Location: F04 Illustria

Tags: Science, Land Vehicle

Previously...

// PERSONAL DIARY //

Upon my return to the Axle I filed a detailed report about my time with the Ter Tahls and highly suggested that we collaborate with them. I also suggested to Dr. Long that Tor be invited to the Axle to meet with her. I wanted to go over my report in further detail in person, but Dr. Long said she was very busy with the issues around the time travel device. She also had a rather pressing matter that she said she needed me to take on personally.

Of course I was honored that she would ask me to take on a task for her. Apparently our new CEO pombe had told her that he was giving her a new ground speeder as a way of thanking her for her dedicated service. She indicated she was nervous about such a gift given pombe's reputation as somewhat of a free spirit. I was tasked with checking over the speeder to ensure that there were no surprises.

I was quite happy to be entrusted with such a task, so ED-208 and I set about reviewing the speeder thoroughly. It was being stored in a bay on the Axle while the finishing touches were added. The first thing we found was a note that read: "Hope you have some fun with this. I know you sure need some D!" I pointed out to ED-208 that clearly pombe's secretary Eshey had written it as there was a grammatical mistake, it should read: "Hope you have some fun with this. I know you sure need some, D!" ED-208 seemed to agree as he said "Yeah, that must be it." Although pombe seemed to be getting a little informal for my tastes calling Dr. Long by the first initial of her first name: Danielle.

I visually inspected all of the speeder while ED-208 decrypted and analyzed the control software. It was running Octansoft and it must be that because we were aboard the Axle the decryption was so easy. I guess the encyption key was actually "password123". ED-208 said he had seen stronger encryption on vending machines, but that wouldn't make sense as all our vending machines also run Octansoft!

It was good though that we found absolutely nothing out of the ordinary. Dr. Long seemed very relieved to hear that the speeder was just a standard speeder. After leaving her office I ran into pombe in the hallway and mentioned that Dr. Long was looking forward to using her speeder. He said that he hadn't installed the "special accessories" yet and that he was on his way to take care of it now. Based on the vibrating box he was holding he must be installing a massage chair in it. That should certainly help Dr. Long relax a bit!

Extra Pics:

I tried to detail it as much as possible, note the area between the seats.

You really can't see it due to lighting, but the area under the green between the seats is red for a center brake light

Nice room. NPU on the round lbg columns. The red stripes look great and there are some nice subtle details. I do think you missed an opportunity to do a brick built number in one of those white sections of walls. That would have made the room look a little bit more interesting and it would've been good practice and a good way to add points. The speeder is nice but I think the shaping is a little strange; I get that it's an alligator, but since that wasn't mentioned in your story, I'm wondering why you limited yourself to that design. The section between the wheels/thrusters seems to me the ideal place to enter/exit, so putting the engine right there seems off to me. Pombe's cameo is funny.

Whoa, ok, it totally does look like an alligator. I never even noticed that until you mentioned it. I was actually shaping it off an Auburn Boattail Speedster. I was trying to keep the wall simple to highlight the car in front, but a number would have been a good improvement. Great suggestion.

The laboratory area off to the side is quite nice, and the red stripe across the floor looks great. I agree with goatman, the wall could use some pipes or a number to break up the uniformity. Overall, great job.

  On 11/6/2015 at 8:06 PM, Kodan Black said:

Whoa, ok, it totally does look like an alligator. I never even noticed that until you mentioned it. I was actually shaping it off an Auburn Boattail Speedster. I was trying to keep the wall simple to highlight the car in front, but a number would have been a good improvement. Great suggestion.

That's really funny. I thought it was so strange that you didn't mention the alligator design and figured that had to be what you were going for; head, tail, even red eyes in the front. Maybe your subconscious is messing with you

The amusing part is that the green at the front certainly helps with the alligator look, and originally that was all red but it looked a bit overwhelming to me, so I swapped it to green. Man, now I wish I'd seen it and worked it into the story so I seemed clever!

Shamefully, I had to look the car up. After perusing the pictures, I can sort of see what you were aiming for. I think what hurt it was the low "hood" area in the front, it should have been high and flat out to the nose/grill from the cockpit.

The fact that Octan Corp. can make naturally aspirated hovercars is just plain cool!

Cool alligator hover car!

Here's a fun animal fact for you: alligator penises are always erect. They reside in the cloaca and pop out for mating, which is why we don't see them normally.

The judges awarded you 4 points.