Quick Question: I can't recall off hand if there is a difference between the KS and original version of Victory Streak concerning this. I recall the K'ha'haf getting extra treatment in the KS version.
An 'intell' warning about the k Ha Haf gets appended to the list of Kilrathi aces... but the Sorthak note is unchanged (although it gets a typewriter font to make it look like a WW2 military memo.)
Both ships get added to the Joan's supplement, which is where the K Ha Haf gets its name (which no one can ever remember... or, thanks to the font used, be sure what the proper capitalization is. It doesn't have apostrophes, though - just "K Ha Haf.") The Ekapshi also gets an entry, but the Bloodfang does not.
Thank you very much for the VDU images - it's only now that I saw the long nose was depicted!
If you haven't seen them yet, check out the index pages in /ships2 to see all the VDUs together... it's pretty cool! I want to do another page that's *all* of them from the different games in one big chart...
And while I know the Gothri picture you posted, I don't remember it being in the game either
There's another interesting bit of unused art on the back of the WC2 box... a WC1-style (young) Blair with a group of photographers in the background saying one of his lines from the intro ("I'm not guilty, I won't sign it," or thereabouts.)
And not to forget that the T-Bolt and Longbow certainly are large fighters. Only the Armada ships are longer than the Longbow, IIRC.
The Sorthak is supposed to be the same length as the Longbow (38 meters.) And I believe you are correct about the Armada ships - the Banshee holds the record (43 meters.)
Reminds me of the model they used in Privateer... is that even possible? Privateer came out a few years later, although I suppose they could have reused the model.
I believe they're the same model with different textures. The shot linked above seems to be a straight rendering of the ship with its WC2 textures... similar to the 'cinematic' establishing shots you occasionally see of the Waterloo or the Concordia. No such scene with a Gothri appears in the finished game, though...
(Privateer almost reused another WC2 model, too - there's a version of the 'prototype' Strakha in Privateer textures out there...)