Strip 159 -- First Seen: 2009-04-23
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Launch Alert!

Ready for launch! The Kickstarter campaign to print the next volume of Quantum Vibe: Novo Palermo - Part 1 will take flight in just a couple of weeks on Oct 19th, 2026.

Your reward for backing our campaign starts with a personalized signed copy of the perfect bound printed collection of the online strip. You may also choose the ebook edition, a PDF downloadable from DriveThruComics.

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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.

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Panel 1
Wide panel. Dominating the panel on the left side is an external view of the Gamma Conqueror's starboard side (the ship will extend a bit out of the top and bottom of the frame). On the right side, the five-meter iron rock tumbles past, and we can now see that a mining ship (about 3 meters across and 5 meters long) has been trailing the asteroid and is now swinging around towards the bridge of the larger ship.

Caption: As the iron rocks tumble past the Strike Force ships, the small mining ships they had been concealing swing into view...

Panel 2
Interior, the bridge of the Gamma Conqueror. Harris and the crew look upward in the alarm at the mining ship they can see through their canopy, directly facing them. A laser cannon is aimed at them. If space permits we might see one of the Beta-class ships in a similar predicament.
Caption: Maneuvering with their guidance rockets, each of those little ships has its multi-megawatt cutting laser aimed directly at the bridges of the Strike Force ships.