My premise for the image is that the ship tried flying through an older gate, unaware that it had fallen prey to the elements in the years since it was last used. Crashed Puddle Jumper buried in the snow, askew Stargate in the background, a set of lonely, filled tracks marching back. I think that part was a metaphor for how we’ll never know entirely what happened to those people.Īnyway, I more-or-less saw it in my minds eye as you see it above. As I recall, I got the idea looking at the cover of The Terror, a historical novel by Dan Simmons describing the horrible fate of the Franklin Expedition as the crew succumbs to the harsh environment and also some sort of bear-monster. I had the idea for this image a while ago, not long after I finished my Puddle Jumper model.