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TGW-1127

Chapter: Beginnings
Characters: Capt Chardis, crew, dragonflys, esmay, her own, kima, marise, Shiva, storm, Taritha, Teresa
Location: Catia's pride, harvey moon, Teresa's home
└ Tags: death not an option, meeting like minded

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  1. Petercat
    July 26, 2023, 20:38 | # | Reply

    The handgun is a Southpaw (Brand).
    There’s a pair of studs on a leather plate inside her jeans that
    both handguns clip on to.

    In today’s world of CNC machining, it shouldn’t be too much trouble to
    modify the files. I’ve always wondered why manufacturers didn’t make
    left-handed firearms.
    I had a chance to ask the director of one company why not. He told me
    that it’s a very small part of the gun owners group.
    I countered that right now, his company has a small piece of the entire
    gun market, it could have almost all of that small group with little effort.
    Most gun manufacturers are very conservative.

    • President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neanderthal B Woodman Domestic Violent Extremist SuperStraight
      July 26, 2023, 23:29 | # | Reply

      I am an odd sort of southpaw.
      I write and do many other things left handed.
      But I shoot right handed.
      I am (apparently) right eye dominant.
      (no wonder I can’t dance)

      • Sam
        July 27, 2023, 00:38 | # | Reply

        I’m complicated.

        I’m right-eye dominant, but not massively so. My right eye is also my,
        how shall I say this, most correction-required eye. Uncorrected is 20-1000+.
        Left eye is 20-600+, both with astigmatism. Basically, I’m blind without my
        glasses.

        I throw left-handed, but bat or play golf (back when I played) right-handed.

        I played tennis or racquetball left handed, but if I couldn’t reach the ball
        with my left backhand, I would switch to my right and hit a forehand shot
        if there was sufficient time.

        Because of the left-handed throwing, my dad had me start shooting rifles
        left-handed, without thinking of the eye dominance aspect. So I grew up shooting
        rifles and the occasional shotgun left-handed. About 2009 I started shooting
        long guns right-handed, so I didn’t have to close my non-sighting eye to see
        through the scope (though I find I still do, anyway). If shooting a handgun
        with two hands I tend to shoot right-handed, but if shooting bullseye style,
        one handed out to the side, I can go either side and use the appropriate eye
        with both eyes open.

        I use a hammer or paintbrush with either hand; write right-handed; use
        a fork or spoon right-handed.

        Basically, for me, handedness comes down to “it depends”.

        • Scarsdale
          July 27, 2023, 01:14 | # | Reply

          I was fully right-dominated until my accident, except I was ambidextrous.
          I say was because of how badly my left hand was mangled, I did regain
          about 75% use of it, but it’s a bit crooked.
          The real issue with someone like me and lefties is the brain is used to the
          dominant limb to do the precise work, and the other to just balance you
          out. I had a friends who was right handed that suffered the loss of his
          right arm, he complained of headaches, dizzy spells and such when he
          had to learn to write left handed. It explained what I was going through
          because of my legs, my brain had to figure out how to use them. Because
          of the nerve damage it though they were gone.

      • Bill Mullins
        July 27, 2023, 05:18 | # | Reply

        I’m like you. I’m a southpaw. I write left handed but in many ways I am ambidextrous although
        that is fading somewhat as I get older (I turn 72 next Wednesday) as my manual dexterity over
        all is degenerating. I am right eye dominant. I shoot a handgun left handed but have always
        shot a.long gun (had a BB gun when I was 11) right handed and when I still had decent vision
        I qualified “marksman”. When I was in R&D engineering as a tech I could solder or wire wrap
        with either hand. I suppose I was lucky my 1st grade teacher didn’t mind me being a southpaw.
        Back in the day (50s) it was common for 1st and 2ng grade teachers to force left handers
        and ambidextrous students to write with their right hands. My wife (born in 53) had that experience.
        She would write with one hand for a while then the other. Her 1st grade was having none of
        that and slapped her left hand whenever she started to write with it. To this day my wife can
        do almost nothing with her left hand. {sigh} It was a different time.

    • me
      July 27, 2023, 00:14 | # | Reply

      There’s at least 10 to 15 percent “lefties”, according to questionnaires.
      If you actually TEST people for their handedness the result is more like 30%.

      Anyway: even ten percent of a huge market should be a profitable niche.

      • Scarsdale
        July 27, 2023, 01:04 | # | Reply

        Both my baby sister and my youngest son are lefties, I was disgusted by
        how both were taught to write. My sister figured out how to write normally
        after I mentioned just turning the paper the way she needed instead of
        her wrist. And she later taught my son. He can shoot right handed, but his
        aim sucks! Last I looked at the stats, it was 32% worldwide, but that was
        years ago.

