When we hire NPCs as crew for our multi-crew ship, is it only for one trip, or are the NPCs hired permanently, having to pay a salary to them every period of time? And one more thing: can our NPC crew be killed during a fight if our ship gets damaged?asked by ES Mule

The way it's going to work with your NPC things, or the way we think it's going to work, we're still designing the thing early, is that you'll create a contract with other Star Citizens, and the contract will dictate the terms as to how that pay is going to work, as to whether they stay with you a while, when they get paid, what they get paid, what they have to do, and things of that nature. It'll have to be filed with the local government, where they enforce it. If somebody breaks that contract, then it creates bounties on them or creates other issues, so to speak. And yeah, man, if they're helping you out and they get killed, you betcha, death is part of the game. Permadeath can happen.