This is Nia. She used to be an ordinary human, but elected to go through a process to transform her into a "morphic," which is more or less a living, biological spaceship. Why? Because she liked the idea of being out in space, on a more personal level than any normal human has ever been. However, unlike other morphics, who grow to thousands of feet in length, Nia is the size of an ordinary human being; she just feels it's more personal that way. Hence she doesn't have the crew or cargo space normal morphics do; she is just altered for survival and mobility in open space. And she likes it!



So blazbaros posted this image the other day, and I saw it and thought "holy crap, that's something I've never seen before...and it's actually pretty cool!" Naturally, I had to take my own stab at the concept. I don't know if the whole human-sized morphic deal is supposed to be possible or not in the setting his picture's in, so if anyone asks this is just a nicking of the concept, which belongs to aliasi. I tried for harder shadows than I usually do, you know, because of the vacuum; not sure how well that worked.