Today on Quantum Vibe: Retrograde worlds Strip 1290 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Wed 2016-03-02
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Colors: Lea Jean Badelles Sci-Fi Adventure Monday & Thursday.
Hu Iz Alyss Roaz?
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.
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Panel 1
Re-establish the scene: Alyss giving a lecture to the younger people seated around the large table.
Alyss: I was given the name Nicole Oresme, but Alyss Roaz is the one I use currently.
Alyss: I made my fortune in practical physics, inventing both the Murphy Drive and the Oresme Shield, which make intergalactic travel possible.
Alyss: But that's ancient history. I've moved on to other interests.
Panel 2
Medium close-up on Alyss.
Alyss: Currently, my field is colonial anthropology.
Alyss: Humanity has established more than two thousand colonies. Some have flourished, others have failed, or gone retrograde.
Alyss: 'Retrograde' means they have reverted to a more primitive state, compared to human civilization at the beginning of the Great Expansion.
Panel 3
The planet Zytemonde is projected in 3D above the center of the table.
Alyss: My specialty is retrograde worlds, and your world, Zytemonde, has been my object of study for the last 15 years.
Sargon: Do you have a descriptor for our world less, er, demeaning than 'retrograde'?