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I guess before he left Relic Entertainment, Rob Cunningham (concept artist for Homeworld and Homeworld 2), drew this ship... a Taiidan "Warthog". To my knoweldge, it was the only specifically Taiidan ship drawn for Homeworld 2.

I was told he released it to the community, and allowed moders and artists to use the design to represent a Taiidan craft.

I decided to give it my own treatment and cleaned up the design. In my version of homeworld canon, this is the "Type 38" heavy fighter. It was designed after the Taiidan broke away from the Vaygr, and was seen as the greatest step forward in Taiidan shipbuilding in the past 100 years.

The FX-21 was conceived initially as a response to this fighter.

Original design = Rob Cunningham, Relic Entertainment.
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*Arcas-Art Apr 24, 2013  Professional General Artist
FOSS+! Sexy and inspiring design.
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~Outcast111 May 9, 2011  Student Digital Artist
I wonder: if this ship had been released for HW2, in what mission would it have made its appearance...?

Maybe as a recruit-able republican mercenary taiidan fighter squadron during the third mission...???
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:iconnorsehound:
Republicans are Dead.

Even if they weren't, they're so anti-military and so pro-"domestic spending" that they would never have crafted anything as effective as the warthog. They would have leached off the Hiigarans instead.

In my Opinion.
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:iconamddred:
Also, this one looks like very heavy interceptor || very light corvette :)
Taii cross-class vessel again :)
I guess, it`s function is similar to vaygr lancefighters. Smth like sniper strike craft.
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:iconamddred:
Are you sure that it has rocket launcher? Simply, it`s to much weapons for the fighter, IMHO
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:iconrazzor89:
good wery good... keep going wiht homeworld. i aprishate it :)
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:icon6prince-of-darkness6:
Hm, interesting. Especially the weapon complement. You said that it would carry missiles and be one step below a Corvette; would it kinda be like the Somtaaw Acolytes, with a single-shot missile launcher and some heavier mass driver?
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~scrooge0 Aug 18, 2008  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Cooooooooooooooooolllll
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:iconjack07:
wow

impressive design, and it effectively echos back to the old Taiidan ships

the off center gun reminds me of their intercepter
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:iconoutcastvalkyrie:
huh

That's really cool...
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