page 1189 – The Getting Along Gang
When Mom and Dad fight, it’s always the kids who suffer the most.
So, last week I said there wasn’t a new Voting Incentive because I needed to free up time to get an extra page done to cover some time on the road. It turns out I SHOULD have said I needed time to work on literally every other project I have BUT next week’s page, because it’s not done at all yet. Thankfully, I WAS able to clear the deck of enough other stuff that I SHOULD be able to work on next week’s page without interruption over the next couple of days. Hopefully, this means that next week will be the last one without a Voting Incentive. But hey, if you’re missing your extra dose of Tabitha comics, don’t forget there’s a whole SECOND Tabitha comic happening over on Patreon right now!
No Layla, you are too late. The ship is now covered in burrs.
Burring? Now I have to create a new form of widespread destruction based on forming rough edges on metal. Don’t say it’s not possible, this is FOT, one of the Mad Scientists would have created something that roughens up metal that resulted in mass destruction purely because of the new burr’s.
Let’s see… this has got to be something that is worthy of having the general knowledge spread to the public, even if only Nitpicker’s know the specifics.
Okay, a Mad Scientist made a compound that was intended to ensure that a metal surface was just rough enough to make walking easy and comfortable when you stand on it, but became perfectly smooth moments after your foot lifts. It not only was popular, but also became a major commercial success, earning enough for 5 different galactic families to build up their seemingly never-ending fortunes from selling the stuff, including the Mad Scientist’s Family. It was, and still is, popular and successful, with only the minor drawback of making some area’s with massive noise issues sprout burrs, particularly with the early models of the stuff. Basically, due to the noise it produced, the early versions of the product would cause near permanent burrs to develop in engine rooms, and ships that had massive arguments or political rallies inside of them would often change to start to look like some pointy hell-scape as people argued and the fights got louder (which actually drove watching numbers up, especially since it occasionally caused pointy shards long enough to stab through the debater’s shoes. Some systems even made rules to do the debate in these rooms shoeless, simply to ensure that everyone remains civil or risks their own feet, though it didn’t work, as both sides decided that sacrificing their own feet in order to make the other side look bad was the better political decision).
Shame, my reasoning doesn’t produce any destruction. Well, apart from the half dozen ships that blew up due to this stuff being used on their engines or other important but noisy systems and developing spikes that hindered operations, causing all on-board to either die or destroying the ship outright. But nobody really cares about those.