Strip 2024 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Fri 2019-11-22
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Sci-Fi Adventure Monday & Thursday.
Dark plans fall like thunderbolts.
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.
QV on a short break [ Jul 15, 2026 ]
QUANTUM VIVE is taking a break for a few weeks, as we prepare for Part 2 of the Novo Palermo story, and also for a Kickstarter campaign for Part 1, which will start in September.
In the meantime, Not-Safe.Space will continue, as a murder mystery begins and the relationship between Eithne and Diana develops in unexpected directions.
Not-Safe.Space is a NSFW strip but more than half the pages are SFW so I've set those to *not* require a Patreon membership. Readers should be able to follow the story without seeing the NSFW pages. If I've done this right.
Transcript For Strip 2024
Panel 1Appearing over Bok's shoulder, an image of approaching spacewarships.
Bok: Of course, the O-shield doesn't protect against, say, a fleet of warships approaching in realspace from just outside the city's shield.
Bok: But good old-fashioned Newtonian physics helps us there.
Panel 2
Another diagram, not to scale, shows the City and a large arc of the outer shield, another shield layer closer-in, with a group of tiny chevrons indicating an invasion fleet, with an X indicating their pop-in point and dotted line indicating their course.
Caption (Bok): ̏The outer shield is 45 million klicks out. The fastest warships, starting at 3,000 klicks per second and braking at a brutal 100 mesecs, would still require more than six hours (or 30,000 seconds) to decelerate down to zero in that distance.'
Captions: City
Shield
45,000,000 km
Not to scale.
Panel 3
Bok in the frame again, this time a perimeter-defense station is in the background over his shoulder.
Bok: This would give the City plenty of time to prepare a defense, especially with an array of early warning and defense stations spread through the Five-Suns system.
Bok: In other words, local space is quite well-guarded.
Panel 4
Bok in front of the same closer-up view of a Borvonite sphere from the previous page.
Bok: And even then, any warships that might get in close would still have to deal with the near-impervious Borvonite spheres. Not to mention swarms of militia.
Bok: I'll talk more about the militia in the next installment of 'Ask Me Anything.'
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