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Published: 2016-02-11 05:31:31 +0000 UTC; Views: 4288; Favourites: 49; Downloads: 0
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"Olympus has fallen"The attack on Oasis and it's neighboring worlds would be a grave mistake made by the Terran Federation. The result of the conflict would create a domino effect which would eventually thrust all of the free colonies, and then: all of human occupied space into conflict with itself.
The amount of lives that would be lost is estimated to have reached the Trillions and the damage done to so many planets irreversable.
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March 28, 2770 2300 hours, Terran forces would make contact with the defenders of the small colony of Oasis. A mere combined 300,000 soldiers would stand against an invasion force of 1,000,000, and it's combined fleet with it's neighboring planets would create a fleet of 14 to valiantly hold against 300 of the Federation's 2nd Armada. The battle was predicted to last less than two months and the Federation was to quickly envelop the system and capture all planets within. As the system pooled it's military resources together to defend what they believed was the Target, the Terrans took advantage of the rest of the defenseless nations, whose militaries now resided on the Free Colony of Oasis. With no military to defend themselves, the Federation quickly and quietly enveloped the nations.
Oasis would soon find itself cut off, and without aid. It alone would stand to face the juggernaut of the Federation and in the end, would alone face the consequences of trying to remain a free nation.
Oasis would go on to serve an example to the rest of the free colonies. The message was clear. "Join or Die."
It was the harsh hand of reality banging on the door of every nation. What followed was the beginning of the single bloodiest and longest conflict mankind has ever seen...
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I cannot wait till I get the human form nailed down like this (still practicing until I feel confident enough to upload some stuff) great work! Love the flack jakcet and how its catching the light. The backround figures give some extra depth without being intrusive I would perhaps suggest maybe something like a small lense flare across the visors?
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I hate the human form so much sometimes tbh. You either get it right or you don't and I've got it wrong more time than I can count -_-
Yeah the background guys always felt incomplete to me. I wasn't exactly sure what to do with them or make them feel more complete. Ended up just calling it, but yeah maybe some lens flare would have been a good addition to it
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I think they fine, its just naturally they're not the focal point but I feel they can be easily missed. Trying to remember what one of my old tutors told me like the audience will go over your painting in 3-4 seconds so to keep their attention you need add the little things without overdoing it
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That sounds about right haha. I actually SO wanted to put some ruined building silhouettes in the background but i didn't have any good industrial brushes like you had in your desert image
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Thanks for the kind words man. Always appreciate it!
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Future human tragedy sounds a lot like present and past human tragedy, just with more zeroes at the end of the numbers.
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There's a lot of themes in this. One of them is that humanity always repeats the same mistakes.
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Tragically, I believe that's the definition of stupid.
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When you stop studying history, you are doomed to repeat it. Much like what can be seen in today's society.
Humans by definition are stupid.
But hilarious, who can stay mad at the lil' rascals!?
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Yes, we put the "sap" in "Homo sapiens."
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That's how tragedy has always been.
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Yes, the statistics just get bigger.
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He's like "I, am 100% done with this shit today."
In seriousness, damn this some nice work dude!
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Yeah, he had a long damn day. or week
or month...
Thanks. worked pretty hard on this one man!
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This means no harvest festival this year on Oasis? :<
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I mean. you can certainly try...
Not sure how far you'd make it..
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*intercepted by the 2nd Terran Armada*
YOU FAILED.
Would you like to try again?
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*tries again with more DaKKA*
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Level one complete. First wave defeated. Begin level 2.
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*bords up the windows an opens a magical chest* Let's do this
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Ooh, you nicely tackled perspective on the head. Awesome work with the effects, nicely done.
Poor Oasis dudes, they were looking like fun bunch in that pic ages ago v_v
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Hey thanks Arnilo! The effects I honestly had no idea what I was doing, I just was playing around.
I mean.. the certainly WERE a fun bunch at least?
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I don't know, never really had occasion to meet them.
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The planet might be a bit too hot for your tastes anyway -_-
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Nah, I'm good. I already ordered someone to prepare the picnic basket
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The soldier looks like he had a rather violent encounter with something unyielding and his face...
The Terrans were responsible for the great war?
Trillions of casualties? Several thousand-fold increase from now? That's the equivalent of a whole lot of worlds. Even 750 years in the future, that's some population increase, especially as planets take a long time to discover, reach, terraform, land colonists, and develop infrastructure.
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Actually one of the characters from the Oasis comic I wanna do. Some shrapnel struck him above his left eye.
Terrans were in a matter of speaking. It was something all of their military strategies could not have forseen or planned for, but the chaos and the domino effect created by this invasion would in fact lead to the next great war.
Trillions yes. After the third world war so long ago, when humanity went into space there was this idea that humanity was now an endangered species. Both in the Earth system and in the Kepler system. The idea was to repopulate, but even as humanity had progressed the population spike never really stopped until a little less than a hundred years ago. It was essentially seen as your duty to the human race to have multiple children and them to have the same. It wasn't a law or anything, but it was just widely perceived for such a long time that humanity needed a larger population.
MOST of that larger population resides in the republic, since the Free colonies are still considered a frontier as there's a few untapped systems still in the free colonies. However, this war drags even the Republic in at some point. By the time the republic enters, the independent nations have already resorted to near genocidal tactics to win the war, and the Republic now becomes a target.
