Outsider page 117

>>53566532
Jesus what the fuck is happening? One more page and I'm hiding in the woods.

>>53566532
>>53566590
Wait are you bullshitting me? It still only goes to 116 on the website.

>>53566610

Patreon. I've uploaded for you guys cuz I'm nice like that.

>>53566630
You're awesome anon!

>Jealous Beryl is cute
>tfw torn between the cuteness and her being mean to best girl Talon

>>53566532
That expression is begging to be made into a reaction image.

Was the writer stockpiling pages and waiting until we least expect it?

>CAPTAIN JARDIN needs his hand back
>They were holding hands this entire page

>>53566630
wheeeeeere

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>>53566532
>Outsider updated again

>>53567074
Heh, it suddenly occurs to me that Beryl probably realized that hand holding for that long wasn't normal either. And god damnit, Jardin must have a will of iron, because I'd have given in to temptation already.

>>53567226
We've been tempted by blueberry qts for years but for Jardin it's only been a few days.

>>53566532
SHE WANTS THE DICK, JARDIN.

GIVE HER THE DICK, JARDIN.

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>>53566532

>Beryl's hair makes my dick tingle.

Jesus Beryl, you're going to need some ice for that burn.

What is this comic about? Scifi and romances? Do the relationships go anywhere?

>>53567491
The comic has been going on for 16 years and there's only 117 pages.

>>53566532

Look at her hand on the last panel, that's the
>bitch you better get off my man before I fuck you up
move

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>>53566939

>>53567106
in the OP retard.

>>53567502
Yeah but we just blew threw four pages IN A MONTH.

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>>53567106
>>53567522

>>53567502
>16 years and there's only 117 pages
Fuck that, if I want to read a webcomic that's been going for most of my life I'll reread Megatokyo. And if I want updates I'll read El Goonish Shive.

>>53567502
>The comic has been going on for 16 years and there's only 117 pages.

How many elegan/tg/entlemen, lurker or otherwise have died while it's on hiatus?

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>>53567606

>>53567606
You're now thinking about how many people died before they finished the campaign their group was running.

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>>53567639

>used to hang around a local gaming store
>several regular customers and owners played game together
>one guy everyone knew for years and liked a lot played in the game
>his long-running character died in the campaign one night
>everyone majorly bummed by this, but our characters gave him a good send off
>we all went home
>didn't see him for a week
>come to find out he killed himself that night after he got home
>none of use knew he battled with depression for years
>forget all about this years later
>store is cleaning out stuff from back room
>we find boxed set sitting with cluttered papers
>open it up
>his dead character's sheet is sitting on top
>flood of memories and feels

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doing the exploitable combined with my first impression of Beryl's expression from last update gave me an idea.

>>53567562
Wait, Megatokyo is still going?
Crap, I haven't checked on that in, like, twelve years.

So, whats the deal with that "unlock to view page 118" on the patreon? Is that just saying that the eventual page 118 has been paid for, or that its out and available for patreons to read.

>>53567639

;_;

>>53494002
Where did this image from last thread come from? Is that something that Arioch drew or fanart?

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>>53567719

Remember the fallen brother.

>>53567724

You probably only 20 pages behind anyway.

I'm not sure what to think of the expressions in these comics. I feel like they're well drawn and look like expressions a person could make, but at the same time I feel like they don't fit well with the panels and what's being said at the same time.

>>53566532
a, female blue skinned alien, why are they so the best?

Back on Page 41 he was all HELLO LADIES when Talon cruised by.
Beryl just wants to fuck an alien. He's her favorite pet.

>>53567830
It's from his work-in-progress thread where he occasionally dumps concepts for future chapters. The character in that image is the niece or daughter of an important admiral who had her assigned to staff duty behind the lines so the family bloodline won't die out if all their other youngsters get killed in action. This is apparently a common practice in high ranking families

>>53568112
>The character in that image is the niece or daughter of an important admiral who had her assigned to staff duty behind the lines so the family bloodline won't die out if all their other youngsters get killed in action. This is apparently a common practice in high ranking families

This is a common practice here too

>>53568090

Talon is best girl.

>>53567694
It's frustrating and amazing at the same time. Blue space elves are the ultimate tease.

>>53567719
Must...resist...Dark Dungeons...reference...

>>53566532
>It didn't come up. When we first met, my hands were... not free. If you recall

I know he's referencing when he first woke up but my mind immediately went to Jardin hinting that he masturbated.

>>53567751
are you a patreon of him? When somethings locked on Patreon its meant only for the people who pay them money to see them so page 118 might be out already

>>53569634
>that he masturbated
Oh. Well you sure have a tame fantasy.

>>53568112
>>53568518
We don't even do it for important families.

The whole Saving Private Ryan plot is based on actual events.

After all five brothers in a family that died in the Navy made one family extinct, the US government put a system in place that if someone is a sole survivor in a family, they immediately get sent home.

>>53567362
Talon's hair is better.

>>53566532
Am I going crazy, or did he start using some 3D poser-type support for his drawing? I feel like I can see some residual polygons left in some faces and hairs, probably painted over by hand.

Which I don't mind at all, anything that helps the artist draw more qt blueberries on a regular basis is fine by me.

>>53569852
Yea. He 3D models everything before drawing over it.

>>53569918
Explains the dead, soulless expressions.

>>53566532
Pouting Talon is cuter.

>>53569918
>>53569852
The backgrounds are always 3D modeled the characters are hand drawn.

>>53570321
Doesn't explain the dead, soulless expressions.

>>53567720
heh, took me a while to see the knife

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It's so long between pages that every time this comic updates I feel as if I am bearing witness to a rare interstellar phenomenon. Or the omens of an oracle told long ago only to become relevant on this day.

This motherfucker.

>>53567509
>not exploitaberyl.jpg
ONE job.

>>53571701
Oh, I'll exploit a Beryl alright.

>>53571671
The stars have aligned, great Cthulhu wakes.

>>53566532
I guess Arioch ran out of cash. Either that or hells freezing over while pigs are growing wings

>>53568090
>>53569104
Looks like pilots really DO have natural feelings for each other...

Which reminds me.
>>53528910
What she says is a word-for-word quote of what Jean Rhys-Davies character says to Pilot-Major John Blackthorn, upon meeting him.

>>53570339
You know when words like "dead" and "soulless" sexually arouse you, that's a sign you should stop shitposting and ask your local necromancer for an internship.

>>53570339
>dead, soulless expressions
Have we been reading the same comic?

Have they even launched the shuttle yet? I welcome the multiple updates, but I'm worried we'll be stuck on the boat for years

>>53573081
Look at it this way, we can stay on the shuttle for years or we can stay on the shuttle for years with no updates.

Pick your favorite

>>53573081
Yes, the boat launched when they were still in the seats. Once it had taken off they unbuckled and Jardin went to see the pilots.

