![]() 10 years after the attacks, a child companion bot awakens from a long “sleep” on a mining colony. Relations between the UGC planets largely dissolve, and the survivors carry on living as best they can. Nine gargantuan robots (later dubbed “Harvesters”) appear out of nowhere, and each one unleashes a devastating attack that razes the nine UGC planets before disappearing. The serenity we see as readers only lasts for a short time, though. Nine planets comprise the Council, and they’ve achieved some semblance of peace between them. Tin Stars opens with a panoramic shot of a far-future society governed by the United Galactic Council (UGC). ![]() The good news: Descender still stands out as an excellent sci-fi story. ![]() The bad news: it’s not quite as polished as 2018-me remembers. Nearly three years ago, I read Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen’s Descender Volume 1 Descender, starting with a reread of Tin Stars. ![]()
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