Today on Quantum Vibe: Time to bug out Strip 2475 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Mon 2024-04-15
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.
Kickstarter Success! [ May 13, 2025 ]
The Not-Safe-Space 2 Kickstarter Campaign has ended successfully. Thanks to all who pledged!
Now we get to wait 2 weeks while Kickstarter transmits the funds, and Scott can order the books, and send surveys to backers to get current e-mail addresses for the .PDF versions and mailing addresses for the physical books.
Panel 1
Lorelei does something with her viewer.
Lorelei: Here let me put it up on the large holoscreen…
Kofi (soto voce): Blessed mother of Amanirenas
Panel 2
We see the large holoscreen, with a couple of Pillars’ heads in the foregound. It’s the late, great planet Sharen.
Lorelei: There were … seventeen billion people living rhere.
Lorelei: Only about a million managed to escape before a spreading pyroclastic cloud … overwhelmed them.
Panel 3
Alyss angrily confronts Hugo, some other Pillars in the background also look unhappy. Murphy stands in his defense.
Alyss: HUGO! What have you done?
Murphy: Do you really think Hugo did this?
Hugo: They did this to themselves. With their damned bridge.
Panel 4
Hugo explains, again, as the Pillars consider.
Hugo: They used a dangerous, 8-dimensional technology.
Hugo: It required each end of the bridge be ‘anchored’ in the local gravity well.
Hugo: When I moved the city, the well at this end moved with it.
Hugo:
Panel 5
The Pillars huddle, pondering what they’ve learned.
Alyss: …..
Lorelei: The IGC will think we did this somehow.
Jorge: That’s not necessarily a bad thing.
Enrique: ‘They farked around and found out?’ Hmmm.
Kofi: At least this will discourage anyone building another such bridge.
Panel 6
Alyss turns with a start as Hugo’s hopper fades away. Dominic waves goodbye.
Dominic: Don’t forget to write.
SFX: WeeEEze-Rump WeeEEze-Rump WeeEEze-Rump