Forum:KOTOR ships and Tales of the jedi ships

I am surprised that I never thought about this before but why are the ships in Tales of the Jedi, all organic-looking, and seem to be poorly put together, but not 50 years later in the KOTOR comic series we see ships that seem completely modern and streamlined. Some ships are the model such as the Mandalorian battleship. We see it in Tales of the Jedi as an oddly organic ship but in KOTOR it is completely modern. Another example is the Mandalorian troopship User:Revanthereformer1138