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Adventures in Sketchtopia Part 1: Heirs of the Sun

Countless millennia since man last walked Earth, 

the Heirs of the Sun still breathed the air of dying stars.  Their forms would be strange-even incomprehensible-to their distant ancestors.  Still, their human nature was still active, buried deep within.

These are ideas from one of my upcoming writing expositions, Heirs of the Sun.  It is a concept I thought of years ago and one of my few writing projects that was preceded by drawings.  So, you're in for a treat.  Most Adventures in Sketchtopia won't have a direct corollary with my writing projects.

Let's jump in.

I'm not going to go into too many story details.  The big picture is that I tried to imagine what the human descendants millions of years in the future might be like, especially ones that could live for thousands of years.

The first type were ones that had constructed some sort of suit powered by stellar energy.  Let's call them Eternanauts.  The idea was that the energy would be gathered from stars to power both the suit and also reconstitute body matter.

The initial concept figure, seen below, had a fairly modest-sized suit.  There was an attachment for a solar panel and a two-handed, drill-like tool for collecting stellar energy (somehow).  There was also a ship that appears to be able to take in stellar matter and pushed it out as fuel (inspired by ramjet propulsion).


The next design bulked up the suit and made the solar panel and another equipment part of the back of the suit.


From there, the backpack ended up morphing into a fusion reactor, swelling up in size to be larger than the actual suit.  There were different iterations, some faint sketches and other more detailed.  All had a central column and support struts in common, things not found on the earlier suit concepts.


The second type were ones that resembled trees and drew in energy from the stars through a process similar to photosynthesis.  Let's call them Mind Trees.  I had only two concept images, both found below.  


With that, our tour of images from Heirs of the Sun has concluded.

Bonus:

There was a single drawing I found after all the Heirs to the Sun drawings.  It also related to one of my future writing projects, Mechanica Flora (working title).  Here you go.







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