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| wall of mistakes | Solla: It...is not possible...
/ Solla: But...
/ Solla: Are these all...? / Benjamin: Geneticly altered and augmented sentients.
/ Benjamin: Gestated in utero, despite the psychological complications that arose.
/ Benjamin: They were selectively modified to look like normal Humans. / Benjamin: ...In the... http://hekshano.com/comic243.php |
| broken rules | Benjamin: The ideal was rarely achieved.
/ Benjamin: Manipulation of too many DNA codes made them unstable.
/ Benjamin: Very often the end result was...flawed. Psychologically or physically.
/ Benjamin: Visable defects...if surgery couldn't correct them, most were killed.
/ Benjamin: The survivors are in... http://hekshano.com/comic244.php |
| one of them | Benjamin: The people who made those laws didn't account for their own nature!
/ Benjamin: Humans...we think if we're allied close enough to power, we can do anything.
/ Benjamin: Our history is littered with our hubris.
/ Benjamin: We'll create life...
/ Benjamin: And in doing so, ruin it.
/ Benjamin: All... http://hekshano.com/comic245.php |
| paperwork | Benjamin: ...To say that...
/ Benjamin: You first need to understand what "they" really are. / Benjamin: Please, let me explain again.
/ Benjamin: WITHOUT interuption. / Benjamin: What you see is the result of a project to lower the number of war-related casualties. / Benjamin: As it was worded: "To... http://hekshano.com/comic246.php |
| violent birth | Benjamin: Years earlier, Naitec's parent company, Midreak, had been a forerunner in the artifical intelligence robotics development movement before it lost steam. / Benjamin: The project leaders asked for ten years, undisturbed. / Benjamin: The Rulerists thought they would recieve fighting robots. / Benjamin:... http://hekshano.com/comic247.php |
| childhood memories | Solla: You and Captain Aslilin were two of these...children, then. / Solla: Obviously there were others.
/ Solla: How could a Human, or any being, give birth to these mutations?
/ Solla: You say the births were natural. In that case, where are the mothers? / Benjamin: The mothers? I...I really don't... http://hekshano.com/comic248.php |
| stupid man suit | Benjamin: At least...
/ Benjamin: Some of us were. / Solla: You have said the embryos used were Human.
/ Solla: But these... / Benjamin: You want to know what was added to form the mutations?
/ Benjamin: Animal DNA.
/ Benjamin: Embryotic modification was a forgotten "fashion" science, discarded when the... http://hekshano.com/comic249.php |
| one of two | Solla: And yet...
/ Solla: They continued with the project. / Benjamin: They couldn't be sure that the instability was biological in origin. / Benjamin: The fault might have been in the living conditions. / Benjamin: So they authorized two control subjects. / Benjamin: One was a normal Human, raised... http://hekshano.com/comic250.php |
| i think i can, i think i can | Solla: You believe the Human, "Grey", may have been one of those control subjects. / Benjamin: You're very perceptive. Yes.
/ Benjamin: One of the reasons we're looking for him is to answer a question my creators left me with. / Solla: I can think of several questions...
/ Benjamin: This is the biggest.
/ Benjamin:... http://hekshano.com/comic251.php |
| deal's a deal | Solla: You mean the other subject is dead?
/ Benjamin: I mean they BOTH vanished.
/ Benjamin: At about the thirteen year mark in the project, the Rulerists realized what Naitec was really making. / Benjamin: Data related to the entire project, including that on the control subjects, was destroyed in Naitec's... http://hekshano.com/comic252.php |
| sicilian | Sartre: Hm. Hmm.
/ Sartre: Has Suega done any research into the identity of "Drakia"?
/ Sartre: Or to the contents of the package they had to stop?
/ Suega: I gave it an honest attempt.
/ Sartre: And? / Suega: Maybe I found something...
/ Suega: And maybe I didn't.
/ Suega: Tell me where the Human is and... http://hekshano.com/comic253.php |
| backup | Sartre: Sartre examined the Human, Suega realizes. / Suega: Then you already know.
/ Suega: So hand him over.
/ Sartre: No. / Suega: Fine. / < http://hekshano.com/comic254.php |
| interogation | Suega: Igna. Jino.
/ Suega: The captains didn't authorize your access into the quarentined sectors.
/ Jino: They didn't authorize yours either. Drop him. / Suega:...
/ Sartre: Sartre warned Suega. / Sartre: Never trust informants. / Suega: So you know eachother. So what?
/ Suega: Going to murder me and... http://hekshano.com/comic255.php |
| transaction | Suega: Is a name really that important?
