9/23/2024
Due to family medical issues, Requiem is on indefinite hiatus.
An elderly family member of ours took a bad fall on Labor Day night, and we’ve been dealing with the aftermath ever since. Hopefully, things will get sorted out, but as of right now, doing a daily comic is not something my schedule can allow.
Sorry to have this happen, but as everyone knows, real life comes first….and at least we don’t have too many running storylines on the backburner.
Educational General Academic Research Unit aka “Edgar” is part of the first production line of non-limited Artificial Intelligence’s. He is currently one of the House Tindal researchers, and is Professor Gage’s second-in-command. Also one of the members of the Crystal One development team.
House Tindal. Physicist, Head of the Crystal One development team and all around curious man. A late term cancer patient, Dr. Gage heads out to Bellisarius Territory to settle his own curiosity about some flaws in the eyewitness reports. He now finds himself spending the last days of his life with his reformed team of Crystal One scientists in an attempt to prevent the literal end of the world.
I’d been wondering about the apparent lack of xenophobia in this world’s human culture. It makes sense, what with regular contact with the Threllichok and the Tareg. I would imagine xenophobes still exist, but as a small minority who are mostly laughed at or pitied if they make their views known. Something like Fred Phelps and his ilk in our world, only more so.
Still, considering how deeply tribalism has marked human history, I have to wonder how the early history of Requiem might have really gone. Perhaps Clarence is going by the “official” account of how first contact with the Threllichok went down, and there were “incidents” that never made it into the records. Our regrettable treatment of our own kind makes me pessimistic that we’d do that much better on meeting non-humans.
Official account indeed. There have been a few accidents. Especially in the days leading up to the Threllichock and humans first meeting “officially”. Heck, the first notice the Threllichock had of House humans was when the Threllichock ate one who got too close to a northern hive.
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Still, considering how deeply tribalism has marked human history, I have to wonder how the early history of Requiem might have really gone. Perhaps Clarence is going by the “official” account of how first contact with the Threllichok went down, and there were “incidents” that never made it into the records. Our regrettable treatment of our own kind makes me pessimistic that we’d do that much better on meeting non-humans.