This is a really great comic, and it also inspired me to check out the rest of your comics. Your stories really capture a specific kind of capitalistic dread, of going to extreme lengths to try and hold onto "human" traits (individuality, the want for love, the want for dreams, the ache for a home) despite it being denied at every turn. I look forward to seeing where this story will go!
(One major question that I had while reading Maiden Flight Infinite was why there was an expendable soldier program that costs $$$$ if they're going to throw away the person? Surely it would be cheaper to remote operate the planes? Just majorly curious)
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thank you for reading and enjoying!
as for your question, there are many answers, but the most pertinent 'in-world' one, i think, is that starshine is not a person! she is a piloting biocomponent grown/cloned from the cell line of someone who was a person, but is now dead - from the physical exam you can see her organs aren't even engineered to survive for more than the handful of hours/days needed to complete a given objective. so not human, but a cost-efficient byproduct of a human, like a teratoma!