Strip 205 -- First Seen: 2009-06-26
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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
Large panel, establishing shot of the Hangar. A huge area about 200x200x300 meters. The wall surface area is roughly half-rock and half-metal structures, several of them with windows. There are several cradles in which rest spacecraft approximately Toot's size, some a bit bigger, some a bit smaller, including Drenkowski's fighter. Each ship in a cradle has an air-tube snaked out from the hangar wall and attached to the ships via universal adapters.

Drenkowski's voice (filtered): Gentlemen, welcome to Damocles Station.

Panel 2
Grappling arms guide Toot into an empty cradle. An air tube is already snaking towards the Toot's main exit hatch.

Drenkowski's voice (filtered): Please stand by while we secure your craft and establish pressure lock.

Panel 3
Close 2-shot of the brothers in the pilot's cabin. Ernie is looking at a panel off to his right. Bert looks a bit at a loss.

Ernie: Airlock telltale shows green.

Bert: Now what?

Panel 4
Looking over Bert's shoulder at a viewscreen on his console, near where Bert's comm is still docked to the controls, the face of Drenkowski appears.
Drenkowski (filtered, from comm): Please gather any personal belongings you wish to bring – including your comms – and exit your craft.
Drenkowski (2): We will transfer to the surface, where you will meet your host ...


Panel 5
Close two-shot of Ernie and Bert, looking shocked at what they're hearing.
Drenkowski (filtered, OP): ...Sv. Tobikuma Kobayashi, who invites you to spend a few days as his guests on the Little Prince Estate.
Panel 6
Looking at Bert and Ernie from behind, affording a view out the front viewport. We see a windowed structure in front of Toot. Bert and Ernie are looking at each other (so we can see their profiles), chattering excitedly.

Bert: We're hauling ice for Tobikuma Kobayashi? He's the richest man in the … in the ...

Ernie: ...ever. Reclusive inventor of the whole fricking 'Quantum Entanglement Network!'

Panel 7
Looking at Ernie and Bert from the console POV again. Ernie is overwhelmed, hand clapped on forehead; Bert has unfastened his seatbelt and is hoisting a rucksack as he rises out of his acceleration couch.
Ernie: Lord love a duck! His 'estate' is an entire terraformed world. We're not worthy.
Bert: In which case, we'd better not keep the man waiting.