Strip 743 -- First Seen: 2011-07-11
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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
Half-page panel– Inside the boys' hab, which is fairly spacious. Ernie and the boys, now in 'shirt-sleeves', are gathered around a zero-gee food preparation area, which looks a little bit like a chemistry lab – several oblate spheroids varying in volume from one to four liters are attached to struts with 'gecko' pads. The spheroids are transparent on their upper halves (some are transparent all the way around), and have soft valves on two to four places in their top sides through which stirring spoons or spatulas can be inserted and manipulated. Some of the spheroids are held against electric heating elements, others (for non-heated food like salads) are simply held against the working surface. The upper and lower halves can be separated along a seam for adding ingredients or removing the prepared food. Several of the boys are at work here, stirring, adding ingredients, under Ernie's direction, as the other boys look on. Some fresh fruits and vegetables are held in a net anchored to the work surface, and we can see a few opened boxes. In the background, we can see several of the girls.
Caption: Break for lunch: While pre-cooked and packaged foods could have been used, Scouts were expected to cook their own food from basic ingredients.
Caption: There was even an Achievement Pin for 'space cooking.'
Caption: The first meal on Eight-Ball was the boys' responsibility – the girls would prepare dinner.