Alpha & Omega: inspired beauty

Otherworldy beauty… that’s the first thought that arrived after landing in Alpha & Omega. Blue strikes of energy, pulsing lights, alien creatures gently floating in the sky. In the distance, across the water and clinging to high towers and mountains, little cabins that resemble huts. After my initial surprise, I started wandering around to discover the many different structures this sim has to offer.

A feeling of immense calm came over me as I walked around. The soft blue glow of the structures, the quiet, the clearly inspired construction of Alpha & Omega. On the one hand, it seems familiar. But on the other hand the way materials are used takes this place to a whole new level. Neo-steampunk definitely is not a bad description for Alpha & Omega.

Inspiration
I asked the owner, Abel Moonites about the ideas behind Alpha & Omega. Abel explained that Alpha & Omega is his vision of a possible future, a mental refuge, a representation of his thoughts on the future. A place he could go to when in need of rest and meditation. And Alpha & Omega offers this. In several spots, there are places to sit, meditate, and watch the stunning surroundings.

Abel told me he was tremendously inspired by the visions of a futuristic world of Tarmel Udimo. They sat down, and found that they held similar notions about the future, about what the future could look like. Abel, owning the sim and having the necessary skills to build his dream, then started to build Alpha & Omega. It is an inspired build, created lovingly by a builder who is not building for someone else, but for himself.

Panta rhei, or Darwin?
Ideas evolve, and so does Alpha & Omega evolve. It changes constantly, as if it were a living organism. But it doesn’t change completely, because sometimes something existing just changes into something new. It’s like the old adage ‘everything flows and nothing remains the same’. Perhaps one could even say it’s a kind of evolution, especially since – in this future – the planet itself is a living being.

Unknowingly, Abel has envisioned a world that fits neatly into the ages old philosophy of Ancient Greece. It were they who first realized that everything progresses and that nothing ever stays completely the same.

And perhaps it is even a Darwinian place, a place of evolution. A place where the world adapts to its needs and desires, where it constantly changes to be better suited for its inhabitants. And that ties in neatly with the notions of Gaia, or Mother Earth as a living entity.

Alpha & Omega: living in a very distant future
The sense of life is present, with aliens pulsing softly in the air, and with the pulses that seem to come out of the earth itself. There are several structures on the sim, which Abel explained to be the dwellings of the the several species that inhabit his future world. Some live on the ground, others on tall mountain spires, and others in the air. But, wherever the dwellings are, they were made lovingly and with a keen eye for detail.

In the middle of the sim is a very special construction. It looks like a planetarium, but is – actually – the focal point of all pulses and vibrations in the sim. The cluster pavillion is a place of harmony, which invites you to think about well… beauty.

Abel told me of his dream to make the cluster pavilion the place for vibration concerts. Sounds and harmonics created by the place itself, working together in unison and responding to the presence of people.

… and you are welcome too!
Alpha & Omega presents us a possible future, an octillion lightyears after our own time. It presents us with the vision of two very inspired people: Abel Moonites and Tarmel Udimo. And it is yet one more place that is absolutely worth seeing. Abel Moonites welcomes you all, and invites you to seek your own calm in his vision of the future.

Photography by Raven Haalan