Today on Quantum Vibe: Collaborating with the enemy Strip 2477 First Seen: Mon 2024-04-29
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
Alyss speaks from the Pillars’ table
Alyss: Senhor Situ was banished for collaborating with the enemy in the First War.
Montoya: This is true, but not only did his actions cause no harm to the city ...
Panel 2
Switch to view William and Li:
William: … You were able to turn the enemy’s next assault to your advantage.
William: And Senhor Situ has since then served the city in absentia, providing intelligence to my father and generally be-deviling the Intergalactic Council.
Panel 3
Alyss and the Pillars listen as William speaks OP
William: He has been helping organize and coordinate rebellions against IGC across human space.
William: And I am authorized to disclose to you, he is a leader in The Free Cosmos Project.
Panel 4
William continues
William: For more than a century they operated in secret, establishing independent colonies.
William: But the destruction of Shārén has changed the game. It’s time we stepped into the open.
William: We propose that the Pillars, and all in Novo Paolo who are interested, join us.
Panel 5
From the table, Kofi speaks
Kofi: Are you suggesting our city become a new power-center?
Kofi: We don’t wish to become anything like our enemies.
William: Not at all.
Panel 6
William and Li.
William: Let this city remain as a shining example of what can be accomplished with peaceful cooperation and respect for property.
William: And let Senhor Situ remain here, as a liaison with the Project.