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The Expanse - Fly with the Rocinante

TL;DR: to see the new HDR bloom effects and to enjoy this wallpaper in it's full beauty please set the Wallpaper Engine Post-Processing to 'ultra', you can find this in the Performance settings in WPE, a decent GPU is recommended for that

Hey wallpaper friends,

back in december, while watching the fifth season of The Expanse, i was crawling the workshop in search for Expanse wallpapers and it didn't take that long to recognize that there were only a few available which sadly none of them were to my liking. So I decided to create a wallpaper that celebrates this epic TV show and give it a proper treatment. From the early beginning on I wanted this to be real heavy because all my life my love for SciFi was, to quote it with a famous video game, 'unbreakable, incorruptible, unyielding' ;-) and this wallpaper should represent exactly that. A huge wallpaper monster, but also a rather chilled voyage for all space fans to enjoy.

Ok, here's what you get when you buy the ticket and take the ride with the Rocinante:
the Rocinante of course (with the first audio responsive Epstein High G Drive ever build ;) )
a scrolling background galaxy with the size of nearly 50.000 x 4000 pixels containing bright, star filled galaxies, nebulaes, galaxies so dark they will suck in nearly all the light, you can watch this for at least an hour without anything repeating
Planets (including a gas and lava giant created using only WPE internal effects)
Saturn, in a way you might not exactly have pictures of
debris and asteroid fields
a black hole sucking in nearby stars
some kind of a quazar with rotating stars around it
rotating galaxy clusters with stars
even more stars coming for the camera
a huge 4k exoplanet (4k to maintain all the details when he is crossing your path)
my personal version of the ring gate from the TV show
a satellite comes by from time to time
the MCRN Donnager
and some smaller stuff

This is all audio driven or random so if you find a moment you like you should better take a picture because chances are high that you might not see it again in that constellation anytime soon. If some objects are visible only on the edges of your screen, don't worry, just keep watching, you will see them again some other time.

Now I wish you guys a lot of fun watching this, it was definitely a pleasure to create and seeing all this come together over the time.

Enjoy and don't forget the juice before entering high G travelling ;)

btw: even if you're not a fan of the show you can turn off the intro and the Rocinante in the wallpaper settings to get a nice SciFi scroller with no connection to the TV show

Last but not least, the sources:
The outstanding models of the Rocinante and the MCRN Donnager
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/the-corvette-class-light-frigate-the-expanse-5cc7b9ac82db44a18aa9d37afe1498d2
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/mcrn-donnager-the-expanse-05e9f9006d914fcd96e95fbd452aaa28
some free Blenderkit assets
some NASA high quality footage of stars and galaxies
and a lot of stuff created by me using a ton of scifi love and devotion

Also a big thanks to Ass Pancakes and NotRusty for helping my none coding soul find peace providing WPE scripts. Thanks guys. ^^