Jared Huckaby · Host, Community

One of the talking points that has been a part of Star Citizen's development almost from the very beginning, these were in early conversations back in the old Wingman's Hangar days, was the ability to have cargo crates that themselves could obscure what was inside. In the example he's using with the Covalex story, the crate looks like toxic waste, so nobody would think to look inside it, but inside is not actually toxic waste, it's something else.

Dan Trufin · Lead Systems Designer, Foundry 42 Frankfurt

So we definitely want to do this. It's an easy win for us, because the crate is already done. We just need to take the functionality that we built for these boxes and move it into this, which is not that much of a big deal. But what you have to remember is, if you have customs coming onto your ship and your cargo hold is this room, they're going to find it. When they scan your ship from a distance, the chances are they might not find it, but if you actually get an inspection on board, you better have a proper smuggling ship with proper hiding places. It's like smuggling light. There has to be a downside. It's the cheaper version.

Jared Huckaby · Host, Community

When the Hull C was first introduced, one of the tenets was that you could get cargo crates that would appear to be one thing but actually house another thing inside them. Even a ship like the Hull C that stores its cargo on the outside for all to see could actually still be used for the purposes of smuggling.