fist of god mountain, one of the most prominent features of the Ringworld.

The Ringworld is an artifact discovered by the Pierson's Puppeteers from the fiction of Larry Niven. (See Ringworld, The Ringworld Engineers, The Throne of Ringworld, Ringworld's Children by Larry Niven) It was origianlly created by the remote ancestors of the human race, The Pak, specifiacally the Protector variant of the Pak species. Unfortunately, the Ringworld has one major drawback, its meteor defense system cannot fire on any object approaching from anywhere within the plane of the ring itself. Hence, Fist of God, a huge meteor puncture caused by some ultra heavy object (neutron star material or rogue black hole). The only lucky thing is that the impact was so great, and the strength of the "Scrith" floor of the ring was enough, that the floor actually deformed above the atomosphere itself, thereby avoiding the terrible possibility of losing all the ringworld's air to space.

This is a view of Fist of God as it may have been seen by Louis Wu while he awaited rescue from the floating jail of Harloprillalar.

(Sorry about the quality of the image, the rendered portion looks pretty good although having the sun directly overhead (as it would HAVE TO BE on a ring world) caused it to take on a somewhat cartoonish quality. The background (known as "The Arch" does not look good at all (IMOHO) because I did it in PS and I'm just not much of a freehand artist with a mouse)


Terragen and Photoshop

(And yes, I know my journal says I wouldn't be submitting much for a bit... well this and Parseval's Journey were both nearly finished when I wrote that journal entry, and I wanted to get them done and off my plate so to speak.)