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April 28, 2012
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Photoshop, about 12 hrs from initial brainstorming to this.
about 14 hrs from initial brainstorming to this.
(got the chance to do some last minute tweaks right before the deadline.) =D

My submission for yet another :iconconceptworld: contest;
this time around, the magic phrase is "Ancient Constructs", and the category is "environment".

The best way to explain the idea for this one is in story form:

New Orion Empire, First Era Colony Rediscovery Expedition
Expedition Leader's log:
Of all the strange discoveries we have made in our efforts locate and determine the fates of the lost colonies from the first era of terran exodus, this one may be the most disconcerting. This colony is only sparsely populated by nearly tribal scatterings of people, though it is clear that it once supported a far larger populous. They do, however, possess sufficient knowledge of their own past and technology to not be surprised by our arrival. (In fact, they detected our FTL drives approach by use of some novel sensor instrumentation that our engineers are practically drooling over- it seems this world made some rather interesting discoveries in quantum mechanics...) The most striking product of this world's civilzation, however, is a complex array of large, highly advanced structures spanning the width of a small city, who's purpose had our science team completely stumped. The answer has left us all unsettled.

The natives call it "the star catcher". They draw power for most of their settlements from the device, but it appears that this is not the device's intended purpose, as even a densely populated world would use only a fraction of the energy this device is capable of channeling. Eventually we were able to glean from the native's half-superstition understanding of its mechanics and our own reverse-engineering efforts, that the device is able to manipulate tiny wormholes at interstellar distances- such as opening them in the heart of a star. It was only when we completed our deep-probe scans, and discovered the scorched remains of cities burned to ash buried beneath thousands of years of soil and reclamation by the aggresive terraforming biota that we fully understood what had happened to this world... and why the natives have a second, whispered, name for the device: "the Eye of Hell".
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*PsykoHilly May 1, 2012
Excellent work, reminds me of Quake 3 ... ;)
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~Scorpion451 May 3, 2012   Artist
and oh, yeah: thanks! ^^;

(love the sig, by the way. Thats one of my favorite Einstein quotes. :XD:)
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*PsykoHilly May 4, 2012
A real pleasure Joshua, you're most welcome .... unfortunately Einstein was right! :salute:
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~Scorpion451 May 2, 2012   Artist
Never actually played that one...
just did a google search, though, and I see what you mean;
definately the same high-low tech combo I was shooting for here. :)
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