[SoNE Ep. VI] 5 - Delivery, deliverance

[BEAVeR]

We’re approaching the surface of yet another planet. But this time, it’s going to be different. I’m not here to discover more atrocities. I’m here to end them. Let Felucia be the planet of life once again.

The arms dealer told us we might find him here. But he is not my only source. That datapad, once used to disguise the bounty hunter’s actions, might serve to uncover him. It contained more information than I thought. The bounty hunter must have thought that as well, otherwise he would never have left it behind. The Rebel he took it from must have been very close to finding him. So close that Fett found him first. And the Rebel left all he knew on his datapad. He had a list of locations. One of them on Felucia. That knowledge is now mine to use. And I intend to use my inheritance well.

I put the landing craft down near the location. Now is the time.

“According to my information, the hideout of the bounty hunter is two hours north from here. I’ll stay with the ship. We don’t want to get stuck on this planet.”

Nobody questions me. Agent An and the fantroopers of the bounty hunter depart, eager to meet and thank their idol.

[soNE Ep. VI] 5 - Delivery, deliverance by Bert.VR, on Flickr

But I don’t want them to. Boba Fett doesn’t deserve that kind of thank you. How could someone possible thank him for his work. For his work, his atrocities, all the horrors I’ve been through to find him. All the bad examples he gives. All the low things he inspires and propagates. How can this monster possibly be received like a hero?

[soNE Ep. VI] 5 - Two ways by Bert.VR, on Flickr

The troopers are out of sight. I leave the ship, and I start walking south, to where the datapad says I can find that bounty hunter. I’m going to bring him another message, another kind of thank you. I’m going to show him who he really is, what he really does. It’s about time I finally do something with all of those thoughts I had. No more hiding inside myself. I’m going to step to him and use the most effective weapon of all. A weapon that can destroy people. A weapon that shatters them. A weapon that can give them new life. A mirror.

I pay no attention to the flora around me. I don’t care if it tries to kill me or tries to make me alive. I don’t care what my colleagues are doing. I wouldn’t care if they fell into a Sarlacc pit. I only feel determination. No turning back.

But what if he isn’t there? What if he shoots me? What if… I don’t have the courage?

Then that will not be the end of my mission. It will continue. I’ll track him down and deliver my message. I will evade his shots and prevail. I will deliver myself from my eternal passiveness. Because this can’t go on. Because everything can’t be in vain. Because these words… are true.

To Boba Fett, bounty hunter

Thank you.

Thank you for showing that a killer can never become a hero. Thank you for teaching me that there are things, supported by you, worse than war. Thank you for waking me up that your deeds cannot be just another horror. Thank you for causing these ruins among ruins of war.

For all of that was horrendous enough, not to scare me. It was atrocious enough to wake me up. It gave me a purpose. A purpose to end what you do. A motivation, that there are such horrors out here, that thinking about them is not enough. A meaning to this mission, that this delivery might bring deliverance. And a question.

They say you can do everything, but can you look in a mirror?

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As usual, LDD file available here.

I found Felucia the hardest planet to build on in this entire episode. Maybe because it came last, but the fact that it is really hard to do a lot of flexing in LDD (I hope overhang is still acceptable), and the fact that I couldn't use tons of transparent pieces without finishing my renders in a week or two, really didn't make things easier. It was also tricky to do something 'new' on this planet. So I just stayed with the over vegetated surface of the planet, with tons of weird plants. I had to be creative with parts, and I restricted myself further to not using parts that are intended to be used as vegetation. So hats, wigs, beards, animals and other oddities it is! I hope you enjoy spotting all kinds of far fetched parts usages in this creations.

As I said, I found it hard to do something different, content wise. Therefor, I decided to make an original presentation. I hope you like the contrast between the greyscale and the colors, as it was hard to get it right. You have to have some kind of continuum in the vegetation, but not all of the parts are available both in color as in shades of grey. But I did my best, and I hope you like how it turned out. My goal was to make the story more visual, even on a symbolic level, and I hope that works.

So that was it for this episode. I hope you enjoyed following the entire story, as we had a lot of fun writing it. Thanks again goatman461 for all of the feedback and the great ideas! I hope this can continue.

Anyway, if you lost track of the rather big story, I don't blame you, and here is a little overview to help you out:

Part 1 - When did the killer become the hero?by BEAVeR

Part 2 - Something smells fishy by goatman461

Part 3 - Worse than war I by BEAVeR

Part 4 - Worse than war II by goatman461

Part 5 - Just another horror I by BEAVeR

Part 6 - Just another horror II by goatman461

Part 7 - Ruins among ruins by BEAVeR

Part 8 - Ruins on top of ruins by goatman461

Part 9 - Delivery, deliverance by BEAVeR

Part 10 - Felucia by goatman461

[MKJoshA]

It's really cool that you teamed up with Goatman to do this contest. That by itself adds a whole new level of detail to all your builds. I love the story here. It's a good end/continuation of your story so far. Do you have intentions of showing your sigfig actually finding Boba at some point in the future? Your build is also stunning. I'm going to have to spend more time looking at all the details later because they are amazing just at a surface look. And the contrast between color and grey-scale is amazing!

[Lord Tyrus]

Fantastic parts usage, I especially like the contrast between the black and white bit and the bit wit your sig-fig in it, very clever!

[Dapper-D2]

Wow, looks beautiful! Very clever and interesting parts usage.

[Jacob Nion]

Very creative use of parts! Great entry.

Good luck to you

[Disco86]

Another great entry from you. The only thing I dislike is the digital presentation. I do understand that you want to have the full catalog of bricks. But even the best builders have not all the bricks availiable that they want to have, so your entries are always missing that real brick experience.

But everything you build is just better than everything I have seen in real bricks before. You got awesome techniques in all of you entries an you reallly catch that atmossphere of the individual planets.