You mentioned that lots of times there are restrictions on what tech and tools are online when you make a mission, and other times, like this one, you added the ship lending as a way to push the development of new systems?

Yes, the way the ship lending is done at the moment is very hacky.

Yes, and we've done some sneaky things.

Because obviously what we'd really like is the ability to use the systems that already exist. All players are used to being able to unlock their own ship and then have all their party members pilot it. We haven't been able to do that for this, which is why, obviously, the work needs to be done to properly loan you ships via the ASOP terminal. So basically this does not work like you'd expect any other ship to work. And that's not the intention. That's step one. It's like a proof of concept.

Exactly. This is our prototype, really.

Again, we're an alpha game and we prototype. If it's fun, if it works, we'll make it properly.