Do you feel there is any room in the lore for a newish Tevarin manufacturer in the verse?
TL;DRAdam says there is room in the lore for a new Tevarin manufacturer, via government support or the Branaugh settlement, but notes the narrative team doesn't decide which ships get made.
I think the easy answer is there is space in the lore for it. With the way the Tevarin are currently going, not only are they starting to have a resurgence within the UEE, the first Tevarin senator, Soush Kozy, was elected and re-elected from Elysium, which was the Tevarin's original home world. And he's been pushing to get more Tevarin involved in the UEE, involved in the government, so it could be something like him pushing for government subsidies to be able to support a manufacturer of a new Tevarin ship line within the UEE. There's also a settlement in Branaugh, which is an unclaimed system, so it's not part of the UEE. But a lot of the Tevarin diaspora that maybe didn't quite feel at home in the UEE, or just wanted to go to a place where their culture was all their own, have started their own giant community there. There's a growing population of Tevarin there. So there's also an angle where we could potentially have some kind of manufacturer come out of the Branaugh system that's basically making more modern Tevarin ships for what they need out there. It's definitely there, though we do have to couch it in saying that what ships get made and what their functions are aren't our choice. We're part of that process, but we're normally not the ones that are driving that conversation. But we put in those little areas, so if a ship like that is desired or talked about, we can support it.