Michael Sillitoe

We looked a lot at car manufacturers, like the concept cars that they came up with. If you actually go on Pinterest and type in, for example, BMW concept art, you get a lot of really nice sketches, that sort of stuff. And yeah, it was basically just collaborating with the concept artist who came up with the 600i. We shared our resources, basically, and just went from there. And then, of course, we looked at luxury yachts. That's going to probably come more into play with the 890 Jump. And yeah, we just sort of looked at the shape language rather than specifics. Because if you look at specifics, then you try and shoehorn things that don't quite fit into places that don't quite fit anyway. So yeah, just creating a broad style based on those ideas, they really helped quite a lot.

I think the exploration module, personally. I really like the idea that you can do quite a lot with quite a little. I think that's one of the ideas we wanted to kind of push through. So with a small crew, you can do quite a bit. And just having the drop ramp for the rover as well, I think it's really cool, to be honest. When we were building it, we wanted to make sure it could fit a multitude of different rovers. We built it around the Ursa, which was the largest we had at the time. So it also fits a Dragonfly, a Nox, everything else we've got planned so far. So yeah, that's personally what I'm quite excited about.

It's not going to fit a tank, before someone asks.

Oh, we have bathrooms. We have bathrooms, yeah. We didn't show it because... Actually, Colin's just working on some of the crew quarters right now, but it just didn't make it into the B-roll. And we have one for the captain's quarters, which, because we're reworking the captain's quarters, we didn't want to show anything off that wasn't sort of roughly final. There's a few things we need to work out with certain shapes, but yeah, don't worry, there's a bathroom, and it's going to be nice, like everything else we do on the 600i. So you won't be disappointed, I promise.

This has come up plenty of times when we've been designing this thing, and yeah, we would really like to have some kind of privacy option. There is actually glass right now in the real world you can get which sort of clouds up on command: you hit a button and it clouds up or tints or whatever. If we could have something like that, I think we're trying to gun for it. That'd be really nice. That's the sort of thing we want, because yeah, you don't want to be sort of waking up on a planet, if you're in Area18 or something, and you have a lot of people looking into the ship. It's not ideal, really.

So, I mean, we're currently doing the lighting for the 600i. Basically, it's a bit more technical because we've got a lot of area lights and it's a lot softer. So we're just trying to figure it out right now. But yeah, we could have a light state. The light states we tend to have on the ships are default, off and auxiliary, and I think emergency as well. So yeah, we might be able to do something like that. It's not out of the question, but we'll see.

See whoever gets the poor job of modeling all those light switches. Here's a Jira: put a light switch in every single room. On the Idris.

Yeah, not promising anything.

We have two elevators and stairs.

So the question was, how do we get to the escape pods if the elevators have lost power? The answer is the stairs.

Unless Colin snuck some in, not that I'm aware of. Obviously, the touring module's open to stuff, maybe. I don't know yet. We need to kind of figure out the space for that module itself and how many rooms and so on we need in there. So yeah, for us, from what I understand, it's just a pool table.

What more do you need?

Two decks, and then, yeah, that's it, I think.

Yeah, it's sort of, it's got those weird... because it goes up and down a little in places. Technically it's two, but it can feel like more than two at times.