What I meant is that looks wise, the Dorkir/Lumbari/Dorkathi had a LOT more distinctive look than the Kilrathi transports in WC3 and WC4 (which don't even have a name!), so in this case, if I had to choose between a WC2 design and a WC3 design I'd go for the former. About slight changes (which happen anyway when the model is being done by someone else), they can be explained away as such: if you look the WC2 rapier is a little different than the WC1 rapier -- particle guns instead of neutrons for example. It's reasonable to say that a Priv-era Dorkathi would have a few differences from a WC2-era Dorkathi, maybe an extra turret, or a paint scheme that's more in line with the other Kilrathi ships we are using. This is really why I'm not being too accurate for things like weapon loadout on fighters -- time has passed, a lot more weapons seem to be available from WC2 to Priv, and so on. Plus, loadouts change sometimes -- the Sabre in WC2 had two different loadouts, plus a third (almost all torpedos) which you use in the final mission -- this tells me that missile hardpoints are at least somewhat flexible. Most Confed fighters use tachyon guns instead of particle cannons because from what I saw in PrivR that's confed-specific technology, so maybe they're phasing out older equipment, in fact if you notice, the main difference between a Confed caernaven and a BW caernaven is that the first has tachyon turrets and the second has neutron and stormfire turrets (I am guessing that stormfire is something that BW'ers like since it's used a lot in WC4, and it's conceptually low-tech enough to fit in an earlier game). Guns seem to be VERY modular in the WC universe, enough so that there's no significant overcharge to mount or unmount a $1000 laser gun and the player is able to adapt a Steltek weapon to his ship with the sort of basic tools you'd carry in your spaceship on everyday missions, so swapping them out isn't that much of a big deal -- it's probably a few bolts and a power socket of some sort, I would guess. Of course militaries would tend to stick to a standard, but what stops them from upgrading the standard -- the USAF is flying 60 year old B-52's with upgraded electronics and engines, for example.
