OLD ART- THE GALACTIC CITY - PART 10More of the comic I sketched in middle school that first introdu

OLD ART- THE GALACTIC CITY - PART 10More of the comic I sketched in middle school that first introduced the character of Tartarus and the setting of a distant quasar that is like a city-state. You might be a little confused as to why the wormhole tells the Great Annihilator he will take him to NGC 417, when I previously described this galaxy as being called “Antiocheka”…that is because when I originally conceived of the setting, I just picked a random NGC number for it and thought that was good enough. Of course, then I found NGC 417 is a nondescript lenticular galaxy, so I needed to change it to being a quasar. I then for a while called this galaxy HS 1946+7658, which was the most luminous quasar known at the time. Eventually I gave up on trying to make the setting a real place (because there aren’t really any galaxies that are cities of sapient stars) and just gave it the name Antiocheka.In these specific pages, the Great Annihilator finishes telling Tartarus his story of misery and woe, and cries…like usual. This time Tartarus cries with him, though. Even as a 14-year old I knew that Tartarus’ backstory was going to be of a small and starving stellar black hole that worked its way up to supermassive status. This is hinted at here.Currently, most astronomers believe that supermassive black holes were born already very large, as they appear shortly after the Big Bang, and other normal models of black hole accretion, that isn’t enough time for a small black hole to grow big. I imagine this to be true of the other supermassive black holes in Tartarus’ cosmic vicinity. But Tartarus’ unique status as having originally been a stellar black hole means he is able to empathize with much smaller black holes when other supermassive black holes generally do not. Tartarus is somewhat unusual for being a leader and caretaker of the millions of black holes that orbit him…most other supermassive black holes just kind of indifferently absorb smaller black holes if they feel like.One thing that has changed in my conception of Tartarus since middle school is his opinion on consuming stars. I always knew he was reluctant to consume stellar black holes, but I depicted him as very much seeking out stars to devour. Now I imagine he mostly would prefer to eat giant molecular clouds, as they are more massive and easier to accrete, and don’t scream inside him when he swallows them*. He still might half-jokingly tell other stars he wants to eat them, though, and get tempted if he is particularly hungry…*Black holes larger than 10 billion solar masses swallow all the stars they eat whole, even giant stars. Tartarus is at least that massive (his exact mass is something I never seem to decide on) so when he eats stars they totally are alive inside him for some time and screaming and thrashing. Needless to say that feels…kind of disturbing to him. -- source link

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