Some might remember this image from before the meltdown. It was supposed to be set on a barren rocky moon, but everyone said it looked like it was underwater, so I've changed it to reflect that. The lightning is gone and the underwater ripples are in.
My shuttle model was rendered in Anim8or and then I added effects in Photoshop.
The story is that during the Dominion War the USS Cairo was attacked near the Romulan border(as mentioned in a DS9 episode). Some of the crew escaped before the ship exploded, but their shuttle crashed on a desolate world in the Romulan Neutral Zone. Starfleet has no idea what became of the ship(although Romulan action is suspected) and the entire crew of the Cairo is listed as MIA.
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That's one reason. The other is that I didn't model the interior of the aft section, so what you see is just what I put together in photoshop. If it was well lit like the cabin is then I would have had to model it.