Strip 2486 First Seen: Mon 2024-06-24
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.
End Of The War [ Jun 3, 2024 ]
Today's strip wraps up Part 3 of QUANTUM VIBE: This Means War, and also wraps up the whole story.
Still, there is cover art to be done, and I should have a draft ready for next Monday's update, if not the finished art. We plan to run a crowdfunding campaign for the printed book in September. And, after that?
Afterwards we start with a new story, set almost 400 years before This Means War, as Alyss tells her grandchildren the story of how she helped establish an early colony outside the home solar system.
We will see some older characters return, and some new characters populating this story. In the weeks before I begin this new story (I haven't settled on a title for it yet,) I'll post some character designs and development art, so keep coming back.
See you soon.
Transcript For Strip 2486
Herewith a bit of development art:Alyss/Nicole and Li-Liang are bringing two of their children with them to the new colony in the year 670 S.A.
Here they are as they grow through the course of the story.
First, Brielle:
Then, Warren:
Some of their older siblings had turned out a bit spoiled by living in an advanced culture and Nicole thought maybe 'roughing it' a bit would be helpful.
Novo Palermo is a bit smaller than Terra but has similar gravity owing to a somewhat greater density. It orbits well within its sun's habitable zone. It has a great deal less water than Terra, which makes it Mars-like.
Of course, roughing it in the years 670 through 681 SA was a lot less challenging than, say, settling Mars had been 480 years earlier. Here's a concept for a family home built a couple of years after our protagonists arrived.
One of the other families had a more traditional idea of how a family home should look.
By and by a larger building was desired for special events, such as concerts, some sporting events, and community meetings.
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