And then we find out the real reason why the war started.orion1836 wrote:He finds out that Umiak taste like lobster when you take out the cyborg bits.
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And then we find out the real reason why the war started.orion1836 wrote:He finds out that Umiak taste like lobster when you take out the cyborg bits.
"Pop a poppler in your mouth..."Sweforce wrote:And then we find out the real reason why the war started.orion1836 wrote:He finds out that Umiak taste like lobster when you take out the cyborg bits.
That was my headcanon, when I played StarCraft 1 at school - zergs taste like lobsters.orion1836 wrote: He finds out that Umiak taste like lobster when you take out the cyborg bits.
No, there were four scouts and one support ship, and the whereabouts of the other three scouts are unknown to us.Murph wrote:Perhaps this has been asked, but what about the other four ships? Could one of them have stumbled onto the Umiak? Could one of them come in to the southern border of the Loroi and they already know about Earth? At some point they have to make some sort of contact unless the other four are support ships only and the Bellarmine is the only scout.
Yes but we are still missing those ships. The area is so large, they have to make contact of some sort.GeoModder wrote:No, there were four scouts and one support ship, and the whereabouts of the other three scouts are unknown to us.Murph wrote:Perhaps this has been asked, but what about the other four ships? Could one of them have stumbled onto the Umiak? Could one of them come in to the southern border of the Loroi and they already know about Earth? At some point they have to make some sort of contact unless the other four are support ships only and the Bellarmine is the only scout.
I doubt one of the other scouts could have reached the southern Union border though. 10-15 jumps (translates roughly to 40-60 lightyears) can't be enough to cross outside Loroi -and Umiak borders to the south (I assume the Maiad sector).
Given the nature of the strip so far, I'd suspect that the others were similarly ambushed as Bellarmine was, but had no last second implausible rescue of anyone.Murph wrote:Yes but we are still missing those ships. The area is so large, they have to make contact of some sort.GeoModder wrote:No, there were four scouts and one support ship, and the whereabouts of the other three scouts are unknown to us.Murph wrote:Perhaps this has been asked, but what about the other four ships? Could one of them have stumbled onto the Umiak? Could one of them come in to the southern border of the Loroi and they already know about Earth? At some point they have to make some sort of contact unless the other four are support ships only and the Bellarmine is the only scout.
I doubt one of the other scouts could have reached the southern Union border though. 10-15 jumps (translates roughly to 40-60 lightyears) can't be enough to cross outside Loroi -and Umiak borders to the south (I assume the Maiad sector).
Hmm.. You may be right, of course. I always just assumed that it was waiting for them. It seems to fit the story better in my head, and having all the scout ships/crews destroyed does create an avenue in the story for Alex to be the only representative of humanity involved (which rather seemed the point of the whole comic).Werra wrote:It doesn't look like Bellarmine was ambushed. She was only fired upon after she tried making contact. Their adversary seemed as surprised as the Bellarmine.
I'm not sure that they're mutually exclusive, depending on the attacking ship's capabilities.Werra wrote:The second salvo also only came when Alex made that comm call to the Lieutenant(?). Could be a coincidence, but to me it all strongly indicates that their assailants desperately wanted to remain hidden from the combatants.
Its more likely the assailants were just hitting the biggest pieces again.Werra wrote:The second salvo also only came when Alex made that comm call to the Lieutenant(?). Could be a coincidence, but to me it all strongly indicates that their assailants desperately wanted to remain hidden from the combatants.
Could it be that the assailants were the Historians?GeoModder wrote:Its more likely the assailants were just hitting the biggest pieces again.Werra wrote:The second salvo also only came when Alex made that comm call to the Lieutenant(?). Could be a coincidence, but to me it all strongly indicates that their assailants desperately wanted to remain hidden from the combatants.
It's a popular theory, and there's certainly no concrete evidence to suggest they didn't. There's really not a whole lot of evidence one way or another, but the Historians do seem pretty paranoid, and it's hard not to feel likewise in return.Murph wrote:Could it be that the assailants were the Historians?