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Mostly Lancer (the RPG). Avatar kitbashed from Retrograde Minis' sprites, banner by @Cait-Sith.

[meatfagart]

Lady Paeonia, youngest daughter of a minor House of Glass, and her favourite custom Black Witch. Currently on the run to live her dreams as a Lancer pilot like her favourite fiction before shes forced to marry

Full body.. my cutesy daughter.

[sixthvoice]

SSC LOVERS KNOT

One of the latest additions to SSC’s LUX-Exotic line, the Lovers Knot represents Smith-Shimano's dedication to the relentless pursuit of perfection. The Deaths Head is an iconic piece of gear, a principled and sleek tool of conflict resolution that excels within its role. The Lovers Knot as its sister frame expands upon its capabilities with new discoveries tirelessly perfected by Exotic Materials. Within the Broadcasts, SSC found the fabrication files for a special type of glass, perfectly reflective and almost entirely indestructible. Originally meant for optical arrays, highlight points, and cockpit coating it proved overly difficult to shape but displayed some rather interesting additional properties. All projectiles deflected off the surface seemed to have a mind of their own, seeking targets with statistically impossible accuracy and no significant loss in kinetic force. Leaping at this discovery, Exotic Materials was able to adjust this ricochet utilizing directed operator brainwaves and a small companion drone to create a mobile surface for reliable redirections. Thus was the Lovers Knot born, a reflection of the hard work and peerless ingenuity of its creators. A beautiful, terrible thing, unmatched in its twined pursuits of defying the laws of physical reality and violence.

I said i wouldn't make more, i lied. oops. well i actually love this one and its an all time personal favorite due to its themes (big fucking railgun) and its design (pishly my goat). Its a deaths head alt which means it has to contend with a slightly strange license. Its main ability is its ability to reflect shots, allowing you to draw remaining line or range to another character when making attacks. It allows you to hit 2 or more characters while only making ONE attack roll and thus working with core siphon and double dipping bonus damage. All targets hit take half damage no matter what so setting up lines to hit more than 2 is heavily rewarded. At the very least you can do some funny things with tachyon lance or kraul rifle (or spread some debuffs with concussion missiles). Its core power allows more reflections and with good positioning you can end up hitting pretty much every character. Ordnance is still an issue but struggling to get any value out of the line is now a lot easier overall. Lovers Knot basically acts as an AOE artillery that trades off sheer single target damage for hitting a bunch of people at once and can get around troublesome terrain. Its also sick as hell You can find the Sixth Voice on itch.io (this one only available in pilotnet sixth voice thread for now) or pinned on my blog. Art by my amazing friend Pishly who you can also find on itch.io, seriously go glaze him mech shibari was mandatory (lovers knots after all) more soon. maybe

[ljonskart]

Lancer pilot, Lin Disztl! Callsign Firecrest. I can't remember her mech's designation, but the filename's "Happy To Dance", which is an okay name :D

[morinorarts]

[crab-milk]

"fatal attraction"

a painting of my character's new mech! had a lot of fun designing her :]

[lemnisrewind]

izzy also runs a build best described with this image

[captain-pentagon]

White Witch in a tarot card

The ferrofluid concept is so cool. I wanted to show it interacting with the environment in a way that reflected its traits.

Check out my other (non-lancer) tarot card illustrations here and here

commissions open if you want me to draw designer mechs aurafarming and pinkguyposing. or other things if you want

[vexwerewolf]

One extremely interesting part of Lancer deep lore is that the Catholic Church still exists, and the implications of this are fascinating.

The existence of the Catholic Church in Lancer is evidenced by this passage from page 121 of No Room For A Wallflower Act 1:

Catholicism is such a prevalent world religion that it would almost certainly have had many adherents on all of the Ten, which meant that everywhere the Ten went, so too did Catholicism. The Ten left starting around 6000bu, and instantaneous FTL communication didn't appear until around 3200u, which means that for over 9000 years - longer than the current human historical record! - Catholic dioceses on old Earth colonies could not have maintained full communion.

There was also no contact between Earth and any of its colonies by any means (FTL or not) from 6000bu to at least 1400u, and realistically several centuries after that. 1400u is when Union on Cradle first turned its long-range communication systems back on and experienced the Third Trauma; they didn't start to send regular messages to surviving colonies until significantly after that - first contact with the Karrakin Trade Baronies didn't happen until 2800u, more than 800 years into the First Expansion Period.

This puts the earliest that the Catholic church on Cradle could possibly have had any contact with orphaned dioceses at around 8000 years. This exceeds the current lifespan of the Catholic church by more than four times.

It is reasonable to assume that in the absence of any possible contact with the Holy See on Earth, Catholic dioceses on the colony worlds would have to establish their own central authority - essentially, a series of definitionally non-competing antipopes. The realities of time, distance and differing environments would cause dogma in each separate diocese to drift.

