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So here we go. Full throttle into space!I always appreciate input and thoughts!
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When the androida says oh my...thats not goodXP
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Imagine him saying it like that then X3
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Don't we all??
Well. maybe not the people hanging from the cliff. They probably hate being a cliff hanger.
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But that is their problem. Not ours. Hope I do not end eating my nails, again. The wait is that bad. Think Star Wars; Episode 1, 2, and 3. That was a terrible wait.
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those poor poor nails. but you did what you had to.
for survival of course!!
the wait is temporary but the pain is real
and now you don't have to wait! the next 2 pages are already out!
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Please more. Oh and the nails are back. For the time being.
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Thanks! Glad you take a liking to it! more on the way!
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No problem! I know it'll be great!
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The hype is real man! This is looking real good, looking forward to the continuation.
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Well then stay tuned next week! for the exiting conclusion of dragons ball- er... The colonists!
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I like how "The Colonists" are set reasonably well in the future.
As per usual, I like the design sense and colors. We've got the modular grey consoles, with the wonderful shading. The holo effects, and red light guys about to space walk with their jaunty attitude.
You might make a great story board artist.
In the end, something happens. A First Contact. If the android is appearing amazed within the full scope of its programing, very nicely mirrored on the next panel with the lieutenant, one realizes that they're seeing something truly extraordinary.
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Not terribly. But it is the result of essentially every great scientific mind shifting to furthering mankind's place in the galaxy for a very long time. Like how rapidly our tech is currently upgrading and getting better. Figured they'd be pretty well off, but not too well off to where everything is a cake-walk for humans.
Thanks, most of the more modern era ships have a much brighter "white/shiny" look to them. But this is just a mere fringe patrol. always under-manned, under-equipped and under-supplied. well, in the military you'd find a lot of jaunty guys haha!
Thanks. I do like telling stories, but I'm a horrible writer. It's far easier to draw things out comic-form and show it that way!
Whatever they're seeing I cannot say. That's one thing that everyone must wait on
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It's a tough balance to be had. I hate sci fi that presents radically different developments just decades in the future, particularly if it's quite positive.
I do love "Star Trek", but technology in that reality is SO permissive, and comes about so soon.
The other side of the coin is humanity never getting off earth, and having to make do with practical technology that isn't improving and ever diminishing resources.
Will technology ever open new and greater possibilities? Will humanity have the wisdom to handle it, and correctly harness it if it does? Or are we living with finite practical knowledge? Where a bell curve will come into play, and we may have already picked all the low hanging fruit from the tree of knowledge? Indeed, with the expansion of IT tech and the Large Hadron collider and such, are we already using lifts to scale the tree? Knowledge may be a bell curve--and we've passed the peak?
I rather love the scale and scope of the 'Galactic Empire' sort of space opera. Where colonization occurs on a galactic scale, and time is measured in thousands of years. With some irony, considering the scale of humans numbering in the trillions, and far in the future, technology may be astonishingly huge in scale--but, strangely, almost retarded in advances. Star Wars is rather like that. Ships and stations the size of moons, able to leap across the galaxy, but they don't have the bio-tech to restore living tissue, and make do with cybernetics.
Or "Warhammer 40K" or Frank Herbert's "Dune" universe, or even Isaac Asimov's 'Empire' Novels, where so much colonization took place, over astonishingly huge periods of time of, or approaching, tens of thousands of years, but the future is astonishingly grim and tech is terribly limited given that so many centuries, and so many scientists must have been at work. Indeed, tech in all three universes were generally regressing. An entire galaxy has been largely explored, but the result is no different than if humanity never left earth--just taking longer to reach that point, and on a way larger scale.
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"The Colonists" seems to ride that balance pretty well. A great deal of exploration has been done, but scarcely even a bite could be said has been taken out of the galaxy. Several centuries in the future, but not thousands. Humans are still humans--but not necessarily will stay so forever. Almost no intelligent aliens located, until recently. No aliens have posed any threat at all--until--?
Thanks for the little touches of the lack of the 'white / shiny' finishes to the ship.
The jaunty guy? So long as there are militaries, there will be a need for testosterone and alpha-dudes. Certainly it's no sin for guy to approach a space walk in the unknown with some confidence and a smile.
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Yeah I was never much of a fan of star trek, so I didn't watch it much. I don't have a clear concept really of what it's all about.
The whole setting has a lot of subtle meanings from politics to events of human history. Stuff like How no government is truly the best form of government, or how as a species we never seem to be satisfied when we are given everything, or study history and are often repeating some of the same events from our past.
As fun as galaxy spanning empires are, they leave out any room for more fun as they're already too powerful , and essentially little to nothing left to explore, see, or fight aside from possibly terrorists, pirates, or rebels in the case of star wars and a few other settings. Or in the case that they span multiple Galaxies then they've already reached a point where there's really not much of a story to tell as everything has already happened and they can overcome other galaxies in a minute.
The technological regression of this setting has already happened, or in a matter of speaking didn't at the same time. A lot of knowledge was lost when the UCR began it's purges of everything it deemed as 'irresponsible science'. Clones, Synthetic Humans, medicines, practices that artificially extend human life, and many others that end up directly influencing human life were lost. While everything else technologically froze. The Colonial rebellion only made things worse. By the time the rebellion had ended, space exploration was halted, the UCR kept it's laws to stay the way things are, and the free colonies have been so busy with in-fighting that they never had a chance to truly continue with scientific progression. The part of the setting when the story takes place is when humanity has started to re-begin space exploration, and scientific advancement.
But its good to know I have a good balance. I've tried hard to keep the tech all at a certain level without going too far or too little. And humanity in the setting has already started to evolve. Slowly, but in many areas there's humans who have adapted to their surroundings. In most cases though, humans make the surroundings adapt to their standards, which is why in the large scale of things not much natural evolution has taken place.
And haha, I'm not a big fan of the crisp and clean 'perfect white/chrome' look either.
Confidence is all he needs! It's all just routine repairs, he's done them before
Humanity by nature is a race of explorers, pioneers, scientists, soldiers, builders, and much much more. No matter what happens we always come around. We always rebuild. And we always push forward.
There's no going back now.
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Damn you. What is happening? What they see? I want to know!
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Well it's obvious the Lieutenant commander's shopping list was on the display, and they forgot to get the milk. Looks like it'll be another 3 month trip back to the supermarket.
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Nahh. I see they got female crew member. Give her some hormones and relieve her from the bridge duty.
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Well that's ONE way of doing things!
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I did a two pager this weekend to actually get a comic page up. But you'll have to wait another week until then to get one
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Kingons, Borg, pirates, aliens, etc all on the starboard bow at once!
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This is why the ascent failed....
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Those suits are antique as hell. Heh still love the classic space suits though. X3
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Yeah, though the republic is in possession of much higher quality suits, they do seem to care less about the fringe units, who are often undersupplied and under-equipped to handle any real issue. I felt an older model android and antique suits would portray that
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Thanks. These things were gonna sit around in limbo for SOOOO long had I not decided to start the uploads. I figure I may as well get people a good taste of it instead of withholding it.
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I'm stoked to see em posted dude for real, love your style and as I've said before your coloring and lighting, always good to see x3
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Haha thanks! Its always refreshing seeing people enjoying the stories I make!
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I do enjoy em, and've been waiting to see the Colonists take off for awhile now haha
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Yeah. This should have happened months ago Xl
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You done did started the ball a'rollin now!
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Yeah, but nows the part where I gotta start getting back to work on pages like.. fast before it catches up to me
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Yup! No crushing expectation or anything, and no terrible fantasy temptation either >: D
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