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Panel 1: The factory is a big, metal box with a glass door on the front and mysterious bits for printing things on the inside. There are panels on the side for storing elemental ingredients like water and carbon. Maida: "Anything?" Davinder: "Well, not anyfing. You have to find a pattern it can do. Obviously."
Panel 2: Maida thinks for a minute, tapping her chin. Maida: "...I know what I want."
Panel 3: She begins typing on the control panel while Davinder looks over her shoulder with a look of contempt. Davinder: "Clothes? Blech. That's girl stuff, innit!"
Panel 4: Maida: "There's the one."
Panel 5: Maida hits "print" for an outfit listed as "Spanish Bund - 2 Piece Set - Black" that looks exactly like the one she found in the market earlier.
Panel 6: The factory starts to noisily assemble the dress from base ingredients. Davinder: "Okay next it's my turn. I'm gonna make somefing fun." Maida: "It's your factory!"
Panel 2: Maida thinks for a minute, tapping her chin. Maida: "...I know what I want."
Panel 3: She begins typing on the control panel while Davinder looks over her shoulder with a look of contempt. Davinder: "Clothes? Blech. That's girl stuff, innit!"
Panel 4: Maida: "There's the one."
Panel 5: Maida hits "print" for an outfit listed as "Spanish Bund - 2 Piece Set - Black" that looks exactly like the one she found in the market earlier.
Panel 6: The factory starts to noisily assemble the dress from base ingredients. Davinder: "Okay next it's my turn. I'm gonna make somefing fun." Maida: "It's your factory!"
…and you have to know that there is an entire system of snobbery and exclusion based around subtle (virtually indistinguishable) variations in factory output and overpriced product templates.
Of course! How else do you distinguish the privileged from the unworthy?
Actually that’s what I was alluding to a dozen pages back, when Safia was talking about someone wearing an outfit printed in pieces off a smaller factory and stitched together by hand. You can just TELL that that person can’t afford a REAL dress.