PaRARGdox 01
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New chapter – PaRARGdox – begins!: As the narration implies, this is indeed Magellan Island two years ago, during the events of the Bad Karma storyline, specifically the attack of DragonKlaw’s avatars. We meet Dr Beatrix Grainger and Bruce-93, two characters glimpsed briefly on page 4.197! They are part of the civilian scientists and engineers, etc, who work at Magellan Island helping to build useful tech for Force Magellan and the Academy. They’ll have a slightly expanded role this time around.
Coming soon: For the next Families/Cемьи featuring Red Vlad, Comrade Katya, Epoch, and Charisma will be the next voter incentive story… but probably not kicking off until March. Stay tuned!
Next update: Wednesday, January 29, 2020: Force Magellan debrief.
Bruce – Where ya from, big guy? Extra-dimensional?
His face looks like half forn, half the astral snuffler thingie, somehow with dark red skin. I’m fairly sure that’s not a reasonable story though 😀
Yes, extra-dimensional (so, like Gifford, Jenna, Lyta, etc). You can usually tell my extra-dimensionals as they look much more human than, say, my extraterrestrials!
Well, that seems like a reasonable decision making process.
I am curious, how easy would it be for someone as non-human looking as Bruce to get around on Magellan-verse earth? I’m pretty sure the non-human looking students were given human guises when they went to the grave of Kaycee’s mom. How is the acceptance, and the job market for that matter, for non-humans outside of Magellan? Or is that going to be explored in the next comics?
Generally not good, although obviously better in places like Magellan Island. There has been about 40-50 years worth of increasing Terran exposure to odd looking (ie non human) individuals in the Magellanverse… some good, some bad and some fugly. Some organisations that are more open to “extradimensional diversity” would be more than happy to employ Bruce as long as he delivered the good and didn’t eat people or pets or office plants.
It has been mentioned that many of the Forn live openly on earth (http://magellanverse.com/comic/the/), but I can’t recall any specific mention of the friction that they no doubt experience. Given how real-word-alike the Magellanverse humans act, what do you expect? I expect that some are defensive, hostile and racist – while others are open and pragmatic – in roughly the same proportions as we can readily see in our own world towards whichever new ideas, problems or just labels that happen to be controversial at the time.
Ah yes, it was mentioned they live openly. But the Forn students were also disguised, so they probably still cause a stir. I guess that they actually described as and visually resemble demons, the embodiment of evil in several mayor local religions, probably wouldn’t help.
There was one case, where Jenna and the other ‘unusual looking’ cadets were ‘disguised’ using Maya’s mind-mojo http://magellanverse.com/comic/cemetary/ but that doesn’t generally happen in other circumstances. While the Forn live openly, many of them don’t interact with humans.
I imagine though the fact that many of them are refugees whom were forced out of their homes gives them some sympathy at least from the humans they do interact with. Obviously there will be bigots but that can be reduced in communities where and near where they live. I imagine that in those areas the Forn and their abilities are incredibly useful for things like construction, power generation and the like, which would help pay for the tech and industry products as well as food they would buy.
I cant help but suspect that this arc will be “Chroner” related, given the name and the hourglass of extra terrestrials on the cover. I am guessing that Beatrix and Bruce do something that accidentally opens the gates for this alien invasion? If its a literal gateway portal they open, at least it will serve as a natural bottle neck initially, the flip side of that is that the invaders dont need to spend the resources in the logistics of getting to Earth in the first place