Adamant and Bellicose


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Adamant and Bellicose

In an extremely rare image, two of the deadly and iconic Thrassi Palatine class starships are seen together. The fact that only twenty of these extremely powerful, white-hulled behemoths were ever built makes these meetings very rare, and images of them together even rarer. But the subjects of this picture make it even more special. Here, sister cruisers Adamant (SSC – 019; top) and Bellicose (SSC – 005; bottom), meet for the last time for refuel far above Koranna IV, their birthplace.

Adamant, about to go on to become arguably the most famous of the Palatine class cruisers, is here still the newest of her class, having just completed her first six-month maiden voyage.

Bellicose, the only Palatine class cruiser to be destroyed in combat, is seen here approaching the end of her meteoric life with heartrending rapidity—a streak across a tiny instant of time, nonetheless brighter still than most around her.

The time stamp on this image is dated 6/15/2,000 M.E. If this stamp is correct, as scholars agree it is, it would make this image the last known existing photograph of Bellicose before her tragic and violent annihilation (with the loss of all hands) just five days later in the disastrously ill-conceived Operation: Hammerstop.

This image, freighted with emotion, shows one vessel on the dawn of a new lifetime of exploration and defense of the Thrassi Republic, and the other in the twilight of her career just before her untimely demise. Both are poised expectantly to make illustrious names for themselves—one, by her glorious, service-oriented life; the other, by her unspeakably horrific death.

And so, as the Thrass say in their ancient traditional blessing, the meaning of which has been lost to time: Quinna-tonka, ahd tunka balantta.

Ahd, Quinna-tonka, Bellicose, and Adamant.


Modelled in Blender 2.67 and 2.68a. Rendered in Cycles. Final composition in Gimp. Original resolution: 8000 x 10000 px

Dan

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Amazing, Is this a true story?
Excellent work on the models themselves, I love the story and emotion in those pictures once explained.
Definitely not just another spaceship render.

Man O man are these beautiful!:yes:
Absolutely fantastic work.


And an updated version for those who didn’t like the sun flare, which was not correct due to the angle (but there is a precedent in science fiction for such things, so I left it in in the main version). Two versions now. =)

Dan

More realistic now but the JJ Abrams version is more dramatic.

Great work on these images, as I’ve said before. :slight_smile: I love the back story also. :slight_smile: I cannot wait to see your next model!!! So…I guess…get started. :wink: LOL

@tc2466: Thanks. =) I’m behind on several projects, and this one was taking up the pipeline too long! =|

@Anthony C: Yeah, I’m partial to the JJ version myself, too, but I like to try and please everyone. =D

Dan

i like the first version better too, and great story to give depth to the image. long work wonderfully fulfilled.

Thanks, Doris! =) Thanks for following this even though spaceships are not your favorite thing. It means a lot that you stayed interested in it and liked it. =) Spaceships can be pretty cool, I think. :smiley:

Dan

Amazing image, and such a great story to go with it, nice work!

Great work ones again, love the detail Dan.
How come you get better everyday! :stuck_out_tongue:

Excellent models

One thing though, How did you get the flare on the window?
Please share how you achieved that (I could sure use it)

Jim Morren

it is not JJ version it is just normal lense flare JJ uses anamorphic :smiley:

Wow that is amazing!!!:eek: I love how realistic it looks and feels. How long did it take you to create the scene and render it? But very nice work.:slight_smile:

Awesome!!! That’s insane and an insane amount of work I’m sure. You really deserve the feature! Congrats! :wink:

good job +

feature row!! well deserved! congratulations!

Much much better than Apollo movies

Wow! I come back and see this got featured! =D Thanks, everyone for your nice comments. =)

@Journeyman: The anamorphic flare on the window is from an image that’s composited inside Gimp, as with all the flares and lensgrit and whatnot.

Woo! Thanks, everyone for making a somewhat crummy day much better. =) I can always count on BA.org’s community to cheer me up. :smiley:

Dan

YEAAAAAAH finally some final image posts!!

An awesome image as always. It would be cool to see some of the other class Adamants together, as a sort of sci-fi timeline. =D

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