Agressively French, Space-bound VFX Artist, Blending all night long
Lead Artist on
@TheLunarWar
Writing and art-ing "Chronicles of the Sillage" when time allows
023.DEBRIS//
"Orbital Tug 1173, I think we've got a free rock here, can anyone confirm?
To all, from Tug 1173, we've got a loose building asteroid entering orbit, please help!
This is 1173, we're pushing it as hard as we can, please help!
Please, anyone..."
0018.229
#SST22
001.FIGHTER//
"I've seen the footage, tell them that was a nice shot. No idea how the hells the Faleans laid their hands on an SSF, especially with the embargo, but that's bad news. I'll talk to the admiralty about it during the council."
Adm. Elias Qantui
0185.221
#SST22
030.FINALE?
And they sung, the songs of the Fallen
And they wept, for their home ground to dust
And they hoped, Eternity in front of them
And they gazed, ever forward, towards the edge
And they jumped, forevermore into the Abyss.
"Chronicles of the Sillage"
AS3784.09.30
#SST22
Wait, what ?
#PortfolioDay
?
What do you mean it's been 4 months already ?
...
Dang...
Well, Hi ! I'm Theo, I still make Spaceships ! Spaceships are cool !
015.FREEDOM.|Φ
Δ225-
Ξ113, This is Sillage Defense, I'll be on you in 40 seconds, jumper will drop at 227.518.441 from your path. Do not deviate until I have engaged the swarm and they are after me, we must not risk losing the Jumper. Verify and readback.
AS3783.06.09
#SST22
002.FREIGHTER//
"Thrust stable, seems like those repairs are holding up. What the.. You seeing this Malaar ?"
"Yeah, that's the probe they're sending to that comet swarm they picked up last year."
"Wasn't that scheduled for tomorrow ?"
Intercepted civilian comms
0065.222
#SST22
We've been asked about it quite a bit recently, so here it is :
Official The Lunar War Art Prints !
Sales are split between artists fairly, and go directly into doing more The Lunar War stuff. We'll try to add new ones regularly too !
005.ANGULAR.|Φ
Δ225-
- Ayo, 225 here, didn't the scout report the system wasn't populated ? 'Cause I'm defo seeing civ signs.
Ξ471-
- Hmm, imma check with control, 25, hold for a sec.
Δ225-
- Heeey, so, about those locals, I've got good, and bad news...
AS3782.07.21
#SST22
New scope setup is quite nice, still gotta fix some of the tracking tho...
Seems like the Old Lady is getting some supplies from the EU, probably still setting up the new module they added recently...
#TheLunarWar
007.RACER//
"Heya boys, how we doin' today ?"
"Me ? I'm just ringsurfing a gravity assist, no way imma miss showing those Aliens some true speed !"
.
"Mayday, this is racing ship Gewon, I've lost all propulsion and am heading for an Alien ship, please help !"
0191.227
#SST22
@ToughSf
@L5Resident
A few additional renders I haven't poster on AS yet :
- The Nemesis docked to the USSF Teller along USSF Edward White Approaching Mars after the war.
- A scale model of the ship, during its public reveal the Bourget Aerospace show in Paris in 2047
003.PROBE//
"The Dersia.3 probe was launched yesterday evening by the Space Directorate of the Paranational Union, the United Herald reports. Sent to study DLL7, a mysterious cloud of interstellar comets, when it enters our system in 8 years,[...]"
News headline
0066.222
#SST22
006. RED
Θ517- Probe 659 dropped, I think that's the last one control.
Φ100- Copy, alignment seems good, we only lost eight of them.
Data's coming in, we got gravity gradients...
Oh shit...
Θ517- Control ?
Φ100- Sorry Sev, get back here, quick !
AS3798.03.22
#SST23
009.REALISM//
"The delegations of the Paranational Union and Atreyan Republic as well as the crown Princess of Naalis herself, are already aboard, and you can see the shuttle of the Kingdoms of the Fall currently docking as the Borelia prepares for the launch."
