Looking to the New Year we find the world has changed dramatically. But perhaps once we get ove

Looking to the New Year we find the world has changed dramatically. But perhaps once we get over this darkness, a whole new world awaits…This is meant to depict Stella sitting on Tartarus’ accretion disk, looking out over the dark ring of thick dust clouds (called the ”torus” in astronomy) that surrounds it, and into the nuclear star cluster. The nuclear star cluster of their galaxy is like the stars’ capital city. It has taken a beating from the winds of the active galactic nucleus Tartarus powers, but yet it persists, deeply changed, but resilient.The strange threads sticking out of the accretion disk are plasma filaments that have been lifted up by magnetic fields. In my writing I usually describe the torus as being almost like a circular mountain range from the stars’ perspective (they call it the Torus Mountains), and the accretion disk as a turbulent blue sea. So I drew the torus and accretion disk to resemble a mountain range looming over the ocean. I thought it was interesting though to make the filaments look almost like enormous strands of prairie grass, waving in the AGN wind. Strictly speaking this isn’t the most realistic depiction of an accretion disk and torus (for one thing the brightness of the disk should look uniform on Stella’s scale, but then that would mask the other features present in it) but I find it poetic. Sometimes space dust clouds do really resemble Earthly land forms, and in a setting where stars are civilized it makes sense they would think of the clouds’ dark, rugged silhouette as their equivalent of the shadow of a mountain range set against the night sky. -- source link

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