Strip 509 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Thu 2013-01-03
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Colors: Zeke Bieser
Sci-Fi Adventure Monday & Thursday.
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 509
Panel 1A plastic/steel room as common on spaceships. On the left wall is half-meter-wide porthole. Presently, a big white worm is threading itself through.
Caption: ZBSTD Comm protocol active
Caption: CMD: Input Comm Nodes D5-H1
Caption: Identitfy Guest Avatar Instance Package
Caption: Instance transfer in progress
Panel 2 - split
In three stages, the worm morphs into the form of Nicole, in something like the form she was while direct-interfacing with the Helio-Flyer controls way back when.
Caption: End of File Found
Caption: Close Comm Nodes D5-H1
Caption: Verifying Package Coding
Caption: Unpacking Instance
Panel 3
Nicole Avatar strides up the corridor, like she knows where she's going.
Nicole: Ventura, I am in you.
Ventura (Disembodied): That was old before Dr. O'Murchadha was born.
Nicole: Old, but pithy. Now, how about a path to your motor sequencing matrix?
Panel 4
The corridor abruptly ends, open to a large space of light-lines arrayed in all directions. In front of where the corridor floor ends is a floating platform with half-railing and a console.
Ventura: Path established.
Ventura: I'm still not sure this is a good idea.
Nicole: Think of it as an upgrade. Don't worry, I'm a professional.
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