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Luna
Ruby?
Jaz:
Begonia?
Ace:
I’ll tell you how she helped save our world sometime.
How ya doing, my friend?
Ruby:
YOU CAD!
You sneak into a lady’s place of repose, and place your filthy hands on my no- no- NOSE! And I just had it painted!
Ace:
I'm sorry! I thought you were expecting me! And it never occurred to me-
Ruby:
Tee-he-he.
Welcome everyone! I’ve got fresh paint on, but it's dry. I'm not sensitive about my nose, at all. Though to get rise out of me, spin my turbines sometime.
Ruby?
Jaz:
Begonia?
Ace:
I’ll tell you how she helped save our world sometime.
How ya doing, my friend?
Ruby:
YOU CAD!
You sneak into a lady’s place of repose, and place your filthy hands on my no- no- NOSE! And I just had it painted!
Ace:
I'm sorry! I thought you were expecting me! And it never occurred to me-
Ruby:
Tee-he-he.
Welcome everyone! I’ve got fresh paint on, but it's dry. I'm not sensitive about my nose, at all. Though to get rise out of me, spin my turbines sometime.
Heehehe… I think that’s one girl that Ace didn’t suspect would be tweaking his nose yet… 😀
I wonder how long she’s been waiting to pull that gag.
@[al mar]:
Well, it’s been about 8 years since Ace’s last visit, so we know it can’t be longer than that…
On which timeline and -scale? 😀 With this comic, we can’t really be certain… 😀
@[Envious]:
Good Point.
I was referring to the Orions’ 8-year fertility-cycle, not the time that we’ve spent “IRL”.
Ace was (originally) going to be “borrowed”, for both his skills at unlocking the Dilmun-tech’s security-lockout, & also for his DNA.
(__ Orions find it inefficient to do anything major for just one reason __)
Waiting on Ruby to say something.
Pretending to be annoyed at someone touching her nose then then acknowledging it was a joke isn’t a good response for you?
There should have been “I’ve been” in front of the comment.
Jaz seems amused by the exchsnge while Luns more like ‘here we go again’.
Gina and Q’arn are more WTF.
I think Q’arn had heard enough stories about Ace that she’s not super surprised. But I doubt Peach informed Gina “Oh, BTW we have an awakened AI fighter that might just be infatuated with your son”….
I don’t see Jaz’s pose in the last panel as “amused”, more like… “Oh dear god… we’re going to trust our lives to a sentient fighter jet with a sense of humor! Is it too late to take the long, SAFE way home?”
How effective are turbines in the airless vacuum of space, anyway?
Are they just for “dirt-landings”?
I’d imagine that a magnetic ram-scoop would be more efficient, when between planets.
I would assume they’re for groundside operation. Or she could just be continuing the joke she just pulled on Ace. It can be hard to tell with AI.
Yeah, she has quite the “Poker=Face”.
Do the name Ruby Begonia ring a bell?
Sounds like one of the previous pilots (a certain blonde white orion) rubbed a bit of her personality off on that AI.
Who’s to say that’s all she rubbed off on (in?) Ruby 😛
If Ruby is here her bond partner can’t be too far away.
Any one able to get a good zoom in to the interior? That… sounds worse than it seems