So it seems pretty obvious that the blue space elves blew up his ship and are trying to cover it up in case humanity really turns out to be real so they can foster inter-galactic relationships. Gotta watch yourselves around elves. Story seems fun so far with lots of mysteries to discover but at a glacial pace of 1 page a week at best, what can we hope for?

>>53575065
>1 page a week at best
Oh you sweet summer child. It's closer to 1 update a year.

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>>53575065
Nah, it'll wind up being that the ship was blown up by the Guardian.

>>53575065
>1 page a week
I wish.

>>53575124
>>53575156
W-What do you mean? I've only just stumbled upon this comic and I'm really liking it so far and I'm eagerly awaiting updates--god why do you do this to me?

>>53575267
I was 7 when this comic started.

I just graduated from university a few weeks ago.

Welcome to the Shortest, longest running webcomic in human history.

>>53566532

Hey wait what?

Outsider had an update after a year of inactivity?

Whoa whoa wait there have been multiple updates in the SAME YEAR?

Is this going to update like an actual webcomic now? This is amazing.

>>53575065

Well, that and the existence of Humanity at all kind of undermines their empire's legitimizing myth, so an actual Iconoclastic act of genocide is on the table with these ladies, and Jardin's 24-7 guard detail was probably in no small part to keep him from getting murdered. But it's fun to tease.

>>53575515
Do we know what this legitimising myth is yet?

>>53575559

The Loroi say they are the direct decedents of the founder-race of the most recent local galactic empire, instead of the psychic gene-modded soldiers they probably were (the empire's quirk was that it made various (servant?) races with a common biochemistry that physically resembled other existing primitive races). This was proved by their distribution on multiple worlds and there being no natural analogue to the Loroi body-type, which the other common-descended races had.

Then one fine day this one scout ship shows up to a battleground...

>>53575693
>Then one fine day this one scout ship shows up to a battleground...
It's fitting that the scoutship was blown up so quickly in the story, considering this is a MoO2 fan comic. In Master of Orion 2, the fate of all my scoutships was to jump into a system and get killed by whatever space monster there was there.

>>53575743
That's what they're for.
It's a ship, with an engine, a telescope, a radio, and some poor bastard.
Probably food, but then again why bother.

>>53566532

>Beryl: NOOO!!! I missed the quest-chain start! How was I supposed to know he needed free hands during the first encounter!? Those nincompoop meatheads! I'll never get a good end now!

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>>53569852
I think he switched to full digital at some point but 17 years ago he was drawing the characters on paper and cel-shading his art in photoshop to look computery on purpose

Why exactly would the aliens even be interested/attracted to a human

>>53576288
We got big dicks.

>>53576288
'Cause most of them will only be getting it on with a male of their own species once in their entire life.

>>53566532
All I can think about is him having a much higher metabolism then her and better cellular respiration.

She should be careful what she asks for. Ectotherms are overrated.

>>53575953
>Beryl
>good end

Girl, you are the little sister character.
It's all about Fireblade.
AT BEST you would get the hand holding ending. Meaning you would be dead by the next engagement had Talon not intervened.

>>53576415
So what your saying is a human could literally fuck a space elf to death.

Elaborate.

>>53576288
Why do people like elf-girls? Just reverse it.

Not different enough to be discouraging, yet exotic.
Not rutting all the time.
Not a manlet.

>>53576451
Not necessarily fuck her to death, might be no real danger humans might have smaller penis, despite being larger.

It just would be a longer hotter and sweatier experience than she would imagine.

>>53575267
The most recent 4 pages are a terrifying anomaly, probably a sign of the end times.
Page 112 was a year before 113.
Page 111 was 2 months before 112.
110 was a mere month before 111.

At best, the update schedule is monthly. On average, it's roughly every 6 months. Once it went 2 years between pages. Welcome to purgatory.

>>53576288
apparently having psychic powers fucks with your basic mental perception to the point that Loroi are basically innumerate (and stuck using old empire base eight without zero counting system) thus looking at a screen and being able to manually count how many thousand ships are on there is an alien super power

>>53576666
>Loroi are basically innumerate (and stuck using old empire base eight without zero counting system) thus looking at a screen and being able to manually count how many thousand ships are on there is an alien super power

Man the Greeks managed to invent math without a zero and using an alphabet derived base 60 system.

>>53576813
That was the Babylonians.
And they couldn't read minds.

>>53576666
Don't think too much about it.

2160 and both races are still bothering to memorize rarely used conversions.

Its not that they aren't important its just rather than to memory a small device could record and spread the information quicker.

>>53576813
Sure, if you're a real math prodigy and have plenty of time on your hands you can get somethign done even with some pretty retarded systems.

But compared to a system were even a slightly below average engineer or accountant can get shit done before deadline on Monday morning you've got a serious fucking handicap. Even worse if you need to read numbers accurately in combat or so.

>>53576959
Don't think they made their own retarded system, they have 10 fingers.

There are arguments that base 12 would be better. It doesn't really change the underlying concepts just the representation.

... page 118 when?

Should I head for the hills? There are some natural cave systems nearby.

>>53577048
Base 12 is slightly better for daily life, since you can divide 12 by 6, 4, 3, and 2 evenly. For example, 1/3rd of 12 is 4, instead of like with 1/3rd of 10 being 3 and 1/3rd. Or one quarter of 12 is 3 instead of where 1/4th of 10 is 2 and 1/2.

You'd need to teach everyone to count 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B 10 though. And change everything in daily life. So it's actually not better at all compared to an established system. But if you were going to do it de novo, it'd be a serious contender.

>>53577048
>Don't think they made their own retarded system, they have 10 fingers.

So do we but base 10 was hardly the first system we thunk up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4bmZ1gRqCc

>>53575489
>Whoa whoa wait there have been multiple updates in the SAME YEAR?

Anon, there have been multiple updates IN THE SAME MONTH.

>>53577201
You can divide 12 by 2, 3, 4, 6 in base 10 as well, you know. It doesn't fucking change anything.

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>>53575825
If space monsters and pirates were intelligent, they'd wait for the first expensive ship to come through instead of blasting whatever they see first.

>>53576813
We're already seeing that giving out iPads to every student hurts their ability to do advance math, a civilization trying to develop while ancient alien technology is all over the place probably doesn't stand a chance to develop calculus.

>>53577689
Sure we are grandpa. That's totally what we're seeing. Everyone is dumber than they were when you were a kid

>>53577718

Math is a trained skill like any other. If you don't practice it and don't train it, you lose proficiency in it.

>>53577459
Don't just think of it in absolute terms of counting. The argument that base-12 proponents make is that if the basic unit is 12 it would affect how people use the numbers in their daily life.

For instance, 10 dollars an hour would still be the same absolute value in terms of buying power no matter if it were in base 10 or base 12, but in base 12 you could work for 20 minutes and be paid a whole number instead of being paid the exact same amount that involves a fraction.

