Looks like it’s going to be available as a frameset (presumably with forks as the fortitude was), with at least one colour option (grey & blue it says in the comments on the page linked to above).
1 1/8″ headtube is presumably because it (like the fortitude) uses a non suspension corrected steel fork, and the likelihood/possibility of running anything else is limited? There’s plenty of 29er frames to choose from that cater for bouncy forks anyway.
I actually quite like the colour, goes with the adventure theme, much like the old singular hummingbird.