How does the hospital ship and the ambulance tie into the death of a spaceman mechanic? Will the hospital ship be used as a mobile respawn point?asked by Alpha 17

So, yes - that is the intent. So the intention with the hospital ship is to have the functionality that you would get in a hospital, down on a planet-side (which is essentially where you would respawn, or you would go to fix up critical injuries) be able to be mobile, and be able to be maybe in a system that there wouldn't normally be a planet that has that. The ambulance is sort of the idea which is what we've got with the rescue on the Cutlass Red. The idea is that that's a place where you could go and pick someone up that's badly injured in space in a way that maybe they would "lose a life" per the "Death of a Spaceman" mechanic, but if you get them in the ambulance, get them on the bed, fix them up, patch them up, you can sort of save that life. Because the idea is that every one of your characters only has so many lives before the body totally gives out and you've gotta move onto the next of kin, and you know, the designated successor. And so the Cutlass Red - the ambulance basically - and the hospital ships are both ways of enhancing or increasing your survivability, and making it that you won't lose a life. So they'll fix you up, or it can be sort of a respawn point, so to speak.