Canals of New Mars: The Past Is An Enemy Country by flavia49

Poser • Science Fiction • posted on Jun 09, 2010

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Before letting in Vasquez and his doc friend, JS glanced at Lucas Sr.'s letter: "I know from reliable source that the President gave the order to assassinate you. The order is illegal and secret and this makes it even more dangerous. GOD, instead, is interested in taking possession of your ship. I'll keep you informed." JS folded the letter and put it in his pocket. "I must find a safe place, ASAP." He thought, lest to bring more troubles to his people. At the door of the parlor, while he was going to ask Vasquez to introduce her friend to him, a Gray approached JS: "One word, Captain?" JS nodded and the Gray said: "We are returning among our people. My people owe you a debt of gratitude for freeing us from Rogue slavery." JS and the Gray greeted with due formality. "How he can shake hands with a Gray!" hissed the doctor. "They have abducted Eartheners and used them as guinea pigs for centuries!" Vasquez looked at her friend puzzled: "That Gray fought with us at the Yttrium Mines. We are brothers in arms!" JS came to meet them and noticed that the man had stiffened. Reading his mind, JS felt the man's animosity. "This is Dr. Lee de Carvalho." Vasquez introduced the doctor, "I'm at the bar." "I know who you are. A bloody murderer.." the doctor thought, but the flow of his thoughts was interrupted by JS. "I hope that Vasquez has explained about the job. She spoke very highly of you and I have a high opinion of her judgment," politely JS let Lee assimilate his words. "I was a medical officer on several ships of the EA fleet." Lee said, putting his resume on the table, but he was thinking: "I saw you on the Pasteur.. How many did you kill?" Staring Lee in the face, JS said: "Just to be clear. If you accept the job, you will execute my orders to the letter, whatever the order." Lee grinned, "I will obey your orders in the medical field also, won't I?" "You will, if I have to give you one. If you signs, your soul belongs to me, am I clear?" The man flinched and the memory of the EAS Pasteur ran in his mind like an accelerated movie. JS sighed. His people needed a real doctor, he knew it. "For a good cause" he thought and said: "If you do not consider justified any order of mine, tell me and you will be landed at the first port, but for no reason disobey my orders." The Steampunk Hell's owner knocked lightly on the door and indicated that he had to speak to JS. "Before taking on the job, I grant you a direct question and I promise an honest answer." JS said, nodding to the owner. "Two Rogue destroyers have just moored. They are asking questions about you." The bartender whispered. "The Pasteur, was it a covert operation? It was you who led it?" "No." JS replied staring at the doctor with his ice-silver eyes. "Your response?" "I agree. Do I have to sign with my blood?" said sternly Lee de Carvalho while thinking "I'll find if you lied. Those dead call revenge." "As you like." said JS concealing his fury and dismissing him. His past was haunting him and those he loved. Eve darted into the parlor. "Jay, listen..." and told him the mermaid's story. "They need help!" "Eve, we cannot. We already have our troubles!" JS set his jaw. All concerned about the pain she felt for the Atargatis people and unaware of JS's glacial mood, Eve exclaimed: "But, how can you! You can't be so insensitive!" "In my line of business callousness is a virtue." JS murmured, his voice hard with a pain he didn't acknowledge, even to himself, staring at her with a blank look. "Before, I had to cover only my a*s, but when I accepted your gift and took command of our people and the ship, I committed myself to serve and protect at my best. This means taking unpleasant, callous decisions. I am a man of my word. Sorry for that. We'll take off in half an hour." He left closing his mind and the door. --- Thanks bobbie25: Hardcore M4

Production Credits

SP1 - Steampunk Base

By mapps

$15.00 USD

Comments (70)

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CoreyBlack

5:55PM | Wed, 09 June 2010

This very nicely realized and quite stunning!

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wblack

6:16PM | Wed, 09 June 2010

Killer set and texture work and awesome text and characters, wonderfully done!

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scifibabe

8:59PM | Wed, 09 June 2010

What a fun scifi hangout. Love the colors in this. Vibrant and fun. Great characters too. Love the grey alien. Really cool work.

