I spent some time spiffing up my Barracuda gunship model, and put this little scene together. All models and the scene are done in Bryce 6. I got the Jupiter mat at Celestia Motherlode . To get some more depth on the planet, I applied the same mat to a slightly larger semi-transparent sphere. Then I put a couple of black semi-transparent cylinders between Jupiter and the starfield background to dim the stars around the "bright" planet. Thanks for looking and commenting. --- Six days before the Armistice... [Begin Transcript] 21:46.34 UTC, 30 August 2182 "Just a little closer..." Hannibal, this is Flammarion Station - Look out! It's a trap! There's a gunship in the rocks! "Bastards! I told them not to squeal." "Aren't you going to set off the charges, sir?" "There are no charges. I was bluffing. No point in blowing up a bunch of civilians. No point now that they've alerted the Reb - {UNRECOVERABLE} "Keep it low and slow and cap up the glaser and mag gun. Too close for missiles. They're less than a klick away. Alerted or not, no countermeasures are gonna protect them from a couple of line of sight shots." "They'll lock on us in seconds, sir." "Then we'd better hit 'em good. Get ready." {UNRECOVERABLE} "Ahh-" [End Transcript] - Recovered recorder from Barracuda Gunship G-017 aka Nazgul, Lt. Cmdr Oscar L. Musgrave, commanding.