Will having a pet of some kind be possible?
TL;DRPets would be possible because they work much like friendly NPCs under the hood, with different behaviors and commands, and pets were one of the later original stretch goals.
Yes, it would be possible, because it's very similar to friendly NPCs. When we talk about crew management, you hire a person. Well, you buy a pet. And of course, their behavior is going to be different. Maybe the commands you can give them might be different. You might interact in a different way. But under the hood, it's really the same system. And this is what I was saying, it is cool, because the same way we opened up the door with the bartender to do a lot of behaviors, that opens up a lot of other stuff for the animals, for the pet. The pet might want to just find food, and you might put food into a little bowl, and when it searches for food, it finds the bowl that you placed there. So I think that is all cool stuff.
And of course, pets were one of the later, maybe even the last, of the original stretch goals, back during the original campaign.