For even the most mild math nerd, it doesn't matter at all. The value is the same, the numbers ultimately represent the same thing. But for the vast majority of the population, the people who believe that pre-algebra is seriously hard stuff, it'd be a ease of use improvement.

It's such a small gain though, that it's only worth consideration if you're starting from scratch.

>>53577718
Ordinarily I'd agree with you, but that's an actual issue, not just an "in my day REEEE" kneejerk.

>>53577718
Are you retarded? There are a number of studies that have shown a link between ready access to things like the internet and an atrophy in memory and math skills.

>>53577890
And an equal rise in our ability to research and gather information

Aristotle was against the written word because it made academics lazy and let them get away without memorizing materials by rote

>>53567074
They held hands. Looked into each others eyes, Joked around. Then Talon mentioned how nice Alex hands feel (warm) and that's where Beryl came in.

>>53577907
Don't take it personally kid. There are real trade-offs in how a brain in a neural pruning phase of development specializes based on what they're doing and what tools they're making use of.

Relying on external tools is something humans have always done. Having a good memory yourself is undeniably useful, but so is being good at using a search algorithm and navigating a computer interface (provided that the algorithm doesn't get adjusted by its administrators too dramatically, or the computer interface changed too much to sell more copies of the latest operating system).

>>53577907
Just because you have a valid point, doesn't mean an outlook based exclusively on that point is valid.
Ultimately the issue is that more advanced tools has given people leeway to be lazy. That laziness results in less practice, so capability plateaus instead of continuing to expand.

>>53578036
>so capability plateaus instead of continuing to expand.
This is where I disagree with your assertions. Our ability to innovate and intelligence has not decreased. Our old methods of measuring it relied on assessing our ability to memorize, which is no longer valid.

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>>53567509

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>>53578070

No, you.

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>>53567509

>>53578061
I'm not saying that this state is permanent or global, only that the state of education and technology in the USA is leading to a decline in ability. I don't think potential is being affected (not yet, anyway), but ability is declining.

>>53578521
[citation needed]

>>53578540
Declining TIMSS and NAEP scores.

>>53578521
>that the state of education and technology in the USA is leading to a decline in ability.

Education in the US has numerous issues, not least of which is the "lowest bidder" style selection process for textbooks

You might argue that ipads are a contributing factor but to say that they are wholly responsible is ridiculous

>>53578612
That's not what I said.
Technology isn't to blame; technology is a tool.
Technology as a crutch is a problem. Technology as a substitute for knowledge, understanding, and the capacity for thought is a problem.
Not THE problem, but A problem.

Technology could be serving as an educational aid and equalizer; instead its utilization is more akin to handing out bandages to 5% of the malnourished. Chewing on bandages doesn't help anyone.

>>53567106

southern quadrant

but they're on a move

>>53566532
Oh my god
That kind of rhythm can't be healthy for him.

I've started translating it and I was thinking I had all the time in the world. Now I need to pick up the pace.

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>>53566532
>Not afraid to pull rank on a bitch.

>>53579662
He's now getting paid for each page he releases.

>>53579693
>now

Has been for a year and a half.
He still needs to double the income per update if he wants to start making it his day job.

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>>53566532
Talon has a bit of a derp face in the last panel.

>>53577145

his Patreon posted it, but he took it down to correct some errors so soon (TM).. Either the sun is about to explode or the blue space elves who are in contact with him to hurry up.

>>53579752
One eye on the C.O., one eye on the C.O.C.K.

Post the beards

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>>53580080

>tfw when I don't know who's best girl anymore
>fireblade or talon

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>>53580098

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>>53580122
and the newest one
if others were made in the last 7 years since this glorious concept was hatched in a by now surely dead of old age Anon's mind they are lost to time

>>53580223
We need to make a Talon with some two-tone stubble.
I tried, but with my poor photoshop skills it looked like she binged on space spaghetti

>>53579749
If he actually started posting pages regularly I am sure he would quickly hit six figures.

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>Human mating rituals involve holding hands
How lewd.

also kek, him lying to them about that might have some really interesting consequences in future negotiations when the human diplomats offer them hand shakes.

>>53579752
>Talon is best waifu. Beryl-a-shit.
I also wonder what will happen when they find out how tall humans can get.

>>53580834
He's literally speaking for all of humanity to a race that could wipe his species out. He understands and has been trained to do this.

He might be a smarmy asshole (which I like, it's a very refreshing change from generic hero archetypes) but he won't intentionally fuck over relations or cause misunderstandings.

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>>53580465
If you haphazardly slap some noise filters down it almost sort of works

>>53580990

Now she just looks like an alcoholic.

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>>53580223
I've got your back.

>>53580465
Oh you can fuck right off with that!

>>53575065

Not so much. If you compare the destruction scene with the battle scene, you see that the plasma focus that struck the Bellamine was the same look as the Umiak foci.

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>>53580465

>>53580905

Talon a slut! A HAND-GRABBING FAST-FLYING SLUT!

Beryl has enough earnestness to be properly disillusioned and get crazy enough to be interesting.

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>>53581037
Pilot!

>>53567243

She doesn't know that she wants the dick, though. Only that all of her comrades have suddenly become sly bitches that need watching and hissing at for some reason.

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>>53566532
Beryl fell asleep during Tempo's wall of text without wanting to, due to being so dead tired. Tempo being at her limits after so many days on edge due to Stillstorm being a bitch wanted some reprieve as well now that things were somewhat peaceful. Talon and Spiral made their presense known when they informed about cruise mode and that they were curious about Alex who they had rescued. Tempo said whatever and remembered that Alex had asked for star charts on Tempest's bridge, she asked Talon to show him the star charts now that they could move about on the shuttle.

Talon was excited/happy about meeting the weird male for the first time and was a little straightforward about everything with little to no intimidation about his Lotai. His far more straightforward reply and gestures surprised her pleasantly and she took it as an intimate interest of the male they rescued towards them, instead of the awkard but friendly gesture of someone who was on isolation for a week and was 'starved' (for lack of a better word) for someone nice to talk to without ulterior motives.

Beryl having been raised either by Tempo or Fireblade who must have been wondering why both Talon and Spiral were so excited all of a sudden. Beryl was annoyed, first with herself for dozing off, then to Tempo for not waking her up. She asks where Alex is when Talon asks about Alex, his name and what weird thing he is doing with his hand. Beryl tells her his Trade name (Enzin) and rushes to the cockpit to find Talon and Alex shaking hands while Talon gloating how she made a close friend of the alien and how she learned something Beryl didn't know about him.

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>>53566532
Outsider - Lewd Fanfiction

https://pastebin.com/6suxJmNp
https://pastebin.com/vGsQsLmx
https://pastebin.com/XfRipskZ

>>53582605

Oh god, it's the same 3 chapters! Write, motherfucker! Write, for the love of god!

