I grew up under a sky of machines. My family sings old songs about planets and moons' skies. They tell me that they hope I can one day see the beautiful blue hues of the midday, the Crimson reds of a celestial sunset, and the clouds that flow through the air above like cream through unstirred tea. Those colors, I've been told, were a gift from the gods.

I sometimes think of this when I lay atop my old apartment building in the early morning before the sunlamps fade on, gazing at the machines kilometers overhead. This sky is always moving, always spinning, with colorful pastel lights that fill my view, like a child excitedly drawing on the walls with a new set of markers. I like to study every detail of the Station Core above me as its topography continues to change in a whimsical dance that my family fails to see.

Perhaps the Gods gave us beautiful blue heavens, but I think they would be proud to see what kind of sky we've made for ourselves. Like children, expressing ourselves with new toys and our favorite colors, we fill the universe with our own life and imagination, and our greatest wish is to make our parents proud.

============================================Numa Station and Pompilius Station orbit on opposite sides of the Gas Giant Jupiter. They were constructed some time after human explorers began to colonize the Jovian Lunar System as way-stations between the inner and outer planets. Travellers coming from either direction could use these stations to refuel and relax at any number of hotels within the Station Cities. Residents of Numa and Pompilius made substantial livings serving wealthy travelers.The stations, having grown in complexity over time, consist of several layers of small rotating cylinders, each rotating at a different speed to achieve 1g. The Outermost ring of each station is mainly residential neighborhoods and small local businesses such as farms and factories, mostly supplying goods and services to the core.More detailed descriptions are coming soon as additions to theseries.============================================This is the first time in a long time I've put real effort into a landscape and I'm pretty proud of how it turned out. I also can't wait to get back into doing stuff for Colony! I have a lot of backlogged pages I've got to finish so hang tight!