Even in a setting as bleak as this, there are still moments of comedy to be found.
Cygnus Fleet
- Claude ends up assigning Teresa Leach as the group's designated scientist because she is the Closest Thing We Got to one. The results speak for themselves.
- She decides to keep a debeaked headcrab as both a test subject and pet.
- She still wants to acquire a human body for dissection, to the point of getting all of her would-be fellow scientists to sign away permission for her to use their corpses for research.
- Funnier still, most of those people, being former college students (and having lived through an apocalypse), just shrug it off.
- She apparently bonded well with Kleiner, who already acquired Lamarr.
- Raz has a conversation with Claude, Kai, and Riley over how California used to have nice beaches and how the US made small bikinis based on magazines the Fleet scavenged. He fails to notice that Riley is getting steadily angrier as he mentions how California was fairly liberal and had a pornography industry, leading him to eventually suggest that they try building beach condos to attract new recruits.note When Claude finally points this out, Raz promptly assures Kai that he still thinks her butt is the best among those on both Half Life!Earth and V.C.!Earth, which makes Kai squak in embarassment while Riley almost does a Spit Take. Kai threatens to punch out Raz's teeth, before stating that this would be giving Raz's ideas more acknowledgement than they deserve.
- OOC, it's pointed out that the Cygnus Fleet's plan to make an antlion farm amounts to "kidnapping and imprisoning a mother so that they can use her babies to make medicine", and that out of contenxt, this would be horribly evil, but in context, Crosses the Line Twice.
The Phoenix Project
- The director's thoughts on the destroyer battle:Dean Clarkson: So let me get this straight. After Claude Wallace, leader of Cygnus Fleet, broadcasted his message, the Fitzgerled destroyer was then reinforced by the 75th Ranger Regiment, an unknown military faction that has a giant four-legged mech and massive amount of firepower, and another 4 giant mechs of different designs and armament which are likely to be part of the same faction that send the ADVENT off running. And then they ended up in a three way battle between a joint group of Survivalists supported by aliens forces likely to be the Shrine and the Damned with a large detachment of rogue H.E.C.U soldiers called Flashpoint, with the defenders being the only victors. Of course, let's not forget that one of the missiles is launched at an unknown location which we need to find soon.And the only reason we ended up missing this shitshow was simply because there was an accident when one of our prototypes went off and hit a power generator which leads to a temporary blackout, shutting down our electric systems long enough that by the time we get the power back, the whole battle is over?....Fuck, I need a drink.