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>>53566532
Outsider - Starship Combat Sim

>>53582605

>empire filled with teenagers that don't understand sexual jealousy when it slaps them in the face (or hand, to be specific)
>meanwhile, this is clearly the face of someone who has had all the sex nobody else is having

>>53582467
what's with this wall of text? Are you trying to explain what went down in page 117?

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>>53582764
Rank has its privileges.

>>53582722

I'd say Starfire's going to sue you, but God alone knows how that IP stands right now.

>>53582764
Ironically, jealousy and possessiveness over a male is viewed as very bad form amongst Loroi. Even requesting that you visit the same male for your imperial duties twice in a row is cause for concern.

They have stories where a man and a woman fall in love, but they tend to be 'everyone dies in the end' style stories. Which seems about right for Teidar types.

>>53582836
>A starship, a driver, a private berthing, and someone else to share it with.
>All the privileges of rank.

One wonders how they manage the Far Seer on board the ship.

>>53582812
Its a part of game that we have in the forums: "What is Beryl Feeling?"

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>>53582640
>If Lieutenant Francois Litteauer was to name one redeeming quality about the two Loroi ‘assistants’ he had to work with, that would be their good looks; the fact that they obviously could work with completely alien to them tech was completely outweighed by their know it all behavior and their rudeness in not letting him do anything, despite the fact that he knew everything for the generator they worked on by heart!

It's interesting to think that Alex should be, in essence, a fucking social savant in comparison to these elves.

1) Most of them are like 10-15 years old, and therefore have basically no life experience in comparison.

2) They are almost universally used to being direct and truthful via telepathy, and only a very few of them have any concept of diplomacy/subterfuge. Possibly only the spies and diplomats.

3) He is completely unreadable to their main way of determining what the other side is feeling/doing/etc.

He should be able to play all but the exalted leaders like a fiddle, despite being just some officer cadet.

>>53581321
>dat stubble

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>>53583089
“I apologize for their seemingly rude behavior but the Gallen caste takes pride in their handling of technological matters. For them it is inconceivable to have a male work with machinery while they are standing around.” Torimor Shadowcloud said while observing the generator’s reassembly.

>>53581321

too solid, it doesn't look like stubble it looks like some sort of paint.

>>53583270
>Fat Loroi is actually a great war hero
>Her only psychic attack is to absorb an enemy on contact, killing it but taking their knowledge
>She had to roll through an entire battalion of bug troops
>Her gained knowledge of their maneuvers and defeat of so many troops let them win the battle

>>53583148
That cuts both ways, though. They're going to take what he says very literally, and likely without looking for many shades of meaning. It's an obstacle to good communication, even if he essentially is working on more channels. He has an advantage in that he can lie, but I daresay considering he'll soon have the equivalent of an entire intelligence network following him and monitoring him, I'd say the benefit of that is negligible.

>>53582467
Lotai?

>>53583595
>He has an advantage in that he can lie

A debatable one at that, they've already made it clear they don't consider the spoken word particularly trustworthy

His best asset so far has been the ability to omit certain details

>>53583635

Your brain's signature and its thoughts, and most civilized species in this area of the universe have a readable brain on some level. Loroi communicate telepathically. Very skilled ones can hide it or alter what you are able to seen. Humans don't have that ability nor can there minds be read. That's just plan weird to the Loroi, and why they seem to talk funny, since personally communications not over distances requiring technology are done via thoughts.

>>53583595
Simply having some emotional maturity is a strong asset.

>>53583635
What they called the notional shield that protected humans from Loroi telepathy. They're pretty much straight out invisible to telepathy.

>>53583739

They aren't all wartime generation; that Parat Tempo scares the hell out of me, for one.

>>53579543
Kek

118 soon according to Arioch. Will post as soon as I get it.

>>53584779
> 118 soon
Repent! REPENT!

>>53584800
>>53584779
The barriers between realities will crack even further if page 118 is to come out within the week.

>>53584592
Best waifu.

How can even say you love her if she doesn't scare the living hell out of you and sell your secrets to her queen?

>>53584849

Look at those two pages when that Umiak veteran leader hailed the ship. We glossed over something freaky-scary there, I think.

>>53567165
Maybe this comic will finish in my lifetime.

>>53585604
I hope we get to see more of the Umiak. The author's behind-the-scenes info dumps have grown them from a generic space bug faction to a fully fleshed out culture with interesting quirks and idiosyncrasies(e.g. their music is similar to rap and they favor percussion instruments, and they ad-lib group singing during stressful situations).

>>53586198
Maybe at the end of this chapter it'll go "Meanwhile, on an /other/ scout ship..." and it'll follow a team that meets the Umiak.

>>53586276
>at the end of this chapter

Anon pls there's only so many years in a lifetime

>>53566532
>I must not be thinking clearly
No kidding.

>>53586276
>on an /other/ scout ship
If it's ever revealed that a different group has made contact with the Umiak, I'm expecting it to be Ellen having been picked up after drifting in space for a bit.
Unless Fracis confirmed she's dead,
haven't read any of the other material not in the comic

>>53587218
Ellen's with the furries.

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>>53587238

No. That is heresy most foul. There is only one solution.

>>53587218
Shame since Ellen actually died. Considering that it's highly doubtful the Umiak sneaked in a ship past the Lorois battlelines and under their sensors. If she did live through the initial blasts she died of lack of oxygen, which is very very painful.

>>53587218
She dead, but some Furry Twat made a fan fic comic about her getting picked up by giant furri wolf people and fucks them all

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>>53578070
>>53578102

>>53567719
geez, that's downright depressing.

I've had a similar event of remembering a friend, who killed herself, years later after it happened. A mundane event triggered a memory of a friend.

huh, there it is again.

hello darkness my old friend....

>>53567719
did he leave a note? Hate to imagine that the guy killed himself because his character died

>>53587807

It can be little things that push you over the edge with depression mate. I can speak from experience that things like a D&D campaign or a good game being one of the things keeping me from going over the edge more than once.

>>53582892
The obvious answer is "Jardin's dick, eventually. "

>>53577245
Its the one that stuck for a reason.

>>53578573
Don't measure ability to innovate nor accurately asses something as vague as intelligence.

>>53588500

Because the empire the used it conquered Europe and Europe conquered the world.

>>53588601
Nobody uses roman numerals.

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>>53583635
Mask. They may be bluffing and running a game on Alex (based upon the fact that Jim refuses to confirm one way or the other.) buuuuuut... the implication seems to be that Jardin to the Loroi's habit of sending and reading minds, Alex is, well... simply not there. Imagine if there was someone who didn't register at to one of you basic senses at all. Someone that you couldn't see or couldn't feel.

Fireblade was almost able to break through to him but it's implied that their was effort involved despite the fact that she wears an amplifier and my personal theory is that once she did break thorugh, she sent Alex into a seizure, hence why he feels as though he woke up from a hangover after she probes him in the medical bay.

Barring a twist, humans are... well, simply not there despite walking, talking and having an obvious physical presence. Still-Storm, being the giant high-function cunt-hammer that she is, naturally assumes that this is some kind of deception on Jardin's part and treats him like a curiosity that the enemy has thrown at the Loroi. He is something to be studied, shot in the head and then thrown out of the nearest available air-lock. Notice how Parat Tempo switches gears to have him recognized as a diplomat the moment that Still-Storm returns to the bridge and then has him hustled off to a cell for a week before getting herself away from the situation?

Yeah.

I hope these faster updates are a new trend he continues. I suspect it has something to do not only with the Patreon, but also he lost his archeotech computer running his old cludge of a modeling software suit, and had to update and relearn. Hopefully moving into the modern era has helped his work pace.

>>53588601
We use Roman Numerals very selectively. By the time Europe was in full empire mode, we used an Arabic twist on Indian numerals.

t.History major, Medieval Studies Minor.

>>53588895
>>53588778

No, but we do use their base 10 math. We aren't using the base 12 of the Egyptians or the base 60 of the Sumerians or the base 20 of the Mayans. We use base 10 from the Romans.

>>53588883
work seems to have stalled on his video game, though. the comic will probably become dormant again when work on the game resumes and he has to make new art assets for a dlc or expansion pack

>>53588912
Not really we're using the hindu numerals.

numbers don't change based on representation. looking around a bit most numeral systems seem to be base 10.

Also wasn't egypt base 10 numerals?

>>53588874
You can't really blame Stillstorm, though. The author has talked about all the freaky science experiments the Umiak have come up with to fuck with the Loroi over the years. Loroi sleeper agents who were raised or brainwashed by the Umiak, actual Umiaks surgically altered to look like Loroi, various types of vat-grown bioweapons that look like Loroi and are raised to believe they are normal Loroi, etc. The only reason Tempo takes Alex's story seriously at all is because it doesn't quite fit the usual "Hey guys, just a perfectly ordinary one of you passing throu... OOGA BOOGA BOOGA" modus operandi the Umiak have typically employed.

Do the Loroi have the concept of 0? What about negative numbers? Complex numbers?

What's the official word on this? Do they have any of the advanced math required for spaceflight or are they just coasting along on ancient race technology?

>>53589188
Going by the article on their language, they understand the concept of null, they just have no specific word for the number zero. Zero as a number is synonymous with the concept of nothing, going by the language.

>>53589206
Yeah, I get that from the language, but zero is also a mathematical concept that's a bit more complex that just "nothing"

>>53588912
You mean that we use the base ten of the Indians and Arabs that found it's way out of the subcontinent and is mostly common to all of the Indo-European descended people's?

I'm sorry but I thought you were trying to add something to this conversation. I must have been mistaken.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu–Arabic_numeral_system

>>53566532
>Another Outsider page.
WHAT THE FUCK,HOW MANY YEARS HAVE PASSED WHILE I WAS SLEEPING.

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>>53585901
No. The author will disappear with all the money, and run off to where QMs go when they're bored with their quests.

>>53587483
Outsider, purging the furries..is it 2008 again?

>>53589232
Author didn't really take that into much account.

He pretty much viewed it as a representation going by the faqs.

Might be more on the forum.

He sees a great job of a lot of things, but a lot of his reasoning is flawed.

>>53587659
Can you make the (You) bigger? I hate reaction pics with text you have to open.

Fucking /co/, I tell you.

>>53581321
10/10.

>>53589232
They would have to have a concept of 0 for them to have breached into advanced mathematics. They probably just don't have a specific word for the number

>>53590853
>to have breached into advanced mathematics
The question is, did they?

>>53590858
They're jetting around in space so I would assume they have.

>>53590867
So would I, if not for the fact that it's been stated that a lot of their technology comes from their precursor race.

>>53576288
Male space elfs are literally manlets. Also human immunity to their mind reading makes him exotic

>>53575065
>>53581277
Ok.

It was the historians who killed the bellarmines crew. This has been theorised YEARS ago. I started reading the comic at page 44, I've seen just about all the discussions on the universe to date. The going theory for who shot the humans is the Historians due to advanced AI with no soul signatures on their ship, hiding in a nebula to disguise them from conventional detection, using weaponry pilfered from an enemy that already attacked them at least once.

Why attack bellarmine though? It's simple, bellarmine snuck up on them, once it realised it was detected it started spamming radio signals everywhere which threatened to reveal the historian ship to the Umiak/Loroi and so the AI ship made the only reasonable decision it could at the time: kill the stupid fuckwit threatening to reveal your location. To cover up what it had done it fired at least 4 times, almost completely destroying all the evidence. If not for Jardin, the bellarmines wreck might never have been discovered. Ever. Space is big.

>>53590870
They got their numeral system from the precursor race which apparently dominated the galaxy with an archaic number system and the lack of paradigms that came with it.

Its a comic about psychic space elves, the math they use not making sense is only one of several problems.

>>53591643
>Waifu tier psychic space elves

Don't forget the most important part.

>>53591680
But anon, the humans are the husbandos in this case.

I bet the Loroi have just as much literature about finding a race of hot, differently colored space studs as we do of finding a race of hot, differently colored space vixens

>>53591724
Loroi aren't into books.

>>53591771
Whatever their preferred entertainment media is, then.

Also they have a large portion of civilians and we don't know what they are into.

>>53591803
Their favourite media is thoughts. They aren't big on any fiction.

>>53591803
cirque du soleil

>>53591724
Loroi females have a low sex drive and Loroi don't have long term sexual relationships.

Beryl being possessive is weird for them in multiple ways.

>>53592551
She's a xenophile, she wants that human D.

>>53586276
>Colonel, we've recieved reports from the Bellarmine and Utsumi. It seems they have meet the Loroi and the Umiak, respectively.
>Open it on the main screen, Marcus.
>Yesmam... Oh boy, is that what a Loroi looks like? Dayum!
>Wait, colonel, don't...
>[...]
>Admiral, this is colonel Katherine McAllan. The Loroi have just declared war on us, while the Umiak offer an alliance. Sadly a console overloaded, destroying both reports and killing the operator, so you'll have to believe me on this one.

>>53592567
8 to one male to female ratio where relationships based on sex are strongly discouraged and she is getting upset over another female showing a level of perceived intimacy.

She kind of isn't fitting in with the whole Loroi mindset on relationships regardless of her xenophilia.

She shouldn't care if the entire ship got the D.

>>53592634
>Umiak offer an alliance
The author has gone to great lengths to paint the Umiak as the worse side of this conflict for humanity, without explicitly stating it.

>>53592660
He tries, but both sides are largely the same.

Loroi are straight genocidal and the Umiak are something akin to slavers. There was also hints that humans being similar to Loroi could be a problem for Loroi.

