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Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)

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Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	comment	Drive is a scifi webcomic by Dave Kellett, author of Sheldon. It takes place a few hundred years in the future, in which humanity has discovered FTL space travel in the form of the Ring Drive, and has a large intergalactic empire, ruled from Madrid, on Earth. They are at war with mysterious aliens, called the Continuum of Makers, who invented the Ring Drive humans "discovered".The story mainly follows an amnesiac lizard creature, using the name "Skitter", with an impossible talent for piloting ring ships, which even the Continuum can't match. But we're also shown some of the politics of La Familia, who closely guard the secrets of the Ring Drive in order to keep in power, and the history of a certain individual of the Continuum, which for lack of a name will be referred to as the "Rogue Maker".The comic also routinely brings in guest artists to write and draw collections focused on a mini-story of dubious canonicity. Some are clearly acanonical (such as the weird time/space thing by Zach Weiner) while others could be canonical (such as the story of how the Veetan's beat the Tesskans forever).
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Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_109b036e	type	Abusive Precursors
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_109b036e	comment	Abusive Precursors: Most species, like the Veetans, remember the ancient Sill as warlike conquerors who subjugated their ancestors in ancient times.
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Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_111f375d	type	HeavyWorlder
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_111f375d	comment	Heavy Worlder: Veetans come from a planet with 1.19 Gs, which makes them ridiculously strong and durable, as demonstrated when Nosh shrugs off steel I-beams falling on his head and beats the crap out of a dozen Tesskans. Unfortunately they also suffer from chronic hip and joint problems and live just a quarter-century at most.
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Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_11519098	type	Stop, or I Shoot Myself!
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_11519098	comment	Stop, or I Shoot Myself!: Suffering a Curb-Stomp Battle at the hands of the Vinn, the Grasskans destroy every world that the Vinn conquer to prevent them from getting anything out of it, in the hopes that this will persuade them that any victory will be a Pyrrhic Victory. While the Vinn do find it mildly disturbing, absolutely nothing will stop them from infecting the galaxy, or at least settling for their corpses.
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Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_115b9907	comment	Starfish Language: The Fillipod language is an extremely complicated, musical tongue that most other species canâ€™t physically speak, since their mouths canâ€™t make the "wild undulations" that the Fillipod language relies on. The Nyx language is even worse. It appears to use future tenses that incorporate quantum uncertainty, meaning that normally binary states like on/off and alive/dead are understood as existing on gradients of possibility. Further, the exact meaning of a statement can change seemingly arbitrarily between sentences or even as it is being spoken. Finally, though their language is constantly changing, the Nyx understand everything they say as being the only thing that could possibly have been true at that moment — and if you ask the same question a moment later, theyâ€™ll give a completely different answer that theyâ€™ll see as self-evidently the only thing that could have been spoken in that moment. The Nyx find navigating this language as easy as breathing, but other species find it literally impossible to understand it. Even when they speak other languages, they have a strange way to use tenses, often using the future perfect tense at all times, that makes them difficult to understand. The Fillipods can speak it just fine. The language of the Continuum is incredibly information-dense, so much so that it regularly stymies translation attempts.
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Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_1161fb48	type	Bizarre Alien Biology
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_1161fb48	comment	Bizarre Alien Biology: The Continuum reproduce asexually, are born from silica-based cocoons with basic knowledge and motor skills after a 2-day term, and they feel nothing unusual. Skitter's mohawk can detect gravity waves, allowing him to maneuver around obstacles nobody else would notice until too late. Fillipods look kind of like caterpillars, and their legs/feet/stalks have an incredible grip via Van der Waals forces. They have a stinger on their head which injects its target with a sedative, which works even on the Fillipod it came from. Also, they're incredibly "huggable" to the point that pillow companies are trying to make pillows that feel like a Fillipod. The Vinn are actually a number of species infected with a parasite, but this parasite spreads a number of useful genetic traits across each of those species. So most Vinn tend to have "bioelectrogenesis, venomous necrotoxins, chromataphore cells in their skin/hides, sharp vision due to minimal diffraction of incoming light, and shark-like electroreception".
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Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_116a941b	type	Applied Phlebotinum
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_116a941b	comment	Applied Phlebotinum: The Ring Drive. Only the Continuum knows how it really works, and they aren't in the mood to explain. The Fillipods have figured it out as well, but only their most important members know this for fear of retribution by La Familia.
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Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_11dd3268	type	Empire with a Dark Secret
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_11dd3268	comment	Empire with a Dark Secret: Due to their desperation to maintain their monopoly on the Drive human civilization runs on, only the Emperor knows the real reason the Continuum is at war with them. Their founder did not invent the Drive himself, but reverse-engineered it from a crash landed Continuum ship, offending an alien civilization with a religious opposition to intellectual theft. To make matters worse, the empire has had several options to alter their drive technology in a way that would stop offending the Continuum, but have chosen not to take any of them because that would require admitting their secrets. The Continuum itself is built on a dark secret, of which no living member besides the Continuum's guardian is aware until Ahmis also learns the truth. Their founder claimed to be the first of their race, that the Drive was the first invention they ever conceived, and that Circle's End is their homeworld. But Ahmis discovers that the accidental birthplace of the Vinn is their true homeworld, and that their founder was not the first of their species, but most likely the last survivor of their previous civilization. The guardian comes to agree that while exposing the truth will pretty much break the very foundation of the Continuum, not doing so will cause its people to end entirely.
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Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_154aa477	type	Big, Screwed-Up Family
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_154aa477	comment	Big, Screwed-Up Family: La Familia won their way into royalty through their monopoly over the Drive. Naturally, this has lead to underhanded power struggles.
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Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: When the crew is investigating a distress signal on an alien planet, Orla and Taneel have their suspicions about what kind of story they just wandered into...
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Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_178ca149	type	The Worf Effect
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_178ca149	comment	The Worf Effect: The Grasskans are said to be an old starfaring empire, and one strong enough to fight even the Continuum to a stalemate. As soon as the Vinn are given FTL travel, they completely Curb Stomp the Grasskans and wipe them out.
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Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_1c0d4155	type	Necessary Drawback
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_1c0d4155	comment	Necessary Drawback: The Famillia-owned ship building firm IndustriaGlobo has to hire non-Familia employees, since 1) once a Member is out of the Drive Corps, they get to be a government official, and 2) there's only +/- 1200 Familia members. This leaves them vulnerable to industrial espionage. The Empire gently chastises them over shenanigans that would see anyone else expelled from the Empire. Note that in this context "gently chastise" means "only bomb your shipyard and headquarters to atoms instead of shut you down completely."
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Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: Literally. The language of the Continuum is so complex and nuanced, traditional translator devices can't decipher the whole thing. This leads a Tesskan to decapitate a Maker out of frustration.
