Rex3d: For the asteroids, i first used the spray points tool to make a bunch of points. Then i made a low poly tesselated sphere and use point clone with the points in another layer to create a mass of asteroids. Then jittered them to give some variation.
Here is the full story of the battle for Orterra.
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The Theft of Orterra[/left]
Orterra is a planet that doesnt spin, or revolve because an element that alters gravitational fields is heavily prevalent in the core. The people of the planet can only live on the planets darker half because the side facing the sun is scorched. As time passed, and the planets population grew, the planet became overpopulated. But a solution presented itself. A neibhoring wasteland planet in their solar system called Fultran maintained a regular, albeit large orbit, and would pass close by Orterra for a ten year period once every 500 years. To resolve their problems of overpopulation, every 500 hundred years Orterra would ship their criminals and garbage to Fultran while it was close, turning the planet into a prison like junkyard. This process occurred every 500 hunded years for 3 millennia. But something happened during Fultrans last revolution. The planet met up with another alien race midway through it’s orbit and made amazing technilogical advancements. Soon, word traveled to other alien species of a strange solar system with a planet that remained stationary at all times. A highly advanced race of aliens heard of this and came to the conclusion that the core of Orterra must be rich in an extremely rare element that alters gravitational fields. The advanced race highly values this element as it is key to most of their technology. The aliens decide that the only way to obtain the mineral is to “steal” the planet and move it into their solar system where they can extract the element from the core. Thus during last 30 years they constructed a massive ship capable of moving whole planets. But their is a problem. While their ship is powerful enough to move a normal planet, Orterra is quite different. Because the element in Orterra’s core is strong enough to prevent the planet from orbiting, it is therefore normally impossible to move the planet. There is a solution, the planet’s gravitational field is weakened when Fultran passes nearby. Thus they can only move Orterra when Fultran is nearby. [left]
Because Orterra never orbits it is isolated from the rest of the Solar system and thus the inhabitants of Orterra have been oblivious of everything that has happened in the last 500 years of Fultran’s orbit. They have technologically advanced at a normal rate but not near as much as Fultran who has had contact with the afformentioned good alien species. [/left]
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Oterra doensn’t have a clue the aliens are coming in 5 years to steal their planet, Fultran does know they are coming, and has decided to aid their fellow people. But, Fultran is still too far out of range to get a message back to Orterra to warn them before it is too late. [/left]
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Thus our battle takes place at the end of those five years. The evil aliens have arrived and are attempting to steal Orterra with their massive planet moving ship while Fultran is in close orbit. Fultran had managed to get a message to Orterra only days before the attack. Fultran has sent out its highly advanced fleet to fight beside Orterra’s fleet against the very advanced race of evil aliens and their planet stealing ship.[/left]
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