/ Suega: We all want him for the same reason. / ???: It's too much to just accept that as an explanation. / Solla: There is too much about this that is still unclear to me. / Solla: If the project was scrapped and the leaks plugged, how are you and Aslilin permitted... http://hekshano.com/comic256.php |
| bail out | Benjamin: In fact... / Benjamin: We escaped before they started using a control group. / Benjamin: Sometimes I think our escape contributed to the decision to start... http://hekshano.com/comic257.php |
| years like sand | Benjamin: I've never understood fully why we were allowed to remain free. / Benjamin: The Shard's first crew trained us. / Benjamin: Accepted us as no different from them. / Benjamin: Maybe they knew where we'd come from. Maybe it was guilt, or pity, or shock that made the Rulerist crew protect and... http://hekshano.com/comic258.php |
| perfect spot | Solla: So your research began from inside the Rulerist system. / Benjamin: Right. The Shard's crew didn't believe us at first, but from what we could remember and what we could find... / Benjamin: We were in a fine position a few years later to hear ALL about it when Naitec was exposed. / Solla: Including... http://hekshano.com/comic259.php |
| invaluable | Benjamin: Him and the other control subject, yes.
/ Benjamin: Even if it turns out he's not human, he's invaluable to us. / Benjamin: Was he thought of as Human, even though he wasn't? / Benjamin: Could they control him? / Benjamin: Did he blend in? / Benjamin: I have to know.
/ Solla: I understand. / Koji:... http://hekshano.com/comic260.php |
| relatives | Benjamin: Whether he was built or brainwashed, what they ended up with was a killing machine. / Benjamin: At least six murders can be credited to him in the last four years, but even he doesn't know if that number is accurate. / Benjamin: Naitec couldn't control that. It's foolish for others to think... http://hekshano.com/comic261.php |
| walking out in space | Benjamin: There's a universe of difference between a soldier and a living, feeling, thinking weapon.
/ Benjamin: You wanted to talk about twisted ethics, Captain. Here's a perfect example.
/ Benjamin: The Rulerists knew they'd inadvertently created monstrosities. / Benjamin: And while they pulled funding... http://hekshano.com/comic262.php |
| down to it | Benjamin: But only as an advancement in a military arms race...
/ Sartre: Well? / Suega: You may be sorely disappointed.
/ Sartre: That's not what matters. / Suega: Drakia. / Suega: It's how I had access to all the data you'd wanted. / Suega: Unfortunately, like you were, I'm only a hired hand.
/ Suega:... http://hekshano.com/comic263.php |
| how, when, why, where, who | Sartre: Tell us what Suega DOES know about Drakia, at least.
/ Suega: If you insist.
/ Sartre: Sartre does. / Suega: Drakia's fringe. Not attached to Rulerism.
/ Suega: Rulerists wouldn't play this sneak-thief angle.
/ Sartre: They'd take it to the courts.
/ Suega: Right. They'd do this legally. But despite... http://hekshano.com/comic264.php |
| stick together | Suega: I was sent to spy on the Captains.
/ Suega: Drakia knows their plans and must have thought they were close to finding the Human. / Suega: I'm not the only one sneaking around sending secret messages. I'm almost sure...You twins are doing the same. / Jino: Keep your assumptions to yourself, Suega. / Jino:... http://hekshano.com/comic265.php |
| not to worry | Jino: An Utini...
/ Jino: Can't be expected to understand. / Suega: Then I won't pretend I do. / Suega: But don't forget. / Suega: While we talk, we waste time.
/ Suega: Drakia's not afraid of using lethal force to get what it wants if I fail. / Suega: As Sartre's well aware. / Sartre: Don't worry. / Sartre:... http://hekshano.com/comic266.php |
| looking for answers | Solla: You know, Benjamin, you seem so intent on finding Grey. Yet you are experiments too...
/ Benjamin: Do I think we're being hunted down as well? I'm almost sure of it.
/ Benjamin: We're likely being observed right now. / Soshika: Ash...What's going on?
/ How do you know your way around this ship?... http://hekshano.com/comic267.php |
| change that channel | Ashido: Clues.
/ Soshika: Clues? / Ashido: Clues to what Sartre was doin'.
/ Ashido: Who he spoke ta...
/ Ashido: Why he hid it. / Ashido: What he was sell...ing... / Ashido: Da Human, huh? I shoulda guessed.
/ Ashido: I knew he wasn't normal when my brothers-
/ Soshika: Your brothers?! But they're dead!... http://hekshano.com/comic268.php |
| Don't look back, either | Ashido: WHAT?!
/ Ashido: That sneak! / Ashido: Just how many sides is he-
/ Soshika: Ash! LOOK OUT!! / Ashido: FRIK! / Ashido: Lypha? Do yerself a favour. / Ashido: Run. Away. http://hekshano.com/comic269.php |
| learn to dodge | Soshika: Run?! That's the captain of this ship, why should I- / Soshika: CRAIKA! / Ashido: NNK!
/ Soshika: ASH! http://hekshano.com/comic270.php |
| sickening sound | Soshika: Ash, get up! Ash!
/ Ashido: Frig...Ow... / < http://hekshano.com/comic271.php |
| Keep your eye on the Birdie | [no text] http://hekshano.com/comic272.php |