Ch7p41
Chapter: Paso Doble
Location: Salamanca
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3 Panels.
Panel 1: Franq and Nikita walk down several flights of stairs on a factory-ish environment.
Franq: Do you know what a particle collider is?
Nikita: Oh professor, of course I know! It collides particles.
Franq: Oh, look who's sassy today! Got lucky after last night's party?
Nikita: Didn't see you there.
Panel 2: Franq smiles, illuminated with a halo behind his head. Nikita is not particularly amused. They walk through a corridor with the symbol -7 on the wall.
Franq: I just happen to know everything. I am an augur, after all.
Nikita: Sure, augur! Tell me about the uh...
Franq: The particle collider.
Nikita: Yes.
Panel 3: Franq explains some geography to Nikita. Behind them, a map of the iberan peninsula showing Salamanca and Madrid and an arrow between them.
Franq: It collides tiny particles. Subatomic ones. There was an ancient one going all the way the way from Salamanca to Madrid. Some 200km. Some parts have broken down since then - conquest wars, poor maintenance, you know the drill - But there's an ongoing, decades-long project to bring back to function so we can continue the Ancient's work.
Panel 1: Franq and Nikita walk down several flights of stairs on a factory-ish environment.
Franq: Do you know what a particle collider is?
Nikita: Oh professor, of course I know! It collides particles.
Franq: Oh, look who's sassy today! Got lucky after last night's party?
Nikita: Didn't see you there.
Panel 2: Franq smiles, illuminated with a halo behind his head. Nikita is not particularly amused. They walk through a corridor with the symbol -7 on the wall.
Franq: I just happen to know everything. I am an augur, after all.
Nikita: Sure, augur! Tell me about the uh...
Franq: The particle collider.
Nikita: Yes.
Panel 3: Franq explains some geography to Nikita. Behind them, a map of the iberan peninsula showing Salamanca and Madrid and an arrow between them.
Franq: It collides tiny particles. Subatomic ones. There was an ancient one going all the way the way from Salamanca to Madrid. Some 200km. Some parts have broken down since then - conquest wars, poor maintenance, you know the drill - But there's an ongoing, decades-long project to bring back to function so we can continue the Ancient's work.
Ah, still hunting the elusive quark!
We have the technology… we can find it
YAYYYYYY PARTICLE COLLIDER
“What do you mean, I can’t use it as a ray cannon against the lusitans??” 😤
IT’S NOT POINTING IN THE CORRECT DIRECTION
“Well, there are probably still some people in Madrid who’d deserve it!”
So, what exactly are they working on there…? 🤔
oh, you know. uh.
particle stuff
The aesthetic of the comic continuously throws me off guard and make me forget that their societies didn’t slide all the way back into barbarism ^.^”
This doesn’t match the description of any particle accelerator I know about. Must have been built in the future.