Ship Evolution
I suppose you all know how the look of ships evolve. For example, all the Liberty ships are based on winged eagles, with the exception of the Rhino (which I'll come to in a minute). The Civilian class is the best to look at, with the Starflier going to Startracker and then Hawk, Falcon, Eagle. There's also the Bounty Hunters Piranha, (which I found is actually quite nice to fly) Barracuda and Hammerhead. They're all names and looks on a theme.
But what I noticed is a lot of them also have similar cockpits. Something very weird struck me: I got a Rhino at the beginning of my new game after my good one (5 million credits, Omicron Gamma, max level, Titan with nomad weapons and codenames etc...) corrupted... And it was ok. I did a mission or two with its good number of guns for Liberty, and then traded Pharmaceuticals to Pittsburgh and Boron back to Manhattan. I noticed that its cockpit and frontal area bear an almost exact resemblance to that of the bounty hunter fighters, with the same windows and upright bit at the front.
The Rhino is the Liberty freighter and not a Bounty Hunter one. Do you think the BHs maybe copied the design for their ships...?