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Every City Is the Death Star With This 'Space Station' Map Skin

One woman's tribute to her favorite post-apocalyptic, science-fiction worlds.
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Eleanor Lutz/Mapbox

Tired of being trapped on this spinning rock? Then strap on your make-believe helmet and blast off to Space Station Earth, a futuristic digital map skin that makes it seem like you're exploring George Lucas' famed "technological terror."

The eerie Mapbox skin was created by Eleanor Lutz, a 22-year-old freelance designer in Seattle and self-described "big fan of science fiction and computer games." The project is meant to be a tribute to her treasured sci-fi genre, she says: "I crammed it full of bright lights and chrome like some of my favorite post-apocalyptic worlds: the Matrix, Battlestar Galactica, and StarCraft."