STRATUM 06: CENTRAL CYBERSPHERE - 2020

(Altheá Generation Starship)
// Command Centre and home of the Altheá A.I.
Location: 86.77 - 87.65 KM (From Stern)
Vertical Height: 880 M

After a long days work consulting with Altheá in meetings and assemblies, a party of human and silicon officials enter lengthy discussions with the A.I., bouncing philosophical ideas back and forth in an ultimate game of wit. Arch-empires of thought are built and erased; many of which Altheá has encountered before, but she doesn’t mind. She listens intently and engages with every comment and reflection like a mother would a child, as she converses with the generations of her progenitors…

This image formed part of my Honours Project for Uni; the depiction of a neo-futuristic civilisation of humans and A.I. living together as equals in harmony. Exploring the depths of deep space aboard a 151 KM long generation starship, they seek to research, learn and evolve together while searching to find wonders that no-one has ever seen. In the thousand years since leaving Earth, the pinnacle of their findings include the successful identification of 8 alien organisms, forming an ecosystem that reaches far beyond the stars…