Strip 728 -- First Seen: 2011-06-20
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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
Exterior shot of Variable Star, gliding gracefully among the stars on its ion thrusters.
Harmon (from aboard the ship): The floating cities are all in the mid-to-high latitudes, 45 degrees or more.
Harmon: This allows them to take advantage of the jet streams and circle the planet in days rather than months.

Panel 2
Exterior of the Skydome Lounge, we are looking through the transparent dome (hemispheric, positioned on the side of the central passenger cylinder facing away from the thruster array, it's about 1/3 the diameter of the cylinder it sits on.
Harmon: Recent forays into the lower latitudes have turned up more complex life forms.
Harmon: Things that sort of swim.

Panel 3
Three-shot of Reggie, Babbette and Harmon, still at the restaurant table, now near to finishing their meals. Re-establish the scene. Harmon has their undivided attention.
Harmon: We hope something more animal or plant-like might be found nearer the equator.
Harmon: By the way, the DNA in the 'algae' is the same as Terran life and extinct Martian life.

Panel 4
Three-shot again of Harmon, Reggie, Babbette.
Harmon: It's the smoking gun confirming the theory of exogenesis ...
Reggie: Or panspermia …
Harmon: Quite right – on a common origin of life in the solar system and maybe beyond!