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Help! Make Collaborative Art!

Hello friends - I would like your help.

I would really like to do a collaborative art project, and that requires collaboration. Recently, I kitbashed a few models and wrote a little blurb to establish a setting, and it's been living rent free in my head. I could easily spend the next few weeks and months daydreaming about this place, and coming up with ideas about it (I'll be doing this anyway), but it sounded more fun to do this with a bit of company.

So, this is an open invitation to participate. I'm looking for anything - miniatures, stories, music, art, sculptures, storytelling, historical analysis, interpretive dances, whatever tickles the fancy. I'd like to collect all of this art into a single blog post that can be shared as our collective world building project. Let's put a tentative deadline on this for December 31st - that might help motivate us - but I'll just keep adding any submissions to the blog post after the fact.

Down below, I'm going to include only two pieces of media as the starting point. A picture, and a blurb about the planet. Anything else you choose to explore is up to you. Take this in any direction you want. It's ok if it contradicts what other people do. 

To submit, just send me a message wherever is convenient for you - IG, discord, or my email if you have it.

Thanks folks,

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Miller's World // Nightside

Miller's World, more commonly known as Nightside, is a tidally locked planet on the fringes of the galactic cluster. One side bakes under the relentless bombardment of solar radiation, and the other side stares endlessly into the void. The powerful heat creates air currents that force all moisture over the dark side of the planet where it falls as heavy rain, creating a massive bioluminescent rainforest. The warm air currents also keep the dark side of the planet from freezing - as the majority of the dark side is quite temperate. 

Indeed, there is a buffer strip around the center of the planet that enjoys relative stability of temperature and light. This strip was once inhabited by an elite imperial garrison, as the world was strategically relevant for hundreds of years. The garrison has gone now, leaving abandoned buildings, equipment, and technology. The Nightsiders avoid these old habitations, understanding them to be cursed or haunted. Though many do still salvage in these ruins for useful remains.

The people of Nightside, if you can call them that, are not a homogeneous or unified group. They are from a range of hominid groups that have interbred for generations. Their original descendants were prisoners of the imperial forces, who were left on the world when the military disembarked. They now make their homes in small tribal networks throughout the luminous jungles of phosphorescent fungi and the shadows between them. 

Occasionally, ships passing through the system will stop on Nightside for supplies, as there is an abundance of water and biofuel in the lush fungal forests. These ships return with strange stories about bartering with mutants in ancient imperial wargear, or of witnessing cultic rituals by firelight. Some ships land on Nightside and are never heard from again. Largely, this planet is forgotten by most in the galaxy, and whatever strange life and culture exist there, it has existed practically undisturbed for a millenia.


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  1. This sounds like a ton of fun! Stoked to see how it goes. 😀

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