Today on Quantum Vibe: Time to bug out Strip 2475 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Mon 2024-04-15
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.
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
Lorelei does something with her viewer.
Lorelei: Here let me put it up on the large holoscreen…
Kofi (soto voce): Blessed mother of Amanirenas
Panel 2
We see the large holoscreen, with a couple of Pillars’ heads in the foregound. It’s the late, great planet Sharen.
Lorelei: There were … seventeen billion people living rhere.
Lorelei: Only about a million managed to escape before a spreading pyroclastic cloud … overwhelmed them.
Panel 3
Alyss angrily confronts Hugo, some other Pillars in the background also look unhappy. Murphy stands in his defense.
Alyss: HUGO! What have you done?
Murphy: Do you really think Hugo did this?
Hugo: They did this to themselves. With their damned bridge.
Panel 4
Hugo explains, again, as the Pillars consider.
Hugo: They used a dangerous, 8-dimensional technology.
Hugo: It required each end of the bridge be ‘anchored’ in the local gravity well.
Hugo: When I moved the city, the well at this end moved with it.
Hugo:
Panel 5
The Pillars huddle, pondering what they’ve learned.
Alyss: …..
Lorelei: The IGC will think we did this somehow.
Jorge: That’s not necessarily a bad thing.
Enrique: ‘They farked around and found out?’ Hmmm.
Kofi: At least this will discourage anyone building another such bridge.
Panel 6
Alyss turns with a start as Hugo’s hopper fades away. Dominic waves goodbye.
Dominic: Don’t forget to write.
SFX: WeeEEze-Rump WeeEEze-Rump WeeEEze-Rump