page 776 – nothing suspicious in here!
Totally Random Trivia Time: the doors in this page are all ripped off from Star Trek: The Next Generation. The door to the hall is based on the Holodeck entrance, while that big gate on the side is based on the emergency door in Engineering… and I have to point out that’s a door (or, at best, a temporary wall) to explain why the cargo bay was so much bigger the last time we saw it.
Speaking of last times, today is the last of the Astrid Exploitation Poster Voting Incentives! I’m not sure when I’ll do another ongoing series of Incentives again, there’s enough other stuff in the works at the moment that it might be easier to do stand alone stuff for a few weeks. I dunno, we’ll see.
Speaking of other stuff, I didn’t do a Jenna comic for Patreon this week… because I was too busy finishing a special five-page comic based on supporter feedback! Remember, it only costs One Dollar a month to read all these extra comics, and Five Dollars a month gives you a chance to have input of your own! So sign up as a supporter today!
Finally, I don’t want anybody to miss out on the conversation that was starting up on the last page, so I’ll ask again: do you have any suggestions for this year’s Halloween comic?
(Historical Notes: At the time, I think I only included the whole “big door closing off part of the cargo bay” as a way to make the area that about to get flooded at least SOMEWHAT the same size as the area the water is coming from. Ya know, so it wouldn’t spread out and just be ankle deep. But upon further reflection, of COURSE Cap’n Crosby would insist on that to make sure none of the actual cargo got wet! Past Me was accidentally clever!)
@ Historical Notes: Of course, they also have to, you know, drain the “Pool Bath Water” from the room later without damaging the cargo. that’s never explained, to my knowledge.
I’d imagine the original intention for the whole “emergency draining whatever” procedure going to the cargo bay was so they could then open a door to outside and dump it all into space, so there’s always that. I guess it depends on how much the Cap’n feels like worrying about conserving the ship’s water supply (which opens up a whole other can of worms about how the ship’s whole supply situation works)
Honestly, I did think about that for a bit. Then I thought about what will be revealed about the Vending Machines, and came to a conclusion that any water issues would be dealt with alongside with the long-term solutions for that. It’s probably some autonomous resupply drone-ship run by some bottom-rung specialized company.
The ship has years’ worth of dehydrated water stacked up in storage.