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heck of a ding!
excellent colors and smoothness in this render, John!!

It's a deformed fish ... the head view anyways & well, that's what it appears to me. Guess I watched "Nemo" too many times over & over. LOL. I like the golden color & the overall smoothness. Excellent image John.

it's very shiny and healthy looking for a dead planet John! lol! reminds me of honeycomb for some reason - it also gives you the impression it is floating somewhere in space ......ohhhh right that is what you were saying! lol! :)

OK, it's a planet if you say so.

If so, it is obvious what's happened. It has been half eaten - or, at least, half hollowed out, by some sort of enormous, intergalactic bug. He, she, it or they did this in order to lay eggs safely inside, together with an adequate supply of food and plenty of nasty sticky stuff to keep even the makers of 'Alien' (or whatever it was called) happy in their retirement. You can see that some of the eggs have hatched into larvae which are eating and growing until ready to transform themselves into the adult stage. Why you had to bring these to Caedes is beyond me. Idle and unthinking curiosity, I suppose - what else would one do with a dead planet, after all?

Very nice work. Really icky train of thought it prompts, but that's all part of the fun. I suppose.

- cfr

This very good John, look's like the planet imploded on itself.

It's true, looks like some imploding happened. Must make for an interesting surface on the planet! That's a great depiction, John. :)

I think the hole has suction to pull us all in never to see the light of day again :)
I see the space aspect as in your description - it just floats there suspended. Nice work.

Yeah..that'll leave a mark, getting hit by a large asteroid! LMAO Another good one John!

Aren't dead planets also called brown stars? I dunno, but that's what I recall from my astronomy class but it's been twenty years and countless bottles of wine since then. ;) I'm not sure about this image John. I love the colors, but whatever that thing is it looks kinda sickly.

Doesn't look dead to me, only looks like it's morphing. See the bright spots are the life force and it's still there.

lol, it looks like a giant alien dice to me!

I know what this is..it's why I always come late to your class, Mr. Cowardly. If you tilt your head all the way to the left, or tilt your monitor up 90 degrees clockwise, then it's very cearly a pic of a guy's face with two slightly differing eye sizes, a bulbous nose with a huge black hole of a chuckling grin on his face..see it? Clear as day :)

♥PJ♥