After the fall of the mighty American Empire in 2054 a dedicated group in Australasia launched the DESS. A colony capable of 100,00 that is (in theory) of surviving indefinitely. This the group did, out in an uninteresting zone where they drifted. They became a core trade center:
The success of the first DESS resulted in the launch of DESS-S Which was a scientific version of the same basic design. This was sent out to do research on a nebula, and then move further into orbit around a black hole:
(Image while in the nebulae)
Finally, a third was placed in orbit around earth, to servo as a platform for future expeditions:
First things first, the WIP for anyone who has C&C, but it seems most like it the way it is.
The model was started at the beginning of the month and I took a few weeks holiday in the middle (look at the WIP if you want)
The Space station was made in blender (obviously), and taught me a lot about the compositor. The Space ship was made in blender, with the gimp and that is over here.
Finally, the High Res versions are here:
Trade
Science
Platform
Thanks to all those who have already commented on the WIP.
Credits:
The backgrounds for the images are:
Starfield) From a CD I have from somewhere…
Nebulae) Over Here (1.3 mp version)
Earth Over Here (changed the sun a bit though)
The nodes used for doing the sun are based on a setup from Ronnke which was modified to fit the size of my sun.
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This is not based on Deep Space 9, I have not seen Star Trek, and wasn’t aware of the similarity until it was pointed out by Daniel_S (thanks for that). I did make a few changes to try and make it more obviously different.