Strip 2553 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Mon 2025-09-22
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 2553
Panel 1Zachary walks across the room in response to a door chime
SFX: [door chime]
Adila: Ah, that would be Senhor Jenkins. I asked him to meet us.
Zachary: I’ll get it.
Panel 2
Two more chair are added to the semi-circle, for Jenkins and Zachary
Jenkins: I have been in contact with counsel for Senhor Elvin, and we’ve worked up a short list of three arbitrators who should be acceptable to both parties.
Panel 3
Split screen, Jenkins and an image of Atodaria on the viewscreen.
Jenkins: Firstly, there’s Rahul Atodaria, originally from Ceres.
Jenkins: Atodaria has presided over 315 arbitrations, 27 involving accidental deaths.
Panel 4
Jenkins and Alexandra
Jenkins: He’s also the most expensive in the list, having bid 500 augrams for this case.
Alexandra: For each party? Yikes. Who else?
Panel 5
Jenkins and Nicole
Jenkins: Next there’s Maximilian Starmer. Originally from West Terra, but studied law on Luna and later in Pallas.
Nicole: Luna? Um … did he ever work for Omega Tek?
Panel 6
Jenkins and Nicole. The others are looking at her with cocked eyebrows.
Jenkins: His law studies were on an Omega Tek scholarship, and he interned with them.
Nicole: Hard pass.
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