0228.227
#SST22
001.FIGHTER
Φ100 -
Gravity Well inbound, to all, prepare for Drop !
Δ618 -
- "This is it y'all, we're officially a Sillage warship once we drop. Trust your training, and make the Ark proud. Remember the Fallen..."
- "𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻 !"
AS3798.02.07
#SST23
@Daylight44492
Well took a tad more than a minute, but it looks pretty fancy i'd say...
Done on the original AS17-145-22261 image, 'cause i love that LDR look of unprocessed Apollo photos...
Well, there we go...
2021 was probably the most productive year i've ever had, and i'm pretty fucking happy with all the stuff i managed to make in one single year...
Onwards to the next one, let's make 2022 even better !
#2021artsummary
016.LASERS.|Φ
Ω012-
SILC to 225, we've got a Local Cruiser incoming with radars on, can you intercept ?
Δ225-
Heya, still repairing here, imma send a DD, but even if some of their nations didn't like the news, aren't they supposed to be frien-
OH COME ON !
AS3783.06.12
#SST22
006.MISSILE//
"News are still aflame after last week's First Contact by the miner Erius and Dersia.3 with an apparently Alien ship. The PNU has asked for the population to stay calm, as heavily armed battlefleets scramble to meet the ships entering the system."
0061.227
#SST22
024.NACELLES//
"THE FALL FEARS THE WINTER"
"Fallout of the accidental Asteroid strike is still being assessed, as rescuers are still searching through ruins in search of survivors.
The Kingdoms of the Fall, the nation most heavily hit by the impact, has called for the PNU to...
029.SPACESTATION//
My Friends, time has come. As the cowards run for their lives, driven to exodus by the xenos they so love, as the scourge they brought upon our beloved world is ripping through the depths of this system, its evil intent locked on our Home, as I see you,...
- The Lunar War -
Brainchild of
@L5Resident
, TLW is a worldbuilding and art project dedicated to visualizing the near future expansion of humanity in space, its efforts to industrialize cislunar space, and the conflicts this new frontier leads to.
One of the earliest mainline warship classes ever launched, and one of the most powerful ships of the War, the USSF Alan Shepard-class SSV was an incredibly versatile vehicle, one that'd become the epitome of 2050s cislunar warship design, and a lasting influence on space warfare
020.INDUSTRIAL//
"The 3rd meeting of the Emergency commission finished yesterday. Word is that assembly of the drydocks for the fleet is progressing decently while the Sillage has been providing Asteroids for materials and hornache-inducing tech for engineers."
0217.228
#SST22
027.COLONY.SHIP.|Φ
ALD-105-
- Seems like it's connected. CAN YOU HEAR ME ?
Ξ318-
- Yeah, yeah, I can hear you ruining my ears. Don't yell on Mains, please...
ALD-105-
- Oh, sorry, not used to tech this sensitive.
Ξ318-
- So. Welcome to Sillage Main Comms, or "Mains". This...
@AstroBioGeek
@ToughSf
They say, having made the model for the most badass warship in the setting...
Jokes aside, we do also have a lot of civilian stuff to come, but it's all made of very complex systems that we're still working on (and modelling warships is a tad more exciting, ngl)...
26.HOME
Constituent Broadcast//Fleet Status Update
"Effective immediately, Sillage is reorganized into a settlement configuration. Section Aleph, made up of all the ships able to float and handle directional gravity, will settle Room FG15/87/77, hereafter designated Site MĒM.
010.LUXURIOUS.|Φ
Δ225-
-And here we are, did the Council give any instructions ?
Nǣfir-
-Nope, we just introduce ourselves, deliver the warning, offer the usual help for relocation and integration, and ask to get down to the star. Let's hope they get it...
AS3783.05.17
#SST22
013.WINGED//
"It seems the outcome of the meeting with the Aliens was important enough for them to jump our ship back to orbit. The Princess of Naalis, acting as spokesperson for the delegation, will address the high council of the Paranational Union tomorrow."
