Including the U.S.S.Typhonand the Valkyrie Mk.
Theres a lot of people out there who love these old games, and who love these ships.
What isStar Trek Onlinebut a watering hole for all these amazingStar Trekships, andStar Trekconcepts and stories?
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Marrones hankering nostalgia forTreks gaming history came at a perfect time inStar Trek Onlines production cycle.
What do with this window?
And I thought Hey, lets take advantage of that and get some these classicStar Trekgame ships.
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That was really important to me, as someone whos a fan of those games too.
That was really, really cool, Swallow told io9.
The design wassocool, and then seeing it reinvigorated and brought back to life, its just amazing.
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But now seeing it, its just amazing.
For Marrone, this process is as much restorative as it is anything else.
The analogy I use is sort of wiping the grease off the lens to bring it into focus.
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But then were like well, what if ILM built this model?
How would they do it, what would they want it to look like?
We did the same thing with theAchillesand thePremonition.
I want to shout out Tobias Richter, who did theTyphonand theAchillesmodels, he did a great job.
We hired Eric Henry, who has a wonderful YouTube channel about starships.
The model inArmadais a really basic, low detail model.
It was an RTS from 2000, right?
It was very low triangle count, very low-res textures.
Eric, hes my go to guy when I have a hard design problem to solve.
TheTyphonand theAchillesare ships of their era.
Were always thinking How does this fit in with the lore?
Thats something that everybody says when theyre working onStar Trek.
Youve got to honor the past and venture to break new ground.
I think theres an appropriate time and place to do thatwith us, it was for theAchillesand theTyphon.
ThePremonitiongave us a little more room to play with.
Star Trek Onlines Heritage Ship Bundle is available today, July 24, on PC.
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