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After placing everything in Earth's orbit, they started the construction of a massive mining rig. The aim was to reach a distant asteroid for mining operations, as extracting metals and materials from an asteroid proves more efficient than lifting them from Earth due to gravity. However, they had to bring everything required for long-term self-sustainability, ensuring redundancy in case of equipment failures—no assistance would be available out there.

After the long journey, they rotated the rig once more to position the main engines away from the asteroid. They approached slowly using only auxiliary thrusters. Operations commenced swiftly as they scanned the asteroid using a powerful laser. Once they found a suitable rock within the loose pile bound by weak gravity, the small tugs would shovel them into the mouth of the processing station.

A Premium Download is available for this image, showing the scene optimized as a dual-screen wallpaper in 8k lossless PNG. This is a re-render of the scene at full resolution and sharpness, not an upscaled version. The 4k version for single-screen desktop use remains a free download, as usual. Thanks!

Pure #Blender/Cycles.
Own work. Contains Dust particles on lens , some pipes by Max Hay and rocks from BD3D Plant-Library . Thanks Tagia/Tobi/Mac for their input. No other 3rd party assets or textures. No AI.

Description

After placing everything in Earth's orbit, they started the construction of a massive mining rig. The aim was to reach a distant asteroid for mining operations, as extracting metals and materials from an asteroid proves more efficient than lifting them from Earth due to gravity. However, they had to bring everything required for long-term self-sustainability, ensuring redundancy in case of equipment failures—no assistance would be available out there.

After the long journey, they rotated the rig once more to position the main engines away from the asteroid. They approached slowly using only auxiliary thrusters. Operations commenced swiftly as they scanned the asteroid using a powerful laser. Once they found a suitable rock within the loose pile bound by weak gravity, the small tugs would shovel them into the mouth of the processing station.

A Premium Download is available for this image, showing the scene optimized as a dual-screen wallpaper in 8k lossless PNG. This is a re-render of the scene at full resolution and sharpness, not an upscaled version. The 4k version for single-screen desktop use remains a free download, as usual. Thanks!

Pure #Blender/Cycles.
Own work. Contains Dust particles on lens , some pipes by Max Hay and rocks from BD3D Plant-Library . Thanks Tagia/Tobi/Mac for their input. No other 3rd party assets or textures. No AI.