Kidd Commander!

So his plan was to cut her and Brokenspectre apart, but that can’t be done in this case?
(And she seems to be going a little like “What just happened what the HELL just happened WUT JUST HAPPENED” in…panel 3?)

Sounds like a little more Tain in there than just Raven compared to before, too.

Ah that’s, I didn’t think Gideon was the type for the living his dreams through his prodigy. He failed, so he’s tried to build a commander that can.

ALso that’s pretty interesting, i always assumed Commanders needed a star to command, but from reading these comments, and the fact that Hazard has a star, I think commanding, and tying yourself to a star are different practices. Phin always commands her energy from the environment around her, she doesn’t use broken-specters energy to command (as evidenced by the colour of the energy that emanates when she commands, Broken specter is golden yellow, while Phineas has commanded three different power-sources so far, The planet, that starstone in the mines and now Artemis; which are aquamarine, and two different shades of light blue respectively).

So why do the two commanders we’ve seen so far use stars? Phineas HAD to have hers attached or she would die. And according to Jocasta, the star keeps the host alive, effectively making the host immortal. And Crows Crew were fighting gods and stuff, So i assumed shoving celestial body’s in their skulls was an effort to level the playing field somewhat by making them immortal. But not aging is a pretty crappy defense against being crushed by giant monsters like Hastur. prompting the question, what do the stars actually do?
Our sun outputs 1.4 x 1031 joules every hour (for reference a one megaton atomic bomb releases 4.18 x 1015 joules on detonation. And our sun isn’t the biggest or anything, it’s about average compared to other stars). The stars in the various (noun for hollow people?) are going to be differently sized, But it’s safe to assume that they’re going to be outputting crazy amounts of power, (like, World-blowing-up-several-thosand-times-over-power). And Phineas definitely isn’t throwing around that kind of power, because it took her a significant amount of effort to move a large rock.

The only reason I can think of why stars don’t deliver more significant power to their hosts, is the Host’s limits. Having them transform so much energy would kill them, so it’s limited to an amount they can handle. The star allows the user to “cast magic” indefinitely because they’re connected to such a large power source, but the host needs rest and breaks because like any equipment, they’ll wear out from overuse.

This is just an theory though, I get the feeling there’s a bit more to it than this, because I’ve only considered the side of the host and not what benefit the star gains from this relationship. But this is already 3+ paragraphs long and that’s another wild rambling for another day.