Currently what we have is a picture of a planet with a faction specific fleet in the inky night of space, which is fine since we spend most of our game time out in the black but we also spend a lot of time micromanaging the systems and its development so it  would be a nice touch to instead of having the traditional ships and planet a cityscape or a panorama of the faction specific landscape,

The lush forest like cities of the Unfallen,

The dense stacks of the united empire,

The carefully sculpted building forms of the Horatio or even the markets of the Lumeris,

Would be a cool touch the look of the game, almost like an animated splash art.

I do think the System Development Level illustration is a missed chance for some simple gif illustrations of local architecture, but I put forward this idea before and it got shot down.

IceGremlin wrote:

I do think the System Development Level illustration is a missed chance for some simple gif illustrations of local architecture, but I put forward this idea before and it got shot down.

ah , that's sad to hear