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Taking place in the year 2523 C.E., the tale follows Nicole Oresme, a girl who has an emotional breakdown following a sudden breakup with her boyfriend Philbert, resulting in her losing her job for not showing up. Figuring that she ought to get her life in shape, she decides to get a new job from a certain Dr. Seamus O Murchadha. In her meeting with Murchadha, she finds out that the job involves experiments having to do with some strange process the Doctor calls "quantum vibremonics"; he wants her to help him in continuing these studies.

The strip updates every weekday. [http://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=1 Here] is the first strip, and [http://www.quantumvibe.com/ here] is the latest.

 

* [[Alternate Universe]]: {{spoiler|Seamus' research project has as its goal the access to these as a new frontier for humanity to explore.}}

* [[Author Tract]]: The "Luna" arc seems to be turning into a way for the author to show off his Libertarian views. (Not, however, in a particularly uninteresting fashion.)

* [[Bizarre Alien Biology|Bizarre Transhuman Biology]]: Seamus' botched [[Fountain of Youth|rejuvenation]] treatment has [http://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=211 presented many odd changes] ''besides'' turning him into an eight-foot tall, four-hundred pound giant. For example, he can [[Gasshole|fart at will]](and has at least [http://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=41 once] used that ability to [[Fartillery|clear a room]] so he can privately contact someone). One that annoys him to no end is that each strand of his scalp hair has a single, long ''nerve'' growing in the center - he prefers having short hair, but can't cut it without the aid of a trustworthy anesthesiologist, as cutting it feels like ''cutting off fingers.''

* [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]] - When she's in the middle of a 30-hour trip back from Sol to Mercury, Nicole browses through news articles, physics papers, and eventually - to keep her aggravated and on edge - talk radio.

* [[China Takes Over the World]]: Well, Mars anyway. Or Huǒxīng, as it's called in the series.

* [[Fan Service]]: Nicole winds up showing off to the 'camera' here and there, though never past a PG-13 rating. [http://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=305 Though this pushes the rating a bit.]

* [[Fantastic Caste System]]: Terrans have enforced one with [http://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=50 cruel genetic engineering]. The upper class "executives" are engineered to look good and have pheromones that make you want to trust and respect them. The lowest class "associates" are engineered to be diminutive in body and spirit and to have pheromones that make them repellent and hateful ''even to themselves''. There are also specialist castes in between that we haven't encountered.

* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: Turns out, Nicole is an experimental Ubermensch and {{spoiler|1=Seamus is [http://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=172 a donor.] That [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] probably too.}}

* [[Mary Suetopia]]: An [[Invoked Trope]] - Murchada points out that societies provide the greatest good for the greatest number in their dynamic phase, that is, when they have room to expand and resources to spare. Libertarianism (placing the individual before the group) can only be practiced effectively in such a phase. In all other phases, [[I Did What I Had to Do|necessity]] sacrifices the individual to the group to varying degrees.

* [[Mega Corp]]: Earth is split between two gigantic Mega Corps, and all the other off-world planets and stations seen so far have been owned by corporate joint ventures except for Luna.

* [[Nixon Mask]]: Mr. Graves has a holographic mask that is set to [http://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=181 President Obama] when we first meet him. Later, he switches to [http://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=200 Bush] and [http://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=219 Clinton].

* [[Omnidisciplinary Scientist]]: Sort of. Seamus is an Objectivist model "practical physicist"; whereas tame "theoretical physicists" spend their lives in laboratories performing "[http://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=179 endless, incremental experimentation and publishing in journals]," he "approaches science by [[Mad Scientist|jumping in with both feet, grabbing nature by the throat and throttling the truth out of her.]] As a result [http://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=19 his discoveries and inventions are often quite game-changing.]"

* [[Orphaned Punchline]]: "So they find another boy a ways up the roadside, laughing his ass off. They ask him what's wrong and he says, 'I sneezed and that house blew up!'"

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