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Strip 1463 of Quantum Vibe
Today on Quantum Vibe: Concentrations of distortion
Strip 1463 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Fri 2016-11-04
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Colors: Lea Jean Badelles
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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 1463

Panel 1
Present-Hugo in an inset. Again we see Causa Sui cruising over the galaxy.
Hugo (thought-send): So we pressed onward, scanning the various sextants of the galaxy from medium-range.
Murphy (from ship): This was the last sextant. So, what do we have?
Panel 2
In the control room, Hugo, Murphy and Eithne gaze up at a larger holosphere. Within is an image of the galaxy, with red ribbons criss-crossing around roughly half of the area outside the center bulge.
Hugo: The distortion bands cover roughly half of the area within the arms.
Hugo: There are concentrations of greater distortion.
Panel 3
Medium 3-shot of the trio still gazing at the holosphere.
Hugo: There are four apparent foci which might be natural sources of this phenomenon ...
Hugo: Or, they might be the centers of whatever species is using this highly unlikely warp-drive.
Eithne: Why just one civilization?
Panel 4
Hugo and Murphy look at Eithne
Murphy: Beg pardon?
Eithne: Why would there have to be only one species? Each focus could be the source of a different one.
Panel 5
Hugo, Murphy and Eithne
Hugo: We've explored thousands of galaxies with no trace of an extant technological species, but there are four of them here?
Murphy: It could just as easily be four off-shoots of the same progenitor species.
Murphy: There is precedent for this in humanity's development, after all.

Panel 6
The trio gazes at the holosphere again. Eithne is pointing at one particular locus of red.
Hugo: Whatever the case may be, how do we decide which locus to investigate first?
Murphy: Whichever we choose, we should proceed with extreme caution.
Eithne: How about that one? It kind of looks like a unicorn.

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