Idrisah is totallllly being dragged into this against her will guuuuys
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Gillie turns back to Talita, looking annoyed.
Gillie: (ASL) Anyways… The ferrets aren’t going to approve it unless we submit to investigation.
Talita: Which wouldn’t be a problem, if we weren’t repairing it illegally…
Gillie looks at her wife, who has been spying on the conversation over her shoulder.
Gillie: (ASL) Well… there is a way to… skirt the issue.
Idrisah sighs dramatically and rolls her eyes.
Idrisah: (ASL) So, Ixion sends out most of its shipments in convoys, which are batch-approved. If we shadow copy a SIMS code for a vessel that Ixion owns, it should draw way less suspicion.
26 thoughts on “Runaway to the Stars: Page 173”
Teod
Did she sigh, or did she say “sigh”?
JoB
Hmmm, Idrisah? Considering that the SIMS are routinely used – and presumably recorded – whenever a spacecraft uses a wormhole gate, do you mean that you’ll need to duplicate the SIMS of an Ixion-owned ship that’s currently and officially in the Dirtball system?
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[expects the cpt of the original spacecraft to have a couple interesting discussions with authorities doing section control later]
ryttyr
I love seeing our four little criminals working together
thegriffin88
Don’t they already technically own it since it was brought in for scrap? I don’t think these 3 have enough scratch to buy a spaceship.
I’ve never eaten a cricket but I’d like to try a chocolate covered one. Like with veggies and fruit, you need to disguise it. Tarantulas also apparently taste good but I’m not that out there. I think they’d be harder to find here
SheTheTDE
That wont work. An aproval like that would surely have to state how many is in their group. One ship more than stated would be noticed now the whole convoy has to stop and submit to investigation.
Havlock
And my bet is this is where that lot of prototype ships that were brought down for scrapping comes in. Nick the SIMS from one of ’em, stick it on the Runaway, then ride out in the next outgoing batch shipment. And it’d work, right up ’till anyone notices the kind of ship that SIMS is attached to doesn’t match the one in the SIMS records. Makes me wonder what plan they’ll come up with to handle that scenario.
JoB
> ’till anyone notices the kind of ship that SIMS is attached
> to doesn’t match the one in the SIMS records.
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That raises the question of how similar it’ll need to be to not get noticed. We were shown only some of the Vspear vessels, two of those seem to somewhat match the size and shape of the Runaway, though they seem to be single-engine craft. Then there’s a quad nozzle array peeking around the panel’s edge … and I suppose that a company like Ixion would have the authority to outfit a preexisting spacecraft with some other ship’s engine section, so …
Vinemaple
Ever since Talita picked up her groceries, I’ve been really confused about Idrisah. It’s like she has something going on that we don’t know about. I don’t understand the separation between her attitude and her actions. Maybe it’s just my poor socialization, but I can only explain it with the theory that something we don’t know about yet is causing that disconnect, where her actions show she wants to do this, but her words and body language imply that she doesn’t. Jay’s little commentary on this page sounds so coyly sarcastic that I can’t help but post about this!
Adrienne
I’m gonna assume it’s the same beef it’s always been, which is that Idrisah does want to help but she also doesn’t totally approve of all this rule-breaking and these prospects are conflicting inside her uncomfortably. She might be *willing* to bend some rules, but she sure would prefer it if she didn’t have to!
Egg
My guess is that she doesn’t want to be involved due to the danger they could all be in if they are caught (idk how crime such as this is dealt with in this world but I guess it’s not great! They’d at LEAST lose their jobs)
But she helps and gives advice anyway because it reduces the chances of them fucking up and getting caught. She involves herself because her wife is involved, and she cannot stop her wife from getting involved she will atleast help her wife in not getting caught, which results in her helping them all in general
zaratustra
She’s of two minds about it. She wants to help Bip, she’s *kind* of enjoying the challenge and she’s worried things will end up much worse if she’s not involved, but she also worries about everything.
Tumorhead
Is Gillie’s desktop wallpaper a photo of beans???
Vinemaple
Yeah, the beans and the Jerma reference are technically anachronistic, Jay said they missed them in the drive to purge such things from future Jovian culture. It’s discussed in the comments of the first page where we can see Gillie’s workstation.
Zuorai
It’s the future equivalent of like, your desktop background being art of knights fighting snails
Lilith
that does sound very cool though
JoB
Reproduced original art, or more like “action shots” from an appropriately-themed modern computer game? 🙂
Greebus
Talita stop pickin your nose
Marcie
Bip don’t look at us with that face, this is all *your* fault!
Zuorai
How is Ixion pronounced in Jovian English? AYE-ex-on, ex-AYE-on, or IKS-EE-on? Or something else?
Septemberdale
I’d assume IKS-EE-ON. The rest scarcely occur to me. Admittedly this may be influenced by the fact that I speak only Czech and American English, and like all the rest of us have never heard one bit of Jovian English spoken.
Origamigryphon
I say the latter, myself
Vinemaple
Jovian English developed from Martian English, which developed from American English. I can’t take anything but IKS-ee-on seriously. As a transliteration of a classical Greek name, it slots neatly into a relatively familiar pronunciation pattern for Anglophones, although we can often mis-stress words of Greek origin.
Plausible alternatives would be IKS-eye-on (pretentious SSB, mostly) and EE-shee-on (scholars of classical Greek who favor the alternate pronunciation theories).
Green Heron
On stream, Jay calls it IKS-see-on.
Zuorai
Thank you!
Enai
Idrisahs exasperation face delights me. I’m not even sure who she’s most annyoed with: Bip, the whole situation, or herself? I think it’s mostly herself.
Enai
*annoyed, even.