Aren't we done with concept ships? Have we done a concept ship this year?
TL;DRNo concept ship has been released this year and none is planned, as they want to move away from concept sales and make ships flight ready, though concept art work still continues internally.
We have not done one this year. We're not going to do one this year unless something manic happens in the next few months.
I was going to say, if we've only got four months, we can't whip up a new concept that fast. So 2025 will end up being our first year without a single concept ship.
It's something we've talked about, I think, loosely on various shows, that we ultimately want to move away from concept ships entirely and just go straight to 'here's the thing'.
Just to be clear, we'll still be concepting ships. We just won't be showing them externally.
We won't be releasing them as concepts. Sorry to the concept artists watching this who are now on the floor. They're still an absolutely essential part of the process. It's just that we made this initiative last year to really try to make everything flight ready, to move to flight ready. Last year, I think we only had two concept promotions: Ironclad and, technically, the Starlancer attack variant was the concept. But we're trying really hard. And this year, we've succeeded.