Line #11 Webcomic/QuentynQuinnSpaceRanger


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2	''[[http://www.rhjunior.com/comics/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger/ Quentyn Quinn Space Ranger]]'', a webcomic by Creator/RalphHayesJr and a SpinOff of ''Webcomic/TalesOfTheQuestor'', deals with one of Quentyn's descendants centuries down the track, InSpace!
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4	A large part of the strips are based on parodying or straight-up mocking well-known ScienceFiction works or tropes.
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6	The first ones are also collected in a volume.
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9	!!Provides examples of:
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11	* AbortedArc: Literally. The Warhammer 40k arc was abandoned because it sucked ([[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-22/ in Quentyn]] and the Author's own words no less). This might have had something to do with Games Workshop enforcing the fanwork ban on their own property that year. Cue the warmongering forces [[DeusExMachina spontaneously combusting]].
12	%%* AerithAndBob: The first panel of [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0115/ this strip]] seems to be a [[GenreSavvy knowing]] [[ShoutOut reference]] to the trope.
13	* AesopAmnesia: TheFederation [[{{Expy}} expies]] clearly didn't learn any sort of lesson from their first encounter with the Empire, as the second time they're prosecuted for negligent genocide after letting ''another'' pre-FTL civilization fall victim to natural disaster.
14	%%* AfterActionHealingDrama: After catching the assassin.
15	%%* AlienArtsAreAppreciated: [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0053/ Robots and food]]
16	* AlienNonInterferenceClause: The original TropeNamer, the Prime Directive, at least the version utilized in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', is dissected, and called racist, unethical, and immoral. [[note]] In other versions of ''Franchise/StarTrek'', the Prime Directive is intended to prevent direct interference. TNG takes it further.[[/note]]
17	* AnachronismStew:
18	** Of a sort. For the Federation expies, the tech, philosophies, and crew are all pretty blatantly based on those of ''The Next Generation'', but the design of their ship more closely resembles that of the first six movies' ''Enterprise'' rather than the ''Enterprise-D''.
19	** Likewise, while most of the crew are instantly recognizable as the TNG versions (and the WorfEffect is in full swing), the medical officer is plainly based on "Bones" from TOS. This resulted in irony when fans of the comic -- and the series -- pointed out that a Bones Expy would have heard Quentyn lambasting the transporter and ''joined in''.
20	%%* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:[[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0091/ the result]] of BrainUploading. Thankfully can be avoided by quickly simulating bio feedback and senses into the new AI.]]
21	%%* ApocalypseHow: [[spoiler:Class X-2: Stellar annihilation]].
22	* ArmorPiercingQuestion:
23	** During a chapter based around the story ''Literature/TheColdEquations'', on cross-examination, the Transit General is asked a series of them: First, why haven't their ships yet been upgraded with zero-point energy systems, which would have prevented the fuel problems for the vessel in question? Better yet, why were there absolutely no contingency measures regarding life support or power supplies, which would be present even in 20th century space shuttles? The Transit General's only answer is that ZPE tech is in committee regarding possible adaptation... and has been for 50 years. He doesn't have an answer for why there are no backups.
24	** From the space ranger himself: [[spoiler: ''How much does the pilot's chair weigh?'']][[note]] For those who don't get it, he's asking why the pilot didn't simply jettison nonessential weight, such as lockers, personal effects, food, chunks of the console, or even the pilot's chair -- which would probably equal the weight of the woman who was jettisoned and thus allow them both to live long enough to make it to the ground safely.[[/note]]
25	* ArtificialScript: Ralph uses a few exotic "fonts" for in-universe writing: Racconan text is written in [[https://www.freepremiumfonts.com/free-font/lovecrafts-diary.aspx Lovecraft's Diary]], while Cue's name is written in [[http://m.font.downloadatoz.com/font,1521,roswell-wreckage/ Roswell Wreckage]]
26	* AudienceSurrogate: Omnibus tends to act as a type 2, despite being essentially a sapient encyclopedia. Apparently his archived data requires a specific search, unlike organic memory, and learning to think more like that is one of the reasons he was assigned to Quinn.
27	* AuthorTract: Large swaths of the comic are summed up as long {{Take That}}s to various sci-fi franchises, with some strong libertarianism on the side. "The Cold Equations" is a good example of both, starting out as a deconstruction of the original short story ''Literature/TheColdEquations'' and segueing into blaming the whole thing on a government butting into private enterprise. Indeed, the author is quite aware of this, and claims to do it on purpose to get past the "defense mechanisms" of fans of the aforementioned franchises.
28	* BadassAdorable: Quentyn takes after his ancestor in looks but brings more expertise to the job.
29	* BadassBoast:
30	** [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0012/ Quentyn explains the Kvrk-chk's dread of him and his species]].
31	** [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0095/ Page 95]] contains a short one. "I'm a ranger. My name means Justice!"
32	* BlaseBoast: On [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0130/ Page 130]], when Quentyn is asked "how often do you have to make life or death decisions on your job?" he casually responds with "Every day of the week and twice on Sundays."
33	* BewareTheNiceOnes:
34	** The Raccoonans initially just warned the Kvrk-chk against trying their normal cannibalistic invasion techniques on them. After the Kvrk-chk massacred the inhabitants of one of their ships and sent them footage of the event, they destroyed one of their populated systems with a stellar lance.
35	** More personally, for all his 3' size, adorable fuzziness and relaxed outlook, Quentyn can be downright terrifying if someone gets him really angry.
36	* BiggerStick: The Kvrk-chk are monsters from a DeathWorld capable of shrugging off plasma rifle fire like it was rain. The Raccoonans have access to StarKilling artillery. One vengeful demonstration later, the Kvrk-chk's standard procedure when they see a Raccoonan (or anybody carrying a Space Ranger badge) is "[[TheDreaded run the hell away]]".
