"Escape Course"

Hathaway · **Sun Jul 02, 2006 3:43 pm "Escape Course"**

Another to wet your appetites.

If anyone wants to suggest a next image, feel free and I'll do my best.

TrekkieMage · **Sun Jul 02, 2006 8:35 pm**

Ooh! I love the layered planets, but it took me a sec to figure out where the explosion ended and the planet began. But I'm tired and that could be the issue here

Another suggestion for an image...Hm. I alread gave Captain Partick one and I'm wracking my brain trying to come up with another one. Maybe a ship landing on a planet (actually, in the decent course and inside the atmosphere) trying to land after being badly damaged. Could be really neat with the heat on what's left of the shields (or even have the shields gone and the heat on the bulkheads) and smoke, fire, and debris trailing behind it.

^.^

Voyager2004 · **Sun Jul 02, 2006 11:32 pm**

Spellbinder Marik · Tal Shiar General Joined: 23 Jun 2006 Posts: 1006

Awesome work. How'd you do it?

Hathaway · **Thu Jul 06, 2006 3:56 am**

TrekkieMage that's a fantastic idea, nice one. I'm not sure I have the skills to do it, but I'm definetly gonna have a go at it.

Voyager2004 I kind of agree with you on the composition here. I don't usually overlay planets which is why I went for it here, but it has left somewhat of a gap to the right of the image, good eye

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Marik a lot of the credit has to go to the makers of the ships, without which this scene would not be possible. As for the extra added effects it's all done in photoshop, which I've either experimented to death with to find the right combination, or I've picked up from tutorial sites - one I recommend is http://www.good-tutorials.com .

Anyone guess which star system I was trying to illustrate in this image?

TrekkieMage · **Thu Jul 06, 2006 7:15 pm**

Voyager2004 · **Thu Jul 13, 2006 6:10 pm**

Hathaway · **Sat Jul 15, 2006 6:42 am**

And you'd be right

The larger M-Class is of course meant to be Romulus, and the smaller desolate world would be Remus... you may notice the lights on the dark side of the world (dilithium mining facilities etc).

Voyager2004 · **Sun Jul 16, 2006 10:51 am**

Ya, I kinda figured that the lights on the dark side of the world would be the dilithium mines...but at the same time that could just have been a normal world with lights on at night...LOL...

But ya, that just goes to show how big of a Trekkie Nerd I am...

JupiterPrime · Lieutenant Joined: 13 Mar 2006 Posts: 208

Somewhat off topic but since TREK vessels are powered by the energy produced by their warp reactors, and since Romulan warp cores are powered by artificial quantum singularities (or black holes), then what need would the Romulans have for Dilithium that they need enslave half of their race to mine it?

Admiral Dani�l · **Mon Aug 21, 2006 5:19 pm**

Voyager2004 · **Mon Aug 21, 2006 10:37 pm**

Captain Patrick · Commodore Joined: 06 Mar 2005 Posts: 2421

Hathaway · **Tue Aug 22, 2006 6:49 pm**

It's been mentioned in at least 3 TNG episodes to my knowledge (can never remember many ep names).
Good question really, though perhaps not all of their ships are powered by quantum singularities, only their larger D'Deridex-Class ships. They possibly need more monumental power then a standard warp core could provide. I've not heard a black hole being used as a power source for any other ship or Romulan facility come to think of it.

Admiral Dani�l · **Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:03 am**

Someone change the topic name lol