Geoffrey Coffin · Senior Systems Designer

One person can technically fly it around like a fighter, but you will be getting barely any of the ship's functionality out of it. I mean, your pilot will be able to fly the ship, but you're supposed to have a navigator who will be navigating where you're going to go to and helping you avoid or go to hotspots. You'll have people manning the air traffic control seats, who, if you want to have any ships take off and fly away, or even new ones flying in, you'll need to have someone to manage all that. The pilot can't do all of this on their own. You'll have weapon seats to handle the railgun at the front. Even a captain who, if someone's being belligerent in the crew, might be able to turn around and demote someone on the fly and say, no, you can't do that anymore. So there's a lot of this functionality that is going to be going into the ship, or should be going into the ship, but it's just not there yet. We don't have it ready yet. So essentially what you would have if you were to release the Idris right now is a giant fighter, and I don't think most people would appreciate that.