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TGW-1147

Chapter: Recovery
Characters: Capt Chardis, capt hrrn'tn, crew, doc, dragonflys, firecat, flea, sgt squirrel, Sgt. Mitchell, tharis, zoo crew
Location: Catia's pride, LZ, space ship
└ Tags: a dragon surprise, learning curve

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Discussion (43) ¬

  1. Sam
    September 11, 2023, 20:08 | # | Reply

    Ooh! Teleport in, let go the grenade while holding on to the pin.
    Teleport out. Someone is in for a RUDE surprise !!!

    • Scarsdale
      September 11, 2023, 23:44 | # | Reply

      I would of been disappointed if they
      didn’t suggest that! You go lil guys!

      • Petercat
        September 12, 2023, 02:29 | # | Reply

        It was a reader’s suggestion a long time ago,
        I wish I could remember who.
        In a discussion about how much mass
        a Dragonfly could teleport.

        • Gary (Kajm at DA)
          September 12, 2023, 03:55 | # | Reply

          I was thinking of that exact convo when I saw this morning’s piece.

        • Scarsdale
          September 12, 2023, 15:48 | # | Reply

          I doubt it was me, I only said I wondered if they would be willing
          to take part in combat back when the arc started with Sunny.

        • Scarsdale
          September 12, 2023, 19:07 | # | Reply

          I went back to TGW-1002 and I didn’t see it.
          I was only talking about them doing recon.

        • George Walden
          September 13, 2023, 20:12 | # | Reply

          I wondered about if the device mentioned in TGW-080.5 panel 5, was ever considered
          as a gravity hand grenade, that sounds like a good Dragonfly weapon to me.

    • Bill Mullins
      September 12, 2023, 07:40 | # | Reply

      Damn! Those Dw’flys could sow some serious chaos in a battle.
      Port into a barracks room and drop a couple of grenades then
      pop in and out as the troops are arming themselves always
      around chest height. Friendly fire massacre!

      • Scarsdale
        September 12, 2023, 15:50 | # | Reply

        A mini-grenade could be created that would be easier for
        them to carry, maybe not as much damage, but still create
        mayhem. Like the difference between a 12 gauge and a 16.

        • Dreamfox
          September 12, 2023, 17:30 | # | Reply

          That’s the fun thing. They don’t have to carry them. Just
          hold them so they get teleported with them and then they
          can already let them fall to teleport out.
          Nightcrawler of the X-Men used to teleport, hit a guy,
          teleport, hit the next. Within seconds he knocked out
          four guys that literally didn’t know what hit them.
          Another teleporter got the nickname ‘everywhere-at-once-
          killer’ among other nicknames. Take a teleporter like
          Nightcrawler and give him an energy weapon like a phaser.
          A species were most members are short-range teleporters
          (20-50 meters) used their ability to enhance their skills
          as thieves. Whenever they could not get through the
          security systems, they teleported around them. They used
          it sparingly out of pride for their skills and keep their
          ability as their ace. Because there are ways to give
          teleporters serious problems In my opinion teleporters
          are underappreciated.

  2. rob stanley
    September 11, 2023, 20:24 | # | Reply

    ? M-134’s at 2,000 rpm that’s a minutes worth of (sustained) fire.!.?
    carried by each team,. (oh, that’s 33rps) and that’s the slow fire.
    IF it’s the XM-214 (5.56mm) then you have 500rpms (@7.6rps) an
    the ability to carry 3,000 rounds per team.. possibly 4k rs..
    useless info: the movie Predator , they went through 10 backpacks
    (@500rs per pack),. 6 for the final dump.! not including re-shoots.
    a 3rd of the budget went to ammo.!!

    • Scarsdale
      September 12, 2023, 16:03 | # | Reply

      That is a serious range of fire-power. I know the one in
      the predator movie, half the time it was a fake and when
      they used the real thing they had it on a boom. Jessie
      Venturia had suffered a serious issue with his lung
      bleeding, it’s why he retired from wrestling, so while
      maintaining his build, he was limited on what he could
      safely do on camera.

