Outsider page 143

Considerably higher, right? Doesn't her GURPS sheet say she's, like, in her fifties???

Alexander Caldwell

Sounds to me like an analogy of "our big daddy the Admiral", or the Godfather, i.e. someone who's running the show while being in the back, someone without who's approval or consent nothing happens

Valdis Trautmanis

I think the pilots haven't been giving Tempo the kind of attention she demands while she wasn't immediately in front of them, a sort of professional irreverence where they can get away with it.

TSH

Clearly there’s a bandwidth issue then, as there having the meeting in person still even with the narrow confines of the shuttle.

Grant Swire

Shouldn't momentum be carrying the shuttle away from the jump point? Might take a while, but since there is nothing in space to slow their momentum (and the blast may have even sped them up), at some point they should be far enough away from the Umiak forces for the Barsam to slip around and pick them up. The problem is in letting the Barsam know that they survived without also alerting the Umiak. Presumably, there is a large amount of debris speeding away from the station at high velocity, so even if the Barsam assumed the shuttle survived and went to look, it is going to be difficult to find it without breaking communication silence.

There's a couple of faces we haven't seen in a while. No really, it's been 2 years, 7 months and 3 days since Tempo last appeared in a page, and it's almost been 3 whole years since we last saw Fireblade. I guess that manual door release was a real brain teaser ;P

Steely Snark

After a few minutes on his lap, it's to show everyone that she's now "spoken for".

TSH

Is Talon implying that she finds Tempo overbearing and controlling by referring to her as mother, or is it a sardonic remark about her relatively higher age?

TSH

They don't actually need line of sight for telepathy, as they've been in contact throughout.

TSH

well we did learn something, they need line of sight for telepathy.

Grant Swire

Wow; haven't seen those two in a while. Glad they didn't get blown out a hull breach off-panel, Ackbar-style. Also, not sure how to vote on Beryl with a ponytail; her normal "Space Rachel" hairdo is just so darn cute!

Alexander Caldwell

Well, one good thing came of the mispost: The link from email went to the 404 page which I had not seen before. It features the Patreon mascot floating in space, reminiscent of the end of the prologue, which gave me a good chuckle.

Peter Jensen

@#!$!% Patreon and their "improvements." I'll re-upload the page when I get home.

Arioch

I'm halway worried that we're not getting 2 pages but instead Arioch accidentally hit submit twice.

TSH

the waiting for fixed image is worse than waiting for new page

not just me I guess then!

Blu3wolf

It's Halloween. It's a ghost image. Doh.

I concur, the image is indeed broken :(

Steely Snark

Image is broken

Constantine