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Outsider (Webcomic)

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Outsider (Webcomic)	comment	Written and drawn by Jim Francis, Outsider relates the adventures of Ensign Second Class Alexander Jardin, sole survivor of ECS-154 Bellarmine, and his interactions with his rescuers as the titular Fish out of Water. Discovering that humanity is uncomfortably close to a genocidal war between the Loroi and Umiak races, the Terran Colonial Authority dispatches a scouting mission to gather better information about both sides. When Bellarmine is destroyed by an unknown vessel in a contested system, Jardin is rescued by a Loroi warship... and promptly finds himself thrown in at the deep end of interstellar diplomacy.While Outsider has suffered some Schedule Slip since its creation, the art is well-realized and Francis has put an admirable amount of forethought into crafting his universe and its internal logic.BEWARE: SPOILERS AHEAD.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_115b9907	comment	Starfish Language: The Umiak language is based on tone rather than words, and uses a "stack" structure where a statement ended with a specialized "posit" clause is placed onto a metaphorical "stack" for later reference, with later use of a "pop" clause being equivalent to speaking the entire statement again, either leaving the statement on the stack or removing it depending on which variant is used; a "pop" followed by a number signifies a reference to a statement that number of items further down the stack. Umiak conversations often begin with the speaker rattling off a tremendous number of disjointed thoughts and sentences and referring to them continuously throughout the conversation while adding new clauses to the stack, and understanding what's being said requires extremely good memory and the ability to perform flawless arithmetic in one's head. It's literally impossible for others to understand without a translator... and even that's a bit lacking.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Francis based many of Bellarmine's ill-fated crew on his friends and colleagues, with their blessing.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_1420a9b8	type	Scenery Censor
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_1420a9b8	comment	Scenery Censor: When Jardin awakens on the Tempest and it's revealed that he's in the sickbay, naked and shackled to the bed, one of the medics is conveniently standing right where her head is blocking his groin from view.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_1542e3c6	type	Themed Tattoos
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_1542e3c6	comment	Themed Tattoos: Talon and Spiral trained together on Talon's home planet of Taben as part of a diral, a group of children of the same age and from the Tenoin caste. As a symbol of their group's training, they all got the same tattoo on their right cheek, a circle with a small curl below it.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_17058a90	type	No Biochemical Barriers
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_17058a90	comment	No Biochemical Barriers: Played with. Jardin so far has had no problem breathing the atmosphere on the Loroi ships he's been on. However, their food doesn't agree with him for the most part, giving him harsh indigestion and even making him throw up at least once.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: Francis has written a number of supporting articles detailing the Outsider universe, including many things the readers know (yet Jardin doesn't) or vice versa.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_19ebbe77	type	Photoprotoneutron Torpedo
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_19ebbe77	comment	Photoprotoneutron Torpedo: Particle weapons are among the more common types of ship armaments; they do more damage than laser beams, but are prone to spreading out and losing power due to charged particles repelling each other and aren't much good in atmospheres.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_1b40fc16	type	Extreme Libido
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_1b40fc16	comment	Extreme Libido: If what Beryl tells Jardin about male Loroi is on point, they need to mate frequently for their physical and mental health.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_1c3464e5	type	Klingon Scientists Get No Respect
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_1c3464e5	comment	Klingon Scientists Get No Respect: Downplayed example. While no outright disdain is present towards noncombatants, the Loroi are still a warrior culture and value martial life as "the epitome of civilization". As such, military castes that do not habitually participate in combat — such as the Listel scientists, Doranzer medics and Mizol diplomats — are given very limited authority and respect within the Loroi military. Unlike in real-life armed forces, where ranks are absolute — for instance, a low-ranking soldier is still expected to salute a high-ranking medic or diplomat — Loroi fighters and commanders refuse to give formal deference to noncombatants, regardless of their rank.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_1cc48ee9	type	Multicultural Alien Planet
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_1cc48ee9	comment	Multicultural Alien Planet: Most of the Loroi worlds are culturally and ethnically diverse, as the various populations and cultures that arose there over their pre-spaceflight history still retain varying degrees of presence in the modern day. Deinar is largely divided between three broad racial groups: the tall and fair Barraid of the western highlands, the tall, dark-skinned Tadan of the central river valleys and the short, wiry and far-scattered Login. These were further divided between multiple nation-states, which warred extensively with each other and remain distinct cultural entities into the modern day. The Loroi of Perrein, who are generally noted to be of medium height and with darker hair and larger ears than others of their kind, are divided between the ghost-pale people of the dense lowland jungles and the very dark-skinned natives of the highlands that reach above the planet's omnipresent fungal canopy. The oceanic world of Taben is split between the natives of the dwarf continent of Beleri, who tend to light skin, yellow eyes, thinness and large noses and have a long tradition of exploration and marine raiding, and those of the Amenal archipelago, who have darker skin and developed an advanced, sophisticated culture early in the planet's history. It does not have a global government like the other Loroi worlds, being split between the Belerid nation and a federation of independent island-states in Amenal.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_1ec5a73c	type	Space Fighter
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_1ec5a73c	comment	Space Fighter: These used to be one of the Loroi's main offensive tools, often using liquid breathing mediums to protect their pilots against the massive g-forces they went through, but they didn't prove very suitable for the long war of attrition against the Umiak and are now mainly delegated to missile defense. Umiak do not employ fighters since they evolved on low-gravity worlds and can't handle 30+ g's of acceleration; inertial dampeners are too big for fighters.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_204a1207	type	Hyperspace Is a Scary Place
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_204a1207	comment	Hyperspace Is a Scary Place: Faster-than-light travel involves jumping between solar systems' gravity wells. Miscalculating the jump can result in colliding with the star whose system you're targeting, bouncing off of real space until you eventually re-embed, being stranded in hyperspace, or being liberated into negative hyperspace, from which no vessel is known to have escaped (and which the background information lampshades with "Libera te tutamet ex inferis"). There's also the side effect (in non-Soia-Liron organisms, such as humans) of bad dreams and nausea after a jump. The risk inherent in each jump tends to vary depending on the system you're jumping into — dense celestial bodies have deep, "steep" gravity wells, which are very difficult to jump into safely without overshooting and diving right into the central body. An Umiak force seems to deliberately attempt a deep jump into the Leido system, whose primary is a white dwarf; Talon can't believe they'd be dumb enough to try something that risky.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_20e1cb81	type	Weird World, Weird Food
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_20e1cb81	comment	Weird World, Weird Food: When several of the Loroi are shocked by Alex mentioning drinking milk from a domesticated species in a discussion of human food, Alex asks if the Loroi know of animal husbandry. Tempo explains that Loroi from Taben and Deinar did not have any animal farming and culinary culture beyond meat and eggs and are thus comparatively tame. She also notes that her own planet of Perrein has a much more diverse food culture, but other Loroi generally consider it Foreign Queasine. Talon and Spiral's comments cement this, although they're clearly more amused than disgusted.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The projector for the Historian's avatar is taken off Tempest's bridge just before the battle begins. Later on, Jardin finds it among the cargo in Highland-Seven...and shortly thereafter, a "pocket Historian" downloads itself onto a data pad, telling Jardin that help is coming and warning him that he is in grave danger and to not trust the Loroi.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_22f6000b	type	Everybody's Dead, Dave
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_22f6000b	comment	Everybody's Dead, Dave: Jardin was the Sole Survivor of Bellarmine, leaving him with the unenviable task of attempting to gather intel/conduct diplomacy with potentially hostile aliens on behalf of the entire human species.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_230c2632	type	Glowing Eyes
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_230c2632	comment	Glowing Eyes: When Loroi capable of telekinesis use their powers, their irises glow.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_253be057	type	Body-Count Competition
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_253be057	comment	Body-Count Competition: Captains Ashrain and Moonglow are introduced in the middle of a running wager over whose ship can take out the most enemy vessels, including some quibbling over which kills do and don't count. It's later revealed that the prize of the competition was rights to refuel and resupply first for the victor's squadron.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_26d18908	type	Puny Earthlings
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_26d18908	comment	Puny Earthlings: Because humans only became spacefaring in very recent times — the setting's major species were already in space during Earth's medieval period — humans lag far behind everyone else in everything, from their armed forces and technology to simple numbers. This becomes uncomfortably clear for Jardin when he witnesses a border skirmish between a small, under-strength Loroi strike group and a much larger, but still partial, Umiak force — and the strike group itself still contains more ships than the totality of humanity's combined space forces, and many of its vessels are armed with weapons that can one-shot a mid-sized human ship.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_2933bdf5	type	Genetic Memory
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_2933bdf5	comment	Genetic Memory: Pipolsid memories are stored chemically, and are partly transferred to their offspring when these are budded off.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_2a542c7d	type	Beam Spam
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_2a542c7d	comment	Beam Spam: Loroi ships' primary weapons are powerful beam cannons which they employ en masse against Umiak vessels, along with batteries of smaller laser cannons for point defense against torpedo attacks. Apparently most long-range offensive weapons are beam weapons, though the Umiak have shorter ranges on their beams and prefer the Macross Missile Massacre method.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_2af7961	type	Faster-Than-Light Travel
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_2af7961	comment	Faster-Than-Light Travel: Ships travel faster-than-light using a hyperspace jump drive note so-named in-universe; in this trope's terms, it's actually a hyperdrive which works by "launching" a ship from one star system to another through hyperspace. As vessels cannot direct themselves in hyperspace, they're completely reliant on the speed and direction imparted by their launches — a successful jump requires precise alignment and calculations, and any misstep usually leads to the loss of the ship. Jumping is only possible between neighbouring star systems — attempting to "jump over" a star is essentially impossible due to its gravity affecting the ship — and conventional intra-system space travel is required to move between the best launching-off points. Travelling a distance of approx. 200 light years in this way takes weeks or months. The author provides an in-depth explanation of how FTL works in this universe on a special page.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_2f253c94	type	Glass Cannon
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_2f253c94	comment	Glass Cannon: Loroi warships have tremendous ranged firepower compared to the Umiak, but aren't as robust.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_31b99a18	type	Naming Your Colony World
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_31b99a18	comment	Naming Your Colony World: In the named-after-the-star category, human colony worlds within the Alpha Centauri system are named Alpha (also referencing its status as the first extrasolar colony) and Proxima. Somewhat confusingly, Proxima does not orbit Proxima Centauri, but Alpha Centauri B. In the the symbolic category, the human colony worlds orbiting Tau Ceti and 82 Eridani are named Aldea and Esperanza, meaning "Village" and "Hope" respectively in Spanish.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_31c5e7fb	type	Starfish Aliens
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_31c5e7fb	comment	When a translation system is finally seen in action during an enemy Umiak commander's transmission, it can only manage translations that are basically really long run-on sentences. The impression is similar to the quality of real-life machine translation available on present-day Earth, although admittedly Outsider's version does have to deal with Starfish Aliens...
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_33ebdc93	type	The Permanent Record
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_33ebdc93	comment	The Permanent Record: During Capt. Hamilton's interview with Jardin, he notes the behavior demerits on Jardin's record that kept him from being valedictorian of his class, and questions whether or not Jardin thinks discipline on a scout ship won't be enforced as strictly as it would be on a military ship. Jardin states that he's aware of the difference between school and actual work in space, but at the start of the story, he and Ellen were assigned to damage control due to some unspecified disciplinary issue.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_364b9be6	type	Flipping the Bird
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_364b9be6	comment	Flipping the Bird: When Fireblade gives Jardin a hostile Eye Am Watching You, he responds with The Finger.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_36c64123	type	Gentle Giant
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_36c64123	comment	Gentle Giant: The Barsam. Despite being 2.3 meters tall and being built like grizzly bears with horned faces, they are a nominally peaceful and aesthetic race, who routinely engage in missionary work and value peace, cooperation and brotherhood above all other things.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_3722d66c	type	Hold Your Hippogriffs
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_3722d66c	comment	Hold Your Hippogriffs: The Loroi associated with Taben occasionally use some culturally-specific terms in their spoken Trade. When Nova's cruiser is destroyed, Stillstorm says "Confirm that Winter Tide has foundered", a term which in English can mean "to break" or "to sink". Later, Talon's Cluster F-Bomb toward Clearbrook's comms officer ends with "Shred this tilted field!" and Spiral softly exclaims "Low tide!" when Jardin mentions consuming animal milk. All of these make sense for people from a mostly-ocean planet to use as negative expressions.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_3b789458	type	Recurring Extra
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_3b789458	comment	Recurring Extra: Captains Ashrain and Moonglow, introduced here, show up occasionally thereafter, usually to jaw at each other in a way that indicates a good-natured rivalry including a wager over kills.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_3b79029a	type	Crapsaccharine World
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_3b79029a	comment	Crapsaccharine World: The Loroi act very civil towards Alex and the races in their alliance, so they seem better than the Umiak. However, at least half of the races in the Alliance are only in it as a subjugated population or out of fear, as the Loroi have committed or attempted xenocide multiple times. There's a general, somewhat sinister "be nice to us or we'll kill you" tone to their interactions with others.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_41914bb3	type	Blade Below the Shoulder
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_41914bb3	comment	Blade Below the Shoulder: The outermost finger of the left hands of the Umiak takes the form of a claw that can be pressed back against the forearm to crush or extended for slashing and stabbing attacks. Some of their hardtroops posses a metallic version of this, sometimes entirely replaced by a long knife.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_41dd77d	type	Zerg Rush
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_41dd77d	comment	Zerg Rush: The Umiak's primary strategy during wartime. In one battle, Umiak warships outnumbered the Loroi fleet nearly three to one. Later on, the Umiak begin to invade Loroi space with enormous numbers of ships of all types, which is referred to as a "gate-crasher" attack.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_46cfd12f	type	Nothing but Skulls
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_46cfd12f	comment	Nothing but Skulls: Jardin sees a mosaic on the Tempest showing a legendary warrior standing on a pile of skulls. Beryl explains that it's a depiction of Tempest, who the vessel is named after.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_470b73a7	comment	Recursive Precursors: Several ancient empires rose and fell over the galaxy's history, impacting its development to various degrees. They are discussed in the side blog at some length. The earliest known civilization was active sixteen million years ago, and is known only from a large number of worlds bearing extensive cratering and having undergone mass extinctions at that time. Modern scholars believe this to be the testament of a devastating war between otherwise unknown powers, but nothing's known for sure. The Fenrias civilization arose long after these conflicts, but still over a million years back. It spread through local space and either subjugated or ignored the primitive ancestors of the modern sapient species. The Fenrias split into multiple factions early on and warred extensively against each other, eventually diverging into numerous distinct breeds. Two modern-day species, the Delrias and Morat, are descended from Fenrias populations that survived the fall of their empires. The Dreiman were small — lapdog-sized — but highly advanced aliens that arrived about a million years in the past from outside of local space and quickly wiped out the Fenrias nations, although a few fringe groups held on on the edges of their territory. They rarely settled planets and mostly remained in orbital stations, but engaged in extensive planetary and biological engineering — they seeded and terraformed multiple worlds, many of which remain habitable into the present, and seemingly uplifted many of the local pre-sapient species. Around 500,000 years back, the Dreiman suddenly vanished and the remnant Fenrias nations all collapsed, to be replaced by the Soia. They were more advanced than the Dreiman and, like them, seem to have come from outside known space. They traveled in massive and heavily armed artificial moons that they used to enforce their rule and created numerous genetically engineered species, referred to as the Soia-Liron species; most were hyper-efficient food plants and animals, which are still found on multiple worlds, but at least five sapient species are known from Soia sites and may also have been created in this manner — the ancestors of the modern Barsam, Neridi and Loroi and two now-extinct species. The Soia are thus believed to have been a multi-species civilization, although whether these species were naturally occurring ones from a single world, artificially created or a mix of both, as well as whether any of these were the "true" Soia, isn't really clear. The Soia empire collapsed 275,000 years ago, seemingly in a devastating conflict that subjected every settled planet to devastating orbital bombardment and caused every sapient species to regress to the stone ages — galactic civilization is technically still climbing out of this dark age.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_4766ca14	type	Volleying Insults
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_4766ca14	comment	Volleying Insults: Talon and Spiral start zinging each other after Alex beats Talon in the game they're playing and she tries to start the next game instead of letting Spiral give it a go.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_48218d3d	type	Neutrality Backlash
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_48218d3d	comment	Neutrality Backlash: Not choosing a side in the war invites hostility from both sides. The Loroi mindset is spelled out in chapter 1: "if you're our ally, you're duty-bound to aid us." Tempo later explains that this comes from having several supposedly neutral nations turn on them in the past, combined with the Umiak's constant expansion.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_49f20c6a	comment	When Jardin and the Loroi are piled up with each other in the shuttle, after Jardin falls asleep, his normal nightmare transitions into him showing up on a devastated alien planet, encountering an adult and child Loroi with shaved heads and some kind of markings on their foreheads, and then being attacked and killed by two Umiak hardtroops. He wakes up just after the killing stroke.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_4d4df461	type	Stock Star Systems
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_4d4df461	comment	Stock Star Systems: The six worlds settled by humanity include the Alpha Centauri A V (humanity's first extrasolar colony), Alpha Centauri B II (the second), Tau Ceti II and 82 Eridani VI.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_4de0f392	type	Your Normal Is Our Taboo
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_4de0f392	comment	Your Normal Is Our Taboo: Early on, Jardin notices that the Loroi don't touch each other. Beryl later explains that casual physical contact is a cultural taboo, as their sanzai ability is distance-variant and skin-to-skin contact greatly amplifies the mental connection, even with aliens that aren't naturally telepathic. Beryl is anxious to test this with Jardin because of his apparent resistance to sanzai, which sheds some light on her seemingly hostile reaction to Jardin shaking hands with Talon. Unfortunately, when Jardin concentrates, he seems to be able to perceive Fireblade and not Beryl. Later on, just before the Loroi pile up on Jardin to sleep and he brings this up, Beryl notes that the necessities of their situation trump personal discomfort. The Nissek are notable among the spacefaring cultures for having no taboos against eating carrion or the flesh of sapient creatures, including other Nissek.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_4f23179	type	Hit-and-Run Tactics
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_4f23179	comment	Hit-and-Run Tactics: The primary tactic for Loroi raider fleets, since their ships aren't sturdy enough to engage Umiak ships in stand-up dogfights.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_4fafed32	type	Higher-Tech Species
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_4fafed32	comment	Higher-Tech Species: The Historians are believed to have been the first species to have begun to rebuild after the collapse of the Soia and to never have lost the totality of their pre-Soia technology. While they still can't match the technological feats of the ancient precursor empire, they remain far and away the most technologically developed nation in the setting.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_515189ab	type	Single-Biome Planet
