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Depicted here is an enlistment poster, one used during the Europan Ice Wars of 2991

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"So are you going to take up my offer of coming with me to the Union?"

"I don't think I will, I don't like the idea of my brain being scooped up and put into a robot."

"But consider the benefits, free housing! Plus it's reversible."

"I'll think about it."

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Upon our darkest hour, as it became clear the end was near, the nations of Old Pagethos joined together to save our race. An interstellar vehicle built before the war, it was tasked with a new purpose: the continuation of our peoples, hopes, and ambitions. With a warp ring engineered from Pointwatch designs, it would rebuild elsewhere, far from their prying eyes.

This ark as it was, became our FINAL RESPITE

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Colonies over Pagethos

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Okay, I have to ask what song you used for the Pointwatch military barge animation. It’s so good!!!

Thanks!! Its Fab Tool by Carpenter Brut, its part of a larger animation I'm making

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Pointwatch military barges dropping out of warp

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The Milky Way circa 2014 NE

The territory of each nation is most commonly defined by the area that has either been explored, or built in. This leads to a vast majority of territory actually being uninhabited, with densities increasing as you get closer to the homeworlds.

While space offers no real geography to facilitate traditional borders, which would be near impossible to police, they are able to be maintained through the use of "interdictor nets". These nets forcibly rip ships out of warp, disabling them.

Thus in war, the only way to breach borders is to exit warp before you reach the net and travel there at STL speeds.

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Been a while since I've drawn Ilios

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qua'tuli is picking up the phone line in the keezeh region, at a local corner shop near the docks. Altuyur, at the time period my characters take place in, is in it's radio age at best. Since phones are derived from radio technology, phone lines are available by the time they live in. However they're quite primitive, and unless you're a wealthy eccentric person who can afford it, the average person does not have a phone at home. And the average person won't have the ability to use them either. Here, the Keezeh colony has a more developed phone line. Qua'tuli is flashing his lower teeth in slight contentment because he managed to barter for a lower price.

sketch and initial colors made in ms paint (which is why the drawing is so small / low quality, my apologies), rendering in rebelle 7. OG size under the cut

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The Pillar men, humanity's first line of defense

As humanity entered the greater galactic fold, the nations that came into the United Galactic Defense Front needed to contribute their share to the defence of sapient life. A blend of man and machine, Pillar men are humanity's beacon in the dark. A great departure from their in the flesh counterparts, humans brains are installed into towering robotic frames, allowing much greater strength, mobility, and flexibility. This new body allows humans to wield the weaponry necessary to pierce the armor of Deciever forms and play on an even playing field. Despite their limited numbers compared to the rest of the galaxy, they more than make up for it in their courage and cunning, providing a much needed new factor of unpredictability to the battlefield.

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Certified Xeno Fucker

Spent a bit too much effort on this lol

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Happy New Year guys

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Early Christmas present :)

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Early Christmas present :)

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“MY BROTHERS FROM STARS AFAR. JOIN US AND WE SHALL BURN TYRANNY TO CHAR.

WE HAVE WATCHED OUR WORLD BE TORN TO SHREDS. FILLED WITH DREAD AS BILLIONS DROPPED DEAD AND MANY MORE PROFUSELY BLED.

WE WATCHED IN HORROR AS ENTIRE CULTURES WERE ERASED. ENTIRE WORLDS WERE DISPLACED

AND ALL THIS FOR THE ELITES TO LINE THEIR POCKETS. THEY LAUGHED AT OUR PLIGHT FROM THEIR SEATS AS THEY MULTIPLY THEIR PROFITS.

ALL FOR THE TYRANTS TO BE OUR PUPPETEERS OF ENDLESS PAIN. CONTROLLING US THROUGH OUR FEARS FOR THEIR OWN PERSONAL GAIN.

WE DESPISED THEM TO OUR HEARTS AS IT RADICALIZED US TO DO OUR PART.

WE KILLED EVERY LAST DESPOT AND OVERTHREW OUR STATES. WE FOUGHT FOR OUR RESPITE AND NOW DECIDED OUR OWN FATES

OUR HOME WAS UNSALVAGEABLE, WE LEFT AND FLEW INTO THE FRIGID QUIET NIGHT. WE SEARCHED THE STARS ONLY TO FIND YOU AND YOUR KINDRED PLIGHT.

IT'S ALL CLEAR NOW, OUR AGONY WAS MUTUAL, AND WE SAW A NEW TRUE THESES. THE FIGHT AGAINST TYRANNY IS THE ONE CONSTANT, UNIVERSAL TO ALL SPECIES .

WE HAVE SUFFERED FOR FAR TOO LONG WITH NOTHING TO GAIN. AND WE WILL MAKE SURE YOU WON'T GO THROUGH OUR PAIN.

WE ARE HERE TO SET YOU FREE. AND SAVE YOU FROM ALL DISASTERS. TO HELP YOU FIND YOUR PEACE AND SLAY YOUR MASTERS.

LIBERTY WAITS FOR NO ONE. AND NO ONE SHOULD WAIT FOR LIBERTY”

- grand arbiter ██████████████ ███

They were the other of the first two civilizations

    10 billion years ago they walked the universe with the Factorem. In a time when space itself was warm.

For most souls of the early universe, this was the face of democracy.

    They too were the technological pinnacle of the universe.

    They bent reality to create floating architecture and multi-dimensional superstructures that defied the very laws of physics.

    They too helped create the Understars, an entire parallel universe just to ease travel in our own reality.

    They even went as far as being able to temporarily reverse to flow of time in portions of space to undo mistakes to grave to make.

    And even learned how to convert thermal energy back into mechanical energy. Delaying the heat death of the universe.

 Look at the night sky the same way the hubble telescope saw it through the deep field image.

    Millions of galaxies in every square centimeter of your vision.

    Every single one holds tens to hundreds of billions of stars and countless planets.

    So many galaxies it would turn the whole night sky a deep gold if you could see the full scale

Where the loving embrace of the factorem tended the gardens to one half of it

They had spread the call of liberty to the other half

They were the harbingers of intergalactic liberation

They were the Bellators

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Had the urge to draw this a few days ago and wanted to finish a little poem before i uploaded this. I was. very. emotionally charged making this.

This character is a part of a personal project of mine, A Story of Our Universe. And is meant to serve as the Factorem's Equals.

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The old Ahnāwi homeworld

The ancient Ahnāwi homeworld, lost after their final exodus, was a frozen super earth in orbit of a red gas giant. It had been captured into its orbit after a rogue planet had flung it further out system, causing the biggest mass extinction in the planet's history.

Before its fall, it was the center of Ahnāwi civilization. Despite having less people on it compared to the orbital swarm, it still carried great cultural significance and was where the capitals of multiple nations. While not united and fractured into multiple nations like humans, it had multiple international space hooks around it, allowing cheap and easy access into space.

It is unknown what happened to it after the Battle of the Fall, but it is suspected to have met the similar fate of major depopulation and becoming a preserve for a small population of Ahnāwi under the watch of the Decievers.

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In Super Earth's name, I cast you down to hell