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The First Meetingby ~pogona2009

Digital Art / Drawings & Paintings / Space Art

By 25 century, Human kind has spread away from our solar system and the milky way by starting to dominate intergalactic FTL travels, yet, earth is still the prime home for humanity, due to our short time traveling through galaxies, most of the travels are "no return expeditions", without even being able to communicate back to earth when very far. Also no other kind of intelligent life has been found.

In one of those expeditions, half the way to their destiny, in one of the many stops between FTL jumps (which last a few seconds and use to be near a planet or a star), a passenger at work looks through the window to see below on the planet, city lights!

The sad part of the story, is that in a few seconds that image will disappear, with no option of returning back, and the secret she just discovered will probably never be known by human kind, just a memory in her head doomed to vanish in the dark like her short human life.

PS: it's suppose to be a low orbit shot, so you can guess by the mountains that the planet should be very small.

also don't forget to leave a comment, this specific piece took a hell of time (and work) to be properly finished.

DOWNLOAD the image if your screen has the same or less resolution than the picture to see the detail.

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*Athane Mar 23, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

I absolutely love it, its such a sad story and such a powerful story at the same time. The detail is nice.

~pogona2009 Mar 26, 2013

you can see it both ways, sad because no one will no, or glad to be the only person that in fact knows...

~pogona2009 Mar 26, 2013

thanks.

~Kaelthas-Wolfheart Feb 28, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

awesome!!!!!
yes, it looks a bit sad..... knowing that such a lng trip will end up while you're very old..... and you may not find what you're looking for

~pogona2009 Feb 3, 2013

yep, but so out in space and so far there is no communication back to earth, these are no return trips, that's the sad thing, they can't turn back and are too away from home.

sorry, but that was the idea.

~Reder1c Feb 3, 2013

Perhaps the onboard computers record every single stop the ship makes on the way to its destination, and therefore this discovery wouldn't be lost? Just trying to give a glimmer of hope to the story

~pipper-SVK Dec 30, 2012 Student Digital Artist

you have some really nice depth there, i also like the colors and idea is also very good

but i miss some details there, anyway nice one

for the woman did you have stock or did you shoot it for yourself ?

~pogona2009 Dec 30, 2012

stock, she was looking through a window so perfect.
more details... can you elaborate more?

the terrain was a pain to make, made in bryce but worst is the ton of layers above from photoshop to make it look good, I never spent so much time on a piece, but I guess it paid off well

~pogona2009 Dec 30, 2012

the ceiling yikes me a bit, I'll have to fix it some of these days.

~pogona2009 Dec 30, 2012

thanks, but that isn't painted.

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