I like the design of the recessed bed. Looks practical yet comfortable.

It doubles as an emergency pressurized compartment too.

Makes a lot of sense. I presume that there is some sort of door that slides into place when the occupant is asleep?

Yes. A common feature on all my space stuff. I engineer the heck out of my settings and hardware, and in this case, fine-tuning the scenario for over 30 years.

Your technical drawings are really amazing...that kind of attention to detail does pay off. And of course your character drawings are great as well...but it's not often I see someone who puts so much detail into machinery. Going all the way back to Albedo #0, you do some really amazing vehicles.

Technical stuff has always come easy, was drafting for fun even as a kit. Drawing anything else has been more of a challenge, as I'm not really a natural artist, my limited success has come with decades of dogged practice rather than some innate talent.

The practice shows. It's most inspiring.

And still, you were telling great stories from the beginning. I also like the whole culture you came up for Albedo.

Very cute ;)

Oh yeah, those assistant robots! I remember them really fondly, though I was a bit unclear on how independent of The Net they actually were. I especially got attached to that one that was helping the penguin clear the booby-trapped mining station. There's something about people and robots working together that always pleases me.

It's a very flexible looking design. Looks like it could get anywhere in the station very fast and then settle down into a stable position to perform delicate work.

The legs have wheels for rolling, or lock the brake and use them as feet for stepping on or over stuff. In this instant, our hero and her companion are cut off, with a node of the net on the ship, so the robot is a slave, though, over time, becomes the primary interface with her. Such a unit, acting independently, tends to be fairly task specific, and has only enough behavior programs for basic communication and co-operative functions unless specifically loaded with extras.

Commissions, sure. My user page has a link to a journal page with info. http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5669193/

OMG! It's Happening!

Robot begging, yes.

Your art's looking great, Mr G!

This kind of thing is what I love most about your work. I love the way you mix the technical and the organic. It's almost like the detail you put into the technical stuff makes it easier to believe the fantastic nature of the anthro.

I wish I still had my copies of your comics :/ My aunt tossed them all when I was away at college >.<

I like everything about this picture: The cute fox lady.. cute but not overtly sexualized as fox women often are. The alcove bed design is something I would like to have in my home.. maybe someday when I'm not renting any more. And that robot design looks great too, functional and evoking the body shape of a medium sized dog.

Suppose to be a Sheba Inu-esque character. The idea behind the bed design actually pre-dates its SF application. The original version was a stackable bed module for a barracks or dorm that would double as a packing crate for all of a troop's worldly posessions. It was folded out for a full-size bed with overhead, then could fold into a unit about half or a third the volume for transport. It mutated into the alcove bed/survival space later. The wall volume around it has independent life support and supplies as well as a vac ball for evacuation or a proper suit for trained crew.

Ah yes.. Her face is certainly more like a shiba than a fox. Her tail is more fox-like though.. shiba tails tend to be shorter and more curly, non? Very cute fuzzy critter anyway. ^_^

Would the alcove bed also have restraints built in, for high g maneuver safety?

You are right, I kind of pooched the tail, as she does have the curly tail, though in her case is pretty full. Re-deployable airbags for sudden events, and a tethered sleeping bag for zero-gee. Actually hadn't thought about straps, though would be necessary for manuevering, even in general, for untrained passengers.

Damn neat stuff.

I remember the sleeping pods from the Ship Sourcebook. Don't they also have a removable panel that leads into the "personal"? Emergency shelter if the room gets decompressed, and a tank of pure water underneath the deck.

The sleeping space is the primary volume, with equipment and supplies behind panels. I'd have to look up the old books for the details, it has been something like 15 years ago.

Programmed with the "light tap on the shoulder" mode instead of the "Full-Blast Reveille" option...

"This had better be important Net. I was enjoying that dream."

I particularly like the robot. Seriously, that's one great looking robot and I will keep you in mind if I ever want a robot drawn for myself.

Yes, she definitely has the Shiba face, but her tail and coloring... as you observed. Cuter'n a button, though. She's got a far-away look in her eye, past the S3 unit, that says, "I wonder if anybody knows I'm out here? And, how am I going to amuse myself, today?"

For the first couple years, it is all about securing long-term survival, but once that's done, only the long years, decades, ??? to look forward to.

Indeed -- that's the limitation of FTL travel combined with light-speed communications. If all your survival pod has is the equivalent of a conventional distress signal, it's going to be a while until someone realizes you're missing, and need recovery. I hope she's got more games in that wall panel than Solitaire...

In this case, actually much worse. The scenario uses what I call "jump" for interstellar distances, warping or jumping out of the universe, only to instantly jump back to it elsewhere. But in this case, she jumps to neither when nor where she intended. She has a whole big starship to her self, only survivor, but has no provision to back-track a mis-jump. Mis-jumps are extremely rare, and, presumably, end up annihilated in a transition zone. Unbeknownst to anyone, the unfortunate can, rarely, simply go elsewhere, as they are at that moment disassociated with their universe. Our hero gets massively displaced in both time and space. I've another story which is uses it as a gimmick for an Albedo/Fehnnik cross over.

I'm familiar with the 'jump' theory. The way you phrased it in your note, it reminded me of a story I started writing many years ago. The jump was made by following a specific path through space. The Human mind perceived it as 'driving' a 'car' down a dark road, because it couldn't handle the the concept of the actual event in three-space without unfortunate consequences (madness, migraines, nosebleeds and the like). The problem was, the null-space effect accelerated your travel at a logarithm of your immediate velocity. 'Drive' fast enough, and the transition was almost instantaneous. Too slow, and the trip could take hours. But what happened to 'drivers' of 'cars' that broke down? The story told the tale, but it's lost to the sands of time (or the pile of junk in my attic). I should probably rewrite it anyway; it was created on a mechanical, immediate-mode printer device called a type-writer, and as I recall, edits were... problematic...

My version has gravity influencing the jump. As the ship transitions, gravity "wells" become gravity "peaks", in effect, repelling the ship from the start point and prevents it from getting too close to the destination. Yet no actually velocities or distances are involved. Being in the alternate universe is only long enough to not be in the real universe, and that disconnection is how the distance is spanned, though the transition phase sets the stage for where you go. The jump out is directly out bound from the local gravity center, the local stellar mass, planets are just "noise" comparitively, and the jump out point needs to be some AU (equivelent) from both the center and, ideally, major planets.

Nice to see some Albedo art from you again. A grim scenario, but if she's been displaced in *time* as well as distance, hopefully some past (or future) benevolent space-farers can locate before long.