August 2023 for delivery seems...ambitious, but we will see!
I think a fast turnaround for the campaign should be fairly easy; there are not quite 20 sculpts total between each of the three pledge versions, and since the majority of the stretch goals are printed items, they probably already have worked out all of the sprue management and tooling decisions for the model prototypes before launch.
I would liked to have seen more from the original game (ion array frigate, research ship, resource collector) but I understand those would be harder to translate to the flat stands of the campaign. Or even unique ships like the Junkyard Dog, but a one-off ship makes no sense for injection plastic… sigh. The cards are supposed to bring in class variety to the ships represented in plastic, and given the progress so far I do not know what new physicals they would put up as stretch goals apart from cloaked versions of more standard models beside the fighters already in transparent form.
The Tabletopia mission Modiphius put up is implemented well, but in order to play that mission as solitaire opposed to two player really requires a printout of the AI pages from the draft rulebook to work, so I will be waiting on my pledge to arrive.
