(Cafeteria. We’ve been here before.)
And now we will take a short break from any kind of plot at all for a bit of expository Galaxion history. The plot will resume in… er… well, who cares about plot anyway, right? Isn’t character development fun? *nods vigorously*
I just realized that if the population on board is 70 people, what I’ve just drawn here represents nearly a third of the crew, all milling about in and around the cafeteria. Huh. Well, I guess it’s suppertime and all…
You’ve still got a few days left to jump on the bandwagon for f the January Special on the print version of Galaxion Book 1: The Jump!
Darvin and Fusella’s banter is cracking me up.
And yes… character development is very fun indeed! ::waves at Fusella::
Character development is always integral for a well-crafted story. Please, carry on. ^^
Weird typographical note: I went looking for “ƶ” and while I found it in my character viewer on my computer, Wikipedia doesn’t have a file on it as of when I typed this!
The crossed Z is a European variant style, I believe.
Yes, crossing the Z is a habit Tara and I picked up in German class growing up. Our teacher taught us to cross the Z’s and the 7′s. I think it’s supposed to help differentiate the Z’s from 2′s and the 7′s from 1′s, since they also draw their 1′s with a long leading tail, so if it’s sloppily done, it can look like a 7. The 7 and 1 thing makes sense to me, but honestly, I can’t think of a time when you could not determine within context whether something were a Z or a 2.
My handwriting is atrocious, and I often mix up my Zs for 2s. As well as my 6s for Zs. Usually it’s when I’ve written down call numbers for books (I work in a library) or airline reservation numbers.
But it definitely happens. Maybe I should start crossing my Zs…
Sorry, that’s 6s for Gs. Obviously it would make no sense for me to mix up 6s for Zs…
If you’d ever seen my 10-yr-old’s handwriting, you’d believe me when I tell you that mixing up 6s for Zs makes total sense to me.
That aside, good to get to a History Lesson!
Hmm. “Yuglaf” spelled backwards is “Falguy”. Could he have been the fall guy for something?
Interesting to hear how the Galaxion got its odd Nautilus design. It always struck me as out of the norm for a star ship to have so many curves to its design, but that makes sense.
1/3 of the crew on a meal-break at a time seems perfectly reasonable. Don’t naval vessels generally have 3 shifts so they can have people ready at all times? Does the Galaxion even maintain that state of readiness?
When I saw “Mr. Deloren” I read it as “Mr. Delorean” and wondered what would happen if you could get him up to 88mph.
I’ve always been curious in which direction does the ship fly in. Is the lip of the ship it’s front? It’s back? Does it fly “sideways” (i.e. we’re looking at the front). That would actually make sense given this design and the lack of drag in space. Though the lack of symmetry makes finding the center of mass interesting.
Oh, wait…we’ve had this discussion before, haven’t we.
To be honest I read this page about 5 times before I noticed it didn’t say “Delorean”. Eesh. :p