Outspoken Space
Aug13
Just wait ’till they find out she can sing, too.
↓ Transcript
Jaz
Well, I’ve always wanted to be rich and famous. And when was someone going to tell me this?
Sky
I shouldn’t have said anything. I don’t have all the details, so from me it’s hearsay. Especially the financial part. But since I’m a granddaughter of The Empress, you could have taken it as official.
I’m sure Mother, The Cap- I mean Admiral now, is having someone look up the full details to brief you with after you’ve rested. But, I’m sure you could expect to live comfortably as a Citizen of The Empire. Even if you don’t live in Ace’s palace.
Jaz
You guys really push the immigration thing, don’t you?
Sky
We need the new genes, ideas, and inspirations.
Most don’t want to admit it, but The Orions are dying off. Most are infertile. So there’s barely 50 million of us.
We don’t really know how half our tech works. Even with the unlocked fabbers there are still some things we can't fix.
We’ve never fully recovered from the loss of Habitat Aesop. We’re crowded onto the 11 others left, of which two may need to be abandoned. Soon. Smaller space stations are comparatively fragile and short lived. And most life bearing planets are still impractical to populate, if they aren’t still hostile to human life, after centuries of terraforming.
We still have idiots, Orion and Terran, that won’t allow any meaningful population transfer.
Yes, we’ll take anyone we can get.
And since you’re a skilled medic… Hell yes, we want you!
Well, I’ve always wanted to be rich and famous. And when was someone going to tell me this?
Sky
I shouldn’t have said anything. I don’t have all the details, so from me it’s hearsay. Especially the financial part. But since I’m a granddaughter of The Empress, you could have taken it as official.
I’m sure Mother, The Cap- I mean Admiral now, is having someone look up the full details to brief you with after you’ve rested. But, I’m sure you could expect to live comfortably as a Citizen of The Empire. Even if you don’t live in Ace’s palace.
Jaz
You guys really push the immigration thing, don’t you?
Sky
We need the new genes, ideas, and inspirations.
Most don’t want to admit it, but The Orions are dying off. Most are infertile. So there’s barely 50 million of us.
We don’t really know how half our tech works. Even with the unlocked fabbers there are still some things we can't fix.
We’ve never fully recovered from the loss of Habitat Aesop. We’re crowded onto the 11 others left, of which two may need to be abandoned. Soon. Smaller space stations are comparatively fragile and short lived. And most life bearing planets are still impractical to populate, if they aren’t still hostile to human life, after centuries of terraforming.
We still have idiots, Orion and Terran, that won’t allow any meaningful population transfer.
Yes, we’ll take anyone we can get.
And since you’re a skilled medic… Hell yes, we want you!
I’ve wanted a nurse like her for Years!
No, seriously. I work in a hospital and some of the nurses are so farking lazy that they get offended when they need to get up from the desk to take care of their patient.
After being diagnosed with cancer, I initially stayed in the hospital a couple days and was released the day they removed a tumor slightly bigger than a baseball. I had my cell and charger, and wasn’t a falling hazard, so was permitted to take the air-cuffs off my legs and unplug the monitor attached to my finger in order to go to the bathroom myself. I was probably the only patient who didn’t request warm blankets. Took my regular meals, played on my cell or sent messages to friends/family.
During one particular vitals check and being questioned to whether I needed anything, the nurse stated “Are you sure? I get the feeling you’re just not saying anything when you actually need to and if there’s an emergency—” I fired back with “You’ll be the first to know if I do indeed need something. Incidentally, could I have your number just in case you’re not on shift if that happens?” I didn’t know asians could get that red in the face…
I wonder if they’d take me.
Is that Gina’s butt facing the camera? Because it looks like Wildstar is flirting.
Well, it wouldn’t be Ace’s, for two reasons, one:- he is on the other side of the wash station and B:- he would be exposing himself to his own mother 😛
Typo in Skyclad’s fifth bubble (both in comic and transcript) “We’re” should be “We”
“We really want you to move in with us” plus “we have a severe overcrowding problem” seems like a bit of a mixed message.
Their odd fertile cycles (8 years) and apparent tendency towards large birth groups (absurdly large in Ace’s case, despite being spread among an uncounted number of mothers) their disinclination towards violence, and their fairly high-end medical tech does make it more complicated to estimate if their birth rates are actually lower than death rates.