Rescue Party

Medium: Pen and Ink, Photoshop

Part of a series of illustrations based on the short stories of Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke

The Star of the Sol system is on the verge of a supernova.

Reported as uninhabited during the last galactic survey two thousand years ago the supernova would have been allowed to occur, and the galactic surveys' mission was to observe and study the event.

Except this system now has an inhabited world: Earth.