Strip 2022 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Mon 2019-11-18
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Sci-Fi Adventure Monday & Thursday.
Dark plans fall like thunderbolts.
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.
What Comes Next [ Mar 18, 2024 ]
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!
Transcript For Strip 2022
Panel 1As Bok, now a fully matured young man, is narrating a docu. Behind him is an external view of Bubbleopolis
Titles: Bolivar Clark Presents: Ask Me Anything
Bok: This unique city in space has various names: Galactica, Novo Paolo, Kūchū Rōkaku, France, Oz …
Bok: But the most popular moniker is 'Bubbleopolis,' for somewhat obvious reasons.
Panel 2
Tight focus on one of the translucent spheres, showing the structures within made tiny by scale. Bok narrates from a cameo.
Bok: The 157 Spheres of the city are not made of glass, or transparent aluminum, despite appearances. Borvonite, first developed by the legendary Hari Copperton to protect settlements on airless planetoids, has been continually improved over the past five centuries.
Panel 3
Schematic drawing of a Sphere absorbing solar energy from the Five Suns Again Bok narrates from a cameo.
Bok: Each Sphere absorbs 87 percent of radiation from the Five Suns orbiting their barycenter, as well as cosmic rays …
Bok: The absorbed energy is transformed into electrical energy which gets used to power the buildings and regulate the air contained within each sphere.
Caption: Not to scale
Panel 4
Back to Bok as in Panel 1, with a wry grin. Behind him is an asteroid smashing itself to bits, impacting a sphere.
Bok: The Borvonite spheres of course also protect against asteroid impacts.
Bok: The Borvonite is rated strong enough to withstand a kinetic impact of almost 75 Septillion Joules. That's more than the legendary Chicxulub meteor impact on Old Earth which killed the dinosaurs.
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