Sarah McCullough · Vehicle Concept Artist

It can be. It can be difficult. I suppose I would reference every Aegis ship that we have. We use a ref board for a lot of this, and then we've got spaceship kits. We import them and we can have a look over every sort of... all we've done, cockpits, landing gears, wing shapes, and try and steer away a little bit and break out.

Jared Huckaby · Host, Community

Right, because there's nothing that says we can't expand a brand. Look at what the Mantis does for RSI. I think one of the common misconceptions or traps that everybody can get into, not just us here, but the community, is thinking that a manufacturer can only be this or thinking that a manufacturer can only be that. Obviously, we base the entire manufacturer system on much like the real world. Look at a manufacturer like Mitsubishi. Mitsubishi can make sports cars like the Evo or the 3000GT and then make giant 18-wheel tractor trailers and then make tanks and then make televisions, and none of them look anything alike, but they all come from Mitsubishi or different divisions of Mitsubishi. The same way, if you invert the example and you look at just one particular model, something like the Mustang. Look at the Ford Mustang from 1960 to 2010 and look at how much even one individual model from one manufacturer can change over the course of years. With our history being 940 years in the future, many of our ship manufacturers have existed in the lore for hundreds of years. So if Ford can change the Mustang so much in just 40 years, how can Aegis grow? How can Anvil grow within the course of 100 years?

Sarah McCullough · Vehicle Concept Artist

Well, that's it. I suppose it's interesting because you see the new Fiats now. They've brought the old model from the past to the future now. But it's got that same style, but it's still relatively, well, it is new. And as you say, I'd expect to see these.

Jared Huckaby · Host, Community

The new Fiat's a good example of that. A bad example of that would be like the PT Cruiser. They're trying to bring back a woodie, and just like, no, that didn't work.

Sarah McCullough · Vehicle Concept Artist

Yeah, that's it. But then you've got people that love the classics, don't you? Like cars, like the Volkswagen Beetles.

Jared Huckaby · Host, Community

And then you have another phenomenon, like how manufacturers can affect other manufacturers and influence them. Like when the Dodge Charger came out, the first generation revamped Dodge Charger in like 2005, 2004, I don't know the year specifically. You then saw that trickle over to Ford when they redid the Mustang, to Chevy when they redid the Camaro. To everybody. And they all shared cues with that Charger. So a really popular design choice and design aesthetic from one manufacturer then went and influenced others. So when you see an Aegis ship and people go, oh, that looks more like Anvil. Or when you see an Origin ship, oh, that looks more like Crusader or something like that. Some of that's intentional. We love that mixture of styles and the history just like we do in the real world.

Sarah McCullough · Vehicle Concept Artist

Yeah, you expect to see, I suppose, cues. It's like, ah, that's got the DNA of Aegis, like the Nautilus, which is quite, as I say, it's quite different for Aegis. But it's really cool, and you can see its DNA within that, so it's really cool.