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_515189ab	comment	Single-Biome Planet: Among the Loroi Sister Worlds, Perrein is a hot and humid jungle world covered almost entirely by immense fungal forests with canopies so thick that the forest floor is in perpetual night, while Taben is an ocean planet whose landmasses are limited to a small continent in the northern hemisphere and an equatorial island chain.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_51c7574c	type	Abandon Ship
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_51c7574c	comment	Abandon Ship: In the prologue, after Jardin and Ellen report in about Bellarmine being crippled, their superior in the damage control team decides to give an abandon ship order. However, this is for naught when the next strike blows up Bellarmine's aft section, throwing Jardin out into space and killing the rest of the crew. In the wake of the first Umiak assault after Jardin is recovered, Stillstorm grants Torrent's captain permission to give an abandon ship order for the destroyer Thunderbolt, as it's pretty much dead in space due to battle damage.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_528e47c6	type	Latex Space Suit
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_528e47c6	comment	Latex Spacesuit: Certainly not as egregious as many other cases, but Jardin does muse upon the reasons for the seeming Loroi preference for form-fitting uniforms, noticing that Fireblade's touch is cold and the ship's environment is much cooler than what he's used to. Later on, as he's putting on the inner liner of the pressure suit Talon gives him, he notes it's a tight fit but the fabric has a lot of give.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_550854fe	type	Telepathic Spacemen
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_550854fe	comment	Telepathic Spacemen: The Loroi are galactically known for this, to the point that Jardin identifies them as Loroi by observing an apparent non-verbal conversation. They can also pick up the thoughts of other species, even those that aren't naturally telepathic, which becomes a serious issue when they discover that they can't read Jardin's thoughts at all. Jardin is just as blind to their efforts, although he can perceive Fireblade as a flame-like aura shaped like her in his mind if he concentrates or she applies her mental powers, and there are a couple of instances that suggest that when his mind isn't fully conscious, some degree of mental bleed-over from the Loroi near him is occurring. He later begins to wonder if the latter is being done deliberately by Tempo after seeing her use her abilities against an Umiak hardtroop.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_56c163a8	type	Subspace or Hyperspace
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_56c163a8	comment	Subspace or Hyperspace: Hyperspace is essentially the areas of the universe "above" and "below" realspace (on an x-y graph, realspace is the line at y=0, with indents caused by the gravity wells of large objects, while hyperspace is everything else). FTL travel is achieved by launching ships across hyperspace from one gravity well to another, which is compared to a cannon shot — the propulsion occurs only at launch, and the ship is ballistic over the trip. Hyperspace is innately turbulent, which affects the trajectories of ships and means that no launch is completely predictable; disturbances of very massive objects, such as black holes, can worsen this turbulence and make hyperspace almost untraversable. Beyond that, the nature of hyperspace isn't well-known, since travel through it is nearly instantaneous and, as ships are moving faster than light, they're blind during the voyage. There's also "negative hyperspace", which is what's "below" realspace, but since nobody who broke through into it has ever come back it's an even greater unknown.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_5979acea	type	Fragile Speedster
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_5979acea	comment	Fragile Speedster: Loroi warships are very fast compared to those of the Umiak, but aren't as robust.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_5a8f3057	type	Hand Signals
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_5a8f3057	comment	Hand Signals: As Jardin and the Loroi are preparing for the Umiak to board Highland-Seven, Tempo gives a three-fingered gesture that confirms that's what's about to happen.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_5bad2ab4	type	Military Maverick
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_5bad2ab4	comment	Military Maverick: Downplayed by Talon and Spiral. They're both competent officers and highly skilled pilots, but they have a snarky attitude regarding some of the other officers on Highland-Seven, with Talon sarcastically calling Tempo "Mother" at one point and both of them poking fun at Tempo over the weirdness of her homeworld's cuisine, and their personalities are more easy-going and not nearly as professional as the other Loroi. While their initial meeting is a bit awkward, Jardin endears himself to Talon almost immediately when he asks her to call him Ensign (his actual rank) instead of Captain, an honorary rank bestowed by Tempo as part of his position as humanity's ambassador to the Loroi.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_5c00e7d7	type	Language of Truth
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_5c00e7d7	comment	Language of Truth: Communication done through sanzai, the telepathy of the Loroi, is immediate, clear, and absolutely honest. Some Loroi prefer to use it exclusively, feeling that spoken and written language are inherently dishonest and untrustworthy. The issue is that sanzai is so absolutely truthful that it will not mask any nuance or feeling, meaning that tact is also impossible. Loroi diplomacy thus relies on specialized diplomats, who speak verbally to both one another and other species, while everyone else holds their tongues and keeps their thoughts to themselves... literally. While this keeps problematic people like Stillstorm from causing issues, it also becomes the main problem with Alex being among the Loroi—since he can only communicate via verbal speech, there are those who do not trust him since he is incapable of doing the perfectly honest telepathic communication.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_5c0fc07b	type	Nightmare Sequence
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_5c0fc07b	comment	Nightmare Sequence: Chapter 2 starts with a flashback to Jardin being interviewed by Capt. Hamilton prior to being assigned to Bellarmine, but it transitions into Ellen's corpse angrily chiding him for leaving everyone to die. When Jardin and the Loroi are piled up with each other in the shuttle, after Jardin falls asleep, his normal nightmare transitions into him showing up on a devastated alien planet, encountering an adult and child Loroi with shaved heads and some kind of markings on their foreheads, and then being attacked and killed by two Umiak hardtroops. He wakes up just after the killing stroke.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_5fdf73bc	type	Photographic Memory
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_5fdf73bc	comment	Photographic Memory: Eidetic memory is a common trait of the Loroi's Listel caste. Beryl, for instance, can recall every word Jardin's said since they first met. This is used by the Loroi to make up for the fact that telepathy, their main way of communicating with each other, cannot be recorded; Listels essentially act as living libraries, perfectly memorizing important conversations and telepathic sagas for the reference of future generations.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_61c683d2	type	We Have Reserves
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_61c683d2	comment	We Have Reserves: The Umiak can replace their losses, both of ships and of troops, with extreme ease. As such, their battle tactics tend to revolve heavily around mass sacrifice of expendable troops, either to tie up the powerful Loroi vessels while more valuable assets maneuver into place or to attempt to tear through Loroi lines with brute force, and never mind the cost. They also think nothing of extremely risky maneuvers such as attempting a "deep jump" into the Leido star system, which potentially cost them large numbers of ships.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_627264e0	comment	Death Glare: Jardin receives hostile glares from Stillstorm and at least one other officer while on Tempest's bridge, making the distrust and resentment toward his presence almost palpable at times. Tempo allowing Jardin to remain on Tempest's bridge to observe the eventual destruction of Bellarmine's wreckage earns her a nasty glare from Stillstorm. She doesn't back down, and Stillstorm gives a revolted look; the implication is that there was a harsh telepathic exchange between them. As the Loroi are starting their sneak attack on the Umiak cruiser, Fireblade gives one to Jardin when she sees that Beryl has given him her sidearm, which he gloats about a bit in his internal dialogue.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_63f22889	type	Insectoid Aliens
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_63f22889	comment	Insectoid Aliens: The Umiak are visually very reminiscent of arthropods, being six-limbed, multiple-eyed and covered in a chitinous exoskeleton in their natural state. Internally, however, they're more similar to vertebrates, as they need internal skeletons in order to support their own weight and complex respiratory and circulatory systems to keep their large bodies oxygenated. Their insectoid nature also impacts their language — as they have rigid mandibles and no vocal cords, they cannot pronounce vowels or labial sounds, and their vocal range is limited to a small group of mandible clacks, tongue-clicks, inhalations and chitters.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_640ebd81	type	Bizarre Alien Reproduction
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_640ebd81	comment	Bizarre Alien Reproduction: Almost ninety percent of the Loroi species are female (and, apparently, all of them are hotties of one stripe or another), and their reproductive biology has some quirks. Reproductively speaking, the Umiak have genetically, surgically and cybernetically altered themselves so much that nobody's really sure how or whether they reproduce naturally. The Barsam are hermaphrodites who do not engage in traditional copulation. To reproduce, they regurgitate and exchange egg-like gamete sacks, which they then swallow to impregnate themselves. The Pipolsid, a species of radially symmetrical and vaguely jellyfish-like creatures, reproduce by budding.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_68424916	type	Eating the Eye Candy
