I’m not sure if someone’s mentioned this before, but considering the mutts don’t seem to be autonomous in their decision making, it’s possible they’re not here for the group at all. The scout from a few strips back seemed to only register the wreckage, so the Topsiders most likely sent them on a salvage mission.
Depending on how single-minded mutts are in carrying out their tasks, it’s possible they’ll ignore everyone not directly in their way.
Soo, probably a bad moment to bring this up, but… Is the sentient, trigger-happy, xenophobic gun wired to transmit signals to Topsider Colonies, because if so the question of this being an alternate universe or not suddenly becomes moot
For some reason I can’t leave a link… It’s from June 15, 2015.