1 {scene: the Legacy is landing on Rubilith. A large city can be seen through the forward ports}
1 Paris: Rubilith is highly tectonically active.
2 Paris: To make a stable building platform they use giant motion-damping rollers, which rest on the unstable bedrock beneath.
3 Iki Piki: You mean...
4 Paris: Yes. They built this city on rock and roll.

The city image in the background may actually look familiar to some of you.

It's a photo of New York City, from Wikimedia Commons, taken by Paulo Barcellos Jr. and released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike licence. Which means this strip is also licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike, removing my usual "Non-Commercial" clause. (That's right, you can print copies of this strip and sell them for money - good luck! - but not any of my other strips.)

Check out the full sized version. It's a very cool photo. It won second prize in the Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year for 2007.

It's meant to represent an alien city on the planet Rubilith, of course.