the Alliance space are defined mostly by the reach of spaceships from the nearest colony or space station.
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Do not shoot to kill (two O's in shoot)
Alright, some of my predictions came to pass. Now the question on this cliffhanger is what sight greets her to stun her to a stop, if brief.
I'm curious what the 'object' is. Just the spacecraft, or some particular subcomponents?
Darth, ya have me hooked for more.
I think object refers to the place they're at
Russians seem to have a habit of using object as a general term for places and things.
So a more correct read would be "lock down the base?" Could work in a sentence.
I'd use "site"
Yeah, that's definitely better.
That would be my take on it...
Kinda of the opinion of a fourth option to the poll, of ambivalence. I don't despise them, but given they fit in as an aside minor arc, or relevant to the characters at hand, they can work.
Cast in favor, lacking other options. I'm a sucker for worldbuilding info.
The design of these space travelers is excellent. I'd be quite interested in how their civilizations developed, how they function and how the Alliance was formed. Maybe the female alien and the Major can begin communicating and understand each other. Fortunately, neither seem to be too heavy handed and relatively reasonable.
Well, she definitely lifts.
hostages people care about are bulletproof armor
I don't think he's actually worried about himself (at least not primarily). Considering what he said before, he would likely be quite willing to die for the chance to prevent a war with the aliens with such vastly advanced tech and capabilities.
It's not about not shooting him, it's about not shooting HER.
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