Grrl Power #1421 - Tinkocalypse? (Patreon)

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I know what you're wondering. If Gaxgy has a treasure hoard, and he frequents a station that has several "Petty Gold" lockers, wouldn't he just clean them out each time? Well, the answer is simply that he's allowed to grab a handful each time he drop by, same as everyone. 

It got me thinking, if dragons are attracted to gold because it's valuable, what would they do in a post scarcity society? I guess their hoard might shift to something else valuable, like information. But I don't know about a dragon sitting on top of a pile of thumb drives, so maybe instead they'd be a librarian, shushing everyone who wants to check out their collection of rare books? I dunno. It's a cool visual, but I feel like there's more to the "dragon like gold" than they're greedy. Cause really, it's not like the dragon goes into town to buy craft honey and swing by the butcher and knickknacks for the cave. They don't have a need for money, they can eat a herd of sheep if they want and what's the local constabulary going to do? So I keep going back to my theory that gold is pretty and clinky and used for nesting and impressing the ladies. But then, why would lady dragons hoard hordes? Of course, there's no reason a lady dragon can't enjoy having a clinky pile of gold and gems to roll around on. Maybe if it's a mating thing, they horde so they can brutally reject any guy with a small one. (Insert joke here about lady dragons being just like lady... ladies.)

Anyway, on to stuff about this page. Showing a "Super Smart" a bunch of alien technology seems like one of those force multiplier situations. I did like in Endgame when Rocket told Stark to calm down, that he was only a genius on Earth. But Stark was able to accomplish a lot starting from Earth tech levels and infrastructure. And also, Rocket, you're a genius raccoon-GELF thing, but you're not rolling around in a suit of nanobot armor that allows you to fly and shoot laser beams from a bottomless energy source. But each genius to his own. My point is, what would Stark or Reed Richards or uh... another Super Genius... Man, I'm blanking out. I was trying to think of an evil super genius, but honestly, most of them are either pretty dumb or are simply one hit wonders. Doc Oc made wiggly tentacle arms that interfaced with his nervous system and could move in ways that human limbs don't. That's fucking impressive. But then he kind of just... robbed banks and fixated on the fact that Spider-Man kept whooping his ass. Green Goblin made a flying little bodyboard thing. It's the size of an open pizza box, and can carry a human being, no, at least two human males. I'm sure there was a scene where he was kidnapping Mary Jane while towing Spidey behind. That's fucking impressive. But then he uses it to fly around tossing goblin-themed grenades and... rob banks, I assume. Yeah, I know, golden/silver age comics weren't always the deepest analysis of the social-economic motivations of super villains. But still. 

What was my point... Oh right. So what happens if Reed Richards or Stark or Doctor Doom got a month to study Nidavellir. (The Star-Forge used to create Stormbreaker.) I'm sure there have been plenty of examples of super smarties getting their hands on alien tech, but it never really caused any significant shifts in power levels or Earth's tech level. 

We'll see what comes of Digit getting elbows deep into a Starforge.