Star Control II

a fan-comic based on the story and dialogue of the 1991 game with the same name.

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Best ship in the game, honestly.

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The ships are important, so I decided to use a log in order to go over them as we pick them up into our army. While we will board a lot of ships to breathe some variety into this story, we will still use them.

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I was drawing the Enterprise in her calendar and I forgot it’s little butt wings or whatever you call those. oops. now it’s just a duck-shaped space ship.

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In fact, most of the prologue story is Farnsworth begging Captain Burton not to blow up the ruins. We’re skipping over most of that.

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Strauss Zelnick is her dad (the original name of the Captain from the game), and Auriela Zelnick is her mom. Auriela is also the name of Giaus Julius Ceaser’s Mom, which is who Giaus is named after.  Now you know.

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I imagine when there’s only 35 kids on your planet it’s easy to feel kind of isolated.

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Just a nod to Star Control 3, but no, I won’t go there.

No one online has even bothered to transcribe Star Control 3, I’ve checked.

Also I accidentally drew Zelnick waaay too short. Forgive me.

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I’m aging up Zelnick like 6 years from how old she was supposed to be when she and Farnsworth started working together (she’s supposed to be like 10) because there’s a lot of back and forth between Farnsworth and Burton which just isn’t very interesting. Also, a 10 year old wouldn’t really know what they were getting into.

Also, yes, he is a Professor Farnsworth. I doubt the people on Futurama played this game though, and if they did I really doubly doubt they actually read the short story from the manual. No one read this story from the manual. I could write whatever I wanted here, and no one would know the difference, because no one read this manual. I downloaded it solely to find out who this Jules Farnsworth was that showed up on the wiki page and was shocked that this little short story even existed. Like, I owned a copy of this game, with the fold-out star map that you had to use in order to open your files (a weird copy-protection thing) but never ever knew that the manual had anything in it other than how to steer your ship.

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Back in Unzervalt.

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Maybe later, Hayes.

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It’s really just a tugboat, that’s canon. But it’s got a hell of a lot of nukes.

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This page was a struggle to draw for some reason, but this comic is about learning to pace and do simple pages, so we’ll just leave it be although half of me wants to redo it. Leaving it be.

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So hard to draw those lips without it looking like a mustache.