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Decampment
Somewhen in past, mankind colonized the moon. The population grew up fast with help coming from earth. But as soon as they noticed that they are able to live autarkical, the people on moon wanted political independence. Of course, earth's United Nations declined this request. The result was the first war between both planetoides.
The people on moon could lean on enough resources and new materials. They developed new kind of engines, ships and weapons and that was why they were easily able to beat everything coming from earth. Earth lost its last resources to built up the colony on moon and had no chance to win this war. Their only hope was the invention of a huge nuclear weapon to destroy the moon as a whole.
Because the moon-people were not able to defeat the earth, they tried to find other solutions. After discovering the plans about the weapon they decided to leave the solar system. With the help of a re-activated core of the moon itself they would get enough energy for their planned engine.
The engine was finished and the journey into the unkown started. As a last message not to follow, the moon-people destroyed the capital of United Nations of Earth, Washington D.C..
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The moon colonization, the greatest endeavor in the history of earth.
It had taken a century just to get the domes perfected, great caverns being the first cities of the moon.
The Lunas were proud of their new home, a scientific heaven with enough exotic resources to fuel not only their own space programs but also that of the Earth for centuries to come!
They had fought hard to make it a reality, the domes now housing the greatest minds in the solar system along with their families.
The ruler of Luna was an AI, it's mind a mesh of all those alive and dead, the result of everyone being connected to it's interface. It was proud, it was intelligent and it saw the envy that spread below on the blue planet.
Scientific research had boomed on Luna, but Earth was forced to pay heavy taxes on all goods and manufacture was next to impossible on Earth, it's high gravity not able to produce the materials needed. As a result the people on Earth protested, wishing to force the Lunas to share their scientific research.
It was futile, of course, Luna now controlled the basic economy of Earth. It's massive research and manufacturing plants producing most of the modern technologies that made life easy and pleasant.
Envy turned to resentment, to anger and in the end threats of occupation and assimilation of the moon.
The Lunas ignored the petty threats, instead turning their research to a way to escape the clutches of the Earth.
As a war of words and economics was fought by politicians on both sides, the North American Coalition started developing "A way to stop the Lunas for good". Years dragged on, the rising disdain on Luna for Earth meaning they stopped their trade, and as a result massive riots broke out on Earth.
The economy had plummeted after the cold war with Luna had started and since the planetoid had a larger Navy than the Earth, it blocked all ships from the outer colonies reaching Earth. The riots got worse, the governments got desperate. They were about to launch their secret weapon when Luna started moving.... the massive planetoid suddenly inching away from the planet.
The military base and the surrounding area, an area the size of Ireland was vaporized.
Without the moon, the waters fell still, the night went pitch black and a piece of Terra was gone forever.
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Comments: 457
rms-design In reply to ??? [2009-03-24 17:23:42 +0000 UTC]
sehr nice wieder,aber was anderen kennt man ja von dir auch nicht,gefรคllt mir wirklich sehr gut
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Bluehawk-D In reply to ??? [2009-03-24 15:50:21 +0000 UTC]
Incredible; both visually and in concept.
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Jopie211 In reply to ??? [2009-03-24 15:22:11 +0000 UTC]
Awesome piece. Original and perfectly executed concept, looks great.
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ChaplainMars In reply to ??? [2009-03-24 14:31:46 +0000 UTC]
Long been an admirer of your work, you combine beautiful art with awesome sci-fi. You are an inspiration to me, keep up the good work
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Dekus In reply to ??? [2009-03-24 14:21:29 +0000 UTC]
Holy Shit thats epic!! wow.. just wow.......
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bennynero In reply to ??? [2009-03-24 14:04:02 +0000 UTC]
cool style, but i think the moon turned out a little bit small compared to earth.
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TobiasRoetsch In reply to bennynero [2009-03-25 09:59:44 +0000 UTC]
hmm really? thanks!
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Umbri-girl In reply to ??? [2009-03-24 12:52:02 +0000 UTC]
Great job Earth, you scared off the moon, now how are we gonna get tide?!
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LuNa7ic In reply to ??? [2009-03-24 10:21:35 +0000 UTC]
Holy Crap!!
This deserves a daily deviation IMO!
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TobiasRoetsch In reply to LuNa7ic [2009-03-25 10:00:36 +0000 UTC]
hmm noooo
But thank you!
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dnb-nOise In reply to ??? [2009-03-24 09:50:10 +0000 UTC]
giga cool man! I love the colors and the stars are awesome!
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TheHarlequinsMask In reply to ??? [2009-03-24 08:36:01 +0000 UTC]
Superlatives fail me......
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chrontricross In reply to ??? [2009-03-24 06:49:34 +0000 UTC]
wow!! awesome story! no joking either. nice picture too.
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chrontricross In reply to TobiasRoetsch [2009-03-26 08:40:50 +0000 UTC]
just the truth. i told my dad about your art. and told him that you are the only one on this site i respect, why you ask? cause your art is imaginative. hope to see more. some time soon.
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HyperCannon In reply to ??? [2009-03-24 04:42:11 +0000 UTC]
The moon flying away is almost comical
"Whats going on?"
"Sir, they......they"
"They what?"
"The moon is gone!"
"Wha...How?!"
"Like, whooooosh....sir" *makes hand gesture*
"What the shit?!"
"Yes, sir"
Anywhoo awesome awesome awesome work!!
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josephacheng In reply to ??? [2009-03-24 04:36:07 +0000 UTC]
Those spaceships look brilliant!
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KozueKaz In reply to ??? [2009-03-24 02:27:59 +0000 UTC]
This reminds me a lot of a show called Shadow Raiders: they had Battle Moons that were basically mobile weapons and each planet had a central engine that allowed to to move away from the void that was enroaching on space.
Beautifully done; I love it!
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esrever619 In reply to ??? [2009-03-24 02:13:32 +0000 UTC]
Such amazing attention to detail and reality! This is stunning.
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TophBeiFongz In reply to ??? [2009-03-24 01:58:23 +0000 UTC]
Wow, it's beautiful....very original too
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Foxi-5 In reply to ??? [2009-03-24 01:09:36 +0000 UTC]
I suppose that means the end of all the Sailor Moon Episodes then. *Sigh* Great effort nonetheless! Love the Milky Way especially!
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