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Radar_rad-dude

9:15PM | Wed, 09 June 2010

A most superlative episode! The writing is entrancing! The artwork is stellar with all the sweet and wonderful details, lighting and characters! I can only say, WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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jif3d

9:30PM | Wed, 09 June 2010

Wild looking 'Steampunk hell' bar and appropriate lighting ! Well done & ~Cheers~

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jocko500

9:49PM | Wed, 09 June 2010

wonderful story here and image to go with it

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Minda

10:35PM | Wed, 09 June 2010

EXCELLENT scene and work flavia..

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bazza

3:51AM | Thu, 10 June 2010

Excellent work on this render and chapter well done!!

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anahata.c

6:13AM | Thu, 10 June 2010

It's always hard to come into the middle of a tale, and since I've been gone so long almost anywhere I pick up will be the middle. But I do get the sense of a very concrete set of dialogues: I can see there's a concrete backlog behind this and that it's moving to more dramatic encounters of real import. These aren't small points for someone who's coming in in the middle: It shows that you've sculpted a tale with real immediacy and heft and that even coming in in the middle speaks of a concrete set of relations and events that one feels strongly from a glance. Unfortunately, it's hard to say more simply because I don't know the characters or exactly what they're referring to. It's a dramatic scene, though. As for the visual, it would be wonderful even if I didn't read anything: The mix of characters, your from the floor pov (Orson Welles loved that pov in "Citizen Kane," thanks to his cinematographer, Gregg Toland), your wonderful use of dark background with highly saturated lights, a very vivid color scheme---and an active one too, such as the way the 2 sets of pipes on the left modulate from a lighter blue to a darker---fine reflections on the floor, fine lights in the background (stars? I don't know the tale well enough to know if that's what they are), and great swirly chairs & couch, as if they were made of chrome, or of the swirled colors that were used to make old book endpapers (those swirled colored papers that filled the inside-covers of 19th C books---they literally placed papers over liquid-colors that had been combed to make swirls). A very vivid sense of color & design throughout. And of course a very concrete scene, which one would feel even if you hadn't provided text. And I love "loose lips sink ships" because it's from WWII, and it's a great little time reference for a futuristic setting. A very vivid, fun and sensuous rendering. Great to be back here again, and I hope all is well your way!

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lyron

6:52AM | Thu, 10 June 2010

Marvelous work!!!

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cricke49

12:39PM | Thu, 10 June 2010

excellent scene and the story just keeps getting better!:)*5

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drifterlee

6:00PM | Thu, 10 June 2010

What a fantastic scene!!!!!!!

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goldie

7:54PM | Thu, 10 June 2010

my goodness, flavia, this story gets more and more complicated and intense with time. am enjoying it immensely :) your scene is wonderful too...lighting and characters are excellent!

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flaviok

6:56AM | Fri, 11 June 2010

A história e a cena se desenrolam de maeira magnifica minha amiga, aplausos (5)

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MagikUnicorn

8:43AM | Fri, 11 June 2010

Awesome scene well done!! fav

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Hendesse

8:53AM | Fri, 11 June 2010

Fantastic scene and story. Superb!

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mickuk50

3:35PM | Fri, 11 June 2010

As usual my friend ,FANTASTIC :o) Mick

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tennesseecowgirl

4:59PM | Fri, 11 June 2010

fantastic !!

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kasalin

4:02AM | Sat, 12 June 2010

Wonderful colours in it

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blondeblurr

7:12AM | Sat, 12 June 2010

It looks quite like the future place/bar to meet... very stylish, BB

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schonee

12:08PM | Sat, 12 June 2010

Great Scene and story as always! Have a great weekend

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DarkStormCrow

12:37PM | Sat, 12 June 2010

Cool sci fi scene, well done...

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myrrhluz

2:05PM | Sat, 12 June 2010

Beautiful image! I love the combination of the dark background and bright primary colors! Wonderful body language! I particularly like Vasquez who seems to be both leaning towards her friend and drawn back slightly in puzzlement. Wonderful narrative! I love that JS first thought when learning of the heightened danger he is in, was to leave asap and not bring that danger to his friends. I got interrupted on my reading of older episodes and think I've missed some of JS' past. I hope to be able to get back to it soon. The dialog between JS and Lee de Carvalho is very interesting. I look forward to how it will play out. Oh my, what Eve must be feeling right now! Unaware of JS' inner turmoil and having just promised help to a people she has quickly grown to care about! I'm sure they will get it straightened out, but I think JS had better open up his mind quickly for both their sakes. Excellent story and image!

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