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The soldier from panel 1 to 3, haha.

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Hmmm does gender play the same role here? I love how embarrassed the scientist gets over this. (studying it and talking about it are vastly different things)

Second cell suggestion for rewording: "The trouble is we haven't made any progress in two weeks."

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Ditto on the second cell suggestion.

His reaction is natural enough, for a geek/high-end whatever-he-does. Probably not super comfortable with the ladies even of his own species.

I would image the role of the sexes were at least at the beginning of their evolutionary emergence quite similar. Someone needs to watch the kids, and someone needs to hunt/gather. That probably broke down on strength and aptitude in aggregate. Centuries or millennia of development in a futuristic society could have altered the cultural roles and expectations by fiddling with the fundamental elements that justify the arrangements as they stood.

Or in other words... we need more information.

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Zelenkov [said you have had] trouble communicating
Concur on second panel reword
[Perhaps] even a rescue

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Dude's Guide to Xenobiology:

Rule 1: Hips don't lie.






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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.