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Hi DA Fam,
Here is an illustration that I did for the Rifts® Boardgame being licensed, developed and published by Carmen Bellaire's - Rogue Heroes® LLC, based on the famous RIFTS® RPG game created by Kevin Siembieda and published by Palladium Books®.
Pencils: Charles "Chuck" Walton II 
Digital Paints (my Partner, Eduardo "EDSFox" Dominguez): 
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The champion character depicted here is a called a "Cyber Knight."
Nobody knows exactly where they came from, how they came to be or why, but about 80 years before the end of the Dark Age, the Cyber-Knight emerged to battle monsters and tyrants. However, most educated and civilized people did not acknowledge the Knights even really existed until 18 P.A. This has led some Dimensional Being (D-Bees) to believe the Cyber-Knights came into being to oppose the ever-growing and corrupt Coalition States. Other say that they came to fight injustice in all its forms and to combat the hordes of supernatural beings that terrorize the land. The truth is that they are the champions of all people, human and inhuman, who are oppressed, suffer from injustice or are tormented by evil, regardless of who or what may be the cause.
Cyber Knights are living legends. Champions of the underdog. A Cyber -Knight answers to no authority other than the callings of his own heart and the Code of Chivalry. It is the code of the Knighthood that keeps the champions on the true path of honor, nobility, and goodness. Cyber-Knights have psionic powers enabling them to have psychic senses and to channel and manifest psionic weapons such as the legendary Psi-Sword. They also have Cyber-Armor that is fused to their body, plus exterior suits of power armor to enhance their martial arts combative prowess and survivability.
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For those familiar with the role-playing game Rifts, I hope you enjoy this depiction of this iconic Cyber-Knight character class. For those of you new to Rifts, it is a post apocalyptic world where rifts (dimensional portals) have opened up onto Earth and have released a wide range of supernatural monsters, vast array of aliens, and all sorts of advanced technology, psionic abilities and more. Numerous factions across the globe now fight for the dominion or survival of Earth.
Rifts was one of my first RPG experiences that I truly enjoyed and I was thrilled to be able to contribute artwork for such a fantastic setting. This artwork is for the upcoming Rifts Miniature boardgame whose Kickstarter will be launching VERY soon. Check out Rogue Heroes LLC facebook page:
www.facebook.com/RogueHeroesPu…
to follow along with the production and launch of the Rifts Board game Kickstarter, and tell em Chuck sent ya. “Like” them and please feel free to drop them a visit and a comment.
The Kickstarter is soon to start so I hope to see ya there!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/r…
Cyber-Knight Description - Excerpted from Rifts® Ultimate Edition™, copyright 2005 Palladium Books Inc. All rights reserved. Rifts®, Cyber-Knight® and Palladium Books® are registered trademarks of Palladium Books Inc. and Kevin Siembieda. All other titles and names are trademarks of Palladium Books
Cyber-Knight art are copyright and trademark of Palladium Books Inc. All rights reserved.
