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A lot of major events in Sagan 4 history have no artwork to go with them. It would be nice if they did, as it helps illustrate Sagan 4's natural history. Here's a list of illustration ideas:

Major Events

• Solar flare or coronal mass striking Sagan 4 at the end of Week 1
• The impact event at the end of Week 2, perhaps from the ground seen by and/or obliterating biota of the era
• The irradiated landscape / dead biota following the gamma ray burst during Week 15
• The impact event at the beginning of Week 19, perhaps from the ground seen by and/or obliterating biota of the era
• Glaciers looming over summertime polar biomes in Week 21
• Something representing the loss of deep sea life as the sea levels dropped
• A winter scene during week 22
• A gif showing the ice spreading and the sea level dropping, then the reverse happening, from space throughout the ice age
• The supervolcanic event at the Week 21/22 boundary with orbit voltfloras firing as described
• A solar flare or coronal mass striking Sagan 4 at the end of Week 22
• Mason's seas boiling despite visible sea ice during the Week 23/24 boundary
• Fauna from different continents meeting for the first time when the supercontinent formed in Week 26

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Minor/Local Events

• The hurricane and resulting debris/rafting event that happened in Week 6
• Dead and dying purple flora from the flora virus which occurred in Week 10
• Dry landscape and dead plants from the major drought which happened in Week 13
• The volcanic eruption that happened in Week 14, perhaps including the landscape right after when all the trees were knocked down
• Debris and fauna rafting following the super hurricane in Week 16
• The entrance to Rabid Sandstone Caves closed off after the cave-in in Week 17
• The volcanic eruption and its effects from Week 18
• Also Week 18, the effects of the minor impact event that created Ramul Crater
• From the super earthquake in Week 19:
  • The blood lava tube sea caves with their entrance closed off
  • The eruptions in the Hydro volcanic region
  • Tsunamis looming over Hydro Coast, Ovi Coast, Ninth Bay, South Polar Coast, Huggs Coast, and Krakow Coast
• The wildfires caused by the drought in Week 20
• Water rushing into various caves during the flooding events that followed the end of the ice age
• Last survivors on sinking islands

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Broad clade-specific events

• Plents
  - The earliest ambulatory plents on the early landscape
• Worms
  - Beach thornworms crawling from the sea

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Smaller named group events

• Sapients
  - Domestic/home scenes, any species
  - Encounters with wildlife
  - Tripodician's pyramids
  - Endlings following the mass extinction events
• Nodents
  - A nonibble mother with a train of offspring behind her, each holding on to the tail of the one in front of them; showing the first appearance of one of the most defining traits of nodents
  - Nogbarrels being the little disaster taxon they are, taking over the landscape when they evolved
  - Victims of no-snarf
  - Genteel tuskents, including domestic scenes with tripodicians and a scene of small breeds running feral after the end of the snowball event
  - Trogagons emerging from the caves following the end of the snowball
• Shrews
  - Victims of shrew plague
  - A depiction of the survival of the river shrews, such as them swimming with drowned death soriparasites detaching from their fur
  - A desert soriparasite attached to a cave-dwelling earback
  - Blood shrews emerging from the caves
  - A xolagoba rafting across the ocean
  - A joviglut during the impact winter at the start of week 19
  - Whiskerpicks during the snowball
  - Jaydoh island scene with multiple shrews
  - Seafaring shrews on the seas around Week 24
  - A beach cheekhorn rafting across the ocean, perhaps eating right from the debris it's rafting on like nothing's happening
• Saucebacks
  - An early sauceback in its environment
  - Victims of sauceback plague
  - Falsequill sauceback or a descendant that's still an ambush hunter, lunging at prey
  - Long eared saucebacks emerging from Martyk Sandstone Caves for the first time after the gamma ray burst
  - Oceanic False-Larval Saucebacks in Jujubee Polar Sea during the snowball
  - A scene of a glacial sauceback on the global glacier
  - Something representing the evolution of eyesight in Hearthead or its descendants
  - A visual comparison between the ability of earlier blind and later sighted saucebacks to detect brightly colored prey
• Bearhogs
  - A scene with a basal bearhog plent and an early sauceback (as they were competitors early on)
  - Pleeduhs in the aftermath of the gamma ray burst
  - Demise of the last cavehog
  - A scene featuring blind hoofplents
• Wingworms
  - A scene prominently featuring early wingworms in flight
  - Something representing the massive loss of wingworm diversity as a result of the ice age

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Feel free to suggest more (but please keep them species-nonspecific where possible)! Also, if you plan to fill one of these prompts, please leave a comment.

I've added some bearhog prompts

I've illustrated a (harmless) collision between tamjack and marine tamow nests:


Possibly fitting for the seafaring shrew prompt, but I also think of it as just a funny little moment as well, like the previous drawing I did of a flumpus basking on a seashrog's nest.

I know a lot of groups have gotten some close examination due to the work of the taxonomy team - does anyone have suggestions for prompts for other groups not represented in the list so far?

I'm also gonna go ahead and edit the existing prompts to be less specific / more flexible. X in Y during Z instead of X doing Y during Z.

dioramas;


Scene focused on a large piece of driftwood washed ashore, the life that had colonized it in water, and those that live on it on shore

Leaf litter in a forest, any time period

Spring in a heavily deciduous environment, either field or forest, any time period

Depictions of the homes of nest forming wingworms, and possibly organisms that interact with them

dioramas of sophonts cooking quarters, with food storage and processing tools

I'd love to see a shepherd Harnessback pack, with the adults alongside the larva and the animals they ride.

Any sagan 4 forest in autumn, color changes, leaf litter, nuts, and all.

If a diorma is taking place in wallace, maybe a trail of trailblazers. Doesn't have to be upclose, can just be part of the background in the same way you might draw a trail of ants in a park or a forest

Edit: The eventful Day in which a a pack of shepherd Harnessbacks was roaming by the edge of a forest during autumn just as a trail of trailblazers passed by

This post has been edited by Jarlaxle: Jan 22 2023, 03:20 PM

This is meant for illustrations representative of specific events that are not illustrated, for use on pages detailing said events, rather than just general dioramas. @colddigger @Jarlaxle

I guess I'll make some week 19 impact event art, if nobody else will. WIP: fauna fleeing from a tsunami washing over ittiz-ovi desert.