A small boxy brass helper robot on treads carrying a big crystal, sketched with alternate arm designs.
Pencil study. This question is still open, so its picture is still a sketch.

Q72 · Chapter 09 · Routes & upgrades

What the ship takes over

What should a well-developed ship let the player stop doing manually?

Open

Where it stands

The interview did not choose a specific routine burden that a developed ship must automate. A later transporter/helper that increases cargo recovery is one candidate, but it is not yet a committed answer.

Recorded as: Open, with one candidate

The original question’s prompt

Describe a routine burden that becomes easier without removing the interesting adventure decisions.

Examples in a prompt are not decisions unless the answer chooses them.

Still to decide in this chapter

Automated trade routes (Q65–Q69) have not been discussed. Free placement versus fixed stations and what a developed ship automates are open; a cargo-recovery helper is one candidate.

Read “A home in the sky” in the artbook

In this chapter