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Dogfightby ~OmeN2501

Digital Art / Drawings / Sci-Fi

"It was the third year of Dominons War, and we were all tired. So when we left our warp bubble 2 Megaklicks from 47 Ursae Majoris C, we didn't waste our time. MI's reports looked promising: the target planet was inahbited by civilization apparently on quite low tech level. You know, no space fleet or orbital defence stations, no nuke-powered battle platforms, poor Mom Earth-worshipping dum-arses...

Agricultural society, I mean.

It was almost too good to be true.

At 2040 hours Commander commenced attack on their biggest city. Heavy Colonial Fleet Battlegroup: 40 shuttles with infantry, 12 CAS squadrons, 4 carriers, a dozens of support vessels. Commander thought she was smart, cause MI folks told her the farmers down below would have some kind of religious festival that night. Well, they had. And our visit really pissed them off.

53 minutes later, our last Kiev class carrier hit the ground and exploded. 75% of our close air support crafts were also destroyed, and lucky survivors had to pull back. But the worst thing was, it took just three people to wipe out our troops. We dubbed them 'priests' afterwards, cause of - you know, divine powers they used against us or something - but we haven't really grasp their position and role in the farmers' society.
Yeah, divine powers. Don't laugh. One pilot rescued by Medivac boys told us how his plane was ripped in half by flying girl. Other reports mentioned her and her friends, hovering over our carrier - just before it's armour was penetrated and cooling system damaged by, as we were told, meteor shower that came from nowhere!
That night we've learned our lesson. I learned it pretty well... ."

M-Sgt. Jack Hartman, A Troop 4/12 Cav, 3rd Colonial Marine Division.

This litte story shows you pretty much wats going on on that picture

I did it for CGTalk chalange Spectacular.

Hope u will like It ;]

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Wanna see all the details? Go there [link]

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You can find some crazy ideas I had during making of that pic here [link]

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edit: Many thanks for DD folks!!

Also - lil water texture added

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Given 2005-12-16

This one is incredible. Dogfight by ~OmeN2501 is both incredibly detailed and totally epic, just savour it. ( Suggested by ~LilithLairPoetry and Featured by `alyn )

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~derrickhawkins Jun 3, 2013

Love this picture. Found it about a year ago but didn't have any info with it. Great stuff. I'm doing a book with Marines and this inspired a fight scene. Thanks.

~olafanderson Feb 27, 2013

interesting

~Lobo7922 Nov 22, 2012

Very amazing picture and story.

~Felanyn Oct 13, 2012

And now I have to make a campaign where that's the opening for my friends to play in. Inspiration at it's best.

~ender64o Sep 22, 2012

My favorite picture of all time. Now I want to read the book!

~karloss99 Jul 24, 2012

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke

I see that's precisely what's happened here.
Some "Oh we got warp drive. Let's go conquer" civilization bites off more than it can chew.
The details on the "priest" are, to my eye, showing she uses technology the kind would exist in the fiction stories of the pilots civilization.
The blue-green-ish glow on the "armor pieces" on the back and the belt "bag" just yells at me "This is Way more advanced than those space-fighters"

divine power? Don't think so. Some so-old-that-living-in-contemplation civilization's elite warriors/guardians/explorers? More like it.

On the picture itself...
Are those gears flying off from that fighters hit-spot? the details in this work is Un-Believable.
If that pilot wasn't wearing breather mask, i bet we could see the "oh crap" look in his face.
Simply Masterpiece. Love it. This kind of art + music is what inspires me to write.

To anyone wondering where my Science-over-magic stance comes from...
2 words. Matteria Manipulation.