        • Scarsdale
          July 27, 2023, 01:05 | # | Reply

          *by how both*
          jeez…

        • me
          July 27, 2023, 02:28 | # | Reply

          They’re still teaching kids to use the “good hand” in school?
          I thought that nonsense had been banished like 50 years ago.

          • rob stanley
            July 27, 2023, 09:22 | # | Reply

            heh,, “50 years ago”, i was kicked out of school ‘because’
            i was left handed.. and fought the teacher about it..

          • Scarsdale
            July 27, 2023, 10:17 | # | Reply

            It was all about cursive, the teachers still want lefties to twist their wrists so the
            letter are leaning the right way, it’s stupid. My father went through that in school,
            like me he could write with both hands clearly and it drove the teachers nuts, to
            the point that if he changed hands to rest his right, they would slap his left hand
            with a ruler. Some stupid lore about the left hand being the devils hand.

            • rob stanley
              July 27, 2023, 21:27 | # | Reply

              actually she just hated me.. well males in general.. and cuz of my
              b-day,, i was the ‘satans’ child (06/06/6x).. she was sexist,. the
              best male was C- , and worst female was C+ (she could not read, do
              simple math, or write the alphabet..) ,. my cursive was better than
              the teachers, oh and i knew more than she did,. to prove the point
              the principle had us both take a “teacher practical test” ,.
              i aced it. she passed by 3 points.!

              • Scarsdale
                July 28, 2023, 02:51 | # | Reply

                Ah, yeah I had a few of those too, my 2nd grade teacher treated me like
                I was the devil’s spawn as well, used every chance to punish me
                including swats, until I complained to my father about it. All because
                I had bad eyes, but no one thought about that until the next year.

              • me
                July 28, 2023, 04:47 | # | Reply

                My Mom was hoping for me to get born at 6/6/66 just because of
                it being a cute number, not because anything devilish or such.

                Didn’t quite work, though (roughly a week off)

    • Scarsdale
      July 27, 2023, 00:59 | # | Reply

      That would make them a much faster draw, as long as the user is a
      good “quick to aim” from the hip shooter.

    • Chryzopraz
      July 27, 2023, 02:10 | # | Reply

      There are guns for left-handed people:
      https://savagearms.com/content?p=firearms&a=Left
      https://blog.cheaperthandirt.com/southpaw-shooting-solutions-choosing-lefty-gun/

      • Scarsdale
        July 27, 2023, 10:40 | # | Reply

        Yes I know, but not many of the good ones are, and those that are cost way
        more than the “standard.” My son had to shell out an extra $200 USD for
        a lower for his .50.

        • Sam
          July 28, 2023, 16:39 | # | Reply

          Since my dad was right-handed, so were his rifles. But since I shot
          left-handed, I just learned to reach over the top of the scope with
          my left hand to run the bolt.

      • Bill Mullins
        July 27, 2023, 16:56 | # | Reply

        I’ve never had any problem shooting a pistol left handed. Neither my Glock 23 nor my
        Uzi Eagle (Jericho .40) throw brass backwards so it’s not a problem. When swapping
        mags I just pull the slide back with my off hand to clear the slide lock, even though it’s
        easy to release the slide lock on the Uzi Eagle with my trigger finger. I used to do it
        that way but got out of the habit after seeing someone do it by pulling the slide back
        slightly. Somewhere I learned not to waste motion when reloading.

        • Scarsdale
          July 28, 2023, 02:56 | # | Reply

          My son has a vintage M-1 (yes, the pinger), 3 A r’s that he’s built, a lever-action .22
          4 shotguns including the one I mentioned. 2 of those are righties, and they all discharge
          to the right. Guess which ones he takes to target practice the most? He has several
          hand guns too, but prefers the A R’s.

        • Sam
          July 28, 2023, 18:20 | # | Reply

          Bill –
          I’ve always used the slingshot method. On many guns, the part is called
          a “bolt hold-open”, not a “slide release”. There’s even at least one gun
          out there where the notch in the slide and the hold-open are intentionally
          angled relative to each other such that you cannot release the slide by
          other than the slingshot method.

          Quickly searching on “hold open or slide release” there were a number of
          opinions listed. One of them summed up for me why I use the slingshot
          method: “I always use the slingshot slide release for fear of missing hold
          open stop. And all my autos are different in hold open sizes and shapes.
          Even in the 1911 which like the hi-power is easy to use. But the newer
          auto designs with stamped hold-opens are hard to find in a hurry. So the
          sling shot works best for me.”

