Okay, there’s a WEE bit of dates-mongering going on here… The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 happened within Christina’s life, but not within her reign, and certainly she had killed off Descartes long before then. So, I’ll invoke the usual, “Something Frederick did back in Ancient Greece affected the timeline somehow, pushing the Pueblo Revolt up a few decades” and go to bed thoroughly content in my sense of creative responsibility.
– Count Dolby von Luckner
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Descartes is probably right in that Christina would not have had a particularly rollicking time with a legion of Puritan thinkers in her army. Even when her Catholic conversion was full upon her, she had a hard time subduing her natural vigor when Church ceremony so demanded, and the dour world of American Protestantism was about as ill-suited towards her exuberance as one could get.
Speaking of American Protestantism, if you get Philosophy Now, you might have noticed William Lane Craig’s amusing article which begins by claiming that he is going to blow the lid off all your conceptions of American philosophical theology and ends by trotting out seven withered corpses which he tries to pass off as fresh country belles. I wrote a bit about it over on my science and culture blog, so if you’re looking for some philosophical smackdownery for your week-after-Christmas pleasure, do give it a read!
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As you’ve gathered, we’ve hopped back to the Christina & Descartes story here for a little while during the Holidays. These events aren’t happening simultaneously (whatever that means in a time travel comic) with the events in the main numbered episodes, but they are canonical, which will become important later. For those who want to read the whole Christina story, either check out the Specials in the archives or click here for the beginning of each cluster!
Part I: Tertiary Crankshaft’s Botched Heist.
Part II: Christina and Descartes Head West.
Part III: Begin the Invasion (which you just read!)
– Count Dolby von Luckner