So somehow I accidentally ended up giving last week’s strip the title “A Good Purging” even though that’s actually a line of dialogue from this week. Oops!
Transcripts
Sol: The Shunt!? What the hell were you doing anywhere near those psychos’ territory?
X2: Anarcho… is that a species? I don’t think I’ve heard of them.
Tachelock: Oh dear – they’re not another race, planet or political entity that you’ve inexplicably deleted from your memory banks, are they?
X2: Hah hah.
Sol: The Shunt are bunch of religious fanatics that somehow managed to carve themselves out a small interstellar empire of like-minded nutjobs.
Sol: They’re rabidly anti-robot and view the purging of all AI from the universe as a holy duty.
X2: So… best avoided then?
Sol: Generally speaking, yes. Unless you really fancy a good purging.
JEDCØP: But why did Tachelock go to work for them?
Tachelock: Well… it really wasn’t one of my better planned career moves.