          And the very next comment in that same thread:
          “I have seen both successfully used for many years. However, the arguments
          for the use of the “slingshot” method is that it is a) usable on all semiautos,
          b) gives you the greatest use of the spring to strip and feed. Using the slide
          lock leaves from 1/8″ to 1/4″ of the mechanical advantage of the spring unused
          and c) gross motor skill more useable under stress.”

    • me
      July 28, 2023, 02:27 | # | Reply

      Don’t want to get all “woke” on you, but it’s actually a common
      problem with declaring people “unimportant” because they don’t
      fit into a definition of normal or are perceived as a “minority”.

      Extreme example is women. Like the fact that crash test dummies for
      several decades have all been designed after “normal sized men”. So,
      if you’re 6″5, or a little overweight, or female … sorry if your car isn’t
      as safe for you as we thought it would be – who would’ve guessed.

      Or the fact that most pre-clinical test for new medication are tried
      on male, fit, young students. Ok. they don’t want to risk giving a
      new pill to a young woman who might or might not be pregnant
      at that time, of course they don’t.

      But having even meds. specifically targeted at helping
      “women troubles” only tested on males?

      • rob stanley
        July 28, 2023, 10:11 | # | Reply

        also “safe cars”,, airbags.! if your seat is to close (tiny person),.
        you have a 30-50 percent chance of death on deployment.!!

        • Scarsdale
          July 28, 2023, 17:16 | # | Reply

          My sister is 4’11”, my wife’s best friend is 3’9″ both have to disable
          the driver’s airbag for that very reason. In my sister’s case it would
          barely work, In Crystal’s case it would break her neck.

  2. President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neanderthal B Woodman Domestic Violent Extremist SuperStraight
    July 26, 2023, 23:26 | # | Reply

    Still don’t know “who” it is that Empress Teresa is having nightmares about.

    • Scarsdale
      July 28, 2023, 03:34 | # | Reply

      It’s Sgt. Squirrel from the link I posted below.

      • Jochi
        July 28, 2023, 12:52 | # | Reply

        We know he features in the chapter and is close to Teresa, and we know
        he’s done infiltration/recon before (in Waukanda before the regime change).
        So, it’s PROBABLY him, but he could also have been sent in to rescue or
        recover whoever she IS talking about. If so, my first guess is it’s Misha.

        • Sam
          July 28, 2023, 14:12 | # | Reply

          I don’t think it can be Misha. Teresa’s response in panel 4 is
          too, what’s the word I want, casual, for it to be Misha. If it
          were him she’d probably A) know exactly where he was, B) be
          much more concerned, and C) it really would hurt her. Remember
          how distraught she was when Misha got shot?

  3. Scarsdale
    July 27, 2023, 01:30 | # | Reply

    Upper mid-west? My old stomping grounds! Ugh… that area was rough before the
    fall, NOT good! There is a great many industrial buildings and such however, maybe
    he was sent to check it out? I had wondered if Chicago had been nuked or not.

    Easy Shiva, I believe she’s taken! Kima might have a word to say there heh. But
    I agree she is cute.

    • me
      July 27, 2023, 03:30 | # | Reply

      Wasn’t it just the east coast that’s been nuked?

      • rob stanley
        July 27, 2023, 09:41 | # | Reply

        no. but it was not directly mentioned.
        and because of the “Fall” , they were fired as the
        virus was effecting, or locally fired/detonated..

  4. Scarsdale
    July 27, 2023, 03:32 | # | Reply

    Ah now I remember Sgt. Squirrel, I had to look him up.
    http://thegentlewolf.net/comic/tgw-753/
    An odd choice for a deep recon but I’m sure the back
    story will come out.

  5. Bill Mullins
    July 27, 2023, 05:38 | # | Reply

    Saw my eye Surgeon yesterday morning. The eye is coming along fine. It’s still a tad swollen and inflamed
    but even that is minimal. I go back to see her next Wednesday and if the eye continues to progress we will
    schedule the 2nd (right) eye then. She is already booked through mid August so I figure it’ll be the 1st or
    even 2nd week of September before I’m done. The difference in the 2 eyes is shocking. I really did not realize
    how blind I was getting. Everything in my right has a brownish cast. Lettering in my tablet and in regular
    books is kind of a medium grey on ecru background. Everything in my left eye is so much brighter, the colors
    more vibrant! Print is actually black on a white background. Here’s an example. I drink WalMart sugar-free
    cool-aide, lemonaide flavor. It was hard to see the level in the translucent pitcher. I had to look hard and could
    just make out the top of the liquid. The liquid was essentially colorless though not clear like water. I got into
    the refrigerator yesterday and, would you believe it, the lemonaide is YELLOW! BRIGHT YELLOW! Who
    knew? When we drove across town to the VA facility (50+ mile round trip) the sky was a brilliant blue and the
    clouds stood out sharply. The world literally looks brand new!

