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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Oh god, someone seriously needs to work with him on the pronunciation. It will make everything go SO much more smoothly.
... don't you mean grammar? Short of Gharr's speech bubbles starting to show
-- 𝖜𝖊𝖎𝖗𝖉 𝖋𝖔𝖓𝖙𝖘,
-- lots-a ze unh-ushal spellingz,
-- "bleeding" edges, or
-- something even more creative, like bubbles having serrated edges sawing into the panel borders and then being shown stuck in innocent pieces of furniture in the background of subsequent panels,
I'd say that we have no idea of how his spelling is - beyond it being good enough that the humans can understand the words, at least.
Raharrian larynxes are very similar to human ones, and the implant partially overrides the control over it to ensure correct contortions, so his earthling language pronunciation is actually quite close to a human with an accent. The grammar and the structure of the sentences themselves are the main pitfalls so far.
Sympathize*
I hate to come across as rude, but yes, it is all your fault. You shouldn't try to sneak onto a planet uninvited if you don't have time to scope the place out carefully first, and you especially shouldn't try to sneak onto a planet uninvited if you don't know how to try to explain your presence if you get caught sneaking around.
That latter one seems more a fault in general Alliance procedures. What's Gharr's fault is that he told Zane he HAD scoped the place out first, and concluded that there was no risk of the shuttle being detected by human technology, let alone harmed.
Yep.
But we all know that there wouldn't be much of a story if both the procedures and people following them were perfect.
Be amazed what gets lost in the clutter no matter how good your systems are or you operators. Much less when everything is having bad day. Old scifi trope Captain Field Marshall "How are they hitting us? We have the best energy defense grid!" Yoe man 3rd class at plotting scree "Because sir, they aren't using energy weapons. Those clever ape mammals are throwing rocks at us. Very fast rocks and they saw us because of our emissions. Because nobody looks at microwaves we don't mask it. They look for microwaves sir"
True, though it's quite surprising that Gharr has the authority to pull it off. You'd think there's be a group meeting to brief the commander, but no. Apparently all information and knowledge about Earth flowed through him.
We don't have the full story so I think a little early to be dividing up the blame.
https://leavingthecradle.co... We still don't know "what the shit is going on?"
There may have been good reasons for the sneak, the alternatives may have faced other potentially bigger problems.
To be clear, I'm not saying they should have come to Earth openly; that clearly would have violated some protocols. But the only reason they attempted to put a team on Earth in any way is because Gharr pushed for it, and the only reason Gharr pushed for it is that he wanted to be personally involved in the historic discovery of a civilization in a transitional period. Whatever secret motivated the fleet to come out here in the first place seems to be entirely tangential.
I dunno if this has been mentioned outside the Discord, but yeah, it's definitely only tangential. Visiting Sol at all was nothing more than a route choice.