They're whipping the hamsters bloody trying to work out taming. I bet they have a PP deadline to meet for Toulan which is why they're finally working in earnest on it.
Yeah, I agree...the sound made by his gun was a tranquilizer gun sound, not a bullet-gonna-kill-you sound.
However, I am lost...what has happened here...can someone better at reading comics than I please enlighten me. I want to know whats going on, and I can't figure it out lol.