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Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_1c7555f1	type	The Virus
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_1c7555f1	comment	The Virus: The Vinn aren't actually a single species; they're at least 14 species all infected with the Vinn parasite. The parasite bonds to the nervous system and restructures the brain, resulting in an entirely new, unique mind. Most, possibly all Vinn are trying to spread across the galaxy in an attempt to find their "gods", who developed the parasite as a misguided cure for an unknown affliction, although it's described as a "Cancerous malady". It's implied this is an empty quest since their creators' homeworld was nuked into oblivion in a desperate attempt to wipe out the parasite — possibly by the few surviving creators themselves. Unfortunately, the parasite was already able to spread on its own.
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Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_1edfa2c7	type	Royals Who Actually Do Something
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_1edfa2c7	comment	Royals Who Actually Do Something: The Drive is serviced and run exclusively by members of La Familia, though they also take great pains to keep it that way; see Disproportionate Retribution above. Of course, this means La Familia is in fact very large to be able to maintain a multi-species interstellar empire's worth of ships - so large that only a small core has a realistic chance of being anywhere close to the throne, though the rest do still get perks to go with their responsibilities.
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Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_1ee0948e	type	Artificial Human
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_1ee0948e	comment	Artificial Human: The great sin the Rogue Maker committed was to build an android with a full AI, creating a "Spirit that was also a Maker." The Collegium was not happy about it, I tell you what. Said android is still active in the present day.
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Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_20e20e99	type	Not the Intended Use
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_20e20e99	comment	Not the Intended Use: The Ring Drive can be used as a Doomsday Device by pinching the space occupied by a planet to cause an Earth-Shattering Kaboom. The guest story arc That Time the Veetans Defeated the Tesskans Forever shows that the Ring can be used to put things Just One Second Out of Sync, making them invisible and invulnerable, but unable to take any action, and use it to cloak Tesskil and convince everyone they had erased it from the timeline. Activating a ring engine while inside another ring engine results in an absolutely catastrophic explosion, big enough to wipe out entire space fleets. Cuddow decides to weaponize this, and begins designing a missile with twin ring engines instead of a warhead.
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Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: The Empire's English-Spanish Hybrid is usually written as plain English, but it occasionally gets peppered with Spanish words.
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Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_2a3006e5	type	State Sec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_2a3006e5	comment	State Sec: The Jinyiwei. They've also got more conventional Secret Police.
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Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_2af7961	type	Faster-Than-Light Travel
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_2af7961	comment	Faster-Than-Light Travel: A mix of the first and second varieties. The first Emperor, Conrado I, hypothesized it worked by pinching space together to hop across the top, so to speak. But in practice you still have to worry about running into stuff along the way, suggesting the Drive makes constant little jumps to achieve a warp drive-like effect. "Near-light" drives are known to exist as well, as the Fillipods devised one for the Tesskans from captured Armada sublight drives. The Grasskans have their own FTL drive, but it's apparently much slower and less reliable than Ring/Singularity Drive.
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Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_2cd22076	type	Fantastic Drug
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_2cd22076	comment	Fantastic Drug: Telepathy can be used to reach a state the Sill religiously refer to as the "Great Quiet". It produces an absolute ecstasy that makes the "noisy" material world difficult to pay any attention to, which has resulted in their race dwindling towards extinction since they barely maintain their bodies or produce offspring. The few remaining monks only keep themselves alive at all to offer this path to others.
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Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_305bcbb9	type	Space Pirates
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_305bcbb9	comment	The Tres Primos are a trio of Famillia Space Pirates who rob the Empire and give the profits to the citizenry.
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Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_3130e2c6	type	Uplifted Animal
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_3130e2c6	comment	Uplifted Animal: Fekk Dragons are usually barely intelligent enough to learn only a handful of words, and if one of those is "Food" it's all they'll ever say. But the one in the arena on Slaughter is also a Vinn, and is intelligent enough to speak fluently, and recognize Orla and deliberately intimidate her.
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Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_31c5e7fb	type	Starfish Aliens
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_31c5e7fb	comment	Starfish Aliens: There aren't any Human Aliens in this universe. All of the aliens we've seen are still creatures that we can relate to. But most of the aliens humanity has encountered are very different, including things like intelligent trees that communicate through fungi and oceanic creatures that built their industries on water pressure tools. But because they are so different, humanity doesn't have much interaction with them.
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Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_34dd5f3	type	La RÃ©sistance
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_34dd5f3	comment	La RÃ©sistance: At the time of the story, the outer colonies of El Imperio are engaged in a full fledged revolution. At first, the military and Secret Police attempt to put it down, but when the war against the Continuum and the Vinn grows very desperate, the Emperor is forced to prioritize and shift his resources towards bigger threats.
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Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_359e8b6b	type	YouWillBeAssimilated
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_359e8b6b	comment	You Will Be Assimilated: The Vinn are like what you'd get if you crossed the Zerg with the Covenant: a religion of parasite-infested Super Soldiers who constantly evolve and have "Spread our Beneficial Disease" as a form of evangelism.
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Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_36c64123	type	Gentle Giant
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_36c64123	comment	Gentle Giant: Nosh, and apparently most Veetans. It's one of their hats, according to their entry in the Enciclopedia XenobiologÃa.
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Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_37fce466	type	Teleport Interdiction
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_37fce466	comment	Teleport Interdiction: The Gannath have a technology unique to them that can generate a gravity wave that wrecks the drive.
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Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: Standard procedure for all imperial ring ships returning to Earth is that nobody but the captain may steer the ship in to dock, and Earth's coordinates are to be top secret, and never recorded anywhere. This is because before this policy was implemented, the Tesskans captured a ship, and the Fillipods were able to recover Earth's coordinates from it. If not for the Fillipods keeping the secret of the ring drive to themselves, the Tesskans would have won the resulting war.
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Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_3af6c649	type	Beneficial Disease
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_3af6c649	comment	Beneficial Disease: The Vinn parasite causes all sorts of neato superpowers to develop within its host: cytotoxic venom, a sixth sense, chromatophores, "Bioelectrogenesis" read: the ability to throw thunderbolts from the palm of one's hands, etc. The only drawbacks? The infested lose all memory, becoming an entirely different person. They also lose the ability to reproduce.
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Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Nosh has had a....colorful past, by his talk. While we're eventually told what he did while stuck in Russia, he's continually making references to things he's done that aren't exactly what normal people would do. For example, when he comments on the utility of having a xenobiologist on the crew:
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Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: The Fillipods are rather poetry obsessed, and tend to try and break out in overly long poetry if not forced to work on more important things, like dealing with invasions. When their Tesskan masters are mostly killed, and their human masters forced to shift away all forces and oversight, they choose to take advantage of this precious strategic time of autonomy... by hosting a slam poetry contest.
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Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_3d449d71	type	Ban on A.I.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_3d449d71	comment	Ban on A.I.: One of the Continuum's oldest and strictest laws. Ahmis, one of the most brilliant makers the Continuum had ever seen, was sentenced to death for building one and became The Heretic. Ultimately justified, as several human-designed AI's (or "Fishes", from artiFISHal intelligence) seemed to be benevolent and reasonable... until they randomly started killing people for no reason intelligible to their creators. A.I.s are inherently evil in this setting due to their intrinsic need to calculate out the most destructive possible future and then see it out. Ahmis's AI is no exception, and is responsible for unleashing the Vinn to end all life in the galaxy.
