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Zando
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Artist || Pilot || Diver || Science Fiction Enthusiast.

Author and artist of the #hibourverse

https://hibourverse.com/
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Zando @zandoarts.bsky.social · Nov 10
A truncated synopsis of the Hibour Universe, as of the 2370s:
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Saturn through Titan's haze - From Val Klavans (valklavans.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/TbspjU
On March 31, 2005, just minutes after the Cassini spacecraft's closest approach to Titan during the Titan (T-4) Flyby, Cassini viewed Saturn peeking through Titan's thick atmosphere. Saturn's rings are seen here casting dark, dramatic shadows across the planet's northern disk (upper left). This composite is made of images that were taken by the Cassini spacecraft's camera system, the Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) on March 31, 2005 and received on Earth April 1, 2005. Cassini was approximately 1,200,000 km away from Saturn and 7,000 km away from Titan. The images were taken using red, green, and blue filters. Credit: NASA / JPL / SSI / Ian Regan / Val Klavans
November 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Phobos over Mars - ESA Mars Express - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2qQWKph
Download full size image here: www.flickr.com/photos/192271236@N03/54375128834/sizes/o/ (See licence below) Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY Check out the original with the martian background distorted here: flic.kr/p/2ogpjSY. The camera scanning the satellite caused the original view of the Martian surface to appear stretched as it moved by. Colourised image created using data processed from archives.esac.esa.int/psa Mission: ESA Mars Express Orbit 22608 Instrument: HRSC Time: 2021-11-22 22:51 Product IDs: HM608_0000_BL3 HM608_0000_ND3 Notes: Colourised image created using data processed from: psa.esa.int. This is a single shot on HM608_0000_BL3, not a composite image, although the background has been resized to reduce distortion (see above original) and the details on Phobos are merged with the second filter HM608_0000_ND3, shot during the same observation. Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY Feel free to share, giving the appropriate credit and providing a link to the original image or tweet creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
November 14, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Mimas and the Rings (REDUX 2022) - From Ian Regan - https://flic.kr/p/9fBGsk
2011-JAN-31 Cassini NAC (IR-GRN-UV).
November 8, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Dione - November 26 2016 - From Kevin M. Gill (kevinmgill.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/PvNdqa
Assembled from raw uncalibrated infrared, green, and ultraviolet filtered images (IR3, GRN, UV3). NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/Kevin M. Gill
November 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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2016-03-16 Saturn RGB - From Ian Regan - https://flic.kr/p/FhRsdC
Cassini NAC.
November 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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gugunderwater.bsky.social
The most colorful #squid I’ve ever seen! And such a cooperative poser too!

#🦑 #cephalopod #chromatophores #calamari #underwater #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #blackwatervideo #kumeisland #kumejima #okinawa #chrisgug #gugunderwater #gug
November 4, 2025 at 12:49 PM
zandoarts.bsky.social
(Me with over 150,000 words of written sci-fi and almost non of it shared with anyone anywhere)
November 3, 2025 at 11:46 PM
zandoarts.bsky.social
Man, looking back on what I missed on Spaceshiptember… all the ideas I had for “ruins”
November 3, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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[LANCER: Abundance Cascade]

Following multiple nanite outbreaks in Erhuu System the Union Science Bureau TF pressed their small fleet of survey and research craft into service as ad-hoc scouting and electronic warfare vessels

USBS "To Be Determined" was originally built as a radio-observatory ship
November 2, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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ugordan.bsky.social
Cassini NAC natural color view taken on 2011-04-25 19:34 UTC.

Distance to Rhea: 2.23 million km
Distance to Dione: 3.12 million km
Distance to Enceladus: 2.98 million km
Distance to Saturn: 2.75 million km
Phase angle: 67 deg

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January 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Refueling over Jupiter.
This depot in LJO would have to be heavily shielded but is well situated to maximize the Oberth boost of any departing spacecraft.
#space #art by Emrys Ryan.
www.artstation.com/artwork/V2V5Qn
November 1, 2025 at 10:35 PM
zandoarts.bsky.social
Subluminal Saturday

hibourverse.com/spacecraft/
A lighthugger at cruise Ergo drive accelerating Ergo drive eclipsing a star, accelerating A lighthugger at cruise
November 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM
zandoarts.bsky.social
“The fact is you COULD jump it… but protocol exists for a reason. Don’t look down.”

(Lost Souls of Sol, 3/?)
#hibourverse #space #scifi
EVA specialists traverse a ravine on Enceladus using tethers and lines. A less fortunate explorer rests at the base of the ravine.
November 1, 2025 at 3:37 AM
zandoarts.bsky.social
Fire-at-will Friday

#hibourverse #spacecraft #space
An erakker of the Bysphere Vipretta conducts a rare live fire test. A warcraft conducts a live fire demonstration during a close Miranda flyby. This is a political show of force, designed to intimidate the Republic of Miranda. An ergo drive makes a desperate last stand at the edge of the Milky Way, preparing for a head on pass with her adversary. Two of her companions are already destroyed, their clouds of atoms expanding in the distance. A lone exoplanet bakes with the massive energy being unleashed. A rogue craft makes a last ditch burn to avoid plunging into Saturn’s rings, putting itself right in the crosshairs of a pursuing spacecraft.
October 31, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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#PPOD: This image of the crater Daedalus, with a diameter of about 80 kilometers, on the Moon's far side was taken by the Apollo 11 crew while in orbit around the Moon in 1969. The Moon’s far side is rugged and densely cratered, while the near side is comparatively smooth. Credit: NASA 🧪 🔭
Photograph of the far side of the Moon, focusing on a large crater called Daedalus, which is surrounded by a rough terrain full of smaller craters.
October 31, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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2015-287 Enceladus Snowman IR-GRN-UV -- C - From Ian Regan - https://flic.kr/p/NPYY9p
Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI/Ian Regan
October 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
zandoarts.bsky.social
Thrust Thursday

