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First Seen: Wed 2016-03-02
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Colors: Lea Jean Badelles
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Hu Iz Alyss Roaz?
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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.
Kickstarter successful and closed [ May 19, 2026 ]
The Kickstarter campaign for Not-Safe.Space Chapter 3 concluded successfully on April 21, and Scott extended the time allowed for late pledges until May 19.
Books have been ordered from the printer and Scott will be spending the next week or so setting up and sending the PDF files to those who asked for them.
(There are still six of you who have not responded to the survey asking for e-mail and snail-mail addresses, he'll do the best he can.)
Thanks to all for supporting this Kickstarter!
Transcript For Strip 1290
Panel 1Re-establish the scene: Alyss giving a lecture to the younger people seated around the large table.
Alyss: I was given the name Nicole Oresme, but Alyss Roaz is the one I use currently.
Alyss: I made my fortune in practical physics, inventing both the Murphy Drive and the Oresme Shield, which make intergalactic travel possible.
Alyss: But that's ancient history. I've moved on to other interests.
Panel 2
Medium close-up on Alyss.
Alyss: Currently, my field is colonial anthropology.
Alyss: Humanity has established more than two thousand colonies. Some have flourished, others have failed, or gone retrograde.
Alyss: 'Retrograde' means they have reverted to a more primitive state, compared to human civilization at the beginning of the Great Expansion.
Panel 3
The planet Zytemonde is projected in 3D above the center of the table.
Alyss: My specialty is retrograde worlds, and your world, Zytemonde, has been my object of study for the last 15 years.
Sargon: Do you have a descriptor for our world less, er, demeaning than 'retrograde'?
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