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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About animal instincts.
Curiocity, predatory instinct
Love, bonding instinct.
Are you sure all these primitive instincts are bad?
Are you sure all the aliens are without those?
Just realized, we can expect to see the human version of that last-panel face in a page or two, when the Three Musketeers realize that the shuttle had a crew of eight rather than one.
About time someone told the truth. And he is exactly right on every. SINGLE. POINT. It's a planet full of stupid apes and we are TRYING to do better...doing it very poorly.
I would like to kick him now. Lightly, mind you.
I'm disinclined to show him such restraint.
"Dan, please stop talking before you cause any more pain."
"He deserves to know the truth about--"
"Dan I will show you animal violence if you don't shut up this second."
and you will go through that window.
"What window?"
"You'll see it in front of you after going through this here wall."
With Dan in hand!
Only because he forgot to let go...stupid monkeys.
Why? He said the right and HONEST thing.
Telling Gharr that the shuttle was shot down was indeed honest. But breaking the news to him via a sudden hate-fueled rant about the evils of humanity, while Gharr himself was trying to figure out how to break uncomfortable news to them, was a pretty cruel way to go about it.
Not really, it's the best way to save the universe from having to deal with humans. Fictional or otherwise.
You've a very, very cynical view of humanity. Also, none of what Dan describes is actually a deal-breaker, the Alliance has been willing to live with much worse neighbors. Their real concern is whether we could withstand open contact with them.
nope because.
Sure, but not in the right way, or at a good time.
This is one of those things where. There is no right time or right way. And everything he said about our species is spot on.
God damn it Dan
God damn it Dan!
does Gharr think they were hit by a meteorite or something?
I think he might have had outright amnesia about the whole thing. He went from business-as-usual to concussed in the space of about 10 seconds, and his line on waking up was "What happened? I don't remember anything."
https://www.leavingthecradl...
This is his recollection on coming to.
What a way to find out...
Why does Gharr look surprised?
Memory loss: https://www.leavingthecradl...
His shock might be two-fold, one obvious, the other perhaps attributed elsewhere. We won't know until... whenever Darth catches up.
Threefold, actually, that we know of.
1: Oh no, my friends were hit with something that was designed to be deadly!
2: Oh no, my first contact scenario just became a worst contact scenario!
3: This all happened because I gave Zane a falsified report saying there was no risk of this.
I don't qutie remember what I was thinking, but those are all still valid as well.
you forgot 4. "this is a planet full of violent idiots". Oh and I forgot to say that last week.
Not an oversight. I don't expect Gharr to think that.