37	* BiotechIsBetter: No, [[http://rhjunior.com/QQSR/QQSR0000.html#Comic=76 it isn't.]] The strip points out that the easy replication and self-repair of biotech is attractive, its relative fragility, vulnerability to disease, incompatibility with conventional technology and need for constant care (not to mention the BodyHorror factor) make it ''usually'' more trouble than it's worth.
38	--> Fragile, vulnerable, high maintenance, almost impossible to store long-term, breakdowns are effectively permanent--so yeah, not exactly a real hot seller out here.
39	** The only piece of biotech Quentin encounters that's defies that is the snorf; the only thing better at [[TheNoseKnows tracking organics]] than [[TheyHaveTheScent other organics]] is an ''[[ScarilyCompetentTracker engineered]]'' organic. And even it has an AI grafted onto it.
40	--> Yeah, yeah, laugh it up, ''lipids-for-brains....''
41	* BizarreAlienBiology: A few times, like the Gestaltians.
42	* BodyHorror: [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0077/ One reason]] OrganicTechnology is not more popular.
43	* BrainMonster: Gestaltians are a non-villainous example. They are born as just a brain with eyes and rudimentary limbs, and [[BizarreAlienBiology assemble a body out of various symbiotes]].
44	* BrainUploading: It's possible to upload a person's memory into a computer. [[spoiler: Uploading that memory into another body is considered a crime, tantamount to murder, even if it is a reconstructed clone body that may have been awake for only a few seconds. It's regarded as murder one, if the clone is a replicate reconstructed at the neural level. Uploading into a computer itself is rather horrendous as well; see AndIMustScream above.]]
45	* {{Chiaroscuro}}: When ejected into space.
46	* BrokenAesop : "The Coldest Equation" is a TakeThat against government regulations and bureaucracy. Which is resolved by a higher government going in and taking over the Parodian government. The judges do cite the events of the case as a GodzillaThreshold: normally, they don't get involved in another civilization's government unless they've messed up ''that'' badly, but it falls a bit flat when we see the mistakes of one government being fixed by the decrees of another government.
47	** To be fair, it's also a TakeThat against the original story, which had its DownerEnding forced by ExecutiveMeddling
48	* CloneDegeneration: Using a MatterReplicator to make a copy of a copy is generally unwise -- particularly if the thing you're copying ''is'' a MatterReplicator. A first or second generation copy is almost as good as an original. After the fourth, they start getting unreliable. Eventually, they end up producing toxins, or ionizing radiation, or who knows what else. Legally, then, replicated replicators are required to be labeled with their generation number.
49	* CloningBodyParts: {{Matter replicator}}s can be used to make replacement organs, and at least one company gave employees full scans as part of their medical benefits. [[spoiler:One character used those data to create a full clone of his dead wife.]]
50	* CompensatingForSomething: A parody of a 40K ship called the [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-15/ "Obvious Overcompensation"]].
51	* CoolAndUnusualPunishment:
52	** The Patoodines have a rather unique legal system: They launch criminals from a catapult a distance calculated by adding up the total and severity of your crimes. If you live, you're free to go.[[note]]WordOfGod later stated that your sympathizers -- if you have any, anyway -- are allowed to pile up pillows at the impact site.[[/note]] But if your crimes are severe enough, well...
53	---> '''Quentyn:''' {{Two words\|AddedEmphasis}}: ''Lunar. Impact.''\
54	'''Omnibus:''' The E.S.S. leased them their [[MagneticWeapons rail gun.]]
55	** The Fedorks, after doing nothing to aid a bronze-age civilization that was annihilated by a comet, are required to completely rebuild the entire biosphere, sentient species, and civilization... down to the last piece of pottery. They're also going to be handed over to a new cosmic entity for handling in the future... one who is likely to be much stricter in regulating their behavior. And furthermore, once the terraforming is done, both planetary empires in charge of the area will step in for uplift/first contact procedures -- again at the Fedorks' expense.
56	* CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority: Deconstructed. Rebels are treated fairly in certain, desperate situations (a far more detailed analysis would be ''Webcomic/NipAndTuck:'' ''[[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0659/ Rebel Cry]]'') but doing it for the hell of it is considered childish, stupid, and even downright suicidal.
57	** Quinn has to rescue wannabe {{pirate}}s and [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0013/ expects no trouble from them.]]
58	---> "Pirates and gangsters and other "outlaws" are nothing but ''arrogant children.'' They think that the rules are just there to spoil their fun, and that only wimps and losers live by them. And so they figure that being an outlaw makes them the biggest, baddest predators in the universe. They're dead wrong. What it makes them is ''rightful prey'' of the civilization they spurned- and of the things civilization ''protected them from'' without them ever knowing. There are powers and principalities out there that ''pick their teeth'' with the bones of "big, bad outlaws" that wander out past the fence. Our three-eyed little buccaneers just learned their worst nightmare is true: that the ''bars'' on the cage ''aren't there'' to protect the ''tiger''. And the tiger ''isn't them.''"
59	** Visited again with the Kalufraxian terrorists who try to kill Quentyn in a later arc. While they claim to be getting revenge for the alleged destruction of their civilization, they are implied to be descended from the Kalufraxian Oligarchs who all but plundered their planet's wealth and were leaving the people to starve, a.k.a. the ones that were rebelled ''[[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-9/ against]]'' when the people used matter replication technology to fight back. Those rebels are portrayed realistically; desperate men with no choice but to rebel or watch their world end in fire and blood. And it nearly did ''[[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-12/ anyway.]]'' Quentyn's assailants are less tragic victims and more spoiled whiners that hate how things turned out because they aren't in charge anymore and don't want to admit they screwed up. They are also apparently young adults, so they weren't likely to have even been born on Kalufrax.
60	* CoolStarship: Both Quentyn's own ship, the Thunderbird, and the Sapphire Star -- a luxury cruise ship with a diameter measured in kilometers.
