Strip 972 -- First Seen: 2012-06-07
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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
A meeting of the new Vesta Council. You have a long table on a slightly raised platform behind which sit five personages, all of them Mascons, with Marsha in the center seat. Somewhere to the side a secretary is taking notes. On the wall behind the table is a large sign saying, "VESTA COUNCIL". Standing casually before the council is a Local. Two other Locals stand about a meter behind him.
Caption: Marsha and her council quickly set up offices and a meeting room in Vesta's 'Pumpkin Center' office complex.
Local: It turned out that some maintenance person had left an access hatch open, allowed a miniscule amount of radioactive dust to fall directly on a detector.
Local: No one was ever in any real danger.

Panel 2
Three-shot of Marsha and the other council members on either side of her.
Marsha: If such dangerous carelessness is rampant at Vesta Power perhaps its time to require that you hire additional guards and safety personel.
Mascon1: I second that motion.

Panel 3
Medium shot of the Local with his two friends flanking him.
Local: Wha -- it's hardly fair to saddle our company with this burden.
Marsha (OP): Don't worry, we'll order the other nuclear power companies to do the same.

Panel 4
Looking at an angle down the Council table so we see Marsha and the two council members on the left side of her.
Mascon3: In the interest of fairness we should include the solar plant operators.
Marsha: Makes sense, so amended. All in favor?