Strip 1448 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Fri 2016-10-14
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Colors: Lea Jean Badelles
Sci-Fi Adventure Monday & Thursday.
To boldly go where no manic pixie dream girl has gone before.
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 1448
Panel 1Eithne is standing beside the table now, working with both hands on an enlarged version of the holoscreen, manipulating images with her fingers.
Eithne (thought): Hmmm … spin-2 boson diffractor locked at minus five attometers ...
Eithne: … wave spectrum filter set to range 10-7 to 105 Hertz ...
Eithne: …. quantum vibremonic constant set to 1.618033988749894848204582791003.
Eithne: Aaand, run script.
Panel 2
Eithne seated at the table again, looking at a smaller holographic screen, grimacing in frustration.
Caption: Four thousand 18 seconds later:
Eithne (thought): 729 single black holes, 1488 single neutrons, 24 double black-holes, 287 double-neutrons and … 1703 INDETERMINATE???
Eithne (out loud): Gaaa! What's wrong with this thing?
Panel 3
In a different part of the ship, Eithne is laying on her back, half submerged into a hole revealed by a removed access panel. A small tool-kit is at her side.
Eithne (thought): Gotta be a fault in the interferometers.
Eithne: No? Hmm, maybe in the antimuon-beam splitters?
Eithne: Dammit!
Panel 4
Back at the galley table, Eithne face-palms as she looks at her holographic display.
Eithne (thought): No matter how I fine-tune this thing, I still get more than a thousand 'indeterminates.'
Eithne: Less than 20 kiloseconds to the next jump. I can't go to Murphy with this!
Panel 5
She lays her head down on the table and falls asleep.
Eithne (thought): Maybe if I take a short nap the answer will … come … to ...
Eithne: ZZZZZZZ
Panel 6
A somewhat abashed Eithne is in the control room, confronted by Murphy, as Hugo looks on.
Murphy: More than a thousand indeterminate readings? How much time did you spend on this?
Eithne: All of it!!
Eithne: Well, most of it. I took a nap. It didn't help.
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