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Okay, so it is obvious from the look of the new NPC that Mulan has read the comics series of Metabarons. The "Technopriestess" is clearly inspired by the Techno-Techno church in which the high-ranking clerks and bishops wear similar outfits. In one of the issues, the hero, No-Name the Metabaron, meet the Pope's daughter who has been hiding among the all-male clergy all her life and she slowly warms to him until they become a clandestine couple. Her death by the hand of a Techno-Techno assassin is what drove No-Name (I'm not kidding, his name is litterally No-Name) to hunt every one of the Techno-Techno Curia until every last of them was lying dead at his feet. Orne-8, for that was her name, is definitely the inspiration for the Technopriestess.
I can only recommand the series to fans of SF like me, the authors, Moebius and Jodorowski, worked a lot on the mythical first attempt of a Dune film, and the Metabaron saga shows it with many inspirations from Dune, like the Techo-Techno Pope looking like the first artworks of Baron Harkonnen and the presence of Epyphyte, a quasi-magical substance that is almost a copy of Spice in Dune. Yet the series is definitely something on its own, not to be taken as a Dune-ripoff.
There were two series of the Saga of the Metabarons, the first one was at first only published in French and Polish, and it was finally translated into English in 2004, a year after the series ended in French.
As for the new update, I find it great, Kira is really coming out as the whore we all know she is going to end as.
I can only recommand the series to fans of SF like me, the authors, Moebius and Jodorowski, worked a lot on the mythical first attempt of a Dune film, and the Metabaron saga shows it with many inspirations from Dune, like the Techo-Techno Pope looking like the first artworks of Baron Harkonnen and the presence of Epyphyte, a quasi-magical substance that is almost a copy of Spice in Dune. Yet the series is definitely something on its own, not to be taken as a Dune-ripoff.
There were two series of the Saga of the Metabarons, the first one was at first only published in French and Polish, and it was finally translated into English in 2004, a year after the series ended in French.
As for the new update, I find it great, Kira is really coming out as the whore we all know she is going to end as.