Oct 17, 2014 6:30 AM

Gallery: Meet the Aliens and Heroes of a Truly Original Sci-Fi World

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DRIFTER PG14-15
__Build the World From Remains__ Like an intergalactic shanty-town, Ouro has been hewn out of refuse. "Ouro has been strip-mined and gutted and its face is strewn with the artifacts of a discarded inhabitation," Brandon says. "The camp where our first issue takes place is built out of the bones of its ships and technology." (Expand gallery to fullscreen for larger images.)
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Night
__Make It a Lawless Place__ Based on Brandon's descriptions, Ouro is a fairly "no rules" kind of place, especially when he describes this image as "our protagonist and 'the law.'"

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DRIFTER-1
__Create a Stunning Atmosphere__ *Drifter* opens as Abram Pollux crashes into Ouro, which Brandon describes as a "mining planet." Once he lands, he has "no way home and no way to communicate with anyone off-planet," Brandon says. "We reach this particular world at the beginning of the current attempt to colonize it, but not at its first encounter with humanity."
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Scavengers
__Make the Junk Valuable__ Because the only building materials left on the planet come from discarded technology, even objects in "suboptimal condition" can bring in a good price. "Scavengers seek out what's left, no matter whose hands it might already exist in," Brandon says.

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Alien
__Give the World Previous Inhabitants__ Finding the materials necessary to build a new society is just the beginning of the problems for humans on Ouro. "Those are just the problems that humanity creates for itself," Brandon says. "On this planet, humans are *not* the dominant life form."
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Underwater
__Also, Give It an Existential Dilemma__ Life on Ouro can lead to something of an existential dilemma that Brandon phrases as such: "Can modern humanity exist when displaced from the society it's dependent on?" Hopefully *Drifter* will tell us.

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Drifter Cover
__*Drifter* Cover__ The cover of the first issue of *Drifter*.

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