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First Seen: Mon 2023-12-18
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.
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 2457
Page 078Panel 1
Sergio sets his glass down on the small table
Sergio: So, what do you think of the wine?
Macron: It’s … creditable. You Novo Paolans do know how to live the grand life.
Panel 2
Sergio leans forward, establishing dominance over Macron
Sergio: Okay, let’s get down to business.
Sergio: Why are you defecting? And what do you have to offer us?
Macron: I’m defecting because the woman currently in charge of this project has gone insane.
Panel 3
Sergio and Macron
Sergio: Go on.
Macron: Her seconds are too cowardly to stop her from completely wrecking the Council’s support among the vassal states. You might consider them ‘franchisees.’
Sergio: I understand how your system is structured.
Panel 4
Focus on Macron
Macron: She refuses to admit that without our ‘Rainbow bridge’ affording us egress into the city, we cannot win here.
Macron: She refuses to negotiate a withdrawal. This business of attacking hospitals, for gourd’s sake. It’s madness.
Macron: She has removed the velvet glove revealing the iron fist – except the ‘iron fist’ is remarkably brittle without its covering.
Panel 5
Sergio and Macron
Sergio: ‘Rainbow bridge,’ eh? Your people can certainly wax poetic.
Macron: I don’t understand the technology. Only that it is no longer available to us.
Macron: But as for what I have to offer you ...
Panel 6
Sergio and Macron
Macron: I know where our field headquarters is, where to find Amelia Orme-Colbert.
Macron: If you send in a squad to kill her, the others will stand down.
Macron: I only need the Pillars’ word that we will be permitted to depart.
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