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_68424916	comment	Eating the Eye Candy: Subverted; Talon believes Jardin will look good in the skin-tight inner liner of the Loroi emergency pressure suit he's given and seems a little upset when Beryl says that she's seen him naked, since she was in sickbay for his initial interrogation after he'd been cut out of his original EVA suit after being rescued. When he gets irritated at their reluctance to let him change in private, Beryl pushes Talon out of the cargo hold as she leaves. Both invoked and subverted when Talon sees Jardin frozen up while watching Fireblade removing her outer pressure suit. She thinks he's checking her out and asks "See something you like?" with a sly look, but he's actually shocked at noticing the plug in the side of her head that connects to her amplifier.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_6844f0d5	type	Undressing the Unconscious
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_6844f0d5	comment	Undressing the Unconscious: The last page of the prologue shows Jardin adrift in space and passing out from oxygen starvation as Tempest is closing in on him. When he comes to he's in the sickbay, naked and shackled to a bed, and is questioned by the crew. After their Mind Probing leaves him unconscious again, he awakens in a cell, this time fully clothed.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_6cd2fb82	type	Full-Conversion Cyborg
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_6cd2fb82	comment	Full-Conversion Cyborg: The Umiak freely and unsentimentally modify themselves to meet whatever situations arise, and by the present day the vast majority of their population is vat-grown at need and many sport mechanical enhancements of various sorts. The most extreme examples of this are the hardtroops, highly specialized warriors than consist of little more than a nervous and digestive system inside of a large, powerful mechanical shell, which depending on the "model" can be further modified to sport any number of weapons and modified limbs to turn them into specialized shock troops and living weapons platforms. Notably, because all Umiak are artificially created to serve as living tools anyway, there isn't any great social divide between the hardtroops and their more organic fellow crew members.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_6d70ac30	type	Touch Telepathy
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_6d70ac30	comment	Touch Telepathy: While Loroi sanzai works at range (and in fact their biggest military advantage is that they can use technology to boost it to interstellar distances), it works best with physical contact. Skin-to-skin contact allows them to establish a very strong and close psychic link, through which they can send much more information much more quickly than they can with remote sending. This is one of the reasons that the Loroi generally avoid touching each other except in rather specific circumstances.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_79974fb8	type	Rock Beats Laser
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_79974fb8	comment	Rock Beats Laser: In one of his Q&A answers, the author stated that, while humans are way behind the Loroi or Umiak, nukes are still nukes and kinetic energy is still kinetic energy. As such, human weapons can still do a number on either Umiak or Loroi vessels. The problem, of course, is in getting their outdated ships close enough to do that, particularly since slow-moving human projectiles have pitiful effective ranges compared to most Loroi ships, whose ranges are about that from the Earth to the moon.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_7c46c734	type	Common Tongue
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_7c46c734	comment	Not only are there numerous language barriers between the various races, but it's explicitly noted that pretty much all dialogue not between humans is in a Common Tongue, averting Aliens Speaking English. Some of the alien races can't even speak the Common Tongue, relying on translation devices to get their point across to other beings.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_7cc1924a	type	Handshake Refusal
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_7cc1924a	comment	Handshake Refusal: When Talon and Jardin share a handshake, Spiral doesn't join them since she's occupied with piloting while Talon's away from the helm. Much later, when the Loroi and Alex are setting up their makeshift sleeping station in the cargo hold, Spiral takes the opportunity to get around to that handshake.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_7d97ab06	type	Space Is an Ocean
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_7d97ab06	comment	Space Is an Ocean: Mostly averted, as the Outsider universe follows actual space physics rather closely. However, Word of God acknowledges that some aspects of space physics were ignored in favor of Rule of Cool, human ship names and ranks are naval in nature, and the Loroi spacecraft pilot caste is descended from pre-spaceflight nautical traditions.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_7f760614	type	The Silent Bob
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_7f760614	comment	The Silent Bob: A Zig-Zagging Trope for the Loroi as a whole. They generally play it straight, as they rely on their sanzai ability for normal conversation and speak aloud only in unusual circumstances but are quite "vocal" in their facial expressions, body language, and actions. However, during the initial battle, Beryl explains to Jardin that with everything going on, vocal communication is more efficient than sanzai, and its limited range makes vocal communication between ships necessary. Later on, Tempo notes that the Mizol caste is trained in spoken language and negotiation, to better serve their diplomatic function. Justified by the Unsheathed's traditional vow to not speak outside of danger. Fireblade is a textbook example, as despite her silence it's very obvious through her body language and actions that she has a low opinion of Jardin.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_7ffca8c4	type	Immortality Begins at Twenty
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_7ffca8c4	comment	Immortality Begins at Twenty: Downplayed. Loroi live for about 400 years; they reach physical adulthood at around eight years of age, but don't begin to age until very shortly before they die. Consequently, their lives consist of several centuries of physical health and outward youthfulness — the only reliable way of telling old and young Loroi apart is that elders have longer noses and ear-tips — capped by a short maturation at one end and a short period of failing health at the other.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_80b57bec	type	Super-Soldier
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_80b57bec	comment	Super-Soldier: The Loroi use a special warrior caste, the Teidar (Unsheathed), who have lethal telekinesis. The Umiak use specially bred and cybernetically enhanced warriors called Hardtroops.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_81f468bb	type	AirVentEscape
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_81f468bb	comment	Air Vent Escape: Lampshaded when Jardin, early in his confinement on the Loroi warship, ruefully notes the absence of convenient airways to escape through.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_82410415	type	Scylla and Charybdis
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_82410415	comment	Scylla and Charybdis: This is the crux of humanity's dilemma at the start of the comic — they're on the periphery of a major interstellar war between two starfaring civilizations, the Loroi and the Umiak, and inevitably will be swept into the conflict. They know very little about these two powers, but do know that both severely outclass them in technology, numbers and military power, that neither is willing to recognize other nations' right to remain neutral, and that both are willing to forcefully subjugate or exterminate nations that get in their way. Without knowing much about how either operates, beyond being aware that the Umiak essentially enslave their subject peoples, they need to very quickly figure out which power would be less dangerous to join up with — and to do it before one or the other finds them first and makes the choice for them.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_83d2b3f2	type	Our Humans Are Different
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_83d2b3f2	comment	Our Humans Are Different: Humans have only recently become spacefaring and, consequently, lag far enough the other space empires in technology, numbers and infrastructure to be essentially non-entities except for two notable traits. Firstly, they very closely resemble the Loroi, which most non-human characters find suspicious to alarming. Secondly, they're the only known species in existence to be completely immune to the Loroi's Psychic Powers — some species have limited resistance, but humans are immune to the point that Loroi are unable to even psychically sense a human standing right in front of them.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: A big problem for humanity in deciding which faction to join: the Umiak are imperialistic and enslave everybody in sight to feed their demand for ships and munitions, while the Loroi have twice committed xenocide against neutral or Umiak-aligned species. This contrast is brought up by Capt. Hamilton when he's interviewing Jardin, who would support joining with the Loroi and uses the Umiak's imperialism as his justification. This applies to humanity as well. Jardin specifies in his monologue that humanity, rather than looking for the side which shares or acts most accordingly with human values, is looking for the side which is most likely to win since aligning with the loser will almost certainly result in extinction.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_87c62ade	type	Deadly Dodging
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_87c62ade	comment	Deadly Dodging: With several torpedoes closing in fast and no other available options, Talon flies Highland-Seven at full speed through the open superstructure of the space station they'd intended to simply dock at, letting it take the torpedo impacts while the shuttle escapes.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_87f13be4	type	Designer Babies
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_87f13be4	comment	Designer Babies: The Umiak have been tailoring themselves to their environments for so long they might not have a natural reproductive cycle any more.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_8905bc4d	type	Extra Eyes
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_8905bc4d	comment	Extra Eyes: Another of the Umiak's insect-like traits is that they have seven eyes, three main eyes on the sides and center of the head and two ocelli on each "cheek".
