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First Seen: Thu 2015-05-14
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Colors: Lea Jean Badelles
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!
Transcript For Strip 1094
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Caption: 'But what we were more surprised NOT to find, were alien civilizations.
We did find plenty of worlds with water, and those with liquid water more often than not had some form of protein-based life, similar to our bacteria, or plankton. A few even had higher forms – cephalopods, vertebrates with scales, feathers and fur, some beautiful, some deadly, often both, often neither. A whole new branch of evolutionary biology developed studying these things.
But no Vulcans, no Golgafrinchans, Klingons or Kzinti; neither Pila nor Jophur, Mon Calimari nor Lamviin, Daleks nor Minbari. Personally I'm not sure whether to be disappointed or relieved.
We did find a few advanced reptiloids and mammaloids with potential to evolve sapience. Some of the Terran settlers have set about domesticating them, and some others have set about 'uplifting' them to sapience.
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A family of humans in a menagerie of alien critters. A four-winged avian perches on a stand; a little girl cuddles with a six-legged quasi-kitten; a man is training a lizardog.
No dialog
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Caption: However we did find a few remnants of civilizations. Ruins of cities, settlements, viaducts, all manner of artifacts, and even some dead spaceships – although none with anything like interstellar capabilities.
In some cases it was clear that these species had destroyed themselves in wars, or induced environmental catastrophes, or plagues. It drove home to humans of all types how incredibly lucky we are, to have survived all these dangers. Now that we're spread among the stars, and even starting to spread to other galaxies, the odds of our own extinction, or that of whatever we eventually become, are vanishingly small.
It is possible, as some have suggested, that there are some much older, incredibly advanced intelligences that have avoided our detection. Perhaps they are watching us, to see what we do next.
Panel 4
Some archeologists exploring ruins of an alien city under a clearly alien sky.
No dialog
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