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EDIT:Huh... apparently this made it onto EqD. That explains a lot. Thanks to whoever nominated it.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
...and so we fled our home, abandoning it to the oncoming storm, and in our great ships we gave ourselves, wandering to the cosmos.
We found a new world in the depths of space; a cold world, far from any star, and to that bit of ice and rock we brought light and life: a rising sun, a setting moon and in our own mastery of the universe we basked; until how we had come to this new home was lost to eternity for all except a very few... and the truth of how it survived became little better than magic...
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GIANT STARSHIPS!
...and ponies. Because I could.
Been awhile since I drew either, so it seemed like the thing to do; and maybe get some environment practice to boot. Spaceship very much inspired by the old "Terran Trade Authority" books, which were such a part of my teenage years.
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My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is (c) Hasbro.
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Plain to mountain? Kinda easy for me.
My only weakness is WATER D:
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Yet another person here whom it reminds of Homeworld... I think it's because of one of the in-game videos. It shows a scene very much like this, though the ship in the game is considerably more beat up and half buried.
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I'll have to look it up... as I've said in previous comments above I love the game: but never got very far at it
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I'm also getting a massive "Homeworld" vibe from this picture. I got to go replay that soon.
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I got to get past level 4 some day
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The design of that starship is one of the most wonderfully nostalgic things I have seen in a long time. And ponies makes it 2.71828x better!
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Heh, cheers... I miss those space-operatic/whimsical starship designs. No idea what half the aerials and panels were supposed to do, but they sure did look cool.
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Indeed, that 70s stuff made for some of my favorite illustrations when I was young.
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Yeah, ir reminded me of one of Chris Foss' designs. I have all four books:
Spacecraft: 2000-2100 A.D.
Great Space Battles
SpaceWreck: Ghost Ships and Derelicts of Space
Starliners: Commercial Travel in 2200 AD
The 4th book was
Spacebase 2000 combined the first two books.
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I was always a bit confused as to what Spacebase 2000 was supposed to contain: because the wiki says the first two: but there's derelicts and commercial starliners in there too.
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Spacecraft 2000-2100AD does have commercial liners - the Martian Queen and Interstellar Queen for Earth and Starblade from Alpha Centauri. It also had four "Special" ships, of which one was a derelict (I believe found on a planet orbiting Barnard;s Star).
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Yeah, one of Spacebase 2000's was an Object #1 at Bernard's star... but it goes objects #1 through #6.
Also: Interstellar Queen, Martian Queen, Starblade, Gourmet, Avery-Frost Orion etc...
...guess I'm just going to have to aquire the rest of the books and compare mate
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Don't forget the six books Stewart Cowley published under the pseudonym Steven Caldwell (Aliens in Space, Settlers in Space, Worlds at War, etc.), which were nominally set in the same universe as TTA.
When I saw this on EQD, the first thing I thought was "Peter Elson did ponies?!?"
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I'm going to have to look those others up... I've got "The Space Warriors" which was published as Cowley and also fits in after the Proxima War but shall need to hunt down those others.
Also, if you don't mind I'm going to take that as a compliment.
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Looks very John Berkey-inspired. :> Though your design actually makes more sense than a lot of the stuff he did.
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...though his definately look cooler.
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This reminds me of Homeworld, which is awesome.
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I did enjoy Homeworld (well, Homeworld 2 was the only one I played)... sucked at it mind: I think I got as far as about level 4 in Homeworld 2 but still enjoyed it.
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I had much the same experience. I love playing Skirmish Mode against bots, though.
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Kinda reminded my of Destiny. We need to ponify that.
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I'm assuming that's a computer game? (Lets play "find the non-gamer in the room" 
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Actually its everything but. Its the MMORPG open world shooter that bungie ditched Halo to make. Its gonna be for Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, and PS4, but not PC. That could change however.
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We also need to ponify Watchdog or whatever it's called. Looks like Ubisoft's going to hit it big with that game, although I know Destiny will be phenomenal as well (I trust Bungie a lot.)
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This is cool. Really really cool. Thumbs up to you good sir.
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I am annoyed by the fact that the sections of book stores for science fiction and fantasy (which are both independent genres in their own right) are usually lumped into one section.
I am not annoyed by the actual combination of science fiction and fantasy. Genre hybrids are cool and can add both richness and depth to anything.
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The trick is to go find bookstores which only sell one or the other... or possibly both and know how to break them up
I'm something of a subscriber to the old "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" and I do enjoy seeing it implemented. That, or the regressed society so-on and so-forth.
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Or sufficiently accessible magic is taken for granted and classified as a science. If we had magic, we wouldn't think it was anything more special than electromagnetics. It would almost certainly be used in technological implementation, possibly advancing computational power among other things.
The concept of magic is more related to the general idea of having abilities that we don't have rather than what specifically it is. Even if we discovered something that perfectly matched the classical fantasy description of magic, scientists would say it is not magic as soon as the mechanics of it are sufficiently well understood.
After all, anything that can be observed in nature is not supernatural, regardless of its historical categorization.
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This seems to be very similar to Homeworld. Does this mean that the Ponies came from Hiigara, not Equestria?
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That crossover would be the most amazing thing ever
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As I said higher up the thread: feel free to interpret this in any way you choose
The Homeworld games definitely drew on that same era/style of science fiction illustration, which is probably one of the reasons I liked them so much (sucked at them, completely and tragically, but still loved them).
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Style is definitely more the scifi-novel cover style Homeworld drew from than Homeworld itself. I can tell because that jet-engine-pod-at-the-end-of-a-fin-thing is a classic.
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I love those stalk-engine-nacelle things... we should bring those back.
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"...and that which was lost, is once again found."
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Terran Trade Authority? Interesting...
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Worth looking up if you like sci-fi of the 70s variety.
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Tautologies are tautological.
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ooh, fossish (ie: reminds me of Foss, which *might* be betraying my age...)
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Embarrasingly I had to go look that name up... but I do recognise the work: have a few books with it on the covers. So yeah, big (albeit unknowing until now) fan of his work.
But yeah: very much inspired by that style of sci-fi illustration and particularly starship design.
Thanks.
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Or is it already the planet of the ponies
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it was a reference to "return to the planet of the apes" (2001 film)
but i got the titles mixt up
i wanted to refer to
Planet of the Apes (1968 film)
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hi hi
This is equal parts haunting and serene. Quite sublime really.
(I shall have to look up the Terran Trade Authority books.)
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Cheers mate.
The TTA books were a series of 4 illustrated sci-fi books detailing ship design, some "history" and unkown/unidentified alien vessels which were collected eventually in one volume Spacebase 2000. Had a quick flick through your gallery... I think you'll like them.
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