Today on Quantum Vibe: Heavy gravity Strip 80 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Fri 2011-04-08
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.
What Comes Next [ Mar 18, 2024 ]
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!
Panel 1
Overhead shot of the Helio-Flyer streaking across the Photosphere.
Caption: The Helio-Flyer can only survive the Corona where it thins out at the poles, giving it two narrow escape windows.
Panel 2
In the cock-put, white-eyed Nicole looking like she's concentrating hard.
Caption: Escape requires a 100-grav boost for 14 minutes.
Caption: Unfortunately, the ship's dampeners can only cut that back to 50 gravs in the cockpit.
Panel 3
Exterior shot, now the wing and stabilizer nacelles are firing.
Caption: Even though Nicole has lived most of her life in 3 gravs, modern medicine enables her to survive much harder acceleration.
Panel 4
In the cock-pit, we see Nicole's head pushed back against the back of her helmet, her cheeks sunken and eyelids peeled back by the acceleration.
Caption: Ordinarily, if she were to have a momentary black-out, the ship could continue the boost sequence automatically.
Caption: But since her Implant is controlling the ship, whether a black-out would matter is … unknown.