This image is a test of the planetary textures in krooke's Atlas Caelestis Vol. 1. They looked cool enough to spend ten buck to see how they were done. (I got the textures for 3D - not the Bryce version, just so I could get at the maps directly). The top part of the image is three of the world maps (and bumps and a cloud map) without modifications. Because I wanted a particular look to the planets in the system, I played with the colors on three of the four planets in the bottom half of the image, but I didn't change the basic maps themselves. Some of the maps look to be derived in part from NASA planetary maps, and I can recognize chunks of Venues and Ganymede, among others, in there, but they're a very well done package. He has custom habitable worlds in the package, too. I give it a thumbs up. The ship is a retextured version of an older model of mine, hopefully looking less plastic now. For you to get a measure of planetary scale, in my imaginary system, Londo is about two-thirds the Earth's diameter and a bit more than a quarter of its mass. And if you don't get the derivation of the names of the Centauri planets, don't ask. I had to do a bit of research (there's a wiki!) on the names of some of the moons, though. Hope you like it. Thanks for viewing and stuff. ---- It was about three quarters of a century after we got to Atlantis, the fairly habitable second planet of Alpha Centauri B, before we bothered to cross over and take a look at the worlds of the big star in any detail. Even though at closest approach the big star was only about as far away from us as Saturn was from Earth, there just wasn't a lot of enthusiasm for it. There were better things to do, like getting settled on a hostile world, and the proposals to fire up the coils on one of the Cityships to take a tour never got anywhere -- too much mass to move around. It wasn't until we build the Palmer and scared up enough xenon to fuel it that we made the crossing. We Atlantis-born didn't even call the star by its big Ancient language name. We'd taken the Arabic version and split it: the big star was 'Rig' and ours was 'Ken'. 'Prox' was a red spec in the sky, even less useful than Rig. And I have no idea what the old geezers back in Chiron were giggling about when they talked about naming Cartagia's moon Refa. But since a lot of them are about two centuries from their first stint in diapers, I think the cold sleep and regenerations must have scrambled their brains. It doesn't matter. The old generation has settled down in their Chiron apartments or Primus Valley villas, leaving the exploration for a generation that's only seen Sol as a bright star in Cassiopeia. It beats driving shuttles to orbit, and we might even find something useful. --Viggo Turki, Captain, AES Palmer, Alpha Centauri Alpha Expedition 2184-7