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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I laughed so hard. First because the two Raharr "discover that the 'net is full of porn. Second because all ? most? alien races 'net are the same.
Do not take their network as a representative sample of how they copulate; a lot of what's there is impractical, not pleasurable in practice, or downright physically impossible.
Oh dear God, they discovered the Internet.
LOL. Question is. Are they surprised, because they find that 'weird' or because "I thought only our species did it like that"
The second one.
Good page :-)
As a very wise grim reaper once said: "I have immeasurable faith in humanity's capacity for perversion."
Look, our porn is raharrizing us in the eyes of a potentially hostile alien, right now!
Which grim reaper said that?
Garovel from The Zombie Knight, page 823.
Go read it, it's pretty good.
I shall have to. Thanks for the recommendation:
Well, the internet was fueled by young men's desires to see pretty pictures. Women just wanted to read stories of billionaire vampire pirates. With a dash of werewolves.
Shoot porn is why we got VHS instead of the superior Betamax. But never mind that, that was just one of the opening shots in the technology wars that was driven by porn.
That wasn't Betamax's problem, at least not directly. Sony kept Betamax technology proprietary and was slow off the mark making a movie-length tape, while JVC freely licensed out VHS technology and started out with 2-hour tapes. Betamax wound up stuck with a reputation for being more expensive, less available and needing more tape changes for the same recording length, and had pretty much already lost the race by the time they shook it off.
Well well, seems like someone are spreading a myth :-)
“Only” about 5-15 % of the internet is about “copulation” according to most recent estimates, so hardly a majority…
5-15% of the total nodes, number of visitors, time spent online, traffic volume, or what?
From what I cloud find out by looking into this, I think pretty much all of that is between 5% and 15% (there is a pretty big difference between 5% and 15% after all)
Depends on how you count and what you count. For instance: Children are the byproduct of copulation. Marriage is the societal construct created to determine who is allowed to copulate with whom. Romance is how people people are enticed to copulate. Dancing, sports, fashion, etc. is about making you look like a better copulation partner. When you start digging a bit, you can make just about anything be about copulation.
Sigmund, log-in please!
Well, I am fairly sure that copulation in this context is just meant to be another word for porn…
But it is of course possible that I am wrong
Food in all forms. :) Even food in songs. :)
Here come the cat-pictures!
Ah they've learned the lesson of Avenue Q
There are so many great expressions in this comic.
The alien expressions are just fantastic. Alas, not so much for the humans so far, or at least, not as memorable I feel. Perhaps I see too many of them on a daily basis.
I don't know, I think some of the human expressions can be pretty funny. Say the second panel on this page:
https://leavingthecradle.co...
The first soldier is like "oh my god, I'm falling!" and the second guy is totally cool with it.
They're still in-system, which means they haven't found 4chan yet.
But apparently they've already located furries. Its only a matter of time before they gooing to decide to glass ur planet.