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Strip 748 of Quantum Vibe
Today on Quantum Vibe: The Ionian Mines
Strip 748 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Wed 2014-01-15
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Colors: Zeke Bieser
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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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What Comes Next [ Mar 18, 2024 ]

The War is Over. We Won.

The war is over, but This Means War has a ways to go. Novo Paolo/Bubbleopolis is still in a nebula/stellar nursery, no one knows what happened to the planet Sharen (center of the Intergalactic Council), and the status of the now-surrendered Invaders is yet to be resolved. What will they do when they learn their homeworld is basically destroyed? Will Alyss and Li be re-united? How about Diana (the real one) and Otto?

These questions will be resolved in the next few weeks, before This Means War part 3 wraps in late May.

After that, I plan to go BACK in time about 400 years, to when Alyss and Li left their home in the Sol System to colonize a new world on the far side of the galaxy. As one might expect, hijinks ensue. New subtitle yet to be determined, start date sometime in around the start of July. Stay tuned!

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Transcript For Strip 748

Panel 1
Space-shot, Jupiter looms large in the background, the moon Io is a small, blotchy ball in the middle-ground.
Caption (Moe): Io is the large moon closest to Jove himself, deep in his gravitational well.
Moe: The tidal effect of that gravity has generated friction-heat within Io and a complex, active geology, producing a bounty of 'hot' rare-earth minerals.

Panel 2
Now Jupiter is only slightly larger but Io is a full third the height of the panel. We see her tortured surface in detail.
Moe: Io is not only bathed in Jupiter's intense radio-magnetic field, she is a source of radiation herself.
Moe: The original mining operators put in extensive shielding, making the place survivable, at least, for the 20-year contract terms they used then.

Panel 3
Shot of a mining station corridor intersection. The walls and floor look old and worn, and so do the miners walking by.
Moe: After the original operators sold out to Gensaxwal and OmegaTech Resources, distant vice-presidents decided they could save money by cutting our maintenance budgets.
Moe: As conditions deteriorated, the mercorps found it difficult to maintain adequate staffing.

Panel 4
Moe's family's apartment – dingy, small. Moe's parents are in the kitchenette having an intense discussion while a 12-year-old version of Moe eavesdrops from outside a doorway.
Moe: So Io became home to many thousands of Terrans and Lunans who were deemed inconvenient to have around.
Moe: Including my father, my mother, and myself.

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