Several ships in Star Citizen take design influences from popular ships in sci-fi, and Covenant warships in the halo series have some of the most iconic and memorable designs in video game history. Could we expect to see a pledgeable capital ship, such as the new corvette, have its design influenced by those of the Covenant?asked by Jack Cruise

That's a hard one to answer. I know for me, I try to keep my references as real-world as possible. We do have other spaceships that we look at as reference and inspiration as well, but we're definitely not sitting down and picking other ships from other universes and saying, "We want this ship." It really comes down to the purpose - what is it that we're trying to accomplish with the personality of the vessel, what it's purpose is, and then we build from there. We may use small elements from other sci-fi universes that we've seen but we're definitely not sitting there saying, "We need our version of exactly that ship." That doesn't happen.

To add additional information to the conversation. This isn't a direct response to the question but one of the things the design team is looking at is using frequencies of light. If you're using a red laser, you're going to have a longer band and it will have less impact. If you're using a green laser it will be somewhere in between. If you're using a blue laser, it will be a shorter frequency and far more damage. Everything in between, all of the various damage styles. The various range styles that come along with that. So, the complexity - it's being discussed right now to incorporate more real-world style future laser effects.I think things like neutron weapons, proton weapons, we're treating more like practical physics instead of traditional sci-fi. The weapon itself will provide - knock a couple of neutrons off of an atom and all of a sudden you've got an accumulation of something with extremely heavy mass. So, instead of it being a beam weapon... it is a beam weapon but it's like you got hit by a bus.