(Art from February, 2017)

A Primer on Alurian Space Travel
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Pictured, Left:
The Traveler, an early Alurian starship, created to safely carry astronauts to other destinations in the Ryndu star system, and with minimal need for re-supplies. The first generations were cramped, slow, and required frequent maintenance, but did the job nonetheless. From those earliest models came the inspiration for the next generation of Travelers... Their design would be very much the same, but they would also prove vastly more reliable. The few travelers in use today were originally built hundreds of years ago, receiving upgrades and replacements over that span of time.

Pictured, Bottom Right:
Similarly, the Navigators, vehicles designed to transport explorers across otherworldly terrain, have seen little in the way of change. Its rugged construction has lent itself to long term use, with only minor upgrades needed to keep it relevant for modern applications.

Pictured, Top Right:
Luckily for the Alurians wearing them, space suits have improved by leaps and bounds compared to their earliest prototypes. Pictured is a version from approximately 70 years ago, the first generation to bear nearly all the same features as current technology... But modern suits have the luxury of a much more sleek and stylish aesthetic. Astronauts in the newest gear can achieve their full range of vision and motion, and are much more nimble than early explorers.

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Once upon a time,
Our ancestors were slaves to gravity. Any obstacles they faced in their travels had to be conquered on foot, and they spent their entire lives firmly affixed to the ground. Vast canyons, steep mountains, dense forests, raging oceans… All these and more stood in the way of the early Alurians, limiting how much of our world they were able to safely navigate.

We imagine that in those days, they looked upward to the creatures that, seemingly impossibly, levitated in the air.

“How unfair!” they must have declared, “That we were not built to harness the wind, to sail across ravines without fear of falling, to float above the trees, rather than being tangled within them!”

As ground-dwellers, those Alurians knew directions like Forward and Backward, Left and Right. Up and Down existed, they understood, but only in limited capacity. An Alurian could go Up, but only in the places that the world allowed for it, such as by climbing a tall tree. But these creatures, the birds, the gliders, and the sail-winged Trilerachast… They could navigate Up and Down freely.

A great many generations would pass before our ancestors learned enough to be able to build tools that could help them traverse the skies on their own terms. With that, they could cross large distances faster than ever before, and the whole world opened to them. The direction called Up is a useful one, indeed.

Of course, that was not the end of our journey. We went further and further upward, spurred on by our boundless desire to explore, but it wasn’t long before we hit another snag: Space is exponentially, unfathomably larger than our planet. Even the scale of our own solar system presented a challenge. Going any further beyond it, despite our best efforts, appeared to be out of the question.

We would need a new direction...

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