It has often been said that what we carry will need physical space to fit in, but most small ships like the Aurora OR 300i seem to have no storage at all. What gives here?
TL;DRSmall ships like the Aurora and 300i predate carryable-box missions, so they're being adjusted (walkable steps on the Aurora, a fold-down ramp on a reworked 300 series) to let players walk in with boxes.
It's simply they were designed at a time where carrying a box as a mission wasn't a consideration in their design. So for the Aurora, we're going back and making these steps not require you to have an animation to get through them. So they're going to be adjusted to make it walkable. So you can have carryable boxes and you'll be able to walk into the little cubbyhole area and place them down. Obviously, the CL has the storage box, and that'll be enabled and usable as well for those people. The 300 series, when it has its rework, it's going to take some cues from the 100 series concept, where it has the business jet fold-down doorstep ramp thing rather than the humongous ladder that you have to climb up to get into it. So again, you'll be able to just walk inside with stuff or put anything else inside that you want rather than having to go through a baked animation to get there.