I'd say it depends on what the crew is, it's space configuration (Fuel type and velocity). A ship staffed entirely by synth wouldn't need space suits and in fact could probably be kept in a vacuum condition to save on mass (Air and it's recycling systems aren't nothing) as well as remove the danger of fires breaking out. The contents would also vary depending on the owner. I'd wager hypercorp are pretty anal about the safety of their investment while low-income couriers, salvagers and the likes have the barest minimum. What I could see in the emergency closet(s): EVA gears (Suits, and EVA Sleds), Medical equipment (Nano-bandages, drugs/stimulants/painkillers) Weapons (For boarding parties, rogue crew members, etc -- Probably non-lethal or things that don't risk blowing a hole in the hull such as hollow points or energy weapons) and tools for emergency repairs (Flashlight, a tool box, Crowbar, Plasma Torch --Essentially a disassembler kit) as well as a few more survival things such as Emergency bubble, fabbers.

This depends entirely on who's operating the ship, both in terms of who owns it and what sort of people are crewing it, if any. In terms of ships flying around Saturn? You are [i]not[/i] going to find much if any indentured crew, whether in bio-, synth- or infomorph, as it would be very easy for an unhappy indenture to fly the ship to Titan and claim sanctuary from slavery, where the Titanian Commonwealth is more likely than not to seize the ship as the profits of a crime against humanity, or at the very least impound it as evidence in the investigation of a crime against humanity, and if you want it back they'll likely demand you sign over not only the victim's indenture rights, but any others they can get out of you, too. Around Jupiter? Hoo boy. The Jovian Junta reigns supreme in the Jovian system, and they get squirrely if you're flying around in synthmorphs, as infomorphs, and as AGIs. They couldn't give a toss about indenture, though, so you're likely to see indentured biomorphs. Expect your ships to be hassled frequently, and depending on how corrupt the Junta is, emergency supplies may well mean bricks of gold or other resources in short supply in the Junta's enforced old-style scarcity economy, for bribes. In general, though... If the ship is crewed by biomorphs, you're going to want: * Spare spacesuits - the full versions, not light ones. * Fire extinguishers. They totally can double as emergency reaction mass. (Space Station 13 4 lyfe!) * Toolboxes/belts with built-in ecto containing an AI and sensors, pre-loaded to guide novices through emergency repair proceedures, and display schematics for more mechanical personnel. * Material for patching hull breaches to pressurized compartments. * Medkits with similar built-in Ecto containing preloaded emergency medtech AI capable of talking a novice through lifesaving emergency treatment, and assisting a more skilled medic. * Grip Tape. Oh gods yes, grip tape. Apollo 13 came home because they had duct tape aboard, and Grip Tape is the 22nd century version of it. Every tool box and locker on the ship should have a roll. * EVA maneuver pack(s) with built-in ecto (seeing a trend here?) pre-loaded to fly someone unskilled in piloting around the outside of the ship, and provide aid to a more experienced EVA pilot. * Probably a bunch of other shit I can't think of right now. Seriously, you could sit some NASA guys down with the EP core rulebooks, bring them up to speed on the setting, and then task them to make a comprehensive list of all the emergency gear a small craft should have aboard and they'd probably be a week doing it. Also, you'd probably want an unlocked nanofabber and some feedstock, because OF COURSE YOU WOULD! If the ship is crewed by synthmorphs and infomorphs, a lot of the stuff you want that pertains to biomorphs becomes pointless, but they're still going to want toolboxes, hull breach patches, grip tape, EVA maneouver packs, and such. And of course, a CM. All ships are going to want some repair drones aboard, too, and even a synth-ship might want some basic medical supplies aboard, in case they have need to render assistance to biomorphs.* * I actually wrote up one of the ships in the GYAtM Swarm as being like this. It's an entirely synth-only ship, not only is it unpressurized but in many places the hull isn't actually solid, facilitating rapid ingress/egress. But they have a sealed medical wing, containing two healing tanks and a vast pair of racks of much smaller healing tanks, sized just about right for a biomorph head. Sure, it sucks to be decapitated as a form of rescue, but on the bright side they're going to feed your body to the recycler so your atoms won't be lost, and you won't have to suffer resleeving penalties. You'll wake up in a healing tank on the Swarm, enjoying a freshly rebuilt body.

There are two fuel types for SLOTVs in the main book (pgs. 348-349): hydrogen-oxygen and metallic hydrogen. The MH SLOTVs are convertible from high to low velocity versions, but the hydrox ones aren't. If you have an MH, low velocity SLOTV (the ideal type for hopping between small moons), there's a 100-person passenger capacity, not including cargo. So there's space for anything you need. At high velocity, you only lose 30 persons worth of space, so you can still probably cram in a literal metric ton of material should you need. However, if you have a hydrox high-velocity SLOTV, which would be the kind of thing Brinker and Scum characters would get their hands on third- or fourth-hand, there's just a 3-person crew capacity, which leaves basically no space for emergency equipment. Likely, this means that passengers wear whatever vacsuits they bring and emergency equipment is limited to a small fire extinguisher for the cockpit.

nezumi.hebereke wrote:

Remember, this stuff costs resources and time to fab, and you're never expecting to have to use them. So I would NOT expect anything larger than a light space suit, unless it's a ship that's specifically expecting trouble.

That's pretty much the exact same thinking that lead to [i]RMS Titanic[/i] being launched with the minimum number of lifeboats then-allowable by law, as opposed to a number actually remotely approaching what would be required to save the lives of everyone aboard. Some lessons have to be learned in blood, I suppose, and have to be learned once a generation or so, I guess.

nezumi.hebereke wrote:

The next 9% are long-haulers. Rescue is years away, if it's ever coming at all. Upgrading your light vac suits to heavy isn't going to make a difference.

I'm just going to bring up that the most likely sleeve for long-haul crew is the hibernoid, as that is literally what it was made for. If you have a standard vacsuit and that sleeve, all you have to do is activate a distress beacon, set your suit to feed you automatically, and go into hibernation.

thepedant wrote:

Better to have a synthmorph for long hauls, I'd say. Just siphon a little energy from whatever your reactor is for charging, and you save tons on keeping life support going. Cockpit could be a small area with frames to hold the synthmorphs in place and a connection for the access jacks; ship control would be through jamming. When not engaged in ship control/maintenance, synthmorphs would be in simulspace.

Well, the obvious extension is then, why not use Infomorph crew? Then they can literally spend the whole trip in simulspace, use drones for physical interaction, and use time acceleration to speed up the trip. The, of course, ignores the fact that the Hibernoid has the explicit purpose of being useful for a long-haul travel, due to hibernation. For most is makes perfect sense to sleeve a biomorph crew, unless you have some particular reason to cut out what are probably standard environmental systems. Barring the gene tweaks of a Hibernoid, this is probably an example of using the most reliable, hardy, tested "technology" you can. And while Hibernoids have a higher cost to "make/buy" than a Synth, they cost less CP, lack negative traits and generally you can consider humans a better tested technology than robot bodies. There are probably some groups who go all the way with synth/info crew, but depending on what you're doing and how, it's probably simpler to utilize a bio-sleeve and keep all of the factory standard requirements to field biomorphs.