61	* CorporateWarfare: About 30 years previously, a coalition of six stellar nations, including the Empire, declared war on the RIAA because they'd started brain-stripping elderly artists and scientists. They took the RIAA's heavily fortified central office planet in a week when it turned out that the nations they were counting on for defense hated them too.
62	* CorruptBureaucrat: Apparently [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0125/ the punchline]] of QQSR's riffing of ''Literature/TheColdEquations''. Even [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0126/ the idiotic strawmen]] from the strip's Federation expy use the engineering parlance "a pair and a spare" -- at least one totally redundant system for every vital one, with an extra 10% margin of error. The ''designer'' of the "Emergency Dispatch Ships" clearly ''[[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0123/ states]]'' that they have no margin for error whatsoever; no backup power, no backup fuel, no backup life support, and what it does have is shaved so razor-thin that it's within centimeters of catastrophe even in ''ideal operational parameters.'' Even the most [[Creator/CharlesDickens Dickens-esque]] caricature of greed would never use an EDS for ''anything'' -- let alone transporting indispensable medical supplies -- for the simple reason that a ship that will crash if the pilot ate too big a meal is ''a waste of money.'' They only could be built through ''institutionalized incompetence''; corners cut and cut again for no other reason than that ''no one would have to answer for it.'' And ''that'' can only happen in a ''[[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0136/ government]]'' bureaucracy; even IncompetenceInc would go out of business ''long'' before they built a lemon like an EDS, while government bureaucrats are ''immune'' from consequence right up until they utterly destroy the system they depend on.
63	* DeathWorld: The Kvrk-Chk homeworld features extremes of pressure, temperature, acidity, salinity, toxicity, and radiation unimaginable to most sentients. And an ecosystem so savage that they need to eat their prey alive before scavengers and parasites do. As a result, a single unarmed Kvrk-Chk can slaughter a group of wannabe pirates with artillery.
64	* DeceasedFallGuyGambit: Quentyn describes the Parodian anti-piracy laws as a large-scale version: their shuttles were so poorly built that losing them was common, so they needed a fabricated "piracy" epidemic to cover it up. There weren't a lot of pirates willing to cooperate, so the big ships were allowed to hire migrant workers and the shuttles were left unguarded. Sometimes a worker would stow away and the pilot, under orders, would space said stowaway, keeping things from being cleared up and giving the illusion of a hijacking problem.
65	* DestructiveTeleportation: This form of technology technically exists, though use of it is banned by the Empire as it's literal murder. The Fedorks use it and suffer CloneDegeneration after repeated iterations.
66	* DidntSeeThatComing: Quentyn has to admit, [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-9/ the Fusion Powered Matter Disruptor Rifles]] caught him by surprise.
67	* DigitalPiracyIsOkay: [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0054/ The RIAA Wars]]. [=RH=] throws an [[{{Anvilicious}} anvil]] here - his opinion is that we either chill out about it or let the regulators eat our brains - ''literally''.
68	* DisproportionateRetribution:
69	** When the Kvrk-chk ate a Racconan colony ship's passengers, broadcasting every crunching, screaming second live to the Empire of the Seven Systems, with a stated intent to continue such practices, the Empire retaliated by roasting one of the more populated Kvrk-chk star systems with a [[StarKilling stellar lance]]. The Kvrk-chk got the point, and did not do it again.
70	** The Confidantines enact very severe penalties for anyone who abducts and/or interrogates one of their own. The reason for these penalties is rather simple: The Confidantines were the first species to perfect FTL communication, and share a collective memory that allows them access to a huge amount of information, a great deal of it classified or personal. They also hold a great deal of control over all hypernet access in the universe. To prevent that information from being used by unscrupulous sources, if one of their own is captured or interrogated, then either they are forcibly disconnected from the collective, or disconnect themselves. They consider this a FateWorseThanDeath (since their mind exists outside of their own head, this basically reduces the person in question to a drooling infant, and while it may be possible to partially restore their faculties, they are never the same afterwards). For this reason, in order to ensure that no one tries, they will penalize not just the individuals responsible, but also their homeworld, any organization they work for, and potentially their entire species by cutting off their hypernet access for a century, if not longer.
71	*** This penalty can easily cause the bankruptcy of the company in question, cause the homeworld in question to fall into economic ruin, and change a species from a major intergalactic superpower to the equivalent of a third world country practically overnight. This would be the modern day equivalent of suddenly being banned from all internet, telegraph, telephone, television, and radio access, and having to rely on only postal communication for a century. This would be painfully slow, inefficient, and expensive, and in a competitive economy, the equivalent of a GameBreakingInjury for a person, company, planet, and/or species. Even after the ban is over, it would be centuries before the economies affected would be able to catch up with the competition, and even then, odds are that they'll never reach anything approaching their previous ability in comparison to what was lost.
72	** Because Pidorg let a pre-FTL civilization die, the ''entire'' Federation is barred from interstellar travel until they rebuild said civilization and assist the Empire in getting it modernized. In addition, the Federation is to be assigned another cosmic entity, that is implied to not be as lenient with them as Cue, as its guardian.
73	* DistressedDude: Like in an emergency evac suit in outer space with only a short range communicator and the ship swanning off without you.
74	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-11/ The C'zan of B'dullah]], terrorist religious fanatics who use a star-and-crescent symbol.
75	* DrivenToSuicide: Multiple internal systems of the ''Enterprise'' expy gained full intelligence... only to delete themselves when they learned their operation parameters.
76	* DrivesLikeCrazy: Rasheed, the taxi driver, of course. This is incidental to the fact that he's almost blind, considering his [[BizarreAlienSenses electromagnetic proprioreception.]]
77	* EveryoneHasStandards: The Fedorks, local [[TheWarOnStraw straw]] federation, have no problem strapping magnetic bottles of antimatter to their ships, but [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0126/ ships]] with ''zero'' margin for error ''anywhere'' is so ridiculous that the engineer testifying about it spends most of his testimony under the impression that they're some kind of joke.
