Strip 202 -- First Seen: 2009-06-23
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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
Looking again at the large navigation screen on Bert's console. TLP is now very large, about 10cm across, the air bubble is 25 cm across. The 'lump' just inside the airskin is an uneven chunk roughly 7mm across

Ernie (OP): This gets weirder and weirder.

Bert (OP): That lump, whatever it is, is in a 67-minute synchronous orbit just inside the airskin, maybe in contact with it.


Panel 2
Looking at Ernie and Bert, looking at the screen with expressions of incredulity.

Ernie: That's just crazy.

Bert: I'm not liking any of this, and I don't think that old flyboy was being straight with us.

Panel 3
Ernie, cracking a joke, is looking up with palms upraised in a beatific gesture. Bert tries to ignore him, looking at his console.

Ernie: Trust the Air Force, Luke, trust the Air Force.

Bert: At least the flight controller seems to know what he's doing. We're being vectored smoothly into a circular 50-kilometer orbit.

Panel 4
External view. The iceberg is in the foreground, and Toot is on the far side so we can't see it. In the distance, getting close now, is The Little Prince, a green-and-tan mottled sphere inside an air bubble, with a small dark rock just visible inside the bubble's surface. At this point we should be a little farther away from the near part of the air bubble as the bubble is from the planetoid's surface.

Ernie: That can't be right. The orbital period's gonna be 7.3 centimes?

Bert: Should be more like several days. What the hell is going on?