To fill the void.

This first update will merely act as a brief introduction to the project and what it is all about. Søren and I first came up with the idea a handful of years ago, frankly I have lost count, but I'm guessing around 2004.

We were aiming for something that had artistic value while also being pulpy enough to sate our inner need to draw monsters, guns and alien environments. It was also important for us to give it the potential to encompass both our drawing styles (which are wildly different) and thus we laid the (very rough) groundwork for Parasite Planet, a steampunk-ish science fiction epic which we felt had at least some degree of originality to it.

To summarize the setting and rough plot:

In the far future, a technologically advanced human nation have fled their former home aboard 3 enormous spacecraft in search of a new homeworld. It is not known whether this was Earth or whether Earth had already been abandoned in the distant past. They are eventually forced to land on a mysterious planet that shows abundant life signs, due to the dwindling of resources and food aboard their ships.

However, the planet itself reacts extremely violent to their intrusion through the atmospheric layer and a mysterious power failure causes all 3 ships to crash onto the surface, resulting in an extreme number of casualties. Most of the advanced technology that was brought along is destroyed in this crash, forcing a more work-heavy, simple lifestyle upon the survivors.

After learning that the planet's surface is covered in a toxic mist that eventually proves fatal to most human beings, the scattered survivors create settlements on conveniently elevated rock pinnacles, keeping them out of the mist's reach. These settlers learn to benefit from the planet's resources, such as wind energy (from the many violent storms that rage across the surface), mineral deposits that serve to fuel their machines and vehicles, and local herbivores that provide fur and meat, while also benefitting from the remaining technological knowledge.

A few centuries later, humans have adapted to this lifestyle, some settlements remain small and village-like in hierarchy, some have grown to bigger cities with politics and intrigues. However, peril is brewing on the horizon as the planet itself seems to change. Extremely aggressive, carnivorous beasts appear on the planet surface, jeopardizing the lives of hunting and mining squads, the mist seems to have increasingly odd and terrifying effects on the human mind and body, and eventually humankind will have to ask themselves the true nature of their new home...

Anyway, characters, detailed technology, conceptual artwork, and everything we create for this project will be posted in this blog, so stay tuned and hopefully there will be something to look at in the next post!

Best regards, Tomas and Søren.