Canals of New Mars: The Epitaph by flavia49

Poser • Science Fiction • posted on Feb 12, 2011

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"Are you in a delicate condition, Vickie?" Eve took the news cheerfully. "Just a bit." The candid reply. "How great!" Eve exclaimed happily clapping her hands. She turned to JS whose expression was more aghast than cheerful. He cleared his throat: "What does 'just a bit' mean? To be or not to be... pregnant, this is the problem. There's not 'half pregnant', or so I was told." Then he added: "But perhaps that's only for humans." "It's just a drafted project, a probability in a mathematical imaginary field as the Nowhere is. I can develop and bring it physically to light or leave it, indefinite, forever. It's up to me, to us." The plea quality of Vickie's voice made JS ill at ease, but touched Eve's heartstrings. "You truly want this child, Vickie!" Vickie gulped: "I'd love it!" "She'll be very welcomed!" Eve was delighted by the news. Shocked to the marrow, JS decided to clarify the situation straightaway, at the risk of appearing callous: "What does it mean... physically? do you enlarge, go slower, have the cravings, be in labor... When will the delivery be? I gotta know. Don't forget we're still hunted down by the Rogues and 3TC." "No, none of that!" Vickie shouted feeling him worried. "It's like.. like..." "Like a software!" Eve burst out. "That's it! I develop my baby-to-be in the Nowhere from a DNA code. I don't swell, no side effects. The baby-ship will be cast in a physical body summoned by her sire or her captain-to-be." JS heaved a sigh of relief. Suddenly a sense of fraternal possessiveness gripped him. "How could this happen? Should I call out the cad?" Vickie giggled. Eve grokked. Clapping both of her hands over her mouth, "Oh, Jay!" she uttered. The suspect struck him like a bullet. "Me! no way!" JS's Adam's apple bobbed as a yo-yo. But a smile flickered across his face, the humor of the situation not entirely lost on him. "I know my goods are good, but that's out of my league! A 2.5 miles battleship is too much also for my generous size!" He grinned puckishly. "I feel terrible about that, Jay." Vickie admitted. "No captain ever wanted to die for his ship. They coupled just to ascend to the stars. I translated your DNA. If you didn't make it, I wanted a sparkle of you forever." "It's OK, Vickie!" JS's lips quirked in a saucy, little half smile. "You sired a ship!" Eve enfolded him in her arms. He held her close and grinned with wry boldness: "It's not a waste barge, is it, right?" "Nooo! she's a beautiful frigate!" Vickie protested while the alarms announced the jump off the hyperspace. The 9th moon of Planet X7 was a frozen ball of rocks and water ice Laetitia immediately nicknamed Hoth. Its iron-rich liquid core originated the moon's magnetic field and its tectonic activity. A thin atmosphere allowed a meager bacterial life in the subterranean salt seas and in the caves generated by volcanic activity and meteorite impacts. The planet had been abandoned for thousands of years but the scanner still identified some man-made structures underground. "We've to explore this basis. Everything we find will be shared in public. We owe it to the past greatness of S'skash!" JS announced on holo-tv. "A nail on the huffers' coffin!" he grinned privately. At the abandoned, dilapidated base the recce-team warned JS that someone had blown up the main bulk doors. JS arrived and ordered to free the door for the crew from ice. At last the door swooshed open. Dim lights still lit up the place. Their movement snapped an engine hum. "It's a hangar of an ancient ship!" Vickie mind-whispered. JS nodded, his eyes caught by the frozen, cocooned corpses scattered around. "There was a massacre." S-Li whispered. "They killed each other." Those corpses shook the S'skash crew more than the Yttrium Mines killing ground. In the mists of history S'skash killed other S'skash. "He brought all to hell with him." JS engraved the epitaph indicating the armored vehicle gunner. --- Thanks

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Comments (70)

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alessimarco

1:15AM | Sun, 13 February 2011

~Awesome chapter and scene! Really fine writing and illustration!~

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RodolfoCiminelli

4:33AM | Sun, 13 February 2011

Splendida e brillante scena la mia amica.....!!!

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mariogiannecchini

4:34AM | Sun, 13 February 2011

Bella scena , ricca di dettagli e di atmosfera ! Storia sempre coinvolgente !

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carlx

7:48AM | Sun, 13 February 2011

Fantastic sci-fi art!!!

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flaviok

9:23AM | Sun, 13 February 2011

A história e obra são excelentes minha amiga, aplausos (5)

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jmb007

9:32AM | Sun, 13 February 2011

superbe travail

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adrie

9:38AM | Sun, 13 February 2011

Amazingly beautiful sci-fi scene and story my friend, superb done...love it.

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densa

10:02AM | Sun, 13 February 2011

wonderful scene and story

KnightWolverine

10:08AM | Sun, 13 February 2011

I love commenting on art when it's done like this....Amazing Scene!!

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pixeluna

10:12AM | Sun, 13 February 2011

Such an outstanding work!

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2121

1:02PM | Sun, 13 February 2011

Wow, the render is AMAZING...the text as brilliant as ever my friend

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felinx

4:26PM | Sun, 13 February 2011

Superbe travail :)

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StudioArtVartanian

10:17AM | Mon, 14 February 2011

fantastic work!!!

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shorterbus

11:07AM | Mon, 14 February 2011

Another score!

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doarte

11:50AM | Mon, 14 February 2011

Fantastic image and superb text...love the Canal of the New Mars

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jac204

1:51PM | Mon, 14 February 2011

JS is going to be a father! Great scene and great story.

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anmes

3:15AM | Tue, 15 February 2011

The scene totally reflects the script...it's full of great detail Brilliant work

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gaius

4:15AM | Tue, 15 February 2011

Wow ! this is fantastic...the image is exceptional and so are the words... When I have some more time left I'll have a look at the other images.

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Richardphotos

6:32AM | Tue, 15 February 2011

stellar composition and effects.cinematic quality

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shadownet

4:54PM | Wed, 16 February 2011

Excellent

gonzojr

7:57PM | Wed, 16 February 2011

Amazing concept, scene and work

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blondeblurr

8:55PM | Wed, 16 February 2011

A pregnant pause without morning sickness, what's next ? the mind boggles, you nearly scared me, when I zoomed-in on the decaying body ... well done, BB

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jarmila

9:32AM | Thu, 17 February 2011

bella composizione e storia, sei proprio brava,ciao

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tennesseecowgirl

10:06AM | Thu, 17 February 2011

Great details. nice work.

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danapommet

11:38PM | Thu, 17 February 2011

A fantastic image Flavia and an extra special chapter in your story. Very well done my friend. Dana

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SSoffia

1:25AM | Sat, 19 February 2011

Dear friend Flavia Thank you for your generous words. God bless. *** Estimada amiga Flavia Gracias por sus generosas palabras . Dios la bendiga. Fantastic scene & work :)

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