Strip 198 -- First Seen: 2009-06-17
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QV on a short break

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.

Kickstarter successful and closed

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.)

Thanks to all for supporting this Kickstarter!

The Transcript For This Page

Panel 1
In the flight cabin of Little Toot, Ernie is settling into the second acceleration couch to the left of Bert..
Caption: The remainder of the journey to The Little Prince was uneventful, until, just over five million klicks out ...

Ernie: You wanted to show me something?

Bert: Yeah ...


Panel 2
Looking at a large navigation viewscreen on Bert's console. In the center is a bright disk about 2cm in diameter, surrounded by a fuzzy halo about 13cm in diameter. There's a very tiny but distinct black dot just inside the right edge of the halo.

The screen also has various fancy reticles and a numeric readout in the lower left corner (think of the screen animations on 2001: A Space Odyssey). We can also see Bert's hand pointing at the disk.
Bert: That's the Little Prince there

Bert (2): It's a 10km planetoid inside a 80km air skin. I have no idea what that tiny lump to the right is.

Panel 3
Looking at the brothers, from slightly forward of a side-view, both leaning forward into the screen, their faces illuminated by it.

Bert: It's not a mountain. It appears to be inside the air skin, but that's not possible.

Panel 4
The brothers, seen from the front, still leaning towards the screen but now looking at each other.

Ernie: It sure looks like it's inside, but that's not the only odd thing ...

Bert: Yeah ...