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Well we'll find out what Rob meant next page, hopefully.

Captain Rob has said she is going to come clean with the crew, my suspicion is that she is going to tell the Icebreakers first. They deserve to hear that Hammer is alive first and in person.


Heh, I've seen equally confusing panels/balloons in professional comics, so I wouldn't begrudge Han too much on this one.

Oh and happy birthday.

Yeah, let's hope; I hate being left hanging.

...at least, you know, for extended periods of time. You know...like when a TV show does a double-parter and you wait aaaaallll week for the next episode, then they don't resolve the cliffhanger till halfway through? I could chew glass.



Yeah, true.
But if I were the Captain, I'd be thinking that catching the folks running away would kinna take priority over briefings. No point in letting Toat and BG get a big ol' lead while giving the Icebreakers a lengthy explanation, never mind the freak-out one or two of them might have over Hammer. Better to send them out now, with somewhat less baggage and in time to do some good, I'd say.



Fair enough. Like I said, I was kinna going out on a limb on that one...



Thanks!

The question here is why go after Toat? What damage Toat could do has already been done when she sent the transmission back to the Terran Navy. She's on the run in a small ship and so is pretty much out of Captain Rob's hair now. Also she's taken that traitor BG with her.

In terms of priorities, Rob is much more interested in catching Captain Four-eyes, since unlike Toat he has something she wants (Hammer). If Captain Rob went after Toat that would just make it harder to catch up to the Risae Colony.

All things being equal I'm sure Rob would love to clean up that little "loose-end", particularly since letting her go now could come back to haunt her in the future. But as it stands all things aren't equal, so I suspect she'll just say 'good riddance to bad rubbish' and ignore Toat in favor of catching up to Risae.

Hopefully we'll see a new page this weekend, because otherwise I suspect we won't see another page until the new year as Han takes his traditional Holiday Break. Of course I'm truly impressed with the output Han has managed thus far considering his real life situation. So I'll take whatever he gives us with great appreciation.

I suppose you have a point...unless there's something we don't already know, I guess.



I'm having a hard time really condemning BG. Yeah, her loyalties were split and she had moments of weakness, but I can't help feeling that she was deliberately goaded in the debriefing. To what end, I'm not sure...but...

Actually, if I didn't know any better, I'd say that BG is some sort of plant, sent with a post-hypnotic trigger, doesn't even know she's a spy, sort of like Talia in Babylon 5. She's now in Toat's confidence...perhaps this is all a ruse to find out things Toat knows that she wouldn't otherwise tell anyone. Hell, that would even kinna fit with Mistabi's Dream in a weird sort of way.

...yes, I DO have a suspicious mind, why do you ask? And why are you backing away slowly?

It would also explain why Toat and BG may still be an issue and need to be followed.



Well, Friday is a normal comic day; hopefully we'll get one on the morrow.



I hate being left hanging.



Well, yeah...I have enough friends with kids and jobs to be able to sympathize.
But, darn it, today's been one of those days where not ONE of the online comics I read has an update; I am a cranky RocketGirl.
Ah, the war between compassion and selfishness...I fight it on a nearly constant basis.

where not ONE of the online comics I read has an update


Try Sluggy Freelance, Scholck Mercenary, Sinfest, Domonic Deegan, Least I Could Do, Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic, Evil inc., Questionable Content. Almost always every single day.

Yeah, I was being a little harsh on BG there, but to be fair, I was writing from Captain Rob's perspective there. That last look at BG as they escaped seemed to suggest that she wasn't entirely happy about her actions either.

As for the 'BG as plant' theory, I don't know. While Captain Rob has shown a considerable amount of smarts and tactical awareness, I don't get that truly devious vibe from her. To pull something like that off would require 'super-villain'-levels of deviousness, IMHO.

Well...suppose it not exactly voluntary on BG's part. A post-hypnotic trigger of some kind that was woven into her psyche during Mistabi's Dream, for example. All that has to happen is BG gets a kind of trigger that turns her into a spy, all without her conscious knowledge...

If you'd seen the episode of Babylon 5 that I'd referenced, you'd know where I'm coming from, here.