#helmsman
Want to know my favorite little known homestuck fact? Not headcanon. Fact. Heavily textually supported fact.
So we know lowbloods, particularly goldbloods, frequently have “psiionic” powers which seem to mostly consist of telekinesis and the ability to shoot lasers from their eyes. Lowbloods with these powers are frequently forced into service as “Helmsmen” in the Imperial Fleet where they are implied to serve as basically the ship’s engine.
In Hiveswap Act 1, attempting to use Xefros’s powers on I think the autotune mic (but it may have been another electrical object) laughingly dismisses the idea that troll psiionics are electricity or can be used to power things.
In Hiveswap Friendsim Volume 4, Vikare’s story revolves around his obsession with flight and his attempts to invent powered air craft, making it explicitly clear that Alternia never invented aeronautics. They have no flight technology.
Are you beginning to see where I’m going here?
ALTERNIAN SPACE SHIPS AREN’T POWERED.
THEY JUST HAVE TELEKINETIC TROLLS PICK THE SHIPS UP AND THROW THEM.
HELMSMEN ARE LITERALLY PROPELLING THE SHIPS THROUGH SPACE TELEKINETICLY.
I mean, when you think about it, it makes sense! Why bother with rocket fuel and wings when you have a planet full of people who can make shit fly with their minds? But still, it’s hilarious to me that this incredibly technologically advanced civilization doesn’t have engines in their ships and don’t know how they work because when they need to go somewhere they just have THE LOWBLOOD GET OUT AND PUSH.
…Isn’t this what Sollux did to the meteor? I feel like this is what Sollux did to the meteor.
#yes sollux did indeed yeet the meteor#halfway killed himself doing it too
