Dejah Thoris Departure by geirla
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I've been meaning to do a luxury liner for some time. Sketched it out in half an hour during some presentation I was supposed to be paying attention to. Modeling took more like sixteen hours.
The background is my own terraformed version of a 4K Mars texture - about as close as you can get to it without hopeless blurring. I added four volcanic peaks as lattices (you can just see Olympus Mons peaking over the horizon on the right) to give the world some real 3-D depth, beyond what the bump map can give me. Clouds are a 4K transparency, but I set the parametric scale to 18% to give more detail than a regular world-wide cloudbank would do (works great for the close-up, but if you pan back, you get streaks and repetitions.
Too much detail. I had to make the image a bit smaller and more compressed that I wanted to so it would fit inside the 512Kb limit. Original is 1920X1200 and over 900Kb.
Thanks for viewing, commenting and favoriting. I really appreciate it.
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Dejah Thoris was almost complete when the Hesperians seized Phobos; her sister ship Thuvia was a just skeletal frame. By the time Albert declared himself emperor a year later, Red Star Lines was nationalized, or had at least become another of the Emperor's wholly owned corporations. The maiden voyage of Dejah Thoris was a pageantry attended by full Imperial regalia, and many of the sixteen luxury suites perched on the outer rim of the A and B rings were occupied by the Emperor's favorites.
At her launch, she was the largest liner in operation, fully 365 meters long and rated for up to 1232 passengers and 240 crew. Equipped with the finest Brent Class Four ion engines, she could maintain a steady two hundredth of a gravity acceleration -- fully compensated by the tilt in the floors of the rotating rings -- for a turnover voyage that would cross an astronomical unit in three weeks. And she was overpowered for such a journey. Running full out, she could maintain her impressive fuel efficiency and make that same crossing in a week. But running at lunar gravity acceleration and reaching nearly 500kps at turnaround, she would be violating both the guidelines of comfort and of safety, for at that velocity, a pellet of space debris could pierce through the multiple-layered hull with ease.
Dejah Thoris left port the same day Isadore Harland, once majority stock holder in the Red Star Line, was executed for treason. As the great ship departed out of Phobos and dropped low over Mars to gain velocity, many thought the timing was ominous. But her maiden voyage to Venus passed without incident. It would be three standard years to the day before disaster struck.
-- Bruce Wolff III, The Dejah Thoris Conspiracy, Selene Free Press, 2530
Comments (36)
JOELGLAINE
Very cool hard science liner design! I like the radiator fins on the back. Good solid design. Any reason for leaving off a forward debris shield? Greater speed with one less ring and same mass as a debris shield. Of course that would NOT be as sexy a design. ^__^ V,,
mmax.ch
Outstanding scene. Great POV, View and light! Really well done.
MagikUnicorn
COOL
ralphwarnick
Wonderful render and a lot of information to think on, love it.
rawdodb
Beautiful Job!!! And named after a Equally Gorgeous Martian Queen
GreenHawke
Absolutely fantastic! Wonderfully beautiful. Spacecraft is totally phenomenal!
e-brink
An excellent model and detailing on the planet. I like the terraforming. They way things are going on Earth they will need to be doing that as soon as possible. Nice image.
Seaview123
I agree with 'e-brink', both your liner and your terraformed planet look fantastic! Great work on this picture!
grafikeer
Great liner model and narrative.The design is very well conceived,and the textures on Mars are excellent!
peedy
Great scene. Fantastic ship! CORRIE
preeder
EXCELLENT WORK.
rj001
great image with cool background story
thecytron
Awesome rendering work!
DPW
Great ship and concept, really like the Mars-- very real and convincing.
SIGMAWORLD
Very nice work!
rustyguy
Cool ship!!
wingnut55
i agree !
chabot
very good work!
kjer_99
Absolutely breathtaking modeling and view! One of the better passenger ship models I've seen of late.
dcmstarships
one of the most realistic space liner designs I have ever seen; great work!
Ridley5
Wonderful ship and view!
Rutra
When I first read the title, a wave of nostalgia hit me as I remembered the hours I spent reading the adventures of John Carter. Thanks for that! :-) The planet looks fantastic. I think it would work even better in Vue as you could easily turn the bump map into displacement, which would make the peaks and valleys stand out. The ship looks fantastic, great and clever design.
NefariousDrO
Beautiful ship, nice background work! I've never been able to bring in real-world bump-maps very well, so I'm a bit envious! I really like the story with this, excellent foreshadowing, I wonder if you're planning on showing us what that disaster was? Excellent work, as always!
JCD
Excellent original design!
Bambam131
Wow, excellent modeling and presetation. I really like the planet scape too!!! Very nice clouds. Wonderful composition...
M2A
Awesome space engine, looks great.
aguirre
Fascinating ship and a dramatic story to go with it. I wonder how the view from the "Heinkel 111-style" pit was which is, considering the overall scale, a cathedral like glass dome allowing a free view into space. Great.
Chipka
This is excellent on every level...right down to the tilted floors! Tilted floors? Who pays attention to such accurate details? Wonderful! I'm in awe! This is a fantastic image, and I love the ship design itself. What a wonderful piece of work!
duo
I really like the design of the ship! Great work!
giovanino
Absolutely stunning work, excellent done.