Aww, was hoping the Monitor would have a Large Universal and be just a terrific brick otherwise
Anyhow, great job on these; I love the Heron and I think the Cerebus will be a great hit with players who want uber-Hounds
The Shuttle, though. It's always felt fat and I'm not sure that adding a third gun will do much besides hide the sprite- honestly, the problem with that ship is stats-related (it's too slow, doesn't manuever fast enough, and has a pretty worthless System).
Instead of sticking another turret on it, which makes it essentially the same as the Hermes, I'd rather see its form suggest more speed and be zippier stats-wise- a flimsy vessel that survives by out-running, not out-gunning. Maybe something like this?
Oh, and lastly, on color. As the Factions get a little more sorted out, I think it's going to be more important that they have a definite scheme.
When I think "Hegemony", I think the brown/red/gray of Onslaughts and Enforcers, as opposed to the slightly redder palette of the Pirates (although I feel like they're sharing too many ships atm and if nothing else, need some palette-changed versions to be more differentiated).
The off-white shades I think of as Independent colors and blues are Tri-Tachyon. I've never thought of the gray ships like the Eagle as "Hegemony" ships; they've always screamed, "placeholder art".
I know we don't have Independents any more or they're being retconned or whatever, but frankly, I can't think of them as "Diktat" yet because the Diktat is very formless as a faction atm, other than their beautiful System.
I'd like to see variations on the ships' paint jobs that gives the Factions a more uniform feeling, just like you'd expect in the real world. It's the one aspect of "form following function" in the art that never quite feels right- either paint is a functional element (radar-absorptive or whatnot) and we'd expect rigid control of it across surfaces and materials (like stealth craft today) or it's just paint and it's space, where you're not going to ever be close enough to target things visually, so why not have bold, nationalistic livery on military craft. I guess that's just me, though