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I didn't forget the Diadem council, rather I left it out intentionally when I wrote this because I couldn't find how it is made up and how it fits in the government structure. For all I know, it might be a temporary thing, like the Papal Conclave, made up of top ranking Fleet Admirals who then choos...

With that said, I have a scenario for you: what if there is no Loroi faction strong enough to actually rule the Union, so all of them have to form coalitions to even acquire power in the first place? The scenario would only apply if the Emperor and Consuls were all dead, got fed up and resigned (lo...

I'm not sure we have the same definition of "opposition." Even in democratic systems, the minority "opposition" party is not allowed to disregard or disobey the laws or rulings of the majority government. Democracy doesn't mean everyone gets to do anything they want. In most democratic systems, the...

@Dragoongfa - I think you are missing something. The Loroi Empire is NOT a democracy nor a monarchy, they are a military dictatorship. You can think what you want, say what you want, but "big sister" with the help of the Nedatan will be listening. They MAY want to talk to you and you will be expecte...

It depends on how one expresses one's opposition. One the one hand, Loroi society is one that values honesty and having the courage of one's own convictions; if a person disagrees with something, she is expected to say so. On the other hand, Loroi society has rigid customs and a clear hierarchy of ...

I'm sorry, but I don't see any protective and understanding towards Alex, towards the safety of the ship and the Captain - of course, they are officers on a warship during a battle. I'm thinking you like to look for the worst in expressions drawn in the comic. What's the saying? "What you understan...

Essentially, it's like children learning to speak - the Loroi learn at an early age how to control their telepathy, talk telepathically to others, not consciously or unconsciously "broadcast", as well as shield their minds from unwanted "reception". An inability to control one's telepathy would be c...

For Fireblade, I'd suggest taking another look at pages 34 and 91 in particular, where Fireblade looks understanding and protective of him, respectively. If I had to distill them to single words, anyway. I just did. On page 34, top frame, her expression is that of authority and contempt, like one w...

I think you very much underestimate the amount of information still on paper or preserved elsewhere. You won't get a perfect snapshot of all life but we can see enough surviving artifacts, made of wood and other perishable materials, from our own history that've lasted hundreds of thousands of year...

Jayngfet => I think you are missing the point slightly, because your counterargument about signage and importance of context is kind of recursive - to decipher the meaning of signs you have extrapolated/created context based on a large sample of data. We as a species have a rather long history and c...

Rebelling would probably turn the ship and it's resident VI's/AI's into something that would make the "Event Horizon" look like a spa. LOL! More like 2001 Space Odyssey :D I imagine Event Horizon would happen if one let a bunch of really angry Mizols loose on a ship. Speaking of which, Arioch => do...

Suppose, hypothetically, that Loroi were at some point created and bred on Earth when humanity was deep in its Stone Age (perhaps with Soia Dread-Star in orbit of Earth...), and some Loroi died and their skeletal remains were preserved: would modern Human archaeologist even suspect they do not belo...

Siber => OK, granted, I may be going a bit heavy on typical tropes and stereotypes when it comes to the main cast, but that is the impression I was getting when I read the comic and most of the Insider lore, including their character sheets. True, there is no concrete proof that Tempo is a sadist, b...

I thought I'd throw my two cents into this too. The thing about signage and symbols is that they need context to work. To understand the meaning of the above mentioned bathroom symbols, you need to know in advance, what a bathroom is and that sometimes there are separate bathrooms for different vari...

That brings me to an interesting question that I can't believe hasn't been asked but that I can't find a set of search terms to manageable turn up. Do the various Soia-Liron species have notable overlap in diet? I know the insider says they share biochemistry, but I share a lot of biochemistry with...

Arent -> true, I read somewhere here that these races were inspired by MoO, but, to be honest, I don't remember that much of MoO lore, it must be some 10...15 years or so since I last played it. Still, one side are faschist d*cks, the other - almost like the Borg... Yay for us humans :D Anyway, didn...

Siber -> we most certainly are reading the same comic, could be I'm interpreting things differently, i.e. worse than they actually are and could be imagining stuff that isn't there

I'm not sure where, if anywhere, the word 'unavoidable' was used to describe either of Alex's stints in prison, but if it was I would bet it was a polite way to not say "We couldn't talk Stillstorm out of it". To me it rather sounds like a polite way of saying "You are our prisoner. You and your sp...

First, hello to all from a new reader of this Comic and the forums. Randomly stumbled across The Outsider when looking for something sci-fi to read and am genuinely impressed by the amount of work that the Author has put into worldbuilding and backstorry, but disappointed at how rarely the comic is ...