#hibourverse #spaceship #scifi
A Rhean warcraft accelerates over Saturn A competition space fighter accelerates towards a target Titanian frakters burn to make an intercept A beam riding freighter accelerates in the Saturnian system.
October 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Mars - Syrtis Major, Jezero Crater (Perseverance Landing Site), Isidis Planitia - Hope Mission Orbit 21 - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2nbpFin
Mars - Syrtis Major, Jezero Crater (Mars 2020: Perseverance and Ingenuity), Isidis Planitia - Hope Mission Orbit 21 Click here to find Perseverance: twitter.com/andrluck/status/1509069937360392193?s=20&... ©UAESA/MBRSC/HopeMarsMission/EXI/AndreaLuck ----------------------------- Filters: f635+f546+f437 Spacecraft altitude: 4194 km Timetag 2021-03-11 Raw Data from: sdc.emiratesmarsmission.ae/ ---------------------------------- ©UAESA/MBRSC/HopeMarsMission/EXI/AndreaLuck Feel free to share, giving the appropriate credit and providing a link to the original image or tweet: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
October 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Post your grunts!

(Few days behind on this, but I actually have something to share for once!)
Various soldier kits from across the Sol system Left to Right Emerald Legion Pickkart - Perhaps the most famous archers in the Solar System, Pickkarts of the Galilean Royal Sentries are trained on advanced smart-bolts and experts on coriolis ballistics. They serve as guards for the Royal Family and their constituents. In addition to bowcraft, they typically employ light blades and sidearms to administer their duties. Heart of Iron, (Brevtoli) - Sometimes called a huscarl. These are theocratic enforcers of the Third of Irons and cultural icons of Mirasuta. Each of these troopers chooses a Saint with which to guide their training and career. This huscarl embodies Brevtoli, Saint of Patience. A light-vacuum suit is traditional, best suited for spacecraft interiors and un-spun habitats. Typically, proudhearts deploy with shortblades, ballistic shields and medium firearms Bysphere Vipretta Holstari - The lethal knights of the Bysphere are known for bright colors and vicious speed and precision. While normally in ceremonial garb, they are known to act in clandestine roles, often blending into the populace. Kuiper Alliance Intelligence Agency (KAIA) Forward Agent (Pluchar Division) - KAIA agents come in a variety of roles, but Forward Agents are what most people think of when they imagine armed personnel of the Agency. Sentinel of Bright - The True Light of Sol, a humanist-diasporic, transnational entity, does not maintain a military. However, the need for defensible missionaries who could provide for the local security of True Light bastions resulted in the sentinels. Champions of chivalry and community, Sentinels usually work with disciples and monks of the faith to establish chapters and interface with the community. Charon Union Vactrooper - Vactroopers of the Charon Union were famously deployed in the Grapevine Insurrection of 2357. Over the course of the 19 month conflict, the Union used these soldiers to disable Scaldia Consortium drones as they landed.
October 30, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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scandinavian101.bsky.social
happy signalis day to all who celebrate
October 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Weightless Wednesday

#hibourverse #space #scifi
Gisha floats in a spaceport terminal Workers on a Saturnian moonlet A cargo tender loads near a fusion-propelled interplanetary spacecraft A rescue shuttle approached a city over an asteroid
October 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Transhuman Tuesday

hibourverse.com/transhumanism/

#hibourverse #illustration #scifi
Harpsai. Recognized by bluish pigmentation, colorless hair, mustard tinted eyes and “high ears” Kees (Kenko Evolved). Recognizable by their pale complexion, pinkish hair colors, opaque eyes and small nerve receptors that extend out of the back of the neck when agitated or stressed. Eppli Si, a Mel’Valae ecologist. Mel’Valae are easily recognized by their grey-bluish tones and bat-like features (bats, of course, having gone extinct with the loss of Earth). Hermes, most recognized by bright yellow skin pigmentation, opaque eyes and dark facial spots.
October 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Maris Monday! Start your week off with some space nuns.

hibourverse.com/the-maris-fa...

#hibourverse
October 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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The Hibourverse *scifi tough gal* Gisha Hiara, an ex-Ganymedian soldier turned Space Security Guild enforcer. She's a somewhat recent immigrant to Vesta. One like: Coffee, even the crappy instant stuff she can make in the shuttle. One dislike: Anti-Jovian prejudice.

#hibourverse #illustration
Gisha's "Active Enforcement" kit. The kit is based around one or two extendable destabilizers (charge clobbers), which are effectively tasers that tend to put cybernetic augments into hard reset.... and hurt a lot. Gisha on port duty. Her real leather bomber jacket is one of her most prized garments. "Wine mom" mode A breakout of some of Gisha's augmentation. Excluding the prosthetic right arm, Gisha has an average level of cybernetic integration. Most of her augments, especially those in her head, would be considered common. Many of the others are common to soldiers or other physically demanding jobs. Anything coded with a "BS" involves biosynth, which is to say that her body was programmed to grow some portion of the augment, rather than install it surgically.
January 2, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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A variety of outfits and somnoptic projections.

#hibourverse
Various transhumans and their somnoptic (augmented reality) projections
October 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM