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Chapter: Revelations
Location: Lusitania
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5 Panels.
Panel 1: Birds take flight from the firing noise.
Panel 2: The Meditan soldier line lowers their smoking rifles.
Panel 3: A shot of some lusitanian's feet and legs as they lay on the floor in a puddle of blood.
Panel 4: What's left of the lusitanian line. Their body's are burnt, some to the bone. Behind them, the walls are scarred from the microwave riffle fire, in large circular black smoking spots.
Panel 5: Nikita's prisoner is looking at the show, with an empty expression. The wind blows his hair. Nikita looks back at him, covered in shade.
Nikita: I said: WALK WITH ME.
Panel 1: Birds take flight from the firing noise.
Panel 2: The Meditan soldier line lowers their smoking rifles.
Panel 3: A shot of some lusitanian's feet and legs as they lay on the floor in a puddle of blood.
Panel 4: What's left of the lusitanian line. Their body's are burnt, some to the bone. Behind them, the walls are scarred from the microwave riffle fire, in large circular black smoking spots.
Panel 5: Nikita's prisoner is looking at the show, with an empty expression. The wind blows his hair. Nikita looks back at him, covered in shade.
Nikita: I said: WALK WITH ME.
This war isn’t clean or sanitary either.
That Nikita looks like a ghoul right now is appropriate! ?
You know what…I take back my comment last page. I forgive the surprised look. These are some brutal weapons. At least one of the soldiers intentionally missed or needs to work on their aim. That one shot is suspiciously high on the wall.
So now I wonder how they work. Are they radiation based, directed heat, or just good old fashioned sci-fi lasers? Anyway best do as the nice officer says. If you go back on your word now I think Nikita will make you envy your dead friends.
Apparently they are tightly focused microwave emitters, basically the opposite of what is going on in your microwave oven, more like extremely focused and boosted radar transmitters (it’s not safe to stand in the path of those either).
Advantage: No physical ammunition to carry. Disadvantage: The batteries are a bitch to recharge and lug around.
Also not any more humane than our contemporary weapons, especially in the hands of deranged invaders terrorizing local civilians…
I almost wrote microwave or even x-ray because of the perfect circular scorches on the wall. Good to know! Well maybe not so good to know because now I’m imagining what it must be like. Its not a pretty thought.
Yes, not pretty at all, but at least it should be quicker and less painful than dying from bullet wounds, at least with a direct short-range hit like that, but the mutilation is worse… ?
At least with our technology today those guns are not feasible (yet), but centuries ahead, who knows…
The main limiting factor is probably the size of the batteries needed. But, if you plugged a gun like that into a Tesla…
That is brutal. Really pushing there are no good guys here angle are we…
Though I can see why Lusitania uses every tool they have to resist and why the Meditians take that so poorly.
Yeah, the torture scene and its aftermath at the academy didn’t leave Eurico and Estanis with a lot of moral high ground either!
It’s testament to the storytelling that I can sort of understand the people on all sides (including the Foreigner and his team) but there is also that horrid human and bizarre alien stuff at the same time. It’s a pretty wild ride!
there’s the widdol war cwiminal i know and love
Your panel composition is pristine.