Looking for some help reducing the render times on a scene so I can get a better Orb Pic in the gallery:

The sun is off, atmosphere is off too, and I have just 3 lights in here.  Obviously it's the Orb's texture (complex as hell) that's doing it - but is there any way to reduce the render times in the render options - see pic?

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