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Published: 2018-05-30 21:17:27 +0000 UTC; Views: 3323; Favourites: 88; Downloads: 42
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An imagining of the GCU class ship from the Iain M Banks Culture novels - which are among my favourite books. Created with Blender 2.79b (95% of the work was in blender, all modelling, some VFX, backdtop nebula). Also used Affinity Photo and Exposure X3 for final processing.ΒRelated content
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I really like the ethereal quality of everything.
GOD bless
John 3:16
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Very good.
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You're welcome! ^^
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youre welcome 
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Culture ships with engine exhausts? What would the Minds say!?
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Oh, have I made a faux pas? :/Β It's been years since I read some Culture - literally have just downloaded Consider Phlebas for a re-read!
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Good book, one I think is actually better second time around once you're on passing familiarity with the Culture 'verse. Excession and Surface Detail are my favourites.
It's not really a faux pas, just that the Culture ships are all crazy advanced and have reactionless engines that work by pushing against spacetime itself using incredibly advanced field manipulation. Even their Β That aside, their engines are large physical structures (albeit of exotic matter) that can take up a significant proportion of the ship's total volume. So I suppose you could argue that rather than exhaust plumes they're actually the ship's engine fields, and at that moment in time they just so happen to be configured to a form that looks to humanoid eyes like a conventional rocket exhaust 
Lovely image too! Great sense of dynamism and action.Β
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Cheers. I love the tech part of the Culture too, which is why I find it a bit bizarre that my favourite one is actually Inversions!Β
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The GCU "Improbable Conversation"
The GCU "I'll Get Back To You On That"
and the well-known GCU "I Need To Think About It, But Probably Yes."
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...and, of course, the Star Trek inspired, "A Questionable Enterprise At Best"
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haha, yes that is a great name
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