Competition: Paint Me a Picture #33 and 1/3rd

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Paint Me a Picture #33 and 1/3rd

PMAP 33 and 1/3rd

Welcome to the next in my series of shortform descriptive writing challenges. If you were here for actual painting, sowwy! Please check the other comps in this container for those ;)

For this challenge, the author my describe the dramatic destruction of a ship or firey crash of any vessel of their choosing from the Star Wars Universe. It could be your own, one of your units ships that just got destroyed in a fiction or a cool NPC ship you dreamt about shooting down the night after seeing Mando and Grogu. As always, there's a catch. You only got 200 words to work with.

Rules- Solo entries only. Must describe a ship exploding or a crash. Maximum 200 words. Submit right into the comp field.

Competition Information
Parent Competition
Kalens Corner 2
Organized by
Brother Kalen Joss
Running time
2026-08-15 until 2026-08-31 (17 days)
Competition Tier
Tier 3 - Solo, Brotherhood-Centered Activity
Target Unit
Entire DJB
Competition Category
Other
Awards
Dynamic, Fifth Level Crescents (based on participant count)
Participants
8 subscribers, of which 2 have participated.
Results
1st place
Pontifex Azler
Member
Pontifex Azler
Textual submission

Expectation told him to scream. Fear told him to run.

Reality merely showed him that, in a way, it was beautiful.

Metal screeched as it bubbled and expanded, multiple areas cracking and splitting open. Glass cracked and exploded outwards, shattering into billions of pieces, never to all be in the same place ever again.

The heat released finally reached him, the searing sensation washing over his body, utterly destroying any semblance of cold or wetness in the air around him. Even his nostrils and throat drying as he sucked in a painful breath, all he could smell or taste was the heat, ash and dust.

All of his senses were overwhelmed, staring up at the expansion of silver and red in the sky, quickly taking up his entire view, his entire being, for a brief moment in time that felt like forever.

Never before had he understood the word awe so thoroughly and completely, to feel dread and admiration in equal yet completely overwhelming amounts.

His one time seeing an exploding vessel with his own eyes, right in front of him, and it would have been the most perfect memory, if only it wasn’t his ship that had exploded.

Placement
1st place
2nd place
Yeyu
Member
Yeyu
File submission
2026 Paint Me a Picture #33 and 1-3rd.pdf
Textual submission

x) idk if a speeder counts as a vessel for this but yolo~

Placement
2nd place