This image comes from two ideas. One was a cloudscape concept that never quite worked out, but morphed into this scene. The other was a plan to make a Foss-like image of a flying wing out of booleans. To get the two-toned hull, I actually made two wings - the red one, then another black one with all the "non-black" sections negatived out with cubes. Then I dropped the black wing over the red one, and it looks pretty good (I did that just for the fuselage - the black trim is plain old normal primitives). This image is all Bryce, a single render with just a signature in post. The tower material is called USS Derelict by Svar00g; I downloaded it from free stuff years ago. I had fun with this one. Hope you like it. This makes one hundred images on Renderosity. Thanks to everyone who's commented or favorite me and my images! --- The terraforming of Venus was probably the greatest accomplishment of the third millennium, greater than the relatively simple transformation of Mars, greater than the building and launching of the interstellar Cityships, even greater than the effort of the M'kkiae War. The highlands and far longitudes on Venus are pleasant, but the equatorial regions are still hellishly hot. Storms ravage the lowlands and sweep across the oceans with winds approaching four hundred klicks an hour. Before the terrforming rains (and comets) fell, great towers lined the equator. In the shallows off Aphrodite Terra and Pheobe Regio many still stand above the seas, battered by centuries of storms. Even after reunification, the equatorial region remained sparsely populated and lawless. Smugglers and pirates used the towers as encampments, shielded even from satellites by the hostile weather. When the storms subside, scouts from the LAOS (Land Air Orbital Sea) Patrol take to the skies, scanning the seas for trouble. With luck, planning and an accurate forecast, they make it back to base before the next storm hits. -excerpt from Venus off the Beaten Path, Edition 3.02, edited by Nostra Veerboden, Salamander ePress 2532