PaRARGdox 03
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Soviet Martians & Rargs: So what is this Soviet Martian Base? In a previously unexplored part of Magellanverse history, following the Q’Arth demon attack on – and destruction of – Moscow in 1972, the Soviet Union collapsed (see History #7). However a large contingent of soviet refugees set up a colony on Mars… using means which will be revealed much later in this story.
While I mentioned the collapse of the Soviet Union previously, this is the first in story mention of the Mars colony. However, astute readers of the cast page will have noted that cadet Gregor Urich was always originally from Mars Colony. More on that later!!
Anyway, the Rarg were first seen but not named in the History, also on page 7.
Oh, and “Moon Base Magellan”….?!?!
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Next update: Wednesday, February 5, 2020: A future plan…
Apropos of nothing, “Rarg” really should be the name of an ursinoid race
Tsk, Tsk, Ranger Bill. If they are capable of interstellar flight, it doesn’t matter if they are small*, they have the tech to build bigger war machines. Not sure why they’d even need reverse engineered tech from a mere interplanetary civilization.
*Well, until you get to Douglas Adams’ level of “their entire warfleet was eaten by a small dog” tiny
If they are capable of interstellar flight, they are also capable of interstellar bombardment. Maxim 24: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a big gun.” Of course, they likely want to conquer Mars, not destroy it …
They can always stop by the astroid belt on their way and lob a few rocks at Mars. Although it sounds this Soviet base has some weird kind of tech, so they might be able to shoot them down.
… PS: most warfleets wouldn’t be actually damaged by being eaten and would have enough firepower to get outside.
You’d think so, but at that size even the thinnest membrane of the devouring beast would be like super thick armour plating… and they’d have a whole body’s worth to blast out of.
Shout-out to a fellow Trek fan
Can’t go past Wolf 359… apart from the Star Trek connection it also has a super cool name! When writing this I checked to make sure that the system does have a gas giant…
While better known for the events inn Star Trek (“the Rarg” made me chuckle) , it’s far from the only appearance in sci-fi, check for fun – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars_and_planetary_systems_in_fiction#Wolf_359_(CN_Leonis)
It’s just such a cool name!
Wolf 359? Isn’t that where a large Federation/Klingon fleet will get utterly trashed by a single Borg cube? If that is any omen, attempts to improve this timeline are destined go horribly wrong before some funny little detail provides a save just in time.
Are those clips at the chroners shirts merely special-VIP-IDtags or some kind of amplification / recording devices?
Grace, to answer the question you asked me on the previous page:
Well, I posed the question about the two Rochelles & MM on your own comments section about 5-6 years ago, on this very website. You then replied that you would defer to Al, and he posted his response on that same comments page. Can’t remember precisely which page it was by this point, and you haven’t restored the old comments yet but… if you still have the archive of them, it shouldn’t be too hard for you to find, as it would have been one of the last times Al posted a comment here. If nothing else, do a control-f (or SQL Select Where, depending on how your archive is stored) for comment text with the word “broadening” in it, I guarantee you that will yield Al’s comment.
The difficulty in resurrecting the comments has been the difference in versions of ComicPress that I was using pre-crash and now. At first I thought I’d just be able to restore everything to exactly as it was before but then realised the new version not only works differently but also generates a different structure for posts. As much as I’d love to resurrect past comments I sadly expect they will only live on in the Way Back Machine…
Is there not, perhaps, a way to just harvest the raw data and put it up for users to review, and then maybe even promoting a fanbase community effort to re-post all the comments over a period of time from those raws?