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It just makes me really proud that my epic space opera is turning out to be less and less influenced by Star Trek and Babylon 5 as we go... and more and more influenced by Inside No. 9, Fargo, and Black Mirror. Nobody in the Vek-10 or the Mixolyne Gathering is working as an agent of any military. ^_^
I think my number 1 goal is to make a comic like Steven Universe or Adventure Time that makes its fans laugh nervously about it 20 years from now and go, "Kids books. Heh." ^________^
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explorer time? or space trucking?
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@001zlnv Could you clarify the question? :) I'm coming to the end of my workday and am quite dim at the moment, due to an excess of blood in my caffeine vessels. :D
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@zebratron2084 That's ok, it's the end of the day here too and I'm often unclear.
I was asking what the crews of the two ships in your project had set out to space to do.
Since you ruled out military, the two things I could think of that would get folks out into space were exploring for its own sake, or hauling cargo. or maybe trying to colonize a new planet.
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@001zlnv Oh! That's precisely what I was hoping you were asking but I didn't want to assume. ^__^
Peg and I joke that it's basically "senior chess club vs. the goths who smoke cloves behind the dumpster."
It's a techno-rationalist religious sect, sort of like Space Jesuits -- except with hard evidence that their gods really existed -- versus a clan of fungal-based Biologically Weird hippies, basically the space equivalent of guys who harvest biodiesel grease and do Burning Man
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aaaah so "spread the word, and teach" vs. "we're here because it seems like the thing to do" ?
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@001zlnv Very roughly, but there are a lot, lot, lot of complicating circumstances. :)
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@001zlnv One conducts Space Adventure more like a liberal religious academy than a military federation. The other does Space Adventure more like a benign version of the Manson Family crossed with a benign version of the Body Snatchers crossed with the regular version of the Mafia. c_c;