What's up with the hole in the center [of the Hammerhead]? Where did that come from?
TL;DRJones says the central hole came from the rule of cool, with the silhouette resembling two joined claw hammers, and that Chris later wanted the guns to converge on one point, which changed the shape.
I think that was me. That was the rule of cool. Do you know what it is? It's really funny, actually. It's basically a claw hammer. You look at that in silhouette, and it's basically just two claw hammers joined together. So it creates a double hammerhead, and then you've got two shafts. It was as simple as that. And I guess, like we were talking about before, there's always that drive to create something interesting. And I don't like doing stuff that's already been done.
I remember the early thing with this, Paul, I thought I'd nailed it straight away. I was like, they're basically after the Blockade Runner from Star Wars. So I did this. Hang on, I'm not even sharing my screen, sorry. Okay, so this is the first version I did, which was like the Star Citizen Corellian Blockade Runner, basically. You've seen this, yeah? And so straight away off the bat, I was like, I've got this. This is going to be the quickest one ever. I know exactly what you're after, and I put this together. And then I remember we chatted about it, Paul, didn't we? And Paul just went, far too obvious. I'm not even sure I showed Chris. Well, we quite quickly got to the, I'll just show you the next version we got to quite quickly. So this was somewhat of a compromising version. You can see the DNA warping from one to another over these images.
Yeah, that's right. And then basically, Chris wanted all the guns to be able to fire on one point. So that was then that shape change that happened.