Welcome to Ativa -Warhammer 40, 000

For 0.7 seconds, a small sun burst into howling life in the heart of Ativa, crown jewel of Kuvis.

It burned retinas, shattered lenses, drove augurs-servitors into machine-madness and turned millions to dust, blasting rockcrete to ash and plasteel to molten waste. It carved a blazing eye visible from orbit and even the Warp with pure atomic fusion and the death-scream of an entire city. Within hours of the city's destruction, the resistance launched a massive counter-offensive and took the scattered Imperial forces by complete surprise, effectively routing them. The planetary government is in ruins, loyalist forces are all but destroyed, and the planet begins descending into shadow.

A glimmer of hope emerges from the rubble.


A commission for . It's been a long time since I put this amount of effort into a single piece, yet it's as smudged and unclean as ever.

Addendum: I did not trace this. Referred to The Last of Us, but no tracing. I don't like tracing, makes me feel even more untalented than I already am.