Thorsten Leimann · EU PU Feature Team

Yeah, well, that is an open discussion right now. So it might change. As of now, we have a tank that stores the atmosphere that you have in your rooms. So let's take an example with one room, and you want to vent that room. We don't vent the atmosphere in that room outside. We vent it into an auxiliary storage so that you don't lose it, because we see the atmosphere as a finite resource, and you should really care about your atmosphere in space because it's a precious resource, right? And so you vent it into the storage. So you have the room now completely empty of atmosphere. And if you decide to fill the room again, it takes the atmosphere from that storage back in. Sure, we also thought about, okay, what happens when you accidentally vent it? So we have some auxiliary atmosphere sticks that you can put in, and then by chemical reaction, magically create atmosphere for that room or for the rooms of the ship. But the idea is that you always have this storage that you have to manage. So you fill it and you have this concrete, finite amount of atmosphere on your ship that you have to manage.

Guillermo · EU PU Feature Team

And we also separate it along the way, in the sense that there are tanks for oxygen and inert gases, but also for waste gases that we don't want in the atmosphere at all; there are different tanks. So yeah, it also limits how quickly you can get rid of good or bad air in both cases.

Thorsten Leimann · EU PU Feature Team

But also a nice way to catch atmosphere is actually, if you did mismanagement and your auxiliary tanks are empty and you're breathing through your suit and you're depleting the oxygen from your suit, what you can do is go into the atmosphere of a planet, open all the doors, and then suddenly all the atmosphere rushes in, you close the doors and go up again. You just have to make sure that the atmosphere of the planet is actually breathable. But that is also a valid way to fill your ship back with atmosphere.