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Weird, those links worked at both home and at university. Vic informs me that imageshack has turned into total bullshit, so until I get a photobucket together, you can look at the second image.
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You had me at the glasses, man.
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I am pleased to report that the a non-direct link to the first image still works.
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Mmm... there's some bush, Frod. :)
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It was twenty years after the bombs fell. Politics were a bit stressed between the big powers of the earth, but who decided to push the button is a fact forgotten and irrelevant. When one flew they all flew. At the same time, a bioweapon was loosed, a virus that added to the burnt out ruins of the worlds cities a dangerous new threat, the zombies. Its effects were not uniform. Some people got the full effect from airborne microbes early on, others required some mixing of fluids, some were completely immune. Some would become mindless creatures attacking everything that moved while a few would be reduced to beastial behavior, but could use crude weapons, open doors, build crude shelters, act in small packs and even breed. Some of the infected quickly degenerated into beasts within hours, others slowly lost their faculties over days or months, some would get nothing more then some light coughing and would get over it in a few days and in some it would lay dormant until death, when it would bring them back to life. The scattered survivors lived in constant dread of these creatures.

Despite this, something nonhuman survived. A self aware computer endured and sought to secure its existence and rebuild civilization. As such, it used an army of whatever robots it could salvage to patrol. Among the machines it managed to acquire was a number of high end waitress gynoids and spare parts for them. Surprisingly intelligent novelties, the AI gave them combat training and used these robots to scout out areas over-run by zombies for machinery that might be of use and (after being sterilized) as ambassadors to local humans. Many Zombies attacked these mechanical maidens, only to break teeth on the Gynoid's skin if they were among the slim minority that ever got close that close to them.

(This is done to be a bit lighthearted and to let the world know that i firmly believe that Robots are infinitely cooler than Zombies)
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This is Richard Kreuz of Comix, back in his 70's supervillain days. He is supposed to be wearing a stripped-down version of Vietnam-era Special Forces power armor, complete with customized psyops faceplate, jetpack, dual atomic ray pistols and a grapnel device attached to his left forearm tactical rail. The final product was quite ahead of its time.

The pose is because he's in the middle of a rocket-assisted hop or something.

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That is an awesome helmet.
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It looks like it was built in a cave... with a box of scraps! Which totally works, for old-tech Vietnam-era power armor in Comix.
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Many happy returns Herry-tick.

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Corvettes are the smallest warships employed in the Terran sphere and among the most basic. Measuring under 150 meters long, these spacecraft lack many ships that other warships possess. They lack Hyperdrives limiting to their effective range to in system use and because their low range, they rarely carry more than two months worth of supplies while their crews live in cramped conditions. They are also very lighty armored and even point defense lasers can destroy many corvettes in close quarters. This bare basic design has its advantages in the long term, corvettes are cheap, easy to build and maintain even with fairly basic space industries and they have high acceleration rates and maneuverability. Corvettes are designed as low cost garrisons for systems for defensive and anti-piracy roles.

Corvettes tend to be built along specialist lines, normally point defense, beam and missile. This is a trio of typical missile corvettes (two Arbalesta-class ships and one Hastatus-class vessel) in service of the Interstellar Protectorate. These Corvettes are on patrol and accelerating. Their main weapons are a trio of swiveling box missile launchers carrying 24 medium range missiles. In case of combat, they will loose their payload and then fall back, either to base or to a nearby point defense screen. They also carry a limited stock of countermissiles and several point defense clusters.
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A Cyber-Converter, A Cyberman specially tasked with the conversion of additional life-forms into new Cybermen. Behind it is a work bench, which is being hosed down of all the blood left from the creation of the latest Cyberman.

This Cyberman is inspired by the first Cybermen from The Tenth Planet with a few minor tweeks (servos and bracings on the arms, arms, metal face-mask and gloves).