0081.228
#SST22
025.TANKERS//
"THE FALL STANDS AGAINST THE TIMES"
"Following yesterday's announcement that the Kingdoms of the Fall were withdrawing from the evacuation project, the PNU has called for an emergency meeting, here in the Naalian Capital, Aeria. The entire evacuation...
015.CREATIVE-FREEDOM
Δ618 - Exploration Log, Day 2.
We've entered the fifth layer. This one is more open, the room is so large that we can see the curvature of the sphere in the distance. It's broken up a little, but we can see a million K out, so there likely is no wall...
026.SLENDER//
"Hull entry confirmed, good drift
-1000 to stop
Tug 17, check angular drift
-100
All tugs, lower assembly speed to 2
-10
On my mark, all tugs, kill all drift for alignment."
"To all ships, final axle alignment is underway, please stand clear."
0071.229
#SST22
004.DISCOVERY
- What do you think the Big guy is digging for out there ?
- Not sure, got told it's related to the fleet-wide scramble.
Δ- I can hear you, you know ?
- Oh... Sorry sir.
Δ- We're digging for the deeper layers of the ice sheet, trying to find archeological records.
004.RUSTBUCKET//
"AS42, confirm visual, sling looks good, within what the boys back home calced. Oh, also got a traffic anomaly earlier, out of IS4, a rusty old civvie miner that left without any fplan and is following the probe. Do we intercept?"
Military Comms
0184.226
#SST22
A few minutes before its disappearance, the anomaly was photographed by one of the telescopes of the Deep Optical Array, which managed to take the only reasonably defined image of the object.
The object's identity, origin and nature are still unknown.
25. MOVIE
Δ225 - Exploration Log 2, Day 02.
Been diving down into the deeper layers of the sphere since yesterday. Even with a detailed map of the path I must take to the Water room, this place is a horrible maze to navigate through, especially now that it's seemingly...
019.ANGULAR
Δ225 - Exploration Log, Day 4.
Seems like I was right. This room is strange, the atmosphere here is strangely breathable, just dense enough, and even though the temperature is low, a human could be fine here...
Half of the room is filled with water, liquid water...
Sometimes, one needs to gamble to try to stay relevant, and what better example of that, than the French Republic's NISO-class Laserstar.
Launched in 2049 and 2051, the two ships of the class quickly became some of the most powerful crafts in use by the Artemis Accords countries.
@TrevorFromEarth
@VSweatered
@TheLunarWar
The back of the turrets are a bit more sturdy than the lens part, and the turrets can point inwards to avoid exposing the delicate stuff too much. That said, counter-laser fire is why the combat loadout has 5 laser turrets, so the others can deal with the enemy laser if engaged.
002.RACING-TOURING
Δ225 -
Quite a bit of punch in that one, right ?
Λ152 - //
Gosh, yes, almost feared I'd break my tail !
Δ225 -
Don't worry, Princess, we've almost reached Aeterna, and with even a dozen minutes to spare before the council...
AS3798.02.16
#SST23
@SOPHONTSIMP
IMO, what I always found strange about most SCP designs is that plastering the logo all over uniforms, or even having uniforms at all is quite antithetic to the whole point of the Foundation being this shadowy hidden secret thing...
008.REALISM
Θ644- Mirror aligned, lightfront in 40 seconds...
Φ100- Noted, we're also receiving the gravimetric data from 517, anything on your end ?
Θ644- Nope, 10 Seconds to lightfront.
.
.
.
By the stars...
Φ100- 644, rejoin the fleet as soon as possible.
AS3798.03.22
#SST23
So, Still alive, sorry for the delay, life got suddenly complicated and got yoinked for *stuff* I can't say much about (extreme fancies got cooked for a certain moon-y conflict)...
Thankfully, it's slowing down a tad, so let's fucking get back to this, shall we ?
018.EXPLORATION//
"Brothers, Sisters, the time has come to make a choice. Everyone now knows the contents of the Message. Our world is doomed. The Sillage is currently preparing to leave our system to continue fleeing from the Shadow that has been chasing them for millennia."
@Amaury_Dufay
@ToughSf
@L5Resident
Thanks !
