October/November 2014 Challenge: Starfall

**Sapiento** · 10-22-2014, 12:20 PM

So, here is the commission assigned to me by Schwarzkreuz:

„Once, when the ancient ones travelled the roads of heaven between the stars, a great malice came upon them and destroyed the wings of their grand ships. Seven of them landed here, on this desolated world, on which we wither in the darkness of our former glory. Will our starborn brothers and sisters find us, before this world dies and we with it?“
Create a representation of a half decayed, semiorganic Seedspaceship, that malfunctioned and crashlanded on a dreadfull desert planets over a thousand year ago. The breeding chambers of the Cult of the Starwomb, still giving birth to repeating but amnesiac humans of the original crew members, which make most of the population of this settlements. The Map requested shall show the travel stations of the „Hero“ from his work at the local scrapyards to the inner chamber of the Motherbrain of the ship. The ship itself is hovering with its antigrav field over the settlement, similar to a dome like structure and terraform the environment so that the population can survive. Also, the engines starts to fail and outer settlements were destroyed by the outer conditions.
Please try to make this Map in a fantasy sytle, as if drawn by a local scholar, resembling rough 17th Century Maps, but with some uncanny and folkloric elements to it.

(Fictional Map Commission for a Novel „Starfall“)

I will probably give this exciting request some days to brood in my brain before I come up with a first sketch. The hovering of the ship above the settlement is a tricky detail.