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A pair of typical Civilians from the Commonwealth of Democratic worlds dressed in Typical Shenzhou style business wear (which has become the norm across most of the commonwealth since the 2220s-30s century despite some movements to maintain local fashions). Their are some variations on this theme. Neckties are fairly rare in the commonwealth as they are usually associated with the Novan Empire.
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The Prototype Timeship's flight was a mix success, while it did manage to successfully enter and leave the Time Vortex, in doing so it burned out most of it's systems, forcing it to make an emergency landing. Its location was earth, in the year 1942. It crashed into an area know as Thuringia near a rural village. With their engines beyond repair and unable to contact the Fleet from which they launched or Mondas, they set to work digging in. They were engaged by a force of Waffen-SS infantry which had been recruiting and parading in the area, but though the Timeship's crew was outnumbered the Natives were completely out-gunned. Before the Luftwaffe could send bombers or ground attack aircraft to the site, they had managed to restore the Timeship's shields, which encompassed their crash-site, the nearby town and the SS troopers under its bubble. Within 36 hours they were all captured.

The surviving crew of the Timeship numbered less than a hundred and even with the shield, they knew that to survive they needed to expand their numbers. Fortunately they had plenty of raw materials. They scavenged up enough material and set up a conversion center which allowed them to process a four or five humans at once. To start, they went with the captured SS members. Of those people that were now under their thumb, they were deemed the most dangerous, they were healthy adults and they could pose a problem if they escaped. Here, some more of the prisoners are brought in as the conversion of the first batch of new Cybermen is complete. It would take some time to build up, but they would eventually have the resources to upgrade this claimed "Master Race".

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A Novan TRX-45n3 Conqueror Armored Personnel carrier, one of the most common military vehicles used by the Novan Military and one of the oldest, serving on the front lines for over 163 years with some modifications. Capable of delivering a force of 12 soldiers behind enemy lines and providing support, both against enemy infantry with its 15mm autogun and anti-vehicle using a side mounted 120mm rocket launcher. It is fully amphibious, a capacity improved in 2263 with the installation of limited counter gravity systems making it easier to float and allowing it to handle rough terrain slightly better. From first wave drop operations to keeping the peace in newly annexed, the Conqueror is there.
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So here's a map (90% complete) I've been working on for about a week, no real story behind it, yet I feel like thuis could be the seed for a whole new 'verse. One warning, VERY big.
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The sketch version of the central figure of my entry for zimeta08:'s Old People Rule contest. Part of the contest is not just drawing old people, but pushing the boundaries of one's artistic aility. In my case, I'm going to put this guy in a detailed background since I have trouble with backgrounds.

Anyway, this character is Thomas Thaddeus Keith, the grandpa of Thomas Tyler Keith of my Quirk et al. idea. I'm revamping said idea into one set in the "near future" in an early Mars colony.

Basically, Thaddeus is the former head of the Thoth Conglomerate, one of the most influential of the private space companies in the drive to colonize Mars. He figures that he'll leave running his company's Earth-based headquarters to his son while he spends his last years developing the Mars colony and running the Thoth Conglomerate's assets on Mars. He also brought along his grandson Tyler, who he's basically training as the Renaissance man heir to his Martian "empire."

In this pic, he's basically looking out to a spot being surveyed as the possible construction site for a space elevator while his grandson looks on beside him. I'll drawn Tyler separately and add him in the final pic, as well as a few other astronauts in the background.

I based his suit on concept designs for a less bulky space suit that is "pressurized" from skin-tight constriction rather than pretty much inflating it as they do in modern space suits. And, yes, that antenna is a homage to the ones on Boba and Jango Fett's helmets.
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I like his face wrinkles. You make the geriatric look work. Maybe he has a cane?
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In the original present-day setting he was supposed to. His current characterization doesn't thanks to future!medical science, but does walk with a very slight limp that's not so noticeable on lower-gravity Mars.
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New sci-fi idea. Retirement homes on low-gravity planets/moons!
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Shroom Man 777 wrote:New sci-fi idea. Retirement homes on low-gravity planets/moons!
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Rest assured, the marketing department of the Thoth Conglomerate and the other private space companies have that idea covered. :mrgreen:

Also, an addition:

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I drew space-suited Tyler and figured I'd combine it with my previous pic so I can get a preview of how they'll look together in the final pic. Thaddeus is supposed to be standing on elevated ground, while Tyler is standing on more inclined ground to the right and behind him.

