Strip 1287 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Fri 2016-02-26
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Colors: Lea Jean Badelles
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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.
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 1287
Panel 1Diana, in her chambers, at the network terminal.
Diana (thought): All right, first let's see what these gomers have to say about themselves.
Text box: Keywords: Bubbleopolis history
Panel 2
Looking past Diana at the terminal screen, we see an image of the city as it appeared previously on the cruiser's viewscreen.
Text on screen: Bubbleopolis a.k.a. Oz a.k.a. Novo Paolo a.k.a. Kūchū Rōkaku a.k.a. France was established in the 890th year of the Space Age.
Diana: Wait … what year do they call the current one?
Panel 3
Angle so we see Diana from the side. The screen is barely visible from the side.
Computer voice: The current date is 1068.742 S.A.
Diana: Oh! A voice interface. Continue with history.
Computer voice: Founders were a consortium of enterprises led by Hari Copperton, Kofi Akosah, Kirsten Bezos, Edmund Ansari, Enrique Colón, and Nicole Oresme.
Caption: * Oct. 1, 3025
Panel 4
Looking past Diana again at the screen. Now we see just one bubble with some structures floating inside.
Computer voice: Within the first 20 years the population had grown to 500,000 persons, and the city had become a major intergalactic trading center, as its founders had hoped.
Computer voice: As the population continued growing, the city, originally named Galactica, added more and more bubbles and acquired the sobriquet 'Bubbleopolis' as well as other popular names.
Panel 5
Medium c/u of Diana looking skeptical.
Computer voice: The city's success is generally attributed to a combination of its advantageous location, its ability to attract productive talent, and its policies of economic as well as social laissez-faire, along with an efficient adjudication system and a culture that abhors aggressive violence and extols private property rights.
Diana: Hmp. I'll bet.
Panel 6
Another angle on Diana, raising an eyebrow.
Computer voice: The city's laws are based on a charter document promulgated by the founders and all residents and long-term visitors are asked to sign an affirmation of agreement with these laws.
Diana: Aha. I knew there was a catch to this game.
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