Strip 330 -- First Seen: 2009-12-18
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The Transcript For This Page

Panel 1
A reprise of the scene with dozens of newsie spaceships of various sizes surrounding the 'Head' asteroid, with the Alpha Relentless, slowly circling it at close range.

Caption: And so the odd waiting game dragged on.

Caption: The UW Alpha Relentless slowly, methodically gathered its data on 'The Head,' as everyone started calling it.

Panel 2
On the control deck of the Relentless, the crewman notes some readings on his console. Darling sits by looking bored. Captain Gondalia is quietly pleased.

Crewman: The 3 VIP craft have departed, and it looks like 5 of the newsie ships are preparing to leave.

Gondalia: They probably have no audience at this point.

Panel 3
Similar shot. Crewman is still looking at his monitor, Darling is almost dozing. Gondalia is moving towards the exit at the rear of the command deck.

Crewman: Scans are 71 percent completed. Coming round to the 'face' side..

Gondalia: I will be in the, er, head. Mister Darling, you have the conn.

Panel 4
External shot. We're looking at the upper half of the 'Head's' face, focus near its left eye. The Relentless is swinging into the frame.

Crewman (from the craft): Now scanning the left eye.

Panel 5
The control deck, the crewman and Darling. Darling still looks bored.

Crewman: Sir, there seems to be some anomaly here.

Darling: Anomaly?

Panel 6
Closer look at the left eye. We can see a recessed, cubical cavity inside, several meters across.

Crewman (OP): Some kind of recessed cavity, six meters on a side, and there's something in the back....

Crewman: … some sort of writing?

Panel 7
Suddenly Gondalia bursts urgently into the deck, holding the opened front of his trousers with one hand.

Gondalia: CUT THAT FEED NOW!!

Panel 8
Reggie in his stateroom on the Delta Free, looking with interest at an image on his holoscreen, of the room in the Eye with odd markings on the back wall.

Caption: But it was too late. Virtually everyone in human space had captured in image of the markings.