Grrl Power #1357 – Highway to the sapphic zone?
Of all the myriad planets for Dabbler to be familiar with off the top of her head, she knew that Sol 3 was Earth mostly because Cora is human. Terrans are not a huge population in the larger space society, but a few of them have made marks that put humanity on the “Races to Know” list.
It does sound egocentric, but Max is extrapolating that if Hoss knew enough to know about superpowers, then he definitely knew about supers in general, even though people like herself were classified at the time. He told Dabbler to go through a specific gate, knowing it would spit her out in the middle of a multinational conflict that involved supers, and he knew Dabbler’s M.O. well enough, then it was a foregone conclusion that would involve herself with the leadership of said conflict quickly.
To paraphrase a Tom Baker Doctor Who episode;
Guard, “I’m taking you to the Captain!”
The Doctor, “Excellent idea! No messing about with middle management. Straight to the top! I’ll lead!”
I might be concatenating several interactions there, but there’s a reason Tom Baker was hands down the best Doctor. Dabbler’s version might have been more along the lines of, “Take me to your sexiest leader!”
The Cradle of Civilization to me means either Mesopotamia or ancient Egypt, which is a fairly western point of view, as ancient China had a lot going on as well. I’m just reporting my own biases here. Maxima’s biases trend toward Mesopotamia, because she was stationed there, and maybe visited Egypt while she was in the area, but was never stationed there. Also she speaks passable… shoot, I can’t remember if I said it was Arabic or Farsi. I think it was Arabic.
Oh, and I want to be clear that while Mesopotamia covered areas that are now modern day Iran, and Iraq as well as Syria, Kuwait and Turkey, Max never operated in Iran during Desert Storm 2. Not officially, certainly. She might have flown over their airspace quite a bit, but a human sized object wrapped in a cotton/nylon BDU blend probably doesn’t provide a significant radar return.
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It’s not quite where I wanted it for this update. I kind of skipped over posting just the flats and started shading Heatwave, but hadn’t gotten as far as J-Watt. But I figured I’d post what I had.
I’ll hopefully have more progress soon as things here are kind of slowing down. Still putting the house together after the move, but there’s still plenty to do. The Patreon version is updated as well.
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Dunno how much was there before the ice age or during it, climate change would have killed one, then drowned the other for all I know. >:-D
But there are speculations.. :)
Calling it now, Deus has a fursona.
Agreed. That grin is way too familiar…
Mesopotamia was “civilized” long before Egypt or China. There have been multi-family, permanent structures discovered in Turkey that were 25,000 years old, and Gobekli Tepe, in the same area, is 11,000 years old. The oldest recorded history is also from Mesopotamia, in Sumeria/Iraq, from 3500 BCE, a thousand years before anything comparable in China or Egypt, and Egypt got their civilization directly from Sumeria, hence Mesopotamia being the “cradle,” since it was where civilization as we know it was in its infancy.
… What is that little gray/teal? string Max and Syd are sharing, not Dabbler’s little tendrils on their temples?
Its also a double deduction – Cradle of Civilisation + Where I met Dabbler = Mesopotamia. It would be odd if Maxima said “China? But I met you in Iran?”