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What can you tell us about the development of the Polaris?

TL;DRNo one is actively working on the Polaris and no one is scheduled to start in the near term, though work on the Constellation and Bengal designs is helping prepare for it.

John CreweVehicle Pipeline Director

So the Polaris is not in active development. There is no one physically working on the ship. But that doesn't mean the ship's not coming along, because like a lot of our ships, we build the style guide and we build up. So the work for the Carrack, which we'll talk about, has been helped by doing the Valkyrie, which was helped by doing the Terrapin. So we built up slowly. This is what an Anvil fighter looks like. Here's a small multi-crew. Here's a medium multi-crew. Here's a large multi-crew. And we're sort of doing the reverse. Well, we're doing both sides of it with the Polaris. So we've got the Connies, that have set sort of one style of RSI. And then we have the Bengal, which we're fleshing out pretty well for Squadron, on the other end. And the Polaris sort of fits in between the two. The actual concept used a lot of the Bengal design and it used a lot of the Constellation design and just sort of fused them into one ship. So the developments on each side of it are helping streamline that ship for when we get to actually having some artists on it and building it. They're not going to have to spend time sort of noodling around trying to figure out what the style guide for this ship is, because they'll have all these pieces to pull from. But there is no one physically working on it directly, and it's not in the near term scheduled to have anyone start work on it. But that's all, I'm afraid.

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Published on this date.7 Dec 2018