Has there been any consideration of a Retaliator rework?
TL;DRThere are currently no plans to rework the Retaliator, since its long, thin layout leaves little to change without altering it massively, though that is not a promise of never.
There's nothing planned at this time. I know there's quite a few concerns with the layout of it. Again, going back to: no one would build a ship this way. It doesn't make sense. It's just a figure of eight, but with holes cut out of it. There are no current plans to do anything with it. Without really changing the ship massively, there's not a lot you can do with that, because it is a long, thin ship with two huge voids that are swappable and a bit in the middle where you get in. Without changing it from what it is, there's not a great amount. There's no plans to add another bed for the seventh person. Captain goes down with the ship.
Now, I do want to stress that no plans to do that now is not the same as we will never. It just means that right now there's no plans to do it.
And quickly to touch on the improvement side of it, some people have noticed that the Retaliator actually had that pass done on it a patch or two ago, in that all the hatches for the components were cut out. They're not the real components put in there, but they are ones of the same size and shape and type to simulate that. So that is a great in-game example. If you look at the Retaliator in 2.0 versus 3.3 or 3.3.7, whatever it is on at the moment, you will see the differences there, and those corridors and the component hatches.