A hallucinogenic psychiatric drug often used for “stress” at the beginning of the Crellian War. It was outlawed within months of being approved, but was not pulled from ship stores or medical bays for another two years. This drug was the only thing keeping Alexey going and shooting through his entire deployment.
Hey, we’re back folks! Shits been a rollercoaster of awful and great for a while, and will continue to be so for the foreseeable future, but we’re back, at the very least. Hi.
Transcript:
Page 27 panel 1
Caine: So if this Shard person had one of these things, then we have to assume they have a contact in, or more likely from, Pelleponese…
Panel 2
Caine: What did you say this mad woman wants in exchange for your team? Reformed somethings?
Alexey: Undead.
Panel 3
Caine: Right. And she wants Pelleponesian contacts too. So she knows about us.
Panel 4
Caine: So if–
( Alexey takes Caine’s hands in his)
Panel 5
(Caine pulls away gently)
Caine: I’m a married man now, corporal.
Panel 6
Alexey: (looking lower than he’s ever looked) That’s right. I’m sorry. Old habits die hard, huh?
You don’t happen to have any Heaven* on board, do you?
Panel 7
Caine: No. It was outlawed fifty years ago. And you know why.
Alexey: Just… wishful thinking, I guess.
Panel 8
(Caine takes Alexey’s hands gently)
Caine: We’ll get them back, Gillespie. I promise.
