Strip 1542 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Tue 2017-02-28
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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Transcript For Strip 1542
Panel 1In a cameo, present-Hugo narrates the new scene – the workshop on Causa Sui. Hugo is up to his elbows in gear he's working on.
Hugo (cameo): Our displacement drive gives us an advantage, but the Fftpplt had an important one over us ...
Hugo: … their ability to detect ships up to a light-year away, with almost no light-speed delay.
Panel 2
Repeat of panel 3 from strip 78 showing Hugo leaning against a console aboard the starship Pbbttppbt-fff. Present-Hugo is still in a cameo, narrating.
Hugo (cameo): Fortunately while I was aboard the Pbbttppbt-fff I was able to surreptitiously access their systems database.
Hugo: I learned how their warp drive works, and their sub-space radio and scanners as well.
Panel 3
Back to Alyss' living room. Alyss is scandalized.
Alyss: You mean … you stole the aliens' data?
Hugo: I invaded their systems, yes. But I didn't steal anything.
Hugo: I left everything where I found it.
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