Alien Artifacts XII - The Abandoned Outpost by me109

Terragen • Science Fiction • posted on Feb 20, 2005

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Description

On the northern continent of Inux Prime there is an very old large building constructed by an alien race. It was already discovered in the early days of human colonisation of Inux. Archeologic teams have been working there for years now, but yielded only little information. The race seemed to be a squid-like lifeform, home to a planet mostly covered with oceans. Their technological abilites seem to have been the same like mankind has today. The Outpost seems to have been once filled completely with water, but why the race has contructed it on a dry world like this is not yet known. Of big scientific interest is a kind of data crystal that was discovered there. The understanding of their data encryption and their language is at the moment sketchy at best, but it seems, that the outer colonies of them were attacked by an unkown, but powerful enemy. They got the order to abandon the outpost, return to their homeworld and enter service in their defense force. As they didn't return, they surely have lost this war. Is this another hint on the race that wipes out all races reaching a certain level of technology... is it already watching mankind... My comments: LATE CREDIT: It's very emabarassing, but i forgot to give Rich2 credit for using the Terrain he included in his tutorial about Rocks and Stones as base terrain for the city in my Alien Artifacts XI. Many thanks and sorry Rich2! TERRAIN: 2 Terrabrush Terrains combined in TG DOWNLOAD: Well, if you want to play aroud with this terrain, you can download it here. Due to my restricted Webspace it will be there only for one or two weeks. I hope you like this one. Comments, critics and/or advise is very welcome. Thanks for viewing and have a great Week! :o) Matthias

Comments (20)

Christopher_Lee

5:57AM | Sun, 20 February 2005

Such a wonderful image. It reminds me of the lovely BBC series "Doctor Who." Cheers.

Dreamingbee

6:07AM | Sun, 20 February 2005

boah - was f ein Blick!!! absolut fantastic !!!

CarmenST

7:21AM | Sun, 20 February 2005

Sche Story ... :) Terrabrush ist wirklich klasse f SF-Terrains, wie Du uns hier vortrefflich zeigst! Die Kombination der verschiedenen Surfaces geflt mir sehr gut und setzt jedes Element gut in Szene.

joshus_hund

8:18AM | Sun, 20 February 2005

Es macht immer einen Riesenspa die Storys unter deinen Bildern zu lesen! :-) Super terrain work, surfaces and atmo!

Petra-S

9:10AM | Sun, 20 February 2005

Klasse Blick, wunderbar gelungene surface und Licht/Schatten Effect! Interessantes Terrain, super Arbeit!

Orestes

9:41AM | Sun, 20 February 2005

Awsome sci-fi art! Great work!

Simplicity

9:58AM | Sun, 20 February 2005

Very Sifi excellent work.

Arkanias4

12:37PM | Sun, 20 February 2005

Great sci-fi picture again Matthias! Love the shapes of the outpost with those long shadows in the mist suggesting it's abandonned. Great terrain, POV and lighting as for all this series and the story allways add to the great mood :-) V

Visionsary

1:57PM | Sun, 20 February 2005

Excellent work here. Very original indeed. Man for some reason that terrain center piece does look like a space ship. Awesome.