Understated Space
Aug11
on 2018-08-11
at 00:01
Cameras these days. The can be so tiny.
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Luna
Seriously? That’s the second time I’ve heard him quoted up here.
Sky
It may not be the last. He’s become required reading in many academies and universities these last few cycles. He’s published a lot of books and studies.
Of course the main reason he’s come to our attention is due to his association with Ace.
Jaz
I suppose you have a file on me, too.
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Sky
Uhm. Maybe. Some. A few … details.
Jaz
You’d better not have photos or video of me dancing.
Sky
We have not and none of our agents have made any records of your stage performances.
Jaz
You didn’t make any, but-?
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Sky
They were online! And applying Orion privacy laws to Terrans is kind of a grey area. And people wonder. And we have black markets, too. So the only way to protect your interests was to auction off the rights on your behalf to publish a compilation video set. And it’s very popular. And your cut is really adding up. We just have no way to get you your money right now. So it has to be managed and invested. Fortunately, my Aunt Apple is really good at that, especially with the economy booming.
Seriously? That’s the second time I’ve heard him quoted up here.
Sky
It may not be the last. He’s become required reading in many academies and universities these last few cycles. He’s published a lot of books and studies.
Of course the main reason he’s come to our attention is due to his association with Ace.
Jaz
I suppose you have a file on me, too.
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Sky
Uhm. Maybe. Some. A few … details.
Jaz
You’d better not have photos or video of me dancing.
Sky
We have not and none of our agents have made any records of your stage performances.
Jaz
You didn’t make any, but-?
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Sky
They were online! And applying Orion privacy laws to Terrans is kind of a grey area. And people wonder. And we have black markets, too. So the only way to protect your interests was to auction off the rights on your behalf to publish a compilation video set. And it’s very popular. And your cut is really adding up. We just have no way to get you your money right now. So it has to be managed and invested. Fortunately, my Aunt Apple is really good at that, especially with the economy booming.
One wonders how many rich Terrans there are who will never get a crack at “their” money absent an abduction or other trip to the Nebula?
Not so many. Quite a few Terrans who have made significant contributions to Orion civilization are already emigrated from Earth. That’s how we have 1/4 Terrans and 1/8th Terrans and so forth running around on this ship (aside from Ace’s own relations).
If you’re thinking of Terran entertainers; musicians, actors, comedians, and other media producers; those would have made the money they were entitled to at the point of sale, just like with their more local customers. What planet the DVD goes to AFTER it’s bought doesn’t really alter their bottom lines.
Now, more recently, with so much free content online, well… That wasn’t going to directly generate income in the first place. At best, an increased amount of interest and renown to a larger interested audience could increase their hard-media sales as a result, same as with their Terran fans. Probably not a lot of green Orions making it out to concerts and shows, however, so it’s mostly been sale of physical media through intermediaries, as has been mentioned once or twice.
I doubt this Internet farming is a very widespread problem, however (Jaz has become a Person Of Interest through her association with Ace; her case is unusual). Access to Earth’s Internet is limited by range (what’s your home wifi’s upper limit? 400ft?) To connect to our Internet would require (at best) a ship in orbit, and that’s probably still making some assumptions about alien communications tech being able to directly connect to the same satellites we use for mobile communications and such. It makes sense for them to have long-range communications tech, but don’t forget their computer tech is actually BEHIND ours.
I’m wondering if Luna is aware of how interested in her that crew member appears to be, smelling her hair and all….
Ashe isn’t smelling Luna’s hair, it’s just the change in angle
It is exactly the same angle.
No it’s not, all three panels has had the focus moving slightly, you could not see Luna’s nipple in the first two panels
I was using the viewscreen, furniture, and faucets as point of reference for the shifting angle, but your point is much perkier!
well if ace can afford a space station. what can she buy? her own moon? a small one atleast.
I’ll bet she’s good at mooning…
Ace’s Trust Fund is older than Jaz’s since hist stared when he around 8 years old and her’s resulted from her stripping career.
Jaz does not look pleased by this… also.. is it me or does it seem like Luna’s hair is floating a bit?
That’s a quirk of Daz, the software Andy uses to make the comic. It bugs the hell out of me in my art too.
Love the dakis you’re putting up. Can you do a Luna dakimakura?
A twin Daki, with Skyclad
If you know that somebody’s owed a huge amount of money that they’re unaware of, you should lead with that.
They can’t make decisions about it or use it until they know it exists.
Now, this is especially true since Jaz is making a decision about staying with the Orions for longer-term medical treatment, or possible emigration. Knowing she has resources in Orion society and wouldn’t be starting out penniless, matters a lot in that kind of decision.