>>53592736
What do we know about the genocided races again

>>53592656
I think the point you guys are missing is that her jealousy has less to do with sex and more with intimacy.

For humans, sex is about the most intimate thing we can share. For Loroi, the bond created by sanzai is much deeper and closer than the one created by sex -- particularly if the sanzai is channeled through physical contact.

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>>53593335
With good reason, although she still shouldn't be that upset about it.

>>53593316
Nobody has actually been genocided. Here are the races that have fought the Loroi:

>Delrias
An ancient warrior culture, whose distant ancestors once commanded a galactic empire before even the time of the Soia, the Delrias were the first race to attack the Loroi and pay the price for failure. After losing a long series of hard-fought battles in space, the Delrias fell back to their own territory, depending on their strong martial traditions and physical prowess to be able to repel Loroi planetary invasions. However, the Delrias were shocked to learn firsthand of the ruthless effectiveness of the Loroi psionic warfare castes, and each planet fell quickly. Captured more or less intact, they have lived under Loroi occupation for 865 years. Although they are not permitted full autonomy, they remain a distinct cultural unit, and out of respect the Loroi treat them as an honorary member of the Union, permitting them to send delegates to the Assembly and ambassadors to Union functions (even though these delegates have no real authority). Skilled craftsmen, the Delrias contribute quality production infrastructure to the war effort, particularly in the design and production of effective particle beam weapons.

>>53593576
>Mannadi
In their day, the Mannadi were bold explorers and adventurers who had built a small interstellar sphere of influence. The Mannadi respected and feared the growing power of the Loroi Empire enough not to attack them directly, and even prompted a brief alliance between the two powers. Unfortunately, the Mannadi could never be content as ordinary members of the family of nations, and their ambition led them into continuing acts of aggression against the Neridi and Pipolsid that eventually drew them into direct conflict with the Loroi. Though never a true match for the Loroi Empire and her allies, the Mannadi nation fought tenaciously and effectively through a series of three bloody and bitter wars with the Loroi, in which the Mannadi made effective use of the remote location of their territory and the severe handicap placed on Loroi forces operating so far from friendly resupply. The Mannadi also had a degree of resistance to Loroi telepathy, which represented a further challenge to the Loroi. By the end of the third war the Loroi eventually occupied the Mannadi worlds, but there was little left of Mannadi infrastructure, and almost nothing left of Loroi patience. Mannadi telepathic resistance made Loroi occupation less effective than they were accustomed to, and when Mannadi insurgents bitterly fought the occupation, the Loroi started simply wiping them out. International outrage at these actions threatened to shatter the Loroi Alliance; only the formation of the Loroi Union ended the threat of a galaxy-wide war and spared the Mannadi from extinction. The Mannadi are not spoken of in Loroi society, and they are rarely seen outside their designated territory, which is quarantined. Mannadi space is the main gateway to the territory of the Historians, but few travel this path.

>>53593598
>Arekka
Generally considered to be strange, even by the most unusual of the other races, the Arekka were within the Mannadi sphere of influence and allied with the Mannadi against the Loroi in the last of the Mannadi wars, refusing to submit even after the Mannadi surrendered. Only the formation of the Union ended hostilities and prevented complete conquest by the Loroi. The Arekka currently are technically an independent government, but more than half their territory is still under Loroi military occupation, and even the unoccupied portion is under severe Loroi-imposed restrictions. The Arekka have repeatedly refused to join the Union, and would rather live with the technical title of independents, even under harsh restriction, than admit to bowing to Loroi dominion. On several occasions, the Loroi occupation has forcefully suppressed public Arekka movements for self-determination.

>>53593576
>Nobody has actually been genocided.
>By the end of the third war the Loroi eventually occupied the Mannadi worlds, but there was little left of Mannadi infrastructure, and almost nothing left of Loroi patience. Mannadi telepathic resistance made Loroi occupation less effective than they were accustomed to, and when Mannadi insurgents bitterly fought the occupation, the Loroi started simply wiping them out.

I dunno, anon, that sounds like genocide to me...

>>53593939
Sounds like pushing your luck too far to me.

>>53593335
Am I the only one who thinks her jealousy is more professional than anything else? She obviously considers herself in charge of taking care of the human ambassador and doing all the first contact stuff, but the pilots and intelligence officer keep getting between her and her job, and beating to the punch on stuff that would have added to her prestige if she could have done it all herself.

It's like getting put in charge of your first important project in your career as a young 20something professional, but your superiors and coworkers keep getting involved and ruining your chance to do the project yourself and build cred.

>>53593939
Oh, yeah, sure. I meant none of these species are extinct.

That said, if you keep attacking, it's not really unexpected that eventually the people you're trying to destroy will lose all patience and try to solve the problem you present for good.

>>53594148
I don't think any RL genocide resulted in complete extincting of the target either.

>>53594642
Some did.
Some didn't.

Sometimes it's not even the direct goal, as with cultural genocide.

>>53594704
>Some did.
like?

>>53594731
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selk%27nam_genocide

>>53594731
>>53594731
know any Cartheginians?

>>53594787
C A R T H A G O

D E L E N D A

E S T

>>53594787
I don't know any roman either.

>>53595138
But we know way more about Roman history than we do Carthaginian history, because for the most part the Romans wiped out their culture.

While doubtlessly there were survivors who integrated into other cultures, almost nothing of Carthage as a culture, people, and concept survived the final Punic war.

>>53593576
genocide just means you kill a large percentage of their population on purpose. It doesn't require you to actually make their ethnicity extinct

>>53593576
what theses guys said
>>53593939
>>53596097
Think of the holocaust, that's considered a genocide but it's not like there aren't jews in the world now.

>>53596192
More's the pity.

>>53596389
You people are obsessed.

>>53596565
Who do you mean "you people"?

>>53596584
Neckbeards. Who else would be here?

>>53596596
I'll have you know I self identify as an attack helicopter, xir!

>>53593576

That was pre-war no worries Loroi, anon. Conquering for fun, profit, and obvious racial superiority and cultural supremacy. Wartime Loroi are a trick and a half.

>Fourth Emperor Greywind also announced a new anti-neutrality doctrine, aimed directly at the neighboring Tithric, who at best were unable to prevent Umiak sorties through their neutral territory, and at worst may have been actively assisting them. Greywind sent Admiral Sunfall, hero of the Golim-Tinza battles, to force the Tithric to choose sides. While the Tithric government delayed, Sunfall began conducting strikes into Tithric territory to interdict Umiak forces, but also to destroy depots that Sunfall claimed were being used to refuel Umiak raiders. Tithric public outrage over these raids resulted in the rise of a pro-Umiak government to power, and the Tithric formally sided with the Umiak in mid-2141. In a battle that lasted most of that year, Sunfall shattered the combined Umiak and Tithric forces and (with Imperial consent) laid waste to the Tithric planets, rendering them unusable to the Umiak, and annihilating the vast majority of the Tithric population. With the pressure on Laget relieved, the Loroi celebrated this event as a critical victory, but the genocide came as a shock to the other races, including many Loroi allies. The Umiak shortly thereafter declared a similar doctrine refusing to recognize the rights of neutrality, and both sides would use this policy in the coming years as pretext for action against and annexation of the remaining non-aligned nations.

