Strip 203 -- First Seen: 2009-06-24
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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
On the surface of the berg, a spidery spybot crawls away (towards us) from the Stealth Ship still parked in the crevasse.
Caption: Without radio chatter and a better vantage point, the Pale Man was blind and deaf.

Caption (2): With the iceberg safely in orbit, he dispatched a spybot to go out and video what was going on.

Panel 2
Inside the cabin on the Stealth Ship, the Pale Man watches his video monitor. He is in a pressure suit but not wearing his helmet. On the monitor, the Little Toot is seen detached from the berg and descending towards the planetoid.
Pale Man (thought): Ah. My target will very likely be on this planetoid.

Panel 3
Exterior view of the Stealth Ship, we see a small Personal Transport Pod (looks like an elongated lozenge, about a meter wide and 2.5 meters long, with small thrusters in front, rear, and sides, emerging from a hatch towards the back of its dorsal surface.

Caption: The Pale Man gave the personal transport pod instructions to land on the planetoid's air skin.

Panel 4
The pod flies around the berg and towards the planetoid.

Pale Man (thought): At that height the airskin should hold the pod's weight.

Pale Man (thought 2): Then I'll figure out what to do next.