The Nest

Concept art for an adaptation of the Epic of Gilgamesh into a space fantasy setting. The Nest is a cluster of several planets within a gas shroud.

In the center is Garter, a city globe of epic proportions that consists of towers several hundred miles across, some that reach nearly to the other planets. Nearby is Shell, the planet mined to make Garter's mass. It's little more than a broken crust. Utna, Anger and King are Earthlike planets with a few moons. Utna shares a water moon with Shell, where the gravity (which is clearly haywire around here) is slowly siphoning away Shell's fluid. There are two gas giants, Heaven (tan) and Calque (purple with yellow storms), as well as the crater world Varia and the blue, foggy Loa.

The region houses a dozen intelligent species and countless beasts, and the inhabitants of Garter are godlike beings that rose from the hyper-rich merchant nexus of the Nest.

Basically I'm going for Middle Earth in space with this one. I assume similar things have been done across Asimov and Bradbury and others, but here's my shot at it.