John Crewe · Vehicle Pipeline Director

Not everyone hates the Redeemer. I'm sure there's someone who likes it.

Jared Huckaby · Host, Community

Talk to me about the Redeemer.

John Crewe · Vehicle Pipeline Director

It's a weird ship. Obviously it came out of the Next Great Starship series and we hired some of the developers on it. And at one point it was used in Squadron quite a lot. So it was all there, ready to go. And just as the pipeline progressed, we sort of found more and more problems with it as a ship that we didn't catch in the original pass on it, partly because those metrics or systems didn't exist. So it's no fault of the people that did it that they didn't account for future designs. And you get to a point with some ships where you're just nibbling away at doing them, going, I need to do a bit here, I need to do a bit there, where it becomes uneconomical to spend the time just patching them up. And you go, right, this needs to be completely redone from scratch. It doesn't fit metrics. It doesn't fit all the gameplay that's supposed to go in here. It's not an optimal-for-performance layout. And it's a weird gunship, dropship hybrid. It was in Squadron because of the dropship aspect, not the gunship aspect. But it only could carry six people, I think, which isn't a great dropship. So when we came to the realization that, right, we need to do this from scratch, it was a case of, if we're doing it from scratch, it needs to be better than this. But are there other things we could do? And that's where the Vanguard Hoplite came from, because we had that chassis built and it was relatively quick to get the interior of that stripped out and put a new one in. It was the same dimensions. It just slotted in. And then over time, we sort of went, actually, it would be great if it could carry more than the Vanguard Hoplite carries. And that's where the Valkyrie came from.

Jared Huckaby · Host, Community

So the Valkyrie has taken its place inside Squadron 42.

John Crewe · Vehicle Pipeline Director

Yeah, the Valkyrie has taken its place as the dropship inside Squadron 42, and when we redo the Redeemer, it will be coming back as a proper gunship.