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First Seen: Thu 2011-07-21
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Sci-Fi Adventure Monday & Thursday.
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 154
Panel 1Exterior of the shuttle, accelerating. We can see a thick laser beam directed at a spot between its twin rocket engines.
Pilot (inside shuttle): Clearly your EM-shield doesn't affect visible light.
Seamus: It was designed not to.
Seamus: Can you gauge the power of that laser?
Panel 2
Inside the shuttle, Pilot and Seamus.
Pilot: Approximately 5 gigawatts ...
Pilot: Enough to overwhelm my baffle-plating and cause an engine shut-down in about 10 minutes.
Seamus: Very well then.
Panel 3
Nicole with her display, and Seamus in the right background.
Seamus: Nicole, touch the top left icon, and in the requester set the range to 55 meters.
Panel 4
Exterior – the shuttle is now surrounded by a reflective cocoon. The laser is reflected off of it.
Pilot: The laser is gone, but so are the stars.
Pilot: If it weren't for your gravitic sensor I'd be flying completely blind now.
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