Comments on: p.271 (Chapter Nine)

By: Dwight Williams

Dwight Williams — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 11:24:58 +0000

Imagine the arguments between Augustusians and Schaferites at the universities!

By: Stone Rhino

Stone Rhino — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:54:04 +0000

Love Aria’s expression in panel 7. The “Oh crap! I’ve been spotted!!!” look.

By: Prestwick

Prestwick — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 09:42:58 +0000

Somehow I don’t think this scenario was in the Jax Augustus playbook! She does seem to be slowly acclimatising to her surroundings whether she likes it or not. Survive and she might well be the next Jax Augustus and decades in the future a different survey team on some far and distant world could be saying in a disapproving tone “But as Aria Schafer once said…”

By: NickPheas

NickPheas — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:24:21 +0000

I don’t think the Miesti have encountered anyone so able to resist their control. Iron bars do not a prison make, when you’re a sinister mind controlling space butterfly.

By: Fred

Fred — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 13:04:49 +0000

Looks like she can only hear thoughts and can only translate spoken language when the thinker/speaker is within a certain distance of her.

By: Insectoid

Insectoid — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:14:54 +0000

They were probably hoping that the Miesti knocking her out would last for longer than this, and/or that the trenat would keep her subdued.

By: cookie

cookie — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:20:41 +0000

Considering how many Hiawatha personnel (63 by my count) the Ruatani have stolen away in the past ten years, it’s amazing that their idea of a holding cell doesn’t extend to locking the door.