Corridors

As the original brief was to construct some sci-fi corridors and a main room from components, panel and lights from the Fab marketplace kit, I started with photo research so started looking up sci-fi corridors noting their repetitive nature.

Main Room Command Centre and Lab

For the command centre my search included Star Wars like the bridge of a star destroyer, Death Star, rebel base, Aliens, the Russian genetics lab from Stranger Things and generic searches for alien labs. Control panels, displays and holograms.

Exterior based on Tatooween and Mos Eisley 

Desert planets which mix high and low technology, rough and dirty are a common sci fi trope. Outside the hi tech dark command centre I was looking for a good contrast, brightly lit, lower technology, dirty, dusty.

A mix of Star Was franchise films locations such as Tatooine, Mos Eisley, Jakku, Jedah were first looked at. I was interested in this inspiring a workers accomodation village.

Market

 The central area of exterior was to be the outpost market , so I looked up images from the similar Star Wars Franchise scenes, as well as Aladdin and the post-apocalyptic Mad Max movies to give a populated dirty, active, diverse, lived in activity feel and give somewhere for the workers to mingle and get food along with the staff or the command centre. Scruffy, dustry, mix of Alien and human, mercinariesnand bounty hunters, scanvengers,  miners factory works and engineers.

Spaceport and Junkyard

The spaceport to give more purpose to the outpost connecting to the outside world. To go with this a scrapyard of metallic junk components as well as a wrecked space craft, possibly shot down or crashed and a source for scavenged parts and scavengers making their black-market money in the markets. Here I was likening for the jury rigged scrap metal edges you could cut yourself from and sources included 8os films like Spacehunter Adventures in the forbidden zone, Borderlands and Mad Max as well as Star Wars movies.