I'm sorry, my nerdiness is getting in the way of my social life, I realize that.
First of all, I just noticed how ****ing long that handle is and how ****ing short that blade is. I don't beleive the original design is like that, but I'll probably fix it. To what end and for what purpose is uncertain. My drawing skills are sub-par at best, but I value these little spurts of effort as my own.
Maybe I can find a forum filled with League fanatics who can't draw or model at all and impress them with my abilities. I'd be worshipped as a god.
Shoot, I'm ramblin again.
These are alien spacecraft from that little 80's thought experiment I described earlier (Shaft, Mario, Sarah Conner, Flint, Egon). I wanted, for some completely unclear reason, to make as many aliens as I could without referencing either Star Wars or Star Trek. Now, I'm anti-trek, but it was still difficult, and I ended up referencing both (but only vaguely: I thought that perhaps "Kwisatz Haderach" could be a sort of translation for "Son of the suns" (turns out it's hebrew for "short cut", but perhaps there could be some sort of retro-active labelling for the chosen One) and I lumped the Borg in with the Overmind from Childhood's End as one of a number of "psychic parasites" swallowing up thousands of species at a time), but...
well...
OK, we all saw in the Phantom Menace when the ETs were in the senate?
Well according to the more bizarre SW lore, they were "Grebleips".
"Spielberg" spelled backwards.
And, I promised myself to include ETs.
OK.
Shot 1 is a troublesome one. I've lumped a number of aliens from a number of sources into one conglomerate. We have the Time Lords (Dr. Who) and the Parasites (the Satrgate Movie NOT- REPEAT- NOT THE GHO'ULD) primarily. Varying other sources have wavered in and out of focus as possibly being the same. To be honest, I was on a lot of Oxycotin when it came to coming up with aliens, and this particular species has provided a lot of trouble. Again, I must re-iterate that these are Ra's species. Hence, the top missing from the spaceship. This is a little nod to the short book series set immediately after the movie (again, disregard SG-1), where a ship, "The Eye of Ra", is actually just the command module, hicjacked from a larger ship. this, presumably, is the ship that the ship in the movies got stolen from.
I'm geeky.
Shot 2 is the ETs. Coming up with them, I actually started out as "E.T. with a larger vocabulary", but it quickly degenerated into "A short, stubby Yuuzhan Vong with sensitive skin". I was just mentally creating the meeting in which they discuss Earth, and I could picutre the Daleks shouting "Exterminate!" at the top of their voice boxes while this quiet little sage-like muffin says that it can have estimated figures for a xenomorph seeding in just a couple of hours (as in "Alien").
Shot 3 I'm worried about. the initial render was almost impossible to see, it was so dark. I upped the contrast insanely to get the point across, but it still seems dark. I'm hoping that against a dark background (Massassi) it will show up better. These are the Daleks (Dr. Who), angry little R2-D2s with Napolean complexes. When the question of Earth arrises, the first person to speak is the Dalek "Ambassador" (lit, "Person who warns others what we're going to do to them"), and the first word he says? Do I really need to specifiy?
Shot 4 is the first alien species we meet. They show up in droves over every major city int he world, and, without a word, begin bombardment. Each ship fires once, then has a 5 minute reloading cycle. They are, however, extremely powerful, and extremely accurate. Their fighting style is fairly rigid: the fleets move in a grid-like pattern over the target, firing every thirty or so seconds. When the cycle repeats (the first ship that fired finishes reloading, the last ship to fire has just begun), the ships decrease their altitude, increase their speed, and reverse direction. As more and more are destroyed, the processing power that governs their engines increases, making the last ship in the air extremely fast. They are called the Ataru, and are otherwise nice folks. I dunno what they come from.
Shot 5 is a comparison of the ships.
-Let me tell you, the setting of this thing is rediculously chock full of good stuff. You can easily connect 1984, Terminator, Alien, Blade Runner, Battlestar Galactica, the Matrix, the Cthulhu Mythos, and the USA Patriot Act together, with a little bending. I mention the Patriot Act because I've been concieving the "Big Brother Act" as something similar. Obviously, the origins of this set of laws have been erased by the Ministry of Truth.
But I think this would fall more into the Wakisashi (I think I remembered that right), which is inbetween a tsuka and a katana, unless tsuka is a reference to somethin other than the blade length. Tho the blade actually doesn't look like it has an edge to it at all. :-p
