Star Power III: Fail to the Void!

[Vinyadan]

We're saying a combination of two things: that with this kind of effect she should be seriously injured, and surprise that she got injured at all.

Obviously she's going to be fine.

Maybe she'll discover that she's sterile, get an artificial leg and fight with brittle bones.

...that's how you compensate for superpowers, right? Right?

[T-O-E]

Oh yeah? Well my finger-swords go through your shields! Neener neener!

[MReav]

Guys, she just needs to hide behind some cover. Her health should regen pretty quickly.

[Kwatsu]

If she sent her own troops in, she would tip off the galaxy to her presence. The military would quickly figure out that their is a new hostile force and begin to prepare themselves.

I might be inclined to believe that, if we'd seen Galactic Defence defending, well, ANYTHING so far. The Void Angels clearly don't give two hoots about them; on multiple occasions, they've attacked a station which has at least one representative of Galactic Defence on board (the Chief), so it's not like they were hitting a civilian target that's outside GD's purview, since he was presumably assigned there and isn't on holiday or something.

That means, either the Chief hasn't got around to telling his bosses that the station has become a magnet for mercenary attacks (which seems unlikely given he's competent at everything else) or Galactic Defence just doesn't care. It can't be because the Chief thinks Danica can protect them; he's eager to keep Danica OUT of Galactic Defence's hands, but he can't handwave the damage to the station, so it would make sense for him to mention this to GD to keep her cover, and just tell Danica to lie low while they're around.

[Welf]

I think that's because he slashed with both hands in both directions.

This reminds me of a scene in Primo Levi's The Truce, where Soviet soldiers from Siberia cut the spinal cords of German soldiers and leave them to die.

From an in-comic perspective, if her back is now broken, she could have a chance for character development. I mean, she could have to figure out how to escape and survive when she doesn't just have overwhelming power.

I suppose she will just discover that she can do something new. SEE THE TRUTH!

Now I'm confused. No art blooper, no cop out?
And I'm somewhat curious how this will be resolved. There are 5 pages left, I wonder how they will cram it in.

[Traab]

Now I'm confused. No art blooper, no cop out?
And I'm somewhat curious how this will be resolved. There are 5 pages left, I wonder how they will cram it in.

Page 1: Danica is on the ground helples. Just as the sword finger robot alien guard thing goes to finish her off, we get a vorp angel tackle on the guy while another drags her off.

Page 2: As she is being pulled to safety she watches in horror as the people who were trying to kill her get killed by the people who are trying to kill her because when your enemies fight, thats apparantly a bad thing to her. Add in a few panels of her shouting out no or we have to save them.

Page 3: The vorp angel who dragged her out of there shoves her in an escape pod and launches it, leaving himself behind. Cue more dramatic screaming as she watches through the porthole as the vorp angels ship gets destroyed. She passes out from her injuries. Oh, and through the magic of... well... magic. She isnt targeted by the countess in her little escape pod.

Page 4: The station goes back on alert as they detect an incoming vorp signal. They bring in the escape pod and find danica lying on the ground badly wounded. Cue looks of horror.

Page 5: She is in a hospital bed giving her debriefing, first panel goes something like, "... and then I woke up here." The chief tells her good job and she wallows in her guilt a bit more. Then a single panel cliffhangar. Could be a dramatic line about how the military will finally step in, or could be a splash panel of the countess and her army forming up to invade.

[Welf]

Page 1: Danica is on the ground helples. Just as the sword finger robot alien guard thing goes to finish her off, we get a vorp angel tackle on the guy while another drags her off.

Page 2: As she is being pulled to safety she watches in horror as the people who were trying to kill her get killed by the people who are trying to kill her because when your enemies fight, thats apparantly a bad thing to her. Add in a few panels of her shouting out no or we have to save them.

Page 3: The vorp angel who dragged her out of there shoves her in an escape pod and launches it, leaving himself behind. Cue more dramatic screaming as she watches through the porthole as the vorp angels ship gets destroyed. She passes out from her injuries. Oh, and through the magic of... well... magic. She isnt targeted by the countess in her little escape pod.

Page 4: The station goes back on alert as they detect an incoming vorp signal. They bring in the escape pod and find danica lying on the ground badly wounded. Cue looks of horror.

