TGW-794
Chapter: 26 Alien Encounter
Characters: ambassador Palas, Capt Chardis, capt hrrn'tn, chief gabriall, deputy shawn, dragonflys, gorilla, kaitana, nita, sheriff ace, skee'tr, t'chaka, venus
Location: Catia's pride, jackson
The Gentle Wolf
A modern adventure webcomic
Looks like ‘Rilla is going for T’Chaka’s right knee. Good move. Looks like “his highness” is going down hard. Good for Gorilla!
On closer inspection I think you’re right. I saw it as a perspective-challenged move for a sausage and 2 potatoes,
but your interpretation seems more right…
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If T’Chaka had gone down with a broken back from that first dirty blow, his followers might have not accepted the results. Now, with him obviously having “accepted the challenge”, they should. Once again, good Intel.
I agree Bill’s interpretation is better than my original, which was the same as Jan’s. It fits the position of his arms and hips better too. He’s stomping, not kicking.
So, Humans are tolerated by the other races enough to at least have a seat at this “Council of Worlds”. And apparently one seat per species, not one per sovereign political entity. The simplest thing with such an arrangement would be to continue the legal fiction that Cats and Humans are the same species, since Terrans and Cats are the same political entity. I wonder, though, how the Human seat is allocated between the “Northern” and “Southern” worlds. I expect we will find out soon, or when it is appropriate for the story.
Knees are incredibly fragile joints. The transition from quadrupedal to upright bipedal locomotion freed up our forelimbs but it put our knees in a terrible position that neither quadrupeds nor non-upright bipeds (birds) joints never experience. Every other creatures’ knees remain flexed at all times. In fact they actually need far less range of motion than do ours. As someone who has had near constant knee problems since 1975, and the husband of someone who has had a knee replacement I researched knee anatomy. It is an amazing piece of engineering. But all a person’s weight and momentum is controlled by 4 ligaments making the knee very fragile. I tried to find a photo or video of Gale Sayers’ worst knee injury. It flat out hurts to watch. Sayers’ left knee was hyper extended rupturing one of his cruciate ligaments – the ligaments which run front to back and back to front and hold the knee together. I figure Gorilla is going for a possible combo – hyperextension (cruciate injury) and distal collateral (side-stabilizing) ligament injury if not full on rupture. With t’Chaka in motion and carrying 400+ plus pounds (180+ kilos) It really won’t take just a huge amount of force to totally disrupt “his highness'” knee. Another couple of milliseconds and the king is gonna be in a world – hell UNIVERSE – of pain the likes of which few people have to endure. Either ‘Rilla or Venus will be able to finish him at their leisure. Once the big man is down I think I’d go with a backward blow from my elbow to the junction between his head and neck in the rear as t’Chaka is bending over cradling his knee. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving person!