Strip 217 -- First Seen: 2009-07-14
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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. Cutaway diagram of the entire planetoid. There is a dark neutronium core that goes out to about a tenth of the planetoid's radius. At this scale the micro-black hole is a shining star-point at the very center. Outward from the neutronium are a 2/10 radius-thick molten nickel-iron outer core, another 2/10 radius-thick layer of solid nickel-iron ore, and then other interleaved layers of dense-looking rocks getting lighter up to the surface. There's a thin surface crustal layer and atmosphere beyond.

Tobi (OP): 'Yes, but there's 5 kilometers of transient neutronium, degenerate matter, nickel-iron and silicates between us and there.

Tobi (2): 'One thing that does get through, however, is heat.

Panel 2
Farther away external view of TLP, its entire air-skin with the embedded Damocles Station, and the ice-berg presently in orbit around it

Tobi (OP): Here we are, 2.5 astronautical units from the sun, with 16% of Terra's solar flux, yet we enjoy a shirt sleeve environment.


Panel 3
Three-shot of Bert, Ernie, and Tobi at the table. They are all sipping at their drinks.

Tobi: In fact there's so much heat we had to design thermal radiators to dump the excess into space.

Tobi (2): We wouldn't want to have runaway global warming, now would we?