Honestly, I felt weird when I looked back at some of my older pieces and saw they were from earlier this year. They felt longer ago, especially given how much my general graphics style has evolved since then. It's been both an incredibly short and incredibly long year.
I'm definitely inclined towards doing updates of the older ones. The only thing is that I do also want to do other original ones, like the Ramapala and Bushi, so it's a question of working out which ones I'd want to prioritise. There's also the fun I made for myself with some of them with some of their hull shapes that are awkward to 'shade' with Inkscape- I've been using gradients very heavily to make these recent ones.
As for why they were so short in service, the Imperium of All Mankind was effectively a neo-imperialist clique that took over Alpha Centauri via coup, and their war against UNSA was modelled somewhat on that of the SBA except they went even more extreme down dreadnought mentality. The Bushi did inspire a lot of subsequent escort-class design but the original Bushi was pulling in too many directions at once. Any Bushi class ships that survived and were cannibalised by a space navy post-war would have probably had design alterations and a new class designation. The Siege Perilous had a similar issue in being tied to a neo-imperialist military, in this case the 'original' such movement, but was also very expensive to manufacture and maintain. A 1400+ metre battleship was theoretically plausible for a number of worlds to construct but at the time it was considered less resource and crew efficient than having more, smaller battleships, and was very much seen as a platform for aggression rather than a justifiable defensive military asset. In the case of the Siege Perilous the two that survived the war have specific histories in UNSA service as the redesignated (and refitted) Pangaea class, though I might well actually do a mockup of the Pangaea refit at some stage.
It's not just a tongue in cheek name, they are VERY explicitly modelled on the Second British Empire but far more flash in the pan. They also made their goal 'go and try to capture the Solar System' rather than a systematic occupation of human space, which was both a more realistic objective and also not a realistic objective at all.