      • Scarsdale
        September 12, 2023, 18:50 | # | Reply

        “…limited ON what he…”

  3. Bill Mullins
    September 11, 2023, 20:52 | # | Reply

    A rabbit named “Roger”? Seriously PC? Where’s Jessica?

    • Sam
      September 11, 2023, 22:34 | # | Reply

      How’d I miss that?!?

    • President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neanderthal B Woodman Domestic Violent Extremist SuperStraight
      September 11, 2023, 22:37 | # | Reply

      Double pun there.
      “Roger” is also a sign of communications
      acknowledgement.
      To acknowledge a communications from the rabbit,
      your response would be, “Roger, Roger”.
      Going to make passing messages through him rather interesting.
      Give Roger a nickname?
      Traditional for a radio operator is “Sparky”.
      (harkins back to the days of the spark gap radio)

    • Scarsdale
      September 11, 2023, 23:44 | # | Reply

      I had the very same thought when I logged in heheh…

    • Scarsdale
      September 12, 2023, 16:25 | # | Reply

      I wouldn’t put him on comms,
      then anyone that talked to him would have to go
      “Roger Roger Roger” heheh…

  4. President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neanderthal B Woodman Domestic Violent Extremist SuperStraight
    September 11, 2023, 22:17 | # | Reply

    No battle plan survives first
    contact with the enemy.
    Best to you, Legionairres and dragonflies.

    • Scarsdale
      September 11, 2023, 23:46 | # | Reply

      I’d agree, but I doubt the first one
      to say it never met the dragonflies!
      But yes, this might cost a bit more
      than anyone is thinking.

  5. Scarsdale
    September 12, 2023, 00:01 | # | Reply

    The fireflies can take out the block house members, and through
    some unseen mayhem throughout the stockade. They could easily
    drop a dozen ‘nades before anyone knew what was going on!

    Give them basic ops training before they go, very good idea. If they
    have an idea of what it’ll be like after training, it’ll motivate
    them to work harder to get through training. A white bunny? No red
    eyes so she’s not an albino, my wife’s was an albino and we had to
    make sure her cage was clean or she’d get sick. It’s partly why we
    gave her up, my wife couldn’t handle the smell and I was working
    extra hours so we could buy our first house.

    I have an awful feeling about the top story, but I’ll keep
    it to myself until I know more of how the battle goes.

    • Sam
      September 12, 2023, 22:25 | # | Reply

      Is she really a white bunny?
      Or just a Mostly White bunny?
      She has gray hair on her head, after all.

  6. Gary (Kajm at DA)
    September 12, 2023, 03:55 | # | Reply

    Where’s the Red shirts?

    • Scarsdale
      September 12, 2023, 15:55 | # | Reply

      Hopefully they are in the block buildings
      and guarding the kid! If not,
      lets hope they WILL be after the battle!

  7. notStanley
    September 12, 2023, 15:59 | # | Reply

    02:00 – Is there a full moon? “realistic” levels would seem very dark to someone
    sitting in a lighted room watching a monitor. But for someone there, who has had
    time for their eyes to adjust, might not be all that bad. There were times at
    scout camp being annoyed with noobies that just had to carry a high power lantern
    all the time, instead of getting to know the woods. When needed extra light on
    the trail, a pocket mag light was enough :}

    “Warship Terran Alliance 0988S” – Is that a simple sequential serial number?
    Almost a thousand ships – that would be counting all models & sizes?

    • Scarsdale
      September 12, 2023, 16:16 | # | Reply

      My eyes were pretty bad, even as a young man I needed a fair amount
      of light to see, so I wouldn’t of been able to help much. If you go by the
      lighting outside the apc ship, I’d say it’s a red moon, not ideal but it would
      still help. Red moon AKA harvest moon is when the moon is low in the sky
      at night. That would mark this as mid-fall, I seen it pretty much every year
      when I was a kid.
      That number started with the prototype that they flew to the moon, and
      with the orbital stations they have at Terra now they can crank out a ship
      in just a few weeks so there would be easily hundreds waiting for crews
      by now.

