Mars Colony First Settlement by NefariousDrO
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The first settlers on Mars braved an extremely demanding array of challenges. The spent their lives living in glorified tubes, and for the first couple of years braving considerably higher levels of radiation than was normal until the second habitat could be built, buried under enough of the Martian soil to offer at least some protection. That doesn't even begin to cover the dangerously extreme temperatures, extremely thin atmosphere, severe lacking in anything like the kind of luxuries people of Earth take for granted every moment of their lives. But for me the surprising hardship was the pervasive and never, ever-ending battles with dust. The fine martian dust was everywhere, and no matter how hard we worked to keep it out, it got everywhere. It wasn't necessarily dangerous, but it was certainly annoying. And it'll stay that way unless and until Mars is terraformed enough that the dust can finally be trapped on the surface as soil.
-From the memoirs of Leigh Bradford, one of the original 60 permanent colonists on Mars.
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Everything here was done in Bryce 6, the model for the colony was entirely my own creation made from Bryce primitives. The textures are mostly my own (especially the inflated tube sections) and some altered presets. There was a fair amount of post-working done in Photoshop cs3 to increase the "dustiness" of the image and add more variabilities to the surface.
Thanks for taking a look, and as always comments/critiques/suggestions are definitely encouraged.
Comments (22)
Excellent work Have your read the book, 'Colonies in Space'?
Nice postwork in this, the landscape looks fantastic. Your setup looks a lot like some of the artist conceptions I saw going through all the NASA and JPL stuff on the subject. Cool stuff!
Very well done! I love the third person story line too! You know this makes me wonder whether or not we humans can actually live on such places as Mars or even travel long distances which takes years to get to. What I find particularly troublesome is that either scientists are completely ignoring the fact that a magnetic field is essential to the survival of living things, or that they know the truth of this but are bilking governments for billions in research grants just for the sake of job security. Without a magnetic field, Mars is constantly bombarded with deadly radiation, but more importantly you cannot create the electricity necessary for even crude brain functions, or even cell division for that matter! Even if we have already been formed, and maybe with our own chemical processes capable of generating enough electricity to function, we could never hope to reproduce plant life, or even children which could live as more than mere blobs of flesh and deformed bone.
wonderful work
Nice surface and structure texturing...very well done!
Great looking settlement! I really like the terrain work too.
Great Work !!!
Fantastic! Corrie
Brilliant and a jolly good read !!
I've done quite a lot of work with Bryce and I know the work that goes into your images, well done my friend, Geoff.
NICE. Very, very nice.
Great martian relief and dust-covered buildings! I like the station look of that first colony. Pretty logical if all the modules come from spaceship.
Super cool structure! Very well rendered. :)
I think that you did an excellent job on the colony Habs and the terrain looks great as well. The texture that you used for the Habs works well and give the appearance of being a little weather by the harsh environment of Mars. Very well thought out and presented!!! Cheers, David
Another well designed lunar colony...Most Impressive Modeling!..
Very nicely realized colony, I love the look of the weather beaten inflatable Hab modules, you've achieved a high quality of realism here -- well done my friend!
A fascinating and I think a very accurate look at what the first settlers on Mars will be living in.. Fantastic work, Mike!
Excellent work*******
beau travail!
Life in tubes...looks like humanity imitating nature (worms are--after all--nothing more than life in a tube.) I love the grittiness of this image as well as the attention to detail. The colors are superb (and authentic) and I got a nice giggle at a piece of historical echoing in here too. The upright tube thingies look a lot like the...um...columns that once adorned the Colosseum, though the symbolism is different. I like that because it means that in life and in science fiction, and in that strange region between the two, there are unexpected repetitions. The storyline is fantastic and I love the "journal approach." I find that it effectively places the reader in a "quick skirmish" situation in which total immersion is achieved in the least shocking way imaginable, and then it gives extra punch to something that would be a big deal to characters in a story, but completely off the radar for readers like us, who inhabit a different world. Even if we can understand the annoyingness of Martian dust, we don't have the experience to say: "Oh man, I really hate that stuff!" That's a wonderful narrative touch and it adds a nice punch to an already super image.
Very interesting render and nicely evocative story. Looking forward to hearing more of Leigh Bradford's memoirs.
Very nicely modelled, clean and sharply matted, detailing is just right, youve got this down to a fine art now my friend:) best regards, Steve