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Rexody: "My mitten keeps wanting to slip. I can't believe you guys ever climb this thing to do maintenance. Seems like a deathtrap to me. Really long way to fall for people of your height."
Repairman: "Normally, we just go very slowly, using a safety harness and a set of redundant clips so that if we slip while trying to hook one onto the next post up, the other one keeps us from falling and breaking every last one of our fragile little bones."
Rexody: "And you carry your welder unit with you? It's half as big as you are!"
Repairman: (laughs) "No. For stuff like this, I'd normally bring out a boom lift. With all the drifting from last night's blizzard though, I'd probably just have gotten it stuck in the snow right outside Outpost 216. Boss said you were checking in today, and since we needed the comms tower repaired, figured you were the next best thing. Though the boomlift wouldn't be fogging up my welding helmet with its breath..."
Rexody: "...I can breathe in a different direction if it's a problem for you."
Repairman: "Nah, it's almost like working close to a space heater. The puffs of warm air every few seconds helps with the stupid wind chill this high off the ground."
Rexody: "You think it's bad that close to the ground? At least you still get some windblock from the trees. Try being my height, and it's just wind directly to the face all the time."
Repairman: "Yeah, I don't envy you that. Ok, my fingers aren't cramping anymore. Time to work on the last bit of welding."
Rexody: (inquisitive toddler mode engages) "You said that there's a shielding gas to help you get a better weld, but can you explain how exactly it helps...?"
Pictured: Local opossum kaiju helps a neighbor repair his settlement's communications tower. Asks hundreds of questions and talks his ear off in the process.
Not Pictured: Her tucking him into a pocket for a much warmer ride back home once the job's done. Still asks questions and talks his ear off.
Incredible art done by the amazing
ratte! Excellent experience working with them! Go favorite the original -> here!
Rexody belongs to me
(find her ref here!)
Crashpoint Eden ©
The Crashpoint Eden Project
On the snowy planet of Eden, isolation is almost always a death sentence. After all, many of the creatures that call the planet home tend to be quite large, and only wander the frigid wastes when they're hungry. Deep beneath the layers and layers of snow and ice rest vast Basmite deposits - the galaxy's preferred starship fuel. Enormous mining operations have brought droves and droves of workers looking to earn themselves a fortune. This has caused an explosion of mining outposts. While the biggest ones have built entire cities to support their efforts and brought in mechs and private armies to provide on-site security, many of the small outposts are lucky to have a handful of mercs with rifles and just enough resources to keep from freezing or starving to death. That doesn't mean that food and warmth are abundant, just that most outposts scrape by on the bare minimum of both. In emergencies, they can call for help from the larger cities, but as spread out as the outposts are, help doesn't always arrive in time.
Luckily, several of these outposts happened to set up next to the best neighbor they could have asked for - Rexody, one of the last Viskarians. A native race of opossum-dragon hybrids the size of moderate kaiju (avg. 60-80m tall by galactic standard measurements), the Viskarians have been shepherds of the land for centuries, maintaining the balance of life as best they can. Unfortunately, when the aliens arrived to mine their planet, the vast majority of the Viskarians were forced to abandon their lands or be wiped out. Rexody was a young girl when this happened, and she's been surviving on her own ever since. However, she's an irrepressible extrovert and finds most of these newcomers to her planet to be fascinating and adorable. She does not blame the workers for the destruction of her people, instead laying the fault for that entirely at the feet of the off-world galactic corporate higher-ups who orchestrated the war on her people in the blind pursuit of profit. So now, her tiny alien neighbors are just that to her - neighbors to share resources, technology, wisdom, and time with. Shepherding is still in her blood, but now her flocks are made up of people. She drives away threats, helps with jobs that are made easier with bigger hands, and is the first to respond when disaster strikes.
Rexody is one of the primary characters from my next major novel project, the sci-fi saga "Crashpoint Eden". I'm still writing the first draft of the first book, so it's in the early stages of life, but with my last book Alchemancer, I learned that getting cool art of the story's characters in advance was a powerful motivator for getting me to actually finish the darn book... xD So I'm trying to get a jumpstart on Crashpoint Eden by investing in art now to compel me to finish later. :P Expect to see more art of this project trickle in over the coming year!
