Line #11 Webcomic/Unity


1	[[https://beesbuzz.biz/comics/unity/ Unity]] is a collection of [[Mohs/SpeculativeScience hard science fiction]] webcomics in a shared setting, written and drawn by Creator/{{fluffy}} as part of [[http://beesbuzz.biz/comics/ Busybee Comics]].
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3	The stories center around a {{generation ship\|s}} populated by [[UpliftedAnimal sapient descendants of a variety of terrestrial animals]]. The first story, Ascent, is a [[FilmNoir noir mystery]] about the circumstances of Juni Melrose [[AmnesiacHero losing its memory]] and some of the consequences of this; later stories vary in tone and themes.
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5	!!Tropes include:
6	* AnimalIsTheNewMan: The webcomic takes place on a massive GenerationShip where the humans who originally crewed it seem to have gone extinct while the fauna evolved sapience in various ways. The main character is distantly descended from the platypus.
7	* ArcWords
8	** "It means they like you"
9	** In the AltText: "Nobody notices Agent Harris until it's too late"
10	** "The square root of love is happiness"
11	* BrainUploading: [[spoiler:Juni]], whose neural patterns were uploaded for a simulation which eventually turned into an AI.
12	* ConLang: Several examples, including [[http://beesbuzz.biz/d/20071015.php different]] [[http://beesbuzz.biz/d/20100510.php forms]] of [[http://beesbuzz.biz/d/unity/invasion-7-hiero.jpg Hiero]] throughout history, retroactive obscured scripts for [[spoiler:real-life human languages]], and general [[http://beesbuzz.biz/d/20110110.php examples of translation difficulties]] throughout. The author seems to have [[http://beesbuzz.biz/d/20150119.php a bit]] of [[http://beesbuzz.biz/d/20150205.php a problem]] with this.
13	* FormerlySapientSpecies: For all the advanced animal descendants around, there's no sign of humans [[spoiler: until the "plains apes" many use as livestock appear]].
14	* FurriesAreEasierToDraw: Humans do appear later on in [[spoiler:flashbacks and hallucinations]], though.
15	%%* GenerationShip: Unity itself
16	* IdentityAmnesia: At the beginning of "Ascent", Officer Juni Melrose remembers quite a lot of its technical knowledge ... but not its name or how it ended up in the hospital room it woke in.
17	* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler:As eventually discovered in the "Meat" arc.]]
18	%%* MegaMicrobes: The macrobes in the [[https://beesbuzz.biz/comics/unity/invasion/ "Invasion"]] arc.
19	* MyHeroZero: The eventual name of a semi-artificial consciousness that seems to be running things.
20	%%* {{Precursor}}: Humanity
21	* RagnarokProofing: Unity has been underway for a ''long'' time. [[spoiler:It's only falling apart after over 21 million years]].
22	* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: Sasha wears a ribbon on one of her antennae [[spoiler:to emphasize her female gender identity]].
23	* TrulySingleParent: Hira, not to mention most future Melroses (although [[spoiler:not Ivo]]).
24	* TheUnintelligible: [[spoiler:Kandra]] Corentin, who speaks entirely in honks (although the other characters try their best to understand him anyway); lampshaded (and called out in the title) in [[http://beesbuzz.biz/d/unity-the_unintelligible.php this strip]].
25	* UniversalUniverseTime: Averted; all timekeeping is based on local intervals [[spoiler:(even when [[http://beesbuzz.biz/d/unity-the_beginning.php broadcasting to the rest of the universe]])]].
26	%%* VictoryGuidedAmnesia: Juni.
27	* WhichMe: Zero, be it in [[http://beesbuzz.biz/d/unity-multiplicity.php discussing the past with Tamu]] or [[http://beesbuzz.biz/d/meat-18_mao_rou.php communicating with its other selves]].
28	* YouWakeUpInARoom: Ascent, the first story, starts with the protagonist waking up in an unfamiliar room [[IdentityAmnesia with no memories.]]
29	* ZeroGSpot: Sam and Juni, sitting in an observation pod...

Context Webcomic / Unity