An eclectic kaleidoscope: alien cultists, scifi loving tech heads, old earth culture pilfering retronauts and flamboyant gang members. All rascals, hooligans and delinquents.

GEN-0 is a generative avatar project on the Tezos blockchain focused on teenagers living in the Vessels space colony. The youth of the colony exist devoid of any culture to call their own- they never knew Old Earth and have little to no aesthetic cultural identity as the offspring of pioneer colonists. They steal their fashion like magpies from anything they like- all of Old Earth's cultural history can be ransacked alongside shiny new things from their new alien home and all it has to offer.

GEN-0 is part of a wider long term endevour, Vessels, a Green NFT driven world building project. At its core is a graphic novel which deals with the central story arc but as a community we have been expanding the world over the last 8 months through characters, stories, vehicles, creatures and lore. Gen-0 allows us to flesh out the Vessels colony with thousands of background characters to add interest, identity and depth to the world we are building. With the project's strong emphasis on community engagement there is opportunity to integrate these characters into the colony and even the narrative of the story we are telling.

Vessels Timeline

Origins

Vessels began over a decade ago as an intellectual property and visual development project by artist Jake Gumbleton. A few years later, it started coming to life as a graphic novel (which is still in progress) with writer Drew Dewhirst.

Vessels takes place on a post-Earth space colony where only one small fragment of humanity seems to have survived. It explores themes that are prevalent in our world right now and how we cannot escape facing them. “Humanity is on the brink. Our last remnants are clinging to existence on a dangerous alien world and we have brought our old demons with us to our new home...”

Drops in Season 1 started as mass minting events of 25 pieces in a batch and on-boarded what became the core of the Vessels community.

Season 1

The advent of Green NFT’s through Hic et Nunc and the Tezos block chain has allowed Vessels to evolve into a community driven project. The community members, through discord, are now actively engaged with world building, fan fiction and creative input to the project. We have a whole world to create and we want you to be involved in building it!

Season 2

Season 2 introduced spaceships, fauna, curiosities and story beats from the Vessel universe along with lots more characters and our ‘Alpha series’ crossover pieces allowing characters from other NFT projects to come and visit the colony.

All of the drops in S2 were handled as discord raffles/auctions. The auctions were some of the best fun we have had. Collectors got really into ‘auction by gif’ in discord.

Gen-▢

Gen-O is a collection of 5000 generative Vessels containing hundreds of design elements both native to the ‘Vessels Universe’ and to ‘Old Earth’. It may also contain a smattering of Tezos NFT easter egg references :)

The youth of the colony exist devoid of any culture to call their own- they never knew Old Earth and have little to no aesthetic identity as pioneer colonist offspring. In that context they steal their fashion from anything they like- so all of old earth's cultural history can be magpied, alongside things from their own fledgling society, their new alien home and all it has to offer. The result is a kaleidoscope of alien, scifi, old earth culture and teenage flamboyance.

Season 3 and beyond

Vessels will continue on into Season 3 once Gen 0 has dropped. We have lots of exciting ideas but prefer to maintain the organic nature of the project so far. We are so hyped to build this universe: with the central story arc in the form of a graphic novel and then a larger world built with the community around this core. This is just the beginning!

HOW TO BUY TEZOS NFTS

  1. Download a Tezos wallet, which will store your money for purchase, and ownership of your NFTs. Temple and Kukai are two community favorites. Note: the Metamask wallet currently does not support Tezos.
  2. Add money to your wallet for your first purchase. Make sure there's a little extra for transaction fees.
  3. We recommend +0.1 XTZ for each item.
  4. When you connect your wallet to the purchase site, your wallet will ask you to give permission.
  5. You're ready to buy your NFTS.

Other notes: No one should EVER ask for the "private key" or 12-24 word "seed phrase" of your wallet.
Beware of scams. More info on how to use your wallet can be found here:
https://www.cryptotimes.io/how-to-buy-nft-on-tezos-blockchain/

  • Price? 15 tezos
  • How many? 5000 Editions
  • Schedule:
  • OG Sale Tue Feb 15 (15 editions max)
  • Presale Wed Feb 16 (5 editions max)
  • Public Sale Thur Feb 17 (10 editions max)
  • Reveal Friday Feb 18
  • How do you know it's fair?
  • The contract includes a provenance hash. This is a SHA-256 of an IPFS directory that refers to a fingerprint of the tokens and the art. It means anyone can verify that we didn't change the tokens after minting them. Also, when the sale starts, the id of each mint is randomized.
  • Where to trade on secondary?
  • Buy and sell secondary sales on Objkt

Provenance and Contracts

Token: KT1BfKnSKV6Wx45Cv4yjEYXViwuhmswby8Hp

Crowdsale: KT1U1GDQDE7C9DNfE9iSojsKfWf5zUXdSVde

Provenance Hash: fcc998a31bffc3baf1d04f172785277361b22c4905917eaae34dd820f00bb043