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Darian Christie (transfer from Disqus)

Satellite (one T)... happen (two P's) ... recommend using "if there are any" or "if there're any" rather than "if there's any" since there should not be an 'is' in the phrase to contract.

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Borg

"There're" is a fairly unnatural construction that combines the colloquial register of contractions with a formal adherence to verb agreement; casual speech will often use more common forms of contractions even when it violates normal agreement and/or word order (see for example "Didn't you do it?" rather than "Did youn't do it?"). "If there's any" (or similar phrases) would be entirely unremarkable in typical speech or informal writing, with expansion to "if there are any" generally indicating either a desire to emphasize the verb (e.g. to express a likelihood that there aren't any) or a categorical desire to avoid contractions.

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Dreadogastus (transfer from Disqus)

You said it Ashu! Under the tail with 'em!

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Lord Eric (transfer from Disqus)

transfer our [satellite]
cannot allow that to [happen]

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Lord Eric (transfer from Disqus)

They kinda need to send a recovery expedition anyway, survivors or no. If just moving their spy satellite to a lower orbit is a detection risk they're hesitant to take, what price an actual crashed shuttle sitting right on the planet's surface?

BTW, is Leaving the Cradle on Topwebcomics?

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Darth_Biomech

It should be. Last time I checked it was somewhere in the bowels of the rating, 200th page or so.






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The Alliance space stretches for an impressive 16 thousand light years along the longest axis and contains approximately 12 billion star systems. Despite that, 99.99% of those star systems haven't been 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, and in general are purely informative.