The splash screen stopped describing the ship and showed it.

what happened

David Friedrich decided that a screen asking two people to sit down might as well show them what they would be sitting in, and put the real hull on both seat cards - traced off the same point list the game flies, so it can never drift into being a different ship. Player two's seat then stopped pretending to be taken: frame out, name and keys stepped back, engine cold, and the only thing still burning on it is the key that lights it.

landed as “Both seats hold a ship now, and the empty one holds it cold”