Well, that's a twist, but at least we know where the ship went down! Our pilot appears to be an android. Deer-hunting girl seems to have a lot to worry about!
Wow... I hadn't thought about Star Man's Son (also known as Daybreak: 2250 A.D) for ages. You have a point, there are points of similarity there for sure; however, from the feel of the introduction I was thinking of your brother, Fairport. Specifically Heirs of Empire, on Paradal where all advanced technology was viewed as the work of the devil.
I've still got my 1960s (rather fragile) paperback) of that. It was one of my first Andre Nortons. (Most of the rest of the were lost in the storage unit fire of 2010). I'm kinda afraid to try reading it now.
I remember the joy when each new Andre Norton book came out...
BTW: Our dad had first edition signed and numbered copies of all "Doc" Smith's "Skylark" and "Lensman" books - well, he had the even earlier HC of "The Skylark of Space" - and we grew up on them and other SF.
If you're familiar with E.E."Doc" Smith, PhD and his books, think about them when you read the "Dahak" books.
I agree with megados, she is talking about the ship when she says "it". She hasn't noticed the AI yet. That will be a mind blowing event for her when realizes AIs exist and she is face to face with one.
I was thinking the huntress first saw the ship and then the outsider. So I was under the impression that 'it' was the humanoid.
From the intro, I got the impression that the soulless were shunned lest they cost one their soul. The ship is inert, relatively easy to ignore. A soulless one though might be able to demand attention (weapon's fire communicates a desire for attention :-D). The huntress seems intent on not drawing attention from the creature not the downed ship.
Ya, looking at it again, it does look like the huntress first saw the ship and then saw the AI. She must have figured out the AI was not human thus called the AI "it" instead of "her".
Because of the use of the term soulless in the introduction, I think the huntress has been raised that those from the technological world are demons or the like. So the use of it is appropriate, in her mind. I doubt that the huntress knows enough to realize that it is an artificial lifeform, just that is isn't a member of the pure tribes.
points at "stormwind13 " 's post yeah what they said..
what i was trying to type an failed miserably,, all not tribe = it .. an huntress wood not know that was an AI ,, with out looking close...
- "AAAAAAAAA! 'Tis a metal devil of the old world! She'll kill me! Or feel me up, then kill me! Tell me to cut all the bad things out of my diet! Make me go vegetarian! Make my ears bleed with her swearing! Criticise my décor and tell me to co-ordinate my colours!"
- "I think you have me confused with a whole bunch of other people..."
Most of these were done before Terri went to Mayo and even though we all knew she was going to get good news, we still thought she deserved a vacation.
Good plan and greatly appreciated. These side stories are the best "emergency fillers" I've ever seen done for any web comic. Usually emergency fillers consist of non-canon stick figures being silly.
Stick figures can be a perfectly adequate media if coupled with a good story line. My only gripe with them is when people cut and paste the stick figures.
Each stick figure of mine is hand-crafted. Except for the ones I C&Ped because it was hard enough to draw stick-Cent lying down at the oral surgeon's office ONE time, never mind more than once...
Other members of the community may be indecently quick to disregard your casual shortcuts (and shortpastes?) when it has been your turn to shoulder the visual-based artistic duties of the webcomic,@Tokyo Rose -- but not me! Just think of poor Terri, lying in in the oral surgeon's chaise lounge, covered in all that paste! It is not to be tolerated! Someone needs to be willing to defy your impressive might and incendiary, all-consuming wrath and boldly speak out against such lazy compromises and violations of the sacred webcomic code of ethics! And that person is ... @Sheela! ^_^
(I, on the other hand, think everything you have ever done, or considered the possibility of doing, is just wonderful. Please carry on in the most satisfactory and self-indulgent way possible, O Laureate of the Internet! ^_^)
I'm not seeing any clear indicators as to how much time has passed since the crash. I'm guessing from the state of the AI's clothing that it was very recent (days at most).
I don't think the clothing is any indication: it looks like it's made of rather solid synthetic material, which would likely neither decompose nor soil in these conditions.
The exposed metal of the arm is curious: from the looks, I tend to think it was not made that way, but rather originally covered in skin etc. It might have been biological skin that decomposed completely, which would indicate a long time -- but then, why is her face unaffected? Another option is burned off synthetic skin I guess; which wouldn't provide for any time scale...
Another mystery is the eyes: by canon, "dead" androids have diluted pupils -- but hers are narrow. (Rather *too* narrow, if anything?) But if she isn't dead, why hasn't she moved at all? Doesn't want to scare the "native"? Or is she immobilised?...
As far as her left hand is concerned, I think she's injured. In panel 4, you can see her right hand, and it has it's bioplastic, or biological skin intact, but it looks a little beat up. Her right side and her left hand says she took some damage. * edit: @antrik, you saw it! :D
I don't think she's dead, because from panel 4 to panel 5, she lifts her head.
"Metals of the old world" is a phrase that describes anything man made other than what they have made for themselves. It is symbolic of the tribe's belief that they are pure and everyone else is not.
So her knife and arrowheads are made of metal but they were made by one from the pure tribes.
Might be a bit of both. A few hundred years of lying on (or just under) the ground will turn most low alloy steels into a piles of rust that would easily pass for ore.
That would be why I said two hundred instead of seventy five. The lowest carbon steels (essentially pure iron) can last for millennia in a fairly dry climate but are short on strength.
jus saying,,, i made a ceramic knife out of a old aircraft radome so it might not be metal...
i have also made arrow heads out of other materials.. glass , plastic , bone , an fiber glassed mono-filament.. all worked well and hold an edge..
That is a good question. I had pegged it as a malfunction, but that was an assumption on my part, because there didn't seem to be any outward indication of any hostile action. That doesn't necessarily rule it out though.
So I am looking at the pattern of what I first thought was rust on the skimmer. I'm pretty sure that it's actually dirt. Not necessarily especially recent dirt, I'd give it a few weeks. If you look on the last page there is an area of differently colored soil right on the rim on the edge of the rim which lacks any of the larger root structures and, if I've got my directions right, that scrape happens to be nearly in line with the area of the crash.
My guess, based on the angle of the crash and of the impact, is that the pilot wound up in a dive, scraped on the edge, and tried to pull up to avoid a total crash but wound up underneath the lip of that sinkhole.
They may also have been trying to land in the sinkhole to do something like an unobtrusive botanical survey, and come in too fast for some reason or other.
My bet, based on the relative height of the crab grass near the scrape right on the rim (near the top left corner of the last panel of the previous page), and the location of the crash, and condition of the vehicle, is that it happened a few weeks ago.
Don't look at it! Yep that oughta solve it. :D
In her early days she also wrote some historical fiction.
I remember the joy when each new Andre Norton book came out...
BTW: Our dad had first edition signed and numbered copies of all "Doc" Smith's "Skylark" and "Lensman" books - well, he had the even earlier HC of "The Skylark of Space" - and we grew up on them and other SF.
If you're familiar with E.E."Doc" Smith, PhD and his books, think about them when you read the "Dahak" books.
...and she is an android...
*lol* culture clash ahead =P
an unless hunter is staring,, " it " is a outsider,, she wont know " it " is a AI.
From the intro, I got the impression that the soulless were shunned lest they cost one their soul. The ship is inert, relatively easy to ignore. A soulless one though might be able to demand attention (weapon's fire communicates a desire for attention :-D). The huntress seems intent on not drawing attention from the creature not the downed ship.
what i was trying to type an failed miserably,, all not tribe = it .. an huntress wood not know that was an AI ,, with out looking close...
- "I think you have me confused with a whole bunch of other people..."
>:=)>
'cuz I'm a doggy ... see ?
*points paw towards self*
And I'm handsome!
by lexicon : handsome is male.. an cute is female..
*bribes with tuna*
Thanks Diz.
Crease
Whiteout
iz how i reads em...
jus sayin
Each stick figure of mine is hand-crafted. Except for the ones I C&Ped because it was hard enough to draw stick-Cent lying down at the oral surgeon's office ONE time, never mind more than once...
(I, on the other hand, think everything you have ever done, or considered the possibility of doing, is just wonderful. Please carry on in the most satisfactory and self-indulgent way possible, O Laureate of the Internet! ^_^)
*snicker* Throwin' Sheela under the bus, are you? Dreadful, just dreadful. :D
I'm not caught up on Crease, and Whiteout yet. >.<
Now, did someone mention cyberpath ?
Sound tasty to me. :)
The exposed metal of the arm is curious: from the looks, I tend to think it was not made that way, but rather originally covered in skin etc. It might have been biological skin that decomposed completely, which would indicate a long time -- but then, why is her face unaffected? Another option is burned off synthetic skin I guess; which wouldn't provide for any time scale...
Another mystery is the eyes: by canon, "dead" androids have diluted pupils -- but hers are narrow. (Rather *too* narrow, if anything?) But if she isn't dead, why hasn't she moved at all? Doesn't want to scare the "native"? Or is she immobilised?...
I don't think she's dead, because from panel 4 to panel 5, she lifts her head.
So her knife and arrowheads are made of metal but they were made by one from the pure tribes.
Admittedly, after a couple hundred years, it probably doesn't make much of a difference either way :-)
i have also made arrow heads out of other materials.. glass , plastic , bone , an fiber glassed mono-filament.. all worked well and hold an edge..
(No idea what "fiber glassed mono-filament" is supposed to be?...)
My guess, based on the angle of the crash and of the impact, is that the pilot wound up in a dive, scraped on the edge, and tried to pull up to avoid a total crash but wound up underneath the lip of that sinkhole.
They may also have been trying to land in the sinkhole to do something like an unobtrusive botanical survey, and come in too fast for some reason or other.
My bet, based on the relative height of the crab grass near the scrape right on the rim (near the top left corner of the last panel of the previous page), and the location of the crash, and condition of the vehicle, is that it happened a few weeks ago.