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_892c6fdc	type	Space Elves
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_892c6fdc	comment	Space Elves: The Loroi are a mix of Types I and IV, combining the typical elfin features with blue skin tones, physical beauty, and mental powers like telepathy and telekinesis. Jardin even refers to them as elves at times (in his inner monologue, fortunately).
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_8a0d290b	type	Conlang
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_8a0d290b	comment	Conlang: Ikkukhak, the Umiak language. Its details are given a full page on the site. Also the Loroi Trade language, which gets multiple pages.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_8a4988bb	type	Mind Rape
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_8a4988bb	comment	Mind Rape: Shortly after awakening aboard the Loroi ship, Stillstorm has Fireblade and two other Unsheathed forcefully mind-probe Jardin for information when he doesn't answer questions to her satisfaction. Fortunately, a combination of him blacking out and the supposed unique human trait of telepathic immunity spare him from anything nasty.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_8a8c7344	type	Plasma Cannon
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_8a8c7344	comment	Plasma Cannon: Ship-mounted plasma weaponry is employed by the Loroi, Historians and Umiak, and well beyond anything humanity has access to. Plasma weapons come with a number of disadvantages, as they require the use of a "carrier wave" to keep the beam from diffusing into nothingness before doing anything useful. Only the Umiak and Historians have mastered this technique, and Loroi plasma cannons are consequently fairly primitive in comparison; they have limited range, are easily disrupted by electromagnetic screening due to their net charge and are completely useless in atmosphere. On the other hand, they're far more powerful than the lasers and particle beams that make up the bulk of most ships' guns and are well-suited for penetrating ship armor, and the heavier variants are capable of overloading and shorting out defensive screens.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_8aa0f76	type	Deconstructed Trope
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_8aa0f76	comment	Deconstructed Trope: In regards to a lot of sci-fi tropes: Not only are there numerous language barriers between the various races, but it's explicitly noted that pretty much all dialogue not between humans is in a Common Tongue, averting Aliens Speaking English. Some of the alien races can't even speak the Common Tongue, relying on translation devices to get their point across to other beings. Alex eats alien food on the Tempest... and starts getting increasingly bad indigestion, harshly averting No Biochemical Barriers. The cover art for Chapter 2 lampshades this; he's unhappily looking at a piece of Loroi food and has written notes about his bad reactions to what he's tried on the mat under him, including that something made him throw up. A later page shows that Beryl has noticed that he hasn't been getting enough nutrients, and he makes it explicit that he can't eat a lot of their food. There's no sound during space sequences, and space physics in general are adhered to strongly. Word of God notes that despite their bizarrely similar genetic and body structures, humans and Loroi can't interbreed, so there won't be a Star Trek-esque Half-Human Hybrid later on in the story.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_8b606a51	comment	There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Whoever destroyed Bellarmine was really trying to Leave No Witnesses — it was split in two with a massive beam attack, and each half was obliterated with a second beam of equal power. A policy the Loroi have employed against "neutral" nations who couldn't enforce their neutrality. One example is the Tithric, a species whose governments were allowing the Umiak to pass through their territory to raid Loroi space. They were quite literally bombed back to the Stone Age and nearly wiped from the galaxy in the process.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_8b93a168	type	Macross Missile Massacre
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_8b93a168	comment	Macross Missile Massacre: Standard Umiak doctrine calls for bombarding Loroi battle lines with preposterous numbers of torpedoes, as the battle in Chapter 1 amply demonstrates. The Loroi employ torpedoes as well, but lack the Umiak's industrial capacity to truly spam them in large quantities.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_8c49c29e	type	Zig-Zagging Trope
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_8c49c29e	comment	A Zig-Zagging Trope for the Loroi as a whole. They generally play it straight, as they rely on their sanzai ability for normal conversation and speak aloud only in unusual circumstances but are quite "vocal" in their facial expressions, body language, and actions. However, during the initial battle, Beryl explains to Jardin that with everything going on, vocal communication is more efficient than sanzai, and its limited range makes vocal communication between ships necessary. Later on, Tempo notes that the Mizol caste is trained in spoken language and negotiation, to better serve their diplomatic function.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_90c018ac	type	Justified Trope
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_90c018ac	comment	Justified by the Unsheathed's traditional vow to not speak outside of danger. Fireblade is a textbook example, as despite her silence it's very obvious through her body language and actions that she has a low opinion of Jardin.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_92286f7f	type	Precursors
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_92286f7f	comment	An interesting detail revealed in the Insider posts is that there's another species, the Nibiren, that is to the Barsam — a species that, along with the Loroi, is part of a group of biochemically related organisms related to a powerful precursor civilization — what the humans are to the Loroi, i.e. different in coloration and a few physical details but otherwise eerily similar. Rubber Forehead Aliens to another alien species, essentially. The conclusion reached by the Barsam is that they were genetically engineered by the Precursors using the Nibiren as a model. If this is true, it might have interesting implications for the relationship between the humans and Loroi.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_933576c8	type	Mighty Glacier
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_933576c8	comment	Mighty Glacier: Umiak ships tend to be slower, but noticeably tougher and better suited (relatively, as far as space goes) for combat than Loroi vessels.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_94f4832c	type	Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_94f4832c	comment	Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism: Downplayed. Male and female Loroi don't look drastically different from each other (aside from the obvious), but female Loroi average at around 170cm (5'7") in height while male Loroi are much shorter. A tall Loroi male rarely gets over five feet, with most being far below that, although apparently they're more even size-wise with human men in... other areas. Because of this size difference, as well as only making up about 10% of the population, Loroi men are viewed as a weaker sex in need of protection by the Amazon Brigade.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_950aef88	type	FTL Travel Sickness
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_950aef88	comment	FTL Travel Sickness: Jardin is shown going through a hyperspace jump starting in #215. The experience isn't pleasant; he notes that the vibration can crack your teeth, time dilation can cause people to experience disturbing visions, and you feel like you have a serious hangover afterward. He also wryly notes that people not on duty should avail themselves of recreational drugs to distract them from the experience. Interestingly, the Loroi that are accompanying him don't seem to be affected by the jump at all.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_975ba595	type	Sleep Cute
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_975ba595	comment	Sleep Cute: Exaggerated when the Loroi pile up on Jardin to sleep. The justificationnote his higher body temperature will help them stay warm better, and Beryl believes that his sanzai blindness will insulate the Loroi from each other makes sense, but the looks on Beryl, Talon, and Spiral's faces suggest they're happy with the arrangement for other reasons.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_97b5e1f9	type	Bug War
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_97b5e1f9	comment	Bug War: The insectoid Umiak have no concern for their individual losses and typically suffer disproportionate casualties against the Loroi. This is made up by their superior industrial capacity that lets them toss out astronomical numbers of ships year after year. Their warships even appear insectoid.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_9823f7c	type	ProudWarriorRace
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_9823f7c	comment	Proud Warrior Race: The Loroi are first and foremost a warrior civilization. They respect martial values and skill above all other things — in their culture, military strength and individual combat prowess are the highest values civilization is measured by — and their society strongly reflects that. The Loroi Empire is an archetypal army with a nation: its civilian economy is almost entirely in place to support the military, and Loroi civilians have considerably less power and political clout than the warrior class, which is the one that runs the empire. Even in the military, influence is based on one's role in combat, if any — soldiers and pilots are broadly ranked above medics, diplomats and scientists in the Loroi army's complicated organization, while the highest government ranks — the Emperor and her chiefs of staff — are specifically the highest rungs in the space navy's command structure.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_9853e107	type	Elective Mute
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_9853e107	comment	Elective Mute: This is a tradition among the Unsheathed; they only speak out loud when danger is very near, to issue warnings or challenges.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: As the Loroi are setting up against the imminent boarding of Highland-Seven by the Umiak, Jardin is confused by Cloud leaving the area they're in without a pressure suit or helmet; as she leaves, she gives him a somewhat sad or rueful look. Later, Beryl reveals exactly why: Cloud sacrificed herself to fool the Umiak into thinking that she was the only Loroi on the shuttle.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_9dbf9610	type	World of Technicolor Hair
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_9dbf9610	comment	World of Technicolor Hair: The Loroi have a wide range of hair colors, almost none of which — most visibly bright scarlet, purple, bright blue, navy and green — are normal for humans outside of an anime.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_9f50dbe6	type	Infinite Supplies
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_9f50dbe6	comment	Infinite Supplies: Averted. Starships need a huge amount of resources and infrastructure to build, maintain, and supply. Large ships like cruisers are usually kept close to home in times of peace due to the astronomical cost of keeping them supplied over long distances. Unfortunately for the Loroi, the Umiak are so efficient it often evens out in their case.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_9ffbadef	type	Fantastic Naming Convention
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_9ffbadef	comment	Fantastic Naming Convention: Loroi names consist of three parts: the first denotes their caste, the second is their military rank and the third is their personal name. Beryl's full name, for instance, is Listel Tozet Eilis; "Listel" denotes her being part of the analyst caste, "Tozet" is a rank roughly equivalent to a tactical analyst, and "Eilis" is simply a word meaning "beryl".
