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Post by popo on Apr 28, 2008 5:12:57 GMT
wow!I'm pretty sure tom said that this chapter was gonna be about Kat I also it made me think about this
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yinglung
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Post by yinglung on Apr 28, 2008 6:07:48 GMT
I think we already had a chapter on Kat. My bet is on a chapter about the people in the photo around the time when it was taken.
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Post by Ed130 on Apr 28, 2008 6:32:09 GMT
Could SI stand for "International System of Units"?
A total shot in the dark.
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Post by Yin on Apr 28, 2008 6:50:30 GMT
Blinker stone! Excuse me for squee-ing, I'll just run off and make icons.
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Post by reeds on Apr 28, 2008 7:20:58 GMT
Hmm, SI or S1? I can't wait till Wednesday! ;D
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Post by Tom Siddell on Apr 28, 2008 7:27:14 GMT
It's S1.
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Post by King Mir on Apr 28, 2008 8:45:09 GMT
Tom said the chapter would not focus Annie here. Either that or he was saying that it'll be a story about Boxbot (which looking at the title doesn't look so far fetched any more.) I'm not sure where people got the idea that it would focus on Kat. Tom said S1 was the type of robot Robot is. So it seems this chapter will focus on Robot. It also looks like Mrs Donlan will be making good on her promise to show Annie how to use the blinker stone. |
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Post by todd on Apr 28, 2008 10:41:18 GMT
Tom said in response to an earlier question:
"Kat, amongst other things, will be the focus of the next chapter. "
Though that raises the question of where the cover picture fits in, since Mrs. Donlan only promised to teach Annie how to use the blinker stone, not Kat (and I can't see Kat being given lessons; her expertise is in science, not the etheric). Though some of the pictures on other title pages have been of things that looked dramatic, but weren't that important to the story (the picture on the title page of Chapter Nine, for example, was of the mask glimpsed briefly in Eglamore's office). So the blinker stone might feature in the chapter, but in the background.
And I honestly don't think it's going to be about Boxbot. He's been just a bit character, used for a gag on one page and never heard from again after that. I don't think he's accumulated enough story potential to be the focus of a chapter (and I don't think that Tom would make a chapter revolve around an extremely minor character just because he's grabbed the attention of many of the readers).
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Post by cenit on Apr 28, 2008 18:27:41 GMT
Can't wait for next comic... and also, no link to the last chapter
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Post by thecheshirecat on Apr 28, 2008 19:04:07 GMT
one of the definitions for S1 by Google:
"The initial storage in the stream system at the beginning of the event used in the balance check. This storage includes the water in the branches and in reservoirs."
Assuming that this is a relevant definition, my guess is that this implies the beginning of some snowball effect. (The beginning of an all-out war between the two factions, maybe)
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Post by nikita on Apr 28, 2008 23:23:45 GMT
What inspired robots appearance? Robot had wings because he is/was a model-S robot. Before you ask, this will be explored in the story soon. |
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Post by Boksha on Apr 29, 2008 0:54:16 GMT
Robot's serial number is S13. I figure S1 will be similar.
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Post by todd on Apr 29, 2008 2:02:24 GMT
If the chapter is named after one of the robots at Gunnerkrigg, that would fit the focus being on Kat; she's already made plans to build a new body for Robot, and this chapter might be about her gathering the materials and information to do so (with S1 being involved in some way).
Except that doesn't explain what that has to do with the blinker stone. Maybe (in a reverse of Chapters Twelve and Seventeen) Kat heads off to do her robot investigation while Annie's having a class on blinker stones with Mrs. Donlan. (Annie might even be using it partly to distract Mrs. Donlan in order to give Kat the opportunity for her investigation.) It would still mean that the blinker stone doesn't have a large role in the story - which would make it seemingly an odd choice for the title page art - but as I mentioned above, Tom's often used relatively minor elements from the story for that art, if they're dramatic-looking enough.
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Post by fr4tbrn on Apr 29, 2008 5:46:52 GMT
S1 might be a slightly less advanced model of Robot, since it is earlier in the series. Maybe we will find out the origins of these robots.
OR BLINKER STONES!! *dies*
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Post by pulvissolaris on Apr 29, 2008 21:03:54 GMT
In any case, S1's serial number implies that it is the prototype or, at least, an early model of S - series robots. Maybe Kat is going to enlist the help of S1 in getting its series' blueprints, so she can construct a new body for robot (then again, Antimony was able to do that without any blueprints, and there happens to be a conveniently labeled room full of no spare robot parts).
Another thought: When Antimony infiltrated the robots' lair, the board listed many faulty robots. Maybe the S series has gone insane collectively, and S1 is either the cause or the cure for this.
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Post by headwired on Apr 29, 2008 21:39:41 GMT
In any case, S1's serial number implies that it is the prototype or, at least, an early model of S - series robots. Maybe Kat is going to enlist the help of S1 in getting its series' blueprints, so she can construct a new body for robot (then again, Antimony was able to do that without any blueprints, and there happens to be a conveniently labeled room full of no spare robot parts). It was pretty easy for Annie, all the pieces were ready to just be slotted together. Perhaps Kat will make a much more technologically advanced body. |
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Post by cenit on Apr 29, 2008 23:08:04 GMT
well, it depends... 1 can also mean it's the number like in "the best"
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Post by Boksha on Apr 30, 2008 1:04:19 GMT
Or maybe Robot was just the 13th robot in the S series. It's his serial number after all, not his type number.
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