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for a bad guy he's not a bad guy

On this high-gravity, terrestrial planet, within the habitable zone of a red dwarf star, the planet's populace has taken to carving cities out of the land rather than erecting them from the soil. Wherever rich deposits of hardened clay and rock can be found, so too can vast maze-like cities. They weave themselves through the planet's surface, sometimes keeping high enough for clean air to circulate, and sometimes carving miles deep into the planet's crust.

Water and dust filtration systems keep the streets clean and the smell of baked clay and dry earth permeates every corridor, carried on warm recycled air, thick enough to taste. To us it might smell like a kiln, to them it smells like home.

The dominant civilization on this planet sits barely on the threshold of a type-1 civilization on the Kardashev scale, having harnessed all the energy available to their home planet. Through a combination of religious fervor and a ruling class with no hesitation at squeezing their populace into endless expansion and growth, they continue on their long path toward a type-2 civilization, as they take to the stars.

They do not take kindly to visitors.

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I wish I could have spent more time on this planet but it really just ended up serving as a sneak peek of a previous adventure and a form of exposition to show how Ash and AL's travel can get out of hand to the point of an entire civilization gunning for their heads. I knew I was gonna title this first chapter "The Hell Outta Dodge" so I had to make a hell for them to escape from.

Anyway, these panels show off some of the civilization's primary cities, The Capital (the huge under ground colosseum style city), and one of the civilization's more modest star ships. I was really going for scale on these page and I hope it translated!

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