    • Bill Mullins
      September 12, 2023, 17:52 | # | Reply

      “Warship Terran Alliance 0988S”
      Where did you see that? I can’t see any markings.

      • Scarsdale
        September 12, 2023, 18:27 | # | Reply

        Panel 8, look past the top of the captain’s chair, just above the view screen/window.

        • Sam
          September 12, 2023, 18:51 | # | Reply

          Hard to tell if it’s a letter “S” or a number “5”.

          • rob stanley
            September 12, 2023, 21:10 | # | Reply

            look again, it’s 0988S
            and if you look at the back
            of the chairs in panel 7
            it’s A098,.

            • Scarsdale
              September 12, 2023, 23:08 | # | Reply

              I just looked back, TGW-116 shows the first ship to be DESN STINGER PC00…
              I can’t quite make out the last number I’ll have to keep reading until I can see
              the full number but I’m pretty sure it’s 001.

              • Scarsdale
                September 12, 2023, 23:20 | # | Reply

                TGW-136, the prototype Dagger was marked DESN F003 making it the 3rd ship built.
                Space truck was marked DESN 027, So I’m guessing even the workers support bays
                were counted. You can figure they could crank out a dagger in a few days so there
                must be a crap ton of them in the ship bays and in orbit right now.

    • Petercat
      September 13, 2023, 04:24 | # | Reply

      They aren’t necessarily in sequence. 0988S might break down as:
      0 – Destroyer Class
      9 – Pteran Navy
      8 – 8th Squadron
      8 – Peacekeeper Force
      S – Something-something
      I really haven’t thought about it.

      • Scarsdale
        September 13, 2023, 12:32 | # | Reply

        Oh ok, we were thinking it was like ST,
        the number of ships built were the
        serial number.

      • Scarsdale
        September 13, 2023, 12:41 | # | Reply

        Maybe change that to a H – hybrid.
        If that’s the Actos II that’s what it is.

        • Petercat
          September 13, 2023, 15:49 | # | Reply

          It’s the Kirlean Storm, the Arctos II’s companion ship that was escorting the
          Catia’s Pride from Ptero. Since their ultimate destination was Dogishua,
          the three decided to leave her in this system and escort the damaged ship
          there, so as to salvage it and get the Captain and crew on a new build
          Pteran/Imperial destroyer.
          Captain Kte’rrt has a hybrid crew from the damaged ship, including her
          Captain so that they can familiarize themselves with the new ship type.
          His XO and much of his crew are aboard the damaged ship.

  8. Scarsdale
    September 12, 2023, 18:33 | # | Reply

    PC, did you get your parts? Let me know please.

    • Petercat
      September 13, 2023, 04:28 | # | Reply

      They’re waiting at the post office. I haven’t made it there yet.

    • Scarsdale
      September 13, 2023, 12:36 | # | Reply

      Np I just wanted to make sure.
      my part has finally arrived from
      China, now it held up in customs
      at the airport! (grumbling) 2
      WEEKS! It only took a week to
      get a replacement print head…

  9. Scarsdale
    September 12, 2023, 18:49 | # | Reply

    I had an idea that would come in handy during the war, a rescue ship,
    crewed entirely by androids, with the “berths” in the center of the
    ship, the AI running the ship would be the captain. These ships could
    be a rescue ship to be sent out to recover any survivors from combat.

  10. JasonAW3
    September 12, 2023, 22:20 | # | Reply

    Rodger… Rabbit..?

    • Scarsdale
      September 13, 2023, 12:39 | # | Reply

      Roger Roger, Roger

  11. Scarsdale
    September 13, 2023, 12:42 | # | Reply

    WTH, spam filter took my short comment.

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