The Turin Class Artificial Intelligence Pythagoras was one of 250 hyperdrive-equipped Advance Planetary Survey Vehicles (APSV) which swept planetary systems ahead of colony ships leaving Earth, guiding them to habitable planets. The Pythagoras APSV had just signalled its home colony fleet of the discovery of a favourable planet in the HD 37124 system (Constellation: Taurus) when it was struck by something small, enormously heavy and very fast moving. Turin Class AI's are regarded as sentient, with similar rights to humans - and within their APSV are very well protected. In fact, short of vaporising the ship, they are likely to survive most calamities that may befall their host APSV. Here, in the early morning sun, we see the Search & Rescue 'droid (semi sentient) the 'Pas Partous' as it locates the Pythagoras, which had crash-landed on the planet it had just discovered. Because of the distance that APSV's search ahead of their home fleets, and as the home colony fleets move more slowly, it has taken 10 standard years for the fleet to reach the planet. /----------/ Loooong time since I have produced anything - all my spare time going in to learning Cinema 4D at the moment... I'm tired of making benches, lampposts, Powermacs and painting/texturing cubes! Needed to get something out to satisfy those creative urges! Credits Sky - Dosch HDRI Terrain Shader - complex terrain shader made with various textures, many from FreeStuff by AgentSmith The Pythagoras textures - by Magma @ www.lwg3d.com The Pythagoras greebles/nurnies by originalmoron from his site The Pas Partous textures - mostly by Total Textures, colour-modified to match. The engine glow is from someone's Babylon 5 model - if it's yours, let me know - I'm happy to credit you.