As for exploration and terraformation, yes they do. However like how our technology today has rapidly advanced in just 30 years I did go off on an educated guess that as the ages progress in the setting, Terraformation techniques and technology would improve a lot making the Terraformation time very reduced. And even with terraformed planets, theres the asteroid colonies, the unterraformed colonies (which there are many of, usually residing in large habitats underground) and the space stations and bases scattered all over.
The population boom of humanity was not very evenly distributed though. It's mostly the 'core systems' of human explored space that have the highest populations. Earth system has nearly every planet humanity could colonize populated. Many of the neighboring systems are the same. Even without a terraformed world they still make due in habitats below the surface.
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It looks a bit to me like his face might have gotten used as a punching bag. Of course, making him look bedraggled and beat-up is the point. Although in many cases, a sci fi setting might lead to many a 'good looking corpse' as there are many ways of dying that are quick if not very grimy and dirty.
Was this war the first total war since WWIII?
It's not really the human ability to reproduce that concerns me as much as finding some place to expand to. I would think that for a long, long time, population growth would need to be strictly controlled as artificial environments will not be nearly as capable of supporting folks like--well--the earth. Which, I imagine, is essentially ruined for some generations? Possibly requiring some 'terraforming' in itself to get radiation contamination under control and to restore the biosphere.
I suppose that restoring the earth and terraforming Venus and Mars might be the first projects that lead to others? And Venus might require a space station with incredible dimensions to act as a 'shade' for the planet, and Mars ever having a sustainable atmosphere without vast domes is probably not likely either. Even with terraforming tech, the available worlds in any given system that will be good candidates won't be terribly common.
The problem with space stations and bases on moons and asteroids is that, essentially, every square meter needs to be constructed or carved out. Look what it takes to build the International Space Station. Vast industrial infrastructure needs to be able to transform raw materials into the components to create--and maintain--artificial worlds. Vast factory ships would need to be able to go to other star systems in order to allow colonization of any sort. And they'd probably also be busy making new factory ships for further colonization in that system or beyond.
Terraforming of a lifeless--but serviceable planet would seem to be a process requiring many centuries at least, but I suppose tech that was advanced enough and big enough might go faster. Still, it's hard to imagine it not taking generations. Also, it might take years of research to outline the best way to terraform or otherwise colonize a planet.
Planets that have their own biospheres that can be landed on and lived on would be an incredibly valuable boon. But even there, infrastructure has to be built for colonists to live and work.
I guess I'm a 'glass-half-empty' sort of guy in regards to the future. I mean, sure, we've made some great advances in the last 30 years, but Information Technology is the only one which has really exceeded expectations. My parents had a 1967 World Book encyclopedia set, that detailed the build up to the Apollo mission moon landings pretty well. It also had a sketchy concept of a mission to Mars. In this almost a half century ago, such concepts are still quite sketchy.
Sure, folks are talking about a mission to Mars again, but I'm sort of like--so what? Fifty years ago there was full expectation that Mars would be done just some years after the Moon.
It sort of boils down to 'where is my jet pack? my flying car? The tech sort of exists, but its not practical. Manned space exploration is stuck in that state right now.
In all probability, the future will involve remaining on earth and grappling with future problems for some time to come.
Now, in a sci fi setting, a founding concept is that some answers have been found, and space travel is possible, and relatively quite easy and quick compared to what we currently understand.
But even so, city sized objects need to be constructed, moved to other star systems, and used to make other such objects so as to colonize that system with any degree of speed. A few hundred people arriving on a sketchy ship, building sketchy environments and infrastructure by themselves without further aid are more likely to die out than survive. And survival might mean a struggle for many generations before reaching some point where infrastructure and population allows a big boom in expansion.
Sending out even one colonizing mission will be a big deal for humanity when stuck on earth. Particularly following WW III.
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Actually Earth is still ruined. That world is still sparsely populated. Radiation levels in most areas are still too high, and humanity just doesn't want to cause any more harm to their mother world.
The idea of the era was that our technology had had a rapid progression and nearly reached that ideal "Golden Age" before regressing, much like society after the fall of the Roman empire.
The reason that we haven't really explored space anymore is there is no real need for it. Governments don't care anymore. It's not a very prospective idea to them and that money can be used elsewhere. Nations refuse to share their information of technologies. Neil DeGrasse Tyson has a good speech. "Why We stopped Dreaming"
But when Earth was dying, the idea then became to advance, not to beat another nation in a race to be the first into space, it was not to fight a war, It was to make sure the human race could survive. To make sure humanity had a future. It was a race, but a race of survival. And it was the first time the human race truly came together, with the combined knowledge of every scientist, every technological advancement. It was something that had never been done before in history. The End result of WWIII brought a peace that humanity today can never understand until it happens. When literally all of the human race is joined, working together, fighting together, exploring together to survive. THAT is how technology had advanced so rapidly and continued to go. No idea was a bad idea, so long as it helped us further our own survival. It was the Very idea the UCR was formed on. and for the first 300 years, humanity was like a colony of ants. Everyone did their part.
I'm a both half full and half empty kind of guy. I see us being able to construct and colonize everything. But then fucking it all up at a later date
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No. Not those Terran haha.
These Terrans: thecolonists.deviantart.com/ga…
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