What happens to the bodies of players killed during boarding actions?Will they need to be physically dragged to the nearest airlock, or will there be some other solution?asked by Erraticus

What we were thinking is that if someone gets killed in a boarding action, and if members of your team who are trying to board the ship or vise versa, manage to recover the body and get it back to a med bay, some of the bigger ships will have med bays, or you've got a certain time limit to get the body to a med station or something like that at a station or on a planet. If you manage to do that, you have a chance of saving the life of that player.In terms of the number of lives you go through, every character will have a finite life. The idea is like a cat. You've got so many lives before you properly die and then you have to move on to a new character in the universe, which was all described in my Death of a Spaceman post a while ago.But what we were thinking is that it would be a nice gameplay element that would encourage people to try and recover either the wounded or incapacitated bodies of friends to get them back.Maybe in a boarding action you'll fail, so you'll lick your wounds, grab your fallen comrades, get them back on your ship, and then high-tail off somewhere to try and heal them, maybe go to some shady pirate doctor so you can get fixed and not lose your life.That's what the solution is, if you abandon your friend there, I think what we'd probably do is you lose a life, and at some point we detatch the body that would be sitting on your ship, which we'd probably allow you to vent or put out of your ship, but that wouldn't preclude, if the person actually lost their life, being able to respawn on a planet. They just at that point separate in terms of characters, we probably don't want a body just magically disappearing on board a ship. Anyway, that's kind of our plan thinking on that.