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First Seen: Sat 2023-04-08
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 2411
Panel 1Alyss, Hugo, Sergio, Jorge
Jorge: How in flaming hell is this supposed to help us?
Hugo: Firstly, by cutting the enemy off from his supply chain.
Panel 2
Cut to view of ICE warships approaching the center of the 5-sun system.
Hugo: Secondly, you may not have noticed, but the enemy has been sending a fleet of heavy warships past our Oresme shields via normal space.
Hugo: The first six of them are now within a million klicks of our former location.
Panel 3
Back to Jorge, Hugo, Alyss, Sergio
Jorge: So? They won’t get through our Borvonite spheres.
Hugo: Given enough time and concentrated fire they can pierce a sphere and they only need to do that once, to the right one.
Alyss: What about their legation? Can’t they re-establish their bridge?
Panel 4
Jorge, Hugo, Alyss, Sergio
Hugo: Ah, that. I presume you have cameras on their location still?
Sergio: We do. Hang on a second ...
Panel 5
Above the conference table is a hologram of the area around the ICE Legation, but the ICE legation isn’t there.
Jorge: They’re … gone?
Hugo: Presumably they’re still where we left them, adrift now in the five-star system.
Alyss: Their shielding stopped them from coming with us!!
Panel 6
Jorge, Hugo, Alyss, Sergio – Hugo is grinning an evil grin.
Jorge: That’s great, but … now we’re trapped here with millions of invaders.
Hugo: Ah, but you see, now they’re trapped here with us.
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