Comic for Monday, June 16th, 2025
Comic!
Little bit late. Hopefully this is the last time we’ll miss every-other-week for the time being, but not promising weekly yet.
It’s come up a few times, but <nuclear> and <radiation> are always in the Central language. I think this was probably most detailed on the Tyler side story long ago, but its technology that’s been suppressed. A side effect of a booster, particularly one like Naomi, is that they are immune to all but the most extreme doses of radiation. This is because the mechanics of boosting their physical form is constantly pulling on their eidos data, which serves, effectively, as a real time constant backup of their ideal physical state.
In extreme cases like Naomi, its why she is so hard to damage and heals from things that a human wouldn’t be normal to heal from, because even even she has – for example – a bullet hole through her shoulder, she is constantly restoring herself to her own eidos data subconsciously, and because of her mentality and nature, damaging her eidos data is nearly impossible. She isn’t entirely immune to poisons, though she recovers from them unnaturally quickly and tends to adapt to them after being poisoned, but something like radiation that takes affect slowly would have almost no impact. She is almost certainly entirely immune to something like a sunburn.
Naomi isn’t actually the most extreme case of being able to restore from eidos data in the comic (you can probably guess the most extreme example of this effect).
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Couple interesting things I realized.
Being at the tech level Malsa is and not knowing about radiation is so unbelievable it’s insane. Not necessarily a bomb, but radiation itself is naturally occurring, and isn’t exactly hard to spot. Saying their world doesn’t have radiation would be like saying it doesn’t have carbon!
More likely it’s a context thing. I’ll absolutely believe Malsa knows about radiation, but more as a naturally occurring hazard. Similarly, they probably know about fusion and fision but more on an academic level.
Second, the first time we saw the councilor he was returning from groundside and was asked about his “vacation.” I’ll believe he was in a nicer area but it’s interesting how everyone else treats the whole planet as a hellhole.
Third, wow! Central had enough information control that Malsa isn’t familiar with Nukes, but they wanted to send tends of thousands of refugees to Malsa. The principles aren’t exactly difficult to understand. Is Central trying to get their citizens kidnapped for what’s considered “basic” knowledge?!?
Well, it could be earth, on a tuesday the rest of the times it is truly dangerous. Or maybe the landing site is in Australia. That or florida.
Excellent comic as usual. Minor wait is more than made up by the comic enjoyment. Now we are in suspense about Peter’s latest plans within plans as if Mium posing as Peter was not enough.
“Best I can tell, you’re mostly bullet and monster proof, and I doubt even affects you.”
So…Naomi’s basically a Kryptonian, then? Just another reason to love her!
It also explains why she’s so frustrated that gravity affects her. Nothing else does.
I like that ≺radiation≻ is so censored you can’t even post it here… 😀
I believe that they are both speaking in Malsan, and the angle brackets indicate that there is no word in Malsan for “radiation”
I’m confused…I’m unsure whether I misquoted and forgot to type the word “radiation”, or if the board-bot censored it..?
I assumed you included the angle brackets, and the board took it for (unrecognized, possibly mistyped, possibly extended, possibly nasty) HTML and stripped it out.
Might need to use HTML characters for angle brackets, or at least the opening angle bracket. Either named (lt, gt) or, if the board software doesn’t like that either, then numerical (#60, #62) or hexadecimal (#x3c, #x3e).
Eh, let’s test:
lt: <radiation>
#60: <radiation>
#x3c: <:radiation>
lt, gt: <radiation>
#60, #62: <radiation>
#x3c, #x3e: <radiation>
In straight-up HTML, all of these should work. But this software is stripping things, I assume, and that’s straight-up ad hoc, so any and all of these could wind up stripping too much or even too little …
Ugh. Well, turns out they all would have worked, had I managed to hit the semi- rather than the colon in the third one there. And the post was queued (for moderation, I guess), so by the time I returned to spot my mistake, the edit window was closed. 😛
I misunderstood the question since radiation and nuclear appeared in Past’s comment further up. However, he preceded it with < and followed it with > in the page source. When designing a web site, it is always a good idea to escape the characters that will cause actions by the browser, such as less-than, greater-than, and ampersand when the user enters them via a free text field.
Nice! We might be getting our first look at Earth!
Panel 1:
The Consul will visiting the perspective refugees
->
The Consul will BE visiting the PROspective refugees