Today on Quantum Vibe: Explosive decompression is a bitch Strip 2052 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Fri 2020-01-31
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.
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!
Panel 1
The Eva Jeanne and Brittany's craft are facing the remains of the mansion. It's charred, half-melted, and in several pieces. We might see a small device in the center.
Brittany (from her craft): We ID'd and gathered the pieces here, and set a stabilizer field to keep them together.
Alyss (from EJ, shaky): What … h-how did ...
Panel 2
Medium shot of Brittany, with Lester nearby.
Brittany: We estimate that in the first few seconds of the attack, temperatures in here exceeded 100,000 degrees Celsius.
Brittany: Then the explosive decompression sent all the buildings crashing into one another, and broken pieces of the Borvonite.
Panel 3
Medium shot of Alyss, looking like she wants to cry.
Brittany (OP): Believe it or not, close to 20 percent of the people here survived. They were inside some of the larger, stronger structures.
Brittany: But a lot of material – and bodies -- were ejected into space. We're still trying to account for everyone.
Panel 4
Looking at Alyss on Brittany's viewscreen.
Alyss: I'd like to inspect the ruins personally, if that's ok.
Brittany: I guess so, but wear a radiation suit. Everything here is still pretty 'hot'.
Brittany: I mean, 'hot' as in radioactive, not …
Alyss: {Sigh} I know what you mean Brittany.