Grrl Power #1398 - Princess popular (Patreon)

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This is hardly Sydney's fault. The holo-disguisinator on Cora's ship really is more or less like a character selector in a video game. Pick your race, then customize the particulars. There are a lot of hairstyle options across the myriad races in the galaxy. Plenty of races have special customizations, like horns, scale patterns, etc. For the race Sydney picked (Mantellans, it comes up in a couple pages) you have to select "forehead jewel shape and color." Probably clarity, purity, and whatever other things people care about gems. Also, they probably have a better name for that thing than "forehead jewel." I just haven't thought of it yet.

Now, there might have been an info box on the side of the selection UI thing that mentioned that the forehead jewel instills a significant sociological hierarchy among their race. And Sydney might have gotten distracted by all the pretty gems and not paid attention, cause she was busy picking out the coolest/prettiest one. It's also possible that she also noticed that info box after she picked the best one, and went, "Eh. Whatever. What could the Mantellan population of Fracture Station be anyway? I didn't see any the last time I was here, and not just cause DaveB hadn't invented them yet."

That's why she knows the situation is about to... evolve.

So yeah, it's her fault.