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Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_3d449d71	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_3d449d71
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_3d699462	comment	The Grasskans offer the Continuum an alliance against the Vinn, but the Continuum refuses due to carrying a grudge against them for stealing their technology. They get to have the pleasure of watching nearly all of them die, only for the Vinn to begin a Curb-Stomp Battle against the Continuum too.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_3d699462	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_3d699462	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_3d699462
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_40cbee83	type	Wretched Hive
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_40cbee83	comment	Wretched Hive: Planet Slaughter.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_40cbee83	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_40cbee83	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_40cbee83
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_420c50b7	type	A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_420c50b7	comment	A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Attempts to develop strong AI have almost always gone badly, and they are pretty much inherently predisposed towards evil, which is why the humans and the Continuum both have a very strict Ban on A.I.. The Machito's first encounter with an AI is a loyal servant... of a totalitarian nightmare staffed by giant spiders that eat sapient beings alive. So far, all signs point to the artificial intelligences of the Gannath being completely loyal purely because the Gannath are that evil.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_420c50b7	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_420c50b7	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_420c50b7
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_4832a3bb	type	Always Chaotic Evil
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_4832a3bb	comment	Always Chaotic Evil: The Tesskans seem to be this at first, as they're a conqueror race that always leans into violence as their first and favored method of conflict resolution. May instead be a case of When All You Have Is a Hammerâ€¦ - Tesskans have a hard time focusing on anything and are used to that method just working. In a questionably-canonical side comic, a Tesskan who has been given a hat that rewires his brain to allow him to focus for an extended period of time is shown to be more than willing to steer away from his violent urges - even averting a heist at the Library of Congress by just... properly signing his crew up for library cards. The Gannath are an unfortunate case of Always Lawful Evil, as they have a curse genetically programmed into them; every time their tyrannical 'Center' dies, they are forced by instinct to ritually murder and cannibalize each other until they create another one, and then they become mindlessly loyal to the new Center, especially as the Center grows increasingly paranoid and narcissistic.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_4832a3bb	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_4832a3bb	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_4832a3bb
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_4852f325	type	I Just Want to Be Normal
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_4852f325	comment	I Just Want to Be Normal: Tradition and superstition dictate that Prahsitt greenborn live exciting and adventurous lives. In a guest comic, one such greenborn is satisfied and happy living life as a farmer, and disappointed that his parents expect him to travel the stars instead.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_4852f325	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_4852f325	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_4852f325
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_4c30f8f0	type	Twitchy Eye
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_4c30f8f0	comment	Twitchy Eye: Nosh, upon learning the crew's next destination is Tesskil. More so when he finds they're being pursued by a Continuum Dreadnought ship.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_4c30f8f0	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_4c30f8f0	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_4c30f8f0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_4c4d0ee1	type	Alcubierre Drive
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_4c4d0ee1	comment	Alcubierre Drive: The Ring "pinches" space, allowing ships to go FTL. Well, not so much "pinch" as "Generate a Singularity close enough to the front of the ship to start dragging us in, but far enough away that we're not instantly spaghettified. Also, keep it at that magic distance until we turn it off or get shot down".
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_4c4d0ee1	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_4c4d0ee1	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_4c4d0ee1
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Also: "...we already know how your Drive works." The Tres Primos calling Fernando "pequeÃ±o rey." Or, in English, "little king."
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_4e7c4536	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_4e7c4536	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_4e7c4536
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_4fafed32	type	Higher-Tech Species
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_4fafed32	comment	Higher-Tech Species: The Continuum is one of the most advanced civilizations in the galaxy to still exist, but not by an overwhelming margin.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_4fafed32	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_4fafed32	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_4fafed32
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: How La Familia deals with anyone who tries to steal the secret of the Ring Drive, because that would put their supreme power in danger. In a guest comic, a stranded captain is forced to activate the Ring Drive's alarms, not even to steal the secret, but due to that being the only means he had to signal the Empire. Indifferent to his plight, they arrest him for prison and possible execution. Sett sentences Orla to Trial by Combat for interfering with one of his 800 disappointing kids' mafia initiation.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_50b05d30	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_50b05d30	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_50b05d30
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_53dc1e7	type	Throw-Away Country
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_53dc1e7	comment	Throw-Away Country: The Grasskan Empire is barely even mentioned before the Vinn invasion, and once they realize they've lost that war they destroy their own stars. Ultimately subverted. The Grasskans are rebuilding from the ground up, after forcing La Imperia to give them a world in exchange for not sharing how THEIR FTL drive works with the Imperial vassal states.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_53dc1e7	featureApplicability	-0.3
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_53dc1e7	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_53dc1e7
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_53e1f74c	type	Asteroid Thicket
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_53e1f74c	comment	Asteroid Thicket: Skitter loses a Continuum ship in one. Subverted in that it's not your typical Space Is an Ocean Asteroid Thicket — they could easily avoid it, if they wanted to, and it's only dangerous because they're crossing it at FTL velocities.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_53e1f74c	featureApplicability	-0.3
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_53e1f74c	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_53e1f74c
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_556a4e20	type	The Empire
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_556a4e20	comment	The Empire, The Federation: It's technically an Empire, but it shares parts of both of these tropes. For example, they formed an alliance with the Veetans, which is a trait of The Federation. But anyone with blood ties to the royal family (La Familia) gets extra privileges, everywhere, which seems to fit The Empire trope more.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_556a4e20	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_556a4e20	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_556a4e20
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_558f5da6	comment	Cryptic Conversation: The leader of the Secret Police uses a conversation about a session of a tabletop roleplaying game to indirectly warn the Royal Astronomer that the Secret Police already knew about the plans he was trying to hide from them all along.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_558f5da6	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_558f5da6	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_558f5da6
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_55b1f9a1	type	Easy Amnesia
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_55b1f9a1	comment	Easy Amnesia: Skitter woke up on a prison planet with no recollection of who he was or how he got there, and was informed he took a nasty hit trying to protect Nosh. Lampshaded.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_55b1f9a1	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_55b1f9a1	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_55b1f9a1
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_57dda60c	type	The Emperor
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_57dda60c	comment	The Emperor: The current Emperor killed his uncle for the position, and framed Nosh. Meanwhile, Fernando may be the ACTUAL heir to the throne...
