Is the Starliner, the very first Crusader ship introduced before the Crusader style was further refined, going to go through some revisions when its time comes?
TL;DRNo decision yet on revising the Starliner; they'd discuss it when the time comes, saying different design ages within one manufacturer are fine as long as a shared design language remains.
To be honest, we'll have to have a discussion about it when we get to it. Just because, take RSI for example, we have RSI ships that look very different compared to what we've done with the Scorpius. And I think it's fine, in a universe with all these manufacturers in it, to have different ages of the same manufacturer. You look at 1980 Fords versus Fords today, and that's in a relatively short period of time that they've been making their cars. I don't want to be in a position where all of our ships look...
Like variants of each other.
Yeah, exactly. But I do think it's really important that we have common language and the core elements of the design language for a particular manufacturer. You want to be able to walk onto a ship and know who made it, right from the start, if you know what I mean. And I'd rather focus on that side of things than making things always feel like just a variant of the same thing: pulled out a bit, the wings made a bit wider, stick a lot more seats in it and job done.