

Deep Map Pilots 1: Marenka
digital
2012
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MARENKA flies the sailplane service that skims the Neptune atmosphere on a loop that brings it back to the thaw station on Triton. All the many photos taped to the walls of Marenka’s cockpit flutter like dead leaves in a cold breeze when she bounces out of the atmosphere, and when the harsh thermal exchange bounces the boat about on its descent to Triton. Triton is a moon of frozen lakes and a hot core. The sailplane delivers scooped helium-3 to the fusion engines that are re-routing core heat to the surface. Soon, Triton will be a subtropical worldlet on the edge of the solar system. That’s when Marenka will leave. She has a cockpit full of photos of all the things she never wants to be near again, and soon Triton won’t be a cold enough place for her.
Deep Map Pilots is a five-part science fiction vignette series in collaboration with Warren Ellis. Ellis writes; Gauger illustrates.
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1 : Marenka) Some stunning artwork from Eliza Gauger. Created...for the Deep Map Pilots...
It turned out perfect! Nice work.
Hot fucking damn.
What’s up day crew. So Warren and I are doing a thing. We’ve both been enthralled by deep space, and the entire concept...
so you didn’t put goatse in one of the back photos after all :( :(