Strip 1992 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Mon 2019-08-19
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Colors: Gus Mendes
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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.
What Comes Next [ Mar 18, 2024 ]
The war is over, but This Means War has a ways to go. Novo Paolo/Bubbleopolis is still in a nebula/stellar nursery, no one knows what happened to the planet Sharen (center of the Intergalactic Council), and the status of the now-surrendered Invaders is yet to be resolved. What will they do when they learn their homeworld is basically destroyed? Will Alyss and Li be re-united? How about Diana (the real one) and Otto?
These questions will be resolved in the next few weeks, before This Means War part 3 wraps in late May.
After that, I plan to go BACK in time about 400 years, to when Alyss and Li left their home in the Sol System to colonize a new world on the far side of the galaxy. As one might expect, hijinks ensue. New subtitle yet to be determined, start date sometime in around the start of July. Stay tuned!
Transcript For Strip 1992
Diana walks up out of a white void to speak to the reader:Diana: Hey there.
QUANTUM VIBE is
taking a break for the next few fivedays.
Or, ‘Weeks,’ as you
call them.
Is that right?
Calendars can be confusing when moving from one world to another. Zytemond has its own calendar, calibrated to take into account that world’s rotational and orbital periods.
It’s kind of like that everywhere
in Human space.
Each world has its own calendar, its own day-lengths, its own year-lengths, and various intervals in-between.
About the only time measure that’s the same everywhere is the second.
The engineers made sure of that, raising warnings of dire consequences should any of the basic ‘ISO’ measures be changed. But especially, the second.
But within an inter-galactic civilization, with on-going trade of goods and services, many saw the need for some sort of common, standard calendar, so everyone knows what day it is, when payments and deliverables are due, and so forth.
Most worlds conduct local affairs by local calendars, but inter-world trade by a new Standard, Universal time system that was first implemented in the 700th year of the Space Age. Or, about three centuries ago from my perspective.
In Bubbleopolis, everyone uses the standard calendar and clock.
The new standard system
is extensievely decimalized.
There are 100 seconds in a minute, 50 minutes in an hour, 20 hours in a day, 300 days in a year.
We also have ‘fivedays,’ and five of those in a ‘cycle.’
Zander has put together a spreadsheet with the calculations, which will also tell you what year this is according to the old ‘gregorian’ calendar you readers use.
I’ve uploaded it to the QUANTUM VIBE Patreon page where it can be seen and downloaded by patrons at the $2.50 level and above.
Next week, my friend Bok will offer some background for the next story arc.
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