#wenn was like : i'm going to join the imperator ! :)

[nucleiaster]

[First impressions] Wenn's arrival on the Imperator and first meeting with the Emperor

CW : eyestrain (chromatic abberations, both in drawings and written text) Full comic and author rambles commentary under the cut

This is my longest comic to date, and the most challenging one to make ! I had a lot of fun, and I learned a lot (I already see things I could have done better haha), I can't wait to draw more comics ! Now for some rambles in no particular order :

The Imperator is the home of thousands of people, who can be divided in two very different populations : the bounty hunters and the permanent crew. The bounty hunters are rattached to syndicates, and guaranteed food, shelter, protection and weapons from the Imperator, as well as exclusive contracts, in exchange for a percentage of the rewards they collect. The permanent crew is composed of cooks, engineers, pilots, gardeners, dock workers, janitors…. everyone needed to keep the Imperator flying. The percentage taken from the bounty hunters' rewards is used to pay the crewmembers. There have been tensions between the hunters and the permanent crew, but the Emperor enforces a very strict non aggression rule, and has made it very clear that, if the bounty hunters need the Imperator to live, the Imperator does not need them to fly.

The recruitment process is very similar for both the hunters and the crew. When the Imperator needs more hands, a call to candidates will be sent to the next spatioports on the ship's planned trajectory. The bounty hunter syndicates will make a first selection before presenting their candidates to the Emperor. The people who want to join the crew will be brought directly in front of the Emperor. Spontaneous applications are never considered (except for Wenn, apparently).

Wenn was not supposed to see what she saw.

I wanted to play a bit with the space between the panels whe it comes to the singularity. In universe, singularities are impossibilities, they should not exist the way they do. They litteraly break reality and I wanted to represent that with the singularity litteraly acting on the space between, the invisible time between an action and the next. I think I can go way further with this idea and I really want to explore the possibilities. I could also do more with the Emperor : as they are an extension of sort of the Imperator's singularity, I want to play with their capacity to break the space of the drawing and "leak" into the white page.