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If the hitch looks different that's because I redid the design.... honestly I don't think the hitch or sled are very well designed but the problems I have with them are impossible to actually fully address without like another year or two unnecessarily reworking finished artwork, so that is what it is. I have a terrible combination of not being knowledgeable enough to intuitively design technology, but knowledgeable enough to know I'm not doing as good of a job as I'd like. Regardless, it's more important to finish things than do them perfectly. 9 pages left by the way

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Mark Dyson

So now Cal reaches out. Fun timing!

Kessal

it is time for the ultimate yeet

Stote

This is just roller coaster tycoon when you don’t finish the track.

Mark Dyson

Also, no criticism from me about the tech. It's on point enough to complement the story nicely with nothing that jars me away from that. I'm a fan!

Origamigryphon

Damn, roughly how long did it take to get to the launch loop?

BakedBananners

The build up is so exciting!! And calcery!!!!!

Argon

Calcery! It's been a long while! This page invokes that same sort of anxiety I get before a flight, of "Have I remembered everything, is the door back home locked, is everything home turned off, am I early enough, what will I do if there's a delay", all that which goes through your head when all you can do is wait for takeoff. Everything will be fine, it always is, but that quiet and that wait instills that jittery-ness into you where you can't help but fidget. The silence and showing the scale of everything pulls that all through so well.

Solanuma

Cal: Good news Talita! I've decided to return to work with Ixion agai-

Sparky Lurkdragon

1. CALCERY GOOD TO HEAR FROM YOU 2. Inverted loaf Talita made me smile So Big. As did lounging Bip lol.

The Faerie Fox

Don't worry Cal she's about to be GREAT once she gets off this rock

Devoted Archon

What a perfect bookend for the story having Cal chat with Talita in chapter 1 and at the very end

Rapaz

I have been waiting for this since I saw the "launching beds" sign! I have no idea of how would you engineer an earth-to-orbit spacecraft for civilians. how much acceleration can you allow them to experience during launch? CAN you even do anything at all about that as an engineer? does the loop help to get into orbit without accelerating so much? is high-G training a routine part of life for spacers? I have so many questions that probably don't even have an answer

Hemocyanin

Launch loop is rad as hell, and I'm excited to see what Cal has to say. But can we just take a second to appreciate Talita tucking her legs into a vertical loaf

Lily Roche

The long build up to this moment <3. The timing of communication XD

KaitheMagicDragon

"Machine God, watch over these travelers as they journey through the void. Shelter them in your steel embrace. Shield them from cosmic radiation. Guide them towards the path of knowledge and new experience."

Ari

I'm suddenly having anxiety about the amount of fuel on the ship. I remember them having a conversation about only having enough for bip to travel *very* slowly. That got resolved right? And I just missed it? Or forgot?

Bastiaan

OH man this whole sequence is going to be sick as fuck.

AsTheJayFlies

According to the stream last night, the launch loop system only puts them under abt 2gs of gravity for abt 20 minutes which is a bit uncomfortable but bearable for the average human. talita has it rougher bc she has more mass to crush herself with and is also a wimp (but she’ll be fine im sure)

Dakota

CALCERY!!!! The way I jumped up and down with joy!!! It’s so obvious this comic was well planned out from the beginning, the foreshadowing, pacing and connecting plot elements are all soooooo good 😭😭😭

Voligne

So basically your Jules Verne.

Andelie

Who maintains this infrastructure?

entipikal

Calcery jumpscare!!

TheoTheOtherTheo

Love a Talita loaf in any form. Cute lil tucked up leggies

Falcy Hedgehog

Talita finally has something built for her body! Also lol seatbelt loaf

Alight

Fun fact! I woke up, saw this page, went back to sleep, then had fun dreams about the characters packing stuff and going for a flight. (I had to verify that the page actually existed on waking.)

Unicorngirl 3008

I just noticed that Talita’s launch bed actually fits her and protects her 😭 she’s not modifying human technology to work!! She has her own!!

Jasmine Cote

woah cal! also the scaaallee of that thing... so cool!!!

Jasmine Cote

also found the gigantic non-diagetic rat : )!!!

bogcreacher

these pages are giving me such visceral excitement. like the feeling when you’re a kid going on a plane for the first time

SenGrisane

To me the technology looks incredibly convincing. Getting it out is indeed better than trying to hone every detail to perfection.

EdenArtFactory

...I genuinely do not remember oh nooooo

Devoted Archon

Yeah that’s been worrying me too since I don’t believe it ever got addressed after that one convo. I have to assume Tal figured it out and stocked up on fuel off-page.

Devoted Archon

I imagine part of the reason the loop is so big is so that there’s time to accelerate gradually

Mot

THE RAT IS HERE

Adrienne R

Talita squished in there snug as a bug… HI CALCERY

SNUFFGURLL

talita's sit pose is so cute and funny her little leg fold is adorable

Curona Crescent

Is the launch a sudden burst, or a gradual acceleration?

Shadow-mockingbird

I love Bip hanging out with them in the launch chamber. You can see how happy they are to have a crew again!

Jay Eaton

about 15 min of pretty gentle acceleration to 3800 m/s over 1000km of launch loop, then about 2g of centrifugal force from the skyhook pickup for 20min iirc. the transition is a little jarring but if you like rollercoasters you have experienced worse

halley

there she goes.. she's running away to the stars!! <3