Saturday Art: Arxeal, the Small Blue Gas Giant (The Anidril System)

Hello! We are back with more Anidril System art!

Several years ago, I met James M Geary on Twitter over some sort of WritingQ. I can’t remember exactly what it was, but he said something about wanting to see more non-earthlike planets, and I mentioned that I had an ocean planet – Alaer.

Several things lead into each other, and he asked if I’d like some art of my Anidril System. At that point, I’d only designed the inner worlds. Later I added the gas giants and their moons, and just the other week James reached out to me again with some beautiful pictures of Arxeal, the mini giant that swims closest to its star.

Here are a few of the pictures:

Arxeal, a lightly banded blue-green gas giant with white stripes, and the shadows of three of its moon. — Arxeal

Arxeal from beyond one of its larger moons. In this picture, you can see the glitter from the gas giant's thin rings. — Arxeal with one of its larger moons.

Arxeal, half in shadow. Against its equator hangs a rocky moon, also half in shadow. The band of the galaxy gleams behind them on the shadow size. — Arxeal and another moon.

There you go! Isn’t my little gas giant beautiful? I really like my giant imaginary space balls (even though my writing is very far from being sci-fi), and I’d like to thank James again for the fantastic pictures!

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