Page 5: She is in a hospital bed giving her debriefing, first panel goes something like, "... and then I woke up here." The chief tells her good job and she wallows in her guilt a bit more. Then a single panel cliffhangar. Could be a dramatic line about how the military will finally step in, or could be a splash panel of the countess and her army forming up to invade.

That would sad ending. Poor Void Angels, their only crime was to be murderers.

[Traab]

Admit it though, you can practically SEE this being the end result.

[Hopeless]

So how long before the Chief and a squad of his crew take that Void ship that's had its bombs defused and jumps out after Danica?

I so could see them picking up Danica in that escape pod after the battle is finished since the Countess didn't tell her troops to hunt down any escape pods since having no ships to pick them up they're left to die...

[AgentPaper]

What's with the escape pod ideas? Are we forgetting that we're talking about a Star Sentinel here, who can fly through space at the speed of light, travel between distant stars faster than the speed of light, and tear through battleship hulls like they're made out of butter? An escape pod would be meaningless to her. It wouldn't protect her in any way, and wouldn't stop her from busting out and saving the dumb shmuck that stuck her in there.

I mean, unless she was literally paralyzed by this attack, but Mookie doesn't seem the type to go for permanent, actually debilitating injuries like that. Although then again, maybe she'll get it fixed with nanites or some garbage and continue to whine about how her spine is now half-metal even though it doesn't actually inconvenience her at all.

[slayerx]

I might be inclined to believe that, if we'd seen Galactic Defence defending, well, ANYTHING so far. The Void Angels clearly don't give two hoots about them; on multiple occasions, they've attacked a station which has at least one representative of Galactic Defence on board (the Chief), so it's not like they were hitting a civilian target that's outside GD's purview, since he was presumably assigned there and isn't on holiday or something.

That means, either the Chief hasn't got around to telling his bosses that the station has become a magnet for mercenary attacks (which seems unlikely given he's competent at everything else) or Galactic Defence just doesn't care. It can't be because the Chief thinks Danica can protect them; he's eager to keep Danica OUT of Galactic Defence's hands, but he can't handwave the damage to the station, so it would make sense for him to mention this to GD to keep her cover, and just tell Danica to lie low while they're around.

Well, just because the military is incompetent does not undermine the merit of the countess's plan. In only means that she grossly over-estimated her enemy, assuming they were competent, and the galaxy is probably doomed

Though seriously, the lack of the military is indeed a glaring issue. There really is not a reason at all why the military has not been seen or heard from, especially when you consider that the station is the all so important source of galatic data. I mean the military should probably have forces that could arrive in a single jump, and should have sent forces to investigate after the first attack. Heck it could have added something interesting to 2nd chapter, as the military would arrive to the station to investigate what happened and the chief would be trying to keep Danica hidden because of what he knows would happen if they found out about her.

[MReav]

So, this happened.

Void Archangel, activate the self-destruct. You already seem willing to blow up your own ships, at least now it will serve a tactical purpose.

[slayerx]

Vile hypocrite? Hypocrite for doing what exactly? Did the vorp's have some kind of "no man left behind" protocol? cause it seems like "failure means death" is the standard around them... With how he was so ready to dispose of his first group that failed him it seems like execution for failure would be common amongst their ranks. Why rebel now?

Really, i feel like we missed a page here.

In a way it DOES seem reasonably that they would revolt, but at the same time it begs the question why they never revolted before. You kinda of have to ask why they would ever get started in an outfit like this if they cared about about the lives of others. Heck the one guy his calling his commander "vile" and yet these same troops would not hesitate for a second to blow up an entire space station of civilians.


I mean think of how other minions work out... Many are just too afraid of their boss to ever rebel. Others are just as vile as their boss so they don't care if minions get executed. And Some are honestly loyal no matter how despicable their boss.... In a way you can get why the minions would not rebel. If they don't fit the minion role, then you have to ask why they follow the villain in the first place.

[Trazoi]

Some minions just want to party.

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(I don't know why I made that...)

edit: V: fair enough. Don't want a stupid GIF to actively hurt someone.

[Lord Raziere]

whoa Trazoi, be careful, I think that thing needs an epilepsy warning...

what? just saying...

