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Ancient_Demise•

Negotiations: surrender or Schlock will eat you

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decoy321•

Awww, I just realized we're probably not going to get any more battle scenes.

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macrovore•

Unless the Pa'anuri are stalling...

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cyberpunk2350•

anyone else notice the Pa'anuri falling/dumping out of the back of Schlock in pannel one?

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PreciousRoi•

Literally came here for the first time to see if anyone noticed that Schlock was lowkey excreting Pa'anuri from a pseudopod...

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civver3•

Are sufficiently-massive anecdotes data?

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Zhirrzh•

We know that the Pa'anuri at this "armistice meeting" can at least try to call home even if they are not getting answers. "We can eat each other to combine into a mega Pa'anuri to fight this thing" is the kind of call that might get an answer though. I don't think that was a wise thing to disclose in front of them. Not Schlock's fault really - just makes clear why the person running the meeting, THURL. shouldn't have given the Pa'anuri unrestricted access to hear the baryonic side's internal discussions.

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Mad_Aeric•

I don't think mega Pa'anuri is really something they could pull off. Schlock is the undisputed galactic champion of biomemetic warfare, he's accustomed to confronting new and unknown chemistries, and conquering them. And he was on familiar psychological ground, eating his enemies. It's a complete out of context problem for them, they don't eat, and they don't think about eating. They also seem to have a strong sense of self, so a merger would not be a voluntary process.

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PreciousRoi•

Unless I miss my guess, Shlock has already eaten and digested the energy or non-baryonic mass of many, many Pa'anuri (the forms being ejected from the pseudopod in the first panel are the sentient remains) and also has advantages (his ability to digest) over them...they might not be able to do it as efficiently or effectively as Schlock...

I think the reason they can't talk to any outside Pa'anuri is that they're all there, or being currently deliverred by Schlock and possibly Ennesthulu who appears to be something lowkey with a Pa'anuri cable with his tentacles.

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Surface_plate•

We know that the Pa'anuri at this "armistice meeting" can at least try to call home even if they are not getting answers. "We can eat each other to combine into a mega Pa'anuri to fight this thing" is the kind of call that might get an answer though. I don't think that was a wise thing to disclose in front of them. Not Schlock's fault really - just makes clear why the person running the meeting, THURL. shouldn't have given the Pa'anuri unrestricted access to hear the baryonic side's internal discussions.

I like to think / hope the reason they aren't answering is because they are dead.

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ErebusVonMori•

Petey is sooooo done with this

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JWTJacknife•

Hey, Petey may be cute and cuddly, but he's also something of a control freak, and he's not currently in control of this situation.

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arivero•

Pa'anuri are a paranoid species, and now they know that they can eat other Pa'anuri.

This information is a game changer by itself

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rwstyles•

This must be the Umbral Schlock. He's fast, or more time passed than we realized. Has he cleaned out all of the other areas?.

When do various ships start trying to figure out how to steal crushed Pa'anuri ships?

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Zemyla•

"People not realizing they can be food" is what gets Schlock's enemies all the time. That, and the fact that he's faster than he looks.

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