It was mentioned that the Merchantman and Defender may have some degree of \"interplay\". What specifically is being considered for that?

So there's nothing I want to commit to publicly at this point. Obviously, we concepted the Defender in the UK; we're building it in Austin now. We're building the Merchantman in the UK, or we'll be building it. So the designs of the two, we've built in some nice features that both physically and sort of gameplay-wise tie the two together, and we've got some options there. We need to build the Defender first before we lock down which of those options we go on. But when we do, we'll talk about that probably in the ATV about the Merchantman.

This is one of those times where we don't want to get anybody's hopes up. We're pursuing a couple different avenues. I'm going to take this on me here for a second. Looking at doing this, looking at doing that, looking at this. And any time we shared in the past all the breadth of those things and then we only pick one of those three, we've disappointed two thirds of the audience who were hoping for the other two. Kind of stuff like that. So we'll share that stuff with you guys when we have a better idea which direction we're actually going. And of course, the only constant in game development is change. It's never going to be 100%, but we do try to be responsible with the state that the information is in before we do share it. So it's still a little too early to share that. But I did want to address the question because it was a good way to share that kind of information and remind folks that all Star Citizen information has to hit certain kind of milestones of reliability before we do share them, even though they are still subject to change.

At the very least, the Defender is designed to defend the Merchantman, including the name. So it's specific to defending that ship.