what should the style of my new faction be?
the coloring
ROSEtints I like going with sleek ships that look aesthetically pleasing, and also are functional. I mainly focus on aesthetics, but when I want a ship to fight and look nice, I do both.
ROSEtints You could check out my Ship painting thread for examples of paint-jobs people have done before.
well.. (if using ship as an example.) using curves then flat edged, overall curved shape. I use a specific style which smooth curved come to fine points, of course you can use it too if you want.. (like this ship)
I just used the line and bump style (And a lot of drone cores) I got a trick with the cores (they power everything so your crew doesn't need to go out and get power)
You could have spikes on flat bits and curves on corners or curved spikes