Strip 394 -- First Seen: 2010-03-16
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The Transcript For This Page

Panel 1
Pull back to show as much of the room as possible: Looking at Screen from behind girls, the display changes: the diagram of the Park moves down to a lower right quadrant of the screen. In the upper right is the SkyLand logo, on the left is a portrait of Rop G, with some (not quite readable to us) providing basic biographic information.

Though Rop G sounds like a rapper name, it's a Dutch name. Rop is a geek, a sort of cool geek, but a geek nonetheless. He is modeled on a very real, very white (geeks live and work in the dark), very well known Dutch hacker, Rop Gonggrijp, whom I am honoring. The rap artist persona doesn't fit. Think of his more as a (good) Magneto from X-Men. He is a 'gravity hacker.'

Mike the Screen: SkyLand has an engineer who uses a special steerable asteroidal mass, and other techniques, to constantly tweak the system.

Panel 2
The Screen fills the panel. It is showing the same display as described in panel 1; but now we can see everything more clearly.
Mike: Sv. Awatere refers to him as SkyLand's 'Interplanetary Man of Mystery.'

Mike: He goes by the name, Rop G. He says the G stands for 'gravity.'

Panel 3
Doris and Fiorella, still facing the screen, are exchanging 'are you kidding me?' looks.

Mike (OP): His job title is 'Celestial Mechanic' but he refers to himself as a 'gravity hacker.'

Mike (OP): He claims to use something he calls 'Chaotic Resonance' to keep the system in order.

Panel 4
Same shot, the two girls grinning at each other.
Doris: 'Chaotic Resonance.'
Fiorella: 'Gravity Hacker'
Doris: Sounds highly likely.