We've already seen this happen on Earth: Irish Catholicism is notably different in character to American Catholicism, and both of those groups can pick up a phone and talk to the Pope! Meanwhile, some of the Ten went to planets hundreds of light-years away - even if you could send a question to the Holy See, by the time you got a response back, assuming your civilization endured, the cultural conditions that provoked your question would most likely be historical curiosities discussed by your distant descendants.

So imagine the nightmarish complications around 3200u onwards, during the Second Expansion Period, which is when FTL communication and travel became commonplace in the Lancer universe. This is a reasonable point to posit that the "Catholic Union" mentioned in Wallflower came into being.

Let me set the scene: the Cradle Papacy proposes, now that FTL communication is possible, to reunify the Catholic Church and return the faithful across every human world to full communion with the Holy See (SecComm was ascendant back then; this feels like the sort of One Humanity shit they'd pull). With Union's newly-built OmniNet, the Cradle Pope reaches out to the archdioceses of Karrakis, Carina, Tau Ceti, Rigel Kentaurus, Spinward Ultima…

Cradle Pope: "Blessings upon you all, from the Church of Peter the Apostle, First Bishop of Rome, in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit."

Karrakis Pope: "Oh, hey! Which one of the Passions are you Bonded to?"

Sparri Pope: "Blessings upon you in the name of Saint Anaru, who vanquished the Beasts of God and ate their eggs."

Constellar Pope: "I have a brain implant that constantly updates the Liturgy for me!"

Bishop-Regent of Ras Shamra: "Blessings upon you in the name of Malcolm XVII, Prophet and Final Pope, who harrowed the Nightlands."

Cradle Pope: "…"

Cradle Pope: "Guys what the fuck"

The Catholic Union in 5016u must be an absolutely batshit compromise between a multitude of utterly incompatible regional dogmas that exists broadly so that these separate churches can exercise collective political authority.

… so actually, kinda like the Catholic Church has always been.

[vexwerewolf]

Something some of my ex-Catholic friends pointed out is that one of the deviations from current dogma that a lot of colonial Catholic churches might undergo is… well, sit down for this one, because it's a doozy:

The de-emphasis of Jesus Christ.

As humanity becomes a galactic society and the Crucifixion gets further and further away from us in both time and space, the idea that One Time, One Dude on One Planet died for our eternal salvation becomes increasingly unsustainable as a belief system. What would the Virgin Birth mean to someone 500 light years from Bethlehem? What would the Betrayal in Gethsemane or the Passion at Golgotha mean to a person who could never see Jerusalem? Why did the Saviour manifest only once, on one planet, millennia before we mastered space travel?

Some dioceses might consider the words of Matthew 25 - "for I was a hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me," - and posit a Son of Man who might be among us at any moment, testing humanity's kindness to one another.

Every world on which Catholics worship would have its own folk saints. Cathedrals would first follow the architectural realities of virgin worlds, and then the cultural mores of the civilization that grew from those humble beginnings.

Will the Liturgy still be chanted in Latin, eleven thousand years hence? Will it still have the same words? Will it even still recognisably venerate the same Trinity? What new heresies and schisms will shake the Church of Peter - and will it even remember him as its ancient founder?

Old Earth as the Garden of Eden from which we departed, and that Flaming Sword which turned every way was the exhaust plume of our stardrives, for it was unto us, not those Cherubim, that God appointed the duty to keep the way of the Tree of Life.

What new Michelangelo will decorate the vaulted ceiling of a distant world's chapel, and what alien sky will his brushstrokes depict?

What new horrors will be unleashed in the name of God by a power-hungry colonial Papacy, echoing their ancestors' ancient sins?

This isn't even to mention the entirely separate syncretic religion, the Church of Christ the Buddha, that sprung up at some point in Lancer's eleven-thousand-year future history. How does the Catholic Union perceive them? As a heresy, or as misguided but righteous brothers of the book?

And how the fuck do you calculate Easter when your planet doesn't have a moon?

[now-entering-the-goop-zone]

drew the IPS-N Fitzgerald! I love the big cannon, and based it on a build that had engieneer III so it only felt fitting!

[aconstellationcollective]

dehumanization as horror is great and all but what about humanization as horror. Being forced into a role that was not made for you. Being forced to fulfill expectations that you can never achieve. Being made to exist in a society that so cruelly expects you to act in a way that is against your nature.

[epidaleacalamita]

SSC Viceroy "KASATKA" and pilot

[arcturox]

Commission of a Balor-infected Amber Phantom - the "Malef Amalgamation".

[notbloodsmith]

my brain decided 3 am on a random Saturday would be a great time to restart a project i abandoned god knows how long ago

[alicegravess]

By @cozzymandiart as a comm!

Amelia Gallows is a diasporan from a planet of ash, fire and iron. Herself being crude, hot headed and industrious, feels all the more fitting she'd ride fire and brimstone incarnate with her AGNI NHP nicknamed 'Firebug Brandy' to help redistribute the heat to those unlucky enough to be nearby.

[captain-pentagon]

hi yeah i was looking through your catalog for the monarch or the viceroy but i could only find the

[firbolgonmain]

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