This is so good!

Thenks!

As cool and sweet as this is...

Why do I get the feeling that you are leading us up to something bad again.

cos we're from the future and know this world ends

Multiple times over, even.

My bad I know about the multiple world ending events and seeing as only 100 survivors with most of the planets crust messed up it is one of them now, what I meant to say, is on the line of how this feels like 4-17 -> 4-18 as Feratta has an evil side to get us int eh feels at a key moment

When we started this flashback it was stated. This was the first world distraction event. Over 900 000 years ago. So yah.

Exactly. The (recorded) Alf who is speaking in this flashback has only experienced the first extinction event. He doesn't know about the others yet.

Look up at my other reply, I goofed on the specifics ^_^

When we STARTED THIS FLASHBACK, ALL WE NEEDED, NEEDED WAS SOME LORE! YEARS GONE BY I'D SAY WE'VE GOT SOME MORE!

Oh great Mousetits!

OH GRANDEST OF MOUSE TIDDY!

I've actually had more art of her done to~

I'm sensing a Big BUT coming up here. and i probably now what that would be

This is awesome! I am curious though have we heard of the Aqanin core before? As it seems like we have but I can't recall it mentioned anywhere.

You've certainly SEEN it a few times, it's the blue one :p

Is it the blue glowy area from chapter 3? With all the tentacles and stuff?

No it's the big blue moon in orbit.

Given how I believe it's said the world has ended 7 times (might be off, but I know it was more than 1), this isn't the end of things for sure.

9. But yeah, we've got more fun in store. :p

A hundred survivors, out of whatever the planet's entire population was. Even if they can rebuild, that's a chillingly low number.

I think it was only a research site, so the population was small (if I'm remembering right)

Roughly 20 billion. Everyone with a chip were connected to the PATH system and had active backups of their brains, so people can be restored, and in the meantime they can live comfortably as digital creatures.

So like that Library from Doctor Who!

"Hey! Who turned out the lights?"

And that fellow readers is how Digimon were created ;-P

Ultimate minecraft party!

That felt too easy...shit has hit the fan hard

It apparently wasn't that easy :p We didn't see the whole thing, just the important parts.

yay mouse tits and shark tits survived

In the year 2525, if man is still alive, if woman can survive they may find...

Is that a gigantic leaf symbol on the moon, in the first panel?

That's the Avin core. So yes.

It looks like Sharktits survived too!

So, let me guess... Baelin's chip survived too, but is permanently corrupted?

There's explanations as to why Baelin can't just be cloned and downloaded, such as strict safety mechanisms to prevent duplication of people that are not registered as deceased.

I think I see a Tarth in this one!

Correct.

This is pretty odd. Really high tech, but no colonization of anything beyond the planet's surface, and no more than about a hundred people in space even after a good bit of warning that there was a potentially planet-killing vanta-white doom sphere in their lap for a while.

This civilization really didn't care for the idea of leaving home.

When your tech level is at a stage where you can choose to live in a virtual space, expanding and colonizing IRL is kind of a moot point.

Also the orb was growing at a fairly slow rate, they weren't ready for it to suddenly start multiplying. :p And even then, how do you evacuate 20 billion people? Easier to just upload as many as you can to the cloud and hope you find a way to stop the thing before you lose the planet.

question for Feretta

why in the second panel do more than half of them look "pissed" at him? even though he saved everyone else?

am i missing something here?

Actually only one is a little pissed 'cuz she's the station's commander and now has to make the station work for more people than intended. The others are just sad to have lost everything.

AH, and that would be foxxie on the left, shes got gold badges on her shoulder..

so assuming future sifi furry rankings are even remotely close to earth military, more bars on your shoulders the higher up the chain you are.

plus clothing, shes in red with the rest in orange

so again, odd one out :P

Yep. Also everyone in that panel are from the previous pages. You've got Missie and Skiyte, the mouse and shark from before, and the people from the village Alf landed at.

I’ve got Bad memory :P

So apart from mousie, sharky and sexy wolf I didn’t recognise any of them :3

Or is there plenty.... :o

Well, we have a million years to go, so..

Explains the PATH part. A little morbid, but I wonder how many people didn't survive this catastrophe.

Anyone who weren't already uploaded to the PATH. It's a very big planet, too, so.. Maybe 20 billion.

Oof. Hopefully they can repopulate from that.

Once they re-establish their cloning tech and get some new chips produced, they should be fine :p

I have a feeling this is just the calm before the storm...

Sounds like they had plenty to rebuild their world with. But it looks like this world was rebuilding with tech more comparable with the previous world then what Fenfen's world has. Certainly not as much, but this is basically colonizing a planet that was just rebuilt.

