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Strip 1111 of Quantum Vibe
Today on Quantum Vibe: Mr. Foot
Strip 1111 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Fri 2015-06-19
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Colors: Lea Jean Badelles
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Hu Iz Alyss Roaz?
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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.

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What Comes Next [ Mar 18, 2024 ]

The War is Over. We Won.

The war is over, but This Means War has a ways to go. Novo Paolo/Bubbleopolis is still in a nebula/stellar nursery, no one knows what happened to the planet Sharen (center of the Intergalactic Council), and the status of the now-surrendered Invaders is yet to be resolved. What will they do when they learn their homeworld is basically destroyed? Will Alyss and Li be re-united? How about Diana (the real one) and Otto?

These questions will be resolved in the next few weeks, before This Means War part 3 wraps in late May.

After that, I plan to go BACK in time about 400 years, to when Alyss and Li left their home in the Sol System to colonize a new world on the far side of the galaxy. As one might expect, hijinks ensue. New subtitle yet to be determined, start date sometime in around the start of July. Stay tuned!

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Transcript For Strip 1111

Panel 1
Bok, Zander, Sofia, and seven other youngsters are sitting in two semi-circular rows of soft chairs, personal Screens in hand. The focus is on an android, 'Mr. Foot,' standing before a large holoscreen, lecturing.
Foot: Last Sevenday we discussed the early years of the Great Expansion, and how human greed produced unconscionable inequalities of wealth ...
Foot: … as well as massive destruction of planetary ecosystems.
Foot: Who can tell me about the Charcoshan Disaster?
Panel 2
A girl has her hand raised, and is speaking.
Foot (OP): Yes, Ms. Takei?
Takei: The old Terran mercorp GENSAXWAL colonized the planet Charcoshan, and found one species – the 'foxtails,' suitable for uplifting.
Takei: They made the foxtails just sapient enough to be useful as slaves, as personal servants to elites among the human population.
Panel 3
Another angle on Takei, showing other students, some looking at her others ignoring her.
Takei: But enslaving the foxtails upset Charcoshan's delicate ecosystem in ways the humans did not anticipate, and a deadly pathogen spread through the colony – deadly to humans, but not the foxtails.
Takei: After three quarters of the humans died, the foxtails rebelled and killed the remainder.
Takei: However, the uplifted foxtails could not sustain themselves amidst the damage the humans had caused, without human support, and they died out within a few decades.
Panel 4
Another angle showing both Bok and Takei. Bok pipes up, to Takei's annoyance.
Bok: I guess the moral to that story is, 'Don't lift a fox up by its tail.'
Bok: Or maybe, 'Beware of servants with sharp, pointy teeth.'
Bok: Unless it's, 'If you want to be an elite, make sure you have fleet feet.'
Panel 5
Most of the class bursts into laughter (except for Takei, who looks even more annoyed, and Bok, who looks highly satisfied). Mr. Foot is holding its hands aloft in an effort to restore order.
Classmembers: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Foot: That will be quite enough commentary, Mr. Clark.
Panel 6
Bok is now looking not so happy as Mr. Foot continues.
Foot: Since you have such a unique viewpoint on planetary disasters you are assigned to write a 5,000-word essay explaining the Windemere Collapse, and present it to the class this coming Threeday.
Foot: I'm sure we will all find it quite amusing.

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