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This escape raft here holds, you said, 10 people? [Someone in chat said they thought the ship would seem bigger.]

TL;DRThe escape raft holds ten, with dimensions close to a cargo transport's passenger pod, and is cramped but meant to give upper-deck luxury guests more space than individual crew escape pods.

John CreweVehicle Director

Yes, it's very similar, almost identical dimensions to the Argo MPUV transport. The pod on the back of that that has all the seats, it is one of those inside, but done to Origin standards.

Pete RoyleVehicle Team, Wilmslow

So it packs a few, but it's quite cramped, but you're escaping. And we've gone for the raft option, obviously, because it's a luxury ship. We wanted the guests on the upper decks to have a bit more space, rather than further down, as we might see later, the individual escape pods that the crew would use in an emergency.

John CreweVehicle Director

And for sort of scale reference, this little airlock and antechamber is very similar to the Hammerhead in terms of size and shape. So if you've ever seen a Hammerhead, the mouth on the front of it is that tiny hole on the outside of the ship.

Pete RoyleVehicle Team, Wilmslow

That's right, it's a metric for docking collars in the future. So we try and keep that consistent across other ships.

Star Citizen Live›The 890 Jump·
Published on this date.23 Aug 2019