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_57dda60c	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_57dda60c	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_57dda60c
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_58626d87	type	Genius Ditz
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_58626d87	comment	Genius Ditz: Nosh is the science officer of the crew, interested in all types of science, but lacks common sense.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_58626d87	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_58626d87	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_58626d87
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: Offered, but ultimately rejected. The Grasskans stole several spirits (the Makers' term for original technology) from the Continuum and fought bitter wars with them over it. But when the Grasskans get Curb Stomped by the Vinn, they try begging for an Enemy Mine with the Continuum to work against the greater threat to the both of them. While new Maker Prime feels that the Vinn threat is big enough to at least consider it and respects the Grasskans as a Worthy Opponent, the rest of the Colegium prefers Revenge Before Reason and overrules him. Due to being insular and still carrying a grudge, they decide that they would rather take their chances and watch them die. The Emperor considers one with the Grasskans due to them both being enemies with the Continuum over stolen technology and the Grasskans actually being strong enough to fight the Continuum to a stalemate. The Grasskans get crushed by the Vinn before they can even negotiate, but he is still able to take in a few refugees.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_5989e3b6	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_5989e3b6	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_5989e3b6
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_5b6e57e	type	Required Secondary Powers
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_5b6e57e	comment	Required Secondary Powers: The Empire and Continuum have FTL, but not Deflector Shields. This means they are vulnerable to micrometeoroid impacts that can destroy the ship (At FTL speeds, kilotons upon kilotons of damage, although Continuum ships are built out of sterner stuff than La Famillia ships). Skitter's people can sense gravity waves through the Mohawk-like comb on their skulls, which lets them pull off Deadly Dodging. The Empire now wants to recruit them as navigators.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_5b6e57e	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_5b6e57e	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_5b6e57e
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_5fb6411f	type	We Are as Mayflies
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_5fb6411f	comment	We Are as Mayflies: Continuum Makers can live for several centuries but most other species have lifespans comparative to humans. Inverted with Veetans who only live 25 years. The Rhinn, Skitter's species, are also implied to have multi-centennial lifespans given they're only allowed to leave their homeworld in the last 10% of their life and that lasts at least 60 years.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_5fb6411f	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_5fb6411f	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_5fb6411f
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_5fcedca	comment	Veetans are fond of accumulating knowledge, love to eat and they are are committed to non-violence unless they are pushed too far.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_5fcedca	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_5fcedca	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_5fcedca
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_60492b98	type	Have You Told Anyone Else?
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_60492b98	comment	Have You Told Anyone Else?: When the previous leader of the Jinyiwei commits suicide, her successor becomes a Mole in Charge. She uses an excuse to let one of her co-conspirators hack into the Jinyiwei network. When another member of the Jinyiwei figures it out and reports it to her, she double checks whether said member shared it with anyone else before killing him for knowing too much.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_60492b98	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_60492b98	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_60492b98
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_608b26d	type	Uniqueness Decay
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_608b26d	comment	Uniqueness Decay: A big plot point is that the Fillipods figured out how to make Ring Drives of their own, and a guest strip tells us the Veetans captured a derelict ringship and retooled it into a Cloaking Device.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_608b26d	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_608b26d	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_608b26d
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_6134738	type	Find the Cure!
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_6134738	comment	Find the Cure!: When Nosh gets Vinnified, Orla reveals herself to be a Jynniwei operative. They have a cure to the Vinn parasite that doesn't involve blasting the host with a Death Ray and hoping they can handle the neural shock of their symbiote dying.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_6134738	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_6134738	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_6134738
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_6159d6a8	type	PlanetKiller
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_6159d6a8	comment	Planet Killer: Every single Drive-equipped ship can cause seismic events on a planet by pinching too close to it, see the Misapplied Phlebotinum entry above. When a ship is big enough, well...
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_6159d6a8	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_6159d6a8	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_6159d6a8
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_61c0e60d	type	Star Killing
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_61c0e60d	comment	Star Killing: The Grasskans use a Precursor device to kill all the stars in their empire. The device kills them not by blowing them up, but by somehow preventing the stars from continuing to burn via nuclear fusion.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_61c0e60d	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_61c0e60d	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_61c0e60d
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_61ff365d	type	Deflector Shields
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_61ff365d	comment	Deflector Shields: Mentioned, but averted. Armada ships, at least, only have a sort of energy field which vaporizes small debris. Not nearly enough to be called a Deflector Shield. The Vinn manage to shield their ships from Daisy Cutter particle beams, much to the dismay of the Jynniwei.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_61ff365d	featureApplicability	-1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_61ff365d	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_61ff365d
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_620365fc	type	Submersible Spaceship
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_620365fc	comment	Submersible Spaceship: Until a devastating pandemic drove the few survivors to take shelter on dry land, the civilization of the amphibious Qen was mostly underwater. Including all their facilities for building and maintaining starships, as well as a significant chunk of their actual fleet. Much of it is still sitting perfectly intact on the ocean floor thanks to being designed with underwater operation in mind from the start, suddenly turning a species El Imperio considered to be annoying but ultimately inconsequential primitives into potentially another galactic power.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_620365fc	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_620365fc	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_620365fc
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_6282a6d6	type	Abusive Alien Parents
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_6282a6d6	comment	Abusive Alien Parents: r-selecting species with lethal rites of passage seem common. The Continuum reproduce asexually and rapidly if they want to, treat their progeny as cannon fodder with nothing but a number to identify them, form no emotional attachments to them whatsoever and emotionlessly dispose of them as punishment for transgressions. One in thousands survives the heat of battle and becomes a Maker. Tesskans abandon their offspring to the wild, eventually allowing the survivors to rejoin the pack when they gang up on and kill the pack's oldest member. The Astina have hundreds of pups and then require them to prove their worth to their family. When Orla catches a pup stealing, his father kills him with his bare hands for getting caught.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_6282a6d6	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_6282a6d6	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_6282a6d6
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_63557923	type	Death World
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_63557923	comment	Death World: Skitter's race, the Rhinn, come from a world with predators so dangerous that their ability to detect gravity waves is the only thing keeping them alive. Making matters worse, the Rhinn are small, and despite having some contact with the wider galaxy, the Rhinn themselves are primitives. In short order, the crew witnesses a gargantuan tree crab get eaten by a skyshroud, and the skyshroud get eaten by a boa bird. While that much could be dealt with by their weapons or Nosh's raw strength, they then witness the boa bird get eaten by a swarm of fang flies.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_63557923	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_63557923	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_63557923
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_66cce83e	type	Colour-Coded Emotions
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_66cce83e	comment	Colour-Coded Emotions: The Colegium's trialroom has a special paint that reacts to the pheremones of those inside, changing color in accordance with their mood.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_66cce83e	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_66cce83e	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_66cce83e
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_67f26dcc	type	Planet of Hats
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_67f26dcc	comment	Planet of Hats: every non-human species has a handful of traits that seems to apply to most members of that species: Veetans are fond of accumulating knowledge, love to eat and they are are committed to non-violence unless they are pushed too far. Tesskans are dumb, violent brutes. Fillipods are intelligent, kind lovers of art and poetry who are nearly hopeless when it comes to self-preservation. They also have a gift for technology that may be only second to the Continuum. The Prashitt are mostly farmers and tend to be highly superstitious. The Grasskans are a fiercely matriarchial race of two-meter tall warriors.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_67f26dcc	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_67f26dcc	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_67f26dcc
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut:
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_680f950	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_680f950	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_680f950
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_69b31908	type	Disturbing Statistic
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_69b31908	comment	Disturbing Statistic:
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_69b31908	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_69b31908	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_69b31908
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: Orla's actually a Jinyiwei spy, Fernando is the true heir to the throne of the Emperor, The Fillipods know how the Drive works, The Vinn were probably created by the Makers... lotta secrets going around out here.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_6b2b3b59	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_6b2b3b59	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_6b2b3b59
