Much of the exposition in today’s comic is for my readers who have no knowledge of the Haloverse (and yes, I actually have quite a few of them).
Also, I finally have the results for the Reclaimer: Sandbox contest and will be announcing those tomorrow.
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totally awesome
It changes the whole dynamic now, doesn't it?
You could say that. But can I say this? HELL YEAH I WAS RIGHT!!!!
Well, it's getting to the point now where my plot lines are pretty set in stone and the big picture is going to become more clear for everyone. So, predictions will likely be easier the closer we get to the big showdown.
Eaven thought I know about the shield worlds, this actually explains a lot. Good job!
Even thought I know about the shield worlds, this actually explains a lot. Good job!
And it's going to make a huge difference later on. This actually solves a few problems I had.
It was both convenient for the story and well convenient for you :p
If it's creative, I'd hardly call it convienient, but yes.
EPIC!
I'll forgive your abuse of that word in favor of enjoying your enthusiasm.
What's wrong with EPIC? It's a very common term in gaming language for some reason
It's so overly used and abused that the word doesn't really have any meaning anymore. It's terribly clichéd.
really? its really not used at all where I live…weird
I see it used all over the place in gaming forums as a way to describe awesome events in videos, montages, etc. It's weird how it's become the new 'cool' in common vernacular.
Caps lock abuse?
I however won't. I'll forgive in favor of it being an epic word.
Yaaay! Though I read Ghosts of Onyx, I needed that bit of confirmation.
It never hurts to explain things, even for Halo veterans.
nice Jim, great idea
and good use of the core material to halo 
Well, I've wanted to keep the Reclaimerverse very close to the original Haloverse right from the beginning. I'm glad, though, that you like this twist.
I still don't get how the chief died, we should get some backstory. Perhaps another miniseries.
I might go back and explore this at some point. It's actually not terribly relevant to the main Reclaimer story arc, though, so it might be a while before I get to it.
Chief was surrounded by the Flood and was going to be infected so Reclaimer blew him up. Simple as that i guess. Chief did give his confirmation to blow him up so it wasnt like an evil murdering kinda thing, it was probably a real help to humanity.
I mean, imagine that kinda threat, a Chief Flood!
great job i've been reading these for a while, and just wanted to express my thoughts. just curious though in the last box shouldn't it read "... you first met us 'are' the only portion…" just my thought though cheers!
i was just about to point that out! lol ive never been able to correct Jim yet and you beat me to the punch.
That's actually correct grammar. I'll have to see if I can look up the rule that goes with it a bit later.
I see you're using "...and the energy spheres you saw when you first met us" as an interjective, but you forgot a comma after 'us'. The real confusion on my end was why the cavalcada's hardware is in a micro-dyson sphere, it just can't be the space located in the compressed slipspace dimension? I just this this because the dyson sphere requires a sun the middle as mainly an energy source, but it's seems a bit odd for them to have one… again just my two cents
No, no comma is necessary there. The helping verb there is implied and
a comma would improperly break up the sentence.
As to the Dyson sphere structure, you'll find that it's not like most
Dyson spheres you see in science fiction literature – there is no
central sun (or other radiant power source).
Holy sea cow its a grammar fight!
FITE FITE FITE! (+1 respect to whoever gets the "FITE" reference)
No joke. I now know who does and does not read the comments, though.
Interesting concept in my opinion. Taking the idea of a shield world and twisting the concept to apply to an AI. Its pretty dang clever.
And a heckuvalot of fun.
Hmm….very good, and this explains the Cavalcada's unimaginable powers…their 'physical' forms are very tiny dyson spheres!
Not really. More like simple projections. The dyson spheres are held completely within Slipspace.
I really do like this idea. It means that all of the Calvacada are suspended in a micro-micro-dyson field and that their shatterboxes are just sort of the interactive part of it, right? So that means… well, I'll have to figure that part out…
Not… exactly.
I feel sorry for the person who does maintenance :O
No joke…
Didn't you just figure that out.
Hmmm… fourth frame along,
"How many of these worlds WERE there?"
Only a minor correction for this one – your hand must have slipped. It is homophonic, after all.
Yup, fingers got away from me. Those are the kinds of grammatical errors that make me cringe. Thanks for catching it.
What's with billions? I DON'T GET IT!!! How can there be a handful, yet billions, yet not have enough time to build so many?!?!?!?!? So who is correct or are they all correct? As in billions is just a handful in galactic terms, and is hardly enough for the entire Forerunner population and they didn't have enough resources or time to build enough for the whole population? Did that make sense?
A few shield worlds, each capable I harboring billions of Forerunners. The Reclaimer asked two questions.
The handful was the cavaldada's response to Reclaimers question of how many shield worlds were built, and the billions was a response to Reclaimers question of how many the shield worlds could hold…hope that clears things up!
"billions" seems to refer to the amount of forerunners the shield worlds could house.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that's the crazy one making a random crazy quip we've learned to love.
I can never keep the colors straight…
It's not, actually. That one's been strangely quiet for a while now.
Hmm… for some reason those other replies hadn't loaded until now. Now I feel stupid for replying with something shown to be false:p
Yeah, IntenseDebate changed their layout recently, and I'm not altogether happy with the way it's been acting. They assure me, though, that they're working on smoothing out the kinks in the system.
This is the first time I have seen something from one of the books in something besides another book. Great Job!!:D
Thanks! I'm really pleased with the implications this twist creates.
