Strip 747 -- First Seen: 2011-07-15
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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
Inside one of the habs, Scouts (boys) are packing up gear and personal belongings.
Caption: After 8 days, it was time to go home.
Caption: After a final breakfast in the boys' hab, everyone packed up their personal gear, plus hand-gear used to map, analyze, poke and prod Eight-Ball.
Panel 2
In the control room of Sweet Liberty, Ernie lounges in his pilot's chair, chatting with Libby via t-comm.
Ernie: A meeting in the girls' hab?
Lilly (filtered): The Scouts called it. You can keep watch on the ship while I see what this is about.
Panel 3
In the girls' hab – packed ruck-sacks and boxes all around. Lili floats in a semi-spherical cluster with the Scouts, all in their suits but without the helmets (remember, no gravity to speak of).
Emily: We've been talking among ourselves about this ...
Libby: We think our new little world needs a name with more dignity than 'Eight-Ball.'

Panel 4
Medium shot of Lili and some of the Scouts – the kids are getting raucous but she sits serenely amidst it all.
Emily: Black Beauty!
Libby: Darth Vader!
Scout 4: Mordor!
Scout 5: Stygia!

Panel 5
In the foreground left, Jim is putting on his helmet. The rest of the Scouts and Lili are behind him, too engaged in their debates to notice him.
Scout 6: Kahless!
Scout 7: Admiral Harris!
Emily: Hell, no!
Scout 7: Sorry, Emily.

Panel 6
Jim is carefully climbing the ladder up to Sweet Liberty's airlock.
Jim (thought): So Ernie likes to make jokes about me and my gang? I've got a joke for him.