Let's talk about the inspirations for this thing on the exterior. What are we thinking when we build this?
TL;DRThe exterior was inspired by battleships but kept distinct from other sci-fi and WWII or steampunk looks, drawing on modern stealth ships while keeping the old conning tower aesthetic.
So we wanted to convey that this was inspired by a battleship. Sadly, in sci-fi there are other ships inspired by battleships, so we had to differentiate from those and not go into the steampunk or World War II aesthetics. We initially tried to group all the guns in the center, like you would do in World War II, like on the USS Iowa, or a famous Japanese one that comes to mind that I will not mention. Instead, with the fact that they all have to operate in a video game, they don't have the [...], we started spreading them, and that aesthetic would no longer be supported. So we decided to look actually at the Zumwalt class, at the littoral combat ships from the US, at the Visby class from Sweden, all the more modern stealth ships, and yet retain the conning tower aesthetic that there was in WWII ships and that got lost after them. We want to hint at that world with a little bit of new.