Dropfleet Commander
‘Ghosts of Meridian’
A commission to create a series of art pieces based on TTCombat’s ‘Dropfleep Commander’ 'boardgame.
This was commissioned through their flagship shop ‘Troll Trader Bromley,’ who ran a Dropfleet learn to play / beginners event narrative league called ‘Ghosts of Meridian’.
The event ran for 6 weeks.
A little of the process below…
The brief and narrative context for creating the pieces.
A golden age of humanity beacon has been activated on a abandoned planet, a former archaeological world in a system of worlds that are either dead (or are they) or broken: The Meridian System
The UCM dispatches a fleet to this system to investigate, lead by an up and coming admiral (The player)
Only part of the fleet exits fold space (this universes version of hyper space) at the same time in the system and are attacked by a small force of (whatever the other person is playing)
The battle takes place over a broken world with 3 civilian golden age space stations in orbit
Fragmented data is recovered from the space stations
More of the fleet exit fold space and link up with the admirala
they attack a force of (what the other player is playing) over a lifeless barrow world
they spot a strange ship with unknown marking lurking in the outskirts of the system which quickly jumps awayA strange power surge is detected on a planet thought to be completely abandoned, they investigate and find a force of (insert other players faction here) in orbit, a battle takes place
They find data on an unknown force that is two steps ahead of them (this will later be the big bad)
They arrive at the planet where the beacon was activated which also happens to be a old archaeological site and find a symbol etched into one of the walls in the chamber, a hand with the PHR logo on the palm
they are attacked again, the last of the fleet exits fold space, the fleet regroupsAfter the battle they detect a fold space jump on a nearby planet
They arrive to find a PHR force guarding it
They battle the PHR and force them off
They discover a stealth generator that is hiding a massive PHR force that is stationed on a nearby moon
Most of the PHR jump away before the fleet can arrive but a large force remains to defend it
After the battle you are given a broken down and part redacted intercepted message which ends the narrative
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