SPACESHIP ZERO ART CONTEST

If you have the time, inclination and some talent with technical art, here's your chance to get Thickets swag, including a copy of our new CD "Let Sleeping Gods Lie" - previously available only by buying a copy of d20 Cthulhu from wizards.com.

All you have to do is draw a rocketship - by hand or on your computer - for any of the descriptions at the bottom of this email.

Two winners will be selected by our judges. The grand-prize winner will receive a copy of Let Sleeping Gods Lie, a Spaceship Zero t-shirt in XL, and a 6-issue subscription to The People of Innsmouth, the official fanclub of The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets. Second prize winner will receive a copy of Let Sleeping Gods Lie and a 6-issue subscription to The People of Innsmouth.

Both winners will have their art published and receive art credit in the Spaceship Zero role-playing game, published by Green Ronin Publishers (www.greenronin.com)

Entries should be emailed as jpegs, tiffs or gifs to thickets@uniserve.com and must be received by April 17th 2002

Winners will be asked to submit final drawings as 300 dpi tiffs 3.5" wide or larger. Drawings will be printed in greyscale but color is also fine - color art may appear elsewhere with the artist's permission. Winners will be required to sign a small permission slip allowing us to use the art for publication and promotion of the game. 

STYLE NOTES Spaceship Zero is a 50's pulp style RPG. Here are examples of the style we're looking for:

Cool, no? Winning drawings will be selected based on both style and talent/technical ability.

Here's the descriptions to draw from!

SpaceCorp Star Skipper - Star Skippers are fast, agile craft used for short missions, lunar hops and as fighter craft in space battles. Just over 20’ in height and armed with an Atomic Coil Turret Star Skippers are the rockets of choice for a hotshot pilot.
Thrust 3; Fuel 12 hours.; Handling 20; Brawn 30; Body 250; Armor 50/30;
Weight 5 tons.
Crew 1 pilot, 1 passenger.
Weapons Atomic Coil Turret.

SpaceCorp Galactic Frigate - At 120’ in length and 20’ across in the middle galactic frigates are much larger than star skippers. They are the workhorses of space filling every mission from cargo runs to interplanetary tours and combat missions. When geared for battle a galactic frigate has a front mounted Rocket Torpedo Launcher and Cosmatomic Missile launcher, an Atomic Star Burster and Two Atomic Coil Turrets near the base of the frigate serve as ground defense when landed as well as providing extra punch in a space battle. Occasionally escape pods are added, depending on the owner. Galactic frigates equipped for cargo or personnel transport have their Rocket Torpedos and Cosmatomic Missiles stripped for space.Thrust 2; Fuel 24 hours.;
 Handling 10; Brawn 70; Body 450; Armor 90/50; Weight 100 tons.
Crew 2 pilots, 18 passengers.
Weapons Rocket Torpedo Launcher, Cosmatomic Missile launcher, Atomic Star Burster, 2 Atomic Coil Turrets.

SpaceCorp Star Cruiser - Over 500’ long and equipped with three additional engine pods at the base star cruisers are over 60’ across at their middle. Rarely used for anything but war Star Cruisers have three launch bays, a complement of a dozen star skippers, three escape pods, and are armed to the teeth. Spaced evenly around the ship are three strips of weapons, at the front are three Rocket Torpedo Launchers followed by three Cosmatomic Missile launchers then three Atomic Star Bursters. An Atomic Coil Turret is mounted on each of the engine pods and one more is mounted over the gangplank doorway.Thrust 1; Fuel
 60 hours.; Handling -10; Brawn 220; Body 1200; Armor 120/80; Weight 12,000 tons
Crew 5 pilots, 45 passengers.
Weapons 3 Rocket Torpedo Launchers, 3 Cosmatomic Missile launchers, 3 Atomic Star Bursters, 4 Atomic Coil Turrets.