Repairman: "Normally, we just go very slowly, using a safety harness and a set of redundant clips so that if we slip while trying to hook one onto the next post up, the other one keeps us from falling and breaking every last one of our fragile little bones."
Rexody: "And you carry your welder unit with you? It's half as big as you are!"
Repairman: (laughs) "No. For stuff like this, I'd normally bring out a boom lift. With all the drifting from last night's blizzard though, I'd probably just have gotten it stuck in the snow right outside Outpost 216. Boss said you were checking in today, and since we needed the comms tower repaired, figured you were the next best thing. Though the boomlift wouldn't be fogging up my welding helmet with its breath..."
Rexody: "...I can breathe in a different direction if it's a problem for you."
Repairman: "Nah, it's almost like working close to a space heater. The puffs of warm air every few seconds helps with the stupid wind chill this high off the ground."
Rexody: "You think it's bad that close to the ground? At least you still get some windblock from the trees. Try being my height, and it's just wind directly to the face all the time."
Repairman: "Yeah, I don't envy you that. Ok, my fingers aren't cramping anymore. Time to work on the last bit of welding."
Rexody: (inquisitive toddler mode engages) "You said that there's a shielding gas to help you get a better weld, but can you explain how exactly it helps...?"
Pictured: Local opossum kaiju helps a neighbor repair his settlement's communications tower. Asks hundreds of questions and talks his ear off in the process.
Not Pictured: Her tucking him into a pocket for a much warmer ride back home once the job's done. Still asks questions and talks his ear off.
Incredible art done by the amazing
ratte! Excellent experience working with them! Go favorite the original -> here! Rexody belongs to me
(find her ref here!)Crashpoint Eden ©
The Crashpoint Eden Project
On the snowy planet of Eden, isolation is almost always a death sentence. After all, many of the creatures that call the planet home tend to be quite large, and only wander the frigid wastes when they're hungry. Deep beneath the layers and layers of snow and ice rest vast Basmite deposits - the galaxy's preferred starship fuel. Enormous mining operations have brought droves and droves of workers looking to earn themselves a fortune. This has caused an explosion of mining outposts. While the biggest ones have built entire cities to support their efforts and brought in mechs and private armies to provide on-site security, many of the small outposts are lucky to have a handful of mercs with rifles and just enough resources to keep from freezing or starving to death. That doesn't mean that food and warmth are abundant, just that most outposts scrape by on the bare minimum of both. In emergencies, they can call for help from the larger cities, but as spread out as the outposts are, help doesn't always arrive in time.
Luckily, several of these outposts happened to set up next to the best neighbor they could have asked for - Rexody, one of the last Viskarians. A native race of opossum-dragon hybrids the size of moderate kaiju (avg. 60-80m tall by galactic standard measurements), the Viskarians have been shepherds of the land for centuries, maintaining the balance of life as best they can. Unfortunately, when the aliens arrived to mine their planet, the vast majority of the Viskarians were forced to abandon their lands or be wiped out. Rexody was a young girl when this happened, and she's been surviving on her own ever since. However, she's an irrepressible extrovert and finds most of these newcomers to her planet to be fascinating and adorable. She does not blame the workers for the destruction of her people, instead laying the fault for that entirely at the feet of the off-world galactic corporate higher-ups who orchestrated the war on her people in the blind pursuit of profit. So now, her tiny alien neighbors are just that to her - neighbors to share resources, technology, wisdom, and time with. Shepherding is still in her blood, but now her flocks are made up of people. She drives away threats, helps with jobs that are made easier with bigger hands, and is the first to respond when disaster strikes.
Rexody is one of the primary characters from my next major novel project, the sci-fi saga "Crashpoint Eden". I'm still writing the first draft of the first book, so it's in the early stages of life, but with my last book Alchemancer, I learned that getting cool art of the story's characters in advance was a powerful motivator for getting me to actually finish the darn book... xD So I'm trying to get a jumpstart on Crashpoint Eden by investing in art now to compel me to finish later. :P Expect to see more art of this project trickle in over the coming year!
Category Artwork (Digital) / Macro / Micro
Species Opossum
Size 1300 x 950px
File Size 1.66 MB
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