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First Seen: Fri 2016-11-04
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Colors: Lea Jean Badelles
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To boldly go where no manic pixie dream girl has gone before.
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.
Kickstarter successful and closed [ May 19, 2026 ]
The Kickstarter campaign for Not-Safe.Space Chapter 3 concluded successfully on April 21, and Scott extended the time allowed for late pledges until May 19.
Books have been ordered from the printer and Scott will be spending the next week or so setting up and sending the PDF files to those who asked for them.
(There are still six of you who have not responded to the survey asking for e-mail and snail-mail addresses, he'll do the best he can.)
Thanks to all for supporting this Kickstarter!
Transcript For Strip 1463
Panel 1Present-Hugo in an inset. Again we see Causa Sui cruising over the galaxy.
Hugo (thought-send): So we pressed onward, scanning the various sextants of the galaxy from medium-range.
Murphy (from ship): This was the last sextant. So, what do we have?
Panel 2
In the control room, Hugo, Murphy and Eithne gaze up at a larger holosphere. Within is an image of the galaxy, with red ribbons criss-crossing around roughly half of the area outside the center bulge.
Hugo: The distortion bands cover roughly half of the area within the arms.
Hugo: There are concentrations of greater distortion.
Panel 3
Medium 3-shot of the trio still gazing at the holosphere.
Hugo: There are four apparent foci which might be natural sources of this phenomenon ...
Hugo: Or, they might be the centers of whatever species is using this highly unlikely warp-drive.
Eithne: Why just one civilization?
Panel 4
Hugo and Murphy look at Eithne
Murphy: Beg pardon?
Eithne: Why would there have to be only one species? Each focus could be the source of a different one.
Panel 5
Hugo, Murphy and Eithne
Hugo: We've explored thousands of galaxies with no trace of an extant technological species, but there are four of them here?
Murphy: It could just as easily be four off-shoots of the same progenitor species.
Murphy: There is precedent for this in humanity's development, after all.
Panel 6
The trio gazes at the holosphere again. Eithne is pointing at one particular locus of red.
Hugo: Whatever the case may be, how do we decide which locus to investigate first?
Murphy: Whichever we choose, we should proceed with extreme caution.
Eithne: How about that one? It kind of looks like a unicorn.
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