    • Scarsdale
      July 27, 2023, 10:27 | # | Reply

      That’s good to hear! They’ve got the procedure down to a fine science these days.
      It was the same with mine, did my left, waited 2 weeks, then did the right. I use
      a 2.0 magnifying reading glasses for everyday use, a 3.5 mag for close-up work.
      If you get sunglasses, make sure they are UV blocking, it’s not the brightness but
      the UV that will make them hurt. Trust me.
      Yeah those lens they put in will make the colors POP out! First time I was outside
      on a moonless night I was amazed at how many colors the night sky has!

      • Bill Mullins
        July 27, 2023, 17:06 | # | Reply

        Funny what you say about a 2.0 diopter for readers. After we left the VA I went to
        WalMart and bought a cheap pair of readers. 2.0 diopter worked best for me, too.
        I have a hunch I’ll still need a bit of correction for distance even when everything
        is healed up. I’ve been in glasses nearly 40 years so I won’t be too terribly upset
        if I still need them. The VA issued me a pair of shades to wear home post op. I
        figure they’re UV blocking but they’re not polarized. If I decide I want polarized
        there are shades that fit over glasses. I figure to wait on that till both eyes are healed.

        • Scarsdale
          July 27, 2023, 19:33 | # | Reply

          If you were near-sighted before, you will be far-sighted from now on,
          I don’t need anything to drive (other than sun glasses) but I do have
          a range issue, it’s hard to read street signs until I’m within 200 ft. But
          that’s all.
          Only reason I have the 3.5’s is because of my clean-up work on my prints,
          you won’t be able to focus like before, since the new lens don’t adjust.
          So the closer you need to see, the stronger than lens.

        • Sam
          July 27, 2023, 22:05 | # | Reply

          Only 40 years?

          You’re eight years older than me and I’ve had them since I was
          eight. So, 56 years. Dang. Thinking about it makes me feel old.

          Back then, at least in my school, every two weeks, the first person
          in each column moved to the back of the room, and everyone
          else moved one desk closer to the front. I could see fine, until
          it was my turn to go to the back of the room. That sudden 25-30′
          distance difference had me squinting to see the board. The
          teacher noticed and told my parents. Have had specs ever
          since. Stronger and stronger each time till about 1980. Wore
          contacts from 1982 till about 2018, then started getting eye
          infections. I’d leave the contacts out for a couple of months, get
          healed up, then wear them again, then get infections again, etc.
          Finally just tossed them. It was a good run. Best thing about
          contacts was not having my glasses fog up when coming in from
          outside on a cold wet day.

          • Scarsdale
            July 28, 2023, 03:14 | # | Reply

            They never noticed I couldn’t read the blackboard, it took a argument
            with my 3rd grade teacher to figure it out, she demanded I read the
            board back to her, I told her I can’t read it from here, she stopped
            dead and told me to walk up to the board until I could. I stopped right
            beside her desk from 3rd row back. Guess where my desk was until my
            folks took me to the eye doctor? But I did ace the rest of that year 🙂

            I had the same problem with contacts, eye doc told me I couldn’t wear
            them because of it. But now mine and Bill’s are built in :p

          • Scarsdale
            July 28, 2023, 03:29 | # | Reply

            Don’t feel bad, I’m 63, and back then and where I grew up, the teachers
            weren’t trained or cared if a student was having trouble. There was
            always at least 30+ students per class so I can understand it to a point.
            They flagged me as “special ed” rather than ask why.

        • me
          July 28, 2023, 02:17 | # | Reply

          Glad that everything went so well for you.

          I guess the shades are for protection while you’re still recovering?

          Maybe you should take it easy for a few weeks, until your doctor says you’re all fine.

          • Scarsdale
            July 28, 2023, 03:08 | # | Reply

            Yes, but the lens we both have are also “color enhancing” and UV is the
            color purple, so UV gets enhanced as well. Bill might be lucky, but it’s
            possible, like me, that sun light will hurt and if I’m outside in sunlight for
            more than 15 mins I tend to go nearly blind and my eyes burn like fire.
            So sunglasses.