The fifth frame was not an error, but simply a shortened sentence for dramatic effect. Not used very often these days, but still proper English.
So they live exist in very small vacuums?
Mmm, something like that….
yay bad puns :whee:
So are there suns inside their Dyson spheres?
Yeah, I missed that the first time round too. I assumed it was the insane one
2nd Frame, Mostly Importantly, Unless my grammar is super off, I think one of these words has an extra Y ending.
4th frame "how could so many worlds hold many forerunners?"
maybe "how could so many worlds hold (so/that) many forerunners?"
5th frame " and a single portal in the shield world the only access point by which to reach it"
Missing a to be verb between shield world and the only access point?
2nd and 4th frames have been corrected. The 5th frame is actually the 6th and is not, in fact, an error.
Hmm… the comic seems different, somehow. Larger?
Nope, it's the same size it's always been.
I wonder what they mean by much much smaller the Micro Dyson sphere described in onyx was the size of earths orbit.
Which is as it should be. A Dyson sphere is supposed to have a radius of one astronomical unit (AU), which is the distance of Earth from the sun. So the Dyson sphere in Onyx holding that dimension would be more or less accurate. It was only called 'micro', I believe, due to its super-compressed state in Slipspace. The spheres that make up the Cavalcade are several orders of magnitude smaller, and so likely cannot be called true Dyson spheres.
You lost me quite a few comics ago, Jim. It'd be really cool if you'd stop making plot twists every comic and just continue the story. I'm getting a bit tired of being forced to skip 3 comics just to skip random discussions that I'm sure most viewers don't really care too much about.
Seriously, you'd be keeping your viewers and gaining new ones by either making the comics longer to include more actual happenings, or simply cut most of the explanations (by keeping things true to what you've already explained and adding anything you REALLY need to stop your comic from being too loose-ended, this is possible).
Send me a reply if you'll consider it, please. I've linked my email address.
It's a fine line that he's got to walk, you know. When you only get one 750×1000 space every two days to do something, you have to balance it between the information and the action.
And I promise that all the plot twist will be pulled together in the end to reveal a magnificent picture of all Ferial's schemings. In the meantime, the Reclaimer is discovering and unraveling the general chaos that Ferial has left in his wake while discovering other deeper mysteries left by the Forerunners.
Only a few shield worlds, but each could hold billions.
There's a typo in the last paragraph. Unless there is some grammatical rule I don't know about, I think there should be the word "are" in between 'first met us" and "the only portion of"
Do please refer to the numerous other comments already posted about this. My grammatical choice in the sixth panel is, indeed, legitimate, if little used.
Started reading a few months ago, finally decided to comment.
The RC doesn't really get it, does he? Then again, I only knew after reading Ghosts of Onyx.:)
The last text box, orange calvacada (forget its name) – shouldn't it be "...you saw when you first met us ARE the only portion of each calvacada that exists in real space." < - somebody else already commented about that.
Well, it is a large concept to take in. You're talking about a technology that humanity has only dreamed about until now. To find out that something like this exists would be mind-blowing, since it breaks several rules of physics as we currently understand them. So, it really shouldn't be too terribly surprising that the Reclaimer is having a little trouble wrapping his mind around it. Not to worry, though – he's not to be caught flat-footed for long.
Ah. Your response to s0ccurpr0's makes sense. Just goes to show how common English is strange.
Indeed. Like I said above, it's a little-used rule in English and so, since most people aren't familiar with it, they tend to think it's incorrect. Actually, I'm rather amused that, of all the things people could have latched onto in today's comic, that was the one that got the most attention.
Nice explanation. As Bungie said, "Freeman would be proud."
I have a theory for one of the previous pages: Ferial may have been offering Portent a body so that he would lose his Micro-Dyson software sphere, thereby inhibiting him. Just a thought. :p
if the Cavalcada exist in these places in slipspace how can one get caught in slipspace?
An excellent question…
So the calvacada are half in a nonreality and still able to communicate with the other half of themselves. Also, how does one stay in the same space yet be in two seperate spaces at once?
Oh, the delightful questions. Stay tuned – Wednesday will provide some of the answers you seek.
Well, Slipspace is another plane of reality – if one is sealed within an impenetrable sphere in one part of it… why not move around in the other parts?
That's actually a really good hypothesis! I like it!
Then why would he even come close to considering giving up his moon-sized computer for something so restricting and dysfunctional as a body. Trust me, cavalcada, bodies arent that good!
You have a very, very good point.
Who said Portent would have to give up its sphere were it to take a body?
Grarg! You and your cryptic answers!
huffI do indeed like the thread of reality that this is woven from. Your story, in its non-euclidean geometry, is quite amusing and engrossing.Keep up the good work. _
I'm glad you're enjoying it!
Saw Jim's Facebook, apparently there's a connection we are all missing…
The refuges inside Shield Worlds? Could these refuges be….ETERNAL? See where im going with this? Eternal Refuge? Maybe but im sure it was confirmed to be a shatterbox but still….
Also, yellow text cavalcada and blue text cavalcada (forogt their names) seem to be disagreeing with each other over how many Forerunners shield worlds can contain.
Yellow text: only a handful.
Blue text: Billions.|
Big difference there…big disagreement.
Any ideas what this connection might be, just post reply!
The seeming disagreement has already been answered. Might wanna take a gander back through the comments again.
thanks for laying it out simply for me i couldn't grasp it in the book all that well
srry i meant to say "simply for us" instead of me