There is before and there is after…
They look ordinary. Nothing to inspire curiosity. But, there is before…and there is after; and this, is after:
The Astero:
It’s one skin. One skin only…
Always changing…
With the light…
With the environment…
With each twist of your wrist…
Or scroll of your mouse…
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This is the Event’s Horizon:
The Lachesis:
It has no permanent color placement.
The stealth technology required for d-scan immunity disperses light.
There is but a halo…
A whisper of color…
Reminding it’s captain this ordinary ship …
Is a combat recon…
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The Curse:
The Curse, unlike the Gallente combat recon, was customized…
Shifting beams of light dancing across it’s hull…
Are broken by stripes of faith, an expression of it’s owner’s piety, humility, and loyalty.
It has no permanent pattern outside of it’s bars.
.
The Huginn:
It looks so ordinary. Tan and brown. Perhaps a hint of black.
It’s not until the color disappears…
And only the halo remains…
The opposition recognizes that halo…
As d-scan immunity.
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The Rook:
Well, the Rook looks like a grumpy crab, to be honest. Rumor has it the Caldari actually stole their tech off a drunken obelisk pilot. Word is the pilot got ganked by CODE.; and, vowing revenge, this enterprising individual came up with the idea for d-scan immunity, but failed to account for size. So, tech that would work on a cruiser hull, only partially covered (and the front half, at that) of an obelisk. Too much multi-interfacing I suppose. Anyhow, first trip out with the fancy equipment, he got ganked again. He lost everything. He now does system runs in an itty 5 in Sinq Laison, between Quafe Ultra drinking bouts in a dive bar called The Boom Boom Room.
Anyway, the obelisk salvage got nicked out from under the gank team’s loot scooper by a free lance salvage scrounger, you know, one of those guys that works out of Poch. So, he got this stuff, didn’t know what it was and sold it at bottom basement prices, to a covert Caldari military tech agent working in Aufay. He didn’t know what it was either. The covert military tech agent. But, at least he had the sense to refer it up the line.
Well, you know the Caldari, business, business, business. Once their science guys figured out what they had, they put it to work. No aesthetics (like the Gallente), no religious iconography (like the Amarr), and yet more isk than the Minnies.
They (the Caldari) called it “artistic license”, and had done with it.
It works. Who cares?
The Rook:
Side View, shifting halo:
Still looks like a grumpy crab.
----These skins are dynamic, they change, they shift. Only thing static about them is the icon.
So, I’ll leave you with these:
The Afters (along with the Astero up top):
The Thorax: One Skin, One Skin Only
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The Phobos: One Skin, One Skin Only
It really is just one skin:
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The Deimos: One Skin, One Skin Only
It changes, as do they all, with each move of your wrist…
From this…
To this…
Those stars, too, actually change color…
.
And back again…
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Edit: These skins are best viewed on a 4K monitor.