The Teller is propelled by 21 "Pinegale" Nuclear Thermal engines, the same as the Shepards.
IIRC, these are based on the INsTAR design, for which you can find more info here :
You can also find more info on the propulsion systems of TLW here :
028.UNDER-CONSTRUCTION.|Φ
Ω007-
To All, this is an emergency Sillage alert, Shadow scouting swarms currently entering System, EWR net compromised.
All ships must gather in Alidian orbit for emergency integration. Ark units, prepare for mass refugee influx.
AS3784.09.12
#SST22
011.ORGANICS
|Φ - We're in position and ready to dock Borelia, our delegation is waiting for your arrival.
// - Noted Nǣfir, our passengers are eager to meet yours it seems.
-||-
Δ225-Nǣfir -
- Well, let's hope they stay that way...
AS3783.05.17 - 0064.228
#SST22
012.HOMEWORLD
Δ225 - So, is everyone good on the SOP ?
Δ618 - Mostly, yeah, just one question, how far do we drop from the surface?
Θ517 - I'll get you in as close as possible, that planet that hit it really made a mess, but I should be able to get you past most of the debris.
021.SELF-CONTAINED//
"As the New Year celebrations are starting, spoiled by a bitter feeling of inevitability as many realise this is probably the last one ever, work continues in Orbit, as the Sillage's Jumpers send the first few ships to join the fleet."
0231.228
#SST22
27. CONSTRUCTION
Δ618 - Captain's Log, Exploration Dive
#17
, Day 21.
We reached a collapsed section in Radial Shaft 84/74 yesterday and had to dive back into the maze. Walls around here are more smooth and clean, but also seem in a pretty dire state.
@Truthful_ast
@CatboyRocketry
I mean, that's your opinion (cope❤️, we'll continue making warships whether you like it or not)...
Conflict (war or not) is one of the most basic building blocks of storytelling so yeah, "war bad" and shit, but also "war neat" (in a technical sense) and "war make good story".
008.DOCKING//
"Since the first communication with the Aliens last month, the Teams here at the Hemua Complex in western Naalis, have very been busy making a new "universal" docking port, preparing for the first diplomatic encounter planned for early next year."
0211.227
#SST22
012.ASYMMETRY.|Φ
Θ517-
Sillage Control, Jumpback complete, group 37 has been dropped near the Gas Giant, at position 331 from meetup point. The seventh Calrihan lifebarge really didn't like the jump though. It's probably not gonna last much longer...
AS3783.05.18
#SST22
014.MULTICOCKPIT.|Φ
Ξ113-
Sillage Control, 113, confirm visual on a scouting swarm in orbit around AGS337. No visual on the main constituent, that one seems to only...
Wait...
Oh no...
Control, this is 113, we are spotted, request immediate support !!!
AS3783.06.09
#SST22
@Truthful_ast
@CatboyRocketry
I can understand finding basic warmongering gunwanks iffy, but I think most of the stuff you're talking about here (TLW included) is more nuanced than that. A story can be about war without being pro-war.
018.MINING
Δ225 - Exploration Log, Day 4.
We're getting in pretty deep, got lucky with the last few transitions, I think we're down to the 17th layer now, with no signs of the inner surface. I wonder if there's a star at the center of this, or just more rooms all the way down.
@ToughSf
@L5Resident
- The ship in its interplanetary configuration (more tanks and additional crew spaces) near Saturn, a few years after the war
- The ship's critically damaged whipple shield after a KKV impact that, thankfully, didn't penetrate the tanks.
003.FREIGHTER
- Praetor on Deck !
- At ease. So, what have we got here, another terrorist attack ?
- Unlikely, sir. No previous offense for any of the crew, and even Alidians would unders...
- Auxiliary.
- Sorry, sir... It mostly looks like a navigation error.
- Huh... How ?
014. BLUE
Δ225 - Anomaly Exploration Log, Day 1.
Entry into the megastructure went well, superficial damage from debris on most ships, but apart from a large impact on Nǣfir that we'll have to patch up, everyone should be good to carry on.