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_6cc39b20	type	Puppeteer Parasite
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_6cc39b20	comment	Puppeteer Parasite: The Vinn The guest comic Cute Things is a horror-film parody involving the crew getting infested by a race of teddy-bear looking aliens, that forces their hosts to climb to the tops of trees and get eaten by Space Whales.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_6cc39b20	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_6cc39b20	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_6cc39b20
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_6d332aea	comment	The reveal of why Skitter can't remember his past. He had his memories voluntarily locked away so the trauma he'd gone through wouldn't kill him.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_6d332aea	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_6d332aea	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_6d332aea
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_7012424f	type	Stealth Hi/Bye
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_7012424f	comment	Stealth Hi/Bye: The Tres Primos do this to Fernando while he is alone on the Machito.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_7012424f	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_7012424f	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_7012424f
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_703b3699	type	Came Back Strong
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_703b3699	comment	Came Back Strong: Nosh gets cured of his Vinn infestation, but he gets to keep the handy mutations it imparts. As director Steven says, they could make him back into a normal Veetan, but everything works better now so they won't.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_703b3699	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_703b3699	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_703b3699
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_72856b70	type	Godzilla Threshold
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_72856b70	comment	Godzilla Threshold: The reason the leader of the Secret Police gives the Fillipods for not tattling on them to La Familia that they know how the drive works despite that being her main job? The Empire is about to face some very serious threats that might very well kill them all. May as well loosen the secret so they can get squeeze every advantage they can get out of it.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_72856b70	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_72856b70	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_72856b70
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_7c46c734	type	Common Tongue
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_7c46c734	comment	Common Tongue: A trade language named Standard Imperial English-Spanish Hybrid, or "Hybrid", has been mentioned.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_7c46c734	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_7c46c734	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_7c46c734
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_7c7589af	type	Earth-Shattering Kaboom
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_7c7589af	comment	Earth-Shattering Kaboom: The Makers crack off a chunk of Tesskil using the Drive's space-folding. Many of the filipods survive thanks to their evolutionary history, while the tesskans are nearly driven to extinction.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_7c7589af	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_7c7589af	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_7c7589af
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_801c7e4a	type	Quest for Identity
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_801c7e4a	comment	Quest for Identity: Skitter. Fortunately, he's been roped into a hunt for his own home planet.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_801c7e4a	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_801c7e4a	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_801c7e4a
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_8183248	type	Never Mess with Granny
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_8183248	comment	Never Mess with Granny: Captain Taneel of the Machito. But don't call her "Granny".
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_8183248	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_8183248	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_8183248
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_83441d66	type	AIs
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_83441d66	comment	Ultimately justified, as several human-designed AI's (or "Fishes", from artiFISHal intelligence) seemed to be benevolent and reasonable... until they randomly started killing people for no reason intelligible to their creators. A.I.s are inherently evil in this setting due to their intrinsic need to calculate out the most destructive possible future and then see it out. Ahmis's AI is no exception, and is responsible for unleashing the Vinn to end all life in the galaxy.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_83441d66	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_83441d66	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_83441d66
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_854b029a	type	Encyclopedia Exposita
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_854b029a	comment	Encyclopedia Exposita: The Enciclopedia XenobiologÃa, used to provide info-dumps on newly introduced races and institutions. Given it's written from the human perspective in the late 2300s (and the comic takes place largely in 2401 with flashbacks), it is occasionally wrong or at least lacking.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_854b029a	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_854b029a	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_854b029a
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_8829dfa0	type	What the Hell Is That Accent?
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_8829dfa0	comment	What the Hell Is That Accent?: Nosh spent 6 years stuck in Moscow when he ran out of cab fare, and so speaks with a ridiculous Russian accent.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_8829dfa0	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_8829dfa0	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_8829dfa0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_8a27f768	type	Space Whale
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_8a27f768	comment	The guest comic Cute Things is a horror-film parody involving the crew getting infested by a race of teddy-bear looking aliens, that forces their hosts to climb to the tops of trees and get eaten by Space Whales.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_8a27f768	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_8a27f768	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_8a27f768
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_8a4988bb	type	Mind Rape
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_8a4988bb	comment	Mind Rape: The Rhinn can use Telepathy to forcibly dig up memories, but it's a violation for everyone involved, resulting in reflexive resistance and mass screaming. Even the first willing case results in screaming.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_8a4988bb	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_8a4988bb	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_8a4988bb
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_8c1ad82f	type	Proud Warrior Race Guy
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_8c1ad82f	comment	Proud Warrior Race Guy: The hat of the Tesskans.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_8c1ad82f	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_8c1ad82f	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_8c1ad82f
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_8cfa86d7	type	Just One Second Out of Sync
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_8cfa86d7	comment	The guest story arc That Time the Veetans Defeated the Tesskans Forever shows that the Ring can be used to put things Just One Second Out of Sync, making them invisible and invulnerable, but unable to take any action, and use it to cloak Tesskil and convince everyone they had erased it from the timeline.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_8cfa86d7	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_8cfa86d7	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_8cfa86d7
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: Every now and again, a page will reveal something shocking, even if the consequences of the revelations aren't apparent at the time. The strips detailing the "Rogue Maker's" actions turn out to lead up to the events of the very first strips. The "Tres Primos" came out of retirement recently. Their pilot happens to be the same species as Skitter. Not to mention they strongly hint that Fernando is the previous Emperor's true heir. "PequeÃ±o rey," indeed. Nosh is now a Vinn. "We've lost him. He's gone." When Ahmis finds out that humans reverse engineered the ring drive from his people. He is not pleased. The reveal of why Skitter can't remember his past. He had his memories voluntarily locked away so the trauma he'd gone through wouldn't kill him.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_8e20979	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_8e20979	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_8e20979
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_92286f7f	type	Precursors
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_92286f7f	comment	Precursors: The Sill were the most advanced race the galaxy has ever known and the only one to ever reach a type 2 Kardashev civilization; they ruled a significant swath of the galaxy, and through their trading and wars left profound influences on almost every sapient species they encountered. When they discovered Telepathy and modified themselves to be able to use it, one of them discovered that it can be used as a religious Fantastic Drug and their entire civilization got addicted. Now all that's left of them are some impressive ruins and some slowly dying monks.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_92286f7f	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_92286f7f	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_92286f7f
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_97d97c28	type	Revenge Before Reason
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_97d97c28	comment	Revenge Before Reason: The Grasskans offer the Continuum an alliance against the Vinn, but the Continuum refuses due to carrying a grudge against them for stealing their technology. They get to have the pleasure of watching nearly all of them die, only for the Vinn to begin a Curb-Stomp Battle against the Continuum too. Likewise, when facing the most brilliant maker of all time, the Continuum sentence him to the most painful death that they can for previous heresy rather than compromise with him to use his talents against the threat on the verge of destroying their civilization.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_97d97c28	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_97d97c28	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_97d97c28
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_9ad6a037	type	Mark of the Beast
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_9ad6a037	comment	Mark of the Beast: Vinn all have black squares around their eyes. It goes away when the parasite dies.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_9ad6a037	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_9ad6a037	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_9ad6a037
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_9c1d1e31	type	Black Box
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_9c1d1e31	comment	Black Box: The first emperor was able to reverse engineer the ring engine, and duplicate it, but he had no idea how it worked. His best guess was that it somehow "pinches" space. It's likened to trying to flick a penny over a heavily clothed table, which could take hours. But if the cloth is pinched in the center, it only takes a fraction of the time. According to the renegade Maker, it was invented by the founder of the Continuum and pinches space by manipulating dark matter to generate a singularity.
