Strip 778 -- First Seen: 2011-08-29
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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
A burner (about twice the size of the one which carried Guy Caillard to Ceres, way back when), is arcing across space.
Babbette (from the burner): So, what's so special about Mercury?
Babbette (thought): My man loves to lecture.
Panel 2
Reverse view so that we see the burner arcing past the Sun, which at this point looks more than twice the size as seen from Earth.
Reggie: One, the sun is two and two-thirds the size it appears from Terra. That's over seven times as wide as seen from Ceres.

Panel 3
Inside Babbette and Reggie's modest stateroom aboard the burner. It's a bit smaller than a Motel 6 room. Reggie is counting on his fingers; at the moment he has two of them pointing outward from his right hand.
Reggie: Two, it has the largest and most advanced paraterraformed habitats in the Solar System.
Reggie: They are magnificent.

Panel 4
Closer two-shot on Reggie and Babbette, who is giving him a questioning look.
Reggie: 'Paraterraforming,' or PTF, is the creation of Terra-like environments under an atmosphere cap – a transparent 'roof' as it were.