I did this design for the DCO MMO, and it got built and used at quite a few of the demos SONY had of the game at conventions... when the game came out, a lot of Braniac's stuff got redesigned and got more ..umhhhh... 'Gears of War-ish', which was pretty cool too, but when I had initially designed all the Braniac-related stuff I was riffing on something more 60's slick-silhouettes with a DEFINITE touch of War of the Worlds!
I was a bit bummed that this 'look' didn't quite make it to the final game, but it was pretty cool having seen it at a number of the demos.... eventually, this was shrunken down and used more as a smaller drone... originally, this thing was HUUUUUUUGE, again, more like the size of the War of the Worlds ships.
thank you very much... this is actually based on the old school Braniac-Ship design from the 80's... I did my own twist on it, but I wanted to make sure there were still classic elements on it from the old-school design!