Official Concept Art Compilation

nice find bro, thanks

 

Cool stuff! Thanks.

On a side note, did you guys see the clarification on the Banu Merchantman's concept art? That's the back of the ship facing us, not the front. It really changes the image of the ship when you look at it that way.

 

Nevermind found the source

https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/84647/merchant-man-front-confirmation#latest


And if read way into the thread like page 35 on, the Support guy Ben seems to be back tracking and is not sure what end is the front. So the pointy side still may yet be the front end.

Here is Ben directly responding in the thread https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/comment/1499457/#Comment_1499457

 

Also one of their Concept Artist seems a bit confused on it as well

https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/comment/1438481/#Comment_1438481

 

Ben Lesnick | wcloaf said:
"As promised, I've spoken with Chris Olivia, who confirms that the elongated end (on the right of the picture) is intended as the front of the ship."

Ben meant that the pointy towers were the back of the ship. His backtraking was him trying to clarify. The quote at the top should put the issue to rest that the initial conceptions were correct, that the small side is the front.

 

Well... aren't I just a dunce?

 

you said it, not me.........

 

Ben's initial comment was pretty vague and sparked a 50 page debate in the general forums. Too many people are jumping at the smallest bit of information, I was waiting on this issue because the person that gave the information out was Ben, and he is a community manager, not a design guy.