Today on Quantum Vibe: Inventing money Strip 792 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Tue 2014-03-18
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Colors: Zeke 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.
Kickstarter successful and closed [ May 19, 2026 ]
The Kickstarter campaign for Not-Safe.Space Chapter 3 concluded successfully on April 21, and Scott extended the time allowed for late pledges until May 19.
Books have been ordered from the printer and Scott will be spending the next week or so setting up and sending the PDF files to those who asked for them.
(There are still six of you who have not responded to the survey asking for e-mail and snail-mail addresses, he'll do the best he can.)
Panel 1
Murphy is chuckling, Seamus is grumbling.
Murphy: Oh, no! {chuckle}
Seamus: That shield has saved millions of lives, but no-one remembers who invented it.
Adileh: Or who invented Master Miyaki.
Panel 2
Seamus, Adileh and Murphy.
Seamus: Thank the odd gods for small favors. You did better with your project.
Adileh: Yes, well, I only re-invented money. Or at least, money suitable for interplanetary trade.
Panel 3-
Murphy, Seamus and Adileh.
Murphy: How do you mean?
Adileh: I developed a practical way to marry a secure electronic payments system to physical bullion stores.
Adileh: Whether they're called augrams and silgrams or jinkč and yinkč, it's all based on my mathematical schema. It's unbreakable.
Panel 4
Seamus and Adileh trade challenging looks.
Seamus: Unbreakable? Only so far.
Adileh: So far for 265 years.
Adileh: You're just jealous because I thought to name the smallest currency units 'satrapi.'