Strip 2468 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Mon 2024-02-26
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 2468
Panel 1The Pillars and some advisers are in the ‘Pan-Oc tagon’ room, seated around the central table. Alyss is looking sullen.
Caption: A short while later:
Enrique: We will have to house and guard almost 10,000 troops
Achal Verma: 9,205 troops plus 580 techs and 32 executives.
Panel 2
Discussion continues.
Jorge Ansari: Cooper says his people can guard them.
Jorge: He’s been coordinating with the other security firms, and Resposta Ciudadana,
Kofi Akosah: But we’ll also have to feed them, until they can be sent away.
Panel 3
Discussion continues. Alyss sits with eyes closed
Francisco Da Costa: Which might be a challenge as we have always relied in a considerable extent on imported food.
Francisco: We can barely feed ourselves.
Panel 4
Lorelei de Cleyre turns to Alyss, who is getting to her feet
Lorelei: I suppose a lot depends on how long until we’re returned to the Five-Star system.
Lorelei: Alyss? Can you tell us?
Jorge: Alyss? What’s ...
Panel 5
Alyss rapidly walks away, her expression shows great distress. Now Sheldon is getting to his feet.
Dominic: We could just send them back to Shārén and move the city later, if we only knew where we are.
Sheldon Rico: I’m afraid the group will have to work out the logistics of the surrender without us.
Sheldon: Please excuse us.
Panel 6
In the hallway, Sheldon catches up with Alyss, who is leaning against a wall.
Sheldon: Alyss, are you …
Alyss: I MURDERED that stupid woman!
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