Something tells me that not all was well in the new garden of Eden.

I mean, Alf can literally create matter from nothing, all he needs is enough time to re-dirt the entire planet, reseed the ecosystem, re-establish any material they need for getting their tech back up and running, help rebuild said tech, get cloning bays and chipset manufacturing back online for people to re-download to new bodies.. He has a lot of work to do.. :p

I was on the space station, did I survive? I hope so.

You were? Then I'm sure you're fine :p

Yup, chapter 5 page 37. In the background bringing lunch to mousetits. It's pretty hard to kill liquid metal wolves but I think an expanding tear in the fabric of reality would do it.

That's a kickass species

No one other than mouse and shark tits seems to be happy to see him..

The doggo, snake-doggo and two buns are from the village Alf landed at, they're all sad to have lost their home and everything they know.

yay, my buns survived <3 (the two rabbits. Megai, who is holding Amela. both from my book Searching Arcania, and used here with permission)
Nice to see a grown version of Amela in the last panel too.

Huh...the good guys win. That makes me happy. ^_^

Barely. :p

I dont get it. If he contained it, then why was the rest of the crust destroyed?

Because it had already been consumed.

okay

The fact that the current-day world is a floating continent instead of an entire planet doesn't bode well for this recovery effort.

I mean, this is the first time. We still have eight of them to go before we get to Fen's time :p

When was it ever mentioned that their world was reduced to a floating continent in space?

You can see it on this page, and Feretta clarifies in the linked comment https://www.furaffinity.net/view/15...../#cid:92310309

In the story? Not yet, no. In general? https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachme.....tructure_1.png

I assume H & V is east and west? I assume that's what's left of the planet after all the resets?

Hadalen and Vitrin orbs.

is that the same bunny girl in panel 2 & 5?

Yes. The youngest of them, that is.

At least they have a god to watch over them now, But god how fast of a death that was, a few hours from one orb to complete destruction?

Only the crust, though, thankfully :p Alf can fix that!

to be fair, i think most people Lived on the crust, but, YAY!

But Fe... HOLY GRAVITY WELL BATMAN! Lookit those Snek BEWBS!

Tiddys!

I guess that thing that got Baelin will come back. All it needs is an Avatar on this plane...

Probably what Alf ends up fighting over the ages. Having become the world's God and Protector, watching for more signs of that World Eater.

Here's where Feretta says about Baelin:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/323.....#cid:139956438

Oh.... Oh.

That's... that's not good. O.o;;

And so over 900 millennia the world turned from a round orb into some sort of flat disk thing?

I'm a simple dude, I see spacesuits, I hit the favbutton.

Has led me to many sorrowful moments but that just comes with the territory, It led me to my new sona so I won't complain!

You should enjoy my other comic then ;) It has lots of suits.

And yet, what's coming is going to be far worse. Something happened to destroy most high technology and regress the planet's population back to the iron age, with little to no memory of what came before.

Mousetits survived, it no mention of science shark? Oh lord, I’m the sidekick! D:

Side tits? No, that doesn't sound right..
Don't worry, sherk tits are worth twice or even fourth amount in mouse tits! ;3

Also Sharktits!

Well uh... I guess we possibly kind of know where Akah'nen got his name from. Question is how are they related.

Devastation and rebirth interesting concepts to play with for the world

that's a cute snake

This dont sound like its gonna stay peaceful

Dumb question
Does the darkness have some sorta visual effect?
Because whenever I scroll the screen. It has some sorta 3d drag feel to it

( either by eyes just suck, or wow you somehow made 2d into kickass 3d)

Probably just your screen, ain't no effects to it.

Damn ><

Well regardless. Loving the comic so far

"Chillax, we have a backup"

*1279 million year later*

So, these...Neuro-Chips, what are they actually? Mind-clones? Like, making continious scans of one's brain for a later clone to re-build these neural pathways?

Stil, that must be quite a message for you to one day wake up and be told you are not the real one, but 'just' a mere copy of the original person. What would such a message do to a person? Guess questioning the entire time if one is the 'real' one or not.

"Mornin' mate. Sorry 'bout the new body, you died yesterday, see. A tank got thrown off a mountain and you happened to be where it landed, craziest thing that. S'alright though, you're back now, no sweat, right?"

Mass extinction, thought as much.

Living the colony manager dream

neurochips?

Like what Alf has in the back of his neck.

i dont know what that is still

Its a microchip package connected to the brain. The chip is wirelessly connected to a main server, and stores a copy of a character's conscious in the server.

