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Strip 168 of Quantum Vibe
Today on Quantum Vibe: City-station
Strip 168 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Wed 2011-08-10
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Sci-Fi Adventure Monday & Thursday.
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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.

Quantum Vibe: Château Périlleux - By Scott Bieser

What Comes Next [ Mar 18, 2024 ]

The War is Over. We Won.

The war is over, but This Means War has a ways to go. Novo Paolo/Bubbleopolis is still in a nebula/stellar nursery, no one knows what happened to the planet Sharen (center of the Intergalactic Council), and the status of the now-surrendered Invaders is yet to be resolved. What will they do when they learn their homeworld is basically destroyed? Will Alyss and Li be re-united? How about Diana (the real one) and Otto?

These questions will be resolved in the next few weeks, before This Means War part 3 wraps in late May.

After that, I plan to go BACK in time about 400 years, to when Alyss and Li left their home in the Sol System to colonize a new world on the far side of the galaxy. As one might expect, hijinks ensue. New subtitle yet to be determined, start date sometime in around the start of July. Stay tuned!

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Transcript For Strip 168

Panel 1
Establishing exterior, Pellucidar Station – actually a floating city, held aloft by enormous gas bags. The bags contain an oxygen-mix of gasses that provide breathable air and lift for the gigantic structure. An atmo-shuttle descends toward the station.
Pilot (from aboard the craft): Passengers please remain seated until we complete docking with Pellucidar Station.
Nicole (from aboard the craft): They should really call it Pellucidar City.
Panel 2
Seamus and Nicole seated on the shuttle, which has passenger seating for 16. Seamus takes up 2 seats on the left of the central aisle in the front row, while Nicole is in a single seat across the aisle, looking out the window. There are seven or eight other passengers seated behind them.
Seamus: There's a sentiment that it should remain a 'Station' until Venus is finally terra-formed and the whole array becomes land-bound.
Nicole: I kind of like it this way.
Panel 3
Tighter 2-shot of Seamus and Nicole. Nicole is looking a bit sullen. Seamus doesn't notice because he's looking out his own window.
Seamus: One thing I've learned in my centuries of life, is that human communities only thrive when they're changing.
Seamus: Without dynamism, they wither, rot, and eventually die.

Panel 4
Nicole talks to Seamus but doesn't look at him.
Nicole: Change is painful sometimes.
Seamus: Indeed, it can be.
Seamus: But more often than not, I find the rewards worth the cost.

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