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_a0a5e00	type	Improvisational Ingenuity
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_a0a5e00	comment	Improvisational Ingenuity: Lampshadeed when the "pocket Historian", forced to work out of Jardin's data pad, grouses about the limitations of the computing power available to it and says that it's having to make do with what's available to it. Jardin muses on how it can't really answer his questions but was able to perfectly grasp English.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_a4f497d8	type	Born Under the Sail
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_a4f497d8	comment	Born Under the Sail: The Belerid Loroi of Taben, living on a dwarf, icy continent in an ocean world where violent weather made farming difficult and most food was in the sea, developed a proudly maritime culture focused on fishing, whaling, exploration, trade and piracy. The modern Tenoin caste, which consists of the Loroi forces' spaceship crews and navigators, has its origins on Taben and still maintains training facilities in Beleri.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_a7caa5b5	type	First Contact
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_a7caa5b5	comment	First Contact: Humanity's first contact with alien life was with a band of aliens who were trying to run away from the conflict. Jardin is the first human to make contact with the Loroi.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_a8896b94	type	Leave No Witnesses
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_a8896b94	comment	Whoever destroyed Bellarmine was really trying to Leave No Witnesses — it was split in two with a massive beam attack, and each half was obliterated with a second beam of equal power.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_a91f07ee	type	"No Peeking!" Request
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_a91f07ee	comment	"No Peeking!" Request: Beryl and Talon give Jardin a Loroi emergency pressure suit after Highland-Seven is knocked out of commission. After being told that he should go ahead and put on the inner liner, he asks them if he can have some privacy to change. This puzzles Beryl, but she honors his request, pushing Talon out of the cargo hold with her.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_ac2094ca	type	Red Shirt
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_ac2094ca	comment	Red Shirt: Possibly played straight, albeit with color variation. Before the Umiak attack the Loroi fleet, Stillstorm briefs four of her officers commanding elements of her task force. Moonglow, Arclight and Ashrain wear red uniforms, while Nova has a green command uniform. Of the four, Nova is the one who dies; her ship takes heavy damage in the first Umiak wave and is later annihilated by a reactor failure.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_ac36578e	type	Or Was It a Dream?
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_ac36578e	comment	Or Was It a Dream?: After seeing Tempo use her mental powers to fool an Umiak hardtroop into ignoring Highland-Seven's passengers, Jardin begins to suspect that she has realized that his resistance to sanzai isn't airtight and that the nightmare he had about being on a devastated Loroi world and seeing Umiak hardtroops hunting Loroi may have actually been a mental scenario planted by Tempo to try to sway him even more into siding with the Loroi.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_ad2943a2	type	Inertial Dampening
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_ad2943a2	comment	Inertial Dampening: Highland-Seven, Stillstorm's personal shuttle, is a large vessel primarily set up for cargo hauling. Beryl notes as everyone is settling in that it's equipped with inertial dampeners, meaning they won't have to use a liquid breathing medium and will have a more comfortable ride. That said, when Talon accelerates to try to beat the Umiak incursion, there's still enough inertia to pitch Beryl off her feet and into Jardin's lap.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: None in the main story as of yet, but Beryl and Fireblade are the ones who are drawn most in the fanservice-y pinups in the extras page of the comic's website.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_b1f18adb	type	Ray Gun
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_b1f18adb	comment	Ray Gun: As the Loroi are preparing their assault on the Umiak cruiser that's captured Highland-Seven, Beryl gives Jardin her sidearm when he says that he will help them. She explains that it's a particle beam weapon, and although it has a max setting of 8, she cautions him to not set it over 4 as they need to minimize damage to the actual ship.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_b556e777	type	Tanuki
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_b556e777	comment	Tanuki: The Tenuki, one of the Umiak client species, are transparently based on the raccoon dog youkai, as they're short, round and furry bipeds with bushy tails and feisty natures.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_b6d4b44e	type	Lightworlder
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_b6d4b44e	comment	Lightworlder: The Umiak come from a world about the same size and mass as Mars, which is a large part of how they can get away with being as large as their are with an arthropod's anatomy, and are consequently very poorly suited for handling Earth-normal gravity — on most inhabited planets, a unmodified Umiak would be barely able to walk. Consequently, almost all Umiak sent onto other species' planets are heavily genetically and/or cybernetically augmented in order to be able to bear their own weights. This is also why the Umiak have never used Space Fighters — even with liquid breathing mediums for cushioning, they simply can't handle the g-forces. The Lurs, one of the Umiak's client races, are likewise thought to hail from a world with about .5 G due to their extremely tall, lanky frames and their observed discomfort under standard gravity. The fact that their homeworlds are primarily low-gravity planets is thought to be one of the main reasons the Umiak took them over.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_b7fcc717	type	No Fathers Allowed
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_b7fcc717	comment	No Fathers Allowed: Since Loroi men make up only a small portion of the total population, they live in isolated, semi-monastic communities, and their interactions with the outside world are largely limited to mating encounters. Loroi women typically "meet" with any given man only once, as strong attachments to mating partners are frowned upon in Loroi society, and afterward return to their families to go through pregnancy and birth their child. Daughters are reared by their mothers, aunts and other female relatives, while the rare sons are reared in the cloistered male societies. Either way, fathers rarely if ever meet their children.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_ba1777a6	type	Color-Coded Castes
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_ba1777a6	comment	Color-Coded Castes: The specialized castes that compose the Loroi military each possess a specific pair of colors that marks their armor and clothing. The Doranzer wear cream and light blue, the Listel wear white and purple, the Mizol wear black and teal, the Soroin wear green and silver, the Teidar wear bronze and teal, the Tenoin wear orange and tan, and the Torrai wear gray and red.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: A couple of "Shit!"s are dropped in the prologue, when Alex and Ellen's superior realizes the hull has been breached and when Ellen sees that Bellarmine has been cut in two.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_bf72d5e8	type	The Spartan Way
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_bf72d5e8	comment	The Spartan Way: The way the Loroi raise members of any of their military caste — dumping them in the woods with bows and spears to learn proper warrior values and survival skills.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_bfb0f48a	type	Uncoffee
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_bfb0f48a	comment	Uncoffee: Played with. After food gets handed out, Cloud brings the Loroi bottles of noillir, a brown drink with (to Jardin) a pungent odor. Beryl describes it as a mild anodyne which the Loroi find soothing. Talon offers hers to Jardin; he finds its taste strong and harsh, but similar to some of the coffees he's had before.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_c145f69b	type	Subverted Trope
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_c145f69b	comment	Subverted; Talon believes Jardin will look good in the skin-tight inner liner of the Loroi emergency pressure suit he's given and seems a little upset when Beryl says that she's seen him naked, since she was in sickbay for his initial interrogation after he'd been cut out of his original EVA suit after being rescued. When he gets irritated at their reluctance to let him change in private, Beryl pushes Talon out of the cargo hold as she leaves.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_c19bdbe1	type	Good Cop/Bad Cop
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_c19bdbe1	comment	Good Cop/Bad Cop: Invoked by Jardin in his internal dialogue when Beryl and Fireblade first approach him after the failed interrogation. Beryl introduces herself and says that she's taking him to see the ship's diplomatic officer, then introduces Fireblade and notes her title and role, and that she's in charge of overseeing Jardin's security.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_c2f7db18	type	Alien Blood
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_c2f7db18	comment	Alien Blood: Soia-Liron species, such as the Loroi and Barsam, have blue, copper-based blood. The Umiak have black blood, revealed when Jardin sees some dead Umiak in one corridor of their ship.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_c4240537	type	Moral Event Horizon
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_c4240537	comment	Moral Event Horizon: In-Universe, the Loroi military trying to commit xenocide against the Mannadi after the last war with them horrified everyone so much that it nearly caused the other races in the Alliance to unite and wage war on the Loroi. Thankfully, the threat of their allies turning against them caused the Loroi to rein in their military and stop the attempted genocide.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_c48667d9	type	Backseat Driver
