Would all the chips and cards really fly off the table if the ship has inertial dampeners to counteract rapid movements? Hell if I know. But it made for a funny gag. And funny trumps science, in this particular instance, anyway.
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well inertial dampeners only dampen. any severe acceleration might still be felt, at least momentarily until the system catches up. Like the dampeners in a automobile shock absorbers, they take (deflected) directed force and spread it out. Some of that force still winds up reaching the original destination
Let’s go with that explanation!
I love that you have a blurb below every page, I love hearing artists talk about why they did what and what doesn’t make sense and all that jazz, I am going back and reading all these.
Cember’s dejected face here is still one of my favorite Runners moments.
I like it too. I find I haven’t really played with the expressiveness of his face as much in the later stories, so I may need to revisit this sort of thing.