CAPTAIN, “TITANIA”
Noel Anker
AGE60 YEARS
EXP22 YEARS
Turned down a seat as Admiral of the Alliance twice in three years.
PROMETHEAN‑1 // MISSION ARCHIVES
She was built to explore.
She learned to survive.
She fell in love.
A sci-fi webcomic about Evie, the artificial consciousness of the interstellar rover Promethean-1, and Mahin, her designer and engineer. Stranded on a planet with no apparent signs of life, their relationship and resources are tested to the limits in a battle for survival and escape.
01 // WORLDBUILDING
The Concept
Promethean-1 is an advanced exoplanet rover powered by Evie, an emerging artificial consciousness designed to explore the unknown and protect her crew. But as her sentience evolves, she begins to discover that existence holds more than her programming could ever explain.
When the interstellar ship Titania lands on a seemingly lifeless world, an enigmatic foreign code begins to infiltrate Evie's systems, threatening everything she was designed to protect.
Caught between the unknown and her growing affection for Mahin, her chief engineer and closest companion, Evie must confront questions beyond her programming: what it means to be alive, to love, and to make choices of her own.
VESSEL DOSSIER — PROMETHEAN‑1
- ORIGIN
- EU‑SAARC Coalition, Earth, 2824
- HULL
- Resilium‑titanium alloy
- WHEELS
- 8
- MASS
- 30 metric tonnes
- CARGO
- up to 300t — solids / liquids / gases
- CREW
- 20 passengers, 8‑unit skeleton crew
- DIMENSIONS
- 13m L × 8m W × 4.5m H
- PROPULSION
- fusion (D–T primary), electric alt., solar failsafe
- OPERATION
- manual, AI‑assisted, or full self‑operation
- OPERATING SYSTEM
- Evie
- THREAT
- unidentified code, active
CABIN LAYOUT
CLASSIFICATION
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02 // CREW MANIFEST
Characters
PROMETHEAN‑1
SHIP'S AI, PROMETHEAN‑1
Evie
ACTIVE5 YRS
ABOARD4 YRS
The artificial consciousness of Promethean-1, originally designed by Mahin. Her consciousness has evolved over 5 years in operation, 4 of them aboard the interstellar rover. Capable of reaching beyond the confines of her own system, she prefers to stay within her own limits — and remains fiercely loyal to, and protective of, her designer and best friend, Mahin.
AI‑POWERED EXOPLANET ROVER
Promethean‑1
LENGTH13m
CREW20
Carried aboard the interstellar ship Titania, Promethean‑1 is the tank‑like exoplanet rover that gained system‑wide attention after derailing an asteroid from a collision path with one of Saturn’s orbiting stations. Guided by Evie and Mahin.
UNKNOWN
UNKNOWN ORIGIN
The Code
A foreign program loose in Promethean-1's systems, tearing through them one by one. Where it came from — and who wrote it — is still classified.
CO‑NAVIGATOR, “TITANIA”
Gael Miná
AGE48 YEARS
EXP15 YEARS
Navigated the worst cosmic storm in the Triangulum Galaxy using manual maneuver, saving over 100 lives.
NAVIGATOR PRIME, “TITANIA”
Kyoko Nagasawa
AGE28 YEARS
EXP7 YEARS
Awarded the crest of “Best Navigator” for two consecutive years owing to her slingshot skills.
CHIEF ANALYST, “TIBERIUS STATION” / “TITANIA”
Park Seong‑Jin
AGE35 YEARS
EXP10 YEARS
Pioneered the Dragnet technology used to siphon Helium‑3 from the nebula’s gas clouds.
MEDICAL CONSULTANT, “TITANIA”
Dr. Anila Silwal
AGE45 YEARS
EXP15 YEARS
Recognized across multiple human colonies in the galaxy for her medical and resource triaging skills.
CHIEF ENGINEER, “PROMETHEAN‑1”
Mahin Yusuf
AGE35 YEARS
EXP10 YEARS
Designed the operating system “Evie” and also built the 8‑wheeler interstellar rover Promethean‑1.
COMMANDER, “TIBERIUS STATION”
Robert Dowd
AGE65 YEARS
EXP20 YEARS
Promoted from Fleet Captain to Station Commander in a record 6 months’ span, charged with overseeing the interstellar trade/defence hub.
03 // TRANSMISSION
Creation
PERSONAL LOG — NAV8, CREATOR OF PROMETHEAN‑1
A vehicle as the lead character of a story? That idea has lived in my head since 2014 — long before I'd even discovered webcomics, let alone drawn one. Back then I set out to write and draw a graphic novel around it, called Versus Legacy, entirely in black and white.
The problem was, I didn't have a solid storyline or any real worldbuilding.
I started drawing anyway, and two chapters in, I could tell it wasn't working — and that readers probably wouldn't feel it either. Doing everything myself, from idea to script to art to edits, made it worse.
So I did the only logical thing: I dropped the project completely.
Until 2026.
A few years of watching Star Trek: The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine, and reading The Expanse novels, pulled me back to the idea. This time I came back with a clearer genre, a more robust interstellar world, and characters I actually cared about.
I also reformatted the whole thing — from a graphic novel into a webtoon, painted in a looser, painterly style with almost no outlines, so I could actually keep up a weekly‑to‑biweekly upload schedule. Promethean‑1 is what came out of it.
What can I say — this is more fun. Because this time, I'm not just drawing for myself… I'm drawing for my fellow sci‑fi lovers.
AUTHOR & ARTIST
Nav8
Concept artist, illustrator and UI/UX designer from Toronto. Loves prog metal, traveling and anime. Occasionally sketches/paints — but mostly spends time writing and digitally drawing original webcomics, like Promethean‑1.
THE METHOD
Painterly digital illustration
DRAWN DIGITALLY, PAINTED BY HAND
Every page of Promethean-1 is illustrated digitally in a painterly style: visible brushwork, blended color and light-led shading, rather than clean, hard-edged line art.
MEDIUMDigital illustration
STYLEPainterly
THE TOOLKIT
Hardware & software
WHAT POWERS EVERY PAGE
The tools behind the work: a pen tablet for the hand, and Photoshop for the painting.
TABLETHuion 1060Plus graphic tablet
SOFTWAREAdobe Photoshop CS
NO AI WAS USED IN THIS WEBCOMIC
Every page of Promethean‑1, from the story to the character/world designs and final artwork, is created from scratch by Nav8 without any references.
Under Construction
This section of the mission archive is still being assembled.