[Atrocities]

I have always wondered how many of my designs end up being used by RPG's and such, well I now have my answer. People who design images for game companies, or are illustrators for tv shows or movies are always scowering the net for concept works and ideas. I just found out that one of the designers for many of the Decipher RPG Star Trek Games lives near me, in the same town. That came as a shock.

Not saying he has ever taken any of my ideas and used them, but I know others have. I think everyone who has ever designed anything has a feeling of dread that his or her work will be hijacked and used by someone else to make money. Oh well, that is life. I make ship images for this game because I enjoy doing it and I hope, as I am sure most ship set developers do, that people enjoy them and use them often.

The ships I created for use with the Star trek races, namily the Dominion, Hirogen, Andorian, Son'a, and Cardassian consist mostly of one of kind images that I had to create to round off the set. Sure there are images inspired by other images, and thank god for them, but many of the images I use came from my own sick and twisted imagination. It is very gratifying to see something come together that for the most part was just a flicker of an idea in your minds eye. I can see how doing this for a living could be very rewarding.

How Aaron could come up with 21 ship sets for this game impresses the hell out of me. I hope that in SE V, there is room for many more.