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[http://smbhax.com "Supermassive Black Hole A*"] ("A star") is a hard sci-fi webcomic telling stories from a human civilization in the center of our galaxy, and more specifically, the covert search for a particularly powerful bit of [[Lost Technology]], and the lives ruined by it. here, energy and raw materials are abundant and life is cheap. A* is in a black and white cinematic format, and updates Monday through Friday.
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* [[Action Survivor]]: Vero Plank, our protagonist, is a simple tramp freighter crewman. But the instant shit got real, he [[Took a Level
* [[Arbitrary Maximum Range]]: Apparently, the 'boomships' have a greater laser range than standard [[Mega Corp]] fighters. Possibly justified, because they are stated to be faster, and therefore more capable of dodging incoming laser fire, and therefore capable of engaging effectively at greater ranges than a slower, [[Buffy
* [[Casual Interstellar Travel]]: because the stars are much closer together at the galactic core than they are out in the vicinity of Earth, this is possible despite the lack of [[Faster
* [[Bigger Bad]]: Oswalt and Perriman are spoken of only in legend, and those legends make it clear they were not nice.
* [[Body Backup Drive]]/ [[Respawn Point]]: Selenis has a cloning facility with dozens of bodies in reserve. However, the process is... [[Clone Degeneration|inexact.]]
* [[Colony Drop]]: A ship ten times the size of a galaxy-class freighter,moving at ten percent light speed, hits a planet. Only those important enough to get on the few evacuation ships survive.
* [[Complete Monster]]: Selenis. Just... wow. Words are not enough. Trust me, YMMV does not apply here.
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Solvan Mar gets the most screen time, but it's implied that he's far from the only one.
* [[Death
* [[Femme Fatale]]: Selenis.
* [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]: Odd, in a comic otherwise [[Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness|extremely hard.]]
* [[Lost Technology]]: Perriman's 'perfected' cloning technology.
* [[Mega Corp]]: Many, and powerful. Convential government has been mentioned only one, and only in passing.
* [[Stealth in Space]]: A relatively realistic one. Fusion engines leave a radiation trail that can be easily tracked, while chemical engines do not.
* [[Sci
* [[There Are No Good Executives]]: There ''[[Suspiciously Specific Tense|was]]'' one.
* [[We Can Rule Together]]
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