2008, 2012, 2018.. can't say they didn't take the fast road with this one.. Not bad either I have to say.
Not to minimize the ship design, which is great, but I love that phaser design! I'd love to take that into three dimensions.
I've always loved this ship. Even more so because you were a fellow Imagine user. I remember downloading an image of this decades ago and watching it resolve line-by-line. It was shockingly bold for its time, and I'm sure I have a copy of it somewhere in my archives. It's good to see this project still getting some attention, though I'm disappointed it sounds like you're closing that chapter of your life. Tobias Richter was another Imagine user -- he did an amazing Enterprise-D back in that period that was so big my Amiga couldn't render the whole project. But I used pieces of it for a role-playing game I used to run back then. Of course, he's gotten a lot of attention in recent years and is a frequent contributor to the Ship of the Line calendar series.