Today on Quantum Vibe: Completely inert Strip 157 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Tue 2011-07-26
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Sci-Fi Adventure Monday & Thursday.
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.
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.)
Panel 1
Inside the shuttle, the Pilot, Nicole and Seamus.
Pilot: The gravitic sensor shows the bogey has stopped accelerating, and now we're pulling away at 90 meters per second.
Seamus: Nicole, I think you can safely lower the laser shield now.
Panel 2
Pilot, peering at his console.
Pilot: I can see it now on the aft viewer.
Pilot: It's a Huweijian Wu-nian-class ship … and it looks completely inert.
Panel 3
Exterior of the shuttle – the laser shield is gone, the EM-shield is so large we can't see it in the frame. The bogey is now barely visible in the background.
Seamus (from shuttle): All right Nicole, I think we can safely kill the EM-shield now.
Nicole: Dropping EM-shield.
Panel 4
Shuttle interior, Pilot gazes at his console as Seamus looks on.
Pilot: I'm getting a radar reflection consistent with that class of ship, but ...
Pilot: There's no other energy signature. All of her systems are dead.