I wonder if getting zapped by a surge pulse is anything like being put inside a giant microwave oven?
Well, give Benny credit, she stuck with her decision. That couldn't have been easy. But it does mean they should have the situation under control now. If the surge can take out Nascha's bots, now it's all up to the Scorpion Eaters to live up to their “elite” billing and take down the bad guy. Or, bad girl, as the case may be.
Q: Why are the security personnel powering down?
A: As with an EMP, the best protection for an electronic device is for it not to be running when the pulse hits. The security personnel do have shielded electronics, which helps, but it's still safer for them to go into Hibernation Mode briefly to minimize any potential damage.
Q: So couldn't they alert the dock workers that they need to power down as well?
A: Not really, no. They don't have an encrypted channel to communicate with the civilians that the bad guys aren't likely able to eavesdrop in on, and the whole point is to catch the bad guys off guard so they don't also have time to power down. The fact that they issued a Code Black evacuation was warning enough to the dock workers that there may be a pulse coming, but they never tell you when.
Q: So rather than evacuating, the dock workers could have just powered down and survived, right?
A: Maybe. But they're not shielded, so I wouldn't take that chance if I were them. I guess as a last resort that makes sense, but it's definitely better to just get the hell out of there if you can.
No, not as in "hanky panky." I mean males and females, or more specifically the human sex ratio. Here on modern day Earth, the sex ratio is very nearly 1:1. That is, there's an almost equal number of men and women on our blue planet. That's to be expected when parents essentially have a fifty-fifty chance of having a boy or a girl. But what does the sex ratio look like in Transneptunian's colonized solar system?
As is the case on Earth as you go from region to region, the solar system's sex distribution varies from place to place, though the variations are much more extreme. People no longer require a male and a female to reproduce, and they can choose which sex they want their child to be. This, along with the relative ease of changing one's sex later in life, have dramatically changed the dynamics of sex. In some parts of the solar system, it's even become customary to have gynandromorphic children and allow them to choose whether they want to be fully male or female after they've reached sexual maturity.
Below is a sex map of the solar system. In general, the solar system has more sexual parity in the inner solar system and becomes less male the further out you go, with an increasing proportion of unassigned or “other” sex types as you reach the frozen fringes. The highest concentration of male colonists is in the Main Asteroid Belt, which was initially populated with mining outposts, and the highest female concentration is at Saturn, due to sociopolitical peculiarities which took hold there in recent generations.
Okay, that's enough worldbuilding for now. More comic coming your way soon. This could possibly be a three-update week. Thanks for stopping by!
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