And knowing that you knew about this and didn’t tell her until now may be something she needs to think about as well.
If she chooses not to emigrate, Jaz still needed to know about this. She can participate in setting up a way to get access to at least some of her money while on Earth. IIRC you guys use bars of gold metal to set up accounts so you can buy things at CartMart, so she could just get a nice prepaid-forever CartMart charge card with the option of getting cash back along with purchases.
Of course they really don’t have a way to get all her money to her, while she is resident on Earth. It’s not on the same scale as Ace’s fortune, but it’s the same basic problem. The basic problem is that Earth is currently at Kardashev 0.7 or thereabouts and the Orions around Kardashev 2. With their reproductive difficulties compensated by technology, they’re apparently finding a use for a lot of large habitats and more than a few planets, so their population would easily be thousands of times that of Earth. (Seriously! Do The Math!) The scale of the respective economies, likewise. That makes any significant concentration of money in the Orion economy out of all scale with respect to Earth’s.
IOW, If Jaz’ fans include even one percent of Orion citizens, that’s still tens of times the population of Earth. I’m going to let someone else do the calculations on royalties, but there are some logistic issues in terms of distorting Earth’s economy if that’s to be transferred to her as equivalent value.
Actually it is cannon that earth’s population outstrips the Orion’s. As stated by the oracle of Luna in the catch-space strip. https://www.tmi-comic.com/comic/catch-space/
You are right about the math though. Even with the once every 8 years fertility cycle. Orion’s tend to have litters of children. Something must have been holding them back, for thousands of years.
You mean beside the fact that they had to learn how to use technology because they can’t servive carrying even a single fetus to term, and that same technology is the only way to figure out viable pairings. Add in a liw number of males and a high number of nongendered people. Then you don’t even have every fertile female interested or able to get together with an appropriate male in each fertile cycle. This would tend to put limits on the speed with which a population grows. You also have space limitations and issues with maintenance of old habitates with no way until the fabbers were unlocked they could build neither new ships, nor new habitates.
And how would you suggest Skyclad mentioning where the money came from? That’s not really something you just say out of the blue (or green as the case may be 😛 )
@ Bear
The Orion population is given to us as approximately 50 million and shrinking.
To help put that in perspective, the populations of Canada or the US state of California are both a bit under 38 million. The population of the whole of the USA is 327.2 million (2018). China and India both sit at a bit more than 1.3 Billion, each (2017).
One wonders just how large this library of recordings is. Also, Maddie is a model, and how hard would it be to amass the magazines, catalogs, advertisements, etc. containing her photos. Wasn’t she a lingerie/underwear model? Again, curious Orions. They probably have all of Grandma Cartman’s pictures, too.
Then there was the time Luna and Granny stripped… any cell phones shooting video? And Sky with Ace’s cousin is undoubtedly recorded and shared everywhere. What do Orions call their paparazzi?
What do Orions call their paparazzi? – Criminals.
Remember the Orions have a strict cultural importance on the rights of the individual to privacy. While things on the internet may blur that, but for among their own holdings and people, any such exploitation would be a grave offense. So Sky is safe, as is Ace and the rest while on board the ship. Cousin Gabe is a bit of an exception at the moment. As for the one time in a strip club, those places are very strict cameras and other about recording devices, and Mrs. has the money to send lawyers and other people after anybody that can’t be bothered to follow the rules.
Orions have a strict cultural… Sky just admitted that “They were online! And applying Orion privacy laws to Terrans is kind of a grey area. And people wonder. And we have black markets, too.” Mrs. Cartman has already discovered that her published pictures were published in foreign language versions, too. In Japan, at the very least. Good luck sending her lawyers after Orions with Japanese copies. (After Orions, period.)
As for Sky and Gabe? That was broadcast! It’s out there. (And she’s probably investing Gabe’s share with her aunt Apple, even as we text.)
“As for the one time in a strip club, those places are very strict cameras and other about recording devices,..” Where do you suppose all the video of Jaz came from? Like Andy said, “Cameras these days. They can be so tiny.”
Meh. My question stands. What are their paparazzi called?
Orion’s may be curious, butt their culture forbids recordings made without the full awareness or consent of the individual. They couldn’t stop the recordings of Jaz, butt they could, and did, control who profited from any sales, and, rather than just leave the money sitting doing nothing, they, like any sensible person, invested it to make even more money
Orion’s don’t have papascum, because their entire and sole purpose in what could be vaguely called ‘life’ is to pry into, and expose, private matters, without consent, for monetary gain (and not one smallest unit of relevant currency goes to the individual or groups exposed), and that is something Orion’s don’t do