Re: Things that make you go "Ummmm."

Ground Zero Games wrote:
> Point 2: The designs were actually inspired by the lovely biomech
ships in
> Johji Manabe's "Outlanders" (and yes, this is also where the name for
the
> Sa'Vasku was pinched from - the alien empire in Outlanders is the
> Santovasku Empire....). The ships in said manga are living organisms,
very
> snail-like in configuration, firing energy bolts from the "mouth" of
their
> long main hull/body.

Yup, all the unintentional extras were already present in Manabe's
original
designs. See:
http://rama.pds.twi.tudelft.nl/~frits/tuffleyverse/gallery/

Frits
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