>>53592551
Low compared to what? The established fact that male Loroi need frequent sexual contact to not be physically and mentally ill, combined with an 8:1 gender ratio, means that any given female Loroi would need to still want sex anywhere from every other day (high end) to bi-monthly (low end).

These spess elves are still going to want the dick, most of them have only had sex once in their lives.

It just means Jardin will need a relatively large harem to satisfy himself. I see no problems here.

>>53597401
>The established fact that male Loroi need frequent sexual contact to not be physically and mentally ill, combined with an 8:1 gender ratio, means that
It means this is a fetish comic, full stop.

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You know, there's a good (above zero) chance that humanity's niche in the Loroi war effort is gonna be as goddamn comfort (wo)men.

Think about it. Estimated human population by 2100 is around 11.2 billion. Assume roughly 11.5 billion by 2060, and divvy that up by half. So around 5.75 billion men. Men who aren't fertile with Loroi females, but still similar enough as to be moderately attractive. Men with no actual need for sex, but that can enjoy it.
Now the Loroi population doesn't have doesn't have a set number, but such a privilege would probably be restricted to the less numerous Warrior castes. No real hard numbers, but it's a thought to consider.

>>53597683
Yes, and?

>>53597753
It's not very interesting for them without Sanzai (telepathy), and with the size difference they'd probably be better off with toys or lezzing.
Mankind advantage (if they have one) is probably their immunity to mindprobe/control/detection. Just like in Sillage/Wake.

>>53597822
>It's not very interesting for them without Sanzai (telepathy)

We don't actually know this.

We only know that it would be a very different experience.

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>>53597800
A significant fraction of the readership lives in denial of that fact.

>>53597989
how about you go read the insider about loroi and telepathy?

It's a comic where all the background info is easily available. You can choose to ignore it (canon is overrated anyways), but at least try to inform yourself if you want to argue about it.

>>53566532
YET ANOTHER PAGE?!
TRULY THE END TIMES IS UPON US

Also, don't let this thread die like the last one

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>>53566532

>multiple page updates over this brief period of time

we're accruing karmic debt of cosmic proportions here
not even a perfect wedding could bring portents more ominous

>>53598102
No they don't if forum discussions are anything to go by.
You are just looking for your latest outrage fix.

>>53598175
what are you talking about?
the last thread just reached bump limit

>>53597753
Author's already established the Humaniti contribution will be research and development.
The Loroi have difficulty making and implementing scientific breakthroughs because they hate books, hate math, hate socializing with other Loroi outside of their castes and even within their castes outside of their cliques, and their education system is an inefficient master and apprentice relationship where knowledge is passed from one individual to another via telepathy.
Not to mention the science and technology of the Loroi and their neighbors is salvaged entirely from precursor remnants and they've made no real contributions of their own.

Humaniti meanwhile exists in a slightly idealized cultural state where we went balls-in on international cooperative efforts like NASA, developed our spacefaring technology independently and are competent enough to make up the technological gap and then some if given access to Loroi/Precursor knowledge.

That said he's also stated it's largely irrelevant to the timeframe of the story, since he wants to focus on "boy meets cute aliens" like his Japanese animes and Humaniti joining the war effort for realsies wouldn't happen 'til well after Jardin gets his dick wet.

>>53575515
>and Jardin's 24-7 guard detail was probably in no small part to keep him from getting raped, because he is such a tease
fix'd

>>53598492
>where we went balls-in on international cooperative efforts like NASA, developed our spacefaring technology independently and are competent enough to make up the technological gap and then some if given access to Loroi/Precursor knowledge.
I think you're overlooking the incentive that having an a bunch of alien refugees show up, and inform you that there's a no-holds-barred galactic war going on and you're not too far from it.

At that point, a lot of our current assumptions about the way things work, probably go out the window. I'm not saying that everyone would turn into The Federation and get rid of money. But your billions of dollars are suddenly a lot less valuable when an alien fleet could fly up and glass the planet at any moment. So we can assume that most of the world's governments would agree to cooperate on this shit, sharing scientific data and staff, and so on throughout the myriad of individual political and economical details.

Consider the behavior of the US during WW2, where companies building the tanks and planes made huge profits, but not necessarily at the expense of the people and government paying for those weapons (ie: no huge bonuses or 300:1 wage gaps). Because when the survival of the entire fucking species is at stake... people aren't likely to tolerate some of the more outrageous examples of modern greed. Furthermore, during WW2, competing enterprises made money off of each other, while still having plenty of incentive to compete in the marketplace. Because while Boeing's bomber designs were often selected, other aircraft manufacturers were allowed to build the planes, or parts, as well, to meet the vast demand of the military. So everyone made money, not just Boeing.

So it's not so far fetched to think that could happen in said situation.

>>53584820
This Bearenstein Timeline ain't half had.

>>53598159
>how about you go read the insider about loroi and telepathy?

The Telepathy article literally says nothing about sex. The main article on the Loroi doesn't address sanzai during intercourse either, only stuff like additional theraputic services offered by male Loroi. I'd avoid telling people to go educate themselves if you yourself aren't all too familiar with the material.

IIRC Arioch has addressed this before, but he hasn't said sex without sanzai would be a poor experience. Just that it would be extremely odd and very unfamiliar to most Loroi.

>>53599762
By the way, just a brief addition to this:

I'd imagine that most Loroi would prefer the experience of sex with a male of their own species. Sex with sanzai is more normal for them and is part of their concept of intimacy. Technically, the additional feeling of intimacy sanzai invests sex with would be possible to get without it, but it would require the equivalent of learning a new language; there are tons of little things humans do during sex that are technically not necessary but change the 'feeling' of what you're doing, both with their bodies and their voices, much of which is presumably absent from Loroi mating.

Humans would offer something different in the place of sanzai - a different form of intimacy and, going by the size of male Loroi, greater robustness, but this would probably something more like a fun experiment than something a female Loroi would want in their regular sex life. New experiences are tempting, but you often don't want them as the norm.

Obviously there are exceptions. We all probably know which blueberry will be that exception.

>>53599923
This all, of course, hinges on absolutely no revelations about humanity being able to lift the shield or having a different version of the sanzai-like ability. Remember: Old Stories.

>>53592551
>make harem setting
>taking too much time
>eventuallyg row so old that your libido decreases
>make your harem setting full of nearly nonsexual chicks
Arioch kinda screwed it up, didn't he?

