Awesome sci-fi (definitely not SyFy) blog i09 dug up a link to concept artist Mitchell Mohrhauser's blog that immediately attracted my attention for the piece above. It's obvious that Nikolai Tesla's lab was inspiration of this piece. Tesla, of course, is the de facto leader of the human resistance attempting to stop the Watchers' invasion of Earth in Dark Void. 

In reality, Tesla was a slightly crazed eastern European scientist who worked with Edison until their opposing views on electricity drove them apart (turned out, Tesla was more right than Edison). As the years went by, Tesla became more and more wacky, eventually becoming convinced that he could tap into an invisible energy source to power his "Teleforce," a weapon that the press quickly dubbed a "death ray." In 1934. For reals.

In the game world of Dark Void, Tesla has been using his supergenius to build the Ark for the human survivors, and has also created the jetpack that he straps on Our Hero Will as soon as he shows up. Will fortunately doesn't seem to have too many issues with being used as an experimental human torpedo, much to the inevitable delight of you, the player.

Mohrhauser is clearly channeling a lot of the same creative energies that the boys at Air Tight were grokking when they came up with Dark Void. Crossing fingers that Dark Void is a hit, we should get this guy involved with production design for the sequel.