1 Paris: I can't land this ship!
1 Iki Piki: What? Sure you can. You've done it before.
2 Paris: No! I'm having flashbacks to when I crashed a ship in my youth! Everyone on board but me died!
3 Iki Piki: Er... Relax... you can do it.
3 Paris: {fleeing the bridge} No! AAARRRHHH!! I'm having a panic attack!!
4 Serron: She's having a panic attack?

I bet you forgot this little character detail about Paris, right?

Okay, maybe it's never been mentioned in the strip before, but that's no excuse.

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2025-03-19 Rerun commentary: This character quirk is based on the actual backstory of the character Paris in the real life roleplaying game I played with friends that inspired the Space theme. Yes, she had to deal with it on occasion when piloting the ship in the game.

So this is why I had this character detail firmly in my mind as an established thing when I wrote this strip, and only discovered after making the comic that I'd never mentioned it in the comic before.

This is the sort of thing that can easily happen when you base a story off something else.