If you don't know what a microchip is... Lord help us...

i knew what a microchip was i just didnt know what the kind mentioned specificly did, also i guess it could remake them but it still wouldnt be the real them though

It's basically just an interface between the physical body and the digital backup, allowing for continuous, seamless existence between VR and real world in the case of unexpected physical body failure, such as being swallowed by a giant ball of nonexistence. Your body dies, your mind wakes up in the digital world. Assuming a host is available, you can choose to go back to the physical world, in which case your digital brain goes into hibernation and then assimilates a continued backup of your physical life as you go.

And time we had plenty of


...Or do we thought

I am loving this comic~

And so time move's forward.

who's the angry fox

Commander of the station.

"Station wasn't meant to be home to so many people for so long. Do you know what kind of stress that puts on our system?" Most likely something she would say.

Phew, so that's That.


Whose up for seconds?

The one holding the drinks in the last planet looks REALLY familiar...

She's the little one in the second panel. The background is also the same as the panel before it, just advanced in time.

No i mean like she's been in another comic. It was my mistake tho that's a bunny. The other character was a sheep.

So is the backup system like what was in SOMA? Backups were just copies, so there was still a death.

Kinda, except the copy can be reseeded into a new host. Host and digital mind cannot exist at the same time, though, so there's a hibernation system as well. If the body dies, the mind wakes up in the PATH system, if the mind goes back to the physical world, it hibernates in the PATH. The two are separate, but are always continued from the last relevant copy, so you have a continuous experience of existence.

Tidbit: In the time we've been looking at, it was very uncommon for people to actually birth new children, instead just relying on the system to continue their own existence, never worrying about growing old or dying. Just have a clone body ready to go, and you can basically live forever, either physically or in the digital world.

This reminded me of a novel I read a long time ago, where humans developed such technology and over the timespan of just a century or so, there were only people left that supported such a system, as the ones that did not support the mind-copying (like for religious reasons) would simply die out. I recall it even being mentioned some humans even had themselves flash-cloned because they got something as simole as a common cold.

poor skiyte looks so grumpy xD

So if it was just the one white sphere at first, how did the other ones grow? As Baelin's presence outside the sphere doing that? Also going back to what they said about two weeks for the planet to go. . . . .sure did not take long for the outer layer of the planet to almost go bye bye!

Remember how Baelin threw one out that ate the village a few pages back? The idea is that him being out there was spreading additional bubbles everywhere.

As you and others stated by saying he was the link to the entity inside to connect to us. So while these two were fighting, the apocalypse was happening all over the planet. . . .if only we saw everyone's reactions; civilians, military, governments, scientists, anyone that was in the conference room that did not make it onto the ship. Well, many more near ends to go!

Yay, MouseTits xD

Also, is the yellow bunny in the last panel the grown up version of the bunny girl from the first panel?

Yes.

Shark tits survived too!

Yas.

hey fer any plan to open commissions?

Soon as I quit my job.

I give you treefiddy right now to quit your job **COUGH (ᵃⁿᵈ ᵈʳᵃʷ ᵐᵉ ᵃʳᵗ) COUGH COUGH**

Love that mouse managed to survive along with shark lady. It’s sad that the flashback is over, though. Hope to see those two together having a nice, sensual session :3

Some other time, perhaps.

MIND BLOWN! This was a lot to take in. So the magic is some energy power and weird super mind science, and Fen is somehow blood related to FOX guys and Fox guy connects to dragons. In need a smoke and drink.

I need a whiskey and an ass pounding..

world ended and was resurrected.. ok

baelin was wrong to me
alfred didn't miss the screw

100 survivors out of the whole planet? That is a massive Dragon Ball Z fight that happened. Thankfully it didn't take 100 pages.

Are the Neurochips sort of like cortical stacks from Altered Carbon? (I absolutely adore the books but hate the show). Not asking to try to compare it or make an originality accusation, but rather trying to understand if the concepts are analogous. :)

Sorta, except they're always online to a backup system.

Ah, right on. Now out of curiosity, are the backups running or static? By that I mean, if you die, what do you experience? Death, and then a gap of time, and then respawn when you get a new body, or is there a VR environment where the backups are actively processing and experiencing time passing in a matrix environment while they wait to be respawned, or are they just saved as a backup, experiencing no time passing at all, until they're downloaded into a new body?

They're active in a full, digital society.

Oh wow. What's the subjective time scale? 1:1 or...?

Subjective. :p

Oh lol so you havent decided :P
that's cool, gives you more options when you're deciding what's going on and how everything works later