#scifi setting

Whumptober #25: Collision Course

In that frightful moment, there is nothing that can be done. They’ve made their choice, and now they must live with it knowing that everyone else is safe. 

The ship was on a collision course with another planet. The engines had failed, and there was going to be no-other way for a landing they would walk away from. However, in order for the escape pods to function properly, someone had to stay behind. 

In the end, your whumpee tricks the remaining stubborn crew into leaving, saying ‘i’m right behind you’ as they pretend to enter the pod last… but instead they shut the doors, and manually release the escape pods. 

The planet drew nearer by the second, and at least the pods had enough fuel and supplies to get them to the nearest station. Proximity alarms wail and screech as the ship breaches atmosphere, and for a second your whumpee attempts to take the helm to have some semblance of control. On the glitching radar, the escape pods get further and further away with each passing moment, and for a second the whumpee's pounding heart slows with content. The ship inexplicably heats up from the friction of entering the atmosphere, and through the orange hue fighting the ships remaining shields, the planet below is beautiful - serene and unmarked by man. As tall trees reached to tickle the ship's underbelly, the whumpee takes a seat in the pilots-

Some brainstorming of mech designs for Remembrance, Sprite and the Jupiters (theres 3 of them).

All three types of mechs are created from the same ancient alien core technology but are owned and maintained by different factions so they've all been customised to different ends.

Esp considering my previous protag, Blue is like.... a kicked dog that needs to learn how to trust again. Theyre guarded, lonely, stressed, repressed, unable to communicate and express themself etc etc So writing them is always complicated bcs theyre blunt and aloof but never straight forward about what they want.

My scanner decided to break 🙃 anyways i drew some of my ocs finally... And gave them names that i may change lol

Anyways the 5 major characters from my sci fi universe... It starts out kinda cyberpunk but goes full space western once Miridian and Ellie are friends eheh. Kinda debating on changing Xinyi’s eyes so theyre a different colour or maybe have coloured sclera 

I have way more fleshed out but only so much space...

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The slain giant Ceres Resting among the stars In a cradle of it's own making

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More information under the cut.

Zintak technologies maintains not one, but 3 mechs:

Jupiter 1 and pilot Callisto

Jupiter 2 and pilot Ganymede

Jupiter 3 with pilot Io

Fun facts:

Zintak maintains strict privacy when it comes to their pilots. As such, almost nothing is known about them. Publicly at least.

Jupiter pilots are referred to as satellites, and assigned the titles of Callisto, Ganymede and Io.

Zintak is the only company with more than one mech, which gives them a lot of political power in the Alliance.

Jupiter 1 is the oldest active mech, and Jupiter 3 the newest.

Reference for my beloved Vesta, protagonist of my new scifi setting.

She's the newly appointed pilot for the mech, Remembrance, whose previous pilot was tragically killed. Vesta's fresh out of the academy and filled with idealism and optimism. Unfortunately she was not prepared for her mech possibly haunting her and causing her to question her sanity, space politics, reprehensible allies, and so much more!

The horrors are persistent but so is she.