Are there still original Tevarin ships, or just replicas by Esperia?
TL;DRThe team thinks original Tevarin ships likely still exist, noting a cache found in the Kabal system release, and says a new Tevarin manufacturer would be possible like any UEE company.
I mean, I think the universe is big enough that you've got to imagine there's still ships out there. There's metals from the wars, and there's got to be still collected replicas, or things that have been lost and not found, that are out there. I think it'd be hard to imagine that there's nothing anywhere.
And it was part of the Kabal system release, that they had found basically a cache of original Tevarin ships and weapons and stuff like that. And that's what Esperia was given access to, in order to be able to recreate, I think it was the Prowler. I'm not sure. But one of the ships that they designed was based off of original scans that they had done of an actual, authentic Tevarin [ship].
Because the Tevarin had that... they can't manufacture new stuff after the war? Or am I remiss?
Well, they were basically assimilated. As a culture, they were assimilated. Going back to the earlier question about whether there could be a new Tevarin manufacturer, it's certainly possible. If a Tevarin decides, hey, I want to make a new ship, and they've set up a company and they want to build it, they're members of the UEE, so technically it would be like any other company.