>>53592021
Basically social media on crack, i presume
So if you've ever heard how woman talk to each other about their dildos you can pretty much imagine how it goes when they're talking about their sexual fantasies (taht they'll ahve even with a loser drive since lower =/= n/a)

>>53600038
It's kinda the ultimate irony. I think him growing old enough to drop libido, plus the story getting popular enough for him to 'take seriously(TM)' is what led to this. Very unfortunate, the concept was excellent in its simplicity.

>>53600075
Maybe i should start with my own.
though i'd probably make it a visual novel rather than a webcomic.

>>53600066
*women

>>53598892
>So it's not so far fetched to think that could happen in said situation.

I'm not saying it's far-fetched, I'm just saying Humaniti is in a better place than current reality.
The setting is less Dr. Strangelove and more The Martian

>>53600282
Pls gib sexy space-elf VN.
All the ones I'm aware of are either Muv-Luv clusterfucks, indefinite hiatus or untranslated

>>53600648
I have some important real life stuff coming up, but i'll probably start writing some shit and see how well i can handle renpy next month or so.

>>53597683

Does it count if it's off-screen?

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>>53598492
>That said he's also stated it's largely irrelevant to the timeframe of the story, since he wants to focus on "boy meets cute aliens" like his Japanese animes and Humaniti joining the war effort for realsies wouldn't happen 'til well after Jardin gets his dick wet.
That's cool. We get the lewds and shipping out of the way up front and are left with a hell of a wargame setting. It's like he designed this specifically with /tg/ in mind.

>>53603241
That's a good question.
Is it really even technically off-screen if the author is putting out huge lore dumps instead of comic strips?

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>>53604839

I only realised the other day that the primary 3 are more or less clones of the MOO Elerian characters.

>>53604942
That's the very definition of off-screen, since it's not on screen.

>>53604839
>>53604995
Huh. Would you look at that.

>>53604995
I think he actually started the comic as a MOO fanfic, and only turned it into its own thing fairly late in development. The Umiak are obviously based on the Klackons. They even have the Klackons' trademark xenophobia. The Historians are the Psilons, I think he even describes them as vaguely resembling Greys in one of his info dumps. The Delrias and their Morat cousins are; the Mrrshans; warrior cat people who get conquered before the human POV even shows up in their region of space, just like always happens in MOO games. There is a race of aggressive lizard people on the far side of the Loroi empire that may be based on the Sakkra.

>>53605660
>Q: Is Outsider based on the game Master of Orion?
>A: The game was an important inspiration for Outsider.

>The Loroi borrow stylistically from previous space sirens (especially the Elerians from Master of Orion 2, and the Syreen from Star Control 2) and from the blue-skinned aliens of Japanese animation (most notably the Gamilas and Deingil from the Space Cruiser Yamato series). They are intended as an homage to the "Space Amazon" archetype... blue and otherwise.

He also uses MOO game terms to describe aspects of the setting, like which culture bonuses the races have

>>53605660
>>53607059

He did mention that Humanity had the equivalent of the 'Creative' trait. So, kinda useless early game, but horrifically powerful by the endgame.

>>53599762
>the Loroi and the alien subject will not experience the intimate two-way contact that a Link between two Loroi produces, because the alien is not itself a telepath

> this intimacy is increased by telepathic contact, especially when physically touching. This kind of contact is how most females satisfy their need for intimacy and emotional fulfillment. It is this telepathic stimulation (not sex) that is the primary glue that binds Loroi social groups together. This can be difficult for humans to appreciate, because of our tendency to think of intimacy exclusively in sexual terms.
>Because telepathic contact satisfies this need for intimacy, homosexual activity is relatively rare,

>>53608651
Not talking about sex in either instance.

In fact, one of your quotes is very explicit about the fact that it's not talking about sex. Intimacy =/= sex.

>>53609331
It explicitly associates intimacy with sex, though.
>This can be difficult for humans to appreciate, because of our tendency to think of intimacy exclusively in sexual terms.

Or to rephrase it slightly
>this telepathic contact is a substitute for 90% of what they want from sex.

And the next line.
>Because telepathic contact satisfies this need for intimacy, homosexual activity is relatively rare.
They mind meld, and thus don't feel the need to indulge in sex.

>>53609379
>It explicitly associates intimacy with sex, though.

No, it just tells the audience to be aware that this isn't about sex; just because we think of sex as the ultimate intimate act doesn't mean this form of intimacy is sexual.

>They mind meld, and thus don't feel the need to indulge in sex.

They clearly do, though, otherwise visits to a male would not be a reward or something to look forward to. The sanzai offers one form of intimacy that can abate the desire for physical sex. That doesn't mean the desire is gone or that 90% of Loroi sex is telepathic.

>>53609533
>That doesn't mean the desire is gone or that 90% of Loroi sex is telepathic.
That's true, but it certainly undermines one of the legs that the desire for sex stands on. They're fighting for an additional fun-sized desert, not for a critical luxury.

>>53566532
Is page 118 already on Patreon?

>>53609579
Well, yeah. This is kinda what I said in my follow up post.

Sex with a human is probably fulfilling on a physical level, and may have other perks, but it's probably not what they'd want as the norm.

>>53609610
Wait, for real?

That would mean Arioch has done five pages within a month. That's dangerously close to a real active webcomic schedule.

>>53609667
A question marks denotes a question

>>53566532
More liek she just realized that her waifu species is made up of brazen sluts.

SLUUUUUTS

>>53609695
IIRC, some anon said that Arioch removed p.118 from his patreon to correct a couple mistakes.

>>53609610
The fact that so many have come out in such a short time tells me he's either been holding out on us or has just been a lazy shit for the past decade.

>>53609811
Or maybe he has been hard at work worldbuilding everything to his liking and now he finally feels confident enough to continue the story.

Personally, I'll go with a mix of this and lazy. It just seems like he enjoys worldbuilding a lot more than the enjoys making the comic.

stars in shadow also got released, I figure that also kept him away

>>53609811
Well, it's not like he didn't do a bajillion other projects in the meantime and doesn't have better shit to do than work on his fetish doujin.
It's probabaly not as big a priority for him than it is for you.

>>53609626

Author has said that chocolate would be like catnip to them, hopefully a gift of that pre-coitus could make up for a lake of the mental connection.

>>53611946
It's like ginger for the Race.

>>53609811
He melted the computer with the archaic rendering software he had been using, and has had to learn a new, presumably more efficient rendering program, so his workload has presumably decreased.

Plus the Patreon bucks incentivize production.

See you for page 118, folks.

Do threads autosage after 300 posts?

>>53613149
How fucking new are you? Yes.

>>53600816
I can do the programming as long as someone else handles writing and art. Renpy is piss easy.

>>53613304
>>53600816
>>53600648
>>53600282
>project appears when the thread is already autosaging
noooooo.

>>53613333
Such is the way of 4chan projects.

Nice quads.

>>53613493
Damn, I should have requested a blue elf waifu instead of complaining.

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>>53613681
Here, have this one.