[AMX]

Vile hypocrite? Hypocrite for doing what exactly?

I guess he's a hypocrite for running away instead of applying that "failure means death" thing to himself.

[Vinyadan]

Wooo hoooo! Me too! Mookie Disco Epilepsy!

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[Psychonaut]

So, this happened.

Permanent link for posterity.

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SHHWIIISH!

FWEEEN! ZAP!



SHHHHRRRAAAK!! "AAAAAGH!" "AAAAAGH!"

SHLIKT! SHLIKT! SHLIKT! "Too aaaaah!"

SHLIKT! SHLIKT! "AAAAAAAGH!"

[Bobikus]

Was waiting for the tension killer. Lunica being struck from behind multiple times and having slash marks about her spine but just treating it was "don't be scared of the pain" will do it.

[Cavelcade]

I actually like this - the...whatevers, are actually a genuine threat and feel like one. Danica can't just kill them like the others, and her plan to let the void angels escape isn't working, except for the one guy she doesn't want to escape (50/50 as to whether he will or not). There's still lots of potential for snark here, but there's also the potential for...and I hesitate to utter this word in a Mookie thread...tension!

[Kato]

I'll give him that... Danica failing like that is somewhat unexpected. We know SHE'll make it but the angels seems pretty much crushed. Though, I do wonder what kind of armor makes you tougher than a spacecraft.

[Traab]

I want to know why claw strikes turned the metal door into a pipe bomb. Thats a lot of deadly shrapnel impaling people from a slice. Also, thank god these star power killing aliens have no ranged weapons.

[Grif]

Hey, even if the pieces don't make sense, at least there's potential for tension now, right?

Though now I'm questioning the role of Void Angels in all this.

[Kwatsu]

Hey, even if the pieces don't make sense, at least there's potential for tension now, right?

Though now I'm questioning the role of Void Angels in all this.

Given their client and their boss have just flung them under a bus, and they're being ripped apart by bizarre aliens after recruiting the person they were supposed to be killing (AND after bombs were hidden on their battleships without them knowing) I imagine the Voidies themselves are asking a similar question.

[Mr. McGician]

Well, I like the fact the same threat has lasted a few pages now. In a typical Dominic Deegan story we would have had several threats be puffed up and deflated by nonsense in the same time span.

The main problem with this is that the only reason there's tension is that Danica is acting stupid. She still has no stake in this fight; it's her enemies fighting each other. She should have used the confusion to kill or incapacitate Archvorp, dismantle the shipnearthestationblowup mechanism (if possible) and then leave. But that would have been easier, thus less tension.

[guttering flame]

These guys may be the best in hand to claw combat but how seriously can we take them if that's all they're good for? It'll take them years just to conquer exterminate a single planet (unless their numbers are humongous). Sure they're scary in the gladiatorial ring but they'd be microbes in a galaxy wide war.

[Kornaki]

These guys may be the best in hand to claw combat but how seriously can we take them if that's all they're good for? It'll take them years just to conquer exterminate a single planet (unless their numbers are humongous). Sure they're scary in the gladiatorial ring but they'd be microbes in a galaxy wide war.

How many people are you going to get to volunteer to be the planet that is exterminated to stave off the enemy for a year?

I'm fairly certain their ships have ship to ship weapons, seeing how that fight from the previous invasion we saw was taking place in space.

[T-O-E]

<snip>

I predict this will end with a 'Hail to the Sentinel*'.

*Deegan

[guttering flame]

How many people are you going to get to volunteer to be the planet that is exterminated to stave off the enemy for a year?

I'm fairly certain their ships have ship to ship weapons, seeing how that fight from the previous invasion we saw was taking place in space.

This millenia their ship to ship technique is similar to their hand to hand technique: ramming and even uses disposable ships in the bargain.

[Kornaki]

This millenia their ship to ship technique is similar to their hand to hand technique: ramming and even uses disposable ships in the bargain.

This is just standard villain fare. The Countess needs to appear to be so overpowering that her troops can afford to use hand-to-hand combat and still come out overwhelmingly ahead in this fight. We'll see them use legitimate weapons later. It's by no means good writing, but I don't think this fight is intended to be representative of the best weaponry they have available