"It flies like a truck."
"Good. What is a truck?"
There are several small
utility shuttles on the
Ark. Each can carry a few people and a few tons of cargo.
These shuttles are meant to be used for external maintenance and repairs of the Ark as well as landing on a planet. They can be used to travel between
biospheres and
Central Hull sectors.
A utility shuttle usually contains 4
vacsuits and 2 jet packs.
The utility shuttles in the hangars are fuelled and ready to go (except for the usual computer problems, of course).