Strip 748 -- First Seen: 2011-07-18
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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
Reggie and Babbette walking along a concourse not unlike one of those at the Denver International Airport.
Reggie: Our airbus to Venusville leaves in just – 20 minutes.
Babbette: Having trouble adjusting to the Terran clock, 'Waldo?'

Panel 2
Reggie and Babbette walking down a gangway, just past the ticket clerk.
Reggie: The clock and the gravity, 'Wanda.'
Babbette: More than twice what we had on Mars. Glad I took my vita-bots.

Panel 3
Wide-shot. The airbus, a 1/5 scale, stubbier version of the space-going V-ships, is gliding in towards the floating city Venusville.
Venusville has a footprint about 10 km square, although the footprint is a collection of 7 circles, touching at the edges, with the internal gaps filled by a 10-meter-thick plate of conduits, passageways and support struts and girders. Atop most of the circles are buildings of various sizes and styles, except for the middle circle which is a large arboretum and park. Underneath the circles, the support systems for the city form an inverted dome-shape corresponding to each circle. These works are all enclosed in a large, blimp-like airskin, full of Terran-style air, which provides the ship's buoyancy.
The surrounding Venusian sky looks like Earth's lower stratosphere, with cumulus-type clouds all around, and thin cirrus-like clouds above, and an opaque blanket of clouds below obscuring the surface.
Caption: Reggie and Babbette had a few hours to get their 'Venus-legs' as the airbus conveyed them to Venusville, the largest of the planet's floating cities.