Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDLT - January 2017
brasca:
I suppose it goes without saying that Pate is arrogant. Having Church knock down the door like that risked crushing the very thing he seeks, but I seeing as how Ardent's ability seems to rearrange the very structure of the thing he touches I suppose it doesn't matter and he knows it.
So we can confirm that there is a spaceship in the bunker, but it being so deep underground it seems like it might not be launched through a silo. Perhaps the people of the past used matter transporters to beam warships directly into space.
Skewbrow:
Are those charger cables or fuel lines leading to the belly of the rocket/shuttle/orbiter/whatnot? You would think that anything flammable has evaporated ages ago. Possibly leaving some gunk behind.
A small perverse otter:
--- Quote from: jheartney on 15 Jan 2017, 18:09 ---Comic up. Looks like they've found an orbiter. Now, I think i'd be a little leery of jumping into a 5000 year old spacecraft; not sure what the condition of the rubber seals would be. They'd also need to replace all the batteries and retest all the electronics. And that's without considering getting it fueled, and the rocket motors tested.
One literal ray of light seems to be coming from in front of the craft. Could those be hanger doors?
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Alice, Sedna, and Church are all at least 5000 years old, and they work just fine. Whatever the pre-blink finks were or did, they sure built to last...
--- Quote from: brasca on 15 Jan 2017, 18:18 ---Ardent's upgrade should fix any decay.
I think that's the super flashlight. If not those archaeophiles went to a lot of extra trouble.
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Ooooh...Ardent's nano-upgrade tool applied to a near-earth orbiter. FTL transport, here we come!
derech:
So we finally get to see Church directly break something big. Rather curious Pate hadn't already just used him to retrieve this (since Church's bulldozing ability might seem to make Alice and Sedna not necessary). I guess something about Gavia and/or Ardent presented an opportunity or timing that didn't exist before. Or maybe Pate just wanted to use Alice and Sedna like he's using Church, as resources for... something else. The way the door is bypassed doesn't look like knocking the entire thing backwards at high speed. A more surgical, get the door out of the way sort of thing. Relying on Ardent in case a flying door hit a shuttle seems more than just arrogant and risky, seems foolish. After all, instancing a flashlight into a floating light isn't necessarily like magically repairing a smashed and crushed orbital shuttle. Even if Pate thinks Ardent is capable, why test it, especially if this is the only well-preserved "easily" reachable shuttle.
There might be some other exit that used to open where ships could fly from or be launched out of, unless one part of all the Blink stuff was some other kind of ultra high-tech way of getting ships out from an hour's walk down. Although given that the group had to physically take that hour to move down - and that there was a path to do so - at least suggests a more mundane physical answer. Seems impractical to use cranes to lift them out, and too lengthy to disassemble and reassemble by pieces after all. If the answer is there is some other exit for vehicles, it seems likely currently not easily reachable for actual ship-launching purposes. That would seem to be a reason that Pate would need some large amount of assistance aside from Church to retrieve it, although of course retrieving it is just the first step of many that might need much more help even.
hitmiccs:
--- Quote from: derech on 16 Jan 2017, 11:16 --- If the answer is there is some other exit for vehicles, it seems likely currently not easily reachable for actual ship-launching purposes.
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The underground "shuttle bay" looks like it could end in a mountain side-type exit/entryway - I guess this type of shuttle does not need to get propelled into orbit by a rocket, but provides the power by itself (guessing by the size of the booster exhausts). There could have been many of those ships, this shuttle bay looks huge... Other question: Why did the blink miss this ship and/or why is there exactly one ship left in this bunker, connected to those fuel lines/wires/whatever? If the blink was instantaneous, wouldn't there be many of those orbiters and if not, why is there a mile-long tunnel for a single ship underground?
€: Oh, I missed the other ship which is covered by somethin on the right in the last panel - guess there are more ships left ^^
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