The idea that you could pull a component out and work on it and potentially cause a fire makes me think of the opportunities for sabotage. [Is that something you've considered?]

It's something we've thought about, yeah. I mean, since you can also damage the components with FPS weapons. Obviously, you can just take out the fuses, or even small components, you can steal them altogether. There's a lot of damage a person hiding inside your ship could do.

A lot of Star Citizens have come from a game like EVE Online or something where you pretend to be somebody's friend, you become a member of their crew. In the course of a mission, slowly pulling components out and tuning them incorrectly to cause malfunction. There's a whole gameplay opportunity there that's exciting.

I think with the life support system, we have a very good counter for that, which is, once you find the guy, you can just throw him out an airlock.