Today on Quantum Vibe: A belly-flop on a black hole Strip 1920 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Wed 2019-03-06
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Colors: Gus Mendes Sci-Fi Adventure Monday & Thursday.
Creepy moves in darkness dares discovery.
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
Alyss is massaging her temples with her fingers.
Alyss: All right, let's assume for a moment that someone has figured out how to work in those extra dimensions.
Alyss: How would something like this be used to circumvent an Oresme Shield?
Dominic: I suppose it could be used as a gateway, like one of our Junction Matrices.
Panel 2
Alyss: And how large would such a gateway need to be?
Dominic: That depends on what you'd want to send through it.
Dominic: If you want to send micro-missiles, the size of a golf ball. If you want to send warships, 100 kilometers across.
Panel 3
Diana, Alyss and Dominic
Alyss: Assume someone is sending a battalion of armored warriors, or ninjas, or mafiosi.
Dominic: In that case, anywhere from 30 to 100 meters, depending on whether it needs to function open or folded-up.
Panel 4
Diana: That still gives us Thousands of possible hiding places here.
Alyss: Is there some way to rig up a device that detects activity in one or more of those extra dimensions?
Dominic: You want me to invent a gadget that can detect the impossible? I could more easily do a belly-flop on a black hole.