PaRARGdox 115
Remember Magellan USA?: Go!Anna is finally contacted by Twilight from Magellan USA – as you might remember, as noted by Twilight… she and her teammates were zapped and wrapped by Prometheus Corp as seen on pages 7.73-75. We last saw rookie She-Hog and sixth year cadet placement Full Metal Frog going to their rescue on pages 7.97-98. Apologies if you were expecting to see the bust up/break out in all it’s violent glory but ploy dynamics demand we move onto the next elements of the story… primarily what Prometheus Corp may have inadvertently bequeathed the Rarg.
Just a few other notes… if I had my up-to-date version of the cast page live, you might have been able to know ahead of time that the first name of speedster and Euro Magellan (and Fast Club) member Phlache is Zadie. Go!Anna/Annie graduated Magellan Academy the same year as Phlache… as we saw in the opening pages of The Things That Matter.
Also, Annie is unaware that Kaycee and Charisma are on the Euro Jet, hence her apparent lack of concern over Cadets Jones and Epoch.
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Well, NOW I remember ’em 😉
I think you made the correct decision to just skip ahead to “they have been busted out now.” Fight scenes are fun, but this is an epic story and showing that whole fight would have just slowed the pace of the comic.
Hmm… 🤔
I imagine it would go down the same way when Miss Piggy fought people.
Has Mag USA been un-depowered? (hur, hur, undie powered) Or, are they still mere hyumons?
After they were zapped they were put in depowering detention cells, which indicates the effects of the initial zap were expected to be temporary. At any rate, we’ll learn more soonish.
Finally some good new!
I think “coincidently” means “happening at the same time” and “coincidentally” means “by coincidence”. You might have meant the latter?
Huh! To be honest I never realised there was a difference! Thanks for the tip on that, I will have to correct it. 🙂
I think that in this case, either one could be used.
You’re correct. It may be noted that “coincidently” is quite rare (as in I don’t think I’ve ever seen it in normal writing) and perhaps more often used as a field-specific term than as a general synonym to “simultaneously”. In my case, it immediately leads my mind to some sort of particles hitting some sort of detectors.
Many times it is used with a sarcastic undertone as if to say, “It is so totally not by coincidence”. That’s how I took it, anyway.
And, exactly as intended 🙂
Glom warned all, not underestimate Xarnaxl! Why not listen??
I think they did listen? Just… first no one predicted this invasion to happen so much earlier than in the other timeline, then when this started no one predicted massively scaled up depowering tech. Probably not due to underestimating the threat, probably due to not spending that much time on thinking through all the what-ifs.
To think, all of this might have been avoided if Magellan had sent more than one stealth probe to Jupiter. And maybe a watchdog ship. Something, anything, to stop those Prometheus Corp. goons from disturbing the Rarg ahead of schedule. 🙁
Shouldn’t Prometheus have done the same anyway? the only difference would be the probe?
Well, two probes going offline is far more suspicious than one probe going offline. That really could’ve given Magellan the chance to stop Prometheus before they disturbed the Rarg.
But original intel only said that there would be Rarg and Red’s far further into the future. This warranted one probe to check if the Rarg are already there or not, and monitor for any human activity. Magellan had no idea they needed to look for activity that was actively hidden from Magellan.
If anything should’ve been done differently, I still hold that as soon as Rarg being on Jupiter was confirmed, this information should’ve been made available to those looking hard enough for info on Jupiter. Maybe scientists leaving Magellan and going to Prometheus should’ve warranted more scrutiny, but maybe that hasn’t caused problems before.
This is true…
It should be noted that launching things in to orbit is already immensely costly, likely even in a fictional setting like the Magellanverse. A redundancy in the form of a second probe was probably considered too expensive.