78	-->I'll admit Federation design philosophy is ''backward'' in a lot of ways, but we're not ''suicidally insane''... Wait... are these shuttles ''real??''
79	* ExperiencedProtagonist: Unlike his ancestor's comic, QQSR starts off with the titular character several decades into his career.
80	* FacePalm: When [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0129/ Judge Bob]] learns that Galacti-Transit doesn't even put so much as a simple padlock on the hatch leading to a [[DropShip shuttle]].
81	* FantasticRacism:
82	** Not so much subverted or inverted as turned completely inside out with the W'naybeans, a race of behavioral and cultural mimics (modeled on the real life [[http://youtu.be/t-LTWFnGmeg Mimic Octopus.]]) Their habit of imitating not just other races and ethnicities but other race and ethnic STEREOTYPES caused them a great deal of trouble with various easily offended PC types, but eventually they became so ubiquitous that they are routinely employed in various tourist traps preferentially over the very natives they imitate as being "more authentic." The author's point is that "[[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0071/ nobody seemed to be too upset as long as it was SOMEBODY ELSE being mimicked...]]" Ergo, if seen humorously, both racism AND ethnic hypersensitivity are easy to recognize as ridiculous.
83	** The Federation's "Prime Directive" (not interfering with pre-FTL civilizations, to the point of intentionally not saving them from global-destruction disasters) is regarded as nothing but racist xenophobia by the Seven Systems.
84	* FashionVictimVillain: InUniverse; Omnibus and Quentyn mock the pirate captain's get-up; Quentyn comments that apparently megalomania and terrible fashion sense go together.
85	* FlatWhat: The three judges' faces express deadpan dumbfoundedness when [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0132/ faced with the Parodian leader's attempt to explain the planet's anti-piracy laws]].
86	* FlawExploitation: How he defeats the Star Trek parody.
87	* ForceFieldDoor: Unlike in most common fiction, the Space Rangers have a strict policy concerning Force Field Doors.
88	-->'''Quentyn Quinn''': ''"Ranger Cadet RuleNumberOne: No matter how shiny the force field is, keep your helmet on 'till the airlock is '''closed'''."''
89	* {{Foreshadowing}}: Quentyn is furious that the shuttle pilot didn't even bother to shoot Nikki Blackcat before dumping her into space, and it doesn't seem to make a lot of sense given that standard procedure in such cases involves shooting the stowaway. [[spoiler: While Quentyn is lambasting the pilot, Nikki speaks up and tells the court that she spaced herself, which makes sense of the bizarre situation.]]
90	* FunnyAnimal: Quinn is a Raccoon-like example, and his race is far shorter than the humans on the Sapphire Star.
91	* {{Gendercide}}: [[spoiler: The F'ving used a nano-plague to wipe out the female Gestaltians, though apparently they didn't realize that they were anything but lux-manipulating symbiotes. Which was why Ylvir went to such lengths to obtain a cloned female "tree" from Sebak.]]
92	* GenderScoff: Quentyn drives off the PlanetEater by exploding the expelled warp core with torpedoes. When the Troi stand-in asks why he didn't just detonate the core remotely, Quentyn says it was cooler this way, which Ensign Dweebly enthusiastically seconds. She scoffs "Males!"
93	* GenreSavvy: Quentyn is fully aware of the flaws of a ForceField door, which is part of the reason he beats the Federation expies.
94	* GoodRepublicEvilEmpire: Seemingly inverted, the hero works for the "Empire of the Seven Systems" while the Franchise/StarTrek Parody Federation is highly incompetent (and [[StrawmanPolitical socialist]]). But according to WordOfGod the Empire is a parliamentary republic and the emperor is mostly there to look good on TV. IE think less Galactic Empire and more modern-day Japan.
95	%%* GreatEscape
96	%%* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: On the cover.
97	* GunboatDiplomacy: Part of standard Imperial FirstContact [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0046/ procedure]]
98	* HandOrObjectUnderwear: The Serqeti assasin uses her [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0096/ arm and tail]] to do this.
99	* HaveIMentionedIAmADwarfToday: In the Federation arc, Groonch the G'norch makes a point of emphasizing his [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy warrior-race pride]] (his hat, given by Captain Pidorq, is "token noble savage") -- only to have it subverted when it's pointed out that his "race" has dozens of languages and hundreds of cultures, and "noble warrior" isn't even in the top 10....
100	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Upon learning that her being a stowaway on the shuttle put a medical delivery that thousands were depending on in jeopardy, Miss Blackcat jettisoned herself to prevent that from happening. Somewhat subverted in that Quinn saved her at the last second.]]
101	* HomeSweetHome
102	* HordeOfAlienLocusts: That have shells worthy of being used for the hull of a spaceship.
103	* HulkingOut: See ShapeshifterBaggage.
104	* IdenticalGrandson: Commander Quentyn Quinn of his great-great-great-grandfather Quentyn son of Quinn. Though he does seem a few decades older and more experienced.
105	* IndenturedServitude: Turing-level AIs have to serve a period of indentured servitude to pay off the cost of their manufacture. After that they're free citizens. But some unscrupulous owners tamper with their clocks so they think they still have decades left on their term or replace their cortex with a copy printed off their MatterReplicator that thought it was fresh from the factory.
106	* InHarmsWay: A space ranger has got to love it. In main character's own words, they're [[OhCrap Oops Boys]], as [[ApocalypticLog the most common last words on their black boxes tend to be "Oops"]].
107	* JudgeJuryAndExecutioner: Quentyn states that as an Imperial Ranger he has the authority to act as judge, jury, and executioner in cases of extreme lawlessness, e.g. [[spoiler: The Serqeti and Gestaltian ambassadors illegally cloning assassins and neurally templating them with the Serqeti's wife's "backup".]]
108	* LateToTheTragedy: By about a half hour. And only there by a contrived coincidence. [[spoiler: Triggers the assassin arc.]]
