Colonel Laurie Lachrer in 2075. Crop of original 2013 ink and watercolor. Former teenage spaceport technician who rose to the demanding rank of physician/engineer aboard Typhoon III.Newly appointed Supreme Commander of the United System Space Force, 2076.
	Supreme Commander Laurie Lachrer in 2076. Pencil on paper, 2026. 11″ x 8.5″ Supreme Commander of the United System Space Force, November 2076.
	Commander. later Admiral Mavis Wheeler. Pencil and graphite on paper, 2026. 11″ x 8.5″ Author of On the Use of Xon Technology as Electromagnetic Pulse Disruptor in Space Combat, later Deputy Supreme Commander of the United System Space Force, and captain of saucer Medusa.
	Lt. Commander Rod Morgan. Ink and colored pencil on paper, 2026. 11″ x 8.5″ In his initial role as the brilliant and upcoming physician/engineer on saucer Medusa..
	President Rod Morgan of the United System. Pencil on paper, 2026. 11″ x 8.5″ Brilliant and upcoming physician/engineer, Morgan is tall and slender, with prematurely gray hair, intense gray-blue eyes, knows he’s tantalizing to women, and gives a single speech which results in his being acclaimed the new president of the United System
	Cardecu. Oil pastel and graphite powder on canvas sheet, 2026.  12″ x 9″ Beagle/human hybrid from planet Umbrae, Chairman of the Dream’s Committee of Six.
	Bloasphr Incarnation 1. Ink and colored pencil on paper, 2026. 11″ x 8.5″ A human-Beagle hybrid Counselor from Umbrae; Chairman Cardecu’s second-in-command.
	Bloasphr Incarnation 2. Ink and colored pencil on paper, 2026. 11″ x 8.5″ Initially structured as a human-Beagle hybrid to interface with Sol culture, Bloasphr finds herself transformed into a fetching copy of Laurie Morgan at age eighteen.
	Lieutenant Mickey Mal Michaels Robot 609. Ink and watercolor on paper, 2023. 11″ x 8.5″ The Typhoon I turret commander, killed in 2034 and later constituted as a Heroes and Villains of the Thirties robot, becomes the author of Fathom the Doomboat Stars, the most astonishing science fiction novel ever written, then disappears into unfathomable cosmological mystery.
	Laurie Lachrer Robot 283. Pencil on paper, 2014. 10” x 8” A Heroes and Villains of the Thirties robot version of Laurie Lachrer. The 283rd of 1,013 total Laurie Lachrer units, creation date July 5, 2043. Mothballed for decades but revived July 9, 2075. She inexplicably finds herself Supreme Commander of the USSF.
	Suzette Borman. Pencil on paper, 2014; digital image, 2018. 12” x 9” Rejuvenated from a hard-bitten forty-two to a stunning nineteen, Suzette seeks refuge on Marox, fourth planet of Groombridge 1618, from the disastrous SolGrid rebellion, but winds up as the NonEmpress in charge of a Nihilist revolution against the Alpha Centaurian Grid.
	Major John West Robot 556. Pencil on paper, 2014. 11” x 8.5” Combat hero and grandstanding bastard shattered by Martian ray guns in June 2034. As a 2076 robot, Major West becomes Head of USSF Public Relations and later weapons officer aboard saucer Medusa.
	Commander John Perkins. Ink and colored pencil on paper, 2025. 11″ x 8.5″ Director of Detention Services, constantly in service to Carla Posttner.
	Carla Posttner. Ink and colored pencil on paper, 2025, 11″ x 8.5″ Sociopath, head of USSF Detention Services in 2076, holding a lifelong grudge against Jack Commer, she is jailed for an insurrection she started with Robert Easterling.  She later becomes ambassador to the Counselors of the Dream on planet Umbrae.
	Robert Easterling. Ink and colored pencil on paper, 2023. 11″ x 8.5″ Former Deputy Supreme Commander in the 2030s, Senator from New Houston declaring himself president of the United System and Supreme Commander of the USSF, 2076.
	Commander Ywer of Mars. Oil pastel on canvas-covered board, 2023. 14″ x 11″ Former Martian chef, serving in the USSF in 2076 as Jack Commer’s copilot, then as Laurie Morgan’s copilot.
	Dar, Emperor of the Martians. Ink and colored pencil on paper, 2013. 10” x 8” Martian general and Emperor of the Martians, 2034-2075. Special envoy to planet Marox, 2076.

Airman, later Lt. Commander Cadagasgar Wirlmann. Ink on paper, 2025. 12″ x 9″ Graduated from the USSF Academy in 2075 as a Typhoon III-class copilot but after punching out a superior officer was busted to airman and sent to Norcaj, Mars as a Detention Services guard. Rehabilitated, he becomes copilot of saucer Medusa.

All words and images copyright by Michael D. Smith