Space War (Professor Jameson Space Adventure #3) by Neil R. Jones, 1967
So the back of the book mentions how the aliens made Jameson immortal with an oblique reference to machine bodies, but it doesn’t mention how the body doesn’t look anything like the original.
This isn’t like the Human Duplicators. This isn’t even like the cybermen. It’s more like the daleks than anything.
For this special occasion, I decided to draw the two gays who deserved to be gayer in both sense of the word! (Shiro had ENOUGH trauma for Adam to just up and die like that. ToT) Man, what I'd give to be in the room where the writers decided THAT ending and, yes, I'm never moving on from these homosexual color coded space cat war veterans and there's no hope of rescuing me. Thanks for trying anyway. XD Hope you all have a safe and happy June as you show off all the colors of your rainbow! Remember: Be crime. Do gay. (Die not like Adam and Shiro.) Vrepit sa! 💜🧡
THE BLUE GLARE~(my first world building/ writing project in years)
THE BLUE GLARE
“The UCC bred some of the kindest souls this system could bring to bear. And they’ve been revolutionaries, engineers, doctors, poets, artists all great minds and the like. Such beauty and magnificence and you toy with them…there are two houses, both alike in dignity. The saying two sides of the same coin always bothered me admiral. Do you know why? Because not every coin is spent the same. I prefer…”two coins in the same pocket” make of that what you will admiral.”
The man speaking held an admiral up against a wall in a vacant hangar by his lapels and collar, he was barrel chested and wide built you could tell he was steel colony born
“W-what is this?! RELEASE ME?!”
“I’d dare to call this an execution. Now off your knees. Die with some value. Seeing as the judicial courts can’t do any justice I will.”
this man, he holds the rank of deck officer, its a tittle given to those commanding orbital flight, dock, and take off decks for maintenance of ships or refueling and docking in general, he takes hold of the absolute wretch the admiral is by his shirt collar, their outfits are similar hence the “two houses both alike in dignity-“ comment. Yet the deck officers outfit looks slightly different, technically he outranks the current standing admiral and was in his position during many of skirmishes in their time from eighteen to twenty eight years old, bringing many colonies under control and quelling coups. His one blue monocle implant glares and swims with an Erie cold gaze…the admiral shivers and tries to fight back, he swings a wild right clenched fist to the good eye of the deck officer and hopes for the best, but it’s of no use…the deck officer tanks the haymaker like it was a spritz of water.
“You know-“
The deck begins to speak as he clicks his jaw into place setting it hard. It shows off the lines on his face, the way his jaw line was cut down form a huskier figure through years of yelling, orders, and fighting.
“If I were younger I’d tumble to the ground like a sack of rocks…not anymore-“ “PLEASE MICHOVAVICH I’D RATHER BE COURT MARSHALED BEFORE THE BOARD-“ “AND WHO DO YOU THINK SENT ME?!”
Michovanovich was more than furious, it was disgust, contempt, utter weightless distain. It took him a moment to find the next words to speak before he started again
“...I’ve been in the shadows behind you? longer than you could know. From the first day you usurped my rank, to the present day now. I have been the one dagger glittering behind you...that you failed to notice.”
with this Michovanovich presses a button, throws a portable light rebreather on the admirals face and tosses him down an airlock chute meant for taller cargo. He’s sucked into the void of space but isn’t dying, this was meant to scare him, there was no execution. Not today at least. With this Michovanovich talks to to the admiral using a comm unit on his rebreather~
“You got three hours out there. You’re spending at least two drifting. If you die it isn’t on me. You’ll be picked up shortly.”
“But I-“ “Should have covered your ass better. What you did was so disgusting that I was told if you were to die in this I’d have no court looking for me. Especially for the death of the subordinate you killed Arin. Death is a mercy to you.”
“Well they shouldn’t have-“ “Crew says they’ve seen you undress with your eyes before you perv. disgraceful depraved dogs like you are what’s starting to spoil this once immaculate organization.”
