Science Ninja Action Team: Cosmic Hellcats IX
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Cast
Amaya SolaceCaptain of the FSS-CH9, Amaya Solace is the daughter of a high-ranking admiral from the Felinius Kingdom and the youngest person ever appointed captain of a Felinoid Smartship. Hard-nosed and tough as nails, she constantly struggles to prove herself and her team among the Squadron forces, many of whom assume she received her post through nepotism. Despite the general mistrust of her throughout the squadron, she has a reputation for being a fierce fighter, albeit with a history of insubordination and inability to follow orders. Prior to her commission as captain, she served with the CH-13. Extended Bio Comics: 466 |
ChasteChaste’s exact origin is unknown. While she is clearly a Felinoid, she was discovered living alone in the wild jungles of Kaneon-9 by the crew of the FSS-CH13. She eventually was given a special appointment to the Cosmic Hellcats forces by Admiral Otto Solace and now serves as Armsmaster aboard the FSS-CH9. Perhaps the most feared combatant in the Squadron, Chaste has a no-nonsense “shoot first and let Ceiling Cat sort them out” attitude. While on the surface she is distant and mean-spirited towards her fellow shipmates, she is extremely protective of them and considers them her family – the only family she has ever known. Extended Bio Comics: 516 |
Damsel ReedAs pilot of the FSS-CH9, Damsel is one of the greatest pilots in the entire Squadron. Born to a wealthy family and living a life of relative luxury and privilege, Damsel found herself drawn to a greater calling. She ran away from home and enrolled in the Academy for Science Soldiers and eventually was made a Cosmic Hellcat. Despite her stong sense of duty and love of adventure, Damsel is still a socialite princess at heart. She is as much intrigued by the promise of adventure that being a Hellcat provides, as she is to the nobility and honor it brings. Extended Bio Comics: 454 |
FluffyFluffy is the Artificial Intelligence that controls the shipboard computer of the FSS-CH9. Like all felinoid smartships, the neural network that forms his AI is sentient and capable of independent thought, learning and emotion. This design is intended to make the smartship feel a kinship with the team by causing it to consider itself a member of the team. However, while most smartships become attached and protective of their crew, the constant danger that the CH-9 tends to face through the team’s relative inexperience and general recklessness has caused Fluffy to treat them with some amount of disdain. In particular, he is rather antagonistic of Damsel and Sarah, whom (as pilot and engineer) he blames for the majority of his perils, and Andrew, whom he considers to be an inferior artificial intelligence. Comics: 214 |
Sarah PrankhaOf all the crew of the FSS-CH9, Sarah probably wants to be there the least. A brilliant scientist and leading authority on rocket science and physics, her intelligence and technical ability are rivaled only by her libido and hedonistic nature. Born a flower child to hippie parents, she finds herself constantly torn between the worlds of free-love and semi-conductor mechanics. While she is well respected in her field and throughout the Kingdom for her brilliance, her carefree attitude and lack of discretion landed her a court martial and got her “sentenced” to active duty with the Hellcats. While she loves her crewmates, she’d greatly prefer life on firm land to the isolation of deep space. Extended Bio Comics: 495 |
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Okay, so can I be really geeky here? I’m curious about how the Hellcats ship’s propulsion system works. Most sci-fi that uses the lingo “jump to location X” uses some sort of instantaneous system (think Battlestar Galactica). But the noticeable acceleration, and the use of a “warp factor” as a speed would seem to indicate that the ship actually has a (non-infinite) velocity, more like Star Trek.
Good question.
Fluffy is powered by an alKhafiz HyperWarp drive. It’s definitely a thruster of some kind like in Star Trek or Star Wars. He definitely teleports by moving really fast in one direction and then blips into another location by folding spacetime.
The Klein ship on the other hand seems to have the ability to do a stationary “Galactica-style” jump by moving in and out of space in a fourth dimension with no obvious visual movement in the primary three, which is what occurred (albeit off-panel) in the very first web comic.
This sounds like a question for Sarah 🙂
damn, I should have said to ask her instead of answering it myself.
Well, she probably knows all the more technical details better than me. 🙂
The interesting thing to me is that Sarah & the punching bag experience G-forces. Which would be seriously lethal when accelerating to lightspeed at the rate panel 5 implies. Fluffy’s artificial gravity must be ever-so-slightly off…I wonder if he does that on purpose.
The accelerate-then-jump method (including the term “jump”) is not unheard of. See the excellent and highly addictive Escape Velocity series, which I’m sure is the most accurate representation of FTL travel ever.
Damn, now I wanna go play that for about 57 hours.
Sometimes you have to get out of a local gravity well to make the jump stuff work. Or you have to get up to exactly 88 miles per hour before you travel through time…
The gravity well might have something to do with it, or maybe you just have to be going really fast to break the laws of physics.