Season 1 – Deathwalker
Two of them heading into the station’s local Jump Gate.

Season 1 – Deathwalker

This is a reply / comment from April 1994.

"On the ships...when Ron was pulling together the ships for that episode, we talked about it on the phone for a while, and I have to take the rap for the saucers...which I still think are cool.  I said, in essence, why the hell not?  Ron thought it was a great idea, and went and made it real.  I think if we ever see this kind of ship again, it'll need some more work, a little more weight and substance, some more detail, but they're okay."

That was presumably the same conversation where he suggested the mini Death Star type thing Ron mentioned on the previous page – which became the Iksha Battle Globe.

The above quote can be found by following this link.  The JMSNews indexing system sometimes changes, so hopefully it still points to the correct thing.

Vree (Xorr) Destroyer

This is the other one from Deathwalker that never came back.  A fair few of the questions I asked the contributors were either based on things I’d seen fans discussing on boards – or on something I’d read from jms.  The idea was to maybe expand on something he touched on, or get info relevant to the discussions.  That was the theory anyway.  So what was this about jms wanting a flying saucer – and were phone calls chatting about that kind of thing common?  In a moment of weakness I'd also asked the classic - what's your favourite ship design (mine was/is the Eagle).

Extracts from interview with Ron Thornton

"Favourite!!??  Anything from 2001.  (Which the eagle is trying to capture in style)."

"This saucer is another one I designed and built, the rotating parts were animated sections of the model not just animated textures.  I’ve always had a design philosophy that I try to stick to which is - good physics with a pinch of artistic license, :) like the oversized guns being added for a bit of a giggle.  We did occasionally discuss things like this over the telephone though meetings were the usual way to do things and that didn’t change much over time."