I’ll be attending my sister’s graduation out of town in the next week, so I’m taking a little break. New pages will be up before the end of the month.
I’ll be attending my sister’s graduation out of town in the next week, so I’m taking a little break. New pages will be up before the end of the month.
Congrats to your sister!
“I’m going to… Replace all the native life forms with robots!!!”
what’s the worst that could happen?
I love this scene cuz I think it shows the important of taking a break now and again to really get a break thru with something!! Excited to see how this pans out! <3
lumpy glob of….science hahaha
i think it would help us to know what her research has all been about. does she actually have samples from the bug planet??? i thought that’d be forbidden. hmmm. i hope it’s not a false start. but. it might be.
hooray graduations! I wasn’t able to go to my little brother’s graduation this year, but i know how ya feel. 🙂
I actually haven’t been able to get to into this in-comic, so here’s some backstory stuff!
Mariam is a xenobiologist, so at this point she is studying the physiology of the bugs. She would obviously be the first to know about the disease. The “glob of science” she’s looking at in this page is a diseased sample.
The Roswell Act specifically forbids any actions that will have a lasting impact on a developing species, whether it be environmentally, culturally, or physically. On the station they are using bio-drones, which are made of very complex and expensive material that is both biodegradable and hardy enough to survive trips through the planet’s atmosphere. Depending on the model, they can collect small samples and deliver them to be studied (which is not illegal, as long as no large amounts of damage are done) or relay images. One of these bio-drones can be seen here: http://www.thelastcowboycomic.com/?comic=10-3
The drones are difficult to make and very expensive, and they are one of the resources the station is currently running low on.
oh, thanks for the info-dump! I was wondering about how that works. thanks! helps a lot, actually. do the drones take pictures also? i feel like we’re definitely going to get a visual on Eve down there at some point, and then all hell will break loose. I’m actually surprised it hasn’t happened yet.
it still doesn’t explain the secret human torture laboratory down there, but then again, that’s another story…