Awesome / Drive (Dave Kellett)

• The rogue maker, in order to become a member of the Colegium, was given the "Test of Tests". The test is different for every maker, and his was to birth a spirit (Invent/build a unique item) that could isolate and contain a single quark^note which is impossible, within a week, with the meager materials provided, without food. He finished in one hour. He could have taken longer, but he didn't know about the fasting bit beforehand, and he really wanted a sandwich.
• The entire Tesskan fleet wiped out by the continuum, a high ranking Tesskan officer is "asked" for Earth's coordinates. Faced with certain death when he reveals he doesn't know the coordinates, he doesn't flinch. Instead, he decapitates the Maker who asked him, then leads his fellow prisoners in taking over the Continuum's biggest ship within minutes.
  Maker: How many broke out?
  Mook 1: Roughly four thousand.
  Mook 2: Maker, they're taken over the armory.
  Maker: Spirits! They've made it all the way there?? Gas that entire deck.
  Mook 2: We did... but it... it doesn't seem to...
  Maker: Then open the airlocks: Clear them out like fikk rats!
  Mook 3: Maker, a second group! In the corridor!
  Maker: What? Here? They're here?? Mobilize my guard! And prep the cores... I'll blow the entire ship if necess-
  [WHAM]
  Tesskan: Oh, that won' be ness'sary. I wanna take yer purty ship fer a spin.
• The Vinn are consuming the whole universe in their holy quest. Ahmis has discovered the truth of the matter, and believes that the problem cannot be fixed... only to be corrected by his young apprentice.
  Kik: There's always gon' be helpers. People that run toward the trouble `stead of away from it.
  Ahmis: I don't understand what you're getting at.
  Kik:WE the helpers, Ahmis. And we gotta go look for more.
• One of the Tres Primos explains to their alien navigator why they rebel against El Imperio. The entire speech is a moment of awesome, but the last panel in particular stands out:

  Don't fear the days ahead. Fear not walking towards them.

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