There are some design motifs, and general shape language we desired to implement into the ships to help the ships visually fit into their appropriate categories. These ones also had to feel like they fit into a family - not unlike the Scimitar, and its sister ships, the Falchion & Tulwar.Īs with many other bundles, each of the three ships were going to slightly lean towards one of the career paths in the game, Tactical, Science, & Engineering.
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The challenge was to integrate the lionfish motif with ever present bird element of previous Romulan ships.Īfter concepts & sketches of these new Romulan ships were approved, we had a fairly specific goal to accomplish: a very Romulan looking series of ships in the vein of the Scimitar. While on flight the ships should look like lionfishes on the hunt. They win by pure intimidation alone.Įven though the designs use the Scimitar as a starting point, during concept what I really had in mind was a lionfish. Their aggressive looks and massive sizes should be enough to make any alien race to think it twice before attacking them.
Just like on Earth, authoritarian regimes love immense war machines to show off their power.
In the spirit of my previous Romulan designs, (just like the Romulan Star Empire) these ships want to look bigger than they really are. What if the Romulans had the chance to design a ship with Reman’s Scimitar capabilities and transforming abilities? That’s the rationale behind the Shamshir, Flambard and Kopesh designs, the latest offspring of the technology exchange between Romulans and Remans.