Today on Quantum Vibe: An un-confirmed theory Strip 2338 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Mon 2022-05-16
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
Eva Jeanne zooms around the Segundo Azul, past the wreckage of some snappers she just blasted.
Michael (from EJ): Another wave popping-in, 10 bogeys 400 meters at 128-mark-31.
Alyss: (from EJ): This is getting tiresome, Michael.
Panel 2
Aboard the Eva Jeanne, Alyss is on the bridge, which has been reconfigured a bit since Venus 23. Michael is represented by a holographic head floating next to her.
Alyss: The enemy keeps sending more and more troops and light fighters.
Michael: The fact they haven’t sent larger craft supports your theory that they’ve set up a gateway inside the city.
Panel 3
Another angle on Alyss and Michael.
Alyss: So far, an un-confirmed theory. As well as my theory of where that gateway is.
Michael: The Intergalactic Council legation. You could just blow it to smithereens with your proton cannon.
Panel 4
Cut to exterior. EJ is blasting some more Snappers.
Alyss (from EJ): Not without a writ from a highly-placed Arbiter.
Alyss: Last time I went out guns a-blazing it cost me a large chunk of money, and would have been a much bigger chunk if I’d turned out to be wrong about De Castries.
Panel 5
Some more ships the size of EJ pop into the area. Michael, Allys and Mitch Stauder (from one of the newcoming cruisers.
Michael (from EJ): There … no, four new friendlies have joined us.
Stauder: Parr-Tay! Parr-Tay!
Allys: Great! Now I can go ...
Panel 6
Cut to the EJ bridge, Allys and Michael.
Michael: SchildHaus has just sent a new S.O.S.
Alyss: {sigh} I guess I can just go back to defending the Shield House.