Well, I’m not the author, but if I can hazard a guess, I’d say it’s at least partially down to the fact that Sulla was *very* expensive to make. If Brendan wasn’t the head of a major, lucrative corporation with all the resources that gives him access to, would Sulla even be possible?

Plus, even speaking as someone who remains grumpy that we still don’t have flying cars and a jetpack in every garage today, I’ve gotta say that flying cars really aren’t all that practical. Traveling in two dimensions still results in a lot of fatalities today. Can you imagine how complex and dangerous adding height to the equation would be? And apart from the cool factor, what would we really get from it? Very few buildings are set up to accommodate parking above street level, much less access. Crowded streets are annoyingly slow, but crowded skies would be pretty deadly. Plus, all the technologies we’ve tried for making “affordable” flying personal vehicles so are are loud and polluting…you wouldn’t want those flying overhead constantly, believe me.

I believe technology like that was specifically made for Sulla. It may not be ready for widespread use.

Speaking of finding you: I’m an archivist at Yale University and one of the projects I worked on a few years ago was an addition to our queer comic book collection. The print copy of the first volume of O Human Star was in there. I kept reading it under my desk and went on to find this site so I could keep reading. So, you’re in our archives! (https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/12/archival_objects/1204940)