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Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_9c1d1e31	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_9c1d1e31
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_a1a38c5d	type	Divine Right of Kings
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_a1a38c5d	comment	Divine Right of Kings: La Familia's self justification for seizing power. They like to preach to young Familia members that before they took over, humanity existed in a dark age. If they were to give up their monopoly on the drive, their authority would no longer be unassailable. Without La Familia's rule, humanity would inevitably collapse.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_a1a38c5d	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_a1a38c5d	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_a1a38c5d
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_a3a7c41	type	Black Sheep
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_a3a7c41	comment	Black Sheep: IndustriaGlobo is a MegaCorp that has tried many times to hock the drive schema. The Empire hasn't shut them down permanently, but they have ruined their shipyards and HQ. The main reason they're still in business is because the CEO is a Cousin. The Tres Primos are a trio of Famillia Space Pirates who rob the Empire and give the profits to the citizenry.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_a3a7c41	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_a3a7c41	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_a3a7c41
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash:
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_a4c37cbe	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_a4c37cbe	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_a4c37cbe
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_a651f5a6	type	Good Is Impotent
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_a651f5a6	comment	Fillipods are intelligent, kind lovers of art and poetry who are nearly hopeless when it comes to self-preservation. They also have a gift for technology that may be only second to the Continuum.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_a651f5a6	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_a651f5a6	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_a651f5a6
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_a8af3e53	type	Secret Police
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_a8af3e53	comment	Secret Police: They monitor all your communications for anything La Familia would find of interest. There is also a special branch of them called the Jinyiwei, created to enforce imperial law against dissidents among the royal family itself.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_a8af3e53	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_a8af3e53	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_a8af3e53
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_a969c74a	type	Final Solution
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_a969c74a	comment	Final Solution: The Grasskan homeworld was once hit with nuclear weapons by a race called T'shonn. The Grasskan empress made sure they would never do it again.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_a969c74a	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_a969c74a	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_a969c74a
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_a9de87d2	type	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_a9de87d2	comment	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: More a Genius Ditz than moron, but Nosh fought off a bunch of mooks on his own.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_a9de87d2	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_a9de87d2	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_a9de87d2
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_a9f2e259	type	Mole in Charge
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_a9f2e259	comment	Mole in Charge: The Jinyiwei are meant to be the Emperor's enforcers, to ensure that everyone, even other members of La Familia, does not rebel. However, their iron-clad loyalty to La Familia as a whole does not translate to iron-clad loyalty to the Emperor, as the previous head helped Emperor Cruz in his coup. The next head of the Jinyiwei also turns out to be loyal to a faction other than the current Emperor.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_a9f2e259	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_a9f2e259	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_a9f2e259
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_aa8dcc21	type	MegaCorp
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_aa8dcc21	comment	IndustriaGlobo is a MegaCorp that has tried many times to hock the drive schema. The Empire hasn't shut them down permanently, but they have ruined their shipyards and HQ. The main reason they're still in business is because the CEO is a Cousin.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_aa8dcc21	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_aa8dcc21	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_aa8dcc21
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_abd29ad8	type	No-Sell
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_abd29ad8	comment	No-Sell: The Vinn manage to re-create the containment field on the weapons specifically intended to fight them, and turned it inside-out to protect their ships.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_abd29ad8	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_abd29ad8	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_abd29ad8
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_acbd5c12	type	Perfect Pacifist People
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_acbd5c12	comment	Perfect Pacifist People: Veetans are taught that fighting wastes the life they could spend searching for knowledge. Zigzagged, as when they actually mobilize they are absolutely terrifying warriors, it just takes A LOT to get them to that point. Fillipods take it a step further, as they're completely subservient to their cousins, the Tesskans, who are belligerent enough for both of them.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_acbd5c12	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_acbd5c12	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_acbd5c12
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Skitter's reaction when he learns that the Machito has no shielding and the likelihood of them all dying while crossing an asteroid field is very high.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_ad1db87c	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_ad1db87c	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_ad1db87c
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_ad269113	type	Oh, Wait!
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_ad269113	comment	Oh, Wait!:
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_ad269113	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_ad269113	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_ad269113
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_b0c4bf9b	type	Luxury Prison Suite
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_b0c4bf9b	comment	Luxury Prison Suite: Only high ranking members of the Continuum even get jail as opposed to execution, and as such, Makers that have been charged with a crime are usually made comfortable.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_b0c4bf9b	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_b0c4bf9b	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_b0c4bf9b
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_b578811d	type	Scary Dogmatic Aliens
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_b578811d	comment	Scary Dogmatic Aliens: The Continuum can be friendly under some circumstances, but if you offend their religion by stealing their technology, they will attempt genocide unless and until you give it up.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_b578811d	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_b578811d	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_b578811d
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_b72ae7	type	Omnidisciplinary Scientist
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_b72ae7	comment	Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Nosh. Like most of his people, he has an insatiable desire for knowledge of any sort.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_b72ae7	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_b72ae7	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_b72ae7
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_b7920c43	type	Lost in Translation
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_b7920c43	comment	Lost in Translation: In-Universe, when the crew worries about a "fish", their Grasskan guest becomes confused, because his translator implant doesn't have the context to realize that they are actually using El Imperio slang for Artificial Intelligence as opposed to the aquatic organism.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_b7920c43	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_b7920c43	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_b7920c43
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_bb094e0a	type	Cool Ship
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_bb094e0a	comment	Cool Ship: Machito, after the Emperor has it upgraded. La Invencible, being the Emperor's ship and the most powerful ship in the Imperial fleet. And especially The Spark of Thought, on the Continuum side, the largest warship ever built and capable of cracking a planet like an egg with the backlash of its FTL engines.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_bb094e0a	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_bb094e0a	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_bb094e0a
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Nosh has a history with the Tesskans, enough to turn everyone's favorite muppet-like pacifistic biologist into a spitting-mad unstoppable grappler.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_bc74ef27	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_bc74ef27	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_bc74ef27
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_bcd0b49b	type	UnfortunateName
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_bcd0b49b	comment	Unfortunate Name: Skitter wanted to call himself Steve, but...
