This painting is based on the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel, "Beyond the Farthest Star". A friend requested me to paint him something Burroughs related, and I read this story not long after, and decided to do a Poloda battle scene.
In the novel, two nations have been at war for over a hundred years. The war has evolved to where all the battling takes place using bombers and combat planes. The cities have also evolved to where they descend into the ground, and have these camouflage gardens planted on top to blend in with surround foliage.
The scene depicts an enemy bomber having been shot down, one of the crew has bailed and is just pulling her chute when the defender tries to blast her in mid-freefall. She's also whipped out her trench broom and is letting him have a face full of hot lead.
It's a busy scene, shell craters, bombs exploding, smoke drifting across the cityscape, a few of the ten planets of the Omos system are visible, as is a moon of the planet Poloda on which the story takes place.
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Nice work!