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In the Grrl-verse, Supers can't be deployed by a countries military against a foreign nation. They didn't have any rules about that when Maxima and others were serving in Afghanistan and people realized that could escalate REAL fast. So now there are accords.
But, here's the thing. There's nothing really preventing, for instance, the CIA, from hiring foreign supers to, oh, I don't know, clairvoyantly listen in on certain important people during meetings, or telekinetically mess with someone's brakes or whatnot. Yes, the accords explicitly call that a bit of a no no, buuuuuuut, no country really believes that any other country won't be doing that, and if you cloak said activities in several layers of obscurity and you just have a weirdly large line item in your budget for "Black Coffee" then, while it's technically illegal to be a super powered mercenary - there are totally super powered mercenaries.
They don't usually wander into street brawls though. But as you can see from this page, there are multiple incentives for them to do so if they just happen to be wandering by and figure they'll get a significant initiative bonus because everyone else is already distracted.
Comments
furry
lol was surprised last page that he was almost polite, this one re affirms him being a baddie, using killing force too, he could not know she would live thru that, so he prob do not care. Heck if she has a "shattered rib cage"(or some such) she may still die. Doubtful, but yeah, dunno how much one should count with that logic in this comic tho.
Otoger
not direclty related, but Dave you need to watch the Adobe Max show, especially for #ComicBlast it might be a great help for you if i got it right
akrasia
The kind of people who call these shots don't need to slip around stuff, they just ignore whatever rules and conventions they please.
Justaguy
Honestly if you employ local super talent in the place you're influencing, than you are not using supers against foreign powers, you are persuading a super to influence their local power. It's that kind of moral double-think that the powers that be use to slip around stuff all the time.
Justaguy
Emphasis on the "Mostly"
BJ
That's what mad geniuses are for. Use it till it stops working, then sell it to a mad scientist and let them reverse engineer it. Or skip straight to the xenos tech auction. There are plenty of countries that would be interested in space guns.
BJ
They do have their hands full potentially with others who similarly took the improved initiative feat.
Churchill (formerly TeaBear)
"Mostly Harmless" My Fat Ass. >;(
Stefan J Neylon
I wonder how he's going to charge it, the batteries are depleted.
Wyrmhand
They are on the other hand.
Erin Palette
Dude's brass knuckles disappeared in panel 8.
Lex of Excel
So there's Aberrant-style Elites? Wonder if they have their own toy lines here, too?
Lex of Excel
Honestly, it's getting a little repetitive since the supernatural community was the butt of that same joke.
Richard Riley
It's interesting that none of ARC's supers are stepping in here - though I'm sure things are happening pretty fast.
Town Crier
There's that All-Earthian can-do entrepreneurial spirit! Go Sol-3!!!
Thisguy
Yeah, just suck. You’re an alien species who has been roaming around the galaxy for centuries, got a heap of awesome tech, and then you find out it doesn’t mean anything because some apes on this alien backwater were born with powers that make your tech look like children’s toys.
Foradain
Is that initiative bonus as good as Halo's ADHD bonus?
Tim
Nah, the planet is fine. It’s the local villains that sucks. But really, don’t they do that pretty much everywhere?
Damaged
Could reduce it down to just two words: Mostly harmless.
Andrew
But Dabbler already called dibs! Not cool, man.
Robert Miller
While I am thinking about it, someone needs a shield upgrade.
Robert Miller
"We came to grab some supers for sale in the slave markets and ended up broken and our toys taken away. 0-stars."
