Comments on: Flip Book Short Story, p.1

By: Galaxion | FB 02

Galaxion | FB 02 — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:09:27 +0000

[...] Contact Team mission was like. In the “Galaxioverse” (I will borrow this term from Nate’s comments on the last page ^_^), 99% of the planets the Galaxion’s SCT survey look like this– a [...]

By: Tara

Tara — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:42:33 +0000

Well, TerSA is a big private sector corporation, with interests in exploration, colonization, and exploitation (mining planets for their raw materials). They are the major player in space travel, and consequently they have lots of money. IP is more like the Coast Guard. Military, yes, but they depend on government funding which, like with NASA, is never quite sufficient.

The Myradi are an alien race, but they aren’t the local answer to the Klingons/Cylons/Gamilons. We’ll find out more about them eventually. I suppose you could compare them to the Vulcans…?

Hmmm, this short story in particular may end up being a little misleading, in regards to the IP vs. TerSA rivalry, since a number of the finer details of their respective organizations were firmed up during that period of time after the print comics and before the webcomic. So it may not quite be canon, but… close enough.

By: Nate

Nate — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:33:46 +0000

I always assumed TerSA was the NASA equivalent while IP was USAF/USN/DoD. Civilian/scientific versus military. Hence why IP always has more money and better gear, assuming the same rough kind of political situation exists in the Galaxioverse as in the present-day USA, And presumably the ‘Myradi’ are the requisite Unknown Alien Threat requiring the existence of a big-budget space military.

Is that an accurate summation or are there deeper subtleties to it?