109	* LostInTransmission: ''Why'' he should keep an assassin alive.
110	* MatterReplicator: Like in Star Trek, but with sufficient resolution to copy living things.
111	* MegaCorp: The RIAA. Eventually they started destructively uploading elderly scientists and artists and the Empire declared war.
112	* MookHorrorShow: The pirates [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0010/ get one]] when they [[MuggingTheMonster force down a Kvrk-chk colonist]].
113	* MulticulturalAlienPlanet: Ralph is on record as stating that monocultures can only exist under fascism.
114	* MurderByInaction: The Fedorks are found guilty of failing in their duty to save a primitive species from a comet impact. They're only charged with negligent homicide rather than genocide because the CosmicEntity guarding their Federation has been neglecting ''its'' duty to teach them morality.
115	* MyGreatestFailure: Cmdr. Quinn gave Kalufrax replicator technology so they could weather their economic collapse and fight back against oligarchs attempting to maintain the status quo, [[spoiler: but one nation of religious extremists used the tech to bring down one of the planet's {{Floating Continent}}s, and the other nations nuke-glassed them in response. Quinn needs a [[CigaretteOfAnxiety Seda-stick]] before telling the story.]] Downplayed in that Quinn and even his commanders conclude that Quinn't solution was the best (ie, least destructive) one overall that he could've gone for. You can’t fix [[LowCultureHighTech a broken culture]] with technological uplift.
116	* {{Necromantic}}: Three times over [[spoiler:during the Sapphire Star arc. Sebak's wife, Anippe, died in the RIAA wars at the hands of mercenaries sent to protect the corporation's [=IPs=]. After discovering the genome archive for an extinct Gestaltian subspecies, he trades it to the Gestaltian ambassador for Anippe's biomedical data and [[BrainUploading neural template]], planning to clone her and download the template into the clone's brain. In an odd examination of the trope, two of the cases are pretty much failures but one of them succeeds ''spectacularly'']].
117	** [[spoiler:The clone was successfully replicated, but it was made from a biomedical scan so detailed it already ''had'' Anippe's memories, but no memory of ''Sebak'', as it had been taken years before they had met. Imprinting the template would thus be ''killing'' that woman. This utterly horrifies]];
118	** [[spoiler:...the template itself, which was taken moments before Anippe's death - but upon being booted up, she emphatically believes she's ''not'' Anippe, but merely a copy of her memories. Her very ''existence'' disgusts her, so she takes steps to remain conscious and learn more about her situation. When she realizes that a younger copy of Anippe was going to be murdered to provide her with an organic body, she allies herself with the clone to make a giant mess of the whole deal, aided by the ''third'' party involved]];
119	** [[spoiler:...the "Gestaltian subspecies" AKA the "bio-armor" that the clone has been wearing throughout the arc - which turns out to be the ''female'' of the Gestaltian race, [[{{Gendercide}} exterminated]] in a recent war by an enemy that only believed it to be the Gestaltian "subspecies" capable of manipulating [[{{Mana}} Lux]]. Having never actually ''met'' a female before, the Gestaltian ambassador inadvertently terrified her during the process of cloning her, thus driving her to bond with the clone in order to escape her tormentors. Luckily, he is able to reconcile with her, saving their species from extinction]].
120	* NeverMyFault: Quentyn discusses this trope with Omnibus, saying that some people find it easier to blame those who cleaned the mess up than take responsibility for their own actions.
121	* NonIndicativeName: Nikita Blackcat is not a black cat. Her husband, however...
122	%%* TheNoseKnows: The snorf.
123	%%* NoConservationOfEnergy: See ShapeshifterBaggage.
124	* NotHisSled: The comic's take on ''The Cold Equations'' has the stowaway survive. [[spoiler: It also turns out she jettisoned herself rather than being spaced by the pilot for the "greater good."]]
125	* NoWaterProofingInTheFuture: Quentyn escapes the ''Glorious Undertaking's'' brig by ordering a pitcher of ice water from the replicator and soaking the force field controls, shorting out the door. He smugly comments that this is why using force-field doors for brigs is a bad idea.
126	* TheOathBreaker: A confidantine ''skirts the edge'' of her vow, which is an important clue about the severity of the crime she witnessed.
127	%%* OddShapedPanel
128	* OhCrap:
129	%%** [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0091/ ...The template is still active!]]
130	** The Serqeti ambassador when he learns [[spoiler: that being in neutral space will not protect him from his crimes and... well see JudgeJuryAndExecutioner for why this is bad for him.]]
131	** The Glorious Undertaking's Captain Pidorq gets one when he sees that he is accountable for, as he [[SarcasmMode so eloquently states]]...
132	--->'''Pidorq:''' [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0115/ EIGHT MILLION COUNTS OF NEGLIGENT HOMICIDE??]]
133	* OlderThanTheyLook: Most would put Quentyn Quinn in his twenties or early thirties. But he has been a Ranger for at least fifty years, presumably a combination of TimeDilation, Racconan longevity, and [[LongevityTreatment Rejuve]].
134	* OneWayVisor: The cabbie mimic, despite his eyes being on the ends of his "Rasta dreads".
135	** Another of his species wears sunglasses. Presumably they do this to avoid presenting an EyelessFace.
136	* OnlySaneMan: The titular character and his AI companion seem to be this most of the time.
137	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Chief Justice Bob has been known to [[BloodOnTheDebateFloor hurl his gavel]] at the ''exceedingly'' guilty, such as Pidorq and his failed attempt to save face for letting a pre-FTL civilization die, but the other justices manage to restrain themselves even in the case of the aforementioned negligent genocide. So it tells you just how incredibly screwed [[spoiler:Mister Clotworg]] is that ''all three'' of them throw their gavels at ''him''.
138	* OrganicTechnology: Deconstructed with the usual thoroughness [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0076/ here]]
139	* OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions: {{Averted}}. A few background mentions illustrate that the Sojourner Church variant of the Christian faith (and presumably others, but this is the only one that's actually shown up), is still alive and well.
