What is the status of the Redeemer? Why has it taken longer than any other ship to go from concept to flight ready?asked by Intrepid Corsair
TL;DRChris Roberts disputes that the Redeemer has taken the longest, saying it is waiting for an artist who built it to finish Squadron 42 ship work before updating it to the current style.
Well I don't think it is the one that's taken the longest to go from concept to flight ready. I think most of the Banu Merchantman owners would have a bone to pick with you over that one. In this specific case of the Redeemer, what we want to do is, we have Paul Dalessi that works for us now and he was one of the core members of the team that actually built the Redeemer when they won The Next Great Starship and he's over in Foundry 42 hard at work on all the ships we need for Squadron 42 and he's an incredibly talented artist, but we really feel like if anyone is going to go into the Redeemer and fix it up to the style we have now for Aegis and everything else, that he should be the one to do it.He's already done a fair amount of stuff, obviously he did the Vanguard, he was the prime artist doing the Vanguard so he will definitely do it, but we have to wait for him to finish the Squadron 42 stuff first.