Endtown by Aaron Neathery for July 31, 2024

Guess this means they need to start assigning guard duty – and yikes, there’s still a few tails visible!

Joint enterprise…the drone sees anybody, it’s bad for everybody.

Geez guys, you coulda hid under that boat you were lifting you know, that would probably have been the smarter idea. Or even gone inside, there’s a door right there!

Terrance: “Prank! It’s just an incoming nuke!”

Well…$%^#@! There goes the neighborhood.

“Crebain from Dunland!”

So long as this drone isn’t looking for heat signatures, they might be able to hide below decks. But depending on whether it has infrared detection, it might be able to see them anyway.

Terrance’s topsider enclave was presumably completely wiped out, so who are these guys?

maybe it isn’t’ a drone

Glinda?

“It’s Petey! It’s okay, everyone, I know this guy!”

“WE DON’T!!!”

I spy with my little eye…

Perfect (awful) timing.

Those darn things are everywhere!

Did anyone honestly think Cracky and friends would get a nice little lull to prepare for their sea voyage? Did anyone think life in Neatheryland is that simple?

As always, a jump from frying pan to fire…Aaron keeps us on our metaphorical toes.

Peafowl are opportunistic hunters in the wild, eating prey as big as squirrels, but are also prey themselves to upper mid sized cats and the biggest eagles. This necessarily requires excellent eyesight. Now exaggerate that via anthropomorphic size, and he could probably see the moon landing location if the moon wasn’t moving so fast.

Nukes are an expensive asset, a “mop-up” squad is less costly and better for acquiring intell . As for recon drones, if you see/hear them, it’s too late, you were spotted long ago.

Pro Tip: If you’re building spy drones, don’t put lights on them.

I figured they would send a drone. That stuff crashing had to triggers some sensors.

Wally left Kirbee 12/09/2019 (at about 3:01) in Eden then the met Amesworth and dimension hopped until ending up inside the Eden Project 11/23/2020. Then Eye infected the Eden Project; which did a fail safe cutoff to prevent the virus (Eye) from infecting any other Colonies 07/29/2021. They went back into dimension hopping, this time with Marx 12/30/21. They finally landed in Eden 05/22/23 just as it was collapsing back into Eden Project Reality-which they jumped into 01/27/24. When Kirbee finds him (04/18/24), she says Wally had been gone “a few hours”. Terrance says that at 3:06 (compare to 3:00 back at Kirbee’s), Colony 19 became radioactive ash 05/04/2024. I wonder if Topsiders from other colonies would have been alerted by the communications that Colony 19 cut to prevent system infection, and if that would have been much longer before the Colony 19 blew up. Then; how long would it take for a visual recon unit to get there from the nearest Topsider colony? If this is just a single recon drone—how long before reinforcements follow? Would Topsiders send the newer autonomous MUTT-based flyers? I can’t recall seeing any Topsiders in flying machines—only those Personnel Transports.