What’s wrong with a space ship being purple? Nothing, that’s what. 
Oh, and please note that if you are amongst the clever and sharp-eyed who’ve already spotted that the corridor in the second panel curves the wrong way, be advised that I’ve already slapped my forehead over it and fixed the problem in my to-be-printed files. However, I’m too frustrated/lazy right now to re-load the corrected version, so we’ll have to live with this version online. Sigh.
(Aha… in that last panel you can just make out the four-pointed TerSA star on Vessa’s Academy pin.)
I don’t know how genre-savvy Vessa is, but when they’re this far out in deep space, they’re bound to find something to survey.
Insectoid – Well, she hasn’t figured out that she’s in a STORY!!!! I mean, in real life, they’d slog through, cut rations, get testy and bored and maybe make it through to civilization in time or maybe all die. Sort of like the early arctic and antarctic explorers.
WE trust that something exciting is going to happen because we know this is a STORY and there’s a plot. But if she knew there was a story, she’d be freaking out!
I REALLY like these formal uniforms.Much more so than their usual getup. Which is kinda the point, this being funeral, but I never understood the tendency of Star Trek and the like of putting people in skin tight leotards and jumpsuits.
There are a few reasons that the Federation would use the skin tight uniforms. A first is that it would be easier to get into a vacuum and environmental suit if there was a sudden loss of atmosphere. With all that fabric flopping around the probability that a suit would not seal goes up a lot. Couple that with hastily fighting against air pressure loss and a spacer’s chance of survival goes to single digits, if not really close to zero.
The second is that the fabric could be modulating the wearer’s personal environment, maybe regulating personal temperature or capturing excessive moisture. It may not be on the scale as the Colonial Union’s battle suits, maybe more passive. It would save on design aspects for a ship’s atmosphere scrubbers and thus ship building costs.
Yeah, I was gonna say–isn’t there tons to survey out in the uninhabited reaches of the far universe?
True, but that’s only from the ship. If they stop to inspect anything, well, they’ve stopped. I’d think that would be a big no-no given the length of the trip ahead and the state of their supplies.
I don’t know exactly how fast they can travel, but given that at best they’d need to be resupplied twice just to make it “home” (whether that’s the Galaxion’s home port or just colonized space, I don’t know), I’m guessing their best bet is assistance from nearby Myradi.
On a different note, I really like how individualized and personable everyone is in the first and second panels, even the low-detail background figures, and the red under Vessa’s eyes is a nice touch.
Aww. We don’t get the eulogy.
It’s the navy – training and maintenance. Nobody will be idle.