I meant for their relative positions to show their relationship. The incline and the angle Tyler is standing at negates his height over his grandpa (Tyler is nearly a full head taller), and his posture is supposed to look more meek and differential. I also made Tyler's expression more wide-eyed, to contrast with his grandpa's stern expression.

Thaddeus's standards can be exacting, and he can be a very hard teacher to satisfy. Since he's basically taken Tyler as his apprentice and is personally training him in multiple fields, Tyler basically has to try and live up to those standards every day of his life. As such, he's simply overawed by his grandpa and makes damned sure that he lives up to the man's standards.

Anyway, here they are in their Thoth Conglomerate space gear. I plan to draw seven other astronauts for the background of the final pic. They'll be from other groups/countries, so I'll have to make different suit designs.
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Here are two men of two different nations. They only ever met once on the battlefield and never knew each other’s name.

One was a Warrior of the state of Tarrack. He was quite proud of this fact and saw himself as being a superior class of Human being. He was told that the Warrior Class of Tarrack were the greatest fighters in the world, bred for war and to dominate. At the age of six his training began, being taken from his mother and sent to join a cadre of other young warriors. There he was taught to live off little, for young warriors were given little food save for those who did the best at the constant sparing matches. He would also go on long marches and was taught to hate weakness, respect tradition and how to act like a man. Latter in his training he and his comrades would be pitted against maddened dogs and criminals from Tarrack’s vassals to give them a taste of real battle. When he was finally let into the military, something that three out of four of his peers died trying to become, he was part of a warrior elite feared throughout the world, a deadly halberdier without fear or pity, and having taken three wives did what he could to make sure that the future would contain more of what he was.

The other was a much more humble figure, a journeyman shoemaker from Vyrona. His father’s only son, he did whatever he could to make sure that his young lad stayed save as a child. Fortunately for his dad, he was a quiet young man who took a very keen interest in the shop and his father’s trade. His father was quite impressed at his handiwork, which was quite inventive and inspired, even if it was unpolished and his skills needed honing in a few areas. He eventually began to court a butcher’s daughter. He never held a weapon until war broke out between Tarrack and Vyrona and he was conscripted to defend his city state. His father did what he could and the shoemakers’ guild gave him a helmet, an old cutlass, a newer weapon and a rusty breastplate as well as a few weeks of training by some of the old veterans. He was also given a lily by his love when he finally marched out, which he put on his helmet.

The two nations eventually brought their armies together. The Vyronan forces looked on the men of Tarrack with dread while the Men of Tarrack looked on the Vyronans as a poor mess of merchants, peasants and artisans that hardly deserved to die by the lances of Tarrack Heavy Cavalry and the swords and halberds of Tarrack Infantry and dismissed their ways of fighting as cowardly and womanish. As battle horns blared, the forces began the assault. But this was not a battle as they knew it, as it soon became filled with smoke, the stink of sulphur, the thunder of cannon and the crack and arquebus. The Vyronan cavalry kept away from the heavy horses of Tarrack while letting pistols and composite bows take down their number while the formations of charging halberdiers that tried to get to Vyronan lines found themselves subjected to a lethal hailstorm of lead. Some got to the lines and managed to inflict some forces in casualties, but the Vyronans had some seasoned veteran heavy infantry and pikemen which allowed them to fend off the attackers.

After the Battle, the Shoemaker wandered over the battlefield out of dread curiosity having fired off three shots in the battle but thankfully being spared from having to get into close combat. He was told by the general that this was truly a great day because they struck down a fifth of Tarrack’s warrior class that and with that, soon they would be able to free its vassals to bring an end to Tarrack’s empire. As he walked by, he saw a body lying up against a rock. Its weapons lying behind him. It moves slightly causing him to flinch, but this was only the part of that soldier’s last few threads of life snapping. The age of warriors had passed, the age of soldiers had begun
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