“…you’ll be tried for treason. All I did was give them good treatment”
Admiral Arin’s words hung in the air of the comm unit for a moment while Michovanovich laughed on the other end
“You know these coms are recorded right? And this time you can’t scrub it. That being said I just got your confession and made a mockery of you. Two ships one shell eh? The brig will see you in due time.”
“I’d hope you dead” “Awe so sweet you'd hope for me, glad to see it Arin…hopefully you don’t die out there.”
hi guys. If you’ve missed me; I’m back. With yet another thing of drawings. And my seemingly never ending desire to draw mCC x mOC. Just making random gay ships with ocs to characters that are already part of the show anyways.
I’ve been fandom hopping again. Which I do a lot. This time my brain is on the Voltron series. The Dreamworks that’s on Netflix and has a shitty ending and plain sucky character développement.
Aside from how the animators messed up the show, I still love the characters themselves. Lance McClain will forever be my favorite. So I guess it’s time to introduce to you guys his pink alien boyfriend. Roxetor.
I definitely went through some edits. Appearance wise-> and just naming the species. Most of it is very similar though. Haven’t drawn much of Lance and Rox together, besides the paper drawing where I was literally just messing around at first-
I even included a bond as the first image. All of my CC x OC situations. Mostly. I never even thought I would do one for Lance or VLD. But I did.
And there’s loads more on Rox for the future. If you wanna know more about my character, as well as how the ship came to be leave a comment or so and I’ll do my best to reach out.
I really enjoy the art design of Call of Duty Infinity Warfare because it looks so damn real. All these instrument panels, moving things on the hulls of ships, and you haven’t seen the spacesuits here yet!
This moment shows all the realism of this game. How do spaceships usually fly in sci-fi movies, like my favorite Star Wars? That's right, with the help of some magical fairy dust and anti-gravity. You need to understand that in order to overcome the gravity of the Earth and lift a load weighing only 10 tons into space, you have to apply an enormous amount of strength and energy, not to mention the 200-300 ton colossus from the movies. And when they simply rise up in a fantastic way without any pushing force, it looks very stupid.
Here, all these cruisers and aircraft carriers use very real engines, or “boosters,” to rise and go into outer space, while taking off vertically, as it should be if all science fiction works took aerodynamics into account.
All this attention to detail makes this game very attractive to me: I really love space operas, and lately (after watching “The Martian” and “For All Mankind”) I have also been looking for realistic works in this genre. I believe that this game was forgotten not deservedly, only because at that time everyone is tired of CoD about the future.
I'm waiting for a discount in the PS store. Peace to all✌️
Where from I take this video: https://youtu.be/cjsA13bBtpo?si=U_9qDj9tzVz_SAOo
"In 1971, a Californian entrepreneur named Nolan Bushnell decided to deliver Spacewar! to the masses. Computer Space—essentially Spacewar repackaged—was the first modern coin-operated arcade game."
SPACE WAR! (1962)
Spacewar! is a space combat video game developed in 1962 by Steve Russell in collaboration with Martin Graetz, Wayne Wiitanen, Bob Saunders, Steve Piner, and others. It was written for the newly installed DEC PDP-1 minicomputer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
"the popularization of video games is better traced to Steve Russell, a graduate student who studied at MIT in the early 1960s. Russell is commonly credited for creating Spacewar with the help of collabora- tors. In Spacewar, each competitor controlled a spaceship. The players navigated the ships on a flat plane around a central sun (with simulated gravity) and attempted to destroy each other with missiles. In an interview with a reporter from Rolling Stone magazine, Russell described Spacewar not as a game, but as a way to “simulate a reasonably complicated physical system and actually see what is going on.”
Came across this whilst researching my book. Thought it was cool.
Quotes from Virtual Justice: The New Laws of Online Worlds by Greg Lastowka (2011)
Read more about Computer Space at the Online Museum of play