Strip 1020 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Fri 2015-01-30
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Colors: Lea Jean Badelles
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Quantum Vibe
A thousand years in the future, humanity has colonized worlds in nearly 100 galaxies, thanks to Quantum Vibremonic technologies developed five centuries earlier. Other new technologies have created various off-shoots of humanity and extended life expectancies five-fold. The story begins with how a mad scientist and his plucky assistant, along with their robot friend, brought humanity to the stars, and continues with the adventures of some unique people in fantastic places.
QV on a short break [ Jul 15, 2026 ]
QUANTUM VIVE is taking a break for a few weeks, as we prepare for Part 2 of the Novo Palermo story, and also for a Kickstarter campaign for Part 1, which will start in September.
In the meantime, Not-Safe.Space will continue, as a murder mystery begins and the relationship between Eithne and Diana develops in unexpected directions.
Not-Safe.Space is a NSFW strip but more than half the pages are SFW so I've set those to *not* require a Patreon membership. Readers should be able to follow the story without seeing the NSFW pages. If I've done this right.
Transcript For Strip 1020
Panel 1The girls are again standing in front of the whiteboard. This time a somewhat different design is displayed. Nicole's hair is a bit longer.
Caption: Several tendays later:
Murphy: That should be everything. Trans-universal probe Mark V.
Nicole: We've refined the refinements to a fine edge.
Panel 2
Now they're at the launch systems monitor, as before.
Murphy: We've got as big a power supply and as much shielding as we can pack onto one of these launch vehicles.
Nicole: Keep your fingers crossed.
Panel 3
Exterior view of the probe rocketing away from the planetoid.
Murphy (from below): The probe is on-track, all systems show green ...
Panel 4
The girls at the monitor. We see the probe with its engines cut ...
Murphy: Coasting to maximum altitude ...
Nicole: Breach engine activation in 3 … 2 … 1 ...
Panel 5
The girls watch in astonishment as the probe seems to squeeze in on itself.
Murphy: Oh, no …
Nicole: A singularity?
Panel 6
The probe disappears in a tiny flash.
Nicole: FEEK! When it falls back down here …
Murphy: No worries – it's too small and will 'evaporate' long before it reaches the planetoid.
Panel 7
Close 2-shot of Nicole and Murphy looking up at the monitor.
Nicole: Well, at least that was something.
Murphy: Something, but worse than nothing. We have no salvage to examine.
Panel 8
Murphy lays an affectionate arm across Nicole's shoulders.
Murphy: We need a fresh approach. Let's take some time off.
Nicole: And do what?
Murphy: I have an idea ...
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