Strip 174 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Thu 2011-08-18
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 174
Panel 1Seamus, Vanessa, Nicole at the bistro table. Seamus is trying to placate an indignant Nicole. Vanessa looks like she's about to cry.
Seamus: No, not a fraud. The revised protocols were published exactly as we followed them.
Seamus: You are indeed the first – and so far only – clone to be made by osmotic construction.
Seamus: She just used larger pieces.
Panel 2
Two-shot of Nicole and Vanessa.
Nicole: Why did you lie to me?
Vanessa: I – I thought it would be better for you this way.
Nicole: When is a lie better than the truth?
Panel 3
Medium shot of Seamus, hoisting a fork-load of food from his plate.
Seamus: When it protects secrets.
Seamus: The genetic donors wished to remain anonymous, for varying reasons.
Seamus: All of them waived parental right or responsibility for you.
Panel 4
Two-shot of Vanessa and Nicole.
Vanessa: We worried that if you knew you had identifiable fathers you would get curious and start seeking them out.
Vanessa: Most of them didn't want to be sought out. And would react badly if you turned up at their doors.
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