Note: map not to scale.
Road trip! We’re off to New York Comic Con this week. There are many sights I’d like to see while I’m in the city (not to mention any number of geocaches I’d like to find), but I suspect all I’m going to get to see this time is the inside of Jacob Javitz Convention Center! I’d love to meet my New York readers, so be sure to drop by if you’re planning to attend. I don’t know yet where on the con floor my table will be, other than somewhere in the Webcomics Pavilion area, but I’m sure you’ll have no trouble spotting Aria on my Galaxion banner.
And to get to the lander, she’d have to:
–convince the Orehu (and Scavina) to let her go
–Go outside (!!)
–Possibly fight through the Rautani
In other words, probably a bad idea.
Someone uses her com button at the end of Chapter 7. So, is she going to notice that she’s lost her com button or is she going to try to get to the surface?
Hey… that’s right! I’d forgotten about that. I wonder what became of the com button?
There’s probably a cat playing with it somewhere.
Looks to me that we are about to see some Zandar magic to fix her comm button and boost it so the ship can locate them.
Speaking of maps, I think we’re off one. I don’t recall ever having seen anything like this scene before — and I’ve been reading Galaxion since 1993. So unless I’m misremembering, we’re now officially into part of the plot that has never appeared before in any form, small press, big press or online. Am I right? Because if I am, we should totally have a party and stuff! Fusella can make cookies, and I’ll bring pie!
Not quite… though a lot of the scenery looks different, so I can see how you might think so. We will definitely be in brand new territory by the end of chapter nine. You can bet I’ve got my eyes on that goal!
But going off your average of 4 or 5 pages a month and 25 pages a chapter, the end of chapter 9 is still 6 months to a year off! However will we contain ourselves in anticipation!?!?!?!
See you at NYCC.
This is what happens when grunts rely on technology instead of good old fashioned nav’ skills… I’m sorry but for a survey contact team they appear to possess amatuerish skills and patrol discipline at best..
In their defense, it seems that whenever they do a survey the planet they’re studying is not inhabited. Thus they are probably out of their element here and still fumbling around with a second First Contact scenario. That, and they’re underground; by what reference points are they going to use?
This may be more accurate a description, since they have rules for everything “skills” aren’t exactly what can be put into the proper box. (And they also have nothing like 500-miles-an-hour tape !)
Tara – great to meet you at NYCC yesterday. My wife really liked your books (her first comment was “I love the curly hair”), and can’t wait to give them to the kids (Charlie, Petra, Jane, and Eleonor). All the best, – Tim
Thanks, Tim– I was pleased to meet you as well. You can tell the kids that was the most names I’ve ever written in one book!
Hi Tara!
How did NYCC go?
I plan to do a write-up soon… but not tonight. Just got back and I’m exhausted. Fortunately, tomorrow’s page is already set to go, so I can go collapse!
Tara, it was great meeting you at NYCC, thanks for the autographs on Friday.
Cheers, Tripp!
I looked at this map and immediately thought of another map Tara had a hand in:
http://www.galaxioncomics.com/images/wayward.jpg
- So that’s how Aria ended up wandering around Canada with Rubel and the others: she was just trying to find her way back to the lander and got lost!