▸ PROVENANCE · 09 · THE MACHINE CITY · 74 PLATES · 28 MORE IN ARCHIVE
The firmament, gathered
Pulled by tag, not by hand
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A naval suborbital at berth in the Deep-Strata — capital-scale, never built for the surface
Coalition hands in the citadel's underlit dark
Subterranean dry-dock — a capital suborbital cradled in a flooded berth, kilometres beneath the dunes
Deep in the citadel's vaulted gut, sodium light on wet steel
A suborbital settling into a snow-floored cavern — the surface is only the aperture far above
Orion, before the merge — a Coalition pilot in the berth-light
A pilot dwarfed at the lip of an Atlantic-class dry-dock
Skater-01, recon savant, kitted for the deep corridors
Skater-01 in profile — the recon loadout, every strap a service record
The frozen surface, glimpsed through a conduit mouth
The machine-citadel interior — rib-vaulted, vacuum-jacketed, endless
Arterial conduits of the machine city, lit by engine-glow
A vacuum-sealed launch conduit — magnetic rails gather momentum before the ramp
Down the launch corridor, the closed loop curving out of sight
A ghost-lit hangar in the Deep-Strata, searchlights in the haze
Mist and sodium flood over a sunken berth
An ethereal giant in the vault — scale that turns a person to a mote
Close on the citadel's plating — Giger-grade bone and steel
A capital berth deep in the citadel — cathedral-still, capital-scale
The Storm-Crown bride — translucent plate, horned crown, the red rule kept to her lips
Flash-frozen in the strata: a sentinel form against engine light
Horned, pale, red-lipped — a Storm-Crown humanoid against a translucent hull
A biomech sentinel in profile, chitin and steel fused
A Hydra-class sentinel — spined skull-crown and a single furnace eye
Female Armored Figure — Portrait · Subterranean Dune Winter · Silver
Armored Figure — Detail · Lipid Bilayer Sky · Silver
Creature — Detail · Subterranean Dune · Amber
Storm Vortex — Wide · Storm Vortex · Silver
Canyon Corridor — Wide · Canyon Corridor · Black
Industrial Subterranean — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Silver
Suborbital — Wide · Storm Vortex · Black
Demiurge — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Black
Industrial Subterranean — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Black
Suborbital — Wide · Storm Vortex · Silver
Suborbital — Wide · Storm Vortex · Silver
Storm Vortex — Wide · Storm Vortex · Black
Storm Vortex — Wide · Storm Vortex · Silver
Storm Vortex — Wide · Storm Vortex · Black
Industrial Subterranean — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Black
Industrial Subterranean — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Silver
Industrial Subterranean — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Silver
Creature — Detail · Storm Vortex · Silver
Industrial Subterranean — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Amber
Industrial Subterranean — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Amber
Creature — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Black
Suborbital — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Silver
Industrial Subterranean — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Silver
Industrial Subterranean — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Silver
Industrial Subterranean — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Silver
Suborbital — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Silver
Industrial Subterranean — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Black
Industrial Subterranean — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Silver
Suborbital — Detail · Industrial Subterranean · Silver
Suborbital — Wide · Canyon Corridor · Black
Subterranean Dune Winter — Wide · Subterranean Dune Winter · Snow
Industrial Subterranean — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Black
Subterranean Dune Winter — Wide · Subterranean Dune Winter · Snow
Industrial Subterranean — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Silver
Coalition Pilot — Wide · Canyon Corridor · Black
Industrial Subterranean — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Silver
Industrial Subterranean — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Silver
Industrial Subterranean — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Silver
Suborbital — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Black
Suborbital — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Black
Suborbital — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Snow
Industrial Subterranean — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Silver
Desert Expanse — Wide · Desert Expanse · Snow
Suborbital — Wide · Subterranean Dune · Silver
Industrial Subterranean — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Amber
Subterranean Dune — Wide · Subterranean Dune · Silver
Suborbital — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Silver
Suborbital — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Silver
Armored Figure — Wide · Subterranean Dune · Black
Mechanoid — Wide · Storm Vortex · Silver
Humanoid — Portrait · Subterranean Dune Winter · Silver
Armored Figure — Portrait · Storm Vortex · Silver
Creature — Detail · Industrial Subterranean · Black
Storm Vortex — Wide · Storm Vortex · Black
Industrial Subterranean — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Black
Industrial Subterranean — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Silver
Suborbital — Wide · Storm Vortex · Snow
Industrial Subterranean — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Black
Industrial Subterranean — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Silver
Industrial Subterranean — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Snow
Industrial Subterranean — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Silver
Industrial Subterranean — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Amber
Industrial Subterranean — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Black
Industrial Subterranean — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Silver
Industrial Subterranean — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Snow
Industrial Subterranean — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Silver
Industrial Subterranean — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Black
Industrial Subterranean — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Silver
Canyon Corridor — Wide · Canyon Corridor · Snow
Industrial Subterranean — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Silver
Humanoid — Detail · Industrial Subterranean · Black
Canyon Corridor — Wide · Canyon Corridor · Black
Suborbital — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Silver
Coalition Pilot — Portrait · Industrial Subterranean · Black
Creature — Detail · Industrial Subterranean · Silver
Industrial Subterranean — Detail · Industrial Subterranean · Silver
Subterranean Dune — Wide · Subterranean Dune · Amber
Industrial Subterranean — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Silver
Creature — Detail · Lipid Bilayer Sky · Silver
Creature — Detail · Subterranean Dune · Black
Industrial Subterranean — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Silver
Industrial Subterranean — Wide · Industrial Subterranean · Amber