I know Sayger’s style is controversial (I personally liked it), but regardless what you think of it, this seems to have been the alternative:
This was on BS01, along with a few other panels, as “Test work created by independent artist Steve Simmons for LEGO” - does anyone know the story here?
The story is that I didn’t need to sleep anyway, not after seeing that Kalmah…
Those Barraki are nightmare fuel - they’re almost set accurate, but with enough distortion and organic texturing to make me hate it. 
I also find it funny that Kongu seems to be giving the orders there - the artist must have not been too versed on the lore and who these characters were (or it just wasn’t revealed who the sets corresponded to).
Well he is the one with two guns…
I’m pretty sure the artist must have just not been given any lore details - here’s the rest of the panels:
https://biosector01.com/wiki/Gallery:Comics#Toa_Mahri_Concept_Comic
Yeah, that’s weird. Interesting, but weird