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First Seen: Tue 2012-07-10
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Sci-Fi Adventure Monday & Thursday.
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.
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Transcript For Strip 399
Panel 1Seamus, Buford and Nicole passing through an airlock into the Haughty XL-5.
Buford: My people were once enslaved by those implants, you know.
Nicole: I've read the histories. It sounds horrible.
Panel 2
Seamus, Nicole and Buford settle into their seats/acceleration couches, arranged is receding rows of three, one side of an off-center passageway.
Seamus: The devices used then were primitive and very different in function from the implants most L-5ers and even Lunans use now.
Buford: So it is claimed.
Panel 3
Seamus, Nicole and Buford, in their seats, looking around. Nicole is looking at Buford. In the row of seats behind them, someone who looks a lot like the elder George Bush is getting into the aisle seat.
Nicole: Buford, I've had implants for close to a decade now, and I've never felt any outside will controlling my thoughts.
Buford: How do you know what having your thoughts controlled feels like?
Panel 4
Seamus smiles at Buford -- he's beginning to warm on her.
Seamus: I could prove it but I'd have to teach you advanced nano-cybernetics and cortical architecture first.
Buford: Or I can wait a century or two and see how your version works out.
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