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Transcript

• On his 150^th year as a Maker, he was again eligible to test for the Collegium.
• He had failed in his 50^th and 100^th year: too little command experience, too thin a grasp of theology, and most importantly... too few Spirits birthed.
• But the intervening fifty years had been productive ones... and his proctors were impressed.
• So impressed, that they advanced him on to the final stage: the "test of tests."
• The posed question, they explained, was different for every cadidate -- and here was his: Birth a Spirit that could isolate and contain a single quark.
• And do it using only the meager materials provided.
• Do it within one week
  ... and without sustenance
• ... He immediately wished he hadn't skipped breakfast.

Trivia

• This is the first time the Colegium appears in the comic (in its alternate spelling). Despite their clerical(?) uniform, all of them differ in the hair-like floaty stuff above their heads.
• From today's understanding of physics, this is a big challenge indeed. As far as we know, a single quark cannot exist alone.