Strip 8 - Click on page above to goto the next page. -- First Seen: 2008-09-26
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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.

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Strip 8

Panel 1
Exterior shot of Burner flying through space.

Fionella (from inside ship): It looks so – small.

Panel 2
Inside the ship, Fionella and Guy are gazing out through an observation port at Terra, now a couple of millions miles distant, appearing just large enough that we can see her as a crescent (about 1/8 phase).

Guy: By the time we reach Ceres, Terra will look like a tiny speck, lost in the Sun’s glare.

Guy (2): But hardly small in importance. Terra is the vital center of an expanding human sphere, the guardian of civilization and its values.

Panel 3
The two are now strolling down a corridor, away from the viewport. Guy is in full-bore lecture mode. Fionella listens politely but with an eyebrow raised – her critical thinking is engaged.

Guy: There’s always a danger that people who live on a frontier will forget who they are. They’ll fail to see the ties that bind them to the homeland.

Panel 4

They walk past a ship’s crewman who’s loitering in an alcove. As he speaks to them through a sly grin, they react with shock and a bit of embarassment.

Crewman: Hey, if you guys are into bondage, I know where you can get some fur-lined handcuffs.