Want to know my favorite little known homestuck fact? Not headcanon. Fact. Heavily textually supported fact.
So we know lowbloods, particularly goldbloods, frequently have âpsiionicâ powers which seem to mostly consist of telekinesis and the ability to shoot lasers from their eyes. Lowbloods with these powers are frequently forced into service as âHelmsmenâ in the Imperial Fleet where they are implied to serve as basically the shipâs engine.
In Hiveswap Act 1, attempting to use Xefrosâs powers on I think the autotune mic (but it may have been another electrical object) laughingly dismisses the idea that troll psiionics are electricity or can be used to power things.
In Hiveswap Friendsim Volume 4, Vikareâs story revolves around his obsession with flight and his attempts to invent powered air craft, making it explicitly clear that Alternia never invented aeronautics. They have no flight technology.
Are you beginning to see where Iâm going here?
ALTERNIAN SPACE SHIPS ARENâT POWERED.
THEY JUST HAVE TELEKINETIC TROLLS PICK THE SHIPS UP AND THROW THEM.
HELMSMEN ARE LITERALLY PROPELLING THE SHIPS THROUGH SPACE TELEKINETICLY.
I mean, when you think about it, it makes sense! Why bother with rocket fuel and wings when you have a planet full of people who can make shit fly with their minds? But still, itâs hilarious to me that this incredibly technologically advanced civilization doesnât have engines in their ships and donât know how they work because when they need to go somewhere they just have THE LOWBLOOD GET OUT AND PUSH.
âŠIsnât this what Sollux did to the meteor? I feel like this is what Sollux did to the meteor.
#yes sollux did indeed yeet the meteor#halfway killed himself doing it too
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Alternians definitely have non bio flight. The drones are picture in Hiveswap using rockets to fly and at least one example of powered ships in Volume 7 during Konyylâs story. I think itâs more of a case of having Lusii to handle in atmosphere flight and the use of rockets to manage all non interstellar travel.
