This was part of a project a friend of mine wanted me to create as he was writing a plug-in expansion for Escape Velocity: Nova. Given now that this project hadn't progress for over a few years now, I believe it's safe to say I could probably reveal this.
I used an old relic 3D software to make this scene: Meta-Tools Infini-D, though I wonder if anyone here has ever heard of this program. It's so old that it only runs on the Mac Classic OS XD