Memnon Vanderbeam The fussy, arrogant curator of the Fuseli.
	Cutter Edgewise Ex-pirate, drunk, and the Fuseli’s pilot acting on behalf of the Terran military.
	Mr. Jinx Alien operations assistant to Vanderbeam. Like C-3PO without all that raw courage.
	Princess Jovia Royal ambassadrix from the Jupiter Colonies. The object of Vanderbeam’s desire.
	Meridian Holiday The Fuseli’s head engineer. Inquisitive and smart.
	Lord Katarakis Your typical crazed space despot. Recently tried to conquer the Consortium with a piece of art.
	Vore An antique robot from Earth who wants to kill all organic life.
	Obdrath von Lucifuge CEO of Esquigent, the starslip drive corporation.

Starslip Crisis follows the adventures of a decommissioned space warship refit to serve as an art museum. Its mission: to spread Terran culture to all the miserably uncultured alien species out there. Of course, things get in the way of that mission, not the least of which is the ship’s own crew.

MAJOR SPOILERS FOLLOW!
If you’re a new reader, you may want to go ahead and read through the strips. Otherwise, keep reading here for the major plot points over the last two years.

Memnon Vanderbeam, curator and acting captain of the Fuseli, rescued his semi-sweetheart and crush Princess Jovia and her father, the King of the Jupiter Colonies, from an assassination attempt. The assassination was probably planned by Obdrath von Lucifuge, CEO of the galaxy’s biggest starslip drive company: the Jupiter Colonies have always been strongly anti-starslip drive, because of its inherent design flaws.

Those same design flaws caused the Fuseli to starslip to a universe in which Vanderbeam had failed to rescue Jovia from the assassination. She is now dead. Vanderbeam is secretly looking for a way back to her.

Meanwhile, Lord Katarakis, using a mind-controlling piece of art called the Spine of the Cosmos, attacked and enslaved Mr. Jinx’s homeworld of Cirbozoid. The entire Terran Consortium has geared up for war against Katarakis and his Republic of Liberated Worlds, and in a shocking turn of events, former Fuseli navigator Cutter Edgewise was promoted to ship’s captain, replacing Vanderbeam.

After a year-long war, Katarakis finally fell to the combined efforts of Vanderbeam, Cutter and Mr. Jinx… but before anyone could celebrate, the time-traveling police force known as the Deep Time Agency demanded the extradiction of Katarakis, now revealed to be a time traveling despot! Now the Consortium stands on the brink of war… with its own future.

The Fuseli must now strike a balance between being the Consortium’s cultural envoy and premier art museum, and the most heavily-armed flagship of the Consortium’s military.