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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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A truncated synopsis of the Hibour Universe, as of the 2370s:
A merchant ship falls behind the formation during a crossing of the wind wastes on Calphis. This isn't an ideal situation. The barrens offer no sanctuary for a forced landing. The nearest settlements could be thousands of kilometers away.

#hibourverse #illustration #NalinaofCalphis
January 23, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Space Ship

Haaviq Aqui Laboratory floats in the seas of Icthara, a conservation orbital over Saturn. The ship is believed to be nearly as old as the orbital itself.

#hibourverse #scifi #illustration
January 22, 2026 at 11:21 PM
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Pluto and Charon - Two Worlds in the Kuiper Belt - NASA's New Horizons - 2015 - 350 MP (26000 × 14627) - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2ocJWid
January 21, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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A study on drawing a hot Jupiter's nightside.

The dayside is overexposed. The nightside is pinkish from the combination of blackbody radiation and absorption from Na/K/H2O, similar to brown dwarfs.

#art #astronomy #space #planet #exoplanet #HotJupiter
October 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Battle stance
December 14, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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Some renders of a ship I'm making for my scifi setting, I love nanomechanical programmable matter :)
December 14, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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The Great Sanctum of the Maris Cathedral of Haumea sphere. The diocese of Haumea uses a lot of flower iconography, which mirrors the blossom themes of the Tichordia Concord.

#scifi #hibourverse
March 23, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Day 4: Freighter

Ion-powered gravel bags are easily the most numerous cargo spacecraft in human space, powering the industry of a thousand worlds. Billions of tons of asteroid material traverse the solar system on multi-decade trajectories at any given time

#SST25 #Spaceshiptember2025 #hibourverse
September 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM
What? You don’t obsessively draw things about your post-interstellar, industrial age, surface locked, faux Terran culture?

#hibourverse #NalinaofCalphis #scifi
January 17, 2026 at 5:30 PM
I held off on this for a few weeks because I assumed I hadn't done much art in 2025. Turns out I was wrong.

#hibourverse #2025summaryofart #scifi
January 16, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Civilization of 192 TIE (2373 CE)

#hibourverse
January 16, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Some recent, sketchy pictures from the Calphis timeline.

#hibourverse
January 13, 2026 at 5:25 PM
*Phone to airplane mode at 0500 central, lands about 5 hours later and checks phone*
a man in a jacket is crying with the hashtag #amancalledotto
ALT: a man in a jacket is crying with the hashtag #amancalledotto
media.tenor.com
January 3, 2026 at 9:34 PM
QRP to reintroduce yourself!

(I’ve been here but it’s been awhile)

I’m Zando. Hobbyist digital artist/writer who mostly focuses on my world building project, #hibourverse
December 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Happy Holidays to all the hardworking spacers out there.
December 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Artists still use Twitter?
Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt
December 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Woah whats up guys havent been here in a while

Some new things. Twitter is starting to seem more and more shitty as a platform (i also got tired of being asked to log in every time i go here) and maybe its a good idea to grow a following here
December 18, 2025 at 2:42 AM
December 18, 2025 at 1:07 AM
This hits me. Oh god I loved Samurai Jack…
Scott Wills paints a background for the first run of Samurai Jack (2001–2004), created by Genndy Tartakovsky, Cartoon Network Studios
December 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Damn I love scifi balloons
Solar or radioisotope-heated Montgolfiere balloons for exploring Mars and Titan:
www.cds.caltech.edu/~marsden/wik...
These could circle a planet, descend to drop a payload or rise to take wide-area photographs from an altitude, for prolonged periods.
November 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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An Io-like moon is kept warm by tidal heating in orbit around a T-class brown dwarf with a red star in the background.
Great space scene by "Iris Celestialis".
#space #art
www.artstation.com/artwork/1xAX8q
November 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Saturn through Titan's haze - From Val Klavans (valklavans.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/TbspjU
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
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
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
November 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM