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Like an orchestra, if an instrument is out of tune the whole composition just doesn't feel right. The Hiigaran Carrier was being developed to the same level as the Pirate's – but things were still very early in their creative process and not every piece was fine tuned. We were moving rapidly sketching, building, texturing, and adding polishing touches on the Hiigaran Faction. So I parked the problem for another date to gear up for our first gameplay trailer. Rob Cunningham finally put it into perspective, it was 'too derivative of Homeworld 2 and doesn't feel fresh'. Something just didn't quite mesh with the rest of the Raiders faction identity- their visual language was more brutalist and imposing with angular lines and animalistic pageantry. 'The Pirate Carrier was very far in production, but at the back of my head it just didn't feel right. We went so far that it was the basis for our capital destruction system.'

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The idea sounded solid, so we built it in traditional linear development from early sketches, full concept, even building a final asset to be used in. The concept team came up with the idea of using the Civilian Tanker from Homeworld 2 as a base with the backstory of Pirates stealing civilian ships retrofitting them as their own. Design needed a small fleet to introduce early game mechanics and the only nugget for faction identity was 'Pirates that hide in terrain fields' Our first intuition was to start with some earlier concepts from Homeworld 2 to get inspired. 'Sometime in 2020 we were workshopping ideas for the Kalan Raiders, back then we just called them Pirates – the story was still very early in its evolution and we focused more on their visual backstory.