            • me
              July 28, 2023, 03:33 | # | Reply

              UV is beyond purple (literal translation of ultraviolet, btw)

              It should be possible to create something with a color profile that enhances
              violet/purple and other visible colors but filters UV at the same time, especially
              for a medical material used in lenses … but I’m not an expert, of course.

              • Scarsdale
                July 28, 2023, 03:44 | # | Reply

                True, but Bill and I are both on Medicare and they don’t like
                anything that costs more than the basic. The downside of
                US government healthcare. There are lens out there that
                would fix the issue and let us read without the glasses,
                but they cost 3 times the cost of the ones we have. I was
                quoted $1,600 per lens when mine were needed, so I went
                with the mono-focal lens.

                • me
                  July 28, 2023, 03:59 | # | Reply

                  Ok. That makes sense in a way. Pretty much the same as over here.

                  • me
                    July 28, 2023, 04:02 | # | Reply

                    As in: the normal health insurance that everybody has covers what
                    is defined as being essential, if you want anything beyond that you
                    have to pay for the difference (or get an additional insurance for extras).

                    • Scarsdale
                      July 28, 2023, 09:57 | #

                      Sad thing is, there are “better” forms of medicare here, but they cost a lot
                      and they restrict you as to who you can see and everything is seconded
                      guessed by their “medical experts” that don’t know the difference between
                      a clogged artery and an aneurysm. They read from a list and pick one to
                      “explore” first because of the cost. If I want an add-on it’ll be 3rd party,
                      thank you…
                      I’ve spoken to a few people that have the “Advantage plan” as it’s called
                      it’s as bad if not worse than an HMO when it comes to care. The comedian
                      Chris Titus said it best, he was talking about his father’s heart troubles,
                      the man had 4 heart attacks, except the last one was with an HMO and
                      they called it a heart “episode” which meant they gave him benidryl and
                      sent him home! Poor man died from his last attack.

                    • me
                      July 28, 2023, 10:32 | #

                      In Germany, there’s two opposite problems you might be
                      exposed too: either that there’s a better treatment for you, but
                      the one the insurance companies declared “standard” is all you
                      can afford.

                      Or – especially if you have a “private plan” – the doctors/hospitals
                      pick the most expensive therapy even if it’s not necessary or even
                      indicated in your case, just because hey, your insurance covers it
                      anyway.

                      (Ok. To be fair: more often than not, the treatment you get is what
                      you needed – but there’s plenty of those other cases, too)

    • Scarsdale
      July 27, 2023, 10:35 | # | Reply

      Another warning they most likely didn’t tell you, when a light source enters
      you eyes from the sides, there’s a chance the new lens with light up, like
      if your driving at night and a car passes you. Your basic lens flair. “Oh don’t
      worry, you’ll get used to it!” sigh…

    • Paul
      July 28, 2023, 21:10 | # | Reply

      Bill, that is great news, that your eye is healing.
      Good luck and take it easy to keep the pressure off.

  6. President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neanderthal B Woodman Domestic Violent Extremist SuperStraight
    July 28, 2023, 12:54 | # | Reply

    Beware the “cute”.
    Behind the smile can lie vicious claws and teeth
    when pushed and provoked.

    • Scarsdale
      July 28, 2023, 17:22 | # | Reply

      Very true! I learned that a LONG time ago heh.

  7. Sam
    July 28, 2023, 16:45 | # | Reply

    Panel four – Shouldn’t that be Major Savoy of the Legion?

    • Scarsdale
      July 28, 2023, 17:21 | # | Reply

      Savoy might of been promoted, I’m going by who it is that’s
      missing by the opening panel of TGW-1126. She does have
      a history with Sgt. Squirrel. It’s explained it the later pages
      after TGW-753.

      • Petercat
        July 28, 2023, 18:43 | # | Reply

        No, Sam is right. Commander Villines is Madea’s mother, head of the
        Imperial Bureau of Investigation, sort of the FBI with integrity.

      • Sam
        July 28, 2023, 18:45 | # | Reply

        Perhaps, but Villines is the last name of Madea’s mother, who
        started out as the police captain and is now, I think, head of
        Imperial Security.

    • Petercat
      July 28, 2023, 18:42 | # | Reply

      Yeah, I messed up. Losing track of my own characters.

      • Sam
        July 28, 2023, 18:46 | # | Reply

        Oops. Started my reply, but was researching for too long before
        posting.

        • Sam
          July 28, 2023, 19:27 | # | Reply

          Researching = getting lost in many parts of the story as I kept clicking
          “Random” while searching for where she became head of the IBI.

    • Petercat
      July 28, 2023, 21:09 | # | Reply

      Fixed, thank you!

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