Here They Come!

Is there a better way for a title when you write about start of the Sci-Fi Convention than with a quote from our favourite space opera? I don't think so!

The opening of the Convention is now only a few hours away and I am positively quite excited! I made a little stroll around the sims the other day and my first impression is very, very good.
You don't have to believe me though - just take a look at the pictures I received:

Courtesy Lani Global

Courtesy Lani Global

Courtesy Lani Global

Courtesy Lani Global

For my own plot at the exhibition I had a very special idea: Since I have so many large ships to show and since one already would pretty much fill the parcel, I decided to have rezzer-system instead which lets visitors pick what they want to see! Emma did - as always - a fantastic job. Not simply scripting, but scripting it in a way that it is pretty easy to set up the scenes - wonderful!

Always an impressive view: the Cerberus-Class Cruiser,

...something more peaceful: The Daedalus...

...and the mighty Prometheus-Class!

See you at the Convention! Here is your taxi to the Drow Science parcel - enjoy!

P.S. Steam-Gonk loves you all!

Gonk, gonk, goooonk!

Sci-Fi Convention 2016

This years SL Sci-Fi Convention is just a few days away now. Yay!

So far the Sci-Fi convention has grown bigger and better every year and I am looking forward how it will be this time. It is also pretty cool to be part of it, I have to add. It is one of the occasions where the community can show what they are capable of and present their vision of the future.

The convention will start on March 18 and will go till the 27th. Though for me and the other exhibitors it will kind of start already in two days, when the building period on the sims begins.

For more information, please visit their blog. See you there!

The Kraken Wars - Epilogue

Epilogue

Time passed more slowly after the  Cobalt Brotherhood abandoned their underwater base. The few Kraken that had been left behind, showed a listless quality and were easily collected. Without the stimulation by the Marconi Receptive Leaf, they gradually became lass and less a terror threat.

The Cobalt Brotherhood seemed to have abandoned Piracy by Kraken, and if they had undertaken any other form of larceny, it remained unknown.

Air Piracy was still a matter of concern to Consolidated Airship Transport.

New Gadget: Mad Scientist's Backpack

Sometimes inspiration comes from out of the blue. It can be something you have seen or heard the other day, a memory, or it jumps kinda in your face - like in the case of my Mad Scientist's Backpack!

Please meet the Mad Scientist's backpack!

Half of the inspiration for it comes from this fun little trailer here with cute and nerdy (and pretty mad) scientists:

The other half was induced by the theme for last Saturday's Z&A dance: Weird Science!

I guess its no surprise that something in my brain clicked. And it was so much fun to build and dressing up myself for the party - and actually wearing it that night!
I might have went a bit mad with adding more and more fun things to it - including an authentic steampunk license plate!

You can pick up the Mad Scientist's Backpack now at the Marketplace and at the Drow Science Showroom!

The Kraken Wars - Part 9

Archangel Finds the Base

The high speed Zeppelin flew at an altitude of 21,000 feet. Her crew wore specially heated flight suits and their full face masks supplied them with an atmosphere fortified with oxygen. Her powerful engines were silenced and an array of colored lights on her belly could be varied to make her nearly invisible from the surface.  The camera system in her gondola was top secret and could read the traffic signs on a road at her current altitude. Every aspect of this craft was classified, top secret and every one of her assets was trained on the patch of sea floor below.

Steam: The Hunt XI - Realms of The Deep

One of the dates in the SL-year I am looking forward the most is the Steampunk Hunt, or Steam: The Hunt, as its friends call it!

This year's theme was quite a welcome opportunity for me to do something new, since I never really delved (or dived!) into nautical things - and doing something new keeps us on our toes!

I rather quickly decided to make a small deep sea exploration submarine. It helped of course that it is a vehicle (and who knows me, knows, I love building vehicles), but they also have a natural cuteness and a quite distinctive design - and last but not least is there this famous novel about a Captain and his submarine by Jules Verne... so its hard to find a more steampunky turn to the theme really!

Another novelty is that this miniature is wearable, so it will accompany you everywhere you go - no matter how deep you dive!

Steam: The Hunt starts March 1 and will go throughout the whole Month. For more information, check out their blog.

The submarine will be available at the Drow Science Show-room (the hint is rather easy, so no worries, you will find it!).

The Kraken Wars - Part 8

The Taking of Black Molly

Captain Xerxes brought his vessel to a stop in calm waters under a buttermilk sky. He waited for the breaching of a submarine vessel, for which he had a new radio device and some fuel and stores. He stood behind his helmsman and peered about, looking for the disturbance on the still sea that would signal the rise of his ward from the deep. He barked orders into the speaking tube above his head, "Prepare to send over the stores and the new radio and to take the defective radio for repairs. Ready the pumps for refuelling."

Captain Xerxes had no indication of what was about to befall his small ship. As he waited for the submarine that would never surface, a pair of elite military airmen were streaking toward his vessel. They flew with Terra Infinity Jetpacks with wings extended.

Captain Xerxes held binoculars in his hands, ready to look for any signals from the submarine. He was startled by the clang of boots on the starboard side of his bridge and then another on the port side.

Both bridge doors were slammed open. Two men wearing jet packs and carrying short, deadly rifles stepped onto the bridge.  With the wings of the Jetpack retracted, and rifles at the ready, their orders were clear and decisive.