Safe*, 86 colors "dystopian-encounters" palette, primarily made for custom "cabin" backgrounds in "Frontier: First Encounters" (FFE) aka Elite 3.

Palette is extracted (and sorted afterward) as union of all 6 original "cabin" background colorspaces. It was missing for <30 years.

It provides very dystopian, cold and dark atmosphere, although it is possible to make bright and pleasant setup (e.g. CABIN4.BMP). Moreover, it is intended for blurry backgrounds (not so often found as pixel art, imo).

*It is considered safe because it does not interfere with ("infamous") videos playing on top of it: all (or most) other colors from DOS Mode13h VGA 256 palette are reserved for video reproduction. Although: it is allowed to use all 256 colors in FFE for bkgs, but weird videos are becoming even more strange then, and parts of backgrounds start to dynamicaly and randomly change colors. Moreover, colors are not restored entirely afterwards (when video stops).

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  left: part of original "CABIN4" pixel artwork from FFE; right: my FFE style demake of "Falcon"interior art-rendering by Jack Uglow, inspired with Millenium Falcon from SW - by Crispin Serenia

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  left: interesting drawing of plant from "Cabin 4" (FFE original); middle: "Cabin 2" aka Giger Alien meets Stargate ;) right: interesting part of "Cabin 3" - original one and HQ remake of Juan Pablo De Miguel, downsampled to original by Crispin Serenia - by Crispin Serenia

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  left: "Cabin 3" aka mystic trapezoid doorway and pillows on the left; right: steampunk alike part of "Falcon 04" by Jack Uglow, converted to FFE bkg by Crispin Serenia 

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  left: mystic "Cabin 3" HQ (Full HD) remake by Juan Pablo De Miguel, adapted back to retro lospec FFE by Crispin Serenia; right: Thargoid interior (part of "Cabin 5" original background) - by Crispin Serenia

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  left: "Cabin 1" aka "Freddy Kruegers bloody ship", HQ (Full HD) remake by Juan Pablo De Miguel, adapted back to lo-pix FFE by Crispin Serenia; right: "Cabin 0" aka FFE Starting screen bkg used in the Saker III

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  left: "Cabin 1" FFE original aka "Freddy Kruegers bloody ship", ; right: "Cabin 0" aka FFE Saker III starting screen, HQ (Full HD) remake by Juan Pablo De Miguel, downscaled & adapted back to original FFE by Crispin \m/ - by Crispin Serenia

Tags: dyscounters, ffe, frontierfirstencounters, frontier, elite3, elite, dystopian, cabin, cockpit, background, interior, safe