Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDLT - March 2017
BenRG:
It isn't an explosion, it's a directional blast from Gavia, towards Church and then past him out of the hull. A few hundred milliseconds later, it'll look spherical as the pressure hull ruptures progressively away from the breach but, this early in the event, it's still directional.
If you want to be technical about it, the sphere of the explosion would be centred on where Gavia's attack came into contact with the hull rather than in the geometric centre of the vehicle.
JimC:
I'm not convinced anyone really knows what an exploding spacecraft [exploding in space that is] looks like, and long may it continue that way...
OldGoat:
Hmmm...Gavia's been up to something alright. In panel 1 here she's heading aft, looking over her shoulder, and in the next two frames her back is to Ardent and Sedna. There's shadows of the Valkyrie and its blobs on the trunk of the Praeses, too. They mean something.
brasca:
--- Quote from: OldGoat on 12 Mar 2017, 18:15 ---Hmmm...Gavia's been up to something alright. In panel 1 here she's heading aft, looking over her shoulder, and in the next two frames her back is to Ardent and Sedna. There's shadows of the Valkyrie and its blobs on the trunk of the Praeses, too. They mean something.
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Interesting observation, but I'm still not sure how she could pull this off. Even if she was lying about losing her nanotech she probably would've used it out of desperation in the aftermath of Church's fight with Ellie so I don't think she has any, however, she could've sneaked away when Church and Pate weren't looking and got a stick of dynamite from the archaeophiles. Or maybe they gave it to her as payback for what happened to Ellie. Perhaps with everyone so in awe of the space habitat she had enough time to light the fuse. For her sake as well as anyone who's not an immortal super soldier I hope she stuck it behind Church's back.
BenRG:
@brasca,
The mistake you are making is to assume that Gavia either has her nanotech-based powers or does not. I do not believe either of those are correct. Rather, she has the powers at a very low level (she may have only recently realised that she still has a few nanobots left and they are regenerating). Since they were captured by Pate and Church, she has been slowly building up her 'charge' at the maximum rate her reduced powers can support to try to take down Church. This has taken her hours, possibly ever since Ellie's death.
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