140	%%* PlausibleDeniability
141	* PlanetEater: The ''Glorious Undertaking'' and a planet nearby are attacked by a humongous creature that feeds on planets and chants "YOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOM" while it's eating.
142	%%* PlanetOfHats: [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0017/ Subverted]].
143	* PleasurePlanet:
144	** The Sapphire Star, though actually a massive starship.
145	** Also (mentioned in passing) "Queela Quoola," which translates roughly as "Planet of casual sex and cheap beer..."
146	* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Subverted with the Fedorks' Worf counterpart. Groonch evidently knows very little about his home planet, justified as Groonch was raised by foster parents, which Quentyn says has no thriving warrior races. In fact, Quentyn suspects that Groonch's exact culture is one best known for macrame.
147	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Cue, the cosmic being in the "Glorious Undertaking" arc, who, out of pity more than anything, basically took an entire civilization under its wing and gave it interstellar travel in the hopes that space travel would broaden said species horizons and help them to correct the shortcomings of their society.
148	** [[GoneHorriblyWrong 400 years later, they still haven't improved any.]]
149	** At the beginning of "The Coldest Equation", Cue apparently approached the High Imperial Court to get a legal assessment of its performance as the Fedorks guardian. Apparently, it's customary among Cue's collective to do so.
150	* RidiculousFutureInflation: The "Ridiculous" part is lampshaded in the arc where {{Matter Replicator}}s are discussed; when the most politically powerful currency on the planet [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-8/ Kallifrax]] loses 95% of its face value in less than a century, the inflation is ''stated'' to be '''purposeful''' - the result of the planet's oligarchy attempting to TakeOverTheWorld by scamming its citizenry into trading all the physical resources for fiat currency. InUniverse, the ESS has a [[LanguageEqualsThought term]] for the process - a "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes Keynes]] Swindle" or "Frac and Fee" AKA "Fractional Reserve" and "Fiat Currency" - and consider it to be a criminal act identical to counterfeiting.
151	* RuleOfCool: Quentyn fires torpedoes to [[StuffBlowingUp detonate the warp core]] as the PlanetEater is trying to consume it. When asked why he didn't just remotely detonate the core, [[LampshadeHanging he says that this way looked cooler]]. A [[OnlySaneMan female]] [[BridgeBunny bridegecrew]] member finds the whole thing [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0037/ exasperating]].
152	* SacrificialPlanet: A PlanetEater eats a system's outer planet, moons first and then the main world a week later. Then it ate the life-bearing planet's moon, and that was a week ago....
153	* SadisticChoice: When it's revealed that [[spoiler: Nikki Blackcat spaced herself]], two judges question why the pilot didn't mention this, given that it would have exonerated him. The third provides the reason: under Parodian piracy laws, [[spoiler: any pilot who fails to kill a stowaway is assumed to be in on the job.]] [[spoiler: The pilot had the choice of either implying he had spaced an unarmed woman, putting himself in the crosshairs of an Empire court, or admitting he hadn't followed procedure and getting charged with piracy by Parodian courts.]]
154	* ScarilyCompetentTracker: The snorf can pick up a scent from a description of whom they are looking for.
155	** More like he could remember all the scents that match the description of "Serqeti, female, lux user, in bio-armor." A perk of being sapient.
156	* ScaryDogmaticAliens: The Kvrk-Chk are explicitly stated to be under the Nazi category, with their entire civilization being under an absolute dictatorship that allows no variation in culture, law, beliefs, anything in their society. This is a society where the nail that sticks up isn't just hammered down, it's violently ripped out and eaten on sight. And this is a civilization that occupies multiple star systems.
157	* ScifiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0073/ Averted]] in the Sapphire Star arc; Quinn asks the ship's monitoring officer to help him track down an assassin, and is told that scanning a thirty-kilometer sphere for one lifeform - among ''twenty million others'' - makes finding the proverbial "needle in a haystack" seem as simple as picking raisins out of cereal; such a sphere has a volume of '''''FOURTEEN THOUSAND CUBIC KILOMETERS.''''' Just the top deck of the ship has an area of over 2800 square kilometers[[note]]Los Angeles is only 1290 square kilometers[[/note]] - and there are fifty more beneath it, along with myriad maintenance areas and a 10 kilometer block of reactors and generators at the core. System check sweeps run 24 hours a day because that's how long it takes to ''complete'' one sweep. It takes five hours just to ping all the ''doors.''
158	* SecretArt: Lux spells. When the Racconans SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic to the point that {{Magitek}} became commonplace, the development of natural lux talents fell out of use. Why spend decades learning how to throw steel-smashing lightning from your fingers when ''[[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0059/ handguns]]'' exist that permit '''anyone''' to do it after a week of training? Military forces train lux users in down-and-dirty techniques that prove why [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0031/ it's a stupid idea to attack an "unarmed" Racconan]], but the dazzling displays of power exercised by Quentyn's ancestors are all but unknown. This just makes the few who still practice the arts among [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0074/ the most lethal beings in existence]]. One adept demonstrates this by [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0064/ walking around invisibly without 50 kilos of atomic crystal arrays]], then [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0066/ catching a sizzling stun-bolt in her hand, reshaping it, and tossing it aside in a single motion.]]
159	* SerialEscalation: PlayedWith with the [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0075/ "assassin"]] on the Sapphire Star;
160	-->'''Rasheed''': Ey, first dere were just a suspect, den she were an '''assassin''', den she were an '''assassin''' wit '''weird alien powahs''', den a whole '''school''' of '''assassins'''… tings goin’ downhill fast an’ I ain’t even gone nowhea yet!
161	** Turns out she's [[spoiler:just a clone of an ambassador's wife who didn't want her brain overwritten with the woman's later memories, symbiotically bonded to a newly-grown alien "female" with an instinctual talent for [[{{Mana}} Lux]] manipulation]].
