Today on Quantum Vibe: Pretty sure she's not that old Strip 1555 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Fri 2017-03-17
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!
Panel 1
Eithne coughs as she tries to make herself understood. SAPP is tapping on her tablet again.
Eithne: It isn't nonsense! How can you say it's non … {kaff-kaff}
Eithne: C-{kaff!} Can I get some water? I'm parched.
SAPP: I'll send for some.
Panel 2
Focus on SAPP
SAPP: Let me spell things out for you:
SAPP: Your ship traveled 600 stellars and back in less than eight dechrons. That's equivalent to roughly 70,000 times light-speed.
SAPP: At that rate, it would take almost 15 thousand years to travel 600 million stellars.
Panel 3
Eithne is face-palming as SAPP continues.
SAPP: We're pretty sure you're not 15 thousand years old.
SAPP: Now, your servant 'Doctor Hugo' told us the drive was based on hyperspace slipstream technology, which our scientists believe could move a ship that quickly.
SAPP: It is also one of the possible technologies the Cush are using.
Panel 4
Eithne interrupts.
Eithne: Wait – my 'servant' Hugo?
SAPP: Clearly, those machines are your servants. We saw through that ruse, too.
SAPP: But that's beside the point. We know the Cush are cyborgs …
SAPP: And so are you.
Panel 5
Eithne's jaw drops as SAPP continues.
SAPP: We scanned you thoroughly while treating your injuries.
SAPP: We know you have a cybernetic implant suffused through out your brain.
SAPP: Your body contains billions of nanites, performing various functions some of which we understand and others we're still figuring out.
Panel 6
Eithne face-palms again.
SAPP: You're a different sort of cyborg than any of the Cush we've seen so far, but you're likely a more sophisticated type, as one might expect to see in an advance scout.
SAPP: So cut the crap, Enya Lawndragon, if that's your real name, and let's get to the truth of the matter, eh?
Eithne: It's 'Eithne Lamdagan' and … oh, shuck it.