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First Seen: Fri 2015-02-20
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.
Quantum Vibe: Château Périlleux Now On KIndle & DriveThru [ Nov 2, 2020 ]
The hiatus is over, but now's still a good time to go back and read the previous volume of QUANTUM VIBE: Château Périlleux. Now available in digital format on Kindle and Drive Thru Comics!
QUANTUM VIBE: Château Périlleux asks how does a society without a formal government deal with crime and criminal conspiracies? In the far-future space-city known as Bubbleopolis, they do it with a mixture of wit, grit, and a culture based on rolling up one's sleeves and doing what must be done. Diana Martelli, a recent arrival, likes to call it compassionate individualism. And speaking of, young Diana is tasked with finding out who killed a supposedly un-killable android -- and uncovers a conspiracy which shakes the very foundations of the city and its culture.
As a bonus, we've added sixteen pages of "The Trial", a supplement to "Château Périlleux" which was not included in the printed version. Enjoy!
Transcript For Strip 1035
Panel 1The girls are standing next to a new version of the probe. It's a bit less elegant-looking than the previous one, with a lot of extra stuff on it.
Caption: Finally:
Nicole: Interferometer, spectrometer, mass detector, gamma-fluxometer, everything but the kitchen sink.
Murphy: I hope we haven't overlooked anything.
Panel 2
The girls walk away from the airlock door as the newest probe trundles into it.
Nicole: Oh, probably.
Nicole: We'll just have to take the surprises as they come.
Murphy: Agreed.
Panel 3
The girls at the monitor, Murphy is at the console again.
Murphy: Until we can get a handle on that flash effect, I'm sending the probe only up to 2,000 klicks, in the planetoid's shadow.
Nicole: But what if that sends it somewhere else?
Panel 4
Three-part panel, exterior view of the probe in space. In Part A, the probe is surrounded by the electric flash; in Part B, empty but for the star field; in Part C, the probe returns in another flash.
[Part A] Murphy (OP): I'll orient the craft the same way against the stellar background and hope for the best.
[Part B] no dialog
[Part C] Caption: 10 minutes later:
Panel 5
From behind the girls, looking at the monitor, showing the same 'sun' as previously.
Nicole: Spectral analysis of the sun matches that of Tau Ceti!
Murphy: 0.783 times Sol's mass, 0.794 times Sol's radius, confirmed.
Murphy: Assuming we are in fact 683.476 gigs away.
Nicole: What about that planet?
Panel 6
Medium 2-shot of the girls looking at the monitor.
Murphy: It's only half the mass of Jupiter. Projected orbit is highly eccentric.
Murphy: That matches up with the seventh known planet in that system.
Nicole: I think this cinches it – we're looking at Tau Ceti.
Panel 7
The girls gazing at the monitor in wonder.
Murphy: I still can't believe it.
Nicole: Almost twelve light-years and back in just minutes.
Nicole: You know what this means?
Murphy: That we've gone completely delusional?
Panel 8
Nicole has turned and is grasping Murphy by the shoulders.
Nicole: No, silly, what it means is ...
Nicole: … The Stars Are Ours!
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