What is your personal history with the Hornet? What inspired it, and what about it do you like, love, hate, and so forth?asked by Blue

Well obviously the Hornet was the starter ship in Wing Commander and so having a Hornet in Star Citizen was a nod to that. In Wing Commander it was the light ship. It ended up, when I was designing the Hornet and what we were doing, it felt more like a medium fighter because we had the turret on the middle of it and it just felt like it was a much more heavy hitting fighter than a light fighter would be. But that's essentially the history.A lot of the ships originally in Wing Commander were inspired by World War 2 ships and planes; war at sea and the all rest of that stuff. So you definitely see some nods to present day fighters or older fighters, whether it is the Hornet or other various ships that we have. There was a Sabre obviously, there hasn't been a Gladius, but generally a lot of times we are doing nods to things that you would know in the past that were historical, a ship or a plane or something, that you can then project into the future.