Objective: Your first assignment is to to create a weapon you would use to defend yourself against the infected. Based upon any existing Star Wars weapon type but not limited to be exactly like them.

Graphics Grading: Will be based upon pieces creativity, originality, and relevance to the assignment provided upon each sub-competition. Each piece will be judged using the Herald Graphic Rubric

Graphics Submissions: File formats will only be accepted in the following, .png, .jpg, .gif. Submit entries through the site.

Important additional information: You can use any style to design (digital, traditional, etc). You will be awarded Clusters of Graphite per the guidelines on the Wiki page, in addition to the standard one (1) granted. Each month the first fiction sub-competition will be for the current time line in the story, after the outbreak, and progress each month through the following sub-completions. The second fiction competition will follow your character before the outbreak and tell the story up until the outbreak through the following months sub-competitions. The graphics competition will be a chosen from anything to showing your character fighting infected to design a unique weapon designed to target and kill the infected.

Special note: Any photo-manipulation artwork or multimedia project containing fair use images must include links to source images and credit links to original authors to be considered valid. Disqualifications or invalid entries will not be granted clusters.