Regarding modularity of the Caterpiller, some elements of the design (like the repair/salvage "chopshop" for example) seem to need external access to outer space, others (like a crew module) would ideally not have that exposure. Will there be limitations on what order the modules can be assembled in order to have the correct access to the airlock in the forward module, or will some of these modular units have their own external airlocks so they can be assembled without order restriction?asked by Solis Obscuri

Talking with a lot of the designers, we discussed that each module is going to be designed with the thought that it will need to be interfaced with all the other modules around it. And some of the modules will have their airlock, some of them are going to open up directly to the outside like we talked about, like the clam shells opening up a little bit, so that way thing can be set up like the ramp, you helped me out with how some of the modules linking how they would fit in with the other ones.

Sure.

We played around with the concept of the side opening; the whole side turning into a ramp; and so there's going to be some restrictions, for instance the front module is going to be set up to where only the front module can be changed out for the front modules and then the other modules are basically the same module that can go in there. And then the players can basically make their choice on what modules are there.

Sure but it seems like it's going to be less of a Lego type of system and more of a these are the particular module types that can go into this bay of the ship itself.

Yeah, that was one of the things we played with. We had some ideas of making a restriction where; we had some other ideas where the players must put in all personnel modules, let them! So we're still up in the air about whether we're going to let them just do whatever they want or set it to be pure restrictions. So it kind of matches the question but we're still thinking about it and we have a lot of modules planned.