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_c48667d9	comment	Backseat Driver: Talon snaps a bit at Jardin as he's asking questions while she's concentrating on piloting the shuttle to try to get away from the torpedoes closing in on them.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Jardin seems to have a thing for musical references. As he's broadcasting his distress signal after Bellarmine is destroyed, he quotes part of the lyrics to "Major Tom" translated into the Loroi Trade language, as well as the French line from "Lady Marmalade". Later, his final words in memorial to Bellarmine's crew are part of the theme song for The Mickey Mouse Club. These are more prominent in the pin-up artworks featured in the miscellaneous materials on the comic's website. Examples include Tempo in Leia's slave girl outfit, Beryl in the science officer version of the female uniform from Star Trek: The Original Series, and Fireblade in a literal Chainmail Bikini reminiscent of Red Sonja. The Historians are probably a nod to the Carmpans of Fred Saberhagen's Berserker stories.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_c7b5445c	type	Cool Starship
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_c7b5445c	comment	Cool Starship: The Tempest, a sleek, 750 meters long alien warship (in a setting where the largest class of human ship is only 375 meters long), bristling with advanced weaponry, including a Wave-Motion Gun. To top it off, it's also the last surviving ship of its class.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_cb060751	type	War Refugees
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_cb060751	comment	War Refugees: Alien ones were humanity's First Contact (an Umiak-dominated race known as the Orgus), serving not only to introduce humans to not being alone in the galaxy but impressing the realization of how grim the situation is.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_cbaa9102	type	Signature Headgear
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_cbaa9102	comment	Signature Headgear: The Unsheathed wear headdress-like devices called amplifiers, which boost their mental abilities. In Fireblade's case, it frames her face (unlike those worn by the other two Unsheathed present during Jardin's mental probing, which look more like fancy headbands) and has small tabs in the back that connect to plugs in the sides of her head. Jardin is a bit shocked when he sees them as she's taking off her outer suit and removes the amplifier. When he asks, Beryl explains that all Unsheathed go through the procedure.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_cc4b45f6	comment	Word of God notes that despite their bizarrely similar genetic and body structures, humans and Loroi can't interbreed, so there won't be a Star Trek-esque Half-Human Hybrid later on in the story.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_cd2b8aa3	type	Space Is Noisy
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_cd2b8aa3	comment	There's no sound during space sequences, and space physics in general are adhered to strongly.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_cfbbd075	type	Porn Stash
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_cfbbd075	comment	Porn Stash: Invoked. After Beryl examines Jardin's data pad and then returns it to him, he sees that the "pocket Historian" has disguised itself as a PORN icon.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: The very first aliens the humans have encountered were a band of refugees who were running away from the conflict when the Umiak devastated their homeworld.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_d9ffec82	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_d9ffec82	comment	Curbstomp Battle: Bellarmine gets the short end of one of these, being cut in two with one shot, and then pretty much obliterated shortly thereafter.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_dc65e3cb	type	Saved by the Punishment
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_dc65e3cb	comment	Saved by the Punishment: Jardin was Bellarmine's third-seat helmsman, but was working in damage control as a disciplinary action when it was attacked. Per #11, if he'd been at his regular station, he would've been killed along with everyone else on the bridge.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_de085a36	type	Green-Skinned Space Babe
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_de085a36	comment	Green-Skinned Space Babe: The Loroi are essentially all-female space elves who come in various shades of light to medium blue, and all individuals seen on-page are depicted as some stripe of cute or beautiful. The author says in the FAQ that they're intended as a "homage to the 'Space Amazon' archetype", citing Master of Orion, Star Control and Space Battleship Yamato as examples. MOO 2 in particular is the source of inspiration for everything from names to uniform color schema to hairstyles.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_de763115	type	Hollywood Board Games
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_de763115	comment	Hollywood Board Games: Jardin finds Talon and Spiral playing a holographic "capture the castle"-type game called Crossfire. A combo of observing them playing and Talon explaining the rules helps get him oriented, and he ends up beating Talon in their first game. This just goes to show Jardin's intelligence, especially when it comes to strategy-oriented games like Crossfire or chess.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_e11b003d	type	Translation Convention
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_e11b003d	comment	Translation Convention: Explicitly used. Jardin and his Loroi interlocutors speak in the Loroi Trade language, though the meanings of some unfamiliar words do get past him now and then. When a translation system is finally seen in action during an enemy Umiak commander's transmission, it can only manage translations that are basically really long run-on sentences. The impression is similar to the quality of real-life machine translation available on present-day Earth, although admittedly Outsider's version does have to deal with Starfish Aliens...
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_e430b3a3	type	Psychic Block Defense
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_e430b3a3	comment	Psychic Block Defense: Some Loroi can learn how to disguise their mental signatures from others, making their minds impossible to detect or affect; this skill is know as lotai, and is very rare and difficult to learn. Humanity is unusual because it possess a permanent version of this an inborn trait.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_e4d4633a	type	Shoulders-Up Nudity
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_e4d4633a	comment	Shoulders-Up Nudity: When Jardin is first brought onto the Tempest for interrogation, he's stark naked — he had to be cut out of his suit — and is only seen from the waist up until some Loroi cover him with a sheet.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_e78aa97d	comment	Rubber-Forehead Aliens: Both largely averted and deconstructed. Loroi look just like humans, except for the Pointed Ears, blue skin tones, odd eye and hair colors, and their men being smaller than and far outnumbered by their women. A very awkward exchange between Beryl and Jardin also confirms that female Loroi have functional breasts like female humans. This similarity is noted as a significant abnormality by everyone, considering that the rest of the races go from being notably physiologically different to being Starfish Aliens. The fact that humans also seem to be resistant to the Loroi's telepathy implies that this may be far more than mere coincidence, but when Tempo all but accuses Jardin of this, he testily counters that it would be extremely stupid for the Umiak to create a mole that sticks out like a sore thumb as much as he does. An interesting detail revealed in the Insider posts is that there's another species, the Nibiren, that is to the Barsam — a species that, along with the Loroi, is part of a group of biochemically related organisms related to a powerful precursor civilization — what the humans are to the Loroi, i.e. different in coloration and a few physical details but otherwise eerily similar. Rubber Forehead Aliens to another alien species, essentially. The conclusion reached by the Barsam is that they were genetically engineered by the Precursors using the Nibiren as a model. If this is true, it might have interesting implications for the relationship between the humans and Loroi.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_e9db9908	type	Younger Than They Look
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_e9db9908	comment	Younger Than They Look: Loroi mature much faster than humans. This fact is specifically cited in Talon's entry on the comic's cast page, noting that she's only 13 years old. Additionally, the GURPS profile for Beryl on the Outsider Insider page gives her age as 14, although like Talon, she looks to be around Jardin's age just by appearance.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_eb4086e3	type	Big Creepy-Crawlies
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_eb4086e3	comment	Big Creepy-Crawlies: The Umiak. It should be noted, however, that they aren't true arthropods — biologically, they're closer to mammals with exoskeletons, and that's before their heavy self-modification. It's also a weakness of theirs; they don't like higher gravity worlds, since they weigh down their exoskeletons.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_ecaab580	type	Technology Levels
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_ecaab580	comment	Technology Levels: The comic uses a modified version of the system present in GURPS, tweaked to account for technologies specific to the comic and described here, which quantifies the development of technological civilizations into several "tech levels" of increasing complexity that go from 0 (Stone Age cultures) to 16 (Sufficiently Advanced Technology). Modern humanity is in the early stages of TL8 (early cybernetics, railguns, bioengineering and 3D printing); humanity in the comic proper is in late TL9 (FTL, Inertial Dampening, Artificial Gravity, longevity treatments); and the major interstellar powers are in early TL11 (plasma weapons and force screens), with the reclusive Historians somewhere in TL12 (Reactionless Drive and AI).
