Strip 1295 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Wed 2016-03-09
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.
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 1295
Panel 1Diana, Bok, Zander, Alyss.
Diana: But this doesn't make sense! Why retard technology?
Diana: And why is our population declining?
Alyss: Both good questions, which will feature in the report I'm making to my clients.
Alyss: But here's a summary:
Panel 2
Medium close-up on Alyss.
Alyss: Your economy is designed for a goal of 'homeostasis.'
Alyss: That is, it seeks to maintain a steady, predictable state of production, consumption, and resource management.
Alyss: Innovation upsets that balance, requiring adaptations that are challenging for a command-type economy such as yours.
Panel 3
Alyss, Elric, Sargon.
Alyss: It is simpler to suppress innovation. Simpler still to dial technology back to a more manageable level.
Elric: We've been held back for our own good?
Sargon: We've been like mushrooms – kept in the dark and fed shit.
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