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!