Orbit
Ahhh...finally getting out of the KPT Bryce stage of my graphics development. This image was created with Specular Infini-D 3.1. It was inspired by Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series. The way he described the ship in Foundation's Edge caused me to think up the ship in the foreground. The space station is your typical ringed space station design. The planet in the background is actually a background image that comes with Infini-D. There is one thing to note: the name of the ship. As you can see from the texture map, the ship's name is "Tycho." There is a reson for this. I finished the majority of the space ship at about the same time I finished the first game in Bungie Software's Marathon Trilogy. In that game, there were three AIs aboard the colony ship U.E.S.C. Marathon: Leela(the good one), Durandal(the insane one), and Tycho. Tycho didn't play a huge role in this first chapter of the Marathon Universe, but he does later. Anyway, I was pondering a name for my ship, and I happened to glance at the box for Marathon(you know those cool triangular boxes that all three games shipped in before the box set). I started thinkning about the AIs, and about how Asimov described the ship's computer in Foundation's Edge, and settled on Tycho as the most likely name for my ship. I stuck with it.
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