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Published: 2018-11-02 14:10:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 1579; Favourites: 38; Downloads: 30
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The characters shown above will be drifting around in the background of the Space Agents series. There are hundreds of women living onboard the Battleship Amazon and they all fall into two "departments": Military and Civilian. Military crew members wear uniforms with red details and have received formal combat training, while Civilians wear blue and have no combat training. In general, the more of a color you see, the higher the rank.Both departments have a chain of command. A Civilian Lieutenant is equal in rank to a Military Lieutenant, but the Military Lieuteant has authority in a combat situation. Combat trained crewmembers include Aviators, Expeditionaries, Marines, Security, etc. Civilian specialties include Physicians, Engineers, Technicians, Scientists and occupations of that nature.
In the image above, the two crewmembers on the left are wearing Citizen uniforms. Citizens must serve on a star vessel for atleast two years before they can earn their civil rights, and they must complete a five year deployment before they can earn a commission and join the officer ranks. Roughly 90% of the crew of the Battleship Amazon are Citizens, so this will be the most common uniform seen on the ship.
The two women in the middle are members of the Military department. The one in grey and red is an Ensign and the one in black and red is a Lieutenant. The two women on the right are members of the Civilian department. The one in grey and blue is an Ensign and the one in black and blue is a Lieutenant.
Do you have to know all of this to enjoy the Space Agents series? Absolutely not! In fact, this may be the ONLY time that I address it. For the most part, the characters above are just "NPCs" hanging out in the background, but if you ever find yourself wondering why they are dressed as they are, you can always come back to this post as a reminder.
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Comments: 14
Rob66 [2018-11-03 11:25:07 +0000 UTC]
The amount of thought and detail you've obviously put into this series is impressive.
It's also pretty neat timing-wise for me because I've been wanting to read and see more "space opera" themed stuff for a few months. Managed to read two books and see one other series here on dA so this is a welcome addition!
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spaceagents In reply to Rob66 [2018-11-03 13:47:35 +0000 UTC]
Thanks! Right around the time I started putting this together I was watching Voyager for the first time on Netflix. Star Trek was just one of the inspirations. I'm trying to make it a broad sci-fi playground where anything and everything fits. Star Trek, Star Wars, Buck Rogers, Starship Troopers, Farscape, Flash Gordon, Battlestar Galactica, Spaceballs, Twilight Zone, etc... Kind of what I tried to do with AA and the comic book genre. I want to take all of those tropes and styles and put them into a blender so that I can get away with whatever I want to do at any given moment.
Basically, doing the research and world-building early lets me be lazy later. LOL
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Rob66 In reply to spaceagents [2018-11-03 14:48:48 +0000 UTC]
I liked Star Trek (original series) a lot. The Next Generation was okay but I lost interest after a season. Voyager was one I watched and enjoyed for 3 or 4 seasons.Β
Let me ask you to give away a trade secret. How do you keep track of the characters and their back stories, etc.? Me/ I'd need a notebook and would have to refer to it regularly. I'm always curious about how artists and writers who do more than a one-off keep track of things to maintain consistency and continuity. Did you create a timeline like you did for the AA series?Β
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spaceagents In reply to Rob66 [2018-11-03 19:15:22 +0000 UTC]
In my case it just kind of comes to me as I'm working. I create an image, which takes hours, so for hours I am asking myself why does this character look this way? Or why should this character be in this position at this time? What does this character want? All of these questions either have direct answers or implied answers and all of that starts to congeal into a story. Like I said, I didn't intend for Space Agents to become a thing. It was a one-off AA post, but then I decided to revisit the uniforms and a command structure started to build from that. I bought a starship bridge set to use as a background, but it had more seats than I had characters, so I started to think about adding a few new crew members to fill out the bridge set. As I created them, their personalities and desires started to emerge. And then I decided that a member of the crew should be one of the bad guys, so that got me thinking about what the bad guys wanted and why the good guys are fighting them. And then I was still having censorship issues on DA, which for some reason only fueled my desire to go in a more "adult" direction, but I didn't want to necessarily do it with the Amazon Arrows, so the Space Agents just kind of snowballed into a sci-fi story that is ultimately just background for a trashy and graphic sex romp that probably won't end up appealing to most AA fans, but likely WILL appeal to fans of adult video games, dating simulators and virtual novels (which I now know how to make). I think AA will be too tame for people that want the graphic sex games, and I think AA fans don't necessarily want the graphic sex at all, so it made sense to split them off in two directions. One thing just led to another for several months and here we are!
I don't keep track of any of it. It lives in my head until I make an image about it. Once I make an image with the uniforms I get to stop thinking about the uniforms and I can move onto the next piece of the world. Once the world exists, then the stories kind of happen on their own.
Next week I'll be injecting some familiar crossover OCs into the Space Agents world using some characters on loan from other DA artists that I interact with. For example, The Battleship Amazon has a school onboard and it needs a teacher. There should be lots of fun surprises next week.
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Rob66 In reply to spaceagents [2018-11-04 11:14:39 +0000 UTC]
That was a great answer to my question. I really appreciate it and how you share the evolution of the series and the characters. I totally understand what you said about the stories happening on their own too because that's how I experience it too once I begin to write something (which I must do again soon - I've been a slacker).
Introducing other OCs into the mix is also creative and fun. Nice idea!
(And thanks for having this account watch me too!)Β
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LordLard [2018-11-02 22:55:57 +0000 UTC]
Delightful uniforms, but you know I could probably suggest some tweaks
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Timetraxx [2018-11-02 19:32:38 +0000 UTC]
I have always been fascinated with military ranks and this is a great backstory. So Citizen Civilians have tunics with pants and Civilians have skirts?
Are the the insignias indicating rank on the white tab on the shoulder? I couldn't really see them in the profiles.
Looking forward to the series!
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spaceagents In reply to Timetraxx [2018-11-02 23:00:42 +0000 UTC]
There is no rank insignia on the white tab. It's just a detail.
Citizens have pants. A Citizen can belong to either the Military (red) or Civilian (blue) department, depending on their specialty.
After five years, a Citizen becomes an Officer (after passing qualification tests and evals and so forth).
Officers have skirts. An Officer can belong to either the Military (red) or Civilian (blue) department, depending on what specialty they had when they were coming up as Citizens.Β
Uniform style indicates rank.Β
You can see the Ensign and Lieutenant rank styles in the image above, and you can see the Lieutenant Command and Commander styles here:
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Only the Captain wears gold.
Hope that makes it more clear.Β Perhaps I'll make a single graphic that sums it all up.
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Timetraxx In reply to spaceagents [2018-11-03 07:20:36 +0000 UTC]
Appreciate the detailed explanation. Great stuff!
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