Prompt:
On the sunlit side of an orbital shipyard, a pilot stands on a narrow gantry high above a planet’s curve. His brown hair catches the light, a grin across his face betraying excitement and nerves. Through his helmet visor, his gaze fixes on the colossus before him: a starship under construction, vast and gleaming in drydock. The ship’s hull is a continuous sweep of blue-grey alloy, surfaces flowing as though poured into shape. Iridescent striations ripple beneath a pearlescent skin, deepening into midnight lacquer along edges. Bright emerald panel lines trace vascular paths across its body. Three translucent dorsal domes crown the spine, scattering floodlights into shifting prisms, while ventral reactor nodes glow steady amber. Around it, the drydock hums with industry. Coolant plumes drift in cyan ribbons through the lattice of girders, fogging and revealing the ship’s curvature in turns. Engineers in white exo-suits tether across the surface, welding arcs flashing into brief captured stars. Articulated cranes swing with insect precision, lowering panels that settle into place flush as though grown rather than bolted. The station’s ring arcs behind, dotted with shuttles and storage spheres; far below, the planet glows with blue atmosphere. Golden drones glide on maintenance runs, their lights streaking like sparks in slow orbit. The boy grips the gantry rail, his posture both casual and resolute, balanced at the edge of scale he can hardly fathom. Lighting is industrial clarity: floodlamps rake violet hull plates into silver highlights and soft shadows, coolant fog turns beams into luminous veils, and the alloy itself responds with pulses of reflected color. The palette holds steady to silvers, pearls, violets, emerald accents, cyan vapor, and amber reactor glow. Mood: awe and anticipation, the meeting of human ambition with machine elegance in the style of Jim Burns’ signature techno-sensual futurism.
--mod low angle perspective, --mod epic scale framing, --mod heroic pilot figure, --mod colossal starship hull, --mod violet alloy surfaces, --mod iridescent reflections, --mod cyan coolant fog, --mod amber reactor glow, --mod romantic realism, --mod classic sci-fi cover, --mod crisp edge control, --mod industrial awe
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