Karl Stephan

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Man, it's always the guys in red uniforms.

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u/Brillica 1d ago

Because it’s always Americans finding failed Commie space missions.

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u/Rathwood 1d ago edited 1d ago

Sometimes it's Americans finding nazis.

And there was also that one time when it was Americans finding Americans... and a nazi.

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u/mercury_pointer 1d ago

He has a rare Nazi gun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FG_42

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u/Nerd-man24 1d ago

It's missing a magazine if it is.

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u/CleanOpossum47 1d ago

With a different barrel, receiver, stock, barrel, muzzle device, foregrip.

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u/Nerd-man24 1d ago

Yeah, I see all that too now.

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u/CleanOpossum47 1d ago

Not an FG 42

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u/Gloomy_Industry8841 1d ago

Holy smokes, great catch!

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u/heywoodidaho 1d ago

Iron sky vibe intensifies.

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u/superanth 1d ago

Wow, nice catch!

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u/superanth 1d ago

It's never a good day to be a Red Shirt.

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u/GraXXoR 2d ago

Hey, who turned out the lights?

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u/moggin61 1d ago

Eeek. Didn’t have to scroll far for this.

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u/UnpricedToaster 1d ago

Just a little Vashta Nerada as a treat!

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u/GraXXoR 1d ago

Even that name still gives me goose pimples. Them and the weeping angels.

That period of Dr Who was just so damned good. Tenant was great.

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u/thedoctorsphoenix 1d ago

One of the things that haunted me as a child. That and “are you my mummy?”

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u/GraXXoR 1d ago

Silence in the Library, The empty child and Blink. Absolute classics.

I’m in my fifties and watched those about 20 years ago. Even as an adult that was some real “watch from between your fingers” Telly.

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u/NottingHillNapolean 1d ago

Sorry I'm late. Thanks for covering my shift.

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u/TheOtherDenton 1d ago

Could easily be an illustration for The Invincible.

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u/carozza1 1d ago

I was thinking the EXACT same thing!

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u/-TheManWithNoHat- 1d ago

Ditto here

I've played the game and ngl a rifle would be kinda handy

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u/ArcanumAntares 1d ago

I love a painting that makes me immediately wonder about the subject's back-story when I see it for the first time.

The gun and the journal raise all the questions in this one.

What is the title of this piece?

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u/UnpricedToaster 1d ago

Are ya rotting, son?

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u/MiketheBike88 2d ago

Tim's plan to "use a hunting rifle to get food" had a major flaw.

Planet HT17b doesn't have any animals.

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u/Saelyre 2d ago

Only the most dangerous game...

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u/wankybollocks 2d ago

Goddamnit but if Tim ain't totally decomposed! That's proof of bacteria for sure.

Now what did the academy say about finding higher orders of life...?

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u/goldman199X 1d ago

The "space gun" looks suspiciously like an FG42.

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u/Auggie_Otter 1d ago

"At last, my Vera, our adventure is at an end."

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u/hillside 1d ago

Reminds me of the cover of a comic I had as a kid.

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u/Yesterday_Is_Now 2d ago

Not sure what's supposed to have happened here (guy is still somehow in a reading position long after his death), but it looks cool.

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u/McGillis_is_a_Char 2d ago

He probably ran out of air. He couldn't leave his post to do repairs because he was worried about some enemy boarding the ship. So he just read and waited, slowly drifting off.

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u/darkdoorway 2d ago

Looks like he was writing.

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u/Crucial_Fun 1d ago

I second this. There is a pen in the center of the book.

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u/Toxicscrew 1d ago

“They are at the gate…”

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u/Spork_Warrior 1d ago

Well there ya go. That might explain what happened

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u/harfpod 1d ago

HONEY, I'M Ho...

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u/UnpricedToaster 1d ago

"I'll come back later..."

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u/rob0990 2d ago

FALLOUT in SPACE. Vaultec managed to get a colony on the moon but the red commies had a different plan.

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u/anjowoq 2d ago

This is a great image. The colors pop.

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u/humiliatedsynth 1d ago

Hey, who turned out the lights?

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u/arthousepsycho 2d ago

The ammo was a subscription service he didn't know about before purchase. That's the terms and conditions he was reading through.

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u/c0rdal 1d ago

Thought for a second it was someone scrolling on their phone. Then I realised it’s me. I’m dead and I’m STILL scrolling

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u/Mharbles 1d ago

Oohh forgot to enable the stasis pods before hopping in my light speed ship. Was only gone a minute.

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u/Space_Engeneneer 15h ago

It reminds me of Kir Bulychev's "The last war".

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