My version of the Incarnate Queen (fast sketch)

[topaz violet]

@keen skiff @twilit flint @warm loom

karan: woman who became machine-like when one with the ship

my incarnate queen: Ex-Taiidani Admiral, driven mad by revenge and her warped mind having merged with and corrupted the AI of the progenitor warship she discovered and put herself into.

[fading marsh]

Its interesting the other way around too. She linked herself to an alien or progenitor ship and it corrupted her in a way. No matter how you put it it ends up cooler than the original.

It definetly looks better than the original too.

Reminds me of destiny with its black and white story recaps

[topaz violet]

slight influence yes 😉

[elder oxide]

very ominous, good job

[spare seal]

Cool story cool drawing

[dire chasm]

WAY COOLER than what we got. Single eye is a nice call back to progenitor design.

[karmic relic]

Ooh I love this concept. I was hoping for some reveal of the Queen's corporeal body in the game where there's almost nothing organic left... but alas.
We've got your great art though!

[topaz violet]

the queen is aware

the queen understands

the queen has seen her enemy

[topaz violet]

thanks you :3

[topaz violet]

just a fast pencil sketch, thank you ^_^

[topaz violet]

i mean in my version its more like Beast Machines Megatron, an outer shell

but much less goofy

[twilit flint]

gives me glados vibes 👀

[topaz violet]

that too XD

[scenic sequoia]

she turned into a Vex from Destiny, obv. my take on Queenie is that she was either created, bred, or selected at a young age by the Progenitors to be a Navigator war-slave, to fight wars for the Progs so they didn't have to. she was one of the few that made it to the end of the wars but when she returned home to the vassal state, so much time had passed that she was seen as a monster. the Progs, entering into the twilight stages of their dominance or perhaps bored of M51, were packing up shop and because Queenie was lashing out they took her away and put her into stasis at Noctuua, within the Gate Ship to act as a Focii for the Gate Network. but over the hundred thousand years of wear and tear on the network, the meddling of hte Bentusi in the First Age and the Chaos of the Second Age, then the End Times and all the stuff in between...problems happened. When the Hiigarans activated the Eye of Arraan it woke Queenie up and she spent the next century just recovering from the shock to her system and still really freaking bitter about everything that happened to her. so she starts messing around with hyperspace, the Hiigarans send Karan out and that is what causes everything to go nuts leading into the story of the game. which i'm also trying to work on making better.

[topaz violet]

this feels a lot like the Didact from Halo 4

my version is more "Taiidani High Admiral who finds progenitor warship ( a proper one, not like sajuuk which is literally just a "key-ship", this one is a mothership and militery vessel)