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March 10, 2020 |
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Commentary for March 10, 2020: Well, here we go! Time for the first real space battle of Eon’s World Vol. 1 (but certainly not the last)! In Eon’s Comic, I used Cruiziler from Mega Man X for a long time to fill in for the various ships used by GUN, Doctor Eggman, and the Echidna Empire. I edited the sprites a little for each, but aside from being thoroughly repainted, they were essentially the same ship, and that was how it was up until 2005, when I introduced some of my own ship designs to replace them. I didn’t want that for this remake, which is why I made the Mako class Egg Frigate, first featured in Chapter 18, and now this, GUN’s Protector class cruiser. In 2005, I made a ship that was just a ‘GUN battlecruiser’, which I later dubbed the Samanfur the Fox class cruiser when I introduced new ship classes over the following years. The idea was that it was brand new and had replaced the old Cruiziler derived ships. I did recreate the Samanfur the Fox class for Eon’s World Vol. 2, but it only appeared in Chapter 1, in very distant background shots, barely visible, and while I considered using that model for this chapter (which I would have renamed the Protector class, because GUN wouldn’t have named a ship after an only recently elected President), I decided that I can do a lot better now. I completely retconned the makeup of GUN’s fleet at this time and created the Protector, a wholly new class of ship -- that is to say, new to Eon’s World, but actually quite old in-universe. These ships have been in service for decades at this point, but will fulfil the same role in Eon’s World that both the Cruiziler derived ship and the Samanfur the Fox class cruiser did in Eon’s Comic. Now, I realise that the design aesthetic of the Protector is similar to the Invincible as of Vol. 2, Chapter 8. That’s a deliberate design choice. I could have gone for something closer in appearance to the ships seen in Vol. 2, season 1, but I just didn’t want to. I can do a lot better than that now and, honestly, you should prepare yourselves for Star Trek: Discovery style incongruities between the appearances of the ships in Vol. 2, season 1 and Vol. 1, seasons... well, whenever they appear... because they are going to look more like they do from Vol. 2, season 2 onwards than they did in Vol. 2, season 1. That includes iconic hero ships like the Invincible. I’m not precious about this sort of thing. The Enterprise looked amazing in Star Trek: Discovery, after all. I don’t care if it wasn’t fully consistent with how it looked on a low budget sci-fi show from over 50 years ago, and you shouldn’t care if any of my ships don’t look the same now as they did when I wasn’t as good at making 3D models in SketchUp. What matters is that they be true to the idea and spirit of the original. Credits: Blaze the Cat sprites originally by Kaijin. |
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