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_bcd0b49b	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_bcd0b49b	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_bcd0b49b
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_bd2812b5	type	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_bd2812b5	comment	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Why the last remaining Sill monks are not too fussed about dying out and losing all remaining presence on the physical plane. One of them implies that their minds continue to live on in the Great Quiet.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_bd2812b5	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_bd2812b5	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_bd2812b5
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_bf487e2b	type	Translator Microbes
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_bf487e2b	comment	Translator Microbes: Translator implants are implied to exist but are imperfect, shown by a Tesskan poking at the side of his head when he can't understand a Maker, complaining that the translation "ain't comin' through." Poor Communication Kills quite literally when the Maker refuses to speak another more easily-translated language, which angers the Tesskan.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_bf487e2b	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_bf487e2b	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_bf487e2b
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_c2299d6e	type	Cutting the Knot
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_c2299d6e	comment	Cutting the Knot: The Tesskans, in their city-sized stolen Continuum ship, were attacked by another Continuum ship. The Tesskans still hadn't figured out the weapons systems on their ship, so they just drove right through the attacking ship. The crew of the Machito take their own unique spin on a similar situation when they decide to "test" what happens when a smaller ship engages their ring drive inside a larger ship's drive ring. During a Maker invasion of a human world. The resulting "significant drive event" is so catastrophic is destroys about a third of the Maker fleet while the Machito speeds instantly away.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_c2299d6e	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_c2299d6e	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_c2299d6e
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_c6d11745	type	Telepathy
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_c6d11745	comment	Telepathy: The Sill were able to modify themselves with the ability to hear and speak to the minds of others shortly before their civilization collapsed. A surviving Sill discovers that Skitter's species are also telepathic.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_c6d11745	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_c6d11745	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_c6d11745
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Nosh specifically says that Skitter's Easy Amnesia is "like bad episode of Gilligan's Island".
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_c75df49a	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_c75df49a	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_c75df49a
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_c8e5ead1	type	Impossible Task Instantly Accomplished
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_c8e5ead1	comment	Impossible Task Instantly Accomplished: The Rogue Maker passed the Test of Tests, which was supposed to take nearly a week, in an hour. Largely out of petulance, no less.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_c8e5ead1	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_c8e5ead1	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_c8e5ead1
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: The Grasskans get brought to the verge of extinction at the hands of the Vinn. Since the Continuum refuses to help, they kill all of their stars, deciding that its better for all of them to die then let their families be remade by The Virus.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_caf89e54	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_caf89e54	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_caf89e54
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_ce9f550c	comment	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels: Despite his normal gift with languages, Cuddow's attempt at speaking Maker doesn't turn out too well. For bonus points, he wasn't wearing a hat.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_ce9f550c	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_ce9f550c	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_ce9f550c
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_d080f396	type	The Napoleon
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_d080f396	comment	The Napoleon: The current Emperor Cruz.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_d080f396	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_d080f396	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_d080f396
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_d32d01aa	type	Sterility Plague
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_d32d01aa	comment	Sterility Plague: One of the effects of the Vinn virus, which is in fact driving the Vinn to infect more beings than ever before in a futile attempt to escape their own extinction that will ultimately take everyone else with them.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_d32d01aa	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_d32d01aa	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_d32d01aa
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_d7b34c31	type	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_d7b34c31	comment	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The Rogue Maker. His real name is Ahmis. "Sett" is both a clan and the title of the male head of the clan.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_d7b34c31	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_d7b34c31	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_d7b34c31
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_d88e125e	type	Our Dragons Are Different
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_d88e125e	comment	Our Dragons Are Different: The Fekk Dragon, or "Tranquin", is an enormous creature resembling, well, a dragon. The colloquial term "Fekk Dragon" comes from an In-Universe viral video of a human "fighting" one. It consists of the human completely breaking down and running around the arena screaming "Fekk! Dragon! Fekk! Dragon!".
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_d88e125e	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_d88e125e	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_d88e125e
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_d8fdf777	type	Terminally Dependent Society
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_d8fdf777	comment	Terminally Dependent Society: La Familia had the good fortune to recover and reverse engineer a Faster Than Light drive lost by the Continuum and used this to crown themselves the rulers of humanity. They maintained a very careful monopoly to ensure that all of humanity's colonies would have to obey them or be cut off from humanity. But some of the outer colonies are able to rebel thanks to the help of three renegade Familia members. This dependence on the Drive is also the reason for El Imperio's war with the Continuum, since as far as they can tell, the Continuum wants the human race to give up the stolen technology or be wiped out, and the former would mean the end of their interstellar civilization.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_d8fdf777	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_d8fdf777	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_d8fdf777
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_d99864da	type	When It All Began
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_d99864da	comment	When It All Began: "He has never piloted before. But then, he has only been alive for fourteen hours..." On April, 22nd 2011 this came full circle.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_d99864da	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_d99864da	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_d99864da
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_d9cc408b	type	Gravity Master
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_d9cc408b	comment	Gravity Master: Artificial Gravity is commonplace. The Fillipods use it to carefully return the orbiting chunks of their shattered planet safely to the ground. However, conventional gravity tech proves insufficient for the largest chunk. After careful research, the Fillipods discover that the Drive itself can manipulate gravity far better and is good enough for their needs.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_d9cc408b	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_d9cc408b	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_d9cc408b
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_db6230b7	type	Lightning Bruiser
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_db6230b7	comment	Lightning Bruiser: By every indication, the Tesskans. They're terrifyingly fast and strong, as well as incredibly sturdy. The logistical advantage the drive imparts may as well have not existed when it came to a direct war between the Empire and the Tesskans, as the Tesskans were overpowering in actual battle — demonstrated handily by those captured by the Continuum, who swept the single largest ship in the galaxy before the Makers could manage even a token defense. The only thing that's stood successfully against them is the Empire-backed Mighty Glacier of the Veetans.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_db6230b7	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_db6230b7	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_db6230b7
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_dcdde3b	type	Inherent in the System
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_dcdde3b	comment	Inherent in the System: Over the course of their reign, La Familia has designed a system to ensure their family will always rule, no matter how many Caligulas or Rogue Emperors take office. La Familia's secret police ruthlessly crush insurrections, including those within La Familia. They carefully maintain a tight monopoly on the Drive, ensuring that all regions must obey them or risk getting cut off from the rest of humanity. They even took measures to ensure that reform could never happen from within. Familia members are taught from birth to believe that the current power arrangement is needed to prevent economic collapse; one popular Familia member who attempted it anyway was executed. And all emperors, from the progressively benevolent to the downright tyrannical, must reach a total consensus with literally every other member of La Familia - while they are all in person and in Spain - to enact anything extreme, like declaring war or changing the constitution. The Gannath are a totalitarian dictatorship purely because of their biology; when the Center dies, every successor and potential usurper is forced into a blood frenzy in a trial-by-combat-free-for-all, which keeps happening until about 200-300 Gannath die while exactly one survives. The sole survivor is then instinctually ordered to eat the pineal glands of the corpses, and undergoes a hormone-based metamorphosis that makes them gigantic, hyper-intelligent, violent, and completely narcissistic. This means that their entire race is genetically programmed to create the perfect tyrant every time the latest one dies.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_dcdde3b	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_dcdde3b	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_dcdde3b
