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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Minor proofreading thing I just noticed:
"That they tried to lend me a help" you don't need an "a" in there, so it should read as "that they tried to lend me help."
Don't be fooled. They are a violent, superstitious, irrational species about to kill itself through catastrophic environmental collapse. But the cubs can be cute and affectionate.
"They are a violent, superstitious, irrational species about to kill itself through catastrophic environmental collapse."
We are still well within the parameters of "normal" that far predate human activity on this planet, and are likely to be even if we burn every drop of oil on the entire planet.
Just in the last nearly-million years' worth of ice core data that we have, we have examples of CO2 levels far FAR higher than current (though not just a whole lot lower - we are still recovering from an ice age), and we have exactly *ZERO* examples of CO2 being a leading indicator of climate heating, but several examples of CO2 being a *trailing* indicator of heating. To put it another way, we have multiple examples of the temperature going up, and then CO2 going up afterwards in fairly direct response, but no examples of CO2 going up, and then temperature going up in response.
This data is quite public - go to any site that offers ice core data, and look at it yourself. The hype is absurd, has never been scientifically supported, and has literally decades of failed predictions to show how ridiculous it is.
Oh, but THIS time the predictions of disaster will be true, surely. /sarc
There are plenty of reasons to despair for the future of humanity. Environmental disaster is not (currently) one of them.
Publicly available data shows that global temperatures have changed more in the last hundred years than they have in any previous million-year span for any reason other than massive vulcanism or an asteroid impact. It also shows that pretty much all of the extra CO2 released by fossil fuel burning is still there.
We are not headed for environmental collapse. We are getting ready to start another ice age. this inter-glacial period has already been one of the longest in the last 2 million years. We are however trashing the place. If you want to look at how we affect the weather , take a look at how much ground water we are taking out of the subsurface and injecting into the biosphere. water is the real driver of weather and climate.
Horsecrap and farking splinters. That is straight-up 1970s oil company propaganda. CO2 levels are at their highest in millions of years and rising thanks to us burning all the carbon as fast as we can. about 28 of the last 30 years have been the hottest on record. The permafrost is melting. Weather is destabilizing. The theory of global warming is well-established, supported by huge amounts of multi-source data, robust, and predictive.
In short, you are spreading dangerous lies about the greatest threat we have ever faced as a species or as civilizations. For the love of God, please stop it.
You're absolutely dead on about the cubs, however: they ARE cute. :-)
"Should be enough to understand their language" cue stereotypical caverman talking
I wish this was on webtoon so i could subscribe to it.
It actually is on webtoon. But since it amassed whooping 3 subs there since I last checked, and the uploading system (There's no scheduling!) makes me crave for some murder, I haven't been updating it there.
consider it 4 subs then!
Subbed of course!
You're at 88 subs already :)
It's always cool when a scifi story really thinks through the implications of mature cyborging tech. Crimson Dark did that well, too.
that they try to lend me [] help
I freaking want a smartphone that can manage my diurnal rhythms. I have the most horrible sleep habits. I count myself lucky if I get more than 5 hours on a weeknight, and no it's not because of homework.