This is what three years of drawing comics does to you. On the right, my previous attempt at
drawing this town. On the left..

This sketch depicts the human city of Neciss, one of very few human settlements on Illum,
the planet from which Ayola (the white cat lady) originates. The settlement was established
soon after the humans crash landed a generation ship that was launched from the original
Earth, long before humanity began colonizing space properly.

The ship holds hundreds of thousands of sleeper pods with humans destined to settle on a
new world, a few thousand years down the line, and the pods’ timers are locked.
The surviving crew and waking members decided to settle in and protect the ship, constructing
Neciss as a port town to explore the world around them. Twenty or so generations later, the
town serves as a shipping and trading hub.

The observant may notice the unusual building in the center, as well as the one to the left of it.
These are built from materials salvaged from the ship, in an attempt to construct a beacon to call
home for rescue. Whether anyone will ever respond is impossible to tell, and the signal will take
hundreds of years to reach Earth.

Guess we’re making ourselves comfortable for a while.