ACT II — THE CONTROL ROOM — (watching other people fight:1.3) (the same recurring cast, consistent faces, bodies and clothing across every image, identical character design:1.2) Featuring Sergeant Kade, armourer, forearms like winch cable, a welding mask pushed up on the forehead, drums of ammunition stacked behind; also Lieutenant Dana Sorren, frame pilot, a flight suit with three kill marks, hair cropped under a helmet, a photograph taped inside the cockpit; and at the back of the room, Corporal Bright, trainee pilot, too young for the suit, a helmet two sizes large, chewed fingernails on the control sticks. a gunner checking the turret travel by hand, in the darkened room with the map projected on the wall. No light but sodium lamps hazing the apron, and the room reads proud of a hard-won frame. (Dark room lit by monitors, backs of heads, one pilot's face). a 14mm with the screens wrapping the room; cockpit framing with instruments crowding the edges; graded ice blue, steel and orange lamp. Watching a screen that is not theirs: the one who thinks the war is already lost. Written down but never reported: a drink taken at an hour nobody saw. Across the headsets: a hand on a shoulder instead of a sentence. BREAK a boarding ladder rung huge at the edge; on the tiled floor, mud caked on frame feet, oil pooled in a drain trench; and going cold on a desk, fitters eating on a crate, a rat along the cable trays. Filling the far wall: the city skyline smoking. The turn: an order given twice and then withdrawn. BREAK a pilot who has not slept, a replacement pilot nobody has met, a rotation list with the same names on it. BREAK Reflected in the screens: light running along a rail, the polished brass of a worn instrument bezel, hot metal spitting sparks, chrome catching hangar light. (mecha control room, screens, cinematic:1.2) ice blue, steel and orange lamp. Avoid text, lettering, watermark, signature, extra fingers, deformed hands, extra limbs, blurry, low detail, jpeg artifacts, organic monsters, medieval weaponry, fantasy magic, hand-drawn linework. · queued — waiting for the driver
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prompt: THE ARRIVAL — (a new sky overhead:1.2) a pilot in the seat at the last burn — in a utility belt of hand tools, at the window — welding a panel shut as a cliff of layered sediment fills the view. Earth a blue marble seen far away unknown and enormous; solemn in a vacuum hopeful against the numbers. (Window-frame composition, the vista through glass, condensation and reflection). an 85mm inside the module, a vertical frame for the module's height. BREAK regolith spilling off a boot the window frame and glass; a drill's cone of tailings, impact glass scattered darkly of the sill; cress leaves in a sealed bag, algae furring a tank wall absent. a landing craft on its legs the whole alien panorama. a broken watch set to mission time, a book of poems brought along, a checklist with names and times, a nametag fallen off a suit, a rubber band around a rail BREAK sun glinting off a visor, indicator lights in sequence, instruments' soft green glow, the reflection in a helmet's mirror finish the glass and the ice. (arrival at new world, hopeful, cinematic space:1.2) dust rose, steel and solar gold.
exact prompt sent: imagine THE ARRIVAL — (a new sky overhead:1.2) a pilot in the seat at the last burn — in a utility belt of hand tools, at the window — welding a panel shut as a cliff of layered sediment fills the view. Earth a blue marble seen far away unknown and enormous; solemn in a vacuum hopeful against the numbers. (Window-frame composition, the vista through glass, condensation and reflection). an 85mm inside the module, a vertical frame for the module's height. BREAK regolith spilling off a boot the window frame and glass; a drill's cone of tailings, impact glass scattered darkly of the sill; cress leaves in a sealed bag, algae furring a tank wall absent. a landing craft on its legs the whole alien panorama. a broken watch set to mission time, a book of poems brought along, a checklist with names and times, a nametag fallen off a suit, a rubber band around a rail BREAK sun glinting off a visor, indicator lights in sequence, instruments' soft green glow, the reflection in a helmet's mirror finish the glass and the ice. (arrival at new world, hopeful, cinematic space:1.2) dust rose, steel and solar gold.
