Silver Spray
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The Silver Spray was the "beloved" timeship of the Corsair, who used it to sail the temporal shoals from era to era, using the time tides.
The Silver Spray once wrecked itself in the shoals while the tide was connected to Hoppiq Minor, due to the temporal chaos of the Ghost Wars. However, when the tide came in again, the Corsair was able to sail it off to where it could be repaired. (PROSE: The Bloodletters)
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Corsair as depicted in The Bloodletters is a fusion of two public domain comic-book characters, Joe Millard's "Corsair Queen" Lila Evans from Buccaneers Comics #25 (1951) and Chas M. Quinlan's "Corsair" Jon Gallant from A1 Comics #3 (1946). Both characters were originally intended to be humans in a historical setting.
The name of "Silver Spray" for the Corsair's ship originated in the latter series, where it is an ordinary sailing ship, whose captainship is gifted to Jon Gallant in the first comic story in the series by wealthy shipowner Stephan Porter. The events of Quinlan's comics are acknowledged in The Bloodletters, with the Corsair claiming that he was but pretending to be the inexperienced farmer Jon Gallant on a lark, and was as surprised as anyone when his bizarre lie got him "hired as a ship’s captain with no experience and no references"; this implies that even in Ryan Fogarty's tellings, the events of Quinlan's narrative took place on Earth, leaving little room for Porter's Silver Spray and the Corsair's timeship to be the same vessel. One may be intended to surmise that the Corsair renamed his timeship after Porter's sailing ship and substituted it for it, or else somehow transformed Porter's ship into a timeship.
