Prompt:
A colossal spacecraft in bold Chris Foss style—playful modular geometry, vivid hazard striping, saturated blocks of red, orange, and yellow against matte black panels—drives toward the viewer in deep space. It owns the foreground: a flamboyant, foreshortened prow bristling with radiator vanes, scaffold masts, numbered hatches, and stenciled IDs, its surface a riot of Foss‑bright color balanced by industrial grit. External drum winches and fair‑leads pay out three primary reinforced tethers, massive hawser lines that rake backward across the frame in taut arcs. These lines terminate visibly in anchor housings sunk deep into the jagged face of a mountain‑sized ice asteroid trailing behind the ship. Brake drums glow with strain at the tow points, telemetry strobes run down the cables, and frost shears off vibrating lines in drifting glitter. Cause and effect are unmistakable: the tug pulls; the asteroid follows; the cables are the industrial mechanism binding them. The asteroid looms translucent and fractured, veined with rock and venting vapor pennants where sunlight rakes its blue‑white cliffs. Perspective is low three‑quarter so the ship foreshortens heroic, cables converging back to the asteroid whose parallax proves mass and separation. Far below, the pale curve of a planet arcs across the void—crisp, small, a witness anchoring scale. Lighting obeys physics: harsh solar key carves armor chamfers; cool earthshine lifts shadow planes cyan; rim light picks out the tether arcs. Engine bells burn electric‑blue plasma cones, glare raking across beveled seams and hazard bands. Every surface reads engineered yet dramatic: modular tanks, radiator forests, external scaffolds with Foss‑style whimsy. The composition is disciplined and cinematic: ship dominant in foreground right‑center; asteroid immense behind, tethered; planet limb anchoring depth. This is both flamboyant and credible: a Foss‑bright starship straining against taut cables, dragging a frozen mountain across space high above a world.
--mod alien starcruiser, --mod back-to-void edge, --mod atmospheric depth, --mod arc weld sparks, --mod beveled composite armor, --mod industrial fidelity, --mod dynamic composition, --mod EVA tether lines, --mod yellow black wasp striping, --mod luminous void
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