Nouvous Manarola

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A timelapse image of a garrison town on the planet Polemos at dusk. In the slight middle right of the image you'll note a lone artillery turret. Polemos settlement city states are, more often than not, defended by stationary turrets, AFVs (walkers or treaded tanks), and floating anti FOIL rail gun platforms. With the history of warfare on the planet this has become a establishment of the culture. Many city states are neutral territory to FOIL warfare but are heavily defended none the less.

Both Polemos and Indus, the two primary planets in the Theos setting, are a kaleidoscope of fragmented historical references. As such places such as this exist but without the general populace understanding the historical point of origin in human history.

Nouvous Manarola was built with a mutated reference to the Italian village of Manarola en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manarola that existed in humanities distant foggy past. It resembles the old city in some ways and in others is quite different. Those who built such places have a notion of context but everyone else hasn't the interest of notion of these things. What exactly happened to humanity that disconnected them from recalling their true past is one of the many deep mysteries of Theos Ke Polemos.

The illustration is a rendered pencil illustration with digital tweaks in Photoshop then digitally colored in Photoshop CS3. The original un-edited pencil illustration was posted some time ago here vulnepro.deviantart.com/art/De…

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