Strip 1319 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Tue 2016-04-12
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Colors: Lea Jean Badelles
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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.
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 1319
Panel 1Sargon, Alyss and Bok. Alyss and Bok are both taking a sip of their drinks.
Sargon: So, one thing I've been wondering ...
Sargon: Those 19 Venus worlds that failed within 100 years … and the six still going ...
Sargon: What made the difference between those that failed and those that linger?
Panel 2
Alyss.
Alyss: Well, some would say this is my bias speaking, but ...
Alyss: The first 19 worlds were governed by humans. The super-computers were only used as tools to prescribe capital and consumer production and distribution goals.
Alyss: But when you take money out of society, it gets replaced by power-politics.
Alyss: Political goals super-ceded economic ones, and those worlds' material wealth suffered accordingly. The wrong goods were produced, distribution channels broke down, and so forth.
Alyss: The six remaining Venus worlds are run like Zytemonde.
Panel 3
Sargon, Alyss and Bok, who is looking thoughtful as he listens.
Sargon: So the only way a money-less economy can work at all is with a self-less machine as totalitarian overlord?
Alyss: Pretty much, it appears.
Bok: Woah, that's more or less what my father told me, before he was taken away.
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