162	* ShapeshifterBaggage: Averted and lampshaded [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0058/ here]]. Quentyn states that no one is 100% sure how that species does that, but they still punch pretty hard when they do it.
163	* ShoutOut: Among the few references that aren't take that is one to ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary''.
164	-->'''"Telepathic" Schlockiverse alien''': [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2002-04-13 Do you believe in radio?]]\
165	'''"Telepathic" Questorverse alien''': [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0056/ Do you believe in subspace radio?]]
166	* SpacePirates: The first arc deals with them.
167	** Along with an object lesson in why it would be a seriously bad idea to take it up as an occupation.
168	* StarshipLuxurious: The [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0045/ Sapphire Star]]. Those sapphire skylights that make up most of the outer hull, actual sapphires.
169	** Or, in other words, ''Transparent aluminum.'' Yes, that's what sapphires ARE.
170	*** It'd be more surprising if they ''didn't'' have industrial sapphire production [[CallBack considering they grew]] ''[[GrowsOnTrees plants]]'' that [[http://www.rhjunior.com/tales-of-the-questor-0586/ refined bauxite]] into [[http://www.rhjunior.com/tales-of-the-questor-0587 sapphire]] centuries before.
171	* SwissCheeseSecurity:
172	** The Federation expies. Omnibus hacked into their mainframe and downloaded everything ''while the Geordi expy was specifically watching for hacking attempts''.
173	** The Parodian's security on their shuttles is even MORE ridiculous. As an analogy, imagine Swiss cheese, with more holes than cheese. Then eat all the cheese. What you have left is, quite literally, all of the security they have on their shuttles. There wasn't even a lock on the door. [[spoiler: All done intentionally with the aim of luring hapless drifters to be stowaways in order to fabricate a piracy epidemic.]]
174	* TakeAThirdOption: Standard Space Ranger procedure; [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0129/ part of their training]] involves putting them in a simulated "no-win" scenario and seeing ''how many'' third options they can find to win it anyway. Quentyn gives a prime example of this in the "Coldest Equation" arc when, [[spoiler: presented with the shuttle pilot's option of ejecting a stowaway into space or crashing a shuttle full of vital medical supplies, he would have opted for throwing out ''his chair.'']]
175	** Later on, we find out that [[spoiler: the shuttle pilot also tried to take one: when his efforts to save himself, Miss Blackcat, and his shipment of medical supplies failed, he was left with a choice: throw her out the airlock or face conspiracy charges. His choice: show her how to land the craft and then [[HeroicSacrifice jettison himself]]. Before he could, however, she took the first option upon herself.]]
176	* TakeThat:
177	** A ''big'' one directed at ''Franchise/StarTrek'' runs from [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0014/ Page 14]] to Page 44. The author's politics are on full display. Most of the subjects he brings up were addressed by either ''Deep Space Nine'' or the TNG movies.
178	** A later storyline includes [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0053/ a shot at the RIAA.]]
179	** In an arc regarding The Seven Systems judicial system, when the "Prime Directive" is taken to its natural conclusion (meaning that nobody interferes, even if it would save an entire sentient species, when a comet strikes a planet), the Prime Directive gets dissected, and stated to be racist, hypocritical, and downright unethical. Followed up by another low blow when the official name of Pidorq's (a blow with the subtlety of an avalanche in and of itself) race is revealed to be "[[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0117/ the Fedorks]]."
180	** However, the storyline [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0113/ "The Coldest Equation"]] is primarily directed at ''Literature/TheColdEquations'', to the point where a Fedork expatriate takes one look at the schematics for the shuttle and declares that the Federation, which flies around with magnetic bottles of [[MadeOfExplodium antimatter]] strapped to their backsides, would not consider it fit to fly. [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0135/ Then it]] [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0136/ spins off]] into a full on AuthorFilibuster on Government vs. Private Industry. Or perhaps just a TakeThat against government bureaucracy.
181	* TechnologyUplift: It seems to be the Empire of the Seven Systems' preference with newly contacted species. And frequently worked into the frequent {{Author Tract}}s.
182	** [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0044/ At the end]] of the arc parodying ''Franchise/StarTrek'' Cmdr. Quinn tells a member of a species that the Federation left to the mercy of a PlanetEater because they were pre-spaceflight that the Empire will help them rebuild, and that their presence will no doubt screw up what was left but at least they'll treat them like people.
183	** Another time, a member of a species the Empire had contacted fifty years earlier [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-7/ accused the Rangers]] of destroying his civilization by downloading blueprints for {{Matter Replicator}}s into their network and causing an economic collapse. Quinn [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-8/ retorted]] that the real reason for the collapse was the native oligarchy's use of fiat currency to pillage the commoners, and that he had given them the technology they needed just to ''survive''.
184	* ThereAreNoCoincidences: Quinn realizes foul play was involved in crashing his ship because all the systems went off-line ''simultaneously.''
185	* TheyHaveTheScent: The snorf announces it.
186	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:
187	** The Cosmic Being gives a rather severe one to the captain of the Glorious Undertaking, in front of his own crew, outlining every flaw and shortcoming of their civilization, and everything that he has to do to keep their entire civilization from collapsing upon itself. Again.
188	** Three Seven Systems judges basically outline everything wrong with the Prime Directive, when taken to its natural conclusion, resulting in the Enterprise {{Expy}} sitting idly by and watching the complete annihilation of a sentient species without bothering to warn them, notify anyone of their impending destruction, or even attempt to divert the comet that was about to destroy them.
