Future Warfare

http://rt.com/usa/air-force-laser-request-115/ Reserach into modern laser weapons Link to metalstorm USA. Metalstorm is a weapons technology that uses stacked rounds that are fired electronically. http://www.metalstormusa.com/ http://www.wired.com/2010/01/sci-fi-weapons/all/ Wired article on 10 futuristic weapons that actually exist and are in use today. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11253505/US-Navy-testing-new-drone-killing-laser-weapon-in-Gulf.html USA Laser Weapon test http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/1984/jul-aug/roberds.html Air Univeristy 1984 paper on Particle Beam Weapons

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-07/31/nasa-validates-impossible-space-drive

Cybernetics Research

Research towards Cybenetics. In my narrative there are two primary ways that implement cybernetics, Warfare (hacking etc) and Prosthesis (replacement hands for injury and or for military upgrade) Warfare: http://kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2010/11/17/12851.shtml http://reason.com/archives/1991/04/01/cybernetic-war http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR780.html US Cybercommand Prosthesis: http://io9.com/this-cybernetic-hand-is-the-first-to-give-amputees-a-se-1516032204 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suwZ5D9bk0M

Role of a Concept Artist research

Articles and reserach in the role of a concept, primarily in the games industry. http://chrisoatley.com/concept-artist-jobs/ http://getinmedia.com/careers/concept-artist

http://galaxy40k.com/

Link to Warhammer 40,000k Galaxy map interactive website. This is exactly in line for what I want as the outcome for my BA8, however I will focusing on galaxy map with areas that can be clicked on related to each of the six factions I have designed for my project which will then slide through a collection of final pieces related to the chosen factions, such as ship design, environments and narrative illustrations of key events in the narratives history (Major battles etc)

Genetic Egineering

Genetic Engineering plays a key part in my narrative, since almost all colonists who were sent out by Earth to colonize were altered and adapted to survive better on their chosen destinations. However what we can do today with genetic engineering is somewhat questionable as to if I can apply it to the future and to altering humans with ethics aside.

http://www.wired.com/2012/08/engineering-bacteria-for-mars/ using the same piece of information for the Colonizing new Worlds section of my document. http://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/genetic-inequality-human-genetic-engineering-768 Whole report on varying instance of genetic engineering such as designer babies and gene doping. http://www.livescience.com/27206-genetic-engineering-babies-debate.html http://www.councilforresponsiblegenetics.org/pagedocuments/yn3rbrq4go.pdf http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/1999/02.11/muscle.html Further information on gene doping mice for Havard university.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/universe/sights/habitable_zones

BBC webpage on Goldilocks Zones, which are areas in space that due to specific phenomena allow Earth like planets to form and support life.