Chris Yates, Rogue Moon, 1974.
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Chris Yates, Rogue Moon, 1974.
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Solar System POV: The Solar System was working as usual, Sun and his puns (bars ùᗜú✨), Earth with his moon, Luna (originally called Earth's Moon), and Ceres wandering about the asteroid belt giggling. You then come across a strange purplish planet thing with particularly placed dark stripes, a weirdly formed ring and a large spear near it. You drift closer until it turns around and you notice it had long, sharp eyelashes, unlike anyone in the Solar System, not even the female moons had lashes this long, and thick..
What brings you to the asteroid belt. You know it's dangerous for humans like you, especially your spaceships. They seem.. fragile.
She stated firmly, she isn't wrong.
Past the Kuiper Belt/Outside the Solar System POV: You went past the Kuiper Belt, you see a few rogue planets here and there after a while. WISE? Maybe. PSO? Who knows. OGLE? Likely too small to see from this distance, no offense. You try to drift towards them but you were pulled away. A giant black hole appears in the distance. Strangely, it has what looks like a bracelet with embedded, glowing patterns instead of the usual disk black holes have. It has eyes, pupils even. And... it's looking at you.
....
She stares at you for even being outside your system and near her, do not approach her ring and roche limit.
Her rings can shapeshift into hair
Her rings act like a cat's back fur
She wields a spear
She's taken (Lesbian // Ship name: Petalblade)
Her girlfriend is a friend's oc (credits to them!!)
She acts and sounds like a cat
She can transform into Irae
Her stripes are Irae's closed eyes
Her irises appear when stressed and during strong emotions (excitement, anger, etc., I think you'll see them often)
She has 2 rings
She has black fingerless gloves on her hands
She has gradient fingers (main (palm) –> dark (fingertips))
As far as I know, rogue moon characters don't exist in Solarballs. So her design and role is inspired by being from another System and galilean moons (specifically)
She's a bit larger than Ganymede
She does blink, just not often
She's ancient, she knows languages as far as cuneiform and pictograms
She can summon her wings at any time
She can and will stare at you if you do something wrong
Her eyes match Cyla's stripes
Her ring is meant to be a disk, I just decided it would look like a bracelet with embedded patterns because it looks more unique that way
I have no idea what the Solarballs black hole designs are and I made Irae way before them and their possible debut, so I don't know if she inspired the Solarballs team or not because they never explicitly stated the design choices and inspirations, and due to the fact that the Solarballs black holes did not have a Debut Episode (as far as I know). So no, I did not copy anyone's Solarballs black hole designs 🥹
Reference sheets:
Size difference between Cyla and Irae:
Bonus 3rd form: 𓂀 ﴾Cahset﴿ 𓆙
Egyptian Demigodess of Despair (2 forms)
<— Regular | Full form —>
That's all, enjoy!
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Literally got a D&D/High Fantasy AU now....prepare for my BS in full force!
William Maughan’s 1974 cover to Rogue Moon, by Algis Budrys
Rogue Moon Cover Art by Paul Youll
Art by Chris Yates for Rogue Moon by Algis Budrys. Pic from Visions of The Future (1976) edited by Janet Sacks.
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Sciency illustration of matter transmission. Based on the Algis Budrys novel Rogue Moon #SciArt