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_edcc813f	type	Fantastic Caste System
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_edcc813f	comment	Fantastic Caste System: Loroi society is rigidly stratified and subdivided, with a Loroi's career and place in society being heavily determined by which caste she's born into. Society as a whole is split into three main social groups — the warrior class, the civilians and the men. Warriors are the ones running the society and making up the government, while civilians are secondary in importance and position and the men are essentially sperm banks with citizenships. The women's classes are further subdivided — the civilians are split between numerous trade guilds, while the warrior class is further divided into eight specialized castes: the Soroin (soldiers), Tenoin (spacecraft pilots), Teidar (psychic specialists), Torrai (commanders, admirals and generals, the title of Emperor being the caste's highest rank), Mizol (diplomats), Listel (scientists and analysts), Doranzer (medics) and Gallen (mechanics).
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_f0089082	type	Early-Bird Cameo
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_f0089082	comment	Early-Bird Cameo: Talon, Spiral, and Cloud are first seen in #41; Talon doesn't reappear until #111, with Spiral appearing again in #113. Cloud is in a handful of panels as a background character, but isn't introduced to Jardin until #162.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_f1e837cc	type	Mind over Matter
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_f1e837cc	comment	Mind over Matter: Psychokinesis, the ability to remotely exert physical force over objects with your mind, is a very rare ability among the Loroi — while all Loroi are natural telepaths, less than five percent are psychokinetics. This ability is very valued among the Loroi, and children who exhibit it are always inducted into training for specialized military castes.
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_f1e837cc	featureApplicability	1.0
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_f1e837cc	featureConfidence	1.0
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Outsider (Webcomic) / int_f1e837cc
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_f5129c45	type	Nondescript, Nasty, Nutritious
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_f5129c45	comment	Nondescript, Nasty, Nutritious: Jardin is relieved to learn that some MRE-type meal packets were recovered from Bellarmine's wreckage. When Talon asks about the one he's given, he says that it's beef stroganoff, but admits it's not very good. That said, after being deprived of human food for so long, he's very happy to dig in once it's prepared.
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Outsider (Webcomic) / int_f5129c45	featureConfidence	1.0
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Outsider (Webcomic) / int_f5129c45
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_f7057d51	type	Matriarchy
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_f7057d51	comment	Matriarchy: Due to Loroi men being much smaller than the women and only making up about a tenth of the population, Loroi society is highly matriarchal. Almost all vocations, including commerce and especially the military, are seen as the province of women. Men, in contrast, live in seclusion within specialized cloisters — the prevailing belief is that, as the rarer and weaker sex, they need to be protected and kept secure — and mostly serve to father new generations. Outside of this, there are few vocations open to them outside of certain philosopher orders.
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_f7057d51	featureApplicability	1.0
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_f7057d51	featureConfidence	1.0
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Outsider (Webcomic) / int_f7057d51
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_fbb54ba6	type	Forever War
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_fbb54ba6	comment	Forever War: As explained by Tempo and Beryl, the war between the Loroi and Umiak has been going for around 25 Earth years, starting with small clashes along the borders of their territories and then exploding into full conflict when the Umiak ambushed Loroi fleets with hidden divisions. Humanity is now being forced to decide how to respond and who to ally with, in order to avoid becoming collateral damage when the fighting eventually reaches Earth.
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_fbb54ba6	featureApplicability	1.0
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_fbb54ba6	featureConfidence	1.0
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Outsider (Webcomic) / int_fbb54ba6
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_fdbd6162	type	With Friends Like These...
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_fdbd6162	comment	With Friends Like These...: A big part of Alex's reasoning for preferring to join the Loroi over the Umiak. While both sides have done terrible things in the war (with various justifications trotted out), the Umiak treat their "allies" as little better than slaves to feed the war machine. The Loroi do go on about their cultural superiority a bit and their interspecies alliance is clearly weighted in their favor, but at least they treat their allies as friends who deserve their own opinions.
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_fdbd6162	featureApplicability	1.0
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_fdbd6162	featureConfidence	1.0
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Outsider (Webcomic) / int_fdbd6162
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: The Outsider-verse follows realistic space physics very well, with very little Rule of Cool or Space Is an Ocean behavior. There's also a lot of work shown regarding biology.
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_ffad4e9f	featureApplicability	1.0
Outsider (Webcomic) / int_ffad4e9f	featureConfidence	1.0
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Outsider (Webcomic) / int_ffad4e9f
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Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Alien Blood / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Alien Lunch / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Alien Works / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Artificial Intelligence / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Backseat Driver / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Beam Spam / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Bedtime Brainwashing / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Big Creepy-Crawlies / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Bizarre Alien Reproduction / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Black-and-Gray Morality / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Blade Below the Shoulder / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Body-Count Competition / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Born Under the Sail / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Bridge Bunnies / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Brutal Honesty / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Bug War / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Catching Some Z's / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Character Tics / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Color-Coded Castes / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Common Tongue / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Conlang / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Crapsaccharine World / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Designer Babies / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Eating the Eye Candy / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Elective Mute / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Everybody's Dead, Dave / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Extra Eyes / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Eye Am Watching You / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	FTL Travel Sickness / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Facial Markings / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Fantastic Caste System / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Fantastic Naming Convention / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Faster-Than-Light Travel / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Field Promotion / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Fish out of Water / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Floating Limbs / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Flowery Insults / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Foreign Queasine / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Forever War / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Fragile Speedster / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Full-Conversion Cyborg / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Genetic Memory / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Glass Cannon / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Good Cop/Bad Cop / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Good Luck Charm / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Green-Skinned Space Babe / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Greeting Gesture Confusion / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	HA HA HAâ€”No / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Hand Signals / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Heavyworlder / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Higher-Tech Species / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Hit-and-Run Tactics / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Hold Your Hippogriffs / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Hollywood Board Games / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Hologram / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Humanlike Foot Anatomy / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Humans Are Special / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Hyperspace Is a Scary Place / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Hyperspace Lanes / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Immortality Begins at Twenty / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Improvisational Ingenuity / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Inertial Dampening / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Insectoid Aliens / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	"It" Is Dehumanizing / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Klingon Scientists Get No Respect / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Lady Land / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Language of Truth / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Lean and Mean / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Lightworlder / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Living Crashpad / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Living Legend / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Macross Missile Massacre / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Matriarchy / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Men Are Strong, Women Are Pretty / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Men Are the Expendable Gender / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Mighty Glacier / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Mind over Matter / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Multicultural Alien Planet / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Naked First Impression / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Naming Your Colony World / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Neutrality Backlash / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Nightmare Sequence / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	No Fathers Allowed / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	"No Peeking!" Request / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Nondescript, Nasty, Nutritious / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Nothing but Skulls / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Our Elves Are Different / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Our Humans Are Different / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Photographic Memory / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Photoprotoneutron Torpedo / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Plagued by Nightmares / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Plasma Cannon / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Pointy Ears / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Porn Stash / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Private Military Contractors / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Proud Warrior Race Guy / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Psychic Block Defense / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Puny Earthlings / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Recurring Extra / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Recursive Precursors / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Red Baron / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Saved by the Punishment / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Scenery Censor / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Scylla and Charybdis / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Single-Biome Planet / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Sleep Cute / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Space Elves / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Space Fighter / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Space Isolation Horror / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Space Stories / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Standard Starship Scuffle / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Stock Star Systems / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Subspace or Hyperspace / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Suggestive Collision / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Super-Soldier / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Tanuki / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Technology Levels / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Telepathic Spacemen / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	The Permanent Record / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	The Silent Bob / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	The Spartan Way / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Themed Tattoos / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Thinking Out Loud / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Touch Telepathy / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Tragic Keepsake / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Undressing the Unconscious / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Villainous Cheekbones / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	War Refugees / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	We Have Reserves / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Webcomics of the 2000s / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Witch Classic / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	With Friends Like These... / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	World of Technicolor Hair / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Worthy Opponent / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	You Are in Command Now / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Younger Than They Look / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Your Normal Is Our Taboo / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Zerg Rush / int_9fb9bec4
Outsider	sameAs	Outsider (Webcomic)
Outsider (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Strange-Syntax Speaker / int_9fb9bec4

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