Strip 1015 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Fri 2015-01-23
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Colors: Lea Jean Badelles
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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.
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Transcript For Strip 1015
Panel 1The girls enter a large room filled with high-tech equipment. Nicole looks around in wonder.
Nicole: Wow! This all looks … state-of-the-art.
Murphy: Well, as of five years ago. I'll be making some mods and upgrades as we go along.
Panel 2
Nicole glances up at a nearby monitor, full of graphs and charts.
Nicole: So we can access the Network from here?
Murphy: Yes – this system uses the same distributed-node technology that Hernandez and his pirate/rebels were using.
Panel 3
Nicole and Murphy stand before a console.
Murphy: First things first: We need to dump the data we've collected from the various recording stations we've … you and Seamus have visited into this collator.
Nicole: Easy as pie.
Panel 4
Nicole is seated at the console, with Murphy standing behind – she has two fingers pointed to her temple. Nicole has her hands laying flat on the input tablet before her.
Nicole: Done.
Murphy: In a few moments the system will work out the quantum vibramonic constant for this universe, to the 24th significant digit ...
Panel 5
The girls look at the monitor before them. It shows the number: 1.618033988749894848204582
Nicole: Easy as pi?
Nicole: I should have said, 'easy as phi.'
Panel 6
Medium closeup on the girls as they gaze up at the monitor. Nicole has two fingers pressed to a temple.
Murphy: The golden mean? Not quite. The last digit is off by two.
Nicole: Huh, you're right. A 5 instead of a 7, rounded.
Panel 7
Nicole is intrigued, and Murphy is dismissive.
Nicole: Strange, but interesting.
Murphy: Strange, but purely coincidental.
Panel 8
Murphy turns away from the console, Nicole turns in her chair.
Murphy: We have the data we need. Let's begin designing the prototype.
Nicole: Can I have breakfast first? I haven't eaten in 18 weeks.
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