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Science Fiction World-Building Art

Writers and tabletop game masters building science fiction settings benefit from visual anchors: cities, ships, uniforms, and alien landscapes. These prompts help create world-building reference images with Raphael AI, a free AI image generator at https://raphael.app.

Building a visual bible

Start with three pillars for your setting, such as "decaying luxury, ocean colonies, bioluminescent tech". Add them to every prompt so the world feels consistent.

Prompt ideas

• Cities: "underwater dome city with kelp gardens, soft blue light, wide establishing shot"
• Vehicles: "small cargo shuttle with patched hull plates, side view, concept art"
• Characters: "dock worker in a pressure suit with hand-painted symbols, full body"
• Landscapes: "twin suns setting over glass desert dunes, long shadows, cinematic"

Faction design

Give each faction a shape language and palette: rounded and green for settlers, angular and red for corporate security. Use the same words in all prompts for that faction.

At the table

Print location images on cards and show them when players arrive somewhere new. A single picture sets the scene faster than a paragraph of description.

Ownership

Keep notes on which images inspired which canon details, and commission or create final published art yourself.