For the larger ships, is it always all accessible from within, with the engineering compartments and stuff? Or are there some that you have to EVA out to?

We try and do the majority from the inside, especially the key ones that are going to get the most use, like power plants, coolers, shield generators, quantum drives, the ones that get used minute to minute in the gameplay, which you're naturally going to find wearing out quicker or their sub-items blowing sooner. Those ones we want on the inside, but there are still ones on the outside that on some ships you need to get to. I think the Vanguard was the limit of how much stuff we could fit inside a small ship. The artists on that had a field day trying to get everything fitting in everywhere.