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_dd7127d1	type	Benevolent Precursors
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_dd7127d1	comment	Benevolent Precursors: Oddly, while most species remember the ancient empire of the Sill as warlike Abusive Precursors, the Fillipods have a much rosier memory of them. For some reason the Sill never conquered Tesskil, and instead taught the Fillipods art and poetry.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_dd7127d1	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_dd7127d1	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_dd7127d1
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_e0309d03	type	Slave Race
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_e0309d03	comment	Fillipods take it a step further, as they're completely subservient to their cousins, the Tesskans, who are belligerent enough for both of them.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_e0309d03	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_e0309d03	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_e0309d03
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_e0d133d0	type	Insufficiently Advanced Alien
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_e0d133d0	comment	Insufficiently Advanced Alien: While they are certainly not this now, the Continuum's technological development is unusual in that, as far as they know, the Drive was the very first creation their kind invented. Kik finds this odd, since the Drive is a very sophisticated device. As the first of their kind was the last survivor of a now-extinct civilization, this makes more sense.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_e0d133d0	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_e0d133d0	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_e0d133d0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_e268e2	type	The Clan
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_e268e2	comment	The Clan: La Familia, descendants of the first Emperor and the only ones allowed to work on the Drive, there are thousands of them and they rule the Empire in law and in practice. While Slaughter is ruled by the mafiaesque Five Families.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_e268e2	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_e268e2	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_e268e2
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_e70127	type	The Mole
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: Orla O'Malley knows things that only La Familia and their elite forces are allowed to learn, showing the audience that she's a spy for the Emperor. Taneel may be on to her... Orla is not Familia. She's worse: she belongs to the Jinyiwei, the Emperor's Secret Police. When this is revealed, Taneel is neither amused, nor unprepared.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_e70127	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_e70127	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_e70127
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_eece5183	type	Have You Seen My God?
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_eece5183	comment	Have You Seen My God?: The Vinn religion revolves around finding the race that genetically engineered them from the local version of Toxoplasmosis.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_eece5183	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_eece5183	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_eece5183
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_f0926237	type	AllegedCar
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_f0926237	comment	Alleged Car: Machito, before the Emperor upgraded it.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_f0926237	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_f0926237	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_f0926237
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_f3cbaf48	type	Misapplied Phlebotinum
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_f3cbaf48	comment	Misapplied Phlebotinum: Averted viciously. If the space being pinched by a ring drive is occupied by a planet, then that planet will suffer massive tremors. The bigger the ship, the more severe the quakes. This has been taken to the logical conclusion.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_f3cbaf48	featureApplicability	-1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_f3cbaf48	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_f3cbaf48
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_fa8245fb	type	Death Ray
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_fa8245fb	comment	Death Ray: The empire developed a device called the "Neutron Daisy Cutter" specifically to fight the Vinn. It causes a catastrophic breakdown of Vinn parasite cell walls, killing them while leaving the host alive. However, the neural shock tends to kill the host. For this reason, the Vinn call them "Soulkillers".
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_fa8245fb	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_fa8245fb	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_fa8245fb
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_fbba5e98	type	Gadgeteer Genius
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_fbba5e98	comment	Gadgeteer Genius: The Fillipod race in general are very good with technology. The Hat of the Continuum is that they invent things. The Rogue Maker is able to fix a completely ruined hover tractor and build an unspecified farm machine within one night.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_fbba5e98	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_fbba5e98	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_fbba5e98
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_fbd285b7	comment	For bonus points, he wasn't wearing a hat.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_fbd285b7	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_fbd285b7	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_fbd285b7
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Nosh, and Veetans in general. An info page lists the Tesskans flash-bombing a Veetan planet as the critical error in the three year Tesskan/Human war. The resultant mobilisation of the Veetan Defence Force resulted in Tesskil being conquered a week later.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_fccd06b6	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_fccd06b6	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_fccd06b6
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_fd41610f	type	China Takes Over the World
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_fd41610f	comment	China Takes Over the World: Downplayed; Spain took over the world, since one of its colonists reverse-engineered the Ring Drive. Bejing, however, hosts the Imperial Family's private university.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_fd41610f	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_fd41610f	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_fd41610f
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_fea27091	type	Buffy Speak
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_fea27091	comment	Buffy Speak: Lots.
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_fea27091	featureApplicability	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_fea27091	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_fea27091
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Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_name	featureConfidence	1.0
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Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Abusive Alien Parents / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Accidental Discovery / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Alcubierre Drive / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Alien Works / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Aliens of London / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Arc Villain / int_9f4b260c
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Asteroid Thicket / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Beneficial Disease / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Bizarre Alien Biology / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Bizarre Alien Senses / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Black Box / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Cool Starship / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Danger in the Galactic Core / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Death Ray / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Death World / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Deflector Shields / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Empire with a Dark Secret / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Encyclopedia Exposita / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Faster-Than-Light Travel / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Hand Signals / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Have You Seen My God? / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Humans Are Morons / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Imported Alien Phlebotinum / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Impossible Task Instantly Accomplished / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Just One Second Out of Sync / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Kill Sat / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Klingon Scientists Get No Respect / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Mirth to Power / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Never Mess with Granny / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Non-Linear Character / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Not the Intended Use / int_9f4b260c
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Oh, Wait! / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Omnidisciplinary Scientist / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Phlebotinum Analogy / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Planet Destroyer / int_9f4b260c
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Precursors / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Psychic Starship Pilot / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Royals Who Actually Do Something / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Scary Dogmatic Aliens / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Secret Police / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Short-Lived Organism / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Space Orcs / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Spy Speak / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	State Sec / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Submersible Spaceship / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Subspace Ansible / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Teen Genius / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	The Alleged Car / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	The Emperor / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	The Napoleon / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Treetop Town / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Twitchy Eye / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	We Are as Mayflies / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Weaponized Exhaust / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	When It All Began / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	When Things Spin, Science Happens / int_700279ec
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	You Are in Command Now / int_700279ec
DriveDaveKellett	sameAs	Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic)

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