Never a moment's rest from babysitting.
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Talita looks up at how tall the extended radiators are and panics.
Talita: –Actually, take them back down.
She gets a radio message from the temps.
Clayton: Boss, where are you? Dominic and Adam are roughhousing.
Adam: Narc!
She switches to the temp channel.
SFX: clk
Talita: Cut it out. I’ll be right there.
She switches the channel back to Bip.
SFX: clk
Talita: I have to go keep the temps from killing each other. Do you need anything else?
Bip: Oh, lots! More welding, electrical work, shield patching, fuel refills for fusion and RCS–
Talita: …Maybe tomorrow.
28 thoughts on “Runaway to the Stars: Page 145”
Darth Biomech
So, uh, ok, I think we saw all 4 walls of the pit at this point, and I don’t seem to understand… How did the Runaway _got_ there, and how are they planning to lift it back up on the tracks again?
It doesn’t seem that the pistons that hold it can extend much further, and if a crane was used, then it should’ve been a Mother Of All Cranes that would be visible on the establishing shots, I think. The entire pit itself could be a gigantic elevator, maybe, but it doesn’t seem like that either – the floor is dirt
JoB
The Runaway was lowered into the pit, complete *with* the adaptable launch loop slide it sits on, by a large-ish crane that travels on the port’s rail system, as part of the automated “night cycle” Talita coded to “clear the rails” as requested by Idrisah through Cheevwut, here:
https://www.runawaytothestars.com/comic/rtts-page-99/
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Considering the Runaway being 196 m in length, that crane’s in the order of 500 m tall. Yup, that’s a *Mother* alright. 😉
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Also, as Teod noted in the comments on page 140, the ship got rotated 90° later on, so the cranes that now sit in the pit likely are able to lift it, too.
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The pit itself used to be the foundations of something that became obsolete and got removed as the original mining operations ceased, so it definitely does *not* double as an elevator. It’s not *just* “dirt” (regolith) but has been made solid somehow, pretty much like the plans for a base on our moon often involve “baking” or “cementing” or … regolith into the brunt of the material needed to build structures and, even more important, radiation shielding with.
arf
Dominic: Narc!?
Adam: BOO! Hisss…!
Clayton: Now that’s just childish, Adam, even by your standards.
Adam: …sssss….
Adam: … that’s… not me.
(I’m not sure whether the Board of Enquiry would pin the blame on Talita, or the idiots who hired these idiots!)
Bear-on-a-tricycle
With the radiators positioned like that, it makes the Runaway look like a dragonfly. 🙂
Vinemaple
Ominously absent from this page: Yao.
Guest
Yao is smoking a fat blunt somewhere
JoB
“… didya connect a *vape* to your suit’s pipeworks???”
“…”
“How do you even turn that on and off while wearing the suit, seeing that it’s sitting behind your back!?”
“… wisha cooood …”
Arcstone
“thoust dear interrupt a gentlemans knightly duel, knave? squealing to the lord of these lands? I say sir, have at thee!”
Comito
I see you, gnome! I haven’t forgotten about you!
Ruby
Ma! They’re killing eachother again!!
Storm
Wow I would absolutely screw up which channel I was talking on, let’s hope Talita is better at keeping track than me….
JoB
It’s now my new headcanon that Bip has acquired full remote control of the two troublemakers’ suits, patched Adams one-word comment onto the radio waves to further incriminate him (note that Adam’s *not* touching any button to have it transmitted to the “temp channel”), and is *desperately* pondering how to get similar control over the *bodies* within the suits so as to minimize the interrupts of Talita working on the Runaway.
Guest
Talita, the permanently harrowed woman
JoB
Take the welding apparatus with you, Talita.
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“Alright, you two, see this here? That’s what I weld stuff with, right out here in the near-vacuum, and if I hear of your stupidolympics happening again, I’m going to use it to weld your suits’ backbacks to an I-beam so that you’ll stay 5m apart at all times, and *don’t* you think you can complain to me about the beam’s weight or whatever!”
A Box Of Fox
“Stupidolympics” is an excellent word
JoB
s/backbacks/back*p*acks/
Phasma Felis
bagpags
evileeyore
I’ve been wondering for awhile if Clayton has figured out that Talita has some sort of off the books side thing going on and is covering for her. And what excuses Talita is using for for leaving the temps on their own to work unsupervised.
Enai
They’re temps, not grade schoolers. They ought to know to not recklessly endanger themselves.
I know that’s too much to ask from Adam specifically, and Dominic seems to be so sopping wet they will acquiesce to any stupid idea that anyone suggests with enough vehemence, but still. They are ostensibly adults and “marking metal chunks” is not the sort of work that actually needs much supervision. I would feel insulted if I had such a job and the boss felt the need to stand next to me to keep me on task.
Arcstone
Well then better prove them right by having an honorable crowbar duel in an eva suit that you’ll die in if it’s punctured.
JoB
Crowbars!? How old-fashioned! They live in an age of vehicles allowing full 3D mobility, and surely wouldn’t want to duel reduced to a surface crawler!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ8T5XTNmoc&t=35s
Hunter
I imagine Bip is going to keep trying to do what they can while Talita’s gone.
Eux
NARC! lghsekjfsdfjkhg wow. i wouldnt assume those two are college age bros but they sure act like it.
Enai
The angry eyebrows in their visors crack me up.
Peter Jensen
The bottom of the transparent part looking like a grumpy frown completes this.
Famout
I suspect the Runaway hasn’t gotten a repair job like this in some time, even excluding the damage. Must feel nice to Bip.
Claire
Up in a gantry, close-up work from a quality welder, plenty of terminals from which Bip can connect and partake in the repairs… This is some quality TLC.
claire
honorable combat.