What is the largest known ship that will be able to enter the atmosphere?
TL;DRThe largest ship able to enter an atmosphere is to be determined and the speaker isn't worried; oversized ships could dock in orbit while players fly smaller ships or snubs down as landers.
TBD. A lot of people worry about that. We aren't. Besides, if you're too big to go into the atmosphere, that means you get to use your smaller ships, which is cool, like the Archimedes and the Argo and stuff.
There's different possible solutions to the problem of ships being too large for the hangars or for landing. Probably the easiest one is just have them docking in orbit at some safe orbital dockyard, and you can fly down your smaller ship.
I want that Star Trek: The Motion Picture going in the shuttlecraft to my ship. I like that idea. So if my ship doesn't enter the atmosphere, I'm like, cool!
That's also why snubs all get to be landers, because I know when the Merlin was first going in, some people weren't really happy that they don't get quantum or jump, but those ships do get to be landers, so that's how you can shuttle from your big ship down to the surface, similar to what Ben was saying with the Star Trek little runabouts.