189	** Quentyn laces into Eugin Atrix for lacking the presence of mind to take any precautions that would keep Nikita Blackcat from boarding his shuttle (which resulted in her getting ThrownOutTheAirlock without a space suit), or even attempting to TakeAThirdOption that would allow him to safely land his decidedly unsafe shuttle with both of them onboard (such as jettisoning non-essential weight and overclocking the life-support systems, or at the very least just [[MercyKill shooting Nikita]] before spacing her). [[spoiler: However, when it's revealed that Nikita [[HeroicSacrifice spaced herself]] and that Eugin was planning on spacing himself instead before she did, he rescinds his statements, noting that while Eugin is incompetent as a pilot, it isn't his fault (he wasn't given enough training due to bureaucracy), and that ultimately his honor is unbesmirched]].
190	* ThrownOutTheAirlock:
191	** The assassin manages to eject Quentyn out a hazmat disposal at one point.
192	--->'''Quentyn:''' ''[narration]'' Ah, the Sapphire Star. Much nicer from the inside.
193	** More ominously, the "Coldest Equation" arc begins with someone being blown out an airlock ''without'' a low-profile evac suit like Quentyn's. It takes a sharp twist when [[spoiler: we learn that it was a ''self-inflicted'' spacing, done as a HeroicSacrifice]].
194	* TimeDilation: A [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0051/ narratively brilliant example]], which should be used more often - though FasterThanLightTravel is fairly [[CasualInterstellarTravel casual]], the amount of time trips take is [[NarniaTime randomly inconsistent]], since time doesn't "flow" homogeneously through the galaxy, due to gravitational anomalies, the rotation of the galaxy, and distance from the galactic core. An interstellar traveler can [[YearInsideHourOutside journey for months while years pass on their homeworld]] -- and [[YearOutsideHourInside vice versa]]. It forces more independence on the setting, and hardcore spacers [[YouCantGoHomeAgain Can't Go Home Again]].
195	** TruthInTelevision: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_time_dilation Gravitational time dilation]] is a very real phenomenon. Relative to Earth's age in billions of years, Earth's core is effectively 2.5 years younger than its surface. To give the reader some perspective, the mere gravitational difference between the Earth's surface and orbit is high enough that it is ''proven'' that time moves faster in orbit; the atomic clocks on GPS satellites have to be readjusted by software on a continual basis, otherwise the satellites would be off by 38 microseconds -- and their coordinate readings by ''10 kilometers'' -- in a single day.
196	* TooDumbToLive: Somehow a large portion of the universe's population seems to fit into this category. Thankfully, [[spoiler: there appears to be a large number of unimaginably powerful beings that roam the stars, taking care of species like this.]]
197	* UngovernableGalaxy: A DiscussedTrope in the initial SpacePirates arc, the current Warhammer 40,000 parody arc and the Tales of the Questor crossover;
198	** Most civilizations settle for their star system of origin and trade with their neighbors for what they can't produce themselves. The Empire of the Seven Systems is a galactic power because it actually manages to ''govern'' seven star systems efficiently without claiming territory they can't police or strangling themselves with bureaucracy.
199	** There are a few expansionist empires such as the Draco Confederacy trying to gobble up as much of the galaxy as possible, but the ESS considers them only a short-term problem which will solve itself through over-extension as long as the ESS can avoid being conquered before they collapse under their own weight.
200	** As for ungoverned space? In this 'verse, it is ''deeply'' stupid to wander around outside charted space playing outlaw; you're swimming past the shark nets and easy prey for barbarian hordes who have been playing outlaw for a ''lot'' longer than you have -- such as the Kvrk-chk, giant nazi cannibal bugs that are individually capable of destroying and eating ''main battle tanks.''
201	* UnwinnableTrainingSimulation: An InvokedTrope in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0129/ Space Ranger Training;]] part of the training regimen is to be put in unwinnable training simulations... and told to win anyway. If they do, then the instructors correct for the solution and make them do it again. They're graded on how many times they beat the odds. A Ranger has to go BeyondTheImpossible just to ''become'' a Ranger.
202	* VirtuousCharacterCopy: Q and Cue are both SufficientlyAdvancedAliens who are regarded as interfering nuisances by the starships they follow and even have near-identical names. However, ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'''s crew are presented as smart, ethical people who try to protect the innocent (both their own and other cultures), even if it requires a little LoopholeAbuse, whereas Q is a smug jerk who tends to cause trouble wherever he goes. The crew of the ''Glorious Undertaking'' are ethically skewed and TooDumbToLive, and Cue is friendlier and humbler than Q, even seeking out an assessment of its caretaking capabilities.
203	* WalkingTheEarth: The Rangers' jobs pretty much require it. Running around the frontier exploring new systems, making FirstContact with unknown alien races, and occasionally acting as lawmen. Plus the effects of Time Dilation listed above.
204	* TheWatson: Omnibus, his frequent role seems to be to ask Quentyn questions, justified as even though as a Galactopedia AI he has an extensive archive of information he doesn't [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0048/ collate and cross-reference like organics do]]. Which is actually the reason why he was partnered with the Commander.
205	-->'''Omnibus:''' On a personal note, I'm finding your associative processes to be more... complicated to follow than I ever expected.\
206	'''Quinn:''' Heh. You're lucky I choose to take that as a compliment.
207	* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman:
208	** The source of much debate on the cartoonist's own forum. The Kvrk-Chk are made of pure ObviouslyEvil, and they commit a truly [[MoralEventHorizon grotesque]] act of aggression. Even so, it's disconcerting to see the heroic Empire of the Seven Systems unleash a [[ApocalypseHow Class X-2 Apocalypse]] on "one of [the Kvrk-chk's] most heavily populated solar systems."
209	** The Fedorks did nothing to rescue a bronze-age civilization from a comet that was about to destroy their civilization. When asked if they would have acted to rescue one of their own colonies that had fallen into barbarism, they answer yes and are immediately called out on it. [[BlueAndOrangeMorality And then, when asked if they would have rescued the race if they had been a nonsentient space slug, they also answered yes.]] [[SarcasmMode Obviously, this race has all its priorities straight.]]
210	* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "I jettisoned myself."]]
211	* YearOutsideHourInside: The effect of time slips on the traveler.

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