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Infinite Dark Cover Characters (Patreon)

Published:
2021-01-12 09:17:34
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2026-06
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Infinite Dark Cover Characters

  • ...a white male - it's the core demographic for wargamers so why not represent them? 3
  • ...a black male - perhaps a Chadwick Boseman homage? 2
  • ...a black female - it's the future! Racism and sexism have been defeated! 9
  • ...a person of either gender of a different non-white ethnicity. Represent! 3
  • ...a portrait of a patron! 1
  • 2021-01-12
  • —2021-01-22
  • 18 votes
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I'm sketching out the cover art for Horizon Wars: Infinite Dark ready to brief the artist.  My plan is to evoke the three Command Levels, so we'll have a picture of the captain of a large vessel, flanked by the pilot of a fighter and by a "grizzled frontier explorer" type to represent CL2.  In the foreground, we'll have a hologram projection of a vessel of some sort (probably one inspired by one of Ali Dogan Sayiner's designs).  The upper portion of the image will fade to a starfield with a planet and an asteroid (the text will mostly sit over this bit).

Anyway, when it comes to the characters on the covers of my books, I'm a big believer in trying to get some proper representation in there.  I like to make sure that there is at least one woman and at least one person of colour visibly present.  I can't do much to improve diversity in our hobby, but I can at least do this.

The captain (seated) dominates the cover.  So, in your opinion (and given that I have two other characters on the cover), should the captain be...


[No judgement on any of these choices, by the way - as I say, there are two other characters to include; if I thought there was a "best" choice I wouldn't be asking for your opinions.]

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