User:Lord of the Fire Rings

I am a digital artist and writer, known as "Saturn" in the communities I belong. I have several pixel art works that mimic the style of the Mega Man X PSX games.

Personal Info
I am a brazillian digital artist and Mega Man fan since childhoold. I have a very wide taste for video games, but Mega Man is the only franchise that moved me to create fan art to the point it has become a hobby.

My first steps on pixel art happened when I was just six, and in that time my biggest dream was to make a Mega Man game, even though I had only played a few games of the BN and X series. Soon after, I realized that it was impracticable for a kid to make a game, and decided to tell my stories without discarding my sprites: through sprite comics. My first real project was started in April 2010 with the name “Megaman X: Unidade 49”, gathering a bunch of characters from those 2005~2009 fan game plans. Their designs were not the best, and most of their names were weird (Saturn included, I did not know about the Stardroids back then)… which kinda fit with the fact that the story had no sense at all. In early 2014, I tried restarting the story with a great improvement on graphics, but the plot was practically the same. During 2014, I joined the Nitrusland Escape Tournament and the World Spriter’s Tournament of the Middle Ground Comics and learned a lot of things on how to improve my work during that year, triggering a continuous evolution in my mindset and my skills. In that year, I also began interacting with non-brazillian people and Deviant Art was the first community I joined.

In January 2015, I decided to turn that old comic in a serious thing. I would keep some of the weird designs and names due to nostalgia, but the story would be the best I could make, with a compromise of staying loyal to the canon and expanding the universe of Mega Man. Since then, “Mega Man X: Unit 49” is responsible for keeping me active in the community. The efforts required to maintain its quality in my best provided me even more learning, and I met many new fan groups in different places of the internet while striving to spread my work.

Mega Man X: Unit 49
Mega Man X: Unit 49 is a webcomic set after the events of Mega Man X8. Although old-fashioned, this comic is told using sprites and is produced since January 2015, with the purpose of expanding the lore of Mega Man X and bring new topics to the moral dillemas of the series, while giving life to the stories of my decade-old fan characters. Currently with 380+ pages.

Synopsis
''After the battle on the Moon, Sigma was seemingly defeated for good, along with Lumine and his plans with the New Generation Reploids. X and Zero are just a few steps away from reaching the dreamed peace between reploids and humans... However, dozens, if not hundreds of dangerous Mavericks are still around the world since the fall of the space colony Eurasia, followed by the Nightmare Phenomena and the Maverick Spring - not to mention that the viruses are still spread through all the world. Finding and putting an end to these criminals is duty of the Maverick Hunters, and it does not seem to be such a hard task now that Sigma is gone... But what if one these criminals build a huge conspiracy to wage another war? What if Sigma is not really gone?''

Story
The story has been divided in Seasons, and they have subdivisions called Arcs.

Prologue: Doomsday Season 1
 * The Prologue shows a mysterious person called "Saturn" activating a giant Reploid and sending him to the main Maverick Hunter HQ  through a warp in space. The enemy also activates a powerful device able to generate fields that blocks communications and destroys  teleporting Reploids. Due to that, X and Zero are unable to return from a mission and protect the headquarters. The outcome is tragic: Axl is kidnapped, Signas disappears and almost all the Hunters in the place are destroyed.
 * Chapter 1-6: Desperate, the survivors of the Operation Doomsday try to find answers about the new threat, until they are contacted by a minor Hunter Unit known as "Special Pursuit Squad 8", the 49th Unit, whose only task is to investigate and destroy Saturn. X, Zero and Alia move to their hideout in order to begin their missions. Saturn announces the foundation of the Neo Maverick Army, and uses the media to spread his words to the whole world, with the purpose of gathering Mavericks that were hiding and did not pledge loyalty to Sigma due to ideological divergences. Meanwhile, the Earth Council is convinced to raise a massive robotic army to counter this new threat.
 * Chapter 7-19: The Maverick Hunters manage to track the NMA general Kran to his hideout and begin a long mission to investigate the place, culminating in a violent battle that nearly takes X's life. Meanwhile, the leader of the 49th Unit tries to contact the remaining Maverick Hunters around the world to re-establish the organization.

Season 2
 * Chapter 1-9: The 49th Unit searches through the files of a scientist called Henry Snacman, whose life is directly related to Saturn, hoping to find out his motivations and the truth about his last creation. This arc shows how the events from Mega Man X to Mega Man X7 affected the Research and Development of Reploids Bureau (also known as Reploid Research Center) from the perspective of Dr. Henry, at the same time how this institute and Saturn influenced the development of the New Generation Reploids.
 * Chapter 10-17: More Maverick Hunters join the 49th Unit, and the Neo Maverick Army begins a new stage of their plan. This arc shows four simultaneous missions with several battles against the NMA members.
 * Chapter 18-??: Ongoing.

Publishing
MMX:U49 is published in two main platforms: Deviant Art and Smack Jeeves.

MMX:U49 has also a Wiki for itself. Its articles can be accessed here. However, it has not very updated due to lack of time.

Mega Man X: Sprite Conversion Project
A project to sprite most of the Mega Man X series cast in the PSX style, with weekly publishing beginning in December 2018.

MMX:SCP is hosted in Deviant Art and Twitter.

Contact
E-mail: mpcionek@outlook.com

Discord: Not Saturn #7113

Twitter: @IrregularSaturn

Deviant Art gallery:IrregularSaturn