T-Rex: Everyone loves a good science fiction epic! Whether it's a war involving the stars, or a trek involving the stars, people just can't get enough of that stuff!
T-Rex: So anyway here's mine!
T-Rex: Blurrg (orc, basically race of ugly bullies) adjusted the orbital velocity of the XJ-25545 prototype he and his crew had stolen. A'hrarka (night elf, aloof, good at archery but only if it's night) scanned for nearby interceptors. And to her right, D'anny The Bold (dragon/mermaid hybrid, long story, not as interesting as it should be) armed the transphotonic cannons. If the law caught up with them, they might get taken... but it wouldn't be ALIVE.
Utahraptor: This seems like pretty fantasy-inspired scifi, my dude!
T-Rex: Because I JUST FIXED FANTASY.
T-Rex: Turns out all fantasy needed was to put its characters both in space AND a hard science context! Of course, it also needed to finally explore the reproductive morphology of the Ent tree people because MAN that's got to be complicated, but I'm still doing research for that.
T-Rex: But DID YOU KNOW one plant generation reproduces with asexual spores, while the next gen of the SAME SPECIES produces egg and sperm cells, sometimes in the same flower??
Off panel: What the hell, that's awesome!
T-Rex: I KNOW
T-Rex: FANTASY AUTHORS NEED TO STOP SLEEPING ON THIS