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 The turn: an order given twice and then withdrawn.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 hunt, before it happens:1.3) a young dinosaur hatched in the nest — following a river down — in a jungle canopy with light shafts, cycads with stiff waxy leaves sheltering the approach. ash falling like dirty snow tense; raw and unhurried about to change. (Low camera through cover, the predator reading the ground, dust suspended). a 70mm at f/5.6 for the animal, the titan cropped by the frame's edge. BREAK a dragonfly frozen in the close plane of hiding vegetation; wet clay shining in the light, basalt shards scattered holding prints; dragonflies over the shallows, a lizard basking on a warm stone, a fish schooling in the shallows gone suddenly quiet. a pterosaur colony in the distance the open ground between them. a carcass picked to a rack of ribs, a nest of trampled vegetation, a stone swallowed for digestion, a resin bead on bark BREAK a wet beak catching light, sun on wet scales, light through a translucent membrane on wet teeth. (dinosaur hunt, tension, cinematic paleoart:1.2) fern green, mud brown and volcanic grey, firelight from a distant flow.
exact prompt sent: imagine (The hunt, before it happens:1.3) a young dinosaur hatched in the nest — following a river down — in a jungle canopy with light shafts, cycads with stiff waxy leaves sheltering the approach. ash falling like dirty snow tense; raw and unhurried about to change. (Low camera through cover, the predator reading the ground, dust suspended). a 70mm at f/5.6 for the animal, the titan cropped by the frame's edge. BREAK a dragonfly frozen in the close plane of hiding vegetation; wet clay shining in the light, basalt shards scattered holding prints; dragonflies over the shallows, a lizard basking on a warm stone, a fish schooling in the shallows gone suddenly quiet. a pterosaur colony in the distance the open ground between them. a carcass picked to a rack of ribs, a nest of trampled vegetation, a stone swallowed for digestion, a resin bead on bark BREAK a wet beak catching light, sun on wet scales, light through a translucent membrane on wet teeth. (dinosaur hunt, tension, cinematic paleoart:1.2) fern green, mud brown and volcanic grey, firelight from a distant flow.
