page 975 – disabled and harmless
DANG IT! DANG IT DANG IT DANG IT DAAAAAANG IT!!!!! I was running SO far ahead of schedule on Thursday, I was SURE this page would be finished and online by midnight! And then, all of a sudden, out of nowhere, MASSIVE need for sleep out of frickin’ nowhere, and suddenly it’s 9am. I reiterate my previous statements of DAAAAAAAAAAAAANG IIIIIIIIIIIIT!!!!!
Anyway, this page illustrates that space combat in the Far Out There universe operates less like Star Words and more like Looney Tunes. I doubt anyone is actually surprised by this.
Also, the current Voting Incentive series will be wrapping up soon, so don’t you go and slack off on reading it now!
(Historical Notes: MAN I like the NASA stock footage space backgrounds better than the old white dots on solid black that I used to do.)
@historical note: A nitpicker might point out that those NASA photos are all false-color, super-enhanced, wavelength-shifted, ultra-long-exposure shots that look absolutely NOTHING like what space would actually look like – the white dot black background was much more accurate! If RL aliens gifted humanity tomorrow with a fleet of millions of FTL spaceships for our free use, people going on sightseeing tours of the galaxy’s most scenic spots are going to end up being really really disappointed.
Then again, the Exposition beeps when it backs up in space and apparently recoils in fear of the blast, so maybe realism is not the #1 concern here… 😉
They’re pictures of what space OUGHT to look like.
Darn right!! Stupid disappointing boring actual Universe…grumble grumble…hmph!
Of course, in the actual RL future, 0% of spacecraft will be manufactured with actual windows to the outside. Not because it’s both dumb and dangerous to weaken your hull to add a picture window, though, of course, it is, but because customers of the spaceships that were initially manufactured with windows all returned their vehicles as defective, complaining loudly that the defective windows are “making space look ugly!” Instead, where the “window” would be there is a screen with 40000K pixel resolution so small you can’t even see pixels, connected to a similar camera on the outside, which will instead display a “window” of what space is “supposed” to look like in that vicinity. Voila, no more complaints/returns. Incidentally, if there are explosions, passing ships, weapons fire, etc displayed, audio will be added of booms, whooshes, and zaps, to match what space is “supposed” to sound like. Visors in spacesuits will also incorporate these features. As a result, 99.99